Kellyn Bechtold

Can't overstate how important it is to celebrate and publicize these historic wins in the face of huge rightwing ideological & political apparatuses.

I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ.

@elecguru @ShauhinDavari Can US citizens targeted by ICE apply?

@ShauhinDavari The fund is for anyone who feels they were unjustly targeted by the DoJ. It’s for anyone, not for J6ers. A person can apply for a settlement but there is no assurance that money will be paid out. Sounds like a good idea. If Obama, Biden or Kamala suggested it, you’d love it.

Can a trump supporter explain why it's a good thing that the president sued, settled, and used the money for Jan 6'ers? Please explain it and make sure you'd be okay with it if Obama, Biden, Harris, or any one else did it. Please explain it. I'm genuinely interested

Within one 24 hour period, Trump: - got out of a $100 million IRS fine - secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends - created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters - was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything. But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."

Good morning. The President of the United States is currently looting the treasury. He’s just taking your money for his own purposes. Billions of it. And Republicans won’t do anything because their loyalty isn’t to you, it’s to him.

What’s amazing is how brazen and public this corruption is, and begs the question of what’s happening behind closed doors.

The vice president thinks that that people who beat cops at the capitol, were subsequently pardoned, and now are poised to receive a taxpayer-funded hand-out have not received sufficient sympathy from the American media.

how can our society continue to function if this level of corruption is allowed? nytimes.com/live/2026/05/1…

An insane level of corruption—even for Trump. A $1.7 BILLION slush fund for Trump’s hand-picked stooges to hand money to January 6th insurrectionists and his political allies. Here’s the President’s priority as Americans sell their plasma to afford gas and groceries:

Pennsylvania man detained by ICE for over 250 days speaks out: "Whatever anybody has seen on TV is true. You are in cages, and there are 32 people in each cage... Just because I wasn't born in this country doesn't mean that I don't love this country."

I will stand by the fact that Cirie was twist-screwed. She burned a LOT of bridges (Stephenie, Christian) to keep Ozzy in the game, bc he was the one guy who would take her to the end. She set up her end-game win condition, and then they got separated bc of dumb rocks. #survivor

Everyone’s stopped talking about it for some reason, but the defense of Minneapolis was the most seismic victory against Trumpism. That was supposed to be the blueprint for their autocracy and it was defeated and humiliated by astounding collective action from ordinary Americans.

The fact that almost every former Confederate state is moving to completely eliminate Black representatives immediately after the SCOTUS decision is more than enough proof that voting rights still need protection, and MAGA racism is far from gone in this United States.

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits. propublica.org/article/trump-…

We are in deep, deep trouble. A reader wrote in to me this week saying that they wouldn't read my Trump corruption story because ChatGPT "fact-checked the piece" and informed them most of it was false. Among other things, ChatGPT told them that there is no Iran war, Jared Kushner is not a negotiator in the war, Qatar never offered Trump a $400 million plane, George Santos wasn't pardoned, the NYTimes did not report on Syrian billionaires lobbying Trump for sanctions relief, Trump never launched a meme coin, and World Liberty Financial (the Trump family crypto firm) doesn't exist. Of course, all of these things ARE real, do exist, and are happening right now. Apparently, the reader copy and pasted the text of my story into ChatGPT, and without the links ChatGPT couldn't confirm any of it. Once the reader sent ChatGPT the link to the story, it ended up concluding all the facts were correct. How many people simply don't know how to use AI and are offloading all their thinking? It's a terrifying thought. And a totally new frontier of reality to navigate.

Obama is so friggin' cool... Stephen Colbert shows him a photo of the tan suit. Colbert: When you look back at the tan suit, what occurs to you? Obama: Fly.

Production is really pissing me off this season. Stop dividing the merged players into small groups for elimination. Like why cast all these game players if you’re not going to let them just play the game. We’re fine with double eliminations but there has to be a better way.

This book is SOOOOO good! Get a copy!

Bravo to @hannah_natanson, whose Pulitzer Prize reporting overcame an outrageous and chilling FBI raid on her home, a threat to journalism in this country

If Cirie runs both beach votes without even being there…. 😱😱😱 #Survivor50