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🚨 A bombshell new House Judiciary Democrats report details allegations from 11 women linking Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, including five who accuse Trump of sexual assault. The report also alleges a sweeping DOJ cover-up. We broke down the explosive findings.

Trump’s own appointees asked the government’s election security agency to secretly hack a voting machine and send the results to the White House. Thankfully, the career staff refused. And the people who actually could have done it had been laid off by DOGE. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Musk throws Trump under the bus

"Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." — Senate GOP, July 28 Ten weeks later, Trump is making oil deals with Putin. A brief history of Republicans being against this, until they weren't 👇

Finally owning up to his allegiance with Russia.

Trump’s deal to buy Russian diesel from Putin just weeks before the midterms funnels money directly into Russia’s war machine. Trump is now facing calls for Congress to block the deal and impeach him. Meanwhile, energy analysts say it’s unlikely to even make a dent in fuel prices.

This is as treasonous as it gets

Zelenskyy issues a statement responding to Trump’s deal with Putin to lift sanctions to purchase Russian oil and diesel.

Trump’s attack on ICC is aimed at protecting the US, Israel and Russia from legal accountability. Meanwhile, US, Israeli and Russian disinformation and influence networks are undermining democracy & justice globally, from South America to Europe, Mexico, Canada, and beyond.

"Next month, Trump is hosting the 'most exclusive dinner in the world' at his golf club in Virginia — & you’re invited! Well, only if you can pony up millions to buy his scammy meme coin. It’s just another breathtaking bit of corruption that, by now, is depressingly routine." — @snipy.bsky.social

Renee Good’s family is suing the officials who sent the ICE agent who killed her, using a law Congress wrote to stop the Klan. Their real goal may be discovery, and the Trump regime will fight hard to deny it. My write-up in the link in the comments.

GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury, claiming he had evidence Smith secretly went to an Atlanta Hawks game. Then it all backfired in real-time.

Link: buff.ly/WzOy1EX

Hakeem Jeffries on the Iran war: “The path out of this was already shown to us by President Obama. It's aggressive diplomacy that brings the world together…The problem…is not ending the war…it’s that we don't have a president who has the ability to pursue that type of diplomacy.”

Hakeem Jeffries: “Pete Hegseth is a disgrace. He should be fired…That's the reason why they pulled the resolution, because there were Republicans who can't even defend Pete Hegseth at this point. And it’s part of the reason why they ran out of town.”

After nearly two years of economic failure and broken promises, JD Vance’s midterm pitch these closing weeks is “give us another chance.” The American people cannot afford another round of this - and the good news is we don’t have to.

September 7, 2026

If the American people don’t overwhelmingly reject and repudiate what is happening with this govt, Republican Congress, and Supreme Court this November, then this Republic is doomed. We can survive a criminal regime for a short term, but we can’t survive an ignorant populace.

I thought this was The Onion… Story: buff.ly/szG2kO5

Every Republican in Congress owns what Trump has done, is doing and is going to do. The vast majority of it would not have been possible without their collective acquiescence and enabling. He’s emboldened by the fact that Congress refuses to function as a separate branch of govt.

He might be a corrupt useless slug, but he tried to help me steal the 2020 election so you probably should vote for him.

It’s no wonder the GOP trails in the generic congressional ballot polls. How can you lead when you’re not even showing up to work?

Whether it's a trade war with Canada or an actual war with Iran, the pattern is the same: Americans are paying the price for the President's choices.

What in the new fresh hell. Shock gloves?! buff.ly/ZNjNkjm

"If the people in charge are using up sailors as carelessly and recklessly as they are using up their munitions, it’s because they don’t care enough to do otherwise." Our troops deserve better. Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:

Trump's Treasury permanently ended beneficial ownership reporting for U.S. companies, eliminating records investigators use to trace hidden money and organized crime networks, including Epstein-style trafficking networks and Russian money laundering.

Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump are so incompetent they not only have no plan to win their war, they have no plan to feed their sailors. What an amateurish disgrace they both are.

Let’s get this clear in everyone’s heads.

Why this isn’t bigger news is both baffling and shameful.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is zero for 20 in its lawsuits seeking to obtain state voter rolls, after a federal judge dismissed its case against Colorado Monday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Hours after meeting Zelenskyy and then Netanyahu, Trump betrayed Ukraine again, ordering $400 million in congressionally approved military aid to be delayed until 2029. Since Trump took office, the US has provided little to no actual aid to Ukraine.

Dina Doll on the judge ordering Trump hand over a staggering amount of financial information in his BBC defamation lawsuit: "This was a man who was not even willing to hand over one tax return ... this is exactly how people should be defending each and every lawsuit that Trump brings against them."

Katie Phang on Trump’s tax immunity deal: Why not agree to narrow language limiting immunity to conduct before the settlement? Because Trump wants to keep criming. And his refusal to relent tells me there’s smoke, fire, kerosene, wildfires. There’s something there Trump doesn’t want exposure for.

@katiephang.bsky.social truly is a badass.

This is so cruel and unnecessary. I am so ashamed of our country.

This is crucially important.

I’m pretty sure the White House has not thought through the full consequences of its hateful policies. Story: buff.ly/ecADNDp

NEWS: A Florida judge has ordered Donald Trump to turn over financial records sought by the BBC in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit. The judge granted the BBC's motion to compel records from Trump's revocable trust, handing the broadcaster a MAJOR early win in discovery.

Don't look away. We cannot accept this as normal behavior by law enforcement.

Witnesses to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s killing dispute DHS’s claim that his van rammed an ICE vehicle. They say the ICE agent opened fire immediately after exiting his vehicle and that Araujo never steered toward him. Surveillance footage prior to the killing shows ICE ramming Araujo’s van.

1/3 - Per ABC News: According to the complaint filed in Washington, D.C., many Iranian asylum seekers are pro-democracy protesters, members of religious minorities, or members of the LGBTQ community who seek refuge in the U.S. "because of the grave dangers they face in Iran."

Another "Freedom Fuel" victory lap, another Google Street View receipt. The White House touted $3.47/gallon at a Philly station as proof Trump's lowering gas prices, but the same station was selling gas for $3.05 back in April 2025. They're celebrating a price hike.

Listening to the ramblings of the old man in office this morning - thanks to @atrupar.com and @thebulwark.com **sigh** It is so discouraging to know that we haven't been able to stop this madman in his tracks.

Once you kill a child, or your policies and actions lead to the death of children, whatever the case may be, it doesn't matter how many satellites you put into space, what anyone says you are or aren't, or how much wealth you amass. At the end of the day, you are a child killer.

Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosure reveals the staggering amount of money he’s made as president. trib.al/b4w47iK

BREAKING: SCOTUS blesses Mississippi law accepting ballots received up to 5 days after Election Day. Nothing in federal law requires ballots to be received by Election Day. 5-4 decision. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Maybe Vance doesn't know this part of history because it's in one of the books his administration has banned. The difference between the Watergate era and now is that back then, Republicans actually did something about a law-breaking president. Today, they only roll over for their cult leader.

This moment in history is certainly not our most shining. It is hard to believe that human rights in the US have reached the stage of investigative oversight by world organizations. I am glad the rest of the world is watching and will help hold this regime accountable for its atrocities.

And yet a plurality of the voters decided, “Whatevs, let’s give him another go!”

“Let’s be honest about what this is. Donald Trump hired a company that was not qualified, they did a shoddy job, and because he has such a fragile ego, now Donald Trump has to play make believe that, in fact, this was the work of elusive vandals... this is all just bad community theater."