I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

Trump couldn’t steal this much money or murder this many people without the aid of an entire political party full of fellow thieves and murderers.

Sounds like they only remembered one guy's name, and decided he'd be fine

Republican voters don't want conservatives anymore. They want cult members.

Susan Collins doesn’t understand how Trump could endorse someone who is unethical.

Just a reminder that the IRS leak of almost half a million returns happened under the Trump administration. To summarize, Trump sued the second Trump administration for something that happened under the first Trump administration.

Trump’s IRS “settlement” wiped out a past $100 million tax bill he owed.

“.. What we are talking about is nothing short of the sitting president of the United States looting from the Treasury for his own gain,” she said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5733...

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A story about KY GOP Senate nominee Andy Barr: In 2019 he got mad at AOC and demanded she come to his district to visit a coal mine. She said yes, which he didn't expect, so he withdrew the invitation. Then it turned out there were no working coal mines in his district. Because he's an idiot. 1/3

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The money trail is right there to follow.

In case there are any doubts what this was about

We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,600 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.

Masterful timing, sir.

Tina Peters, following a jury trial, was convicted of 4 felonies and 3 misdemeanors According to VP, she’s a prime candidate for the Trump Slush Fund

He wants the ballroom for vanity (and because he enjoys breaking things), but his core interest is a bunker from which he cannot be dislodged in January 2029 without inflicting substantial casualties on government forces that continue to honor their oath to the U.S. Constitution.

AI makes it harder for humans to trust one another, which makes it harder for humans to work together towards shared ends, which is the greatest gift billionaires could ever give to aspiring authoritarians.

NEW: Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) offered amendment to block Trump’s newly-established $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded pot of money from "making any payments to convicted child predators" Multiple pardoned Jan 6 rioters have been accused of child abuse Amendment was blocked

From the reporter who scooped the news that Treasury's GC was quitting, IRS wrote a 25-page memo about why Trump's IRS lawsuit was dogshit. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/a...

REED: How many taxpayers' returns were leaked by the IRS in the 2020 breach? BLANCHE: Excuse me? REED: 405,427. One of them was Donald Trump, correct? BLANCHE: Donald Trump and his family. REED: And Donald Trump was president at the time. So it was his IRS that allowed this breach of privacy

The vice president of the United States is just standing up here saying people should feel sorry for domestic terrorists who were given free and fair trials and were then convicted in a court of law. Absolutely despicable.

The idea that race and partisanship would be too entangled to identify voting restrictions as racist would have seemed absurd to the authors of the 15th Amendment, given that it was itself adopted at a time of racist partisan disenfranchisement www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Blanche won’t commit to BLOCK stolen slush fund payments to convicted sex offenders. Not surprising given his support of Epstein and Maxwell.

This feels like a scene from a prequel to Alex Garland's Civil War.

I think a lot more people need to sue the government for 10 billion dollars.

The idea that the Acting US Attorney General has never read the Washington Post is not remotely credible. But it's what he thinks the Audience Of One wants to hear.

🚨BREAKING: Todd Blanche confirmed at a Senate panel Tuesday that top Department of Justice officials are working with other Trump administration agencies to implement President Donald Trump’s dangerous and restrictive executive order on mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Years ago Scalia provoked gasps in the gallery when he called the Voting Rights Act a “racial entitlement.” But turning American democracy back into a white racial entitlement, as it was for most of American history, is exactly what the Roberts Court is doing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

the Trump administration has always been objectively pro-political violence as long as it hits the "right" targets, whether it's payouts to Capitol rioters, smear campaigns against victims of ICE brutality, or this

NEW: The top lawyer at the Treasury Department just resigned. Even though he clerked for Clarence Thomas, perhaps the $1.7B heist was probably too much. Also note the Times (right) and the WSJ (left) refer to it as a settlement. The judge found IT IS NOT A SETTLEMENT. 1/

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The crazy thing about Trumps stock trades is that the corrupt gains are still dwarfed by the billions being made in payola to bia sham crypto, AI and media cos. It’s just instinct. Late last year he just decided to “I can do this too. YOLO.”

“.. Xi’s comment about Putin came as Russia’s war on Ukraine has evolved into a stalemate after four years ..” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/567c...

"The media have produced one-off stories about various aspects of Trump’s crooked financial tricks, but they rarely connect the dots into a sweeping portrait of corruption that might actually break through to the broader public," writes @markjacob.bsky.social for COURIER's Stop the Presses.

They both look like rotting over stuffed sausages

HUGE NEWS: ICE’s courthouse arrests have been STAYED by a New York district judge. That means that ICE will have to stop arresting our immigrant neighbors on the spot when they show up to court at places like 26 Federal Plaza, 290 Broadway, and 201 Varick. (1/2)

Inflation has become an albatross around the neck of the GOP for the midterms. And Trump is only making things worse—while promising that the pain won’t last. But will it? I examine what the experts have said about that particular claim, link in the replies.

“Blatant corruption… criminal… most corrupt president we’ve ever had…” (From @dropsitenews.com )

AG Todd Blanche called it a "settlement," but it's not. The criminal gang in the White House is simply looting the Treasury, with no appropriation from Congress and no approval by a judge.

“.. Employees will be moved to four new organizations focused on building new A.I. tools .. “.. The organizations will use ‘A.I. native design structures’ and have fewer managers per employee ..” @nytimes.com #$META www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/t...

As I told a reporter last week, nearly all convocation brouhahas boil down to a single issue: Students, even normie non-radical students, rightly understand graduation as a day that is for them, and about them, and which belongs to them. You fuck with that at your peril.

There is no settlement. No matter how much and how often Trump and the DoJ say this is a settlement, the judge in the case says otherwise.

Friends, a madman is in charge of the country — but almost no Republican member of Congress, no major CEO or university president or head of a major foundation seems willing to sound the alarm. These people are all cowards. Where are America's leaders? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC0vKzRmPos

You may have read about the woman who gave birth in a Brooklyn courtroom Friday night while waiting to be arraigned. I spoke to an attorney who saw the whole thing, and says it was much worse than has previously been reported, a scene of "complete violence." hellgatenyc.com/birth-in-bro...

This is the day's essential read. David Norman, a former Phoenix police officer who’s described himself as “a fucking savage,” now runs a company that provided training to DHS’s Special Response Teams. Norman was involved in six shootings while on duty that left four people dead and two more wounded

Imagine being a billionaire in an unequal society where the system has been massively rigged in your favor, watching as ordinary people fall further and further behind and get more and more desperate, and thinking a slightly higher tax rate is the worst possible thing that might ever happen to you.

This is one of those situations where getting on board and getting run over are the same thing.

In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.