“We’ve Been Sold a Story That Isn’t Remotely True”: How Private-Equity Billionaires Killed the American Dream - Vanity Fair

Yeah but you did.

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

@jesscraven101.bsky.social
is in downtown LA at 2:20 PM on June 9. She just heard that the felon is sending in the Marines. They are literally listening to mariachi music and dancing. There is no crisis No violence. Kids. Dogs. Families. People in red states you are being lied to.

#NoKings

I guess I am cynical but when a powerful politician abruptly resigns for an exciting private sector opportunity, I usually think the opportunity is “trying not to go to prison for what I did to that 14-year-old in a Motel 6.”

The head of the Homeland Security Committee quits unexpectedly the same day the president orders marines into an American city?

This MAGA account claims LA protesters are shooting at National Guard jets.

The footage is actually from a video game.

RFK Jr. Drops All Members Of U.S. Vaccine Advisory Panel The shocking decision marked the Health and Human Services Secretary's latest effort to dismantle existing U.S. vaccine policies.

Meanwhile, RFK Jr actively working to make us all sick and fill our heads with garbage.
www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

Kamala Harris in October: “[Trump] considers any American who doesn’t support him or bend to his will to be an enemy to our country, and further, he says that as commander-in-chief, he would use our military to go after them.”

Breaking News Pentagon sending hundreds of Marines to Los Angeles to backstop National Guard as Trump escalates feud with Gov. Gavin Newsom noW

I feel like maybe the framing of Trump sending the military to put down protests as a "feud" between Trump and Newsom is a little weird?

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

Constituents in Iowa shred Senator Joni Ernst for supporting removing people from Medicaid. Her response: “Well we are all going to die anyways so….🤷🏻‍♀️🥱🤭”

I just rewatched the Ian McKellen retelling of Richard III, and it’s quite good. It’s also a bit scary heading into the unknown of our next administration. Machiavelli reigns supreme here, and even though it uses the iconography of Naziism, it’s about how norms get supplanted by conscienceless will

I'm rarely a fan of updating Shakespeare to more modern settings, but this version works incredibly well.
Is it time for another update? "A golf cart! A golf cart! My kingdom for a golf cart!"

My Congressman, Sam Graves, voted to gut Medicaid.

This is a map of how many folks he couldn’t give two shits about…

The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the United States, not just one person.

The $400M luxury Qatari jet was a not only gift to an individual criminal, but also a bribe.

Imagine how we would view this if it was happening in another country

DOJ “Contrivance” to Keep other Abrego Garcia in CECOT Prison Fourth Circuit rejects the government's attempt to keep a detainee very similar to Abrego Garcia in CECOT prison.

"A deafening silence"

The Fourth Circuit just upheld Judge Gallagher's order for Trump administration to facilitate "Cristian's" release from El Salvador.

The Plaintiff showed USG contrived a document to keep Cristian in CECOT.

The Fourth Circuit notes the DOJ's "deafening silence" in response.

Definitely there is some projection here. What is projection? A defense mechanism that involves unconsciously attributing one's own thoughts, feelings, or behaviors onto another person or group. The lies cover up the projection.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/u...

Very saddened to hear about President Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis. Wishing him the best.

As a prostate cancer survivor, I want to say: Begin PSA tests in your 40s, and continue well past your 70s. Too many conflicting guidelines out there, for a variety of reasons.

It's just a blood test.

WHEN is his mental acuity going to become a topic for mainstream media?

Right? It’s just absurd that the media won’t address this.

The facts underlying Charles Kushner’s guilty plea included hiring a prostitute in order to blackmail his own brother-in-law.

www.nytimes.com/2004/08/18/n...

“Dalio warned Monday that Moody’s downgrade of the U.S. sovereign credit rating understates the threat to U.S. Treasurys, saying the credit agency isn’t taking into account the risk of the federal government simply printing money to pay its debt.”

www.cnbc.com/2025/05/19/r...

Opinion | Trump’s Next Move After the Law Firms Surrender

Jeff Toobin on why lawyers gain nothing by groveling at the feet of the kleptocrat:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/o...

U.S. Formally Accepts Luxury Jet From Qatar for Trump (Gift Article) The Air Force has been asked to figure out a way to upgrade it so it can be put into use as a new Air Force One for the president.

We broke the news today that the 747 plane donated by Qatar to become a new Air Force One is now in the possession of the United States. We now have updated our story with react from members of Congress and Trump's comments on the gift. Dems moving to try to block the gift.
nyti.ms/439TqxR

State prosecutors open criminal investigation relating to Hope Florida The Leon County state attorney said records were part of an “open, on-going investigation.”

State prosecutors open criminal investigation into DeSantis' sham charity Hope Florida: www.tampabay.com/news/florida...