"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..." "One of her children recently enlisted in the military... www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Jared Kushner is incredibly corrupt. He corruptly distorted US foreign policy in Trump’s first term to get more money into his and his father-in-law’s private accounts, and he’s accelerated those efforts in term 2. Anyone who praised his Gaza real estate scheme as “peace” helped perpetuate it.

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.

Pay attention folks. This is how it's done. Trump sues his own DOJ, run by his private attorney, for $10 billion. Normally that would go through the courts with the DOJ arguing AGAINST giving Trump $10 billion. Instead, his DOJ will negotiate a settlement OUTSIDE of court. Literally inside dealing.

The American gestapo abducted an 85 year-old widow. Was she one of the worst of the worst? No, her step-son, a retired Alabama state trooper, got ICE to put her in a detention center to deport her because he wanted all of his father's inheritance. Sounds like the son is the worst of the worst.

Propagandist John Solomon reports that Joe DiGenova will be added to DOJ's investigative team undermining RU investigation. Propagandist John Solomon doesn't mention that he was implicated in funneling Russian disinformation with Joe DiGenova. justthenews.com/government/c...

This is a big one. Stellar reporting from Sarah Fitzpatrick. To call it a must-read is an understatement: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Meanwhile…. A new filing in Trump’s $10 billion dollar civil case against his own IRS signals that the parties are in settlement discussions. Trump sued over prior disclosure of his tax returns. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Watch: "Tracking the Trump family's business deals and profits in his 2nd term" @pbsnews.org

This video is about 3 mins, but very important. RFK, Jr is confronted in Congress by @sewell.house.gov about a comment he made that ALL Black children are on ADHD meds, benzos, or SSRIs & should be "reparented". He denied it. Dr Rubin played the receipts. He said it www.instagram.com/reel/DXM01XJ...

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Over the past week, the president posted an image of himself as Jesus, the vice president challenged the pope on Catholic doctrine, and the secretary of defense quoted the speech of a fictional hit man and presented it as scripture.

There’s a political aphorism ascribed to Ronald Reagan that goes “If you’re explaining, you’re losing.” Trump’s recent posts seem to have a lot of his influential toadies out here desperately trying to explain, which indicates to me that they think they’re losing people.

It’s always “Christian faith leaders should stay out of politics,” until faith leaders align themselves with the Religious Right, then speaking out on politics becomes a matter of “religious freedom.”

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since. But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

There's no greater sign of the iron grip that "both sides" framing has on American journalists than the repeated descriptions of the unhinged tantrum Trump is throwing over the pope's anodyne statements on Catholic doctrine as a "feud" or a "fight" or anything else that implies they're both to blame

This is a good reminder of an important revisions to the truisms of American politics. It has long been one of those truisms, among those interested in he reality of the situation as opposed to campaign rhetoric that a US President has little control over the economy, at least in the near term …

This is why Russia is still fighting, why the war continues and why people are dying: Because Trump and Vance encouraged Putin to believe he could win

It’s truly remarkable how agencies like FEMA and the VA were dismantled, research for cancer was halted and all our secure information was compromised All because billionaires like Trump and Elon Musk wanted to get a tax break Check out this great documentary which talks about it all

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart

This is a favorite strawman of the Religious Right, asserting that the exact phrase "separation of church and state" isn't in the Constitution. They ignore that there are only three references to religion in the entire Constitution, all three of which work to separate church and state.

ERASING HISTORY: U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro asks court to vacate seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and Proud Boys leaders Ethan Nordean & Joseph Biggs, despite jury findings of coordinated efforts to stop the transfer of power.

Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.

The vice president is there with a Secret Service detail, but sure

Jay Bhattacharya has been RFK Jr’s most loyal ally—Jay even campaigned for RFK Jr and spoke at his rallies when RFK Jr was a US Presidential Candidate Here, in 2019, RFK Jr says “in any just society, we’d be building statues to Andy Wakefield” FFS.

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This report on the “Biden Administration’s Weaponization of the FACE Act” repeatedly cites conduct that occurred…during the first Trump administration.

Remember when Senile Satan was a “nurse” last June?

Shame on DoorDash for participating in Trump’s “no taxes on tips” scam. Aside from their D.C. DoorDash “Grandma” being a GOP operative from Arkansas, it’s mathematically impossible for her to have saved $11,000 in taxes this year as a result of Trump’s bullshit bill.

You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Fresh off his trip to Hungary where he begged Hungarians to back Viktor Orban, J.D. Vance has decided world leaders shouldn't meddle in other countries' politics.

This argument is utter bullshit -- Mamdani came to America with his family at the age of seven -- but it's especially rich coming from this older, somehow even dumber clone of Benny Johnson because that's Andy Ogles, a congressman who has endlessly lied about his own past.

Apropos of nothing, just something I think about a lot: During the worst pandemic in a century, lots of people told a bunch of outrageous lies that caused much, much more death. It was one of the more grotesque moral crimes I've ever witnessed & zero (0) of those involved faced any consequences.

$3.2 million for eight years in one of the hardest and most important jobs in the world. And Trump and his family have reportedly made more than *one thousand times* that amount off the presidency in just *one year* www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Started out with a bankroll from Daddy. Multiple business bankruptcies. How anyone ever thought he could run our country is still beyond me.

In his tirade against MAGA war critics, Trump blasted Alex Jones for calling Sandy Hook a hoax. This seemed odd. So I went back and checked. At the time Trump hailed Jones as "amazing" and rebuffed demands that he denounce lies about the shooting. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2089...

Pete Hegseth's Defense Dept appears to be caught in a lie. It involves deaths of 21 people (including at least 5 children), injuring 110 in Lamerd, Iran with sports hall and school. By a U.S. missile (PrSM) never before used in combat. NYT sources include: 3 US officials! 1/

In an active lawsuit against the FDA, the state of Missouri is arguing that access to the abortion drug mifepristone has reduced teen birth rates, thereby harming its political representation in Congress. It’s an argument being made in federal court not just on Fox

Gerald Ford was a decent man and tried to be a good President. But he made one of the worst mistakes in U.S. Presidential history when he pardoned Richard Nixon. The result of that is that our earlier criminal President was allowed to bear no real consequences for his crimes. He just walked away.

Trump just gave Iran $6 billion

Not sure I can properly convey how large this design really is. At 250 feet, the Arc de Trump would be several stories taller than the Washington Post building

⚠️ An account on X purporting to be Amanda Ungaro has been posting threats to Melania, which was the possible impetus behind Melania’s public remarks yesterday:

First Lady Melania Trump has complained about "mean-spirited" comments about her. Last month her hubby depicted Michelle Obama as an ape.

Pete Hegseth has cut ALL educational funds for active-duty service members at Harvard and Princeton (despite him attending these schools) in favor of Christian-affiliated colleges.

If a new legal opinion stands, Donald Trump will be on track to become one of the most poorly documented presidents ever, @dgraham.bsky.social argues:

BREAKING: study shows men love having young ladies around, but men do not like it when mom, wife, or teacher tells them what to do

One of the most brazenly corrupt events in history will take place tomorrow when Jared Kushner represents the U.S. in critical negotiations with Iran to end the war while he accepts millions in fees (and billions in investments) from the Saudi gov’t which has been lobbying Trump to continue the war

The president of this country just posted a video of a woman getting beaten to death with a hammer. (No, I am not sharing it on here.)