Breaking: The Trump administration has forever banned the IRS from auditing the taxes of Trump, his family members, and his companies. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Trump on high gas prices: "This is peanuts. I appreciate everybody putting up with it for a little while. But I don't even think about. What I think about is you can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon."

This is not “the Justice Department” creating this $1.7 billion slush fund to hand out to Trump’s criminal supporters. It is Trump’s former criminal defense attorney Todd Blanche handing out your tax dollars to Trump’s co-conspirators and thugs.

Trump uses other nations as an excuse as he TACOs.

Here is Elon Musk bragging about how he "accidentally" canceled all Ebola prevention efforts (DOGE never fully restored the canceled contracts)

This guy is blazing a trail for the next generation of progressives.

Americans are too busy paying out the nose for gas to notice our President has lost touch with reality.

Trump did not choose a random prayer verse. He chose a covenant passage about God choosing a sacred house, healing the land if “my people” repent, and punishing those who “serve other gods.” The Constitution protects religion by keeping the state from turning faith into a test of national loyalty

In Depends Day (2026)

Republican C-SPAN caller: “It’s hard for me to say this, but I think if I can open up about it in public it might help others… I regret my support for Trump, and I should’ve known better. He’s a con man. A liar. The worst, most corrupt president we’ve ever had.”

Elect a working-class Congress

This is the correct headline. (How much will Rep Ogles get?) www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-backla...

Mamdani has proposed a balanced budget for next year, holding spending level while closing a $12 billion deficit. Trump's budget proposal increases the deficit year over year by about $300b, with a massive deficit next year of more than $2 trillion. Fiscal responsibility? Mamdani > Trump.

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dennisgoris.bsky.social )

“.. Dalio said the US is losing credibility as a global power willing to fight to defend its interests while China accumulates wealth and influence, fundamentally reshaping how the rest of the world views the two nations.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I made a really really long chart -- longer than a CVS receipt -- but I did it for a reason. substack.com/home/post/p-...

There's more but it's another faceplant for the fratboy cosplaying as the FBI Director. x.com/ChrisVanHoll...

PATTY MURRAY: Your budget cuts housing. Can you help more families with housing with $84b or $73.5b? SCOTT TURNER: Here's what I'll say. In the previous four years-- MURRAY: Ok. This is the go-to answer for every secretary is to go back to Biden. I'm asking you about your administration

This will also be a measles outbreak chart soon. And a chart of where gas prices exceed $6/gallon. And a chart of unclean air. And a chart of food shortages. And a chart of foreclosures. And a chart of people who regretted voted for a genocidal maniac with a god complex.

OBAMA ROASTS TRUMP'S WAR ON IRAN WAR IN REAL TIME: “We Pulled It Off WITHOUT Firing a SINGLE Missile, Got 97% of Their Enriched Uranium Out. No Mass Deaths. Strait of Hormuz NEVER Shut Down.”

Really. You've got to watch this. It's brief.

Over on Xitter, @harryjsisson.bsky.social (who seems not to post here anymore) catalogued one part of Trump's batshit meltdown overnight. Note how many of them focus on Trump's 2016 conspiracies, which are probably responses to Brennan and Comey appearing on MSNOW.

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

This is why they really hate him — because he’s showing government can actually do good stuff for regular people

Trump: We have a ballroom that's under budget. I've doubled the size of it because we obviously need that. And we're right now on budget, under budget and ahead of schedule. I DOUBLED THE SIZE OF IT YOU DUMB PERSON!

Trump one month before the 2024 election: “Think of it - within one year you’re gonna have electric bills and energy bills and gasoline for your cars is going to be 50% cheaper than it is right now. That’s a big thing.”

Price changes over last year (April CPI report) Fuel Oil: +54.3% Gasoline: +28.4% Electricity: +6.1% Transportation: +4.3% Apparel: +4.2% Overall CPI: +3.8% Food away from home: +3.6% Shelter: +3.3% Medical Care: +3.2% Gas Utilities: +3.0% Food at home: +2.9% New Cars: +0.2% Used Cars: -2.7%

And we’re told thinking this is wrong makes us “COmmUniStS” (By people who don’t even realize they’re being used by this 1%👇🏽)

Apparently, MAGA people are just as eager to ignore the First Commandment as the First Amendment. Glory!

"We're not racist. We just acted like it was an emergency to get rid of the one majority Black congressional district three months before the primary election."

Q: Why focus on all these projects right now as gas prices are soaring? Trump: “This is such a stupid question that you asked… This is one of the worst reporters. She's with ABC fake news and she's a horror show…A question like that is a disgrace to our country." #cdnpoli

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I don’t think Americans with hypertension and various other treatable conditions deserve to die. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

Pricks

BREAKING: Well-timed oil bets ahead of major Iran war announcements totaled at least $7 billion, far exceeding earlier estimates, per Reuters. The trades, spanning crude, gasoline, and diesel futures across multiple exchanges in March and April, and were ALWAYS done before announcements by Trump.

Golden Age

🔥 @staceyabrams.com : "The South is where over half of Black people live— You’re silencing citizens and telling them their voices don’t matter… We would never say ranchers can only be represented by vegans." (H/T @fairfightaction.bsky.social )

Republicans are in charge of the Senate. Republicans are in charge of the House. Republicans are in charge of the Presidency. Republicans are in charge of the Supreme Court. Republicans are to blame for everything.

In all my years covering this stuff, I have NEVER seen Americans so explicitly labeled terrorists like they are in the newly released national counterterrorism strategy 👇 www.kenklippenstein.com/p/insane-pre...

Trump and Hegseth have been lying with their whole chest. Iran’s nuclear capabilities are unchanged since the start of the war. So what exactly was the point of this war?

900 hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes are shuttering or slashing essential services due to Republicans' healthcare cuts.

A record 55% of Americans say their financial situation is getting worse This is the fifth consecutive year more Americans say their finances are worsening rather than improving. news.gallup.com/poll/708905/...

Trump cites Venezuela as a success. The old regime is in place. Nothing much has changed. Except...Trump's pals now are getting a little taste. It's mafia imperialism. It's a shakedown. And for the right $$$ he would've given the same deal to Iran's leaders. He just wants his cut. Gotti-ism at work.

You can't lower gas prices by blurting out the names of a few Democrats. The administration needs to stop its crazed policies that cause so much economic pain. This happened on Trump's watch because he doubled fuel prices by taking our country to war, which drove Spirit out of business. Obviously.

Modern GOP 👇

Yup. Go with that GOP. Winning message.

I hate that we now have a counterpart to Murdoch’s NY Post in California 😭 hey Rupert, you’ll never guess who started the war in Iran

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