Disclosure documents show Google treated state legislators to a perk-filled Chicago junket this fall; now those officials are considering legislation that could impact Google’s bottom line. www.levernews.com/google-bankr...

In a win for campaign finance reform, the attorney general of Colorado wants to use state law to redefine corporate powers and circumvent the Supreme Court’s efforts to torpedo campaign finance laws. The move follows a Montana ballot initiative that seeks to ban corporate political spending.

For the first time ever, private military contractors are set to be deployed to the U.S. southern border. www.levernews.com/stephen-mill...

Arnold Peña Perez: Immigrant families are not the reason why working people cannot afford housing, feed their families, or pay for medical prescriptions. The greedy CEOs who rigged the rules and take advantage of workers, and the politicians who back them, are the problem.

It’s the oldest trick in the autocrat’s handbook: Humiliate the critic so you don’t have to answer the criticism. All former Presidents in my lifetime understood the dignity of the office was not theirs to soil.

Or this is...

The law-and-order candidate and the “most transparent President ever” is now arguing that the American public has no right to know what the Department of Justice found about his handling of national-security secrets. deanblundell.substack.com/p/why-is-tru...

The attorney for Juan Orlando Hernández (the former Honduran president convicted in the United States on major drug-trafficking charges) announced today that his client has been released from a federal prison in West Virginia after receiving a full pardon from President Trump.

...Newby then wrote a majority opinion declaring that partisan gerrymandering was legal and that the Democrat-led court had unconstitutionally infringed on the legislature’s prerogative to create electoral maps. www.propublica.org/article/paul...

Meanwhile in Minnesota...

Just a reminder from the great white north...don't fuck with us.

Awwwwww.....💔

The. Grift. Is. Real. 👇 Enjoy. 😎✨

A conservative federal appeals court unanimously upheld nearly $1 million in sanctions against President Trump and his former attorney Alina Habba for filing what it called a "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and other political enemies.

IT'S A CULT!

Every time I listen to Trump, Bessent or Lutnick talk about economic conditions, it is always completely obvious how utterly disconnected they are from the everyday struggles the average American working family is dealing with right now. They simply can’t relate to normal people.

He’s always thinking about new ways to improve the lives of average Americans.

A White House full of cabinet members who think every meeting is a camera test, every policy a scene, and every scandal an opportunity to win Trump’s golden Oscar. Subscribe. Read. COMMENT. Restack! therealmichaelcohen.substack.com/p/leadership...

All I'm saying is that hiding the October job reports is like your kid hiding their report card.

56,000 healthcare workers in TN07 could lose their jobs from Medicaid cuts. 81,000 retail & manufacturing workers are getting hit by tariffs. These aren't DC bureaucrats—these are people who voted for Trump expecting better. Don't keep believing the lie. Vote for Aftyn Behn

This is why the religious are pulling out all stops and siding with fascist. They can't handle the thought of losing control.

Make them testify Dems oversight, let’s go!

I'm beginning to suspect this administration has been somewhat less than forthcoming.

Air Traffic Controllers: "We're working six-day weeks, mandatory overtime, dealing with outdated equipment at some facilities, and they think $10,000 fixes that? Meanwhile the stress is driving people out of the profession faster than we can train new ones," the air traffic controller said.

I cannot say it enough; as far as tRump is concerned: It's tRump and his greedy billionaire supporters first. America first my ass!

I call BULLSHIT

Interesting...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Kind of destroys their “Democrats are responsible for all the violence.”

Talking about sedition…