Epstein survivor says acting AG Blanche was 'abrasive, condescending' during meeting- Farmer said Blanche "would not commit" to investigating her case [Anyone surprised? Fascist means never having to say you're sorry] abcnews.com/Politics/bla...

UNREAL!! Epstein survivor says Todd Blanche was 'abrasive, condescending' during meeting on Thursday. Annie Farmer said: He was "abrasive, condescending, and intentionally noncommittal to survivors." PLUS Blanche "would not commit" to new investigations! abcnews.com/Politics/bla...

This seems a bit Nazi-ish, no?

Aww. It looks like someone's Hollywood star needs a chain link fence, scaffolding, a stripey curtain-tarp, and two or three National Guard soldiers protecting it.

They’re going to kill more people

YOU CAN'T TELL ME NOT TO DRINK FROM THE BROAD STREET PUMP

Are they all cheaters? Republican Gov of NV Joe Lombardo, running for re-election, is pulled over by police for ignoring red light, tells officer "I'm Joe Lombardo", who says "I'm aware". Lombardo says “Come on, man,” and officer lets him go www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...

The latest voter suppression: "Republicans in NC who control state and county election boards have attempted to move early voting sites off college campuses and reduce Sunday voting...a blatant attempt to make it harder for students and Black voters to cast ballots" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/u...

Trump tries to take over: “worst case scenario... escalation of efforts for the federal government to try to take control of the election process.” Secretaries of state, AGs and party officials have been making contingency plans" Maybe they better hurry up www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/u...

"Triumphalist history, which is exactly what the Trump White House demands, cannot tolerate nuance, ambiguity, complexity. These elements of real history — dare we say truths about human experience — always spoil the party and the military flyovers" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/o...

They really are deplorables: ICE officer who shot a Colombian man in ME...is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood" per his family who "accuse him of attacking women in his life over the years" www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

The real threat to elections:Documents Trump released on election security included "National Intelligence Council assessment on “Foreign Threats to the 2020 Election” [that] determined that Russian government-linked actors were trying to boost Trump’s campaign" www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump's delusional rigged election speech "Citing no hard evidence" he claimed "elections are vulnerable 'to hacking, exploitation, and foreign interference'", accused China of "acquiring election data- much of which is commercially available for purchase" www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

US involvement in Honduras shows how "influence increasingly flows through interconnected networks of investors, political operatives, think tanks, and presidential authority" because Honduras is site of a far-right Próspera "alternative model of governance" steadystate1.substack.com/p/the-influe...

US Secretary of State Rubio "launched a campaign to dismantle the ICC... claiming the global tribunal was interfering with US military and law enforcement operations at the risk of American sovereignty" Those that constituted war crimes or crimes against humanity? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"Every authoritarian...has a core obsession" often linked to "grievance" -"negative emotion or cause" so "holding office is a way of solving...personal, political, legal, and financial problems" Trump's is "need to 'prove'...devastating [2020] loss never happened" lucid.substack.com/p/trumps-obs...

The Republican Movement Is Replicating the ISIS Child-Soldier Playbook... American children are learning to cheer executions as an act of faith "drilling a generation for holy war, and 39 percent of Americans already believe the end is near" wendy664.substack.com/p/the-republ...

"Trump acts every day as if the presidency gives him the power to kill people at will" girls' school bombed in Iran, 64 Navy strikes on boats killed more than 200 people", 2 fatal shooting by ICE in MN, immigrants killed by ICE "Trump is a mob boss" luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trumps-mur...

Also, since the article doesn’t say WHICH voter rolls were reviewed, I’ll note some cities allow non-citizen residents to vote in local elections. Which is, of course, a perfectly legal choice for those cities to make. It would not shock me if this DHS dishonestly exploited that to inflate numbers.

DHS has lied about so much. No news organization should be its stenographer.

We’ve seen this same explosive claim made many times that withers under scrutiny The game is played by making the accusation, having docile media report it, and then the media bury (or not report at all) the eventual resolution

Let’s be really clear about this lettuce situation: it’s not just the destruction of public health tracking, it’s also years and years of ending regulations that would have prevented conditions causing outbreaks in the first place, combined with climate change that makes them more likely to happen.

These outbreaks are going to keep happening and they’re going to happen more often. Unless we get regulations, monitoring, enforcement, and public health tracking back in place this is a runaway train.

Oyer: "2 days after Blanche was confirmed as deputy AG, he fired me from my position as DOJ's career pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a favor for a friend of the president, and it cost me my job. Mr Blanche's office had asked me to restore the gun rights of a convicted domestic abuser..."

Fascism is here. If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention. “Left-wing political terrorism” will mean those who oppose the regime — while actual right-wing extremism is allowed to grow and thrive. We are very far off the cliff, folks.

Unearthed records just revealed that Ken Paxton owns 15 homes on a government salary. This includes luxury real estate in Hawaii, Utah, and Florida.

It’s good that NYT reporters are upfront about Trump’s “efforts to undercut faith in the results of American elections.” But articles like this leave the reader completely in the dark about why he’s doing that. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/u...

A whiff of corruption? AGl Ken Paxton of Texas recently bought 3 condominiums at a luxury resort in UT" He has a dozen more. "Paxton’s expanding real estate portfolio has raised questions in the past about how he has amassed his wealth, despite his $153K as AG" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/u...

"Paxton recently bought 3 condos at a luxury resort in Utah worth a total of $1.6m and transferred them to his blind trust. On the deeds, Paxton listed his address as a Dallas-area home. Police records indicate a woman who is not his wife & has been photographed vacationing with Paxton lives there"

"This isn’t about lousy training or missing body cameras or bad apples. This is intentional. This is how ICE operates: Maximum terror. Zero accountability....when people with unchecked power dehumanize an entire people and blame them for everything" www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Hegseth touts a high-testosterone military, as doctors question his claims- The defense secretary said the Pentagon would test the testosterone levels of troops 30 and over “This is non-evidence-based and could cause harm” -Prof Adriane Fugh-Berman www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Many "thought that the US possessed a robust civil society that could act as a counterweight to an overbearing government and resist authoritarian encroachments" But "institutions can be run in a fairly authoritarian fashion–universities being a prime example" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The company they keep, the relatives they have: Trump endorsed "Republican Senate nominee in GAeorgia, Mike Collins...has close ties with a white nationalist influencer–his son-in-law, David Alan Scheer II" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Who runs the secret police? "Trump reversed...DHS position on ICE traffic stops after he received a wave of backlash from MAGA allies on cable news" Tomi Lahren, former Border Patrol Commander...Greg Bovino...podcaster Steve Bannon. Could they be held liable? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Guess who pays for Trump's Big Brother like posters in DC? We do: Regime "committed an additional $153K in taxpayer funds to...banners of the president’s face...violating federal laws against propaganda" in addition to contracts for $39K and $114K www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump threatening to steal new elections because he wasn't held accountable for Jan 6. He "does not believe Democrats will storm the Bastille". Maybe corporate Democrats will just say "we can’t go back...just...focus on 2028....It’s up to us" to do more deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/we-need-to...

In impending autocracy "press is...among the first...to come under attack because reporters expose corruption, abuse of power, and the gradual capture of institutions" first. Once people are convinced to distrust journalists,it's easier to discredit others olgalautman.substack.com/p/trump-esca...

Todd Blanche's answer is peak "just asking questions." Mifepristone has been FDA-approved for more than 25 years. It is safe and effective for ending an early pregnancy. It's disinformation to claim that FDA and HHS need to investigate whether it's safe

Corruption? FCC commissioners accepted tickets to Kennedy Center from CBS or its parent company Paramount. "After voting for...Paramount merger, Commissioner Olivia Trusty took tickets worth >$12K...Chair Brendan Carr has accepted tickets worth at least $63K" www.propublica.org/article/para...

[So who really are the Trump regime's enemies?] Court Filings Describe Ongoing Contact Between ICE and Iran on Deportations- In a sworn declaration, a lawyer says an Iranian official reported receiving regular dossiers on Iranian detainees from ICE for months www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...

New ICE shooting fits "emerging pattern...violent confrontation with a person who was not the target... conflicting explanations about how it unfolded" Maybe "agency’s senior leadership" denying repeatedly "something went wrong translates down to the officers" www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/15/m...

Are they all election riggers? "Elon Musk likely violated WI law" for giving "$1M checks to voters in the 2025 state supreme court election" per bipartisan elections panel" who will "send 2 complaints" to county DA for violations of "state's bribery laws" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Quackery:Hegseth pushes: “screening program for testosterone deficiency for our service members, ensuring you have the right testosterone levels to operate at your...best” but "screening for low testosterone being medically unwarranted in most...in this age group www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

What kind of intelligence does he have, or would he oversee? "Jay Clayton, the US attorney for the SDNY, refused to say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election during his Wednesday confirmation hearing to become the nation’s next intelligence chief" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump doesn't care how many die "WH overturned a one-day old DHS memo that said they would be halting traffic stops in the wake of recent stops that left two men killed in the space of a week on Wednesday morning, hours after...Trump insisted ICE keep making them" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

More evidence of cruel and unusual punishment in what is supposed to be just a "detention" center: Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva, a 45-year-old Venezuelan man "died in federal immigration custody this week in GA...the 22nd death in ICE custody this year" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Again the "I know nothing defense"- obvious question is: what are people who know nothing doing in government? "Speaker of the House Mike Johnson "said that he knows nothing about the ICE shooting in Maine as he’s 'been a little busy'" www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/mike...

[Reminder: How Russia helped/influenced Trump/MAGA] Russia [via RT] paid an American media company to push pro-Kremlin messages from social media influencers including Benny Johnson, Tim Pool and Dave Rubin www.nytimes.com/2024/09/07/b...

Existence of hidden evidence about how the FBI redacted the Epstein files, scrubbing references to Trump uncovered "training videos...instructing them on how to find and log and mark Trump's name and other information for redaction" www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

Trump's State Dept fired/pushed out senior Russian analysts in its Bureau of Intelligence and Research, sidelining it "as the lead foreign policy arm of the US government, at least with regard to Russia and Ukraine" Why would Russian asset Trump need them? steadystate1.substack.com/p/how-the-se...