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Once again the federal courts are doing their jobs despite many pressures. No doubt this DOJ will attack this judge as partisan and biased etc etc. But it is the Acting AG’s own public words that doomed this case to be dismissed.

"The investigation was marked by retaliatory taint" In scorching 32-page opinion, federal judge DISMISSES criminal case against Kilmar Abrego-Garcia as "vindictive prosecution" Judge cites Todd Blanche's public statements about the probe in rationale storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“To say that Gabbard disgraced herself and her office is both a dramatic understatement and also perhaps the only true qualification she had for working in the second Trump presidency.”

Is Buttercup one of the oldest goldfish still swimming around? I don't know, we can't remember... https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/contrarian-pet-of-the-week-7fc?r=53ubpn&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

A peek into the grand jury room finds DOJ prosecutors committing misconduct to make Trump happy. So from now on, I want to see headlines like “Justice Department goes after James Comey for seashell photo” NOT “Comey indicted on charges of communicating threats” presswatchers.org/2026/05/pros...

Bye zeteo.com/p/breaking-t...

Another departure from Trump's Cabinet. Who's next? JUST FILED: youtu.be/E7k85p3zxFU?...

“Because the presumption of vindictiveness remains unrebutted, the indictment must be dismissed,” Judge Waverly Crenshaw wrote.

Prosecutorial misconduct bombshell casts doubt on other grand jury indictments. NEW from me, on Press Watch. presswatchers.org/2026/05/pros...

If Howard Lutnick started telling the truth, he'd be fired. If he keeps telling Trumpian lies, there will always be a place for him in the regime.

BREAKING: Federal judge dismisses the case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia in Tennessee. Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

How much money should Kilmar Ábrego García demand from the slush fund?

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This is fucking great

I was honored to receive an honorary Doctorate from @cunylaw.bsky.social What a privilege to address the class of 2026. I told them we need them. I told them they are worthy; to hold their heads high even when attacked for loving justice & protecting the vulnerable. I am so very proud of them!

I too am annoyed by having to write “cabinet level official” because you may be “cabinet level” but also not technically “in” the cabinet Stupid ass distinction without a difference

Zoom out: "European powers remind Americans that free people have agency to reject the siren call of nationalism, racism, isolationism, militarism, and authoritarianism." @jenrubin.bsky.social

BREAKING: Jan. 6 prosecutor and other Trump administration targets sue over "$1.776 billion slush fund"

BREAKING: Federal judge dismisses criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Extremely relatable tbh. Who among us would actually want to go to Don Jr.’s wedding?

Trump's political collapse is accelerating, his approval is cratering, and the most despicable Congress in American history will fall in November. This Memorial Day weekend, I declare the beginning of a summer that will bring the end of MAGA. youtu.be/_6lCWyZag0g

Tulsi Gabbard resigns, but the Trump bulldozer keeps rolling. Easy prediction: The next director of national intelligence will be more obedient, more gleeful to destroy the institutions and culture that made America safe.

If Republicans also get to re-gerrymander Utah by 2028 thanks to court-packing, the median congressional district margins for the 2028 map could shift to: New GOP maps only: Trump+9.1 in 2024 and Trump+2.9 in 2020. New GOP and Dem maps: Trump+1.8 in 2024 and Biden+2.9 in 2020.

These four have something in common: a name ending in “i”

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries makes it clear: there is no room for bigotry in the Democratic Party, and Texas candidate Maureen Galindo is NOT in the big tent @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

When it comes to confirming the next DNI to replace Tulsi Gabbard, how about one basic requirement.... NO ELECTION DENIERS We know Trump wants a DNI who will manufacture conspiracies so he can take over ballots and polls in places like Fulton County. YOLO Gang led by Tillis, Cassidy, etc?

Everything has gotten more expensive, and it’s the direct result of reckless Republican policies. Working Americans can’t afford it.

Trump would prefer to start a war than attend his son's wedding.

FALLOWS: “.. four examples of people who have been thinking about the process of civic reconstruction. “.. each deserves attention, as the end of Trump’s era begins to come into view.” @jfallows.bsky.social fallows.substack.com/p/the-post-t...

Their Loved Ones Died for the Voting Rights Act. The Supreme Court’s Ruling Is a New Injustice. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/their-l...

The new era is coming into view. By me. Most before paywall. fallows.substack.com/p/the-post-t...

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social must be offline, so I'll do the obligatory "Tulsi Gabbard to join Harvard Institute of Politics" www.reuters.com/world/us/gab...

Republicans packed Utah’s Supreme Court earlier in 2026—now Gov. Spencer Cox gets to appoint a new majority to the bench. This has dire implications for court rulings that replaced the GOP’s congressional gerrymander with a fairer map for 2026. The GOP could try to throw out the new map by 2028

The ICE/DOJ scandal that finally saw the light of day yesterday in a chicago courtroom has now spread to DC www.notus.org/courts/durbi...

Utah Republicans expanded the court to create two seats, bullied a justice into retiring, and now are benefiting from yet another retirement — and will be able to significantly re-haul the majority of the court.

BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard has resigned as the Director of National Intelligence. Her resignation is the latest in a pattern of female cabinet members being forced out https://www.contrariannews.org/p/women-are-the-first-to-go

this just makes me feel more dumb for not recognizing people

So excited to be a @brooklyncollege.bsky.social Bulldog FRFR!!

some Antifa dudes should step forward and say that yes they actually did Jan. 6 and ask for that weaponization money

I wonder if Trump is keeping his golf clubs handy.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced Friday that she’s resigning at the end of June, citing her husband’s diagnosis with cancer.

Breaking - Tulsi Gabbard out www.cnn.com/2026/05/22/p...

Genuinely appalling that Dick Durbin, the highest-ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, keeps (accurately) calling Trump's judicial nominees "MAGA loyalists," and has also personally voted to confirm NINE of them. What are we doing here, man.

The price of regular gas in Tampa Bay for Memorial Day weekend. ⛽️ 📈 $4.52/ gallon

In the Trenches with the Law — Thoughts on the Broadview Six Case talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/in-th...

NEW: How the Broadview Six became the Broadview Zero. My deep dive (dish?) into DOJ's ill-fated Chicago prosecution of @katmabu.bsky.social + 5, which died like a Hemingway character going bankrupt: gradually, then suddenly. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/r.i....

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NEW: Republican revolt as Trump pleads for his $1.7 billion fund for convicted crooks and rioters Just Filed: youtu.be/CNt7OCBsgjE?...

She stood by none of her supposed principles and got absolutely nothing for it.

Bondi. Noem. Chavez-DeRemer. Gabbard.

To be clear, Trump travels with essentially a mobile SCIF whenever he travels away from the White House. There is no aspect of governance he can’t address while making time for his son’s wedding. Even a damn war. So he likely just doesn’t want to be there.

It’s worth noting Trump’s utterly TANKING in the polls after getting mostly everything he wants policy wise. The Iran War, the ICE raids, the shakedowns, the DOGE, the pardons, etc. He can’t blame his failings on the deep state this time. He got Project 2025 & it’s a disaster. Autocracy sucks.

In its continuing #MamdaniVendetta, the #BrokenTimes is egging on conflict and a fight. Disconnect Widens Between Mamdani and Pro-Israel Jewish Leaders www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/n...

Axios is so committed to its bullshit narratives that is defies reality. Trump's week, like everyone else's, started on Monday, when he plundered the treasury. www.axios.com/2026/05/22/t...

“.. an unusually large contribution for a sitting cabinet secretary.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

Am I crazy to think that’s not as expensive as would be assumed for six weeks of living at that hotel? Impressive if he only had to pay that much for six weeks.

"The end of The Late Show will also be a loss for anyone who values thoughtful dialogue about religion, theology and spirituality, and thinks that liberals of faith have an important role to play in contemporary political discourse." Meredith Blake reflects on Colbert's spiritual role in late night

I still don’t understand why this isn’t being held at the WH. Long bipartisan tradition of WH weddings and it makes sense on practical grounds.

Trump will get them something nice from their Crate & Barrel registry

“.. The batch of comments in the May Kansas City Fed Manufacturing survey is interesting … with one of the more blunt ones being: “Sales have come to a stop.” (via Schwab)

“Shrinking”. “Severance”. “Pluribus”. Welcome to the AppleTV era of dead spouses. @slashfilm.bsky.social www.slashfilm.com/2179056/appl...

“.. Somebody described it as a galactic blunder,” Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, told CNN, “and I think that’s probably true.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/u...

If you read to the bottom, you’ll also see the hilarious tidbit on how the trump White House is keeping a “file” on Jimmy Kimmel and is now in their public document on him classifying him with the worst derogatory name the wh could possibly think to give someone: as a “REPORTER” with abc news 😂

Pretty much from here.

BREAN, on #UMich: “.. What is particularly troubling is that the responses that gave us 3.4% on the preliminary medium-term inflation expectation are still in the sample that gave us a revised medium-term inflation expectation of 3.9%, which suggests a further increase in early June ..”

You can't have a king without tower clocks

"The question before November, and perhaps even more after it, is not whether every comic will keep his show. It is whether ridicule of power remains visible, portable, and shared enough to matter." Brian O'Neill reflects on the moment of Stephen Colbert's last Late Show

One of the pieces of reporting in here: “Disney’s not bending”… yet, per sources; the trump administration last month threw a significant amount of resources — again — at trying to get Jimmy Kimmel fired. Trump, the wh west wing , east wing and First Lady, and the fcc (surprise!) announces the…

Oh. My. God. Becky, look at her but, don't judge her based on her appearance. Women should support each other, not tear each other down.

MS NOW’s chyron says: FEDS ADMIT TO ERRORS IN ‘BROADVIEW SIX’ CASE. But they weren’t errors. The Trump regime’s lawyers purposely committed gross misconduct in a plot to violate the civil rights of Americans for the “crime” of protesting against ICE.

“I have good news and bad news, ma’am. The good news is your husband is no longer on a respirator. As for the bad news . . .”

“.. The new Fed Chair must face the realization that secular inflation expectations are accelerating and the 40-year downtrend appears to be history.” - RBAdvisers

RBADVISERS: “.. Higher rates from Washington’s never-ending irresponsible tax cuts, spending, debt and deficits continue to hurt the US economy. “.. Example: US mortgage rates mimic those of emerging markets.” (Table: Global Property Guide)

“From a small spark, kindled in America, a flame has arisen not to be extinguished,” Thomas Paine wrote in the 1790s. That’s still true…and it will enable us to overcome this dark and grueling chapter. www.americaamerica.news/p/yet-we-per...

“The DHS propaganda machine went to work. Headlines around the country declared that Sosa-Celis and two other men had ambushed and beat two ICE officers nearly to death, giving them no choice but to use lethal force to defend themselves. It was all a lie.” open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

Saying that 5 million people have been "lifted off" food stamps is like saying that robbers "relieved" a bank of its money.

GOLDMAN: “.. The University of Michigan noted that ‘The cost of living continues to be a first-order concern, with 57% of consumers spontaneously mentioning that high prices were eroding their personal finances, up from 50% last month.’” #UMich

The Boys wasn’t great for the last few seasons but the show has been pretty vindicated by Musk and right wingers losing their minds over the finale

If TV networks really cared about tthe truth, they'd carry Trump's speeches on a delayed basis and fact-check them before they aired them. Instead, they give Trump a free platform to lie. It's journalistic malpractice, a huge disservice to our country.

If Trump had given himself $10B from this bottomless settlement authority, would Congress have acted to block and/or impeach/remove?

GALLUP: share of Americans who think economic conditions are getting worse rose to 76% in May (highest reading since May 2023) while only 20% say they are getting better. (via Schwab)

The sheer evil of the current attacks on transgender individuals is almost unmatched even in a time of a lot of evil.

“.. Inflation expectations are surging among Republicans.” @weisenthal.bsky.social #UMich

We’ve reached the “my corruption is benevolent” stage of the Trump regime.

The transcript is surreal. I read other people's takes first and still wasn't prepared for the government's insane/lame (non)-excuses & blaming the defendants. These defendants deserve justice & compensation & the extreme misconduct here raises questions about what the f is happening in *any* case.

Our corrupt, failed leader is losing his control over Congress. It's a big deal. New, from me 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/our-corrup...

Trump promised everyone a pony and he delivered a pony turd

I see a lot of people worried this will limit traffic enforcement. But that could easily be a carveout, like tolling. Hypothetically cities could use ALPR to catch dangerous drivers in school zones & still not give LEAs carte blanche to query the data anytime they want without a warrant. JS.

WALLER: ".. It's just kind of crazy to say you could start talking about rate cuts in the near future. .. You just can't look at this data and say, 'Yeah, we could cut rates by September or something. You can't be serious as a central banker and talk like that." @reuters.com

New York lawmakers just passed a bill that, among other things, bans 287(g) contracts. That's something advocates have demanded for years; I first wrote on a NY sheriff in 287(g) in 2019. The deal doesn't have many restrictions advocates wanted, tho. nysfocus.com/2026/05/22/h...

Surprising stat: There's been a lot of talk about "unleashing American energy" and "drill baby drill" from the administration, but US oil production today is only about 70,000 barrels a day higher than the Biden-era high in late 2024. (13.7M now vs. 13.63M).

New from @banikarim.bsky.social @columjournreview.bsky.social: @nymag.com is conducting a "comprehensive review" on Ross Barkan's work. "Our editorial standard is that any work that is heavily cited or paraphrased should include attribution" www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

the brain undergoes some changes with it's fluffed 24/7 for enough years

* U.S. GOVERNMENT ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN FINDING THERAPIES FOR NEW EBOLA STRAIN, CDC OFFICIAL SAYS @reuters.com

Stephen Colbert's show was cancelled because he had the wrong politics. End of story. Period. Listen to the full conversation on Power Lines: youtu.be/NRd5qvkVseg

Republicans want to reward people for beating up cops. It’s as simple and shocking as that.

Ok I'm sensing some momentum here, let's all start saying ai;dr when you see AI writing in a post or story or email, it's a great way to signal you're ignoring them until they use their actual brains www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell...

"Bottom line, you've got to punch a bully in the face." Watch now to hear Gov. @gavinnewsom reveal who the bully is and why this theoretical punch is working. #votingrightsact substack.com/@contrarian/...

Michael Whatley supports Trump’s cuts to health care, his war in Iran, and now his $1.8 billion slush fund. When it counts, he sides with Trump over North Carolinians. punchbowl.news/article/camp...

"Black rights movements have always been democratizing movements, and history shows this country cannot deny one and maintain the other," writes Nikole Hannah-Jones.