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No one voted for this

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Phang: And you’ve got to appreciate that the congresswoman was able to say, “Look, this ain’t Fox News, buddy. This is Congress.” So if you’re going to be here and you’re going to try to make an allegation somewhere publicly, you better be able to back it up.

“If this was done by another country, we absolutely would call this corruption,” said Kristofer Harrison, who served as a high-level State Department official in the George W. Bush administration. “Because it is corruption.”

Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.

Wow this court filing says that the US govt. removed a Burmese man to South Sudan, seemingly in violation of a court order barring 3rd country removals w/out following proper procedures. A Vietnamese man & 10 others may have also been deported with them

Today marks another day in the greatest experiment in human history, taking a person with no redeeming qualities whatsoever, making them President the strongest country on earth and seeing what kind of shite happens.

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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.

May 20 1997 - 28 yrs ago Marines on a covert anti-drug interdiction operation in Redford TX stalked & killed Esequiel Hernandez Jr., an 18-yr-old who was herding his family's goats. A victim of a militarized US-MX border. Can a just healing occur when our communities face increased militarization?

Kfc jr - doing a ‘heck of a job☠️

This is what our embassy in South Sudan has issued to the American traveling public. The Embassy itself is on ordered departure, meaning all non-essential personnel have left the country. And this is where the administration is sending people? It’s obscene.

🚨UPDATE: In a late-night court hearing, the Trump admin says that it deported the Burmese man to Burma, but is REFUSING to say where they deported the Vietnamese man, claiming it’s classified! The judge ordered ICE to tell everyone involved they may face criminal contempt.

Another sign of the weaponization of DOJ against Trump's political opponents. I wrote about this earlier today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

Sean Duffy, who has presented himself as one of the intellectual forefathers of Trump’s trade agenda, sold between $75,000 and $600,000 of stock two days before Trump announced a plan for reciprocal tariffs, disclosures show. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social and ‪@bxroberts.org

NEW: reports today from @l-toczylowski.bsky.social and others that ICE has begun efforts to dismiss cases pending in immigration court for less than two years — so that they can then immediately arrest the same people and put them through “expedited removal,” skipping the court process entirely.

Plan for a European force to deploy to Ukraine is "moving too slowly,"former NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said In an interview with RFE/RL,he also said that he hopes that "Putin's attack on Ukraine&the election of Trump would be wake-up calls that tell us in Europe that we have to move fast."

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By popular demand, I've removed the paywall from this piece to make it free for everyone since it got so much attention yesterday 👇 Sorry, Tapper and Thompson — voters want Dems to stand up to Trump, not self-flagellate

🚨 💉The FDA will no longer approve COVID vaccines for people 6mo–64yrs who don't have a risk factor for severe COVID-19. People 65 years and older and those under 65 with risk factors can still get vaccinated. There's so much to unpack here. See a few thoughts below 👇

The GOP's massive bill would give the Treasury Secretary the power to strip tax-exempt status from any non-profit they say is working against the country’s interests. No trial. No oversight. Just a political hit job in disguise. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/buried-in-...

Trump: "We had a big trip to the Middle East. We took in $5.1 trillion." The entire GDP of the US is under $30 trillion, so this is a whopper, as we detailed today in Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-fake...

NYT: “.. The official, who asked for anonymity to discuss the president’s private calls, said additional sanctions against Russia would hinder business opportunities and the president wants to maximize economic opportunities for Americans.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Senate plans to vote this week to bar California's landmark plan to end the sale of gasoline-only vehicles by 2035 that has been adopted by 11 other states, Majority Leader John Thune said on Tuesday. #StatesRights

I have been waiting for this. The easiest thing in the world is to yank a pilot's certificates and make it damn near impossible to get them back. If you are flying these DHS flights you need to think long and hard about whether that money it. (via www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...)

What does it mean to say a fiscal path is "unsustainable?" Between growth-diminishing tariffs and the big, skewed deficit-financed tax cut, I'm afraid that abstraction is about to get a lot more real. econjared.substack.com/p/what-do-we...

🔴‘Keir Starmer’s EU Deal Is Far Better Than the Media Is Telling You’ Much more needs to be done to repair the damage of Brexit, but this is a welcome step in the right direction, argues the Director of the Independent Commission on UK-EU Relations bylinetimes.com/2025/05/20/k...

Want to know why a flying palace is not a legit personal gift and a security risk and not free? Why Judge Jeanine is not a legit choice and what the birthright citizenship case is really about? Listen to this week’s #SistersInLaw preview below and listen at www.politicon.com/podcasts/sna...

When Deloitte wrapped up a $10.7 million publicity campaign for Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement experiment in February, enrollment was less than 3% of the approximately 250,000 Georgians who are potentially eligible. By @savmargaret.bsky.social ‪

AXIOS: “.. Tesla was in 8th place in the 2021 reputation ranking of America's 100 most visible companies, but last year tumbled to 63rd and now is near the very bottom at 95th.” $TSLA www.axios.com/2025/05/20/a...

On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration announced that Covid booster shots will be limited to people over 65 and those with pre-existing health conditions that would put them at higher risk of acute complications.

As @hurwitz.bsky.social has reported, this is not only ridiculously expensive—it could be a MASSIVE payday for Elon Musk.