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Latest piece. If the Dems take control of Congress, the first investigation (after corruption) has to be about the use of AI in US warfare. American tech executives have placed themselves in a pernicious situation and we need to understand what happened. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-first-...

A hunting trip to Mongolia furnishes cover for meetings between TrumpJr and Putin sidekick Umar Kremlëv. TrumpJr stood on stage with a wide smile as an auctioneer sold off the chance to join him on a week-long hunting trip in western Mongolia. “Will you beat $225,000? I’m giving you a bargain,” the

This is why Trump just said at his rally that he doesn’t care about high gas prices because people who own stakes in the oil and gas industry are getting rich.

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

Huh. And Trump is meddling in Alaska’s election.

Here as well is a video summary of that story, which I did with @maxinejoselow.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/video/climat...

Well, well, well…. An analysis of voter registration records reveals Republican operative Scott Presler had 3 out-of-state voters use his Pennsylvania address to vote in the 2024 election. This is what voter fraud looks like.

Trump going out of his way to endanger migrant children and leave them at risk of falling into horrific cycles of trafficking and other abuse,” Wyden said. “I’m concerned that the new ICE det.facility will be a black box location for the admin. to disappear migrant children with no oversight.

Prof. @michaelemann.bsky.social is quoted in ABC News on UN projections which show a hotter world than experts projected last year. Mann says these temperature increases would shave about $1.2 trillion from the global economy. @upenn.edu

Among the first agencies President Donald Trump gutted after taking office for his second term was a Department of Homeland Security team that had repeatedly disproved his stolen election claims. (Published May)

Think our effort to address the damage done by DOGE Is over? Not at all! We just won summary judgment proving that they abused our data And we are also litigating in fed court on behalf of the countless people they injured at USAID

For more than 40 years, the U.S. Arctic Research Commission has advised Congress and the president on what to study in the far north. Trump appointed a venture capitalist and MAGA influencer with no formal science background — and ties to Russia — as its chair.

We are sensing a pattern

Less than a single human lifetime

140 days of protests triggered by a corrupt kushner/trump family luxury island deal… yet 🇺🇸 media is essentially crickets 🦗 🦗

Mark Zuckerberg should understand that Republicans won’t always be in charge. If Democrats take the Senate, he will be forced to answer to Congress about his company’s abuse of tax credits to avoid paying its fair share while it builds AI data centers.

Remember, when you see reports about Russia launching an operation against U.S. elections to help Republicans, this is the *sixth consecutive* cycle in which this has happened.

Trump 's regime paused permits on all new wind & solar projects on public land, canceling 300+ renewable energy projects funded by the Dept. of Energy so that fossil fuel companies can rake in obscene levels of profit. Support clean energy.

Again, the problem with Guilfoyle was not the graft, but that she was thinking too small

JD Vance running around the country saying he’s fighting health care fraud while his nominee for the senate in TX who he completely supports is partying in Dubai with a guy whole stole over $300 million in health care fraud and gave Paxton $190,000. This is the Republican Party.

To give a sense of scale, Musk is spending more on the midterms than he was on the 2024 election, and he was the biggest donor in that election. In 2025 he promised to pull back from politics and do much less political spending. Another lie.

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ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reviewed Ken Paxton's travel records dating back to 2015. Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips with a state-funded security detail, costing $3.3 million. The outlets could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to actual state business.

ICE's expansion became a multibillion-dollar business: CoreCivic sold four facilities to DHS for $2.2B, GEO won major contracts, while Trump's investment accounts traded detention contractors and held stakes in firms benefiting from ICE spending.

This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.

“As much as $5 million in SpaceX two days before he signed a sweeping policy aimed at expanding US commercial space transportation.”

FT Exclusive: Susie Wiles's daughter is a partner at Continental Strategy, which signed a $35,000-a-month contract to represent Republika Srpska, the Balkan entity at the centre of a new dispute about conflicts of interest inside the White House. ft.trib.al/zkLiQES

It has always been the plan. All the Republicans knew it & supported it! It’s a key goal of Project 2025!

The USPS is openly trying to sabotage mail-in voting here. If you can, drop your ballot in a ballot drop box as early as possible and take the USPS out of the equation completely! #VoteBlue for accountability!

The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident

Remember this is why we need Democrats to take back power in DC so that they can stop some of these cuts that take effect after the election. #LetsGetVoteReady by checking your voter registration status, vote early and vote all the way down the ballot. Your vote is your voice so use it.

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

So ... billionaires are thieves?

NEW AD: Ken Paxton loves to make false claims about James Talarico’s record on China. But he’s been hiding his own. Paxton took an all-expenses-paid trip to China to meet with Communist Party leaders — then took massive donations from China-linked real estate developers.

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

Ahead of the midterm elections, activist and writer Bill McKibben has been traveling across the United States with Third Act, the environmental group he founded to harness the power of seniors who care about the climate and democracy.

The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way www.propublica.org/article/fbi-... #momsky#sheshed

The cruelty continues. A “shadowy deal” occurs and then the detainee is transported to a country he/she has never heard of. Since Trump took office, more than 25,000 people have been transported to a country that is not their own. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

The 60 Minutes story on pay for pardons schemes going on would be stunning for any other president. With this one, it’s just confirmation for another layer of known corruption. And Trump almost certainly can’t be prosecuted now or later for it. (Thread) www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...

1/ Republicans sold vouchers as a lifeline for disabled children. Then they built a system where private schools can refuse those children while taking public money with fewer public duties. Disabled kids were not the destination. They were the door. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

Earlier this week, Judd reported on a new Elon Musk scam. Musk is spending millions of dollars pushing Americans to VoteSafe, which advertises itself as a voter registration site but is actually a digital surveillance machine. Judd joins us tonight to explain: joycevance.substack.com/p/five-quest...

Somebody in the room needs the institutional authority to say: “Mr. President… what the fuck is wrong with you?” Apparently that position wasn’t included in the staffing plan.

This video on the rise of Trump's "shadow president" is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Russ Vought, most of which had not been previously reported:

The United States was the only United Nations member state in the world that voted against a United Nations General Assembly resolution promoting map projections that more accurately reflect the true relative size of continents and countries.

Canada has recruited dozens of researchers away from US universities. 48 out of 64 chair recipients in a government program worth $500+ million are coming from US institutions like Harvard and MIT. 🧵