Amanda Carpenter
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Jonathan Cohn
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People keep resigning from the Trump admin because the Trump admin wants them to commit clear crimes.
www.huffpost.com/entry/assist...
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Treasury Official Reportedly Forced Out After Stern Warning To Trump Administration
Assistant Treasury Secretary Kenneth Kies will be leaving the administration after reportedly warning that it might be breaking the law.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/assistant-treasury-secretary-kenneth-kies-pushed-out-clashes-with-trump-admin_n_6a5a334fe4b0f033db1b91f1?origin=home-latest-news-unit
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WV Secretary of State Kris Warner says federal judge was right to dismiss DOJās unredacted voter data claims "State law is very clear that we canāt share private voter data. Thatās telephone numbers, email addresses, driverās license, Social Security numbers."
wvmetronews.com/2026/07/14/s...
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Secretary of State says federal judge was right to dismiss DOJ's unredacted voter data claims - WV MetroNews
As in the other states, lawyers for West Virginia argued the Justice Department request lacks a specific factual basis and pursues a pretextual purpose related to immigration enforcement rather than v...
https://wvmetronews.com/2026/07/14/secretary-of-state-says-federal-judge-was-right-to-dismiss-dojs-unredacted-voter-data-claims/
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Heyyyy. It was fun stopping by this morning!
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In-freaking-credible.
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Suuuureeeā¦.letās definitely listen to this man when it comes to elections. Hard no. Keep DHS out of our elections.
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Mullin is really stepping into it. Time for his former senate colleagues to start asking some hard questions. No freebies.
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This, to me, is the important part of the speech that mattered. Trump clearly wants DHS to take a greater role in interfering in elections. DHS should have NO ROLE WHATSOEVER in the state election administration. PERIOD.
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THE DOMINION EFFECT: Many outlets have seen there is a demonstrable price for carrying Trump's election lies and are acting much more cautiously when he cries wolf now. It's not perfect. The threats are still there but accountability does work.
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Networks that did not cover live were validated. That speech was a kitchen-sink mishmash of moldy six-year-old conspiracy slop circling around the drain.
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You can tell how serious this speech is by the way Trump is rambling on and on about how great he has made America just like every other campaign speech he's ever given.
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Donald Trump is going to spread a ton of lies tonight about the elections. BUT WHY. Because he is running the biggest presidential grift in history and wants to keep his MAGA protectors in Congress to shield him from any accountability. Do not lose sight of his WHY. Talk about the WHY.
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DHS lies on the regular about ICE shooting people in our streets. Quit taking their word for it!!!
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The grift never ends. Truth Social wants to sell *faster* access to Wall Street so people can bet and trade and make money off Trump's posts. He is running the govt and enriching himself by running the govt at the same time.
www.cnn.com/2026/07/16/b...
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Truth Social will sell Wall Street quicker access to posts | CNN Business
Truth Social will sell Wall Street firms quicker access to market-moving posts from President Donald Trump, the company said on Thursday.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/16/business/truth-social-data-wall-street
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REASON MAG: The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History, by the Numbers "Donald Trump and his family are executing corruption at a scale never previously contemplated in the American experiment."
reason.com/2026/07/09/t...
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The most corrupt presidency in American history, by the numbers
Looking back through the biggest scandals in American history through the lens of Trump 2.0.
https://reason.com/2026/07/09/the-most-corrupt-presidency-in-american-history-by-the-numbers/
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Audit the White House and claw back every single fraud dollar.
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Why is Trump going to lie about our elections from the Oval Office tonight in a prime-time speech? There's 2.2 billion reasons. He has turned the presidency into the most lucrative grift in political history, and he doesn't wanna to lose his MAGA protectors in Congress. From me, pass it on.
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Mediaite
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Trump Hypes āMagnetsā After Sonās Firm Takes Stake in Rare-Earth Magnet Company
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Trump Hypes āMagnetsā After Sonās Firm Takes Stake in Rare-Earth Magnet Company
President Donald Trump urged defense contractors to "do magnets" on Wednesday, just seven weeks after ProPublica revealed that a top White House aide intervened to help secure a $620 million Pentagon loan for a rare-earth magnet startup after Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm took a stake in the company. The post Trump Hypes āMagnetsā After Sonās Firm Takes Stake in Rare-Earth Magnet Company first appeared on Mediaite.
http://dlvr.it/TTYY7y
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Yes they are still seeing ways the riot rewards payout from the illegitimate ā1776ā arbitrary $1.776b slush fund will go on.
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It's not a mystery why Trump is working so hard to spread lies about elections. Follow the money. He's pulling off the most lucrative grift in presidential history and wants his MAGA House and Senate to protect him from any accountability.
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ProPublica
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NEW: Months after FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty cast a decisive vote approving Paramountās historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, she and a guest accepted Kennedy Center gala tickets from the company worth more than $12,000.
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FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissionersā impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...
https://www.propublica.org/article/paramount-mergers-fcc-kennedy-center-gala?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Democracy Docket
5 days ago
In two big wins for voters, federal judges in both Virginia and New Mexico dismissed the DOJās lawsuits seeking access to each stateās full voter records. The judge in Virginia was a Trump appointee, making him the sixth Trump appointee to rule against the agency.
https://bit.ly/3SXf5qo
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THREAD. Given the news that Trump is planning to deliver an Oval Office speech tomorrow night to abuse his office to spread lies about the elections, we've updated our Executive Override Report to show what we've been tracking over the last few months.
protectdemocracy.org/work/executi...
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Deceive, Disrupt, Deny in full effect
The last four months have seen the president's election interference strategy accelerate, even as resistance to that strategy has kept pace.
https://protectdemocracy.org/work/executive-override-july-update/
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Golden Age of Corruption. No expense spared for bad gold decor or mining public office for personal profit.
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Weāve been dragged into Trump's Golden Age of Corruption. We need a game plan to bring it to an end and hold his administration accountable. That means more than voting them out. It means GETTING THE MONEY BACK for the American people. From me.
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New speech, same lies. Weāve always known Trump will try to deceive ppl w lies about the midterms to disrupt the process and deny results he doesnāt like. This time heās trying the executive override. Abusing executive power to override results. Same bs but wasting our money to do it this time.
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The Associated Press
6 days ago
BREAKING: A federal judge says President Trump's lawsuit against the IRS was filed for an "improper purpose" and refers attorneys for disciplinary action.
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Judge blasts Trump's IRS lawsuit as filed for 'improper purpose,' recommends attorney discipline
A federal judge says President Donald Trumpās lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked tax returns was filed for an āimproper purposeā as she referred attorneys for disciplinary actions.
https://bit.ly/3RyDCl9
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The Washington Post
6 days ago
A group of 12 states led by Democratic attorneys general sued to block Paramount Skydanceās $110 billion deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, the sharpest challenge to one of the biggest media and entertainment mergers in history.
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12 states sue to block Paramount Skydance from buying Warner Bros.
The states' Democratic attorneys general allege that the deal, which would create a news and entertainment behemoth, violates antitrust law and would harm competition.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/07/13/12-states-sue-block-paramount-skydance-buying-warner-bros/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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Kyle Griffin
7 days ago
MS NOW: Two Atlanta-based FBI intelligence analysts were fired last week after refusing to participate in the Trump admin's investigation of Georgia's 2020 election. The analysts told colleagues they did not believe the investigation was justified under FBI and DOJ policies.
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FBI analysts fired after refusing to join Georgia 2020 election probe
The analysts, a husband and wife, told colleagues they did not believe the Trump administrationās investigation was justified, sources told MS NOW.
https://www.ms.now/news/fbi-kash-patel-trump-georgia-2020-election
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IF THE BRIBE PLANE DOESN'T WORK, HERE'S AN IDEA. STRIP IT FOR PARTS WE PUT IN AND SEND IT BACK. IF TRUMP WON'T, THE NEXT PRESIDENT CAN. (Yes, this one makes me mad.)
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Kash Patel was using FBI money to buy BMW cars? The entitlement has no end. This deep-seated need to appear tough, cool, and rich warrants study. I cannot grasp it.
www.mediaite.com/media/news/d...
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Chuck Grassley Demands Answers on Kash Patel Spending
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has joined Democratic colleagues in requesting more information on FBI Director Kash Patel's flights and spending.
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/democrats-gain-powerful-republican-ally-in-demanding-answers-about-kash-patels-fbi-spending-and-travel/
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Steve Rattner
11 days ago
Jared Kushner & Trump's sons have raised $13 billion from foreign governments, mostly in the Middle East. At the same time, Kushner serves as Special Envoy to the region, negotiating with the very countries with which he's financially conflicted. šø:
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A very thorough run down here of how Trump is monetizing the presidency for personal profit. We canāt let them get away with it. Audit the White House and take back ill-gotten gains!
stevenrattner.com/2026/07/trum...
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Trumpās Monetization of the Presidency | Steve Rattner on Morning Joe | Steve Rattner
https://stevenrattner.com/2026/07/trumps-monetization-of-the-presidency-steve-rattner-on-morning-joe/
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Adam Keiper
11 days ago
NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead.
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He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-here-for-35-years-put-three-kids-in-college-ice-killed-jim-lorenzo-salgado-araujo
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Taxpayers are paying to make the Qatari plane "gift" secure for a president. Not to be Trump's personal jet forever. If Trump tries to take it, we can send a repo man to get it back. We may not approve of this "gift," but it's definitely not his to keep.
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60K views Ā· 1.2K reactions | President Trump says the new Air Force One plane, which was a gift from Qatar to the US government, will be donated and reside in his future presidential library. Randi Kaye digs into whether or not he can actually do that. | Anderson Cooper 360
President Trump says the new Air Force One plane, which was a gift from Qatar to the US government, will be donated and reside in his future presidential library. Randi Kaye digs into whether or not...
https://www.facebook.com/AC360/videos/president-trump-says-the-new-air-force-one-plane-which-was-a-gift-from-qatar-to-/2078899522699760/
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If everyone is really having in-depth convos with Mitch McConnell on the phone, you'd think part of the conversation would be about the actual reason he's been in the hospital for 3+ weeks. How is it we still don't know? Ridiculous.
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Jon Seidel
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The feds just made it official: They won't fight a bid by members of the "Broadview 6" for attorneys' fees. They do "not concede that the United States has acted or done anything to warrant those fees." They also say there should be no discovery. Full filing:
cst.brightspotcdn.com/dc/d1/e34a37...
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"The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years ā despite his warning voters that 'it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.'"
www.texastribune.org/2026/07/07/k...
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Ken Paxtonās voter registration may violate Texas election law - The Texas Tribune
The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years ā despite his warning voters that āit is illegal to misrepresent yo...
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/07/07/ken-paxton-voting-election-law/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1783446221&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook,twitter
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Scott MacFarlane
13 days ago
ALERT: More than 1,200 former Dept of Justice employees have signed etter urging Senators to block Todd Blancheās confirmation There are so many signatures⦠this letter consume 59 pages. It was distributed by @Justice_CXN
www.thejusticeconnection.org/wp-content/u...
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https://www.thejusticeconnection.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Letter-from-DOJ-Alumni-on-Todd-Blanche-AG-Nomination.pdf
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On the bright side, no one who watched the US/Belgium game will buy Trump's argument that we lost because the game was rigged.
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Just for the sake of conversation. We have access to paternity kits. Why not deport men who impregnate foreign women in US land?
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A woman is about to SMASH the record--both men's and women's--for SOLO rowing from California to Hawaii. She'll be there soon.
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Renee DiResta
19 days ago
A bot's code got rejected from matplotlib, so it wrote a hit piece on the human who rejected it ā and no one could find the person behind it. 'Proof of personhood' is one proposed fix -- but can it be done without a checkpointed internet? My new essay up at Noema:
www.noemamag.com/we-need-a-wa...
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We Need A Way To Prove Personhood Online | NOEMA
The growing number of AI agents roaming the internet will eventually force us to verify what the old web mostly presumed: that there is a morally and legally accountable person somewhere in the chain.
https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-a-way-to-prove-personhood-online/
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Renee DiResta
18 days ago
Today we beat Stephen Millerās lawsuit mill in court! For 3 years Iāve been a defendant in a case filed by America First Legal on behalf of Gateway Pundit & a random antivaxxer weād never heard of until she sued us. The plaintiffs claimed we ācensoredā them. It was a lie. They just lost.
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John Hudson
20 days ago
White House officials secretly awarded a no-bid contract worth up to $500m for the construction of the East Wing ballroom in an unusual arrangement that sidestepped typical contracting procedures designed to control costs, according to a copy of the agreement
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/06/30/trump-ballroom-built-under-secret-500m-no-bid-contract/
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Carol Giacomo
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It never stops.šš» Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...
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Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/world/europe/trump-lutnick-sons-kazakhstan.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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What the actual⦠Loitering? AT A TOURIST SITE? With the machine warning the National Guard? This is stupid on top of dumb on steroids on meth.
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URGENT: Trump is ALREADY talking about invoking a "national emergency" for the midterms. Do not think he won't do it. He's already invoked all kinds of bogus national emergencies. He wanted the military to seize voting machines in 2020 and says he regrets not doing it! From me.
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Speaker Johnson says his job is to 'protect' from Trump oversight and accountability.
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The Bulwark
23 days ago
This new OMB rule change that's been proposed may seem small, but it has the potential to politicize š¢šš š§š¦š„š¦š³š¢š šØš³š¢šÆšµš“.
@jvl.bsky.social
explains what this would mean for different groups in the latest Triad.
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They Want to Disappear You
How OMB will politicize the federal grant system with this one weird trick.
https://lnk.thebulwark.com/4uWvDvW
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With *so much* always happening, the Broadview Six case has not gotten the attention it deserves. It is a tremendous victory and shows how BS authoritarian tactics can CRUMBLE under scrutiny. Many kudos to the brave and tenacious defendants who beat them back! Here's to more justice OTW!
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