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McConnell is hugely responsible for us getting here. But you can see what kind of day the white house is having.

Bari Weiss offered Anderson Cooper a bigger role at CBS News, but he chose to leave 60 Minutes instead. "I'd prefer less rather than more of you." It's a hard message to miss. I'll say it again: She had no detectable experience in broadcast news. Hers was a political hire. From @status.news:

So if I’m understanding it the outlines of the prosecutorial misconduct in the Broadview Six case is this. They tried three times to get an indictment. After they failed the second time they simply booted the grand jurors who didn’t think the conduct was a crime. Then they told the remaining …

“.. What is happening is an assault on democracy, and they’re using the easiest vector, which is anti-Black racism, because it’s the easiest thing you could do, the laziest thing you can do,” Nelson said. @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/m...

Rep Jim McGovern (D-MA) when GOP pulled an Iran War authorization vote off the schedule

The claim that AI will be used to boost productivity and improve everyone's lives would have just a little bit more credibility if the big tech companies weren't already using AI exactly as every knows they will, which is to fire people and extract more work from those remaining.

I figured there would be shady conduct with the Broadview Six grand jury, but it's unreal. Vouching is bad enough, but dismissing grand jurors who disagreed with them, hiding a no true bill, and hiding pages of the transcript from the judge? That should be disbarment. That's WAY beyond sanctionable.

"Marked the latest embarrassing blow to Speaker Mike Johnson" "House Republicans...abruptly canceled a vote on a resolution directing President Trump to withdraw US forces from Iran or win approval from Congress to continue the war, after it became clear they lacked the votes to defeat the measure"

From the just released transcript of today’s closed door hearing in the Broadview case

This bill, literally called the “CHARLIE Act,” imports definitions from Trump's odious EOs on race (EO 14190) and sex (EO 14168) into the federal statute for K-12 funding. It's not savvy centrist politics, it will not get them more votes. They know; they're bad people who like these parts of MAGA.

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

“My son is a very good person who I’ve known for a long time .” - literally no one ever until this guy.

Reality bath from @gelliottmorris.com: Given Biden approval rating & inflation/consumer sentiment, "the surprise of the [2024] election is that Harris did as well as she did...the Dem nominee was on track to lose the popular vote by 4 points. She lost by 1.5." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-dnc-au...

This is fucking great

The closure of CBS Radio News marks an enormous loss It'd be like imploding Wrigley Field or boarding-up the Louvre JUST FILED =====>

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

The outcry is only going to grow No president — of any party, going back to the founding — has ever done anything like this $1.7 B taken from the American people to hand cash to those who violently assaulted cops @ms.now👇 -TN

If only he could’ve done something about it…oh, wait

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...

(Bloomberg) - Iran has destroyed more than two dozen MQ-9 Reaper drones .. since the war began, a significant loss worth nearly $1 billion that represents 20% of the Pentagon’s prewar inventory for the hard-to-replace unmanned system. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Holy crap this thread

(NYT) - House Republican leaders have pulled a resolution to halt the Iran war that had been scheduled for a vote Thursday evening, after it became clear they lacked enough votes to defeat it. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

GENEVA (AP) - WHO chief says Ebola outbreak in Congo is spreading rapidly and now poses a 'very high risk' at the national level. @apnews.com

“.. Binance’s founder, Changpeng Zhao, was pardoned by President Trump in October.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

He’s the mayor of New York wtf is he doing not being corrupt as shit

Trump is reposting stuff related to his February State of the Union address again today. A common symptom of dementia is losing coherence as to where we are in terms of time, living in the past, and believing things from the past are current. Scary stuff.

LUCE: “I would love to think that billion-dollar ballrooms, .. overt patterns of insider trading and $1.8bn slush funds for January 6 thugs is what is driving the US public’s seemingly decisive move against Trump. But I’m pretty sure it is about the state of the economy.” www.ft.com/content/2051...

“.. bookings are well below expectations in almost every host city.” www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Here's an additional mystery about the Broadview Six case. The original lead atty was career prosecutor Sheri Mecklenberg, a 20 yr vet in the Chicago US Atty office. In late Feb, with basically zero warning or discussion she withdrew from the case and was assigned to work on the Sen. judiicary ...

Trump up at 2am posting about being mad at the TV.

“.. Customers visiting Walmart’s US petrol stations are buying less than 10 gallons per visit for the first time since 2022 .. ‘That’s an indication of stress,’ said John David Rainey, chief financial officer ..” @financialtimes.com $WMT www.ft.com/content/4c1d...

JUST FILED: Trump’s slush fund has crashed into an iceberg youtu.be/PPVJBpiRuyw?...

My enduring hope is that one day people will realize paying fewer taxes will never singlehandedly move them into a higher income bracket. Because of math. And logic

".. The app .. frequently miscounted and mislabeled items, such as confusing similar milk types or ​missing them altogether .." @reuters.com $SBUX www.reuters.com/business/sta...

The outcry is only going to grow No president — of any party, going back to the founding — has ever done anything like this $1.B taken from the American people to hand cash to those who violently assaulted cops @ms.now👇 -TN

Here is a Mitch McConnell with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Steny Hoyer, huddled in a secure room in the Capitol on Jan 6, on speakerphone with the Pentagon begging for help from screaming mob. The Pentagon was not immediately helpful.

Maybe it’s just me, but I think if you’re gonna put John Bolton on the air talking about the Trump administration, you gotta remind people he’s under indictment by…the Trump administration.

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.

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

“I urge you to neither lose hope nor doubt our capacity to overcome this dark and grueling chapter. It may sound like a cliché to suggest that many Americans throughout our history have experienced worse, but it is true.” www.americaamerica.news/p/yet-we-per...

“The United States is walking away from the crisis. Trump may launch another limited strike to look tough and satisfy the demands of the war’s supporters, but it would be a performative gesture. Endgame in this case is a euphemism for ‘surrender.’” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

JUST FILED: Trump's slush fund is liquifying Dampening prospects for would-be recipients My daily editorial note: open.substack.com/pub/macfarla...

(Reuters) - It would be a mistake to underestimate the risk posed by the Ebola outbreak, the WHO regional director for Africa told Reuters on Friday, warning that just one case could spread the virus beyond the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. @reuters.com

DNC Chair Ken Martin should take over Bungie. Colossal mismanagment is a resume builder there.

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

New all-time low, going back to 1970s. #UMich

“.. Five people familiar with the West Wing’s thinking, including three of Trump’s former energy advisers .. said the record $5.02 gas price, hit in 2022, is a symbolic milestone, sure to set off a wave of negative news coverage ..” @politico.com ⛽️ www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

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...

“.. Among the major U.S. corporations that have tried to get the money they paid in duties back are Walmart, Apple, Nike, Home Depot, General Motors, FedEx and Costco.” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/05/22/t...

“.. Some Montgomery County residents .. demanded to know why the county never brought the issue to a vote of the people. “.. ‘That’s not how this works,’ said Presiding County Commissioner Ryan Poston.” @mcbridetd.bsky.social missouriindependent.com/2026/05/22/g...

WH still doing a lot of chest-beating talk, but the GOP couldn't even pass a bill opening a women's museum, a bill funding ICE and the ballroom, or stop bills to end the Iran War this week. This is how every trifecta I've covered dies — they stop being functional majorities.

The American people hate corruption -- irrespective of party That's why we litigate 300+ cases at @democracydefendersfund.org & the courts have stepped in again & again to stop this corrupt admins shenanigans We're confident on this $1.7B slush fund too I explain why @ms.now👇 -TN

“‘All I want is just one normal day,’ said Representative Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, chairwoman of the Rules Committee. ‘Just give me one normal day.’” You want normal days? Easy. Just impeach and remove President Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/u...

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. the talks appear to signal that the United States and Iran are no closer to ending a war that has badly damaged the global economy ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/w...

JPMORGAN: “.. If our baseline view is realized—that is, that the Strait of Hormuz soon reopens and crude oil prices linger close to $100/bbl—a mix of goods sector cost pressures, tightening labor markets, and firm pricing power could push core inflation well above 3%.” 👀

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

So Emil Bove really just has that job still huh

“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...

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) Says January 6th Attack on Capitol Was Staged meidasnews.com/news/ralph-n...

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.

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

Newer and bluer meanies have been sighted in the vicinity of this theatre. There’s only one way to go out: singing.

“.. potential beneficiaries .. preparing to get in early, before the money runs out or Congress or the courts intervene.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"It’s hard to overstate how loud the tyrant’s mockery is right now in America...But we should have the faith that his days are numbered. It’s up to all of us—clinging to hope, holding onto faith in the democratic project—to make it so." open.substack.com/pub/america/...

“.. Kevin Warsh is facing the highest yields on 10-year Treasuries on his swearing-in date of any Fed chair going back to Alan Greenspan in August 1987.” @bloomberg.com

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: Connecticut just adopted a new law that expands vote by mail — at a time that Trump is demanding that the practice be severly curtailed. This state lagged far behind the national norms, though, so this is about playing catchup. Bolts explains: boltsmag.org/connecticut-...

Morning Joe stuck the amazing @katmabu.bsky.social with the awful Donny Deutsch and tried to drag her into the morass of trans prisoners and the Democrats' autopsy. She wisely changed the subject to Gaza. You go, Kat.

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.

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.

White people: Stop making everything about race. Also white people: We are being discriminated against because of our race.

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.

Elon Musk has turned X into a machine that generates culture wars on demand. His racist and transphobic attacks on the cast of "The Odyssey" aren't just a distraction, they're the pop culture version of the Trump administration's anti-DEI propaganda. spitfirenews.com/p/the-odysse...

Trump's approval is plummeting. His presidency is in a tailspin and the GOP knows it. His Slush Fund and sweetheart tax amnesty for his family are the final straw. GOP electeds are now in outright rebellion because they see his ship is sinking and they're all on it realizing it's time to get off.

I was in the chamber for this and you couldn’t hear McGovern because it was so loud. Angry Ds as they pulled the vote to end the war (because it would have passed.)

Mississippi GOP was forced to redraw their legislative gerrymanders last year, resulting in Democratic gains & an end to GOP's supermajority. After Callais, that all looked on thin ice. Indeed courts have confirmed MS can go back to gerrymanders that'll reduce Black representation:

Bondi. Noem. Chavez-DeRemer. Gabbard.

This is on Trump, Musk and RFK who gutted our public health and international aid infrastructure

Democrats Flirt with Radical Reforms Needed to Dethrone Supreme Court talkingpointsmemo.com/news/democra...

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.

Sure, Voldemort. That $1.8 billion insurrectionist slush fund is such an act of “justice” that you tried to avoid having a judge weigh in on it.

Pondering the similarities between Senate today and the Entmoot after Saruman starting cutting down the trees at Isengard

The lawsuits are good, the editorials are getting better, but the news stories are still full of weasel words and normalization. The greatest power of a news organization is news. See: presswatchers.org/2025/09/how-...

The Retribution Tour Collides with the Ballroom and the Deserving Fascists Slush Fund (DFSF) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-r...

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.

The Broadview case against people protesting ICE outside Chicago is yet another example of the Trump regime running roughshod over the law. Charges were dropped today when major prosecutorial misconduct was revealed. The judge was extremely ticked off, as Josh's thread demonstrates.

Who needs an autopsy? Progressives like Rabb and El-Sayed are bringing the Democratic Party back to life by channeling the anger that so many in the base are feeling A 'double wave' tsunami is coming - for Trump, and a clueless Dem establishment My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/demo...

“.. 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)

“There is already an arch at Arlington. The red stone McClellan Gate—30 feet high—bears a fitting few lines from Theodore O’Hara’s poem: “On fame’s eternal camping ground their silent tents are spread / And glory guards with solemn round, the bivouac of the dead.” www.thebulwark.com/p/is-that-a-...

excuse me

Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves — over the coming days.

NEW: A 5-4 SCOTUS rejects Alabama's effort to make executing intellectually disabled people easier. Lower courts tossed out Joseph Clifton Smith's death sentence after a finding him to be intellectually disabled. That decision stands, but SCOTUS refused to stop two other execution efforts.

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

I consider human teeth to be incontrovertible evidence of evolution. Ain't nobody 'designing' that. It's like a car that explodes if a pebble gets stuck in the tire treads.

The Trump regime’s terror campaign against immigrants and the brave people who defend them ends up with more revelations of prosecutor misconduct and more cases dropped. The White House is run by criminals, and the Justice Department is their fascist enforcement gang.

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

“.. Krummrich, who formerly helped run the command overseeing special forces operations in the Middle East, warned of the dire humanitarian crisis that would follow. ‘What comes next is truly scary.’” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/dbfb...

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