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President Obama: "As a former president, I can tell you sometimes factors beyond a president's control end up foiling the best-laid plans." "That is not the case here. In this case, this administration's actions are directly responsible for rising costs."

Another coup for Trump www.wptv.com/news/palm-be...

The allegations in the Jared story have a known true core, which was exposed in the (failed) Tom Barrack prosecution none of you know about. The prosecution was a referral from Mueller, but Barr tried to sabotage it, as he did all other referrals in summer 2019. emptywheel.net/2026/10/23/j...

The public, through its elected officials, has the right to evaluate whether individuals meet the qualifications and ethical standards for government positions. Jared Kushner and the Trump admin have denied us that right. That's unacceptable and illegal.

this has never felt more true. it's rapists and their defenders all the way down.

Oh huh. Jared is a ME asset. Or was, before he didn't protect his paymasters from Iran. [Note, the name of Tom Barrack is not in this piece, but he would be central to this arrangement, which is probably why he was so sure Trump approved of his own graft.] www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million In Transfers

literally illegal

I spy with my little eye… #ChristianNationalism #PeterThiel

Attorney General Todd Blanche says there's a "misperception that there's this separation and independence between the Department of Justice and the White House." "I work for President Trump."

I spy with my little eye… #ChristianNationalism #PeterThiel #WilliamWolfe #JoshAbbottoy #AndrewIsker #JoshuaHaymes 1/

Another interesting night of people watching outside the last Anti-Christ lecture by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, including some of the biggest names from Tennessee's world of Christian nationalism. 1/2

No no no this can’t be right I was assured that the USA has never been more widely respected.

"A Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal . . . He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job." Gift link: nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Oh my god. This is really bad arstechnica.com/security/202...

Should read “known oligarchic back-channel to Putin works to make US president look even weaker on Russia than he already is, yielding triple win for Putin” www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

Polymarket is taking bets on whether the seven Cornell students accused of raping a student will receive a felony sex crime charge. Among the athletes endorsing Polymarket: LeBron James, Derek Jeter, Eli Manning, Sue Bird, Reggie Bush and Richard Sherman. frontofficesports.com/article/poly...

Well, this is a new one

NEW: We just released a new longform covering how Trump is raking in billions while Americans struggle with cost of living. CREW President @donaldonethics.bsky.social breaks it all down:

🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

Freudian slip. John Fetterman claims he’s a “lifelong Republican.”

Outrageous. Moshannon Valley is a squalid hellhole that needs to be closed immediately

I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Look at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding. Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? 🧵

There's been additional breakdown, but we shouldn't overstate it: conservatives and their media allies have been full of shit on "policy" my whole life, and the question is how much they get away with it. This Laffer curve bullshit is from 2007, and yes that's the same Kevin Hassett.

Weird coincidence how actual Nazis and white supremacists end up everywhere in the Trump admin, even in top jobs that require specific approval from Cabinet members!

ProPublica reviewed the court records for more than 70,000 habeas petition cases and found that judges in some parts of the country take far longer than others to decide whether people with no criminal record should be detained by ICE. See our full list: https://propub.li/46ejybx

Of course they did; this was a challenge to an FCC rule that allowed parties to get the discounted ad rates - on the heels of the SCOTUS decision invalidating party coordination limits, this allows the RNC's bigger coffers to go further. I talked about this w/Roy Cooper: crooked.com/podcast/is-s...

A bombshell whistleblower report warns of serious flaws in the rush by the U.S. Postal Service to implement President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting order before November, including the potential for thousands of ballots to be rejected due to a single error. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Three things: 1) Rising sea levels, drinking water shortages, fires, etc. are major NatSec concerns. 2) Stars and Stripes punished for telling the truth is a real loss. 3) Unfortunate how many cries of “academic freedom” and “free speech” clearly mean “things I personally agree with, not others.”

BREAKING: Legendary singer-songwriter and country music icon Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. Her nephew revealed the news in an Aug. 25 Instagram video.

Stars and Stripes is literally in my DNA My maternal grandfather, Tom Blender, worked for them in World War II before a career that ended up at the Milwaukee Journal as a news editor I and now my son are carrying on that proud tradition Trump is out to destroy it www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...

EXCLUSIVE: Committee Review Finds Trump Pardons Have Cost Crime Victims $1.7 Billion and Enriched Trump Allies macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Conservative education activists such as Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice now have access to the top levers of the government. “If America’s public schools cease to exist tomorrow, America would be a better place,” Justice told ProPublica. (Published Oct. 2025)

Isn’t it enough that Musk is destroying Earth? apple.news/AsqCL2N2NRMe...

Cheung tries projection and fails miserably. Biggest✅ Cuck 🤷🏼‍♀️ Loser ✅ Miserable person who hates his country ✅✅ Radical ✅ Extremist ✅ Dumb ✅✅✅✅

White House communications director responds to Jon Ossoff saying Trump doesn’t want to do the job but wants to “travel with Natalie”

We've got quite the story for you 🧵

BREAKING on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth was the lone Cabinet secretary on Trump's secret flight out of Turkey. Remaining on the 'decoy' plane: Marco Rubio, Scott Bessett, Stephen Miller, Steven Cheung, and other Trump officials.

One thing I lay out in this post is that Trump is ALREADY stoking stochastic terrorism against Davey Hearn (and laid the groundwork to go after the judge, Todd Edelman), in part to try to give the Parks employee who accused Hearn credibility. emptywheel.net/2026/08/11/h...

JUST IN: As court fight brews over demands for testimony and records from outside Trump advisers like Boris Epshteyn, DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel issues opinion arguing executive privilege extends to Kitchen Cabinet. Doc: www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...

Rep. Jarred Huffman (D-CA), the ranking member of House Natural Resources Committee, said the findings of our exclusive report on Trump's reallotment of National Park Service funds to the White House grounds were "eye-opening" and "appalling" ====>

curious how I haven't see a paint blistering media freakout about Trump STARVING THE TROOPS anywhere close to comparable as when Biden ripped off the bandaid in Afghanistan www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Haverford College was founded as a Quaker school with a strong commitment to free speech. In May 1970, after Nixon's invasion of Cambodia and the shootings at Kent State and Jackson State, Haverford's president chartered buses so students and faculty could travel down to Washington to protest.

A Senate candidate talking about the Powell memo???? Pinch me, am I dreaming????

“Milei, the Tech Bros and AI Dreams” By Richard M. Sanders, July 2026 #PeterThiel #Argentina

Trump has tried to get around the Supreme Court's ruling on his tariffs. He has tried to get around the Court's ruling on birthright citizenship. Now, he's trying to get around the Court's decision on Lisa Cook.