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"Trump has once again done something that is obviously corrupt but may prove impossible to unravel—unless a Congress controlled by his party finds the rare gumption to buck him." By colleauges @annabower.bsky.social & @ericcolumbus.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The corrupt Trump-Blanche deal is a "reward, if not an incentive, for political violence" ... [email protected] www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-228-... 1/2

Judge Bates: "To adopt the government’s position that the [Presidential Records] Act is unconstitutional would disable Congress and future Presidents from reflecting on experience, in defiance of the very words engraved on the National Archives Building in Washington: 'What is past is prologue.'"

Moreover, Charles Littlejohn leaked hundreds of thousands of records to shed light on how billionaires like Trump avoided taxes in 2019, when Trump was president. The theory of weaponization here requires one to accept a dozen false premises and lies.

🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸

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Reupping: "Those who engaged in the attacks last week will be brought to justice." ---Trump on 1/13/21, after the House impeached him but before the Senate had voted on whether to convict.

Barney Frank, 1940-2026 GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

Whitehouse: "If you look at all the Court's elections decisions, every one has the effect of helping the GOP. If you look at all their regulatory decisions, every one has the effect of helping the fossil fuel industry that funds the GOP. You can predict with perfect certainty what happens."

This should be the headline story on every news publication and telecast including local news every day for several days. But it won’t. It will be shrugged off like so much else by so much of media. The most corrupt thing that has ever come out of the US govt.

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ANGWIN: Higher spending. More debt. Fewer users. “This is a company entering its zombie era. .. we will all get to watch Mr. Zuckerberg drive the company into the ground.” @juliaangwin.com #$META www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/o...

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

Pushing to prosecute James Comey has sparked turmoil inside DOJ, as several leave or eye the exit: "Major cases, including one involving a terrorist attack in Afghanistan, have been hobbled by the turmoil." WaPo reports wapo.st/4duBtPz

And his supporters will never see it. It’s a cult.

It looks like Donald may not be getting the $1 billion in taxpayer funding for his gilded ballroom. Boo fucking hoo.

NEW: In wake of Supreme Court voting rights act ruling, Rep. Johnny Olszewski (D-MD) introduces new term limits legislation for Supreme Court Justices 18-year terms to ensure "regular and predictable turnover"

do i owe pam bondi an apology? was she the one holding back all this bullshit that only todd blanche was sycophantic enough to deliver on? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/u...

New from me: All 40 of Trump's judicial nominees who have taken Qs from the Senate Judiciary Committee have refused to say Trump lost the 2020 election. Now his high-level executive nominees are dodging the Q, too. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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"This is an important thing to think about."

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

It’s utterly ludicrous and corrupt for any journalist to go to this event.

“Cancel the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner” — my @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social latest washingtonmonthly.com/2026/04/21/c...

NEW: Eighth Circuit does NOT dismiss DOJ's appeal of the civil contempt order against a DOJ lawyer in one of the Minnesota cases (as requested by the habeas petitioner, represented here by @smmarotta.bsky.social), but does appoint a lawyer (Jeffrey Justman) to argue in defense of the contempt order.

NEW: I found two "news" websites active on X and other platforms—Al-Fassel and Pishtaz News—that are in fact U.S. government-operated anti-Iranian military propaganda mills. Both appear tied to U.S. Central Command. theintercept.com/2026/04/20/p...

Jamie Raskin has filed briefs supporting his motions for the court to appoint an amici to contest vacating the convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. Here's the Proud Boys version ... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"In the first major case in which the Court granted emergency relief as a means of shaping nationwide policy, it turns out that the justice who led the charge was the one who was doing quite a bit more than calling balls and strikes." Me on Saturday's @nytimes.com scoop in today's "One First":

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

GOP lawyer Joe diGenova, now running Trump’s “Grand Conspiracy” probe, said earlier this month that Pam Bondi had “nixed” him from the role www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/gop...

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None of this is normal.

We are 7 weeks into the most egregious stock market manipulations of our lifetime. Orchestrated by a crooked president and his underlings. Billions siphoned via false proclamations of ceasefires and peace talks. With the criminals in charge, every day is a crime spree.

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

6 Republicans cross aisle to advance House bill to let 350K Haitians keep their temporary protective status. 1st time Republicans have opposed Trump on immigration policy. (SCOTUS argument 4/29 on legality of Noem's termination of Haitians' & Syrians' TPS.) www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Fox mentions of Pres Biden's family conflicts, 16mos period: 13,000 Fox mentions Pres Trump family conflicts: "For Fox News, their word is apparently sufficient. The network’s evening programs have mentioned the Trump family’s myriad Gulf state conflicts just twice since late last year."

The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for. apnews.com/article/pitt...

Excellent piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social on the lessons anti-MAGA forces can draw from Péter Magyar's evisceration of Viktor Orbán in the Hungarian election. I'd add another: campaigning on anti-corruption and clawing back ill-gotten oligarchic gains really worked. newrepublic.com/article/2090...

Not once in this story does @politico.com mention that US factories employ ~89,000 fewer employees than a year ago. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Tonight in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square, a sea of young Hungarians—who’ve only ever known Orbán’s corrupt, suffocating regime—are packed together, singing, chanting, and daring to dream of freedom again. Their hope is raw, their courage is real. The heart of Europe is beating in Budapest tonight. 🇭🇺❤️🇪🇺

The Chair of the Joint Chiefs “flagged the enormous difficulty of securing the Strait of Hormuz and the risks of Iran blocking it. Mr. Trump had dismissed that possibility on the assumption that the regime would capitulate before it came to that.” A clarifying read about how we got here—gift link:

This is a remarkable story of a longtime DOJ prosecutor, portrayed here as not especially competent, who has become a big star in this administration because he will eagerly do preposterous things for them. GIFT LINK: www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

JUST FILED to @MeidasTouch Multiple probes launched into Trump Admin's approval of taxpayer money for Trump & his supporters open.substack.com/pub/macfarla...

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There Is No Clean Way Out of Iran “Washington now faces a familiar dilemma: accept an imperfect deal, or slide into an open-ended confrontation with no clear exit.” Analysis by Danny Citrinowicz, former head of the Iran branch of Israel defense intelligence: