U.S. drivers will pay gasoline prices near four-year highs when they fuel up for travel over the long Memorial Day weekend and should expect more pain at the pump this summer if the Strait of Hormuz does not reopen. More: cnb.cx/4tSH6ft

The AI boom is fueling a literal and metaphorical power grab by tech billionaires—and forcing a reckoning.

Governments of the world: Cut ties with Palantir and Peter Thiel now. action.eko.org/a/government...

Scientists are wary of glyphosate. MAHA loathes it. And our yearlong investigation shows California is spraying it everywhere.

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Ukrainians have sacrificed for all democracies. Time for Ukraine be part of the EU and NATO. Slava Ukraini. #UkrainianView #Ukrain 🇺🇦 aje.news/0xulgx

HOW FAR WE HAVE FALLEN This was daytime television in the 1970's. John Lennon on his song 'Women are the Niggers of the World'. He used the definition of 'nigger' by California Congressmen John Dellums: In fact, by his definition, we are all niggers.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com What’s the most effective way to tax the rich? “The boring truth is that Congress can accomplish a lot simply by raising the rates of the taxes already on the books,” Zachary Liscow writes in a guest essay.

Solar Electricity Is Poised to Overtake Coal in—of All Places—Texas Looks like clean power isn’t a woke scam after all. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Brown University Study focuses only on US consumers not US farmers. Farmers are contending with higher costs of diesel, fertilizer, urea, potash... This is the financial damage that "businessman" / pedo-in-chief is directly responsible for. #shared #NoKings www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#LGBTQ #LGBTQ+ #NoKings #Impeach #FightFascism

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Elon Musk's only legacy is that he is one of the worst mass murderers of the century.

“The events develop suddenly, seemingly without any external reasons,” Nikolay Mitrokhin, Bremen University “Something big is taking place, something that will be significant for international politics in general, and for mass media, including the very supply of nuclear arms,” aje.news/w7ehcm

Attempting to repair my wife's Lenovo. Then thought: Americans are going to onshore manufacturing of this? Have I got a bridge to sell. #Technology #Chips

This is why NO TO DARA CENTERS IS A MUST! @governor.pa.gov

🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸

🚨🚩🚩🚩 Tell your senators if they take payouts for allowing Blanche’s bribery scheme to stand, our constitutional republic is effectively dead. ☠️ Tap to send a prewritten email via text in under 30 seconds — free and no fundraising spam! resist.bot/petitions/PZ...

I do not want my tax dollars going to a man who should still be in prison and Trump wants to pay him to build up another insurrection army to steal the 2026 election.

In Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson, civilians live beneath constant Russian drone attacks while trying to maintain ordinary life.

Join Clyde and me at Madison Square Dog Park on Saturday, May 23rd and BYOD: Bring Your Own Dog! mobilize.us/s/cOIRj8

Defend Public Health just released a statement about the woeful lack of pandemic preparedness in the United States, thanks to the actions of The Regime. You can read it here:

#DisbandICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Circa 2002, a friend came to my house with a friend of hers who was visiting Chicago, a young man whose dream in life was to be a comedy writer. That kid, Opus Moreschi, worked his way up to become head writer at the Colbert Report and through the entire run of Late Night. One of the unsung greats.

The Ebola crisis in East Africa is rapidly escalating, with cases now confirmed in major population centers in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. Public health experts say that the response has been significantly hindered by the near-absence of the U.S.

Among the more than 50,000 words in the DNC’s 192-page autopsy of why it lost the 2024 presidential election, here are a few that do not appear even once: Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Jewish, Muslim, foreign policy, protest, genocide.

What's new? #DOGE #NoKings #Impeach slate.com/news-and-pol...

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $30 billion+ on a war in the Middle East that no one wants, while millions of people at home struggle. "That's just how it is."

Anybody can wave their hands and claim they'll lower costs. Voters are done with vague promises. They deserve real plans and specific steps to cut child care and utility bills. That's how we build credibility—and that’s what I’m fighting for.

Can we finally agree that Israel continues to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank?

The shame of what our government has done will endure and must be taught for generations to come.

The Montana Plan is bipartisan, common-sense, and one of the best opportunities in a long time to put Citizens United where it belongs: in the ashbin of history.

SCOTUS-6 will rule in the developer's favor.

This is what Jeff Bezos doesn't want you to know: the super-rich have a secret playbook to get away with paying almost nothing in taxes.

I don't know a Trumper who gets his/her news anywhere but on Fox News (some pay no attention to any news at all). Anything else, they're like kids with their fingers in their ears: "Wah-wah-wah, I can't HEEEAR you!"

Whitehouse: "If you look at all the Court's elections decisions, every one has the effect of helping the GOP. If you look at all their regulatory decisions, every one has the effect of helping the fossil fuel industry that funds the GOP. You can predict with perfect certainty what happens."

. The king no longer pays taxes. If there was ANY doubt that the U.S. IS NOW A FULL-BLOWN DICTATORSHIP, it’s gone now. The BIG, BEAUTIFUL FIGHT IS COMING. It’s time to prepare. Are you a COWARD or an AMERICAN…

Measuring nighttime luminosity, an established way of assessing economic activity in countries where official statistics are not available or cannot be trusted, we estimated that the russian economy contracted 8% 2020 - 2024. #shared #Ukraine #UkrainianView www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/o...

Goooooooooooooal? #fifa #worldcup #sellamerica www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

ICYMI - WEMBY: “Every day I wake up and see the news and I’m horrified.”

“The pecuniary presidency is a new frontier in the history of the office, the culmination of all that was dangerous about the vast concentration of power in a singular executive,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.

Trump first, America last.

He Should Be Arrested Immediately For a Lot of Reasons….

NEW: Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for evading income taxes. It hasn’t stopped the FCC from sending him $1 million a year to sell obsolete internet service in Alaska. The money comes from a special government subsidy program. You help pay for it. w/ @adn.com

🚨 Joe Rogan + (unhinged) Mel Gibson = bunk crisis! Influencers playing to fear & identity having huge adverse impact. Cancer patients seek unproven antiparasitic treatments after actor's podcast appearance www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...

"The media covering Trump should use the word 'corrupt' more often...it’s abundantly clear that a corrupt enterprise is operating out of WH. The media shouldn’t keep it a secret." I like this test from @markjacob.bsky.social: Will coverage convey full measure of his corruption to *casual* readers?

Global health officials are raising alarms about an outbreak of Bundibugyo virus, a rare species of Ebola virus spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. Here's what to know.

Not just foreign aid. Also: -CDC -FDA -NIH (in particular NIAID) In addition to the gutting of agencies, leadership is decimated: -8 of 10 NIAID leaders -Senate confirmed CDC head out in after a month -FDA leadership gone -NIH director also acting CDC director (not possible to do well) All bad 😳