David Ellison wants us to know he’s not ideological, and that’s why he put a conservative with no tv experience in charge of CBS

Picture Biden trying to make his long time personal attorney the Attorney General of the United States.

Today marks six years since a catastrophic explosion of ammonium nitrate tore through Beirut’s port, killing over 200 people in one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in modern history.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

I mean, it’s July. At Safeway

More than two dozen accusers of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sent a letter to Republican Sens. Thom Tillis and John Cornyn urging them not to confirm acting attorney general Todd Blanche to lead the Justice Department permanently.

One of my favorite parts of this project was scooping up the www.nytimes.lgbt domain and using it to host the data dashboard. Check it out!

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2mo ago

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

RFK seeing this footage and bolting down to the Reflecting Pool so he can drink from the hose

Phil Yabut@philliefan99.bsky.social · 2mo ago

They're dumping slimy, green peroxide water from the Reflecting Pool back into the Potomac. #dc @popville.bsky.social

NEW: Trump administration officials earlier this year killed a federal criminal investigation into the coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice, the Republican former governor of West Virginia and a close ally of the president’s. By @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social

Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator's Coal Companies

EPA and Justice Department officials were looking into potential criminal violations by the vast coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice. Then the Office of the Deputy Attorney General told them “pencils down.”

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Trump's Department of Homeland Security has awarded more than $19.4 billion in border wall contracts in the past six months — compared with $2.1 billion from 2016 to 2024. Most of it has gone to two firms that have ties to the White House and the Republican Party, according to a WaPo analysis.

Spike in border wall spending goes mostly to 2 firms with GOP, White House ties

Construction contracts are being awarded at a historic scale through a streamlined process that could put Trump on track to realize his vision for a border wall.

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That's not even his final form

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2mo ago

L - GOP Rep and MI senate candidate Mike Rogers actual photo from the campaign trail. R - Photo put out by staffer.

New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...

Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags

Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.

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the trump official — who led the siege & occupation of Minneapolis — admitting to having an ongoing dialogue/rapport with Martin Sellner, a straight-up Nazi who influenced the Christchurch shooter, while speaking at a conference about remigration (read: ethnic cleansing) is a pretty big deal!

Osservatorio sul complottismo@sulcomplottismo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Greg Bovino at the far-right Remigration summit in Portugal: "Martin Sellner, you've invited me here today. Your ideas, we've talked a lot on that and those ideas mirror each other. We've never talked before face to face until yesterday and we're on the same sheet of music almost immediately".

This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.

From the reporter who scooped the news that Treasury's GC was quitting, IRS wrote a 25-page memo about why Trump's IRS lawsuit was dogshit. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/a...

via @hissgoescobra.bsky.social Listen to the judge at Tina Peters's trial give a searing condemnation of her crimes and behavior in Court. Compare this to what Polis is trying to spin today, in order to justify the bended knee to Trump and his shortcutting of the judicial process:

Little Steven Van Zandt is on Fallon at the same time as Dave Grohl on Colbert. Boomer dilemmas!

It’s telling that absolutely nobody can convince him to not brag about constantly being administered dementia tests.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Trump: "I took three cognitive tests. Aced all of them, by the way. I'm the only president to take a cognitive test. I don't think Obama could pass it. The first question is very easy -- it's a lion, a giraffe, a bear, and a shark. They say, 'Which one is the bear?'"

As a political holiday, May Day began in Chicago after the Haymarket Massacre in 1886 when workers demanded an eight hour workday. It’s “as American as apple pie.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Fox News: "In communist countries around the world, it's May Day"

There is absolutely no way anyone in the administration will understand a joke about the French and Indian War. That’s half the joke.🔥🔥🔥

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3mo ago

King Charles at State Dinner: “You recently commented, Mr. President, that if it were not for the United States, European countries would be speaking German. Dare I say that if it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking French”

“Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery—the greatest material interest of the world,” Mississippi’s 1861 Declaration of Secession declared. Once again, the Mississippi governor has declared April as Confederate Heritage Month. buff.ly/1JqEwko

Billions in foreign real estate deals while serving as head of state. Billions in crypto deals while gutting regulation of the industry. Suing his own government and negotiating a settlement funded by the taxpayers. We're so numb to Trump grifting off the presidency that hardly anyone notices.

Trump and the IRS are in talks to resolve his $10 billion lawsuit over leaked tax records

The president's lawsuit, filed this year, alleges that the IRS failed to take the necessary steps to prevent the unautho

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New: We found out how much money Nick Fuentes makes from "superchats": $900,000 since the start of Trump's second term. Here's the story of Kristine in Ohio, a food-truck operator who became his most frequent donor, despite not making much money herself: wapo.st/4mERkhv

It's reverse Robin Hood.

Was so pumped to get into the #LA28 Olympic queue today. So, no tickets AT ALL to basketball, swimming, gymnastics, cycling, beach volleyball, tennis, fencing, ping pong. Some track for $682 on slow days, $1,116 for days with finals. Each session half a day. Went in '84 and '96, not sure about '28.

Remember when Senile Satan was a “nurse” last June?

I'm going to take the win. I have a lotta quibbles and two major critiques, but this is significant. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Trump attacks pope, sees himself as Jesus, days after threatening to destroy an entire civilization, and our top news organizations still won’t acknowledge that he is seriously deranged. I am a broken fucking record: presswatchers.org/category/tru...

The latest “innovation” from the Wash Post editorial page: a newsletter on the horrors of govt regulation, like the “inexplicable” cancellation of the Keystone pipeline, by both Obama and Biden.

Happy War Crimes Day to all who celebrate.

Slaughtering our golden goose: massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

nature.com