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Cole Allen, May 7: DOJ employees must recuse if they are an alleged victim of a charged crime. Todd Blanche, May 15: I, the undersigned, was a target of the horrific attack at the WHCD. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Chinese President Xi Jinping is 5 feet 11 inches. Trump claims to be 6 feet 3. He lies about everything.

Turns out, schools are way cheaper than ballrooms...

Mike Johnson: "The president has declared Operation Epic Fury to have concluded, and now we're working on the next project, which is getting the Strait of Hormuz open. We don't expect that to be a warfare activity, so to speak. I don't think Congress needs to get in the way of the administration."

What Happened To America These Past 50yrs? A Conversation: 52yrs ago, Richard Nixon was forced out of office for what today seems like petty crimes. Donald Trump tried to overthrow an American election and was put back in power. What happened to us? I sat down with former venture capitalist,…

How the Trump Admin Tried to Turn Foreign Aid Funds Into Deportation Cash talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-the...

"As part of the settlement, Texas Children’s has also agreed to fire, permanently and irrevocably terminate all existing privileges, and never again hire or credential five woke doctors who performed harmful medical interventions on Texans"

"Oh yeah it's kind of dehumanizing to call unhoused and mentally ill human beings zombies but they're a real problem." Jesus Christ.

Today, I rise to support our veterans and the brave men and women who have served this country. And I rise to say hell no to the privatization of the VA! ✊🇺🇸

"True democracy was ushered in and kicked out in my mother’s lifetime. When she was 15, Black people like her finally were granted the right to vote and now at 76 saw 6 members of SCOTUS declare that, for all intents and purposes, especially now as a FL resident, she no longer has those rights."

Q: "Should President Trump have been more committal when it comes to Taiwan during his visit to China?" Mike Johnson: "I haven't seen, I've been really busy the last couple days, so I haven't seen the exact readout on how that discussion went."

One more pt: The amici brief wasn't due until May 21, one day after briefs are due from Trump and the IRS on why they're not just all on the same side, but w/ admin racing to settle the case before the judge can weigh in on adversity, the amici filed their memo 8 days early bsky.app/profile/did:...

In February, a man drove cross-country with a cache of weapons to a major Nevada-area power plant. His apparent attack failed, and he killed himself. He had literature popular with neo-Nazis, and his target had circulated in guides in the movement. Latest at SPLC: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

".. At a meeting with school children earlier this month, Merz said Iran had 'humiliated' the US." @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/123f...

What happened to the $10b Trump allocated for this ridiculous boondoggle?

Oil inventories are falling around the world at a record pace and will continue to drop for months due to the disruption to Middle East supplies, according to the International Energy Agency www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Q: "When approaching the war with Iran, do you agree with the president's position that Americans' financial situations should not be a consideration?" Vance: "I don't think the president said that."

"How did that thing go that you said as a kid... Sally sells seashells on the seashore. Sally never got indicted — I don't believe Sally was ever indicted." @timmiller.bsky.social and @jamescomey.bsky.social on the absurdity of the '8647' seashell indictment.

Note: This really was a chart in Gorka's dissertation

This was a well-written and thoughtful article so naturally the replies and quotes are filled with people accusing the author of supporting eugenics.

Matt Mahan is a fraud.

“Elon Musk Said He’d Stop Political Spending. He’s the Third-Largest Donor in the Midterms *** And now he's accompanying Trump as a guest of honor in China.” 5/13/26 … 1/ gizmodo.com/elon-musk-sa...

Oakland Public Library lets you check out these backpacks with binoculars, nature guides, etc. and you can also check out passes to state parks! oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S1....

We need to flip four senate seats this November to overcome the Fetterman problem.

A federal judge in D.C. has set a court date for the lawsuit over Trump's Reflecting Pool paint job www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

There has been a lot of discourse about Iran retaining 75% of its prewar mobile launchers and 70% of its prewar missile stockpiles despite months of intense American/Israeli bombardment but history would tell us this is actually a structural feature that refuses to go away. My latest ⬇️

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: New Alzheimer’s blood tests are being sold as a breakthrough. But for cognitively normal people, a positive result can be deeply misleading: In one study, only 18% of people who tested positive went on to develop dementia. So why are drugmakers pushing mass screening?

GILLIBRAND: How did we bomb 22 schools? COOPER: There's no indication we have G: So how do you explain publicly available information that 22 schools have been hit and multiple hospitals? C: There's no way we can corroborate that G: Have you investigated those claims? C: We have not

Today's cartoon by Chris Britt:

OMG.. Xi stopped & STARED DOWN Stephen Miller.... And you can tell Miller did not like it. It was the "Oh, you're the racist prick" look.

I don't know *why* his neurotic museum curator character had to be this jacked but I'm not exactly complaining that he was.

NEWS: Looks like the 30,000+ service workers of the University of California narrowly avoided a system-wide strike (set to begin today) by securing an 11th-hour TA—ratification vote begins next week. afscme3299.org/blog/we-won/

The full quote, which comes about 3 minutes into the livestream, was "...the power to determine who gets to access information has never been circumcised by Congress, which is another reason why it's dedicated to the Executive."

OMG the DOJ lawyer just said presidential power has never been "circumcised." He was trying to say "circumscribed."

NEW: 7 years ago, on this day, Joe Biden predicted a Republican “epiphany” where the party abandons Trump after 2020. Many primary voters bought into it. But the prophecy failed. Now Democrats are moving on to a more combative style of politics. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

A violently incompetent man without any skill or specialty to recommend him for the job of authority that he demanded shitting the bed on a failure of his own making and then expecting a grandiose trophy that declares him the greatest to have ever been. MAGA male psyche in a nutshell.

Enten: "We're talking about a record. President Trump -- 79% of Americans disapprove of him on gas prices. This is a record high in terms of looking back at every single president this century. It's scary if you're a Republican looking at these numbers."

They are still fighting the Civil War like a bunch of Japanese stragglers…

Q: Gas prices are up. Inflation is up. Americans are having financial hardship. Is now the right time for Congress to be prioritizing a billion dollars for security at the WH & a ballroom Trump said would be paid for privately? MIKE JOHNSON: That's a gross misstatement of what's going on right now

Me walking up to Popeyes after an early morning flight to Atlanta

"It's clear now that what powerful media operators [want] is their own personalized versions of The Free Press. That is, they want to rule over little fiefdoms, and want nothing more from that experience than to have a space of their own in which they will always be told that they're right."

Behold the first episode of ProPublica's new podcast -- where we bring you inside our investigations. It's *interesting,* It's *lively,* we even *swear.* All in the public interest 👇🏻 www.propublica.org/series/paper...

And we’re fifteen years too late to the dark money corruption fight, and twenty-five years too late to the Court capture fight, and thirty-five years too late to the climate denial fraud fight. But other than that, we’re doing great.