So we are going to spend billions because he cant control Colorado. File this under Fraud, Waste and Abuse.
This kind of corruption is as brazen as it gets. Trump is easily the most corrupt President in our country's history. Yet Republicans in Congress are not lifting a single finger to exercise basic oversight. Shameless complicity.
JUST IN: Drew Ensign, on behalf of DOJ, reports that all of the migrant children have been returned to ORR custody.
Happy Labor Day!
In Ghislaine Maxwellâs Justice Department interview, she comes off as pathetic, loathsome, and utterly lacking in remorse. The entire operation was damage controlâan attempt to exculpate President Trump from his own involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.
Seems like as good a time as any to reshare my story on the Coffee County voting system breach, which details the key role Giuliani played in Trumpâs effort to overturn the 2020 election. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
Here's the complaint filed late last night. One of the named plaintiffs is as young as 10. Judge Sooknanan already entered a TRO to bar the removal of named plaintiffs, and a new TRO just hit the docket for the larger putative class. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didnât file the report in time â and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
Reuters: MOST TRUMP TARIFFS ARE NOT LEGAL, U.S. APPEALS COURT RULES
CVS, Walgreens now require prescriptions for COVID vaccines in Colorado trib.al/NrPF0Qr
đ¨BREAKING: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) reinforced GOP power grabs sweeping the country, calling a special legislative session Friday to redraw congressional districts and weaken the ability of voters to pass laws through ballot initiatives. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The CDC is gutting a program that monitors foodborne illnesses. The program will now only track infections caused by two pathogens, rather than eight. Hello? How does this âMake America Healthy Againâ?
Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the centerâs patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wivesâ cancer treatment. (Published April 2025)
The Transportation Department on Friday canceled $679 million in federal funding for a dozen offshore wind projects, the latest attack by the Trump administration on the reeling U.S. offshore wind industry. https://to.pbs.org/45HtATc
Not only is our new acting director of the CDC NOT a scientist, but he also has deep ties to Peter Thiel and Silicon Valleyâs techno-utopia movement. One epidemiologist compared Jim OâNeillâs appointment to âmaking Elon Musk head of the FAA.â
The Bondi family business. Charges droppedâŚfor those with the right connections.
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
The injustice continues. A terrorist is now being honored by our military... My latest God I'm pissed!!! substack.com/@harrydunn/n...
Funny how itâs never *their* healthy kidneys theyâre eager to sell
"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out" "A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding." đđ Nina Agrawal for @nytimes.com
Thatâs two reported ChatGPT suicides in one week, plus the grandpa who died trying to meet Metaâs chatbot which had arranged an in-person meeting All going really well
WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteranâs paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.
Minnesotans gathered today to mourn the victims of yesterday's tragic shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school.
Donât look away
NEW: More than two decades after victims and families of the 9/11 attacks began trying to hold the Saudi government responsible for aiding the Qaida terrorists who carried out the plot, a judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the kingdom can go to trial.
Iâm gonna lose it if one more person suggests that Lisa Cook admitted to mortgage fraud or that she tried to explain it away as a âclerical error.â Neither of those things happened!
âA dangerous crank â what on Earth are you on about??!â @chrislhayes.bsky.social goes in on RFK Jr. for claiming he can diagnose kids just by looking at them.
Trumpâs Border Patrol raided a Washington wildfire camp, forcing firefighters to pause their work for hours. "Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Stephen Miller and their ilk are going to burn the country to the ground if thatâs what it takes, so they can rule over the ashes," says Chris Hayes.
The irony/idiocy of this banner currently draped on the Department of Labor building is not lost on me, given all the federal workers he's forced out of their jobs. (Pic via Getty Images)
Taxpayer costs for protecting and transporting DeSantis surged during failed presidential campaign, says report www.cltampa.com/news/report-...
A mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis has left at least two children dead.
Link to CNN piece: www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/p...
Back in February, I asked why an unelected oligarch and his band of minions felt entitled to your Social Security number. Six months later, it's clear it has ended in disaster. The Trump admin must answer for this violation of public trust that has put all Americans' private information at risk.
The reason Kilmar Abrego Garcia was not eligible for asylum in 2019 was nothing to do with the merits of his case. It was because of the one year filing deadline, which requires a person to apply for asylum within one year of entering the US. It's now been less than a year since he entered the US!
BREAKING: President Trump extends his control over Washington by taking management of Union Station away from Amtrak.
With the worst of hurricane season still ahead, Trump and his croniesâ dismantling of FEMA has gutted the agencyâs ability to respond to disasters and keep people safe. These brave FEMA employees tried to sound the alarm, so naturally Trump is punishing them. Beyond shameful.
Really important new study on the tax rate of billionaires from @gabrielzucman.bsky.social et al Upshot: The top 400 ultrabillionaires: 23.8% Avg Americans: 30.2% Yes, the superrich pay far less in taxes than the rest of us. www.nber.org/papers/w34170
đFDA has approved new variant-adapted COVID vaccine formulation (Novavax too)â but now only for those age 65+ or those âhigher riskâ, which is vague. Still needs CDCâs clearanceâbut now controlled by RFK Jrâs new dubious ACIP vaccine committee. Giftđ đ wapo.st/45RvyPx
"The political appointment, first reported by Democracy Docket, shows how self-styled election investigators who have thrown themselves into election conspiracy theories since 2020 are now being celebrated by a presidential administration that indulges their false claims." apnews.com/article/heat...
Nice try, Ron, but no.
Imagine if a top ally of President Biden had spent days on end, online, talking about exposing the âZionist infiltrators inside the US governmentâ - how do you think the DC political & media establishments would have reacted? But itâs Muslims, & itâs Trump, so itâs all fine. đ¤ˇđ˝ââď¸
Watching Loomer harass & demonize individual Muslim government employees simply for being Muslims while the Democrats & 'liberal media' say nothing is a reminder of how mainstreamed & normalized anti-Muslim bigotry is in the US, across the spectrum. Imagine if these were Jewish or Black employees.
Important, from @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org. Full piece: www.thebulwark.com/p/john-bolto...
are we sure we want the tell-you-to-kill-yourself machine teaching children
Todd & Julie Chrisley, fraud & tax evasion- pardoned NBA YoungBoy, federal gun charge - pardoned Michael Grimm, tax fraud - pardoned Convicted criminal Peter Navarro - hired as Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing Convicted criminal Charles Kushner - appointed ambassador to France
Devon Archer, fraud - pardoned Trevor Milton, fraud - pardoned BitMEX founders, violation of Bank Secrecy Act - pardoned Michele Fiore, fraud - pardoned Paul Walczak, stole $10 million dollars from nursing homes - pardoned Scott Jenkins, bribery - pardoned
Andrew Zabavsky/Terence Sutton Jr, police officers who were involved in the death of a 20 yr old & covering up the incident- pardoned 23 anti-abortionists, who blockaded a clinic & intimidated patients/staff - pardoned Rod Blagojevich, corruption- pardoned Brian Kelsey, corruption- pardoned
Trump stops crime??? Trump enables criminals. 1500 Jan 6th capital riot - pardoned 14 far right group criminals - sentence commuted Ross Ulbright (founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace, an anonymous platform that facilitated the sale of illegal drugs and other illicit goods) - pardoned
The hoax calls and false alarms have hit at least 11 college campuses from Colorado to Pennsylvania.
"If it were true that Ukraine belongs to Russia in the 2020s because a Russian dictator knows a legend about a Viking in the 860s... millions of people who actually live there would have no voice in their own identity: no choice but to accept the executions, the torture, the kidnapping of children."
Trump now has the âwarfightersâ picking up trash near the White House. www.fox5dc.com/news/nationa...
Deal-making law firms generally werenât trying to avoid executive ordersâthey were trying to signal a willingness to do work that accelerates crony capitalism and authoritarianism. Just look at the kinds of deals theyâre getting for clients now (fully explained on Substack): cohen489.substack.com
I loved @vermontgmg.bsky.social's latest piece so much that I asked if I could republish it on The Handbasket and he so generously said yes. If you haven't read it yet, please do. It's essential:
read trump's new executive order on domestic military dplymt + vigilante "portal." one of the reasons i am happy to be an independent journalist is so I can say that this is crazy, fascist, brownshirts shit without getting pulled into a meeting with PR for "opening us up to criticism from the right"
Statement from Fed Gov Lisa Cook: âPresident Trump purported to fire me âfor causeâ when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022.â
Itâs wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion⌠⌠and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about âfighting crime!â in the headlines. Infuriating.
You mean we can't trust the DoJ or republicans in congress?
And Trump put a cherry on top by inviting mass murderer, war criminal, and child trafficker Putin to the US for the World Cup. America, Russiaâs vassal state. bsky.app/profile/juli...
The issue isnât that Maxwell lied throughout her entire proffer. She has been lying, deceiving and manipulating people her entire life. I expect it from her. The issue is that the US Department of Justice gave her very tangible benefits already for those lies with more to come.
After a protester started yelling âICE is hereâ inside Rhode Island station, police told her to stop disrupting commuters and made her exit, then left themselves.
Democratic governors move forward. Advance. Now. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Redfin: "Roughly 58,000 U.S. home-purchase agreements were canceled in July, equal to 15.3% of homes that went under contract....Home purchases are falling through more than usual because [of] high prices, high mortgage rates and economic uncertainty." www.redfin.com/news/home-pu...
BREAKING: It's official. California will have a special election this November to approve new maps. The requisite bills have PASSED the assembly. Newsom will sign them momentarily. AND democrats removed the language that CA maps hinge on what Texas does.
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
One of the most remarkable and impactful transformations of all human technology and civilization in history is happening right now!
NEW from DSM: A video published on YouTube showed a documentary filmmaker ordered to back away while filming the Eugene Police and subsequently learned that the department has its own "press." We've spoken to experts who agree this is very bad. Read about it ⤾ď¸
One doctorâs recommendation to deny a 43-year-woman coverage âcontained errors on practically every aspectâ of her condition, the Labor Department said in 2012. United and other insurers continued to hire the doctor over the next decade. (Published Dec. 2024)
It's time for another Biden vs. Trump price check - Month 7. Trump said he would get prices down on day one of his presidency. All of these prices are from FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) and are based on a national average. So far prices are going up not down on most items
"In any negotiation, when the aggressor is legitimized and the victim is sidelined, the result will be not peace but disaster." We saw how that worked with Afghanistan. Trump is replaying the disaster with Russia and Ukraine. NEW from @markhertling.bsky.social:
Gen. Mark Hertling: "A principled ceasefire and negotiation require hard work. Trump prefers a fantasy peace." Only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/ukraine-al...
Remember when China gave Ivanka trademarks for multiple products, including voting machines, in 2018?
Trump must have had a bad night. Spewing lies about elections. Again. Every American citizen has a right to vote, Each state runs its own election. We donât owe the president. Itâs the president who owes us a duty to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
Wtf
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
It sounds conspiratorial to suggest that Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump behind closed doors to launch an assault on mail-in voting in elections administered by the states, and Trump immediately set about mobilizing federal power to do it⌠but that is literally Trumpâs account of what happened.
The war will be against "the enemy from within," and it will be waged with his 10,000 new ICE gestapo brownshirts. We have GOT to flip congress in 2026 and stop him.
NEWS: A federal judge GRANTED a request by USAID workers to certify a class action to pursue their arguments that Elon Musk made the decision to shut down the agency in violation of the Constitution's Appointments Clause. Ruling storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Newsmax, the conservative cable outlet, has agreed to pay $67 million to resolve a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems. The case stemmed from false allegations pushed on the network that the 2020 election had been manipulated.
Russia does this for many reasons, but one of them is to show that Putin owns Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...
đ¨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is escalating its effort to pressure states to hand over sensitive voter data, including by threatening legal action, according to letters from a top department official obtained by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The very obvious point here is to have a more pliant and compliant ânational police force.â Itâs going to become the Stasi/FSB (but dumber and more trigger-happy)
How is anyone supposed to reasonably believe these people are law enforcement? They're masked, anyone can buy a CBP hat and a POLICE patch, and why would a real gov't agent wear insignia suggesting they're both federal border patrol AND state/local police? They're dressed like amateur carjackers.
Despite Donald Trump's whining about "fake news," his administration has rolled back efforts to combat it, allowing fakes to flourish. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
âItâs a signal that identity, not ability or achievement, determines who stays in uniform and who gets a fair shot.â Forget about merit or achievement. The Trump-Hegseth military is all in for identity politics. www.military.com/daily-news/2...
A man understandably refused to hand over his ID or get out of the car for a bunch of masked thugs who refused to identify themselves. And when he drove away, they opened fire on him. This isnât how you do any sort of enforcement when your goal is to uphold the law. This is gangsterism.
I am a bit of a broken record on this, but are local DAs going to let this continue indefinitely? The ICE agents didn't have any kind of warrant, didn't identify themselves, and then recklessly started firing. Let them argue federal immunity.
It's just so sad and pathetic to think that Marco Rubio of all peopleâwho long reviled Putin and who spent his Senate career championing human rightsâwould be reduced to echoing Neville Chamberlain ("A quarrel in a faraway country, between people of whom we know nothing").
"Noem has also been particular about the service on the Coast Guard planes. In one incident, she and her staff grew irritated when a weighted blanket she often uses on trips was not provided to her, an issue that was âescalatedâ within the service..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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"Witnesses â including the Post reporter â asked the officers to identify themselves numerous times. All but one, who was wearing the ICE badge, refused. âOh, are you guys the cops?â one agent, who was wearing a mask, responded. âThen shut the f--- up.â www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
When people say this administration is alarmingly eager to protect pedophiles, they aren't exaggerating.
Susan Rice: "We've completely let Putin out of the penalty box and Donald Trump walked away with nothing in return."
Trump votes by mail đ 2017 NY Mayoral election 2018 NY midterms 2020 FL Primary election
This will be his reason for running for a third term