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Steve Smith & Kid Rock’s hypocrisy getting some national recognition

Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"

🔥 DAMN! — @benniegthompson to @kristinoem: “I’m glad you found time among your many photo ops and costume changes to testify.”

Yeah, that tracks. @nbcnews.com

Just a reminder. Being grifted a 400 million dollar airplane is not on the list.

Dereliction of duty.

What do Sec of State Marco Rubio, Deputy A.G. Todd Blanche, and U.S. Agency for Global Media Sr. Adviser Kari Lake have in common? DOJ is using a SCOTUS shadow-docket ruling from April to try and get out of defending their actions on the merits in cases brought in federal district court.

So that wrongly-deported guy the Supreme Court ordered returned to the US, he still hasn't been?

SPRINGSTEEN, on tour in the UK: “.. "In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration." @variety.com variety.com/2025/music/n...

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(FT) - The pattern is now unmistakable. Trump announces extreme tariff policies but in the face of a negative political, economic or market response, he backs off. The Taco (for Trump Always Chickens Out) trade notched up its latest win yesterday. #TACO 🌮 www.ft.com/content/0006...

(CNBC) - Elon Musk said Saudi Arabia has approved Starlink for aviation and maritime use in the region speaking at an event during a White House-led trip to the kingdom on Tuesday. @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/05/13/e...

#OligarchEra 🇺🇸

(Bloomberg) - UBS Group AG’s rich clients are increasingly shifting away from US-dollar assets, turning instead to gold, crypto and investments in China, according to the Swiss bank’s co-head of wealth management for Asia. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

“.. Then, late Sunday, Mr. Musk’s group deleted those claims for 31 of the contracts from its website, eliminating $122 million of the savings it claimed to have achieved by cutting federal contracts.” @fahrenthold.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...

“.. the latest business with foreign ties to seize on Mr. Trump’s crypto venture, which channels profits directly to the Trump family ..” @nytimes.com @ericlipton.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...

Happy 75th b’day, Stevie — who once said he writes the music first and lets the lyrics find their own way. One example: a tune was going to be about religion. "But then, .. we were in the studio, talking about things that happened when we were kids, back in the day. So it turned into 'I Wish.'"

Buyers of U.S. President Donald Trump’s $TRUMP meme coin reportedly spent an estimated $148 million for a chance to win dinner with Trump at his private golf club near Washington, D.C., on May 22, according to crypto intelligence firm Inca Digital.

Trump goes ahead and salutes every single Saudi official at the Royal Court in Riyadh

I appreciate @vanhollen.senate.gov for keeping attention on Abrego Garcia's case. www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...

Who did this?

Never lose sight of how weird and corrupt it is for the president to have his unelected, unconfirmed oligarch friend—his biggest campaign donor—conduct US foreign policy. No other US president did that, and there’s no reason to think he’s representing the American people rather than himself.

As part of the red-carpet treatment, Saudi officials arranged for a fully operational mobile McDonald’s unit to accompany President Trump during his stay. According to local reports, the unit was set up near the Saudi Royal Court.

SCOTUS is politics all the way down

Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi went to a consulate in Istanbul to get a document he needed to get married. Instead, he was murdered and dismembered on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now a close pal of Donald Trump.

Massive, gigantic nope to this. Dems. Come on. Even almost half of TRUMP VOTERS think crypto is a complete scam. This is a terrible own goal in progress.

The man who wanted to ban all Muslims from entering the United States because of terrorism is meeting this week with the former head of Al Qaeda in Syria.

It's almost as if granting a criminal blanket immunity was a bad idea.

Feral House GOPer Chuck Edwards whacked a conference attendee with a binder at Rotary Club event in Asheville, say witnesses talkingpointsmemo.com/news/rep-chu...

Duffy: "By the way, during covid, when people weren't flying, that was a perfect time to fix these problems." (Who wants to tell him ... )

So whatever happens it will be important to remember that Trump tried to take a half billion dollar bribe in the form of a blinged out pimpmobile 747 from the princes who fund Hamas.

Driving through rural North Dakota, barn side painted white with giant blue letters: FREE KILMAR.

Russia's new campaign of arson, disruption, and psychological warfare unfolding across Europe (likely in the United States and Canada too). Western intelligence agencies: “They are crossing one red line after another, and we don’t know how far they will go.” www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

www.azfamily.com/2025/05/12/d...

Oh so now they care

Donald Trump will be accepting a $400 million luxury jet as a bribe from the Qatari government. Here’s why that’s bad news for House Democrats.

A probation officer in Oregon was fired for using a Nazi salute at work. An arbitrator restored his job www.oregonlive.com/pacific-nort...

NSF programs are critical to US prosperity. NIH mostly biomedical. NSF spans *all* physical and social sciences. Fighting the attacks: Democracy Forward, Public Citizen, Protect Democracy links: democracyforward.org/action/donate/ www.citizen.org/article/publ... protectdemocracy.org/donate/

Irish woman green card holder out of ICE detention. No legal basis for release in this report. It appears community uproar + Irishness + whiteness + pressure by Congress Rep and Irish govt + lawyers in 2 cities = out after 2 1/2 weeks. Sister: She fears for the women she left behind in detention.

BREAKING: Polish Prime Minister Tusk announced full certainty that the massive fire at Marywilska 44, a major wholesale center in Warsaw, was arson ordered by Russian intelligence.