This isn't just corruption or grift, it's a full-on criminal enterprise. If Republicans in Congress hadn't sold themselves out completely, they'd shut this down immediately.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

I've been saying: Democrats sticking to their principles rather than swaying with political winds is not only more morally admirable, *it is more politically savvy*. Nothing was more predictable than this thermostatic backlash against Trumpian fascist immigration policy.

Again, this Trump IRS thing is not a “settlement” or a “deal” or something with any legal basis at all. It’s pure corruption; colluding with his Acting AG to loot the Treasury; pay off his mob; and preemptively immunize himself and his heirs against investigation for fraud.

"Republicans blocked a law to keep your taxpayer money from going to convicted pedophiles"

Have you been injured? #slushfund

I'm no big time Democratic consultant, but if I were, I'd sure be advising the party to put out ads saying that Republicans cut funds for kids with brain cancer so they could give money to child molesters.

Years ago Scalia provoked gasps in the gallery when he called the Voting Rights Act a “racial entitlement.” But turning American democracy back into a white racial entitlement, as it was for most of American history, is exactly what the Roberts Court is doing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Historian here this is literally about gutting the Reconstruction amendments especially the consequential 14th amendment piece by piece.

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

72 years ago yesterday, the Supreme Court issued its landmark Brown decision. Lawyers in North Carolina charted the state's pathway of “making haste slowly” by maintaining racial segregation without openly defying the court: user-35215390377.cld.bz/NCSB-Journal... #civilrights #Brown #SCOTUS

More than 3,700 trades by Trump, many of which appear carefully timed to take advantage of decisions by his administration which could be expected to impact the value of the stock—Palantir is a notable one. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is WELL worth reading. Democrats need to wake up and play hardball. NOW.

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

We are watching the worst assault on multiracial democracy since the Pettus bridge. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

I think a U.S. president should not use the FBI to persecute major politicians, Federal Reserve Board members, or anyone else because the president has a political or policy disagreement with them. It's the sort of behavior that should trigger impeachment by the House and removal by the Senate.

Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 and replaced it with a restored stream, 1000 acre park and improved public transit, not only did it TRANSFORM the city’s public life and economic success, but the car traffic got better. The car traffic got BETTER.

I asked X, Paramount, ABC, and Meta where their donations to Trump's Presidential Library went. None of them could give a clear answer. Tens of MILLIONS of dollars are missing. Why should Americans trust that this money isn’t going straight into Donald Trump’s pockets?

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Every presidential administration gets accused of corruption—sometimes with good reason, sometimes not. But the corruption of the Trump administration is of a magnitude that is not only without precedent in American history but so large and brazen as to be difficult to wrap one's head around.

At about minute 32 you can hear @davidlneal.bsky.social talking about Duke Energy and data centers, and how different choices could help us all live long and prosper (sorry could not help myself). www.wfae.org/show/charlot...

All right, this piece has triggered me so I have to yell a bit (though this is bluesky, so I realize I'm just preaching at the choir):

Should be part of his next test.

checkmate, fellow terrorists

A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place. This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism. Here's why.

Reagan’s OMB Director:

It’s been a dark week. Our president is mentally and morally deranged. But the truth is we put him there. In this moment, Americans need to face hard truths. And that’s what Jimmy Carter tried to offer back in 1979. Maybe this time, we’ll listen. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/after-a-dark...

Donald Trump, who started out life with about $400 million that he inherited from his landlord father who’d extracted much of that wealth from working class New Yorkers of color, is deeply committed to bringing meritocracy back to America.

People say Trump has no war strategy, but his strategy is quite clearly a criminal one of destroying Iran's civilian infrastructure (and killing a bunch of people in the process) unless they capitulate. We -- the United States of America -- are a rogue state and global pariah.

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

Take a step back from the play-by-play. It is intolerable that this deranged man is in charge of our military. And everyone with a platform should be yelling that until he is stopped. No matter how unlikely that may seem right now. It is a moral imperative. presswatchers.org/2026/03/the-...

Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

41 years old, evacuated here legally, asylum case pending, kidnapped while driving his six children (one a US citizen) to school. Dead within 24 hours. Betrayed and murdered by the United States government. 42nd confirmed and reported death in ICE custody under Trump.

This thread -- & the thread it links to, & @jamellebouie.net's original insight -- are super-important to understand. To the average Ivy-educated, DC-centric journalist, the MAGA base is almost entirely theoretical. They don't know any genuine MAGAts, they just construct a Noble Savage imaginary.

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more. They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

New, from me: Why is American attacking Iran? It helps to have a coherent reason, to justify to the US public the costs in money and blood, to allies about the potential long-term risks, and to Iranians about the future of their country. Lets take a look 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-reason...

All the breaking news is leading too many news organizations to bury essential facts like 1) Trump’s reasons for attacking were all lies and 2)The whole thing is illegal by domestic and international law.

omg

Posted about this late last night but wanted to follow up a little. I found Miller's comments thoughtful, and I agreed with many of them. He talking, from a conservative's perspective, about how to build broad-enough-to-win opposition to Trump. The transcript is fairly long, but I recommend it.

Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

They all just wanted in on it. “Swamp,” my ass.

“We were stunned [about the prescience] for a while, but we’ve really gotten to the point where it’s really sad. It’s just sad how predictable and lame and obvious and wrong it all is. Fascism is just a total fail in the end.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

1/ Okay, now I’m mad. Any Supreme Court in our nation’s history before John Roberts would have upheld the lower courts’ injunctions blocking Trump’s tariffs & not issued a stay that let Trump wreck the economy and break the law for over a year. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

So, so many people fell for the bullshit these guys were peddling. No one has recanted, apologized, vowed to change the way they do things, anything.

This may end up being a massive own goal for the Trump administration.

Over 3 million views in 16 hours. Still picking up speed. #StreisandEffect