Michael Waidmann

[MΛRC VIDΛL @marcvidal]

Absolutamente increíble. Lo que hoy ha hecho Barcelona se recordará mucho tiempo. La Sagrada Familia, Gaudí y los que durante 140 años han creído en ello, lo merecían.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Donald Trump Jr takes a financial stake in a company…

3 months later, the Pentagon gives it $620 million…

after Trump’s White House told them to…

And the company’s valuation rose from
$200 million to $2 billion as a result.

This is corruption.
https://t.co/TLcOxyzOWO

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

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?

https://t.co/La0nlLuz1r

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

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."

[Joel Montfort @jmontforttx]

Alligator Alcatraz is closing after one year and wasting $1B to house 1400 immigrants. That's an eye-popping $714,285 per occupant. Everything this administration does is filled with fraud and waste. https://t.co/3DoG1YTjTh

[Richard Stengel @stengel]

George H.W. Bush kept his assets in a blind trust, as did Bill Clinton. Neither Obama nor Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office. 3,700 trades is probably more than all the trades of all the presidents until now. And he is trading stocks that are affected by his decisions. A walking conflict of interest, at the least, and perhaps insider trading. Just as members of Congress should not be able to trade stocks, so too the president. https://t.co/yDqVXWfDgc

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Trump just got exposed for running the biggest insider trading operation in American history.

Nancy Pelosi traded $5 million in stocks and Congress lost its mind.

Trump literally executed $750 MILLION worth of stock trades in ONE quarter while being President.

His ethics filing just dropped and the numbers are genuinely unprecedented in history:

Between January and March 2026, Donald Trump personally executed 3,700 individual stock transactions worth between $220 million and $750 million.

That's roughly 60 trades PER DAY.

While signing executive orders, meeting foreign leaders, and making policy decisions that directly impact the companies he's buying and selling.

Now here's where it gets really insane:

On February 10, Trump bought between $1 million and $5 million worth of Dell stock.

Three months later, on May 8, he stood at a Mother's Day event at the White House, thanked Michael Dell by name, and told Americans to "go out and buy a Dell."

Dell stock surged 14.6% that day to an all-time high of $263.99.

Since Trump's February purchase, Dell is up 96%.

And 5 months BEFORE Trump bought Dell stock, Michael and Susan Dell donated $6.25 billion to Trump Accounts, one of the largest philanthropic commitments to a sitting president's signature program in modern history.

So the timeline goes: Dell donates $6.25 billion to Trump's program -> Trump buys Dell stock ->Trump tells America to buy Dell from the White House podium -> Stock hits all-time high

And that's just ONE stock...

The same filing shows Trump bought Nvidia stock on February 10. One week later, Nvidia announced a massive chip deal with Meta.

He bought more Nvidia stock one week BEFORE his own Commerce Department approved the sale of Nvidia chips to Saudi Arabia.

He bought Intel stock starting in March 2026. The US government already owned a 9.9% stake in Intel worth over $41 billion. On April 30, Trump posted on Truth Social praising Intel, writing that "Intel Stock continues to rise."

Intel jumped 3% in after-hours and is now up 140% year-to-date.

He bought Palantir stock while his administration was actively handing them billion-dollar government contracts for immigration enforcement and defense.

He bought Robinhood stock while his own Trump Accounts program uses Robinhood as the broker.

He's currently sitting on over 100% profit on AMD, Intel, Bloom Energy, Marvell Technology, and at least 10 other positions.

Every single president since Lyndon B. Johnson has used a blind trust to avoid exactly this situation. But Trump didn't.

His assets sit in a trust controlled by his own children, and the filings show a broker acted as agent on several trades.

The White House says the portfolio is "independently managed."

But here's what independently managed looks like:

Buy Dell stock. Three months later, publicly endorse Dell from the White House. Stock hits all-time high.

Buy Nvidia stock. One week later, your own government approves their chip sales. Stock rips.

Buy Intel stock. Post about Intel on Truth Social. Stock jumps. The government you run already owns a 10% stake.

Buy Palantir. Hand them contracts. Buy Robinhood. Route a federal program through their platform.

Nancy Pelosi got absolutely destroyed for her husband's stock trades.

Her husband's total disclosed trades in his most controversial year were worth roughly $5 million.

Trump just disclosed up to $750 MILLION in a single quarter.

While making the actual policy decisions that move these stocks.

This isn't a left or right issue.

We're talking about the President of the United States averaging 60 stock trades per day in companies his own administration regulates, contracts with, and publicly endorses.

What do you think?

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨Republican Superintendent Ryan Walters mandated teaching Christian values in schools, including the obligation of marital loyalty.

He is now divorcing his wife.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

Isidoro González Avilés, 48, and Norma Anabel Ramírez Amaya, 43, met with their son around 3:30pm at the maternal grandmother's house, where the young man had traveled from Chicago, his hometown.

After doctors told the family that Kevin had stopped responding to treatment, his parents submitted humanitarian requests to be allowed to be with their son.

When the parents' requests were denied, they crossed the border in a desperate attempt to reunite with their son, who suffered from a terminal illness.

The young man's parents were detained by immigration authorities on April 14 near Douglas, Arizona, and sent to a detention center.

Link to full story:
https://t.co/i6fEzaur3z

By — Ussa Osorio Ugalde @osorioissa
Noticias Telemundo @TelemundoNews

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

MAGA evangelical leaders gathered this week at Trump National Doral Miami to bless a towering gold statue honoring Donald Trump, led by pastor Mark Burns. Trump himself called into the event to thank Burns and the guests.

“Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf. We worship the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone,” Burns later said.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Evangelical Christian leaders literally gathering around a gold statue of the president and celebrating it, all while raging against any accusation of idolatry.

This is what idol worship looks like.

[Andy @AndrewDevoss]

@JohnDalyBooks The same with Charles Krauthammer.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

This is insane

Three Trump judicial nominees refused, over and over, to say Joe Biden won the 2020 election. They either believe Trump’s lie that the election was stolen, or they’re too afraid of him to tell the truth.

This isn’t about their political views. It’s about recognizing reality and being part of an independent judiciary

[Elizabeth @alluringmedia]

This should have been the end of it. Don't blame Democrats. Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy could have ended this. They chose not to.

[The Fifth Column 🖐 @wethefifth]

Adopting a child from Ethiopia changed David French's perspective on the state of racism in America.

From our new episode with @davidafrench.

[Steven Rattner @SteveRattner]

Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion.

His administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history.

My @Morning_Joe Chart.

[Nathan is sometimes at Summer Camp (say hi👋) 🔎 @NathanpmYoung]

Worth a watch in full.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Here is 2 minutes of Donald Trump on the 2024 campaign trail pledging to lower your energy and electric bills by 50% within 12 months of taking office.

Can we get an update on this from MAGA?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A 9-year-old in India saw two peacocks walking through dawn fog. She ran to her dad, grabbed his camera, knelt on the dirt, and took one photo. It placed at the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year, picked from almost 60,000 entries across 117 countries.

The photographer is Shreyovi Mehta, who was in fifth grade at the time. The award is run by the Natural History Museum in London, the same museum with the giant whale skeleton hanging in the entrance hall. The competition has been running since 1965. People in the wildlife world call it the Oscars of wildlife photography. Shreyovi placed Runner-Up in the 10-and-Under category and her photo was hung in the Museum's 2024 exhibition.

The shot was taken on a misty November morning in 2023 at Keoladeo National Park in Bharatpur, Rajasthan. The park used to be a royal duck-hunting reserve before becoming a UNESCO-protected bird sanctuary in 1985. Around 370 species of birds live there.

Shreyovi was walking through the forest with her parents. Two peahens, female peacocks, came into view on a sunlit path under a tunnel of trees. She ran back to her dad, grabbed one of his cameras, dropped to the ground, and shot the picture from a low angle. An antelope walked into the right side of the frame just as she clicked. Look closely and you can see it.

Her parents are both wildlife professionals. Her dad, Shivang Mehta, is a photographer; her mom, Kahini, co-founded a wildlife travel company called Nature Wanderers. That made Shreyovi the rare kid whose playground was a national park. Her first time holding a camera was at age 2. By her fourth birthday, she had already been to Kenya for a wildlife safari at Masai Mara.

Even with that head start, the bar is brutal. Out of the almost 60,000 entries, the Museum picks 100 to display. Shreyovi was 9.

The translated tweet calls her the winner. She actually placed Runner-Up in her age category. The overall 2024 winner was Shane Gross, a Canadian who spent hours snorkelling among lily pads to photograph tadpoles. But Shreyovi was a fifth grader from Faridabad, walking on a dirt path with her dad's camera, and she knew when to crouch.