lol man why does this look like the hostile architecture that warns about nuclear waste dumps? "SENDING THIS MESSAGE WAS IMPORTANT TO US. WE CONSIDERED OURSELVES TO BE A POWERFUL CULTURE."

The scenes playing out in Newark, NJ in recent days are pretty stark.

President Trump has tapped Bill Pulte, a housing official with no background in intelligence or national security, as acting director of national intelligence. https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/bill-pulte-trump-acting-director-national-intelligence

I would like to remind everyone that just a few days ago, Stephen Colbert recalled how Scott Pelley lifts weights in his office while blasting Aaron Copland's "Fanfare to the Common Man." Now picture that while reading this.

Bad vibes all around on the timeline, here’s a sweet image of a galaxy that looks like a perfect saucer surrounded by a ghostly halo. You can even see a tidal stream in the lower middle part of the image; this galaxy (M 104) had a snack recently. apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26052...

That missing NJ congressman just submitted a new bill Friday. But his cosponsor hasn't even spoken to him recently. And since the House replaced the old wooden box for new bills with a platform called "eHopper," any staffer could've filed it remotely. @notus.com: www.notus.org/congress/tom...

10/10

This is hilarious and embarrassing.

I've been unable to get any information about the status of the protester whose leg was run over and who was then taken away by ICE. If you know anything, please message me on Signal at marisakabas.04

The Trump admin has to hit the brakes on the $1.776 slush fund — and start defending it in court real quick. www.notus.org/courts/judge...

Yesterday, I broke news that Justice Sam Alito's son quietly landed a job at Trump's Treasury Department. Remember, journalists depend on you! Yes, you! Know something? Heard a rumor? Reach out! I'll investigate. DM me on Signal at JosePagliery.46 www.notus.org/us-news/samu...

Multiple arrests made outside the Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark

Just learned that another thing Trump is doing to celebrate the 250th is having an Indycar street race around the national mall. This is real, it’s called the Freedom 250 Grand Prix and is supposed to take place — again, in the streets of Washington DC — in late August www.freedom250gp.com

As someone who works on a daily deadline, often on multiple stories at once, this is absolutely not true.

Awkward moment at 3rd Circuit court just now as an immigration lawyer brings up Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Appellate Judge Emil Bove — who at Trump's DOJ directed the govt to ignore judges & rapidly deport ppl — was frowning as he aggressively asked if 3rd country removals pose more "imminent harm" now.

I'm in Philly this morning. Here to see what Trump-lawyer-turned-DOJ-hatchet man-now-appellate-judge Emil Bove is up to. And let me tell you, it did not disappoint.

This morning we exposed that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's son started working at the Treasury Dept at the start of the Trump admin. Officials say he's on a DOJ detail there. Sources told me his hiring was understood internally to be a political appointment. www.notus.org/us-news/samu...

New from me @notus.com: The Trump admin gave Phil Alito, Sam Alito's son, a political appointee job as a Treasury Dept lawyer in 2025. The judge never disclosed it during the tariff case. Now the fight over the Treasury's J6 slush fund could reach the high court too. www.notus.org/us-news/samu...

The unanimous panel wrote: “Carroll plausibly represented that she had forgotten about the limited outside funding counsel obtained in Sept 2020 when this question was 1st posed to her in 2022.” Full discussion is at pp 59-65 of the ruling here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Once again, if you know someone at Treasury let me know. I've got a story coming.

Eid Mubarak to all who are celebrating in NJ and around the world! Wishing you and your loved ones peace and joy.

Welcome to New Jersey

If you know someone who works/worked at the Treasury Department, let me know. I've discovered something ... interesting. Signal: JosePagliery.46

Oh snap

Creepy 🤮

ICE agents pepper-spray protesters, N.J. senator in clash outside Delaney Hall in Newark www.nj.com/news/2026/05...

"Representative Tom Kean Jr. has claimed he’s too sick to do his job in Congress—but he has apparently been perfectly fine traveling, approving staff expenditures, and trading stocks." newrepublic.com/post/210850/...

Merry Orthodox Star Wars Day to all who celebrate

YES

This is from five years ago, when Colbert had a bit where he just wouldn’t say the then- former president’s name. @arawnsley.bsky.social and I had just reported that during term 1, Trump had asked lawyers and other officials in his admin. why the Justice Department… youtu.be/NjyEiRgB0nE?...

The feds had no intention to bring the unredacted grand jury transcript to court at a hearing earlier this month, emails show. You know, the transcript that eventually showed prosecutorial misconduct in the Broadview Six case that is now a DOJ scandal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This morning, reporters asked why the prosecutor at the heart of the Broadview Six scandal — who could face sanctions for misconduct — was working on a DOJ detail with Senate Judiciary Committee democrats. Sen. Durbin's office just announced she's been dismissed. www.notus.org/courts/durbi...

Check the thread. There were some kind of ex parte communications between grand jurors and ... who?

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DHS apparently BOLO'd a comedian.

There’s political reporting, and then there’s gumshoe work. @josepagliery.bsky.social Knocks it out of the park, hot on the heels of NJ’s missing rep

Wood Lane - 1876 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/8974

NEW from @josepagliery.bsky.social: Tom Kean Jr. hasn’t been seen in Washington for over 75 days and has missed 88 House votes His neighbors in New Jersey say they haven’t seen him either Kean’s wife declined to comment when asked about her husband’s whereabouts www.notus.org/congress/tom...

BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Presidential Records Act is likely constitutional, issues preliminary injunction requiring compliance with the law. Judge Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, opens his opinion with an Orwell quote.

There's a lot of history behind this. The question now is whether the Trump administration is using the indictment as a pretext to launch another military operation in Latin America. www.notus.org/foreign-poli...

At a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Rep. Raskin just pointed out Trump's $1.776 slush fund violates the 14th Amendment. The law explicitly forbids the US from paying debts for insurrection. Raskin moved the committee to subpoena leaders at DOJ, White House, & Treasury who touched this plan.

The clip ends with Sorkin going, "Um, let me pivot."

Arguably the most slam-dunk, lights-out, game over case against Trump was his attempt to steal the 2020 election in Georgia. The Republican most responsible for standing up to Trump to stop the steal just got crushed in the GOP primary for governor.

3 days after President Trump helped defeat him in a GOP primary, Sen. Bill Cassidy R-LA joins with Democrats to vote to end the Iran war

Fishing Vessels - 1886 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110130

Here's the criminal complaint in MN v Christian Castro, charging ICE agent Christian Castro with 4 cts of assault 2d degree (with firearm) & 1 ct falsely reporting crime. (Reportedly for shooting Julio Sosa-Celis.) www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

The Virginia redistricting debacle is having all kinds of consequences. JP Cooney, one of 2 anti-corruption prosecutors who left DOJ and jumped into politics, is no longer running for Congress. (There is no new district for him to run, which means he'd be forced to run against an incumbent Dem.)

Tenet was a grandiose audition. John David Washington, no contest.

House Republicans’ coalition behind the new housing bill is breaking The White House has “serious policy concerns” House conservatives are privately sharing frustrations And Sen. Tim Scott is shutting down the bill’s chances in the Senate www.notus.org/housing/repu...

In court papers arguing for Trump's pet project ballroom, the DOJ is now claiming that Cole Tomas Allen... attempted to attack "thousands of people" at the Hilton. 🤔 The dude showed up with 53 rounds of ammunition, a point the feds make in his separate case. That's less ammo than 2 AR mags.