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RE: mastodon.social/@realTuckFrump…
Vance, like so many others, wildly overestimates Trump's capacity for strategic thinking. He has been trying to conjure a perpetual get-out-of-jail-free card since he entered office & with the entitled logic of a spoiled child he thinks putting it on a grown-up looking piece of paper makes it real.
Also, maybe focus on the fucking multitude of crimes he's already committed, over the ones he's going to commit? If you deal with the former, it also solves the latter, you see.
#TuckFrump (@realTuckFrumper@mastodon.social)
Trump is trying to bury something big — and he just gave away the game: ex-prosecutor #RawStory https://twp.ai/E5AyzP#TuckFrump (Mastodon)
Report: ICC prosecutor's office seeks arrest warrant for Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich.
Charges include "forced displacement as a crime against humanity & war crime, the transfer of Israel’s own population as a war crime, & persecution & apartheid as crimes against humanity."
There may be two more warrant applications, including for national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
middleeasteye.net/news/exclusi…
#USPol #EUPol #ICC #Smotrich #news #palestine #GazaGenocide #Apartheid .
Exclusive: ICC prosecutor's office seeks arrest warrant for Israel's Smotrich
The office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court last month filed a secret arrest warrant application for Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against Palestinians in …Sondos Asem (Middle East Eye)
#Midterms #primaries updates #GiftArticle link [you *should* be able to access the link till polls close; I probably won’t stay online updating the results]:
So far…
Rep #AndyBarr, a Republican backed by #Trump, easily won a contested #primary for #Senate in #Kentucky, where he will be strongly favored in November to replace the long-serving Senator #MitchMcConnell, who is retiring.
#law #Congress #elections #USpol
nytimes.com/live/2026/05/19/us…
Senate Votes to Take Up Measure to Force Trump to End Iran War
Senators Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Rand Paul & Bill Cassidy joined Dems in voting to send the bill to the floor for a vote.
DINO Sen John Fetterman was the lone "Democrat" to vote w/#GOP.
Of course he does. Paxton was a full fledged member of the #SeditiousConspiracy to overturn the #2020election. He brought that lawsuit to #SCOTUS to nullify Biden’s win.
He’s also a #criminal, his own staff tried to get him fired from being the #Texas Attorney General.
#Trump endorses #KenPaxton in Texas #Republican primary, boosting his challenge to incumbent Sen. Cornyn
THIS CANNOT STAND.
US justice department ‘forever’ bars IRS from auditing Trump’s tax returns
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…
#AuditTrump #TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansDidThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
US justice department ‘forever’ bars IRS from auditing Trump’s past tax returns
Addendum quietly slipped into widely criticized agreement creating a $1.7bn fund to compensate president’s alliesSam Levine (The Guardian)
❝ What the Voting Rights Act produced – not just officeholders but the constituency-mapping that allowed Black political coalitions to cohere – is precisely what Republicans are now undoing.
They have a roadmap. In 1913, Woodrow Wilson’s administration resegregated the federal civil service that Reconstruction had pried open. They did it by executive action and administrative memo. ❞
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
#JimCrow #AmericanFascism #VotingRights #Elections2026 #USpol
The Republican project isn’t to win in November. It’s to make November cease to matter
New electoral maps are erasing Black representations. The effort takes its cues from American historyJamil Smith (The Guardian)
Let’s face it. CBS is a loss-leader for Larry Ellison to curry regulatory favor from the regime. He’s happy to burn it down, and with it democracy and free speech. Because Larry doesn’t have enough money.
CBS Cancels Itself, Not Just Colbert
nytimes.com/2026/05/16/opinion…
#CBS #BariWeiss #DavidEllison #LarryEllison #ShariRedstone #BoycottParamount #BoycottCBS #BoycottOracle #USPol
As a white Southerner in the United States, I am deeply appalled. Words absolutely fail to describe how this gerrymandering could downspiral from the loss of political representation for Black Americans to loss of professional opportunities and individual personal freedoms. And don't get me started about educational equality. This is an outrage, and an assault against the memory of the Black slaves whose labor literally built the Southlands from the ground up. It's a misery and a heartbreak for their descendants, many of whom still live in poverty, oppression, and injustice.
motherjones.com/politics/2026/…
#scotus #uspol #jimcrow #gerrymandering #southcarolina
#louisiana #georgia #mississippi
#alabama #northcarolina
Alito said racism was over. Southern states are now rushing to revive Jim Crow.
Republicans are set to dismantle at least five majority-Black districts in the South.Mother Jones
LARGEST THEFT IN AMERICAN HISTORY!
Trump's DOJ announces $1.7B 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' as part of Trump IRS lawsuit settlement
The fund will COMPENSATE Trump, Trump family, and Trump supporters who say they were wrongly targeted under Biden.
The funds will be controlled by Trump's personal appointees!
Trump has just stolen $1.7B from the American taxpayer!
THEFT. IN. BROAD. DAYLIGHT.
#AureFreePress #BreakingNews #Breaking #TrumpRegime #uspol #Politics
abcnews.com/US/trump-court-fil…
DOJ announces $1.7B 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' as part of Trump IRS lawsuit settlement
The fund will compensate those who say they were wrongly targeted under Biden.Katherine Faulders (ABC News)
From Judd Legum:
Examples of stocks trump bought days before promoting them or making policy announcements that affect these companies -
Thermo Fisher - $85K - $215K
Apple - $2M - $7.2M
Micron - $217K - $530K
Dell - $1M - $5M
Nvidia - $500K - $1M
AMD - $50K - $100K
Trades were marked “unsolicited”, that is not recommended by a broker, but initiated by the customer.
There are billions more of grift in this kleptocracy.
popular.info/p/the-smoking-gun…
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The smoking guns in Trump’s new financial disclosure
Trump publicly praised companies the same day he bought their stock.Judd Legum (Popular Information)
Students (along with other campus community members) were punished severely for opposing the use of US tax dollars, and their own institutions' financial investments to support policies that are now... utterly mainstream to oppose
forward.com/fast-forward/81911…
#PolicingTheCampus #Uspol #GazaProtests
In major shift, all but 7 Senate Democrats vote to block weapons sales to Israel – The Forward
Several Jewish moderates and likely 2028 presidential contenders newly voted for the resolutions.The Forward
Will Bunch:
"This is the E-Trade presidency. In an era when the everyday American is increasingly addicted to sports gambling, or loading up on crypto, or betting on the next drone strike, Trump has emerged as our gambler-in-chief.
Why don’t Trump’s high crimes and misdemeanors — “A Watergate everyday,” as the writer Garrett M. Graff described them — ever gain public traction in the way that Nixon’s scandals or Bill Clinton’s extramarital affair once did?"
inquirer.com/opinion/trump-sto…
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The E-Trade presidency: Trump trades stocks while America burns
The tangled web between Trump’s stock purchases, his policies, and blatant promotion is a new low for a corrupt regime.Will Bunch (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Political influence of #billionaires:🚨Sen Sheehy preemptively atkd my reporting. Numerous influencers then amplified his post: Trump Jr, R Gaines...
One of the influencers, JR Kraus,🚨now says she'd been paid to amplify Sheehy’s atk as part of an organized campaign offering influencers💰 to boost his msg *means there're ppl out there who'll pay you💰to call me a “dishonest fake news hack.”
1 race:🚨87% of contribs come from🤑s.
Sheehy rec💰from 64‼️
-M Baker
#Corruption #USPol
nytimes.com/2026/05/16/busines…
Sen Bill Cassidy’s defeat in Saturday’s #Republican #primary in #Louisiana will be covered as evidence of Trump’s grip over the party. #BillCassidy voted to convict #Trump after his second #impeachment following #Jan6, 2021, & this was payback.
At the same time, Cassidy’s third-place finish highlights another unfortunate trend in #US politics: the decline of open primaries across the country.
Interview: Israel wants Hamas to "surrender, capitulate, become fully defenseless, weaponless...
..." and entrust the very army that carried out a genocide against you to be merciful towards you once you are an easier target than you ever were before.”
That is the “disarmament trap”: the "unfairly weighted negotiations designed to strip Palestinians of political autonomy".
democracynow.org/2026/5/15/muh…
#USPol #EUPol #gazagenocide #palestine #palestinianPrisoners #news #disarmamentTrap .
Nakba Day: Muhammad Shehada on Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & Ongoing Palestinian Resilience
Palestinians around the world are marking Nakba Day, 78 years after their forced mass displacement led to the establishment of the Jewish-majority state of Israel.Democracy Now!
Protest is brewing again in Selma. In the wake of Callais, and the overt gerrymandering and dilution of the Black vote that the Supreme Court now says is legal, protestors marched today. (credit: Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse)
joycevance.substack.com/p/selm…
#JimCrow #Selma #VotingRights #USPOL
Selma Rejects Jim Crow 2.0
Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965.Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
#Democrats #uspol #uspolitics
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#USpol
A leaked Army memo🚨warns that #Hegseth's frantic push to flood the battlefield with cheap weaponized #drones is getting soldiers killed by bypassing fundamental explosive safety protocols nobody bothered to maintain in the rush."
-T Welborn3
The #DOD🚨is being accused of cutting corners on safety..
#Incompetence #Deaths #IranWar #Trump #TrumpRegime #Troops #USPol
thedailybeast.com/secret-memo-…
Secret Memo Calls Out Pentagon Pete for Drone ‘Mishaps’
A leaked Army memo warns the Pentagon’s aggressive drone push may be putting soldiers at risk.Olivia Ralph (The Daily Beast)
Silencing free speech kills democracy. They’re trying!
We cannot allow conservative media companies with a disinformation agenda like Sinclair and Nexstar to dominate our public discourse. #EndSinclair #EndNexstar
#BrendanCarr #FCC #MediaConsolidation #Sinclair #Nexstar #FirstAmendment #USPol
Interview: Trump wants federal control over elections in at least eight states
He's "employing investigations, raids & demands for access to balloting systems & voter ID records for the campaign."
Trump has also run a campaign of retribution against his perceived enemies. Journalist Ned Parker counted 470 "enemies" that Trump has targeted so far.
democracynow.org/2026/5/8/trum…
#USPol #EUPol #USElections #trump #democracy #fascism #news .
Trump Pushes to Take Over Elections, Punish His Enemies: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Ned Parker
A new investigation by Reuters details how the Trump administration is seeking to gain federal control over elections in at least eight states, employing investigations, raids and demands for access to balloting systems and voter ID records for the c…Democracy Now!
Evidence of #abuse, #neglect..:🚨CA St investigators➡️surge in detainee pops strained conds & access to med care..
Some detainees described only having💔beans & bread to eat & X cold temps... At one fac: not enough toilets to serve the pop, w dirty bathrooms.
#Detention cens hadn't⬆️med staffing to match the rise in the#s. At CC last yr: crisis-level med staffing: delays in care. 1 doctor/~1K‼️
Most:🚨not convicted of any crime.
#Torture #DHS #ICE #Deaths #DeathCamps #USPol
calmatters.org/justice/2026/05…
CA report details deaths, medical care at ICE detention centers - CalMatters
Detainees cried as they described their lives in confinement in ICE detention centers. They spoke with investigators from the California Department of Justice.Sergio Olmos (CalMatters)
AND UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE YEAR GOES TO…
❝ “I would not advise my children today to go to the US, get educated there or work there, simply because a͟ c͟e͟r͟t͟a͟i͟n͟ s͟o͟c͟i͟a͟l͟ c͟l͟i͟m͟a͟t͟e͟ has suddenly developed there.”
― Friedrich Merz, Chancellor of #Germany
“ German leader Merz says he ‘would not advise my children to go’ to US ” theguardian.com/world/2026/may…
German leader Merz says he ‘would not advise my children to go’ to US
Chancellor says he no longer views US as land of opportunity amid ‘deeply polarising’ social climateDeborah Cole (The Guardian)
BOOM! SAY IT LOUDER:
Gary Chambers Jr. just dragged #Louisiana Republicans — while Speaker Mike Johnson wears holes in his kneepads for Dear Leader.
#whitesupremacy #greatreplacementtheory #TuckerCarlson #racism #votersuppression
#DonaldTrump #IsraelFirst #EpsteinClass
#election
#usa #politics #news #war @politics #activism #socialmedia #protest #resistance #gerrymandering #us #trump #redistricting #mastodon #uspol #lgbtqia #congress #democrats
@blackvoices #blackmastodon #labor #justice
![Screencap from Marketwatch/Dow Jones:
Trump discloses big buys of shares in Boeing and Nvidia as the companies look set to gain from his China trip
A 113-page disclosure, which became available Thursday on a U.S. Office of Government Ethics website, shows more than 3,000 transactions
By Victor Reklaitis
Published: May 14, 2026 at 1:10 p.m. ET
[Image of the Shitstain raising a glass to toast President Xi in Beijing]](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5597022 "Screencap from Marketwatch/Dow Jones:
Trump discloses big buys of shares in Boeing and Nvidia as the companies look set to gain from his China trip
A 113-page disclosure, which became available Thursday on a U.S. Office of Government Ethics website, shows more than 3,000 transactions
By Victor Reklaitis
Published: May 14, 2026 at 1:10 p.m. ET
[Image of the Shitstain raising a glass to toast President Xi in Beijing]")
"Raising the Flag" by Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson.
"There’s a particular kind of decision that doesn’t just change the law. It rewrites the story we tell ourselves about the country. The Supreme Court’s latest ruling on the Voting Rights Act is one of those decisions.
The court’s conservative majority didn’t simply narrow a statute. It made a far more sweeping claim: that the conditions that justified the law no longer exist."
nickanderson.substack.com/p/ra…
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As Democrats "have steadily been wiping out Republican officials in the core #Atlanta counties of swing-state of #Georgia,"
The governor quietly SIGNED INTO LAW a requirement ONLY for the 5 most populous Metro Atlanta counties of Fulton, Cobb, Gwinnett, Dekalb & Clayton that FORBIDS POLITICAL PARTY DESIGNATION on ballots for most local officials.
It also moves elections for most affected officials to May, when there is typically less voter turnout.
Trump made America so great that people are permanently emigrating in record numbers
the-independent.com/news/world…
Record number of Americans are leaving the country and renouncing their citizenship for good, report says
In the aggregate, as many as 295,000 more people may have left the U.S. than immigrated there in 2025, according to one studyJosh Marcus (The Independent)
Checking in on Operation Epic Fury...
#TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #Iran #RepublicansDidThis #NoMoreRepublicans #USPol
