Raising ethics questions, top Trump meme coin investors to dine with president tonight President Trump is hosting an exclusive dinner tonight for the largest investors in the $TRUMP meme coin, putting the murky world of cryptocurrencies on a collision course with White House ethics.

Tonight’s Trump meme coin dinner is gross corruption—selling access to the president for personal profit & inviting foreign adversaries to buy influence.

Once again, billionaires & foreign moguls are the ones cashing in on seats at Trump’s table.

WHO signs international pandemic response treaty without the U.S. As countries overwhelmingly passed a WHO global pandemic agreement, top U.S. health official Robert F. Kennedy Jr. invited states to reject the “moribund WHO.”

After three years of intensive negotiations, the World Health Organization on Tuesday adopted the world’s first agreement on how to cooperate and respond to future pandemics — without the support of the United States.

Judge Rules That Trump Administration Takeover of Institute of Peace Is Illegal

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s takeover and gutting of the U.S. Institute of Peace were unlawful and a “gross usurpation of power” and ordered the reinstatement of officials ejected by the White House.

Thank you Bernie!

Sen. Sanders speaking to a crowd at the Hardwick dance.

Sen. Sanders dancing with Vermonters.

Sen. Sanders twirling amongst the crowd at the Hardwick town dance.

In these difficult times building community, and support for each other, is extremely important. That’s why I’m holding community dances around Vermont.

We just had a great event in Hardwick. People of all ages danced the night away.

😳

I need this cat !

The astonishing size of black holes.

Credit: NASA Goddard

May 16, 2025 MAGA world is performing over-the-top outrage over a photo former Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey posted on Instagram, where he has been teasing a new novel.

May 16, 2025

They received presidential pardons for this ‘message’ and it wasn’t seashells on a beach.

Denver air traffic controllers had 2-minute communications outage, FAA official says The outage in Colorado comes amid increasing scrutiny on the nation's main aviation agency following outages at Newark Liberty International Airport just a few weeks ago.

The outage in Colorado comes amid increasing scrutiny on the nation's main aviation agency following outages at Newark Liberty International Airport just a few weeks ago.

The grift is next-level, and it’s happening right under our noses in broad daylight.

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Walter Cronkite, who was described as the most trusted man in America, once said:

“Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.”

Paramount: Stand up for a free press and our democracy. Do not capitulate to Trump's dangerous move to authoritarianism.

Beautiful clouds

Musk and SpaceX are among the biggest winners in Trump’s 2026 spending plan. Trump is delivering on Musk’s wish list at both NASA and the Pentagon, reshaping federal space spending to funnel billions of dollars in new business directly to him.

Judge Rodriguez, a Trump appointee, rules that the administration cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged members of TdA. It’s a wartime authority & we are not at war, he holds. On to the 5th Circuit & SCOTUS.

Exactly

And after the arrests, if their are any, they can just be pardoned.

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant.

They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear.

They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings.

The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore.

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National Climate Assessment Authors Are Dismissed by Trump Administration The Trump administration told researchers it was “releasing” them from their roles. It puts the future of the assessment, which is required by Congress, in doubt.

💔 for my children: “The Trump administration has dismissed the hundreds of scientists and experts who had been compiling the federal government’s flagship report on how global warming is affecting the country.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...

If deporting US citizen children with cancer isn’t your redline, it’s time to reassess your priorities.

We need the best educated workforce in the world.

We need the best teachers in the world.

We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do.

No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.

I am saddened to hear about the passing of Secretary Alexis Herman—my Soror, a trailblazer, and the first Black woman to lead the Dept. of Labor. Her impact on this country and the fight for working people runs deep. Rest in power, Madam Secretary.

A cat was rescued from the rubble of a building in Svyatoshynskyi district of Kyiv
The fluffy one miraculously survived ❤️‍🩹
It’s still unknown if his owners are alive
Rescuers continue searching for people
🙏💔😾

Today's wash-out after last weeks snowstorm!
Dyed in the snow!

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.