Playing politics with disaster relief funding is a new low, even for the Trump Administration. Let’s call it for what it really is: a politically motivated decision that punishes thousands of Illinois families in a critical moment of need.

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

Trump administration's changes to the CFPB cost Americans $19B, a new report says | Click on the image to read the full story

“I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them," Trump said.

Trump, in the middle of his latest unhinged Truth Social screed, claims that if Canada makes a trade deal with China, "the first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup."

The Trump administration's decision to eliminate the Merit Systems Protection Board, an independent agency that reviews federal workers' appeals to mass firings, is blatantly rigging the system. The communities that rely on an impartial public service workforce will pay the price.

Trump was, of course, lying about some of this in 2006 -- no doubt trying to get ahead of things. But it's interesting that he said Ghislaine was evil. Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

What this ad doesn’t show: Ring also rolled out facial recognition for humans. I wrote to them months ago about this. Their answer? They won’t ask for your consent. This definitely isn’t about dogs—it’s about mass surveillance. x.com/Phil_Lewis_/...

Hill leaders “didn’t even hear about the complaint until November. We only saw it in February," MarkWarner.bsky.social said of our whistleblower complaint re: ODNIGov.BSky.social https://ow.ly/EmUf50Yc12F ⅓

Breaking: Trump told Palm Beach police chief 'everyone' knew about Epstein and 'evil' Maxwell www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Advocates and LGBTQ Iowans said conversion therapy — an overwhelmingly disavowed practice to try to change an LGBTQ+ person’s gender or sexual orientation — would be legalized by a bill advanced Monday by an Iowa House subcommittee, Robin Opsahl reports.

Every. Damn. Word.

Ten years ago today, #SCOTUS issued five unsigned and unexplained 5-4 rulings granting emergency applications to block President Obama’s Clean Power Plan—a completely unprecedented move that helped to usher in the Court’s modern … (mis)adventures … with its shadow docket. Me in today’s “One First”:

Lindsey Vonn says she sustained a complex tibia fracture during her Olympic crash that will require multiple surgeries to fix.

Breaking MS NOW: Some of the Epstein docs the DOJ invited members of Congress to view are STILL redacted, despite promises otherwise. Raskin says DOJ's reading room has just four computers. It would take seven years to get through the files in the current conditions established by the DOJ.

Binance founder pleads guilty to money laundering and other crimes Trump pardons said founder. Binance promotes Trump's crypto coin to the tune of billions of dollars In any other dimension, press would be screaming for Trump's indictment on bribery charges www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

New: Binance holds 87% of the Trump family's stablecoin—$4.7 billion—a higher concentration than any other major stablecoin has at any single exchange. Its U.S. affiliate holds $1,119. me, for @forbes.com

A group seeking internal FCC docs about DOGE's role at the agency say that the FCC has acted "in bad faith" to respond to their FOIA request and is now seeking discovery. www.theverge.com/policy/87598...

NEW: I had a great chat with Rep. Jason Crow about his history of public service and why signing on to @endcitizensunited.bsky.social's #UnrigWashington campaign was so important to him. Take a look:

ICE is likely paying a premium to get the deal through quickly. E.g., in Hamburg, PA, the warehouse was purchased in 2024 for $57.5 million and sold to ICE for $87 million. The real profit will come with the private prison companies and contractors hired to refurbish and staff these facilities.

The Middle District of Georgia is about to get busy, I reckon.

🚨BREAKING: A Trump-backed, GOP effort to repeal a Utah law that could give Democrats one extra U.S. House seat appears to be unraveling after county officials flagged thousands of potentially invalid and fraudulent petition signatures. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in: - Hagerstown, MD: $102 million - Surprise, AZ: $70 million - Hamburg, PA: $87 million - Tremont, PA: $120 million - San Antonio, TX: $82 million - El Paso, TX: $123 million - Social Circle, GA: price unknown This is unprecedented.

Actually, multiple libertarians like @reason.com and @cato.org helped elevate Trump. Discussed here. sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-gave-us...

Thanks to ProPublica for citing my prior @texasobserver.org report in their story about how an "election fraud" researcher who is a convicted bathroom voyeur may be fueling the federal government's investigations

And another write up: bsky.app/profile/hype...

Link to study: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”

The FBI Director's girlfriend, who gets unlawful protection from FBI SWAT teams, is calling to "unite the right." Is she also endorsing murdering women with cars?

These farm workers are preparing for the strawberry harvest. They're weeding & removing the runners (leafless stems) that can steal nutrients from the plants. This step will also make it easier for workers to move efficiently and harvest more during the harvest season. #WeFeedYou

Galernt says that he's never seen a Justice Department brief end with veiled threat like this. Boasberg quips: "I’m used to that tone in this case, unfortunately."

A hearing in the case of J.G.G. v. Trump is about to begin: Judge Boasberg will consider what relief is available to immigrants whisked out of the U.S. in March 2025 without notice or a hearing. Some background below the main story here at All Rise News

Lindsey Boylan is a hero. Good to see her now running for office in NYC.

I took down Andrew Cuomo, now I'm running for City Council to take on the cost of living crisis.

Not only is the Reason crowd not a good one to hold up as being prescient about Trump, plenty of other groups were actually vocal about this. Huge swaths of the left were very much sounding the alarm in 2016, to say nothing of 2024; even a bunch of right-wingers feared (emphasis on past tense) Trump

Civil rights lawyer Nekima Levy Armstrong's latest brief reveals the backstory of her arrest in a footnote. Feds refused to let her self-surrender, taped her arrest at a hotel, and broke a promise not to post it on social media, she says. The White House then digitally altered it to smear her.

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies. It was a "sideshow," I was told.

“Borrowing heavily from the behavioral and neurobiological techniques used by slot machines and exploited by the cigarette industry, Defendants deliberately embedded in their products an array of design features aimed at maximizing youth engagement to drive advertising revenue,” the lawsuit says.

This is a great piece by my colleague spencer on the bad bunny helftimeshow but of course there’s never been a more divisive idea in American history than all of us being American, we fought a civil war over it and Trump is nothing if not manifest opposition to it www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

The coca-cola polar bears doing the Coldplay thing is a brilliant Pepsi ad.

No ad can cover up the truth.

Nothing says America better than the 'Trump accounts' ad that was followed by a Draft Kings ad

Two ridiculous and financially related ads back to back: Trump accounts for kids and Draft Kings.

“Free money” No, it’s taxpayer money.

Perfect

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

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Lindsey Vonn undergoes surgery to stabilize a fracture in her left leg after a crash in the women's downhill race, Italian hospital says.

The dumbest timeline: