Senate Judiciary's Dick Durbin: "The Department of Justice has become a political tool of a vengeful President. President Trump wears his corruption like a badge of honor and defies anyone daring to challenge him."
 
"Is there one Republican left in Washington who gives a damn?"

TAPPER: Hepatitis A, whooping cough, & chickenpox cases are rising in Florida. Before you made this decision to lift vaccine mandates, did your dept do any analysis of how many new cases there will be?

LADAPO: Absolutely not

T: You didn't even do a projection?

L: It's an issue of right & wrong

ICE agents in full combat gear on the streets of Los Angeles. On top of a military vehicle is an agent with a full-ass machine gun on a tripod.

Even if you assume the legitimacy of ICE operations, the idea that a fucking truck-mounted machine gun is necessary to carry them out is insane.

This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.

I think we all know why they are saying there’s no list now. Guess who’s all over it and in lots of pictures and videos?

Please don't just assume I don't need a video of a red panda eating sweetcorn on the very day I hear there are no Epstein files.

Looks like the embattled National Weather Service did it's job here. It was Texas officials who failed to act on the weather service warnings for FOUR HOURS. Read this from Austin local news KXAN-TV: www.kxan.com/investigatio...

“We don’t get enough water. They put out a little case of water, and everyone has to run for it,” said the declaration from the girl held with her mother and two younger siblings at the Karnes County Immigration Processing Center. “An adult here even pushed my little sister out of the way to get to the water first.”

The conditions at an ICE family detention facility in Texas are so bad that adults are literally physically jockeying with children for *water.*

This is the desperation ICE is deliberately and, it must be said, sadistically producing.

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We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

Just a reminder that Trump was going to announce his sanctions on Russia for not negotiating “in two weeks” about 3.5 weeks ago.

Taco

SpaceX’s “major anomaly” last night.

@nytimes.com
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Social Security's insolvency date is now a year earlier. Here's how it could impact your benefits. Social Security is dipping into its trust fund to pay current retirees, with spending outpacing its revenue from payroll taxes.

The top .1% stops paying into social security by January 19th.

Scrapping the cap would generate up to $388 billion per year and keep Social Security solvent.

Social Security is only being depleted because we refuse to make people pay their fair share.

I said what I said.

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DAMN what a photo.

By Frederic Brown of AFP.

In America, schools should be preparing students by teaching them the science, data, and facts they need to succeed — not conspiracy theories and lies.

RESULT: Omaha's Republican Mayor Jean Stothert just lost to her Democratic challenger John Ewing.

Stothert, who was running for a fourth term, resorted to anti-trans ads and messaging around who uses bathrooms in the final stretch of the campaign.

Ewing will be Omaha's first Black mayor.

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Aaaand there it is.

this is insane.

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Could you imagine the response if a democratic president said they didn’t know if they had to uphold the Constitution?

How fast would the articles of impeachment be drawn ?

20 minutes at the most

So instead of trade deals he’s just going to publicly negotiate with himself until he walks back the tariffs?

We get a couple of months of supply chain shock and nothing to show for it besides damaged relationships across the world.

This isn't hypothetical.

The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.

The American government kidnapped a 2-year-old child of Venezuelan migrants and placed her with a “foster family” after deporting her mother to Venezuela and sending her father to El Salvador: abcnews.go.com/US/el-salvad...

'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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Impressed that $190 billion dollars can’t buy one a spine.

"Despair is an indulgence that we cannot afford in the times upon which history turns."
- JB Pritzker

May 5, 2025 cover of the New Yorker. Expository text: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2025-05-05

Barry Blitt’s first 100 days cover for the New Yorker.

Informing consumers about the costs they are paying is now disloyalty to dear leader in case you’re wondering where we’re at on the fascism regime scale.

Squarely in North Korea territory.