Lorie Masters

Mitch McConnell blocked Merrick Garland for 422 days. Then turned around and confirmed Amy Coney Barrett weeks before an election. The Republicans packed the Court then, but call the idea radical now. The result: an illegitimate 6-3 Court dismantling voting rights, workers' rights, and reproductive freedom. We need reform now.

As the Trump DOJ mass-deletes government information about the Jan. 6 cases, reminder that you can still access NPR's database covering every single prosecution. We also provide access to hundreds of videos presented in court.

Trafficking survivors depend on T visas, immigration relief reserved for those who have suffered #forcedlabor or #sextrafficking. @USCIS processing times have surged again, forcing survivors to wait nearly 3 years for adjudication of their T visa applications #Survivorscannotwait

Paramount is apparently trying to suppress copies of "Only in Monroe" from appearing on other social platforms by filing frivolous copyright notices, even though the show was produced by a public access TV channel and doesn't use their intellectual property...

On this date in 1844, Samuel Morse sent the first telegraph message from DC to Baltimore

The Administration telling you it’s making America healthy again just made your drinking water less safe. Trump’s EPA rolled back the first-ever federal limits on forever chemicals, stripping protections for four substances linked to kidney cancer and developmental delays in children. There was no new science to justify this decision. Just a White House that looked at decades of research linking these chemicals to cancer and decided that protecting polluters mattered more than protecting your family’s drinking water. nytimes.com/2026/05/18/cli…

Rep. Jamie Raskin didn't waste a single second. He just filed legislation to ensure that not a single penny of Trump's new slush fund can ever reach Jan 6 defendants, Trump’s family, or his political appointees. Read how Democrats are boxing them in: dworkinsubstack.com/p/republicans-…

East Tennessee State University unveils powerful new statues honoring the first 5 African American students who helped integrate the campus in the late 1950s. Pioneers: Eugene Caruthers, Elizabeth Watkins Crawford, George L. Nichols, Mary Luellen Owens Wagner, and Clarence McKinney. Their courage and legacy now stand tall for future generations. The statues, titled “The Path” by sculptor Austen Brantley, were unveiled on October 25, 2025. History remembered and honored. 👏🏾

This is a great story about how Trump and his family are profiting off the renaming of the Palm Beach International Airport, with the blessing of Fla Gov. Ron DeSantis. I guess everything is up for grabs in America these days, with no input from local taxpayers or voters.

Bill Clinton has a random run-in with Loretta Lynch at an airport in 2016 - MASSIVE, WEEKS LONG SCANDAL JD Vance attends a private dinner with Chief Justice Roberts while the Court considers multiple Trump Admin lawsuits - "social call" ... "friendly pop-by"

On this date in 1865, the Army of the Potomac ceremonially marched up Pennsylvania Avenue, celebrating the defeat of the Confederacy and the Union’s victory in the Civil War. (Present-day Confederate flag wavers: please make note of this)

This is the right way to speak about it - just say it plainly.

this was so sweet. Stephen Colbert just ended his final episode of The Late Show while singing "Hello, Goodbye" with Paul McCartney. his family and the show's crew then joined them on stage before Paul turned off the lights to the Ed Sullivan Theater

🚨 Every Republican present in the House Appropriations Committee last night voted to make THEMSELVES eligible to collect from Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund. I am not making this up. I introduced an amendment to stop Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President from collecting a single dollar from Trump’s slush fund unless a court actually orders it. Every single Republican who cast a vote was AGAINST my amendment, making themselves eligible for settlement funds. Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President, have no business lining their own pockets by claiming they were victims of government weaponization. Trump set up this fund, now MAGA Republicans in Congress are ensuring they all can collect from it. That is exactly the kind of self-dealing corruption the American people are sick of.

No president has ever used the federal government to advance his own personal interests and those of his family and allies as expansively and openly as Trump has. nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/…

A nearly $1.8 billion DOJ-controlled fund cannot be created, defined, and distributed in the shadows. Today, I called on Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to provide immediate transparency on the Department’s newly announced “Anti-Weaponization Fund.” By June 1, DOJ must answer three basic questions: Where is the money coming from? Who is eligible to receive it? And under what legal authority is DOJ creating a discretionary compensation fund of this scale without explicit congressional authorization, court approval, or judicial oversight? Taxpayer dollars will not be turned into a discretionary payout fund. Transparency is not optional. Accountability is not negotiable. @kaitlancollins and I discussed this tonight @TheSourceCNN ⬇️

There is not a single insurrectionists MFer who beat a cop that should get a penny of our money. Not one. And the people making this decision will all be appointed by Blanche and will meet in secret. This is an impeachable offense by Blanche.

Sen. @maziehirono: You filed an amicus brief in support of the rapist's position while serving as Ohio Solicitor General. Can you explain why? Trump Judge nominee: All I was doing was my job Hirono: You had the option of not weighing in. And yet, you weighed in on behalf of the rapist.

BREAKING: We just won a preliminary injunction in our case with @FreedomofPress requiring the Trump administration to follow the Presidential Records Act and preserve records for posterity. This is a huge win against their absurd stance that the law is unconstitutional.

In another big loss for the Trump White House, federal Judge John Bates orders them to comply with the Presidential Records Act, which Trump asserted he could just ignore.