Here's Rep Jamie Raskin's bill nixing Trump's corrupt protection against IRS audits. Chef's kiss: It's called the "Block Lawless Agreements and Nullify Corrupt Handouts and Emoluments Act” or the “BLANCHE Act." Backstory below.

The regulatory state is more important to the smooth operation of society to which we’ve become accustomed than anyone in this administration realizes, and in a lot of ways, we’ve already run off the cliff and are just starting to look down

Normally there’s a provision against using funds to destroy evidence of death or sexual assault against people held in custody. But not for this new money. Such language would run afoul of the Byrd rule, but the Byrd rule is not self-enforcing, and is surgical, so doesn’t threaten the bill. (2/3)

i mean the answer seems pretty straightforward…they were drinking doodoo dairy

Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund is dead. Thank you @Slotkin.senate.gov and Senate Democrats. michiganadvance.com/2026/06/02/r...

The president took your money illegally and he won’t give it back

As someone who helped set up the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, I oppose elevating Bill Pulte to Acting Director. He has no experience. Zero. And he is the wrong choice to help keep us safe.

I encourage fellow mathematicians to sign the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, as I have, and to encourage their professional associations to endorse the Declaration, as has the International Mathematical Union: leidendeclaration.ai

As a reminder, Pulte is the guy who goes through the mortgages of Trump’s enemies, looking for mistakes, which he then uses as a basis to refer them for criminal prosecution. See, e.g.: Letitia James

On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

Since they tried to bury it, you know what to do. Video: xcancel.com/patriottakes...

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

ICE is holding “a man who has Stage 3 lung cancer,” Kim told reporter @alexjn.bsky.social. He wants to “spend his final months… with his family. But they just won’t let him go."

On the flip side, it can be uncomfortable to talk about, because no one wants to feel like you're stealing someone else's experience. But you can both say that trans people are far more affected while recognizing that the goal was always to use anti-trans panic to police everyone's gender.

Trump bought stock in the UFC’s parent company while promoting fights set to take place at the White House on his birthday, HuffPost has learned

BREAKING: Both Jem & The Holograms AND The Misfits have reportedly withdrawn from President Trump’s America 250 celebration. No word yet from The Stingers…

They’re turning the entire federal internet apparatus into a galaxy of phishing sites that are controlled by the president and do not adhere to any federal privacy or disclosure rules.

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

Funny story: 13 is the same number of service members who died in the pullout from Afghanistan, for which Biden received brutal bipartisan media coverage for months

1. Lead Left, a super PAC created on 4/24, purports to stand "against MAGA extremists." It has spent $3M+ in Democratic primaries. But it's funders and motivations have been secret. Until now. It's a GOP dirty tricks operation. 🧵

An underappreciated (or perhaps highly appreciated) fact of our hypermediated post-information post-post-modernity times is that the Dune universe Butlarian Jiad and the Warhammer 40K universe Omnissiah are actually in social dialogue with the latest papal encyclical from the IRL Catholic Church

If you ever wonder why academics roll their eyes at "viewpoint diversity" hires is that when you pick a scholar for their ideology and politics over the actual work, this is the kind of clown show that results.

“It’s a room that I love so much — it’s the heart of the Capitol, literally the heart of this country. It pained me so much to see it in this kind of condition.” -Senator Andy Kim on cleaning the Capitol after Jan 6th. And now he’s been pepper sprayed by a different group of white supremacists.

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries.

I think it’s fair to say that multiple cuisines worldwide were somewhere between 60-95% of the way to perfect, waiting only for the Colombian contact to bring them the potato.

Make no mistake, Kennedy is working tirelessly to destroy our vaccine infrastructure, including presently engaging in a p-hacking witch hunt spearheaded by his cronies to link vaccines to conditions they repeatedly have not shown any association with. www.nytimes.com./2026/05/11/h...

This is monstrous, evil shit "Cemetery officials confirmed to Task & Purpose that the pages were unpublished” to meet recent orders by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth targeting race and gender-related language and policies in the military."

sorry for #political posting so much today but like, there are so many of these little "tiny" things that in and of themselves will get lost in the tidal wave of corrupt shit going on right now, it is impossible to keep track of them all, there's so many, but that's by design

“No child deaths have been definitively linked to Covid vaccines, according to a report from the FDA that was quietly made public.” #Pinks #MomSky #ProudBlue www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

And focusing on America's "original sin" in practice just saves the individuals doing the crime from any punishment. It's like believing "all politicians are corrupt". If you truly believe that than of course there won't be the political will the punish Trump for his corruption. 🤷‍♂️ 4/

“America has always been like this” responses to “Orange Man Bad” posts annoy me. Obama didn’t post a video of him dumping his own fecal matter from a F-18 on his critics, then threaten to go to war with Denmark. That isn’t true.

Iowa Republicans want to require students at a state college to take right wing indoctrination classes in the name of "intellectual freedom." www.kcrg.com/2026/05/20/i...

This headline is fuel for the right-wing anti-migrant reaction machine, but the article reveals the employer knowingly brought her to the UK under a visitor visa to employ her, then denied her a work permit—and most importantly!—refused to pay her any wages. This looks approximate to modern slavery

Wow. So gop intellectual diversity is we will make you pay to take classes in conservative thought to graduate? The free speech crowd, everyone. shorturl.at/XxrII

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) will introduce an amendment to the GOP’s budget reconciliation bill to prevent child sex offenders + criminals who assaulted police officers from getting payouts from Trump's $1.8B slush fund. "It’s time to see where Republicans stand." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...

They go on to discuss the budget, but it’s clear the LLM is just making stuff up. Norwegian public universities don’t charge tuition (except for non-Europeans and the income is minor) and donations are rare.

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

With its new AI-based "search," Google is literally killing the infrastructure that its entire business is built on. Instead of linking people to the web, it will lock users into an "interactive" mode that slorps up data what is rapidly becoming the now-neglected and unvisited web. (1/3)

New: DOJ has a long history of setting robust internal controls to ensure taxpayer $$ is responsibly & legally awarded to deserving victims. That’s all missing from the Trump IRS settlement $1.8B anti-weaponization fund. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

HAHAHAHAHAHA. I love this for Trump.

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

Since Israel captured the West Bank in 1967, over 700,000 Israelis have settled there. In recent years, settler violence against Palestinians has grown common. The Israeli military and police have routinely failed to stop the violence and often intervene for the settlers, our investigation found.

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It might have been helpful to mention that just before the 2024 election, many observers, including the Economist, thought America’s “economic trajectory” looked exceptionally strong relative to the rest of the post-pandemic, post-supply chain crisis world.

Nary a peep of protest from the MAHA crowd. The annual budget of WIC costs less than a week of the Iran war.

Officer Brian Sicknick's family did not receive a single penny but trump is out here trying to make the people who murdered him millionaires.

Crazy how this is reported as if he hasn't been selling pardons. And even if that's not the case, attaching a goal number to something that's supposed to be deliberative is reality show insanity.