A note on this story. We asked the Marine Corps for comment last Wednesday. We asked the White House on Friday. White House spokesman asked for more time at 12 PM today, suggesting answers would come soon. Never heard back. Then another outlet publishes exclusive at 1030 PM tonight.

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Trump is planning another new addition to the White House: a helipad on the south lawn. Why? Because the long-stalled new Marine One helicopters keep burning the grass. with the estimable @danlamothe.bsky.social

Wait until Mike Johnson doesn’t hear about this!

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Trump doesn't care about the economic plight of the average American because he's too busy calling his broker His stunning 3,700 trades in just 3 months in firms like Palantir, Nvidia and Boeing should be another Watergate. Here's how to make it one My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

Thousands attend protests in Selma and Montgomery for voting rights | Alabama Reflector

Speakers at the All Roads Lead to the South events urge people to mobilize to oppose redistricting efforts by Legislatures in the south.

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“.. We spotted nine Polymarket accounts .. who made collectively $2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. Military operations. .. “.. Now, here is the crazy part. 98% win rates.” @mediaite.com www.mediaite.com/media/news/6...

Cult member says other members of cult must not challenge the leader of the cult.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Lindsey Graham on Sen. Cassidy's defeat: "If you try to destroy President Trump, you're gonna lose, because this is the party of Donald Trump"

An attack on Black America is an attack on all of America. Remember: if they come for us, they’ll come for you next. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/u...

The Fight for Voting Rights Returns to Selma

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Very very

Rep. Janelle Bynum@bynum.house.gov · 3mo ago

An attack on Black America is an attack on all of America. Remember: if they come for us, they’ll come for you next. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/u...

And curiously he's not talking about the pedophile ring at the peak of American power today, led by people like Trump, Lutnick and a dozen other senior figures in the Trump Team, that he selected and helped advance to power.

Any statewide race in Alabama will be hard for Dems; but this issue makes this Supreme Court election worth watching.

Bolts@boltsmag.org · 3mo ago

The Alabama Supreme Court issued a blockbuster decision in 2024 that endangered IVF treatments. This year, a lawyer who helps people navigate assisted reproduction is challenging a sitting justice; she accuses the court of releasing “anti-family rulings.”

Jon Ossoff: "RFKjr is attempting to demolish Americans' public health. We, in Georgia, have always been proud to host the CDC. It's never been a partisan thing. What we've seen is an intentional effort to destroy this once preeminent agency. This puts our country and the world at risk."

Pete Hegseth’s focused on the cost of the bomb. I’m more interested in the size of the economic crater.⁣ ⁣ And that crater may be 10 to 100 times larger.⁣ ⁣ For many families, that translates into thousands — perhaps tens of thousands — of dollars.

FYI

Who sent us to war with Iran and illegally raised tariffs? Donald Trump.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

NEWSNATION: A majority of Republicans say Trump has increased the cost of living. What say you about those numbers? COMER: Well, whoever is president is gonna take it on the chin with respect to inflation and affordability. It's Trump's economy, even though Biden ...

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.”

The Religious Right is desperate these days to pretend that "Christian Nationalism" is (1) a recently-invented term and (2) a pejorative invented by their enemies, but neither of those claims is remotely true. Here's a short thread, but I'm sure other historians will have examples too.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Mike Johnson: "The naysayers who have created this new term 'Christian nationalism' as a pejorative, a derogatory term, are trying to silence the influence and voices of Christians, and I think that's wildly inappropriate."

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

I see folks like Todd Blanche, Mike Johnson and Lindsey Graham on Sunday shows. There's plenty of evidence that they use such platforms to lie constantly. Giving them a megaphone to spread their lies is the opposite of journalism which is about seeking the truth. It's irresponsible & damaging.

Trump threatened to deploy troops to polling places. NM Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham just signed a law making that a felony. See how she is protecting voters and telling the regime to back off: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/they-cant-...

JD Vance keeps lying about California's aggressive fight against fraud. We've walked the walk with nation-leading fraud prevention and have protected billions. Meanwhile, JD's boss is pardoning convicted fraudsters and literally stuffing his pockets with YOUR tax dollars.

Cassidy played this in the worst possible way. He took a stand on impeachment thinking Trump was finished. Then Trump comes back and he sells out on everything thinking he could appease him somehow. He sold his soul & lost anyway. He loses with his integrity gone. What a legacy.

From Monday 12p to Tuesday 12p, there will be a 24-hour public reading of the (released) Epstein files In New York epsteinfilibuster.com#stream

“Having people like ICE treat people the way we were treated 61 years ago, it’s horrible,” said Charles Mauldin, who was tear-gassed by police in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. “I’m just starting to realize how traumatizing it is for me.”

At 17, He Was Tear-Gassed at Selma. At 78, He’s Watching Kids Tear-Gassed During Trump’s Deportation Campaign.

At least 79 children have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s deportation campaign. Charles Mauldin, a civil rights activist tear-gassed as a teenager at Selma, warns them to get…

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Must-read of the morning by @jamellebouie.net. I'm writing about the creation of the VRA right now, and this is absolutely correct. The Roberts Six often pretend to use history to get what they want, but it's always a funhouse mirror version with no root in reality.

Moscow&Moscow region will remain under Ukrainian strikes until Putin signs a capitulation Today the largest Ukrainian attack on Moscow region since the beginning of the war took place.Russian military infrastructure and oil facilities that generate money for Russia’s war machine were under attack⤵️

These are lawless violent vigilantes, not “patriots” or “martyrs.” Trump has already pardoned them. They most certainly should not now get paid from Trump’s proposed $1.7B fund.

Morgan J Freeman@mjfree.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’m gonna post this video every day so we NEVER FORGET what Donald Trump did to the USA on Jan 6th

Pete Buttigieg to CNN just now.. about Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's controversial road trip reality show "I love road trips. I love America. I actually took a taxpayer-funded road trip lasting about seven months. It was in Afghanistan. This is something very different"

Keeping this false narrative alive is a corruption of public office. Audits and lawsuits have already answered this question.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

BARTIROMO: So you believe there will be a definitive answer as to whether the 2020 election was stolen? TODD BLANCHE: We're looking at it and we hope to get one

“.. Every failed deal, every summit that yields nothing, every boast that goes unfulfilled, confirms what adversaries already suspect. A lame-duck superpower exhausts itself in full view of the world, and the world moves on.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Pretext for the next war, same as pretexts for the last wars. Some old story, same old song and dance.