Tom Jackman

Robert F. Kennedy Sr. spent his time in government fighting *against* racist bigots who said these exact same things, except their rants were against “Africans”

When Donald knew there was no real threat to his life, he preened for photographers, yelled “Fight, fight, fight!” and didn’t care if a fireman died. When Donald knew there was a real threat to his life, he hid in a catering truck and didn’t care if his staff died in the decoy plane.

This never would happened if (a) thirsty Ted Cruz hadn't been searching for tweets about himself; and (b) sloppy Ted Cruz paid as much attention to details as he does to trolling.

Trump told the Supreme Court this month that he must build his ballroom so he'll have a secure space in case of attack. But he already has one, former officials say — a secret bunker under the White House. (No, not the one under the East Wing.) Our exclusive tonight at @washingtonpost.com.

THREAD. As you read chilling stories emerging about the illegal surveillance that Trump's DHS has been doing, recognize that federal law makes it nearly impossible for victims to sue feds for constitutional violations. A minimum part of Democratic platform should call for this.

Ohio Republican Vivek Ramaswamy hired his mother to manipulate clinical trial data for an Alzheimer's drug he owned the rights to, which he used to inflate its stock price and cash out before the stock tanked. But his opponent is a Democrat. Our rating: Lean Republican.

I am not the first to make this point but imagine a woman president obsessing constantly over her “ballroom” as the economy imploded and her war spun out of control

New reporting reveals Ohio Republican Gov. candidate Vivek Ramaswamy hired his mother to manipulate clinical trial data for an Alzheimer's drug he owned the rights to. This scheme boosted Ramaswamy's company stock price and generated a $1.4 B IPO, where he then cashed out before the stock tanked.

David Ellison wants us to know he’s not ideological, and that’s why he put a conservative with no tv experience in charge of CBS

Picture Biden trying to make his long time personal attorney the Attorney General of the United States.

Today marks six years since a catastrophic explosion of ammonium nitrate tore through Beirut’s port, killing over 200 people in one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in modern history.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

I mean, it’s July. At Safeway

More than two dozen accusers of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sent a letter to Republican Sens. Thom Tillis and John Cornyn urging them not to confirm acting attorney general Todd Blanche to lead the Justice Department permanently.

NEW: Trump administration officials earlier this year killed a federal criminal investigation into the coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice, the Republican former governor of West Virginia and a close ally of the president’s. By @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social

Trump's Department of Homeland Security has awarded more than $19.4 billion in border wall contracts in the past six months — compared with $2.1 billion from 2016 to 2024. Most of it has gone to two firms that have ties to the White House and the Republican Party, according to a WaPo analysis.

That's not even his final form

New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...

the trump official — who led the siege & occupation of Minneapolis — admitting to having an ongoing dialogue/rapport with Martin Sellner, a straight-up Nazi who influenced the Christchurch shooter, while speaking at a conference about remigration (read: ethnic cleansing) is a pretty big deal!

This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.

From the reporter who scooped the news that Treasury's GC was quitting, IRS wrote a 25-page memo about why Trump's IRS lawsuit was dogshit. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/a...

via @hissgoescobra.bsky.social Listen to the judge at Tina Peters's trial give a searing condemnation of her crimes and behavior in Court. Compare this to what Polis is trying to spin today, in order to justify the bended knee to Trump and his shortcutting of the judicial process:

Little Steven Van Zandt is on Fallon at the same time as Dave Grohl on Colbert. Boomer dilemmas!

It’s telling that absolutely nobody can convince him to not brag about constantly being administered dementia tests.

As a political holiday, May Day began in Chicago after the Haymarket Massacre in 1886 when workers demanded an eight hour workday. It’s “as American as apple pie.”

There is absolutely no way anyone in the administration will understand a joke about the French and Indian War. That’s half the joke.🔥🔥🔥

“Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery—the greatest material interest of the world,” Mississippi’s 1861 Declaration of Secession declared. Once again, the Mississippi governor has declared April as Confederate Heritage Month. buff.ly/1JqEwko

Billions in foreign real estate deals while serving as head of state. Billions in crypto deals while gutting regulation of the industry. Suing his own government and negotiating a settlement funded by the taxpayers. We're so numb to Trump grifting off the presidency that hardly anyone notices.

New: We found out how much money Nick Fuentes makes from "superchats": $900,000 since the start of Trump's second term. Here's the story of Kristine in Ohio, a food-truck operator who became his most frequent donor, despite not making much money herself: wapo.st/4mERkhv

It's reverse Robin Hood.

Was so pumped to get into the #LA28 Olympic queue today. So, no tickets AT ALL to basketball, swimming, gymnastics, cycling, beach volleyball, tennis, fencing, ping pong. Some track for $682 on slow days, $1,116 for days with finals. Each session half a day. Went in '84 and '96, not sure about '28.

Remember when Senile Satan was a “nurse” last June?

I'm going to take the win. I have a lotta quibbles and two major critiques, but this is significant. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

The latest “innovation” from the Wash Post editorial page: a newsletter on the horrors of govt regulation, like the “inexplicable” cancellation of the Keystone pipeline, by both Obama and Biden.

Happy War Crimes Day to all who celebrate.

Slaughtering our golden goose: massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This aerial view of No Kings in New York City is spectacular. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

Human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach, as part of Saturday’s nationwide “No Kings” protests
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HAPPENING NOW: ❌👑 Thousands of people in DC are marching to Fort McNair where Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, and other leaders of this regime are living #NoKings #NoKingsDC

I pity the fool who has to break this to Nancy Mace

Boy @theonion.com is bringing the heat.

The bottom line is Trump sacrificed 8 American lives (& counting) and more than 1,000 Iranian lives (& counting) for nothing. He hurt the US & global economies, destabilized the Middle East, & will pull out with the same Iranian regime in power. There's no silver lining. A senseless, criminal waste

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

It’s obscene to have this draft dodger whose children *never* served and whose father never served and whose grandfather was kicked out of Germany for dodging service, wheezing platitudes about the unnecessary deaths he caused to other people’s children who did serve their country.

It looks like DC is selling out Nats Park for the Bruce Springsteen “No Kings” tour finale. (Except for the irrationally priced “platinum tickets.”) He did not sell it out last time he was here. This is gonna be good.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...