There were a few limited instances of impoundment before Nixon. Of the ones that Vought likes to cite, some of them were explicitly allowed under the law, like the gunboat example he loves to cite. bsky.app/profile/bbko...

Rep. Balint brings up that a judge found that Vought had the admin had frozen funds for states because they voted against Trump. Vought quibbles with it, but Balint quotes the judge in saying that Vought had directly admitted it himself. Vought cut funds for states because they voted against Trump.

NEWS: Huge first win for Mayor Mamdani’s tax-the-rich plans in NYC. Mamdani just secured a deal with Gov. Hochul to create the state’s first-ever tax on $5 million+ second homes owned by ultrawealthy out-of-state residents.

Vought and Arrington lean into the OBBBA safety net cuts, calling them historic. It is true that they were historic. They were the largest cuts to Medicaid in history, three times bigger than Reagan's cuts, which shouldn't be possible. Kicks 10 million people off their insurance.

Russ Vought specifically calls out USAID as something he's proud of (illegally) dismantling. The cut foreign aid has likely already killed hundreds of thousands of people and will eventually kill millions.

The Russ Vought hearing is starting now. It's the first time Vought has testified before Congress since his confirmation hearings, so it's the first time Congress will be able to question him about the onslaught of illegal budgetary actions he has undertaken. I'll be posting in this thread.

Thousands of Marana residents signed petitions to stop a pair of data centers from hitting their town. Now, a lawmaker from Chandler with a strike-everything amendment could decide whether Marana voters ever get a say on a 600-acre data center project. www.tucsonagenda.com/p/marana-s-m...

Canadian Lauren Chen, too!

The US restored Russia's oil sanctions on Saturday. India just lost 1.5 million barrels a day of Russian supply and its Iranian backup. The pressure is real. It may also not last, and the Russian refinery fueling US military jets in Bulgaria is still working with Washington's blessing.

This is urgent!! The vote will happen this afternoon!!!! Call your senators and every senator NOW!! They need to vote NO on HJR 140 to save the boundary waters and protect our public lands!! Please share and call!!

Other than the Fed, the Supreme Court, GOP Senators, Thomas Massie, every US ally, his staff, MAGA influencers, the Press, NATO, contractors, analysts, historians, pollsters, and the Pope, Trump gets along with everyone. Of course, that basically leaves Putin, Netanyahu, and Mike Johnson.

One job of journalism is to identify changing circumstances that require changes in policy. So when the first-ever convicted-felon president assaults the free press, why would reporters honor him at a dinner just because “that’s what we always do”? Wake up. Cancel the Correspondents’ Dinner.

When broken down by age group the only significant drop is in that 15-19 age group - which is GOOD! Its only the weirdo tech bros that are convinced birth rate is this crisis. And frankly its the birth rate among white people they're actually concerned about.

Are we serious right now? Why are we referring to 15-year-old girls as women?

NEW: For more than a century, a smelter and other factories spewed 400 million pounds of lead dust across Omaha’s east side. Faced with similar concerns, 13 states passed laws requiring all kids to get a blood test before kindergarten. But not Nebraska.

King Charles will address a joint session of Congress and meet privately with Trump during a state visit to the US later this month, Buckingham Palace announced Tuesday. Charles and Queen Camilla will visit Washington, DC, New York and Virginia on April 27-30.

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

Pay attention. 😳👇

substack.com/@thomaskarat... Great substack. Information at very DEEP levels. Big money & Deep State manipulate politics, news, history, operations inside and out of Nation.

F-ing depraved. The IDF edited a photo of the journalist they assassinated and made it look like he was wearing a Hezbollah uniform. They explicitly state that it is legal in Israel to murder journalists. The entire Israeli state is a criminal enterprise.

Vance says that stopping funding for Ukraine is one of his proudest achievements in this administration. ​I’m watching this stunningly cruel speech from Ukraine, as Russia continues to kills us every day. Just today, they killed 8-year-old boy in Cherkasy and five people in Dnipro.

How a £2m bitcoin order made Nigel Farage the political face of UK crypto

Zero days since the previous Russian attack on #Ukraine Cherkasy: The attack damaged residential buildings, outbuildings, and vehicles. Four people were injured. Odesa region: Russian drones attacked port infrastructure. No casualties were reported. Russian war crimes are mounting up.

Social psychologist Erich Fromm, who first coined the term malignant narcissism, called people with this type "the quintessence of evil." Famous individuals frequently labeled as having these traits include historical dictators like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Saddam Hussein...

I believe she serves in the republican controlled Missouri legislature in some capacity:

I just woke from a dream that he has been impeached!

The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more than 18,000 challenges in federal court from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal. We are tracking the increase in these cases:

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The social media post, which appeared to be AI-generated, depicted President Donald Trump as Jesus Christ healing a bed-ridden man.

I study racism for a living and can still manage to be shocked by how institutionalized it is. What do you mean they were giving tax-breaks to white supremacists celebrating treason? just a wild country

NEW: An ex-Wyoming attorney is seeking a criminal probe of Republican Secretary of State Chuck Gray for handing the DOJ the state’s unredacted voter rolls. Wyoming is one of 17 states to comply with the DOJ’s unprecedented demands for such data — a possible violation of the states election law.

We are deciding right now if we are to be a nation of concentration camps and ethnic cleansing. And there is much citizens can do!

Can someone out there please count up all the CPAC speakers who ranted about George Soros funding left wing causes? Be sure to take breaks and stretch every hour or two.

Yet another 5-Alarm fire. On 20 January 2029, the Democratic Congress in both the House and the Senate must immediately move to expand the Supreme Court to 13 members.

There’s no excuse why Democrats haven’t flooded the airwaves about the plethora of sex offenders and pedophiles Donald Trump has personally put back into our neighborhoods.

In addition to vacating J6 charges, Trump's DOJ was ordered to drop 23,000 active investigations into fraud, terrorism, and other possible charges. All to reallocate budgets and resources toward terrorizing immigrants and US citizens. We are not safer for it. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Department moves to vacate seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys in major Jan. 6 cases.

This would include Arizona Oath Keeper Edward Vallejo, who was on standby during J6 insurrection with a cache of weapons. He was later arrested after he live-tweeted as he went to the Phoenix FBI office to “interrogate” them over J6.

ICYMI: A report alleging election fraud in Fulton County, Georgia, during the 2020 election was already debunked by the FBI prior to their extraordinary raid of election materials this January, according to a new investigation by @propublica.org. Read more: https://bit.ly/41wNkpz

He resigned?!

After decisively losing a popular referendum last month, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been on the back foot, fighting to regain support before next year’s general election.

Just a Friendly Reminder that Billionaires Should Not Exist!

Roan demonstrated more moral courage than many powerful people in her decision to leave a talent agency after reports revealed the exec’s ties to Ghislaine Maxwell. Yet she received far more social backlash over a non-event than praise after taking a material risk for the sake of her principles.

Yep.

Trump is about to drop a “nuclear weapon” on trans youth health care.

The rich don’t need to go offshore to hide assets—they can do it right here in the US. The latest from our colleagues at @revealnews.org:

“Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: ‘I don’t want…Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.’” @propublica.org 10/17/25… 1/ www.propublica.org/article/russ...