Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)

How is this farce of a do nothing government still going on? It's as if the system that protects incompetent white men and women in power was built to protect incompetent white men and women to stay in power.

Love it: the night after he was kicked off of CBS for good, Stephen Colbert hosted a public access show in southeast Michigan.

We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.

Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund

If redistricting wasn’t about racism, someone please explain to me why only black communities were redistricted and white districts were left alone?

Lawless thugs who routinely lie under oath in court. Among the many outrages in this sad saga is the DHS Agent testifying about how accurate their face recognition software is after it returned two different, wrong, ID's for the same person.

For two years, Mike Johnson refused to hang the plaque on the wall honoring police officers who defended the Capitol on J6 against a mob of violent rioters, even though a law was passed to mandate it. But he supports paying over a billion dollars to the criminal rioters.

Scott MacFarlane reports on Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund running into major resistance in the Senate. MacFarlane also reports growing concern on Capitol Hill that Trump may be using the controversy to distract from deeper issues involving his taxes and potential corruption exposure.

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

NEW: You've asked for the text of my $8.647 million dollar claim to Todd Blanche pursuant to the $1.7B slush fund so you can write your own. Here it is: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ive-fi...

May it be so! "Al Capone went to jail for tax evasion. Donald Trump's attempt to make an illegal deal to block the IRS from looking at his tax records means Trump's scrambling to try and make sure he doesn't face the same fate...NY is sending Trump to jail...just like Capone." Nathan Brown

If your religious leaders are obsessd with gaining and maintaining political power, you're not in a religion, you're in a political party.

Grand jury developments is a nice way of saying "ICE lied their asses off"

Vouching. They basically told the GJ, "trust me, bro" instead of using evidence, substituting their own opinions in place of evidence. They removed the pages about it, then tried to play cute & say they were told to only provide the law pages. Vouching is prohibited.

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

Trump: "We lost 13 people. In other wars, you lost hundreds of thousands of people. I get a kick when I look at somebody on television and they say, 'he's lost 13 people.'" Trump's utter disregard for the value of human life is a disgrace for any person, let alone a president of the US.

Yeah, it’s probably just a coincidence that Blanche represented Paul Manafort, Rudy Giuliani, Boris Epshteyn, Michael Cohen, and Donald Trump. He’s just a guy trying to do the right thing without regard to party, as long as you’re a Republican.

MacFarlane: Do you have any concern that they ousted Tom Massie to enable a cover-up? Pocan: It seems very obvious to those of us who are watching that there’s a reason they wanted to get rid of him, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars…

NEW INTERVIEW: LARRY BUSHART, the liberal Ex-cop jailed in PERRY COUNTY, TN for 37 days for posting a Trump meme about a Charlie Kirk vigil on Facebook His wife Leanne says he was a “political prisoner” —the $835,000 settlement they just got backs that up. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYnDdZX...

All those women still married to those men of the #EpsteinClass, and they had to know at some point, still with them.

I can't believe the people of this country are allowing him to get away with this nonsense.

Let’s post what we would do with the 1.8 BILLION slush fund instead of giving to traitors & criminals who attacked our country. I’ll go first I would create a fund to pay for veterinary care & pet boarding for low income pet owners. I personally believe that pets are essential to mental health

Mississippi called a special session TODAY to erase the only Black congressman in this state. Mississippi residents showed up. All of them. On their doorstep. In their streets. To show them what they're fighting against. ✊🏼 #mississippi #democracy

Fuck Alpha male ideology! Boys, you want an intense love story and satisfaction in your love life? THIS IS WHO YOU SHOULD EMULATE, not losers like Andrew Tate or Testicular or whatever his name is...

now that's quite the book title

Black folks been peacefully marching for decades No reparations White folks attack the capitol Get reparations What should black folks learn from this?

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Every American should be disgusted by this.

@jonrademacher.bsky.social “It should be explicitly clear from this presidential administration that we can no longer simply rely on decency from politicians and oligarchs. There MUST be laws that force them to be decent or they simply won't be.”

Just want to remind everyone again that in the city of Seattle, which built that unimaginable wealth and continues to not see any of it returned to our community, has a public school shortfall in the millions. Elementary kids are holding move-a-thons while he’s not paying those taxes

One of many reasons why the Founders specifically chose not to require that is because 8 of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were born outside the colonies and 9 of the 95 representatives elected to the first Congress were born outside the US.

Trump took out Thomas Massie…one of the most conservative Republicans alive. That’s your warning sign. In today’s GOP, disagreement is treason. Loyalty is the only platform left.

REUTERS: “Enrique Tarrio, Proud Boys leader sentenced ‌to 22 years for seditious conspiracy over the January 6, 2021 riot, said he planned to get between $2 & $5 million.” We are so far off the cliff. 🇺🇸 www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

Cartoon by @smoothdunk2.bsky.social

If releasing the Epstein Files and tax returns would end his presidency, then his presidency must end.

A Path to Justice — A cartoon by Nick Anderson

NEW: I've filed a claim with Todd Blanche for compensation from the $1.776B slush fund for the unlawful investigation by the government into my podcast in August 2019. I'm seeking $8.647 million in compensation for weaponized lawfare - the equivalent of punitive damages, lost pay and retirement.

BERNIE: “Massie was defeated by $9 Million from AIPAC + $7 million from Trump mega-donors — his crime was opposing the war in Iran Americans oppose, pushing to release the Epstein files, and not being a rubber stamp for Trump.”

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just voted to require teachers to forcibly out transgender youth against their will. Censoring "gender ideology" does nothing to advance the basic promise that every child deserves the same opportunity to thrive, and that includes transgender students.

Why should I pay taxes, if all representation is gone, and Trump never has to pay taxes again?

Under the U.S. Constitution, the President cannot make or pass new laws and cannot declare war. The power to create legislation belongs strictly to Congress, and only Congress has the constitutional authority to officially declare war

Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of a functioning democracy. We’re fighting back in the courts, in state legislatures, and in the streets against attempts by elected officials to undermine the strength of Black voters.

This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.

April 26: Trump says the Iranian oil wells are going to explode in 3 days because they have no place to put their oil because of the blockade, which will force them to surrender.

The Trump administration may be going after the Southern Poverty Law Center now, but make no mistake, this attack affects everyone. The point of prosecuting SPLC or others that make the president angry is to send a message: Fall in line or pay the price.

Trump & Republicans are creating another Civil War in America. Trump is financially building an army of people that are being given money, paying it forward, to be ready when he calls Martial Law. Citizens will not accept that, thus, comes the public’s rebellion. America’s Bolshevik Revolution.

This is only the beginning. He has no plans to leave office or allow free elections. Nor are his plans hidden—they're all unfolding in plain sight. The Insurrection never ended and the Christofascists won't stop until our democracy is gone. Choose who you'll be in this moment.