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DOGE wanted you to think they were cutting waste. Here’s what they were actually doing: feeding grants into ChatGPT with a yes/no question about DEI, then wiping out everything that came back yes. These cuts didn’t reduce the federal deficit by a single dollar. What they eliminated was more than $100 million in Congressionally approved funding for Holocaust education, Indigenous cultural preservation, and decades of humanities research. It was unlawful, it was unconstitutional, and DOGE never had the legal authority to touch a single one of these grants.

CORRUPT AF: Two decades of landmark rulings emerged from a chamber whose senior member sat on millions in undisclosed household income from the firms arguing in front of him 👇 "Every trial judge in California, Texas, Florida, and the rest of the country runs a recusal screen before sitting on a case. They check stock holdings, spousal law firms, employer ties for kids, charity board memberships, and family business interests. The standard is so basic, judges teach it in first year ethics courses. The same rule applies to the Chief Justice. The man enforcing the rule on others apparently exempted himself for two decades. Citizens United, decided five to four. Shelby County v. Holder, gutting the Voting Rights Act, decided five to four. Dobbs, ending the federal right to abortion, decided five to four on overturning Roe. Loper Bright, killing forty years of Chevron deference, decided six to three. Two decades of landmark rulings emerged from a chamber whose senior member sat on millions in undisclosed household income from the firms arguing in front of him. Your kids’ rights, your grandkids’ freedoms, your democracy itself, were shaped inside a chamber where the rule keeping judges honest apparently did not apply to the man holding the gavel." Read more here: bit.ly/4tP6Zgl #ResistTrump

@JDVance You do not give a damn about fraud. Every one of these people gave Trump $1 million, and each of them got a pardon. That scheme is fraud in and of itself.

SCOOP: I obtained a pitch deck in which the entity that paid for Transportation Sec’y Duffy’s new reality show outlined different partner levels — $1 million, $500,000, $250,000 and $100,000 — which include recognition on its sponsors page and networking. static.politico.com/74/6e/5da7a151…

Abusing the authority of DOJ to charge political opponents threatens our liberty and undermines the department’s credibility. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

Massive bombshell. Rep. Ed Case explicitly confirms the Pentagon has lost a staggering 39 aircraft in the disastrous war against Iran, exposing the unprecedented destruction of American military assets. Pentagon CFO Jay Hurst desperately dodges the huge replacement costs.

Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers. NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades, says that next year it will stop servicing homes in the area, and instead direct that electricity to the growing demand from Nevada data centers. Northern Nevada is one of the fastest-growing data-center corridors in the country. fortune.com/2026/05/12/lak…

🚨THIS STORY IS INSANE: Photos suddenly gone. A website scrubbed. Stock photos depicted as company execs. A business "partner" that says they've never worked together. The Trump admin gave a no-bid multimillion-dollar contract to surveil immigrants to a firm steeped in mystery.

Trump is suing the IRS, which he oversees, for $10 billion. Both sides want to settle to avoid going to court. Aside from money, one of the settlement terms is to drop all audits of himself and his family. He’s stealing $10B from taxpayers and covering up his tax crimes. You get that, right? nytimes.com/2026/05/12/bus…

Donald Trump’s son takes a large financial stake in an online gun delivery company. The Trump admin looks to change the rules, allowing for online gun ordering and delivery. This isn’t a coincidence. This is more shameless Trump family corruption. meidasnews.com/news/donald-tr…

President Trump is reportedly planning a massive handout to two Brazilian billionaires at the expense of American ranchers. Meet the Batista brothers. They own JBS, the largest meatpacking company in the world. Their rise was fueled by rampant corruption, bribery, and fraud. And they directly brokered Trump’s new plan to lower tariffs on imported beef in a vain attempt to lower the cost of beef. Make no mistake: This plan would not actually lower prices for consumers. It would drive even more American ranchers out of the market, directly reward the Batista brothers’ criminal enterprise, and further consolidate the beef industry. JBS has already paid “hundreds of millions of dollars in fines for price gouging consumers at the grocery store.” Trump has now reportedly delayed the plan, which is a sign the pressure is working. But this fight is far from over. Hear Farm Action President Angela Huffman break down the endless scandals that define JBS: “JBS bribed more than 1,800 Brazilian politicians to secure the money they needed to begin buying up meat packing competitors in the US.” “Then, they bribed meat inspectors to allow them to sell and export rotten and tainted meat around the world.” “They’ve been caught tampering with scales to cheat America’s farmers and ranchers out of the real value of their cattle.” “They’ve racked up hundreds of violations for workplace safety, employment discrimination, unfair wages, and environmental abuses.” “No one would want to work with a company like JBS.” “But because they’re so dominant, there are parts of the country where farmers have no choice but to sell their livestock to them.” @AngelaSHuffman

Absolute disaster for the Pentagon. Rep. Betty McCollum exposes how the Trump administration has completely lost track of a staggering one trillion dollars. She reveals massive financial black holes, confirming the Army and Navy are literally missing billions in funding.

Just another reminder that six months before this administration started bombing Iran, the State Department fired its oil and gas experts as part of the DOGE cuts. The staff who modeled what happens if the Strait of Hormuz closes were laid off. So were the experts with direct lines to oil and gas companies across the Middle East. The sole staffer tracking sanctioned oil tankers was let go. So was the person who helped coordinate strategic petroleum reserve releases during exactly this kind of crisis. This is what happens when you fire the experts and then start a war. notus.org/trump-white-ho…

Walmart is selling you an unprofitable TV that watches everything you do and reports it back to their $6.4 billion advertising machine. And the TV literally won't turn on until you give them permission. This is one of the most sophisticated consumer surveillance operations in history and 150 million people walk into their stores every single week with no idea it's happening. Here's the full story: In December 2024, Walmart bought Vizio for $2.3 billion. Everyone assumed it was about selling more TVs. But it had nothing to do with TVs. Vizio's TV hardware business was actually LOSING money, posting a $6.7 million loss in its final quarter as an independent company. The advertising division made $115.8 million in profit that same quarter. Walmart bought 19 million living rooms - not a TV company. In March 2026, Walmart flipped the switch. Every new Vizio TV now requires a mandatory Walmart account before you can access any smart features. No account, no streaming apps. Without signing in, your TV is useless. The moment you create that account, something called Automatic Content Recognition activates. ACR runs silently in the background, taking screenshots of everything displayed on your screen and comparing them against a database to identify exactly what you're watching, second by second, across 700 TV networks and over 100 streaming apps. It knows what you watched, when you watched it, how long you watched it, and what you did afterward. Now here's the part that makes this genuinely unprecedented in the history of retail: Walmart ALREADY knows what 150 million Americans buy every week. They know your grocery habits, your clothing preferences, your pharmacy purchases, your financial behavior through Walmart Pay, and your location data from the app. But what they couldn't see was the 4 to 6 hours a day Americans spend staring at their television screens. By connecting your Walmart account to your Vizio TV, they've closed that loop. They can now prove that you saw a 30 second ad for gardening soil Sunday night and bought that exact brand at Walmart Monday morning. L'Oréal is already signed on as a launch partner for this kind of targeting. The math on this is just insane: Walmart Connect, their advertising arm, generated $6.4 billion last year with 46% year-over-year growth. Advertising runs at 70 to 90% profit margins compared to traditional retail's 3 to 4%. Their CFO admitted that ads and membership fees already account for one-third of Walmart's total operating income. The advertising business is now more important to Walmart's bottom line than entire product categories in their stores. And they're just getting started. Analysts calculated that Walmart's ad revenue currently represents only 1% of total sales. Amazon's ad business runs at 8% of sales. The gap between where Walmart is and where Amazon is represents roughly $50 billion in untapped advertising revenue. The Vizio deal is the bridge to get there. This is WHY they're selling certain TVs at a loss. When you break down the $2.3 billion acquisition across 19 million households, Walmart paid $121 per living room. A lifetime of behavioral viewing data from a household that also shops at Walmart is worth infinitely more than that. The cheap TV is a trojan horse. Vizio has already been fined $2.2 million by the FTC for secretly collecting viewing data on 11 million TVs without consent. The Texas Attorney General sued them for "spying on Texans." Walmart bought them anyway and made the surveillance MANDATORY. The company that built its empire promising everyday low prices is becoming the most powerful advertising platform in the world, and the TV in your living room is the entry point. What do you think?

DL Hughley has a point. Black athletes drive massive economic value, yet in gerrymandered states, Black voters are pushed aside while their talent is celebrated for entertainment. If those states experienced even a fraction of the financial hit, the maps would likely become fair overnight.

Pretty sure the world does not need me to have an opinion on this so I am mostly interested in hearing what others think about it

In the same way Donald Trump publicly asked Russia and China to interfere for him in two elections, he told his GOP minions to rig the 2026 midterms. Now they have. Obviously all of us still *must* vote. But we also need to ask ourselves how we will react if this rigging works.

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation has issued a Level 3 alert, the highest alert possible, because of data centers. They claim data center power draw is at a dire risk of shutting down North America's entire power grid.

SCOTUS’s Justice Alito claimed that the kind of racial discrimination that had prompted the creation of the Voting Rights Act no longer existed. Alito cited a court brief by DOJ, which relied on inaccurate statistical methodology when looking at Louisiana voter stats. #DemsAbroad newrepublic.com/post/210174/sa…

In 2024, the maximum individual donation per candidate was $3300. Elon Musk donated $277 million to elect Trump because of the loopholes Citizens United created for billionaires to buy elections. Elon has increased his wealth by $235 billion during Trump’s second term, and was allowed to gut the federal agencies overseeing and investigating him. Big money in politics is a direct threat to democracy and the working class.