The United States government just agreed to pay $1.8 billion to the United States president, approved by the president's own personal lawyer who represented him when he was convicted of 34 criminal counts. This is the biggest scandal in all of American political history.

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Is this one of the biggest open bribes offered in history. Modi talks about tackling 'corruption' every time there's an election, while this is what passes for his foreign policy: convincing the most powerful and wealthy nation in the world to drop charges against his oligarch pal for $10bn.

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Andy Craig is saying what we've been saying. If you don't vote on impeachment, the message is you don't think it merits removal from office.

A “fun” thing about the 1776 number is it makes it more clear how much the settlement agreement is corrupt. Todd Blanche signed his name to an official government document claiming this figure was “based on the projected valuation of future claimants’ claims,” which is clearly, obviously, a lie.

Rowena decided to come cuddle a bit tonight. [Pictured: A fat gray dilute tortoiseshell cat sitting on a cream-colored couch with turquoise pillows and blankets on it]

Looks like potential insider trading to us. Does this look like insider trading to you? Over 3,600 stock trades by Trump since Jan. Absolutely unprecedented. This will be investigated.

More horrific hate crimes.

BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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But where will we ever find the money to pay for free universal childcare

One of the things that makes me the most fearful for the health of our democracy is this bizarre behavior by the press in twisting stories to make Trump's activities fit within normal frameworks that are completely inappropriate for the circumstances.

Yes, no media covering this should call it a settlement. There's no judge or court of law involved. Obviously no Congressional appropriation involved either. Trump simply ordered the DOJ to cut a check that goes to a sketchy non-governmental fund. This is flat-out theft of government funds.

It’s bullshit for the Washington Post to call this looting of the Treasury a “deal“ and an “agreement.” The Trump regime is self-dealing to create an agreement between Trump and Trump, with no judge allowed to weigh in. It’s a dictator stealing from the people.

I protest.

Somehow Trump's blatant, breathtakingly over-the-top, corruption is underappreciated. It is unreal to think this goes on before our very eyes. There has never been anything like it in American history. He is looting the country in plain sight.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

[wearily]: please make it stop

".. the conflict has driven the 30-year mortgage rate to 6.36 per cent, above levels seen in September 2025, before the Federal Reserve began a cycle of three quarter-point rate cuts." @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5e7f...

For everyone else in this country, falling asleep on the job gets you fired. Just saying.

The legacies of slavery don't stop at the water's edge. Cuba is a Blackass country. "We're going to turn your entire nation into a humanitarian crisis until you give us the puppet government of our choosing, because we have bigger guns than you" is despicable. So many innocents being harmed.

Not nearly enough reporting about what's happening in Cuba, which the administration is attempting to squeeze, punish, and coerce into submission and violent self destruction. This is so much worse than the embargo. It's hideous. Haiti, Cuba, ongoing boat strike murders: anti-Black foreign policy

Pete Buttigieg was in Montana this weekend to formally endorse a ballot initiative to curb corporate money in politics. Check out my piece on Montana’s century-long battle

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Reminded today while listening to a report on the latest Ebola outbreak that the nearly unthinkable stupidity and cruelty of all the cuts to international aid and medical infrastructure from a year ago will be a rolling disaster for years to come.

wherever i go, whoever i talk to, people care about the price of eggs... but they care even more about accountability for these fucking people looting our country. some remarks, on how we might get there. oh, and we don't have to wait until 2029 www.liberalcurrents.com/prosecute-th...

John Roberts has been dismantling the country’s most important civil rights law for over 40 years.

“You are our activators. We want you to activate everybody in your neighborhood.” Tomorrow, we’re joining Black-led civil and voting rights organizations for a national day of action. We won’t stand by while the GOP rips away representation from Black communities: blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/

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Sat is a National Day of Voting Rights Action! Rally in RVA AT 2pm, sponsored by NAACP Virginia State Conference. Cars will leave from Seminole Square at 12:30pm. If you are unable to get to RVA, come to the Pedestrian Bridge on Hwy 29 by Stonefield at 11:30am. Let's build power for the road ahead.

BREAKING In a one-sentence order issued without any public dissents, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Virginia Democrats’ last-ditch bid to revive a voter-approved congressional map designed to flip four Republican-held House seats.

Tennessee can do it, Texas can do it, but Virginia is not allowed to. The SCOTUS proves again that it’s not impartial and there are still second class citizens.

BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court has denied Virginia Democrats’ emergency request to revive their congressional redistricting effort, leaving the current map in place with no noted dissents and no written opinion… They are simply the worst scotus we’ve ever had. Period.

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More war. Pardoning felons. Bowing to MAGA. Corporate and Centrist Democrats are insufferable and complicit cowards. Vote them out. Vote in progressives and leaders with an actual spine. Thats the only way we are actually stopping MAGA fascism. 2/2

In last 24 hours •Iran War Powers resolution fails 212-212 because Centrist Democratic Rep Jared Golden votes with Trump •Democratic CO Gov Jared Polis gives clemency to 2020 convicted felon Tina Peters for election fraud •VA Democratic trifecta govt rejected by SCOTUS to allow VA redistricting 1/2

FYI, Charlottesville folks!

It's horrifying that using the full might of the United States military to murder random impoverished fishermen for no purpose other than creating snuff films isn't treated as a major scandal by US politicians or media.

I'm so old I remember when money could not be drawn out of the Treasury unless appropriated by the Congress