Trump’s mass purge of state department likely to sow chaos, US diplomats say (www.theguardian.com)
Project 2025 blueprint for second Trump term envisages replacing thousands of career staff with political loyalists...
Justice Clarence Thomas Acknowledges He Should Have Disclosed Free Trips From Billionaire Donor (www.propublica.org)
The first social media babies are adults now. Some are pushing for laws to protect kids from their parents’ oversharing (www.cnn.com)
Denmark Made Home Buying Easier. America Should Follow Its Lead. (www.businessinsider.com)
'Who really cares?' Fox News pundit throws cold water on Hunter Biden 'addiction' segment (www.rawstory.com)
'Trump posts Nazi rhetoric and you're silent': Stefanik shamed over antisemitism hearing (www.rawstory.com)
Why Americans' confidence in finding a new job is tanking even as the labor market is humming along (www.businessinsider.com)
The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff (www.reuters.com)
May 15 (Reuters) - The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network’s future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters....
Stormy Daniels wore a bulletproof vest to Trump’s hush money trial, attorney says (www.independent.co.uk)
Earlier this year, porn star said she accepted hush money so Donald Trump could not have her killed...
Trump vows to fight 'anti-white feeling' in US. His allies have a plan (www.reuters.com)
Donald Trump’s pledge to fight what he calls “anti-white feeling” in the U.S. will likely embolden allies who seek to dismantle government and corporate programs created to battle racism and boost diversity in American life....
Boston police forcibly remove pro-Palestinian tent encampment at Emerson College; more than 100 arrested (www.bostonglobe.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/emerson-encampment-cleared/
Pro-Palestinian protesters set up encampment on UCLA campus (abc7.com)
Trump trial: Prosecutors withhold witness lineup from former president’s team (gazette.com)
Prosecutors made the unusual decision this week to remain almost entirely mum about the order in which they planned to call their first witnesses in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York....
All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds (www.theguardian.com)
Billionaires who once disavowed Trump are coming crawling back (which might have something to do with Biden vowing to raise their taxes) (www.vanityfair.com)
Once upon a time, some überwealthy individuals who’d previously supported Donald Trump declared that they were done with the 45th president of the United States. After January 6, 2021, billionaire GOP donor Nelson Peltz called the insurrection a “stain on America” and publicly apologized for voting for Trump in 2020. Real...
Crystal Mason: Texas woman sentenced to five years over voting error acquitted (www.theguardian.com)
A Texas appeals court has thrown out a five-year prison sentence for Crystal Mason, a Texas woman who was sentenced for trying to cast a provisional ballot in the 2016 presidential election that was rejected....
People say they're leaving religion due to anti-LGBTQ teachings and sexual abuse (www.npr.org)
People in the U.S. are leaving and switching faith traditions in large numbers. The idea of “religious churning” is very common in America, according to a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI)....
Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead (arstechnica.com)
BREAKING: Mystery Illness Impacting Texas, Kansas Dairy Cattle is Confirmed as Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Strain (www.agweb.com)
Putin bromance has US intelligence officials fearing second Trump term (www.theguardian.com)
Ex-president’s support for the Russian strongman has experts fretting over American interests and security sources overseas...
It’s not you, it’s them: Engaged couples are cutting back on lavish weddings (www.cnn.com)
Multi-tiered cakes, elaborate floral displays and choreographed first dances: The traditional white wedding has been long considered a hallmark of American life....
LGBTQ teen Nex Benedict died by suicide, medical examiner says (abcnews.go.com)
Very sad situation.
The Terrifying Christian Nationalist Crusade to Conquer America (www.thenation.com)
School board member bragged of drinking Fireball and Coors Light in Capitol on Jan. 6, FBI says (www.nbcnews.com)
Miles Adkins, a member of the Frederick County School Board in Virginia, was charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack after he was identified by online sleuths....