79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

ICIJ’s latest investigation The #CoinLaundry is now live! Tap the link to read how the crypto boom minted a shadow economy that thrives on crime — and left a trail of devastated victims.

NEW: Trump Invests in Media Merger His Administration Controls readsludge.com/2025/11/17/t...

We're now up to over 40 persons pardoned by Trump facing charges for new crimes. The recidivism rate is exceptionally high. Showing that the people sentenced were in fact hardened criminals... but wealthy enough to buy their pardons. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A strategy that helped antiabortion activists in their quest to overturn Roe v. Wade could also work for campaign finance reform: enacting state "trigger laws" that challenge the legitimacy of Citizens United. bit.ly/3Xsczat

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

No single reform can eliminate corruption or fully repair the public’s faith in government. But codifying the Constitution’s Emoluments Clauses would be a powerful start. bit.ly/43MmpHM

BREAKING: The Trump administration seeks an emergency pause to a court order demanding full November SNAP payments.

An important piece of the anti-corruption puzzle... www.brennancenter.org/our-work/pol...

At $16 million in campaign spending, the PA retention elections are the second most expensive retention elections ever. But the justices themselves have only raised $4 million, the bulk of the spending is by outside interest groups. 2/

The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself

NEW: Jury selection begins in the trial of sandwich guy today. The prosecutors are accusing him of "throwing a meat sandwich" at "point-blank range." POINT-BLANK RANGE 💀 www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Anonymous donors funding the ballroom. "The fund-raising is being overseen by Meredith O’Rourke, Mr. Trump’s lead campaign finance operative, with assistance from a handful of lobbyists and consultants who have been top bundlers for various Trump groups." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

Let's remember that earlier this year, the Trump administration canceled 94 million pounds of aid that was supposed to go to food banks. Soon after, the USDA abruptly ended its 27-year practice of collecting national data on hunger. Again, there's nothing "accidental" about the suffering to come.

Just so we're clear: This administration's blatant, unapologetic choice to deny food to 42 million people—to have the money sitting there and say, "No, we'll let them go hungry"—is simply a more overt display of why homelessness and poverty keep worsening in this country. Because it's *decided.*

Does the oath for Florida surgeon general start with "first, do harm"?

Today in dystopia...

Keeping talent out of our universities... This idiot has such angry pride in making the USA dumber, sicker, and poorer.

"This spring, Binance took steps that catapulted the Trump family venture’s new stablecoin product, enhancing its credibility and pushing its market capitalization up from $127 million to over $2.1 billion. Trump granted Zhao a presidential pardon last week..." www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

$130 million gift to the Pentagon from one of Trump's biggest 2024 backers is laughably small in terms of military salaries, but enough to make Trump fawn all over his "friend" Timothy Mellon (whose name he didn't want to reveal). www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

From Altria (tobacco) to Winklevoss (crypto), here are the corporate interests paying for the destruction of the East Wing of the White House to make a party venue. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

“Medical staff did not give her any food, water, or pain medication for several hours. Much later that evening, after a significant loss of blood, Lucia was transported to an emergency room approximately an hour away, with her arms and legs shackled.”

The White House is trying to undermine U.S. elections. Keep track and learn more with our interactive timeline: bit.ly/3IZMSdG

President Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, whose crypto exchange has been boosting the Trump family's own crypto venture.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

A 200-person homeless encampment in Gainesville, GA, is being cleared this week. Many of those living in tents have jobs but can't afford rent. One woman estimated she's been forced to move 20 times. "There's a lot of people who get checks that don't have enough money to get places," she said.

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

"Many of the companies have large contracts with the federal government, including Amazon, Lockheed Martin and Palantir Technologies." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I teach American government to 200+ college students. If I don't point out to students through the college newspaper that constitutional principles and the rule of law are being undermined, what use am I? This is not about partisanship. dailycollegian.com/2025/10/lett...

Pennsylvania's state supreme court retention race "is already the most expensive retention election in [the state's] history," @douglaskeith.bsky.social told @notus.com reports. It "speaks to the new era of state judicial politics that we’re in today."

Up to $200 million in tax dollars is going to two companies to make the ads, one called Safe America Media that formed as an LLC days before the DHS contract was publicized.

The @brennancenter.org is following key money in politics developments-- including underreported stories--and collecting them here: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Connecting the dots, our new resource shows the scope and impact of the current administration’s unprecedented attempts to undermine the country’s elections — threatening the 2026 midterms. Learn more: bit.ly/4l1lUPP

In the Argentina bailout, "major hedge funds, including those led by friends of Mr. Bessent, stand to benefit financially from an Argentina economic lifeline." Before becoming treasury secretary, prolific GOP donor Bessent gave $1 million to the main Trump super PAC. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade. And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

Here's what's going on in the world of money in politics. Artificial intelligence & crypto are spending big, the Supreme Court considers party money, odd year elections are around the corner, and more... www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

New @brennancenter.org roundup of what we're following in money in politics, from AI super PACs to Web ad spend... the first major SCOTUS campaign finance case in a decade, the FEC down to 2/6 commissioners, pardons, corruption--and some good news, too. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Why most polls overstate support for political violence www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...

"Candidates and outside groups have already raised and spent more than $8 million in this year’s race, making it Pennsylvania’s most expensive retention election ever. That includes more than $5 million in spending by outside groups on ads featuring some of the court’s key decisions."

BREAKING The Trump admin is using the government shutdown to try to pause Kilmar Abrego Garcia's habeas corpus case, which has a hearing scheduled next week. Abrego's lawyers oppose. Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

SCOOP: Federal workers are being told to blame democrats for the shutdown. At SBA workers got an email suggesting they set out-of-office replies blaming Democrats for the shutdown and at HUD internal systems have a pop-up blaming "the Radical Left." @wired.com www.wired.com/story/govern...

Expenditures (and attacks) are heating up in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court retention election. www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/09...

NEW: Kristi Noem has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA's response to natural disasters. But she fast-tracked $11 million+ to fix a Florida tourist attraction — after one of her big donors reached out. www.propublica.org/article/kris...

"An inexperienced prosecutor loyal to Pres. Trump, in the job for less than a week, filed criminal charges against one of her boss’s most-reviled opponents...at Mr. Trump’s direct command [and] against the urging of both her own subordinates and her predecessor..." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...