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Middle East dictators created a massive slush fund for Jared Kushner. trib.al/IZHWls1

Texas was built by hope. By people who had no business believing — but believed anyway. To every Texan who’s ever wondered if anyone in power is paying attention: We are taking our state back. Because a little bit of hope is a dangerous thing.

Meta "made a bad call?" How does that happen? We know what #NoKings is doing. They are organizing protests and encouraging people to vote. How does Meta make a "bad call" here?

Congress passed tough sanctions on Russia to punish Putin and help end the war in Ukraine. Now the White House turns around and undoes all of that to let Russia off the hook for their illegal invasion. That isn’t maximum pressure. It’s maximum retreat.

Small sample size here, but I truly do hate this president and his movement. It has nothing to do with him being the incumbent.

Thanks for pointing out the obvious, Brian. Yes! People should in fact vote for the other party rather than the one that created these problems.

In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

Trump wants to make sure it’s as easy as possible for his friend Putin to bomb apartment buildings and kill children. He’s not just the worst president in history, he’s the most evil person to ever serve at the highest level of government. Vote out his weak Republican enablers.

Abbott needs to go.

Trump and Musk are doing everything they can to try and force Ukraine to surrender to Putin while Musk spends over $300 million to try and buy the midterm elections to maintain total power. The American government under Republicans are on the side of evil. Vote them out.

The Fraud Squad

For the first time ever, someone involved with a movie is doing interviews to promote it — very suspicious stuff.

Curtis Flowers, a Black man who spent more than 22 years in prison and was on death row in Mississippi before the U.S. Supreme Court threw out his conviction and death sentence, dies at 56.

This is what the GOP stands for — the harassment of nonwhite Americans.

White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?

#ICYMI, read @zachdespart.bsky.social's latest story here:

Great reporting by ProPublica. Sad and infuriating that DOGE and Vought focus on cutting services to the need instead of wasteful defense spending.

@sarahmatthews1.bsky.social reacts to JD Vance taking a swipe at Joe Biden ahead of both men attending the 25th anniversary commemoration of 9/11 in New York City.

NEW: Over the “strongest possible” objections of a federal prosecutor handling the case, Trump DOJ officials quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an ICE agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it.

The cries of the toddler…

Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.

Truly shameful and deplorable behavior by the Trump administration 

Disgraceful. Relative of Afghans Who Helped U.S. Military Is Deported to Africa. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/u...

In yet another assertion of unlawful authority over Greenland, an American oil company connected to Donald Trump is preparing to sink wells in remote Greenland despite not having received permission from the local authorities. The move is seen by the Greenlanders as an intentional provocation.

"The shoddy paint job of the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool was a silly summer story that should have been a relatively minor political embarrassment,” the Editorial Board writes. “Instead, the administration turned it into an appalling abuse of prosecutorial power."

In a small room at the Atlanta International Airport, without a warrant and ignoring his protest and requests for his attorney, left-wing activist and US citizen Sam Tunick says Border Patrol officers started to search his devices, luggage and diary.

1/ This is Nick Adams. He’s a big deal in MAGA world. He’s got 638K followers on X and 2.1M on Facebook. President Trump even appointed him to a role at the State Dept. But when I started digging into Adams' nonprofit for "civics" education, something didn't look right ... 🧵

I miss having public servants who served the public. I hope the US can get back to that.

"To know that you can parent freely, that you can drive freely, that you can do an Uber Eats drop off without fear, that men with guns are not going to shoot you or detain you or take your children from you. That is the American way of life."

Trump Hypes ‘Magnets’ After Son’s Firm Takes Stake in Rare-Earth Magnet Company

2. The subpoenas require the reporters to testify before a federal grand jury in Manhattan this week. A top attorney for the Times called the Trump administration’s move a “brazen act” The Times reporters who received the subpoenas are Julian E. Barnes, Eric Lipton, Tyler Pager and Eric Schmitt.

The @texastribune.org is investigating this ICE shooting, along with that of Ruben Martinez last year in South Padre Island. We are seeking any cell phone footage of either events and you can share anonymously to me at 832-729-3421 or on Signal or WhatsApp.

A certain dam-building rodent is taking center stage in a World Cup-themed contest in Toronto. The Great Beaver Quest challenges visitors to locate 51 beaver statues that have been strategically placed throughout the city’s Old Town Toronto neighborhood.

THE CULT OF THE ENHANCED SELF The post-pandemic fitness craze, MAHA, the cultural rise of Nietzschean tech moguls, the dawn of GLP-1s & supplements, and fitness trackers have combined to create a new cultural norm that is (unhealthily) obsessed w/ health www.derekthompson.org/p/the-cult-o...

Everyone involved in this scandal keeps deleting their messages. trib.al/TqYPqM9

At least 248 data centers are planned to be built in Texas. Of those, nearly half will be built in unincorporated areas, where county officials are limited in their ability to regulate development, according to a Texas Tribune analysis.

NEW: When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism. We found that the request came directly from the White House.

An excellent culture critique for our times: www.derekthompson.org/p/can-americ...

The IRS has agreed to not audit Trump's taxes. In 2024, we found the IRS concluded in a long-running audit that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on a failed Chicago tower. That audit could have cost him more than $100 million. (From May 2024 w/ @nytimes.com)

JD Vance Comes Out Against the New $1.8 Billion Fund

‘Slap in the face': Republicans skewer Pentagon over Poland troop move

The largest ever settlement or jury award for government violations of constitutional rights to a single person is $100 million, or 1 percent of what Trump demanding for the leak of his tax returns. That case -- a killing by police -- was reduced to $1 million on appeal.

FUBAR. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/the-chief-...

In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...

Excellent article

www.yahoo.com/news/article... All the best people…

Well put open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...