Jen Gassman 🇫🇮

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it. Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago. IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued. The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk. The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit. Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.”  Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million. The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out. This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president. Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues? nytimes.com/2026/05/19/adm…

in case you were wondering what a homeless man’s life is worth, it’s 18 days’ worth of a cop’s salary

99 years is the amount of prison time a doctor in Alabama will receive if they perform an abortion. 6 months is the amount of prison time you will receive if you rape an unconscious girl next to a dumpster. Wake up.

Stephen Vincent Chavez, who raped his own daughter for 4 hours after getting her drunk, is only being charged with felony incest and is facing a maximum of 3 years in state prison. He is a threat to society. His daughter couldn't live with the trauma and took her life only months later after being raped by her dad. This is not true justice.

No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.

Just an outrageous violation of the Hatch Act. The worst I’ve ever seen. He’s a cabinet member, he does not have a plain citizen status. Did he fly on his own dime, commercial, leave his security behind? They must be petrified of Massie.

Don Lemon: “If Barack Obama had sued his own government, settled with himself in secret, created a billion dollar fund with no congressional oversight to pay his political allies. What if he did that? They would’ve had him in chains before sundown. The National Guard would have been called in. Impeachment articles would have been filed. Can you imagine Fox News?”

Where Are the Detainees? Reports indicate that around two-thirds of the approximately 1,800 immigrants held at the Everglades site vanished from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) systems, leaving their families and attorneys unable to locate Hundreds of “Alligator Alcatraz” Prisoners Disappear from ICE Database democracynow.org/2025/9/25/alli…

Alligator Alcatraz wasted $1 BILLION of your taxpayer dollars to house 1,400 people. Now it’s closing. This WASTE, FRAUD, and ABUSE must BE INVESTIGATED!

Btw you’ll never fucking guess who canceled Ebola prevention

The families of the Capitol Police officers who were beaten or killed as a result of the riot did not receive a cent but the people who assaulted them are about to be millionaires.

@johnrich You are so fortunate that no one in your family is immunocompromised. No one’s being treated for cancer. No immune diseases. Lucky you. So happy for you.

Am I the only one starting to see people wearing masks? Saw two yesterday...I will not play that stupid game again.

@RepRoKhanna She was a mother on her way to work. A 3 year old child was murdered because of the callousness of our government. Where did all of you hateful fucking cunts come from? You're disgusting.

Wendy was arrested by local police and detained. She begged officers not to keep Oliver, her 3 year old, separate from her. ICE refused. Her beautiful, kind son is now dead.

ICE rammed a U.S. citizen's car with his infant and toddler inside. They detonated flash-bang grenades. Pointed assault rifles at the family. Filmed the whole thing and posted it online. The man's name is Antonio Valdovinos. He's a carpenter. Born in Long Beach, California. His crime? He attended an anti-ICE protest. A federal judge later ruled the arrest was a "vindictive effort to impose extrajudicial punishment." This is what suppressing dissent looks like when the state has cameras. Who approved this operation?

A 86 year old French woman Marie Therese Ross Mahe who met a Army Captain in the 1950s & recently married him & was in the process of her Green card with special status was detained by ICE for 16 days in her nightgown after he passed away & left no will so his son’s used ICE!

Trump on Iran war: "We're doing it to help Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait, and other countries, Bahrain" What happened to AMERICA FIRST?

Detainees reporting only getting beans and bread to eat. Such cold temperatures at a facility in the Mohave Desert that people tried turning their socks into extra sleeves for warmth, "crisis-level" medical staffing of 1 physician for nearly 1,000 detainees. Several people wept during their interviews with investigators. These are some of the details in a new state investigation into detention conditions by AG's office out today: calmatters.org/justice/2026/0…

Colin Jost says he pitched Pete Hegseth mistakenly quoting Pulp Fiction as Bible verse in the SNL writers room—then Hegseth actually did it.

A good photographer is worth his weight in gold