Requiem for Kristi Noem open.substack.com/pub/harryjsi...

Quote: "one of the settlement options on the table, according to two people familiar with the talks, is that the IRS would agree to drop all audits of Donald Trump, his sons Don Jr. and Eric, and the Trump Organization. Forever." open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...

Quote: "a president who built a political brand around strength, stamina, and mocking another man as “sleepy” is now facing repeated public evidence of his own fatigue—and the White House response is to tell people not to believe what they can see." open.substack.com/pub/iholdthe...

Through twilight-hour shifts, Trump’s executive assistant Natalie Harp supplies the president with stacks of printed-out drafts and awaits his approval before hitting post. Her work has included posts of the Obamas as apes and an AI-generated image of Trump as Jesus. trib.al/kdWSOXH

Quote: "The conservative legal movement has spent decades building structural advantage, and it has largely succeeded. Countering it will require using every legitimate institutional lever available to dismantle that advantage..." newrepublic.com/article/2102... via @newrepublic.com

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DJT 's accomplment: The civil service has been purged of non-loyalists. Federal law enforcement got the same treatment. Ethics offices are shut. Loyalists run the FBI, the Pentagon, and the IRS. A Supreme Court majority operates under unitary executive theory,.. open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

An impeachable theft of taxpayer funds.

How did Mamdani fix New York? substack.com/@adammockler...

and somehow even worse than the first one

Donald Trump’s massively over-budget makeover of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has reportedly hit a humiliating hurdle.

Members of Donald Trump’s inner circle are secretly fed up with the aide who is enabling his unhinged late-night Truth Social rampages.

Stories about pardons are often about presidential power. But what about people on the other side of that grace? The Coulson family may never receive millions from a wrongful death lawsuit it won years ago.

What could possibly go wrong? Https://substack.com/@aaronparnas/note/p-197357542?r=456ntn

When “senior administration officials” continue to lie to you day after day, week after week, so they can use your media platform to launder lies and manipulate people, how long do you keep doing it because they are “scoops” that get lots of clicks?

Not since Reconstruction ended in the 1870s amid white-supremacist terrorism and voter suppression has Black electoral influence declined so suddenly in the American South. trib.al/Z6aOL41

Oh look at that: there are approximately 80,000 fewer manufacturing jobs today than there were when Trump took office last year.

A MAGA congressman has been accused of years of physical abuse against his ex-wife, the daughter of a prominent Republican senator.

Even @wsj.com is debunking Trump’s economic arguments for his mass deportation campaign: -Employment among US-born men FELL in areas with more ICE arrests. -Deporting law-abiding immigrant workers REDUCES job opportunities for American workers and is BAD for the economy.

If you want to learn more about FEMA and the climate-disaster-to-far-right-militia pipeline, check out our new four-part podcast series called "American Emergency: The Movement to Kill FEMA.” www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Last week, DHS posted an official press release with a large, bold headline: “Activist Biden Judge Releases Violent Criminal Illegal Alien Wanted for Murder.” There's just one problem. ICE instructed a DOJ lawyer arguing the case NOT to include the pertinent detail of murder. trib.al/GKyx2YM

Reuters documents the way that Trump's immigration surge has helped criminals in MN. 1) Drug & gun prosecutions stalled (& one was dismissed) 2) Partnering w/Feds has fallen off 3) Prosecutors have been stuck dealing w/Trump's witch hunts www.reuters.com/world/how-tr...

NEW: ProPublica identified at least 79 children who’ve been left screaming, unable to breathe, or otherwise hurt by tear gas and pepper spray during Trump’s historic immigration crackdown.

NEW: The Trump administration blitz that flooded Minnesota with immigration agents hobbled federal efforts to pursue serious crimes. By April, prosecutors had brought charged just eight people with drug or gun crimes, the fewest in more than two decades. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Looks like MBS and Trump broke up. Seems like it started back when the Saudis pulled out of LIV Golf. Now I’m curious what happens with the Saudi’s $2B investment in Kushner. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

At least Kash is not gifting empty bottles. Aaron Parnas reports "According to the Atlantic, Kash Patel has reportedly distributed personalized whiskey bottles to FBI employees and civilians he meets through his official duties."

Apparently Joe Biden is so powerful, he still controls everything.😂

What would a typical worker earn today if their wages had grown as fast as CEO pay over the past 50 years? Take a guess and watch this video to find out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lPPsrAMtTI

Now they are upset about a joke. That was told before the shooting.

New York City-based content creator Isabel Klee is known for fostering some of the hardest-to-place dogs. She's written a memoir, "Dogs, Boys, And Other Things I've Cried About." n.pr/4d3kti7

In 2014, Arthur T. Demoulas was fired from Market Basket, sparking protests by 25,000 employees. Internal pressure and a customer boycott led to his reinstatement and recovery of control over the company.

In the 24 hours since the Supreme Court's majority ruled to demolish the Voting Rights Act's remaining protections, Louisiana and Tennessee have already signaled that they'll redraw their congressional maps with the clear effect of shutting Black voters out.

A private prison giant that runs ICE jails handed $1 million to a Trump super PAC the same day it was frozen out of $426 million in new federal contracts.

Eager to save money, Prospect Medical promised to “self-insure” malpractice claims brought against its doctors and hospitals. The chain’s bankruptcy now threatens to leave hundreds of patients whose claims are pending with nothing.

Quote:"The point of the indictment is to demonstrate that the United States Department of Justice is wholly an instrument of Donald Trump’s senescent pique, no more independent of him than a boil on his ass."

No one should be above the law. The Illinois Accountability Commission will keep a record to help hold those responsible for breaching law enforcement protocol and violating people’s rights during Operation Midway Blitz.

This is exactly why I fought to create the 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. It saves lives. Period.

Sadly, it’s another week in Congress… FISA stalled out over warrantless searches on Americans Farm bill stalled out over giveaways shielding pesticide companies from legal liability Homeland Security funding stalled out because House Republicans beefing with Senate Republicans It’s only Tuesday.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth might not be feeling comfortable about his future after a Republican senator publicly broke ranks and said that there is growing discomfort in Congress with Hegseth's job performance.

Lest we forget. Https://substack.com/@mjfree/note/c-249402186?r=456ntn

Washington Hilton "donated the ~2600 dinners that went unserved at WHCD. They freeze dried the steak and lobster for longer shelf life before giving them to 2 shelters for abused women and children." - WHCA President Weijia Jiang

💡Taxing extraordinary profits by fossil companies is building momentum! ⚡Money generated can be used to shield households from spiking energy bills & support them in energy transition. ✅It is short-term measure - but it does not have to stop there! We urgently need permanent tax on fossil profits!

Our Great Lakes and their tributaries are some of the greatest assets we have as a state. So, I continued my Earth Week statewide tour with a visit to Keystone to learn about the Burke Center for Ecosystem Research’s efforts to restore North Fish Creek near Ashland. #EarthWeek

The political violence is unacceptable and must stop. I am grateful that everyone attending tonight’s WHCD is safe.

Political violence has become all too prevalent in America. I’m grateful for the swift response from law enforcement at White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

An exoskeleton is revolutionizing teamwork by enabling one person to accomplish tasks typically done by three. Efficiency meets innovation in this remarkable technology.

Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism" www.wired.com/story/palant...

Dear White House correspondents, It's not too late to develop flu symptoms and decide that you should stay home and miss having dinner with fascists. Think about it. Sincerely, Mark

This is what has been keeping me awake at night...it's all of it...I'm overwhelmed... with grief, anxiety, rage, ....& mourning the life I was trying to achieve, which is now impossible...This will make your blood run cold, but we cannot allow this 👇 open.substack.com/pub/savagemi...