The costs of everyday living are growing for many Americans. For some, that means falling behind on mortgage payments. https://to.pbs.org/4tdqMX6

It's full on rewriting of history. Soon, they will push for changes to textbooks like right-wingers did circa 2010, seeking to replace the civil rights movement with Phyllis Schlafly and Newt Gingrich.

Marco Rubio when he finds out he’s the new Director of National Intelligence

Breaking News! Code Yikes! May 21st saw yet another daily record for the global sea surface temperature, with El Nino just getting started. And the other 3 lines in that snapshot? 2023, 2024 and 2025.

NEWS: U.S. Consumer Sentiment has officially fallen to the lowest level ever recorded in data going back to 1952, plunging another 10% last month. Consumers now expect inflation to hit 4.8% over the next 12 months. Sentiment is down 21% since February 2026, before the Iran War… 1/

McGovern: Can you explain what is happening with the Iran war powers resolution that was scheduled to be voted on this evening? Are we not voting on it because the American people are sick and tired of this illegal war that is costing tens of billions of dollars?

UN backs historic climate crisis ruling, despite US attempts to stop resolution: The US, Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia – some of the highest oil-producing nations and major greenhouse gas emitters – opposed the measure The UN has voted 141-8 to adopt a resolution backing a world court opi...

MeidasTouch: What do you make of this $1.776 billion fund— Gavin Newsom: It’s a criminal enterprise. It’s not just corruption, it’s not just graft, it’s a full-on criminal enterprise and it needs to be shut down.

Americans are now paying far more for gas and groceries than before

Don’t get caught up in the Washington horse race reporting on Republican congressman Thomas Massie losing his primary to a Trump-backed challenger in Kentucky. Massie lost because he worked with Democrats and Republicans to force Trump to release the Epstein Files. That’s why Trump wanted him gone.

BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump just stole $1.8B. He’s going to give it to his business, his kids, and people like Flynn, Eastman, Giuliani, and the Oath Keepers. He’s doing this without court approval or Congress. This is a crime, but there’s no one to prosecute it because the DoJ is in on it.

DOJ sets up corrupt $1.776B "Anti-Weaponization" compensation fund, ostensibly linked to collusive settlement of Trump's meritless $10B suit against IRS. Acting AG Todd Blanche directly involved. www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...

📽 | Javier Bardem habla sobre la "masculinidad tóxica" en Cannes: "Vengo de un país muy machista llamado España" social.elpais.com/b6n…

Satellite measurements show that in the early 2010s sea level rise suddenly accelerated to a rate of 4.1 millimetres per year, possibly in response to an increase in the rate of global warming

As the Climate Crisis worsens, we are seeing more declarations like this happening constantly across the world

Not only are seasons starting earlier, the world’s ecosystems are starting to destabilize, adding to another positive feedback loop that stresses the world’s natural systems affected by ours

The U.S. government requires visa applicants to make all of their social media accounts fully public or risk being denied entry. This is straight out of 1984. Your right to privacy doesn’t just disappear at the border for millions of people, it disappears before they ever set foot here.

Our team has landed in Selma, the epicenter of the Civil Rights Movement 60 years ago. Leaders of the movement will once again walk across the infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge Stay tuned! We are covering the All Roads Lead to the South rally all day. We will not be complicit with racist gerrymanders

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court Friday rejected Virginia Democrats’ emergency request to revive a voter-approved plan that would have allowed the state to redraw its congressional map in response to Republican gerrymanders in other states. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Your 'moment of doom' for May 15, 2026 ~ The deck chairs need rearranging. www.bbc.com/weather/arti...

'THE POWERFUL EL Niño IS BLENDING WITH MASSIVE PACIFIC MARINE HEAT WAVE This will be globally disastrous- they will feed into each other. We are already at 1.5 °C. This marine-atmosphere combination will be a huge boost, leading to unprecedented super-extreme weather events worldwide.' PC [x]

“Trumpflation. U.S. inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war” — Political artwork by and opinion of Michael de Adder.

Survivor of Jeffrey Epstein breaks down in tears describing the moment she learned her name was revealed while the rich and powerful remained protected by redactions Roza: I kept my identity protected as Jane Doe. I woke up one day with my name mentioned over 500 times.

BREAKING: Reporter: “To what extent are Americans’ financial situations motivating you to make a deal? [with Iran]” Trump: “Not even a little bit…. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation”

Inflation soared to 3.8% in April, the highest in three years, driven by higher gas prices.

In a powerful moment in Hungary, the European anthem, “Ode to Joy,” was sung as Péter Magyar was officially sworn in as Prime Minister.

BREAKING: The Virginia Supreme Court has struck down the new Congressional maps passed by voters in April. Virginia will remain a 6-5 state. I have the ruling here: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

‘The worst time for wheat’: US farmers face losses to extreme heat and drought: Temperature swings have left crops across the Plains in terrible conditions, with some farmers opting not to harvest Merrill Nielsen’s wheat crop looked healthy after he planted it in the fall on his 2,500-acr...

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He has no fucking clue what he’s doing. He never has. And every single word out of his mouth about this war is a lie. He lies as he breathes, and he has no fucking clue what he’s doing. What a dangerous, shitty thing it is for the world to have a pathologically dishonest madman in the White House.

CEO pay rose 20 times faster than worker pay in 2025, per Oxfam. Overall, global worker pay declined 12% between 2019 and 2025 — while CEO pay rose 54% during the same time. Trickle-down economics was always a sham. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This is the bizarro world the Supreme Court has created with its latest voting rights decision. Thank you Jon Stewart and & @thedailyshow.com You can watch my entire conversation with Jon here: youtu.be/SCse1FFEKLM

I defy anyone to explain this on neutral legal principles.

‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds: Louisiana’s cultural hotspot could be surrounded by Gulf of Mexico before end of this century, authors say The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately as the city has ...

First, companies used AI to analyze worker productivity; now it’s supercharging corporate surveillance by monitoring employee emotion, @elcush.bsky.social reports:

ALERT: I go live in one hour with @katiephang.bsky.social to discuss her first-of-its-kind lawsuit to appoint a special master to release the Epstein files. We discuss standing, harm, and her novel legal theory. Join us! www.youtube.com/live/EACi4dq...

Why is the President of the United States shilling so hard for cryptocurrency? Because the entire industry is a Ponzi scheme — and he's the conman-in-chief.

Here's your Sunday-morning El-Nino forecast, holding steady at 2.5°C, using the "relative oceanic nino index," or RONI. The previous high RONI was 2.5°C in the 1982/83 El Nino, so this El Nino is shaping up to be at least tied with the strongest on record since 1950.

When President Obama was running for office in 2008, his call to service inspired me to work at the VA to help veterans. I often ask Trump supporters what he’s done to inspire them to be better, and I can’t ever get an answer.

Breaking News! Code: Preliminary mega-UFB!!! And there we have it, as of May 1st, the preliminary SST for Nino region 3.4 is the highest on record for the day. The two closest years are the El Nino years 1992 and 2015. Will Nino 3.4 see 29.5°C by June 1st? Stay tuned!

Callais will be remembered alongside Dred Scott and Plessy Decisions the court got catastrophically wrong Decisions eventually overturned The arc of the moral universe doesn't bend toward justice on its own We have to bend it That work starts now -TN

Hey, hey, it's MAY DAY. You know what to do... No School! No Work! No Shopping! #TaxTheOligarchs

Tomorrow is MAY DAY!

If the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation shut down, the knock-on effects could release hundreds of billions of tonnes of CO2, raising global temperatures even further

Justice Elena Kagan, in a sharp dissent joined by the Court’s other liberal justices, warned that the ruling weakens protections against racial discrimination in voting—arguing it allows states to dilute minority voting power “without legal consequence.”

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