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Saturday thoughts from my great-great-great Uncle Samuel 💙

Mike Johnson says Congress can't survive on $174k because of inflation, and uses that to justify letting members trade stocks. Incredible take from the guy who decided his only job was taking orders from the President.

This is awesome: Raiders rookie QB Fernando Mendoza and veteran Raiders QB Kirk Cousins did a 'Step Brothers' photo shoot for the team’s schedule release. The absolutely killed this 😭😭

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REP. @VoteGloriaJ: “I was like this can’t be real, but it is. I went to the website… House Republicans are just big ol’ racists and don’t care who knows it.” Gloria confirms what we said — White male Dems (except Powell) still have committees, Black & Female Dems were removed.

Hobby Lobby is funding the latest push to end marriage equality. Stop shopping there. lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/hobby-…

Let me get this straight. Trump sued his own IRS for $10 billion. His own Justice Department is now considering settling that case. And one of the terms on the table is that the IRS drops all audits of Trump, his family, and his businesses PERMANENTLY. He’s using the full weight of the federal government to protect himself and his family from accountability and potentially pay himself BILLIONS of your tax dollars. nytimes.com/2026/05/12/bus…

Shark Tank Billionaire Kevin O'leary says 2 people fighting data centers in Utah are Chinese agents. Turns out its just 2 local girls in Utah, they make a hilarious video calling him the fuck out

Seriously?!? What is happening? Are y’all saying that high school kids in the year of our Lord 2026 should not be able to access ‘Roots’? Alex Haley is a Tennessean for the love of God and one we celebrate. That’s why there’s a museum in Henning and a statue in Knoxville.

Texas just told its own residents they need $174 billion to avoid a water crisis. The same state is building 400 data centers.

In 1993, a file clerk with no college degree, no law training, and three kids to feed was handed a real estate file. Inside were medical records. That made no sense. Her name was Erin Brockovich, and at that point, life had already hit her hard. Married young. Divorced twice before 30. Working retail jobs, waitressing, anything that kept food on the table. By 1991, she was filing paperwork at a small California law firm, answering phones and barely covering rent. Then came the file from a tiny desert town called Hinkley. She kept reading. Then pulled more files. Same town. Different families. Cancer. Tumors. Miscarriages. Far too many for a place that small. Something was wrong in Hinkley. Everybody seemed sick. Erin started calling residents. Every conversation sounded the same. Someone had cancer. Someone had died young. Someone couldn’t have children. Then she found letters from Pacific Gas and Electric. PG&E mentioned chromium in the water—chromium 3, they claimed. Harmless. Completely safe. But Erin got suspicious. She went to the library and taught herself everything she could about chromium. There were two forms. Chromium 3 was harmless. Chromium 6 caused cancer. That discovery changed everything. Digging through PG&E’s internal records, she uncovered memos between engineers. They knew it was chromium 6 all along. They had known since 1965, while telling the town there was nothing to fear. For years, PG&E used chromium 6 in cooling towers, dumping contaminated wastewater into open ponds with nothing protecting the groundwater beneath. Hundreds of millions of gallons seeped into the water Hinkley families drank every day. Engineers raised alarms. Management buried them. And for decades, people kept drinking poisoned water without knowing why they were getting sick. Erin drove to Hinkley herself, knocking door to door. A woman with breast cancer at 30. A man with a brain tumor at 40. Couples shattered by repeated miscarriages. Children suffering constant nosebleeds. She asked every family one question: do you want to sue? More than 600 said yes. PG&E responded with powerful attorneys and endless excuses, blaming smoking, diet, anything except their own deception. Then, on July 2, 1996, the company settled. $333 million. The largest direct-action lawsuit settlement in American history at the time. A single mother with no law degree had uncovered a forty-year cover-up hiding inside an ordinary file. Erin Brockovich proved that sometimes the most dangerous thing in the world is an ordinary person who refuses to stop asking questions.

Admitting he's done things he should have been jailed for. It's a start.

The first time President Obama met with his US Attorneys, he told us, “I appointed you but you don’t serve me. You serve the American people. And I expect you to act with independence & integrity.” None of us ever forgot that.

As punishment? These are the people’s elected representatives.

Btw, the cost to repair the reflecting pool went from $1.8 million to $7 million and now it's $13.1 million. A reminder that not a single soul asked for that project.

I'm going to say the quiet part out loud. What is this really about? MAGA Republicans are counting seats because they’re chasing something much bigger. A two-thirds majority in Congress. Why, because, that gives them one step closer in power to change the Constitution. Then, it's 3/4 of the states (38 of 50) to ratify any proposed amendments. I wonder what the plan is to do that?!? This isn’t normal politics anymore. This is a naked power grab in real time. Clock it.

Hillary Clinton beat Trump by 2.8M votes, but because of the electoral college Trump won. Abolish the damn electoral college - because the person with the most votes should win.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but can we start a Class Action Lawsuit against the U.S Governent? U.S Citizens vs United States. Gross negligence in handling taxpayer funds would be a good start. Who's with me?

Best Mother’s Day present ever - thank you @starryeyyes