Let me get right to the point. The Senate should not confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general. Here's why: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-senate-should-not-confirm-this
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Blue dot in a red state. Standing up for human rights.
Your daily reminder this should be the biggest scandal in American politics right now but nobody seems to care. Ken Paxton freed a man who raped a boy for 3 years. He also doesnt have to register as a sex offender. www.texastribune.org/2026/05/19/k...
Inside Ken Paxton’s plea deal for a child sex abuse case
Critics are pointing to two other serious felony cases that the attorney general’s prosecutors took to trial that ended in mistrials and, eventually, plea deals.
texastribune.org
Before Todd Blanche helped Trump use a settlement to launder a $1.8 billion slush fund, Brendan Carr helped him use a BS lawsuit to extract a $16 million bribe from Paramount. The D.C. Bar could have put a stop to it back then by disbarring Carr. It failed.
How Paramount and DC Bar enabled Trump’s ‘weaponization’ slush fund
Cowardice allowed a corrupt settlement of $16 million to beget one of $1.8 billion
freedom.press
While we slept the DOJ deleted all press releases about charges against January 6 defendants: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Justice Department deletes press releases on charges against Jan. 6 rioters
The Justice Department confirmed that it had deleted the press releases as part of “stripping DOJ’s website of partisan propaganda.”
nbcnews.com
NEW: Secret Handshake installed working arcade games called Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell at the DC War Memorial. The game features "furious tweet battles against Iranian schoolgirls, low-flow shower heads, and other threats to American freedom like DEI and The Pope..."
"Hello daddy. I hope you are OK. Tell everyone from my class hello." here's some of what I saw and learned this week when I visited the Dilley ICE family detention center in Texas.
📌Congratulations to Julie K. Brown, who won a much-deserved Pulitzer today for her Epstein reporting. 📌Absolute scorn to law enforcement and Congress for continuing to protect the sick jackals like Trump who preyed on little girls and women.
How the unreported killing of an American by ICE shattered two Texas families
An unreported ICE killing of an American shattered 2 Texas families
Josh Orta was the sole witness of Ruben Martinez’s death to dispute the government’s account. Months later, he died in a crash after learning an ICE agent killed his friend. Their mothers blame the go...
texastribune.org
The ballroom and the “shooting attempt” are akin to the Reichstag fire that Timothy Snyder talked about in On Tyranny. Don’t be fooled. Everyone should read this book. #WHCD #OnTyranny
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
A new analysis finds that tech giant Palantir Technologies paid $0 in federal income taxes last year, despite raking in hundreds of millions in taxpayer money to build out a mass network to surveil Americans in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security.
Palantir Paid $0 in Federal Income Tax in 2025 While Raking in Taxpayer Funds to Surveil Americans
Its $0 tax bill comes despite the company raking in $1.6 billion and landing a $10 billion military contract last year.
truthout.org
This is a great read. Just did my taxes and it pisses me off my effective tax rate was higher than Bezos and Musk. 18% on adjusted income below $75k.
THE SENATE IS VOTING ON THE BOUNDARY WATERS RIGHT NOW! Tonight, while most people are watching TV or putting their kids to bed, the U.S. Senate is taking a vote that could permanently end protections for one of the most beloved wilderness areas in America.
Bobby from Chicago isn't wrong. #SheShed @underthedesknews.bsky.social
“The Forest Service is being dismantled. Your business runs on these lands. We need you to speak out publicly, lobby your congressional representatives, and be ready to fund the legal fight that is coming. Silence is a choice. Your customers are watching.”
"In immigration detention, he missed 4 out of 5 chemotherapy sessions scheduled in his fight against aggressive lymphoma. A scan last month showed the cancer had spread into his bone marrow. “I was in shock, seeing those little dots,” he said of the scan...” www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...
Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice.
Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.
startribune.com
This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...
San Diego woman says her credit card information was stolen while she was in ICE custody
Hanne Engan, whom ICE arrested at her green card appointment, said her diabetes quickly escalated while at Otay Mesa Detention Center due to medical negligence. Written by Kate Morrissey, Edited...
daylightsandiego.org
Plano, Texas showing up for the #NoKings protests. Lots of honks & thumbs up. ✌️☮️
And now I’m in Carrollton, Texas for another No Kings protest. Once again, tons of people and honking.
If you're taking to the streets for No Kings protests today, know your rights. Find your nearest event at nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=aclu When using this link, Indivisible will know you came from us; their privacy policy applies.
LIVE IN 3 HOURS! The power is ours. The fight is ours. No Thrones. No Crowns. NO KINGS. The *official* #NoKings 3 #Virtual & #Accessible #Rally will be an online event to protect our health, defend our democracy, and say NO KINGS. #NK3VR Join us! zurl.co/fPfYi
JOIN US TODAY FOR #NoKings3 Over 3300 separate rallies planned Let's make this the biggest protest in American history. Resistance is Growing We reject the #TrumpRegime & #GOPTraitors & their brutality at home and abroad www.instagram.com/reel/DVDwz9O... #DefendDemocracy
British Lawmaker Ed Davey Tells Parliament That Trump's Oil Announcements Look Likes Insider Trading: "This looks like corruption of the very worst kind"
ICE assaults 10th grader U.S. Citizen, hospitalized him, stole his phone, and sold it
‘Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth, not one of them through the Strait of Hormuz,” #Scotland www.thenational.scot/business/259...
Alyn Smith: Dependency on oil is ludicrous when Scotland won the green energy jackpot
An independent Scotland simply won’t run our energy market like this.
thenational.scot
Rewatching John Carpenter's Escape from L.A. This plot about a future where the United States is ruled by a theocratic President for life who deports and imprisons innocent citizens hits a little too close to home this time around.
