Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche, who is facing his Senate confirmation hearing, previously shut down DOJ crypto investigations while holding more than $150,000 in crypto investments. From our Dec. 2025 investigation:

Oh, c’mon. Really? They are just aces at killing people. And oh, btw insurers, testing for cancer is way cheaper than treating it.

2nd year in a row CNBC ranked Tennessee last in quality of life under @GovBillLee and the Republican supermajority: “factors such as crime rates, air quality, health care, availability of childcare, inclusiveness of state laws & reproductive rights…” www.cnbc.com/2026/07/11/w...

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Oh, FFS.

Yup. A real hinge of history.

Joe Mitchell won the Republican nomination for Iowa's 2nd Congressional District in June by campaigning against the sway of insiders and lobbyists, but a new report laid bare that his own record tells a different story.

Last year ICE said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and tried to choke her to death. He was even indicted for attempted murder. Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.

Ossoff: I never want to hear these two pretend they give a damn about working people again. Because while hundreds of thousands of Georgians lose their health care, Mike Collins builds Trump a ballroom. They worked harder burying the Epstein files than they ever did lowering your grocery bill.

OMG 😳 we could have had ACA healthcare extended, snap benefits for kids and the damn illegal war isn’t even over yet. This regime is bankrupting our country.

The top 1% owns as much wealth as the entire middle class. That's not the America we're supposed to be. We need an economy that works for everyone, not just those already at the top.

Outrageous.   Dr. Justin Ryder, a pediatric surgeon and expert at Northwestern, was booted from a conference for sharing an article on federal cuts to biomedical research.   This is the impact of Trump's administration.

"Days after the completion of a $14 million renovation, the water in the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool had more algae in it than at any recorded point in the month of June for at least five years, according to a specialized analysis of satellite data" www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

"It was remarkable to watch Trump blab right out the basic realities of America’s terrible negotiating position that nobody in the administration has been willing to admit. The world was barreling toward economic disaster...It was Iran that held all the cards." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Trump Comes Tumbling Down open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...

Trump posted a lengthy rant claiming an Iran deal—actually a memorandum of understanding toward a potential future agreement—will be signed tomorrow. He lists numerous things he claims are in the deal, many of which have been publicly disputed by Iranian officials and independent reporting.

June by Francis Ledwidge: Broom out the floor now, lay the fender by, And plant this bee-sucked bough of woodbine there, And let the window down...

"Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal. Six days later ...

And here we go. Ugh

It’s no big surprise that Trump’s DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website. Here’s the thing: I downloaded all of them in Feb. 2025 (that’s right, more than a year ago) suspecting that they’d do just that. And we’re working to post them all online, as are others.

It's beyond lying, beyond vulgar

ICYMI: Remember how House Republicans kept taking credit for money provided by Joe Biden's infrastructure bill, even though they all voted against it? And it was so easy to call them out on it? It just happened again. Why whyyy. 😂 www.huffpost.com/entry/bryan-...

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration proposed asking federal workers to sign non-disclosure agreements, according to a government statement made public on Tuesday, with the goal of preventing them from sharing confidential information with journalists.

A Path to Justice — A cartoon by Nick Anderson

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Trump has spent the day angrily posting about Thomas Massie and Lauren Boebert due to their role in pushing for the release of the Epstein files. That says a whole lot. His latest post: "Is anyone interested in running against Weak Minded Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District?"

The case for Trump's bloated Pentagon budget, to the degree there is one, is that military competition with China will be expensive. But now Trump's basically said we're not going to contest China near its borders. So what's the $1.5 trillion for? Blowing up drug smuggling boats?

Mamdani has proposed a balanced budget for next year, holding spending level while closing a $12 billion deficit. Trump's budget proposal increases the deficit year over year by about $300b, with a massive deficit next year of more than $2 trillion. Fiscal responsibility? Mamdani > Trump.

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

And so Trump is off to China, accompanied by his billionaires, all of them going as supplicants to China's dictator whom Trump admires as "a Leader of extraordinary distinction." It would be nice if the American president would speak for America. But in fact he will be kowtowing to Communist China.

A Florida Republican Sheriff, Grady Judd, announced the arrest of 266 defendants in a sex trafficking scheme & minced no words. He identified influencer Craig Long, who he said moved in high circles including with the president, holding up a picture of Long with Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=x03q...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) admitted it has no evidence that Vermont is not complying with federal voter roll maintenance laws — an admission that could further weaken its case for amassing voters’ sensitive data. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result: Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

Czeslaw Milosz "Though everyone bowed down before you, Saying virtue and wisdom lit your way, Striking gold medals in your honor, Glad to have survived another day, Do not feel safe. The poet remembers."

Today, Hungarians are voting. These elections loom large the world over. Viktor Orbán is a central figure in the international far right and his loss would be blow to familiar figures like JD Vance and Donald Trump, who are his pupils. snyder.substack.com/p/the-hungar...

We’re about to pay Iran $6 billion to re-open the thing that was open before the war. Art of the deal, baby.

They can declare anything they want, and seem to, but that doesn’t make it true.

Some people are treating this like it’s a close legal question. It isn’t. The precedent here is unusually clear—and that will matter in court. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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Investors placed an approximately $950 million bet on oil prices falling just hours before the US and Iran ceasefire was announced, per Reuters:

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"The Peace President." This madman must be removed from office. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-threat-whole-civilization-will-die-iran-war-deadline-hormuz-rcna267059

Donald Trump's threat to strike Iran's bridges and power plants has raised the prospect of war crimes. The EU insists all sides should respect international law and exercise "maximum restraint". #EuropeNews

Elon Musk is now worth over $800 billion. Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

"He wanted it big. He wanted lots of gold, lots of marble. He wanted visitors awestruck by his architectural expansion of the country’s symbolic seat of power." {gift link} www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...