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We reviewed FBI documents that showed a sweeping pay-to-play investigation involving Sen. Susan Collins was in motion. Then Trump shut down the unit in charge. Had we found a road map to corruption in Congress? We decided to dig deeper.

Dictator Move of the Day.

Putin knows the best way to get the upper hand with the Trump White House is by appealing to its never-ending capacity for grifting. #Ukraine

The Pentagon never disclosed that eight US Marines were injured when an Iranian cruise missile hit their vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on September 14, NBC reports. Injuries were eventually added to the casualty record with no announcement ten days later.

The cases dropped included white collar crime, drugs and terrorism, 23,000 of them, all during the first six months of Trump’s second term. Instead the DOJ focused on immigration cases.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) is encouraging voters to request mail ballots while challenging mail voting infrastructure nationwide. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

He's lying about 9/11. He lied about the pandemic. He lied about the integrity of our elections. He doctored an official weather map to lie about a hurricane. There is absolutely nothing that Donald Trump won't lie about.

NEW: Nate Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign in 2023 after promoting a video with the Sonnenrad, a Nazi symbol embraced by white supremacists. He now works in Rubio's State Department, as deputy director of policy planning and chief speechwriter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...

“Remember, the Constitution doesn’t begin with, ‘I, the president.’ It begins with, ‘We, the people.’ ” —Gloria Steinem at the 2017 Women’s March

Good to see that Trump’s cabinet appointees are focused on the key issue of affordability.

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

New documents show RFK Jr. lied to a U.S. Senate committee. Not that it matters at all to GOP members of the Senate.

NEW: A paperback edition of our biography of sports visionary Abe Saperstein, founder of the Harlem Globetrotters. My brother Matthew and I detail Saperstein’s key roles in basketball’s 3-point shot, Negro Leagues baseball, integrating sports, and even secret State Dept. dealings in the Cold War.

Pathetic BS. Any day now, Republicans will blame the Iran war on illegal immigration.

Autopsies show how hard doctors tried to save babies who died after not getting a vitamin K shot: tubes inserted in their airways, blood transfusions. They’re excruciating to read because they underscore how preventable these deaths could have been. (Published May)

Here’s Trump on March 11, talking about the war with Iran: "We've won. ... You never like to say too early you won. We won. We won the bet — In the first hour, it was over." Here’s Energy Secretary Chris Wright 5 months later, with the war dragging on: “The president is playing the long game.”

I’ve taken 1,000+ airline flights in my life. If any airline that I fly cooperates with these fascist ghouls, they will lose my business.

While Trump says he's "low-keying" the war with Iran, desperate sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln are trying to jump overboard during its long deployment to support a criminal president's illegal war.

What the fuck do you mean “speaking out”?! He stalked her when she was a girl and is using NBC to continue to insert himself into her life four decades later. This is not news, this is aiding and abetting. @nbcnews.com should take this down and apologize.

Epstein survivor on Trump's criminal lawyer Todd Blanche: "Yeah, I mean, he actually said the words 'get to the point' to us. We're survivors who've been waiting to meet with him for 9 months, 8 months. We've been asking for meetings, and he very much said, 'can you get to the point already?'"

I hope there are #journalists out there who will ask President Trump what “very big favors” he is doing for China’s Xi?

Echoes of Stalin—in 1937 he received an 11 minute standing ovation. Everyone was too afraid to be the first to stop clapping.

The claim ”Santa does not exist” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that he might just be really good at covering his tracks.

The corruption is staggering.

Medicaid covers low-income adults, children, pregnant people, the elderly and people with disabilities. It’s one of our few social safety nets. Giving HIPAA-protected data to ICE and Palantir is a betrayal of public trust and straight-up illegal. The ongoing theft of our country’s data is a heist.

"Fox News has not seen that documentation yet and is not in a position to assess the accuracy of the President's statements tonight..." -Bret Baier, Fox News. That's a $787 million CYA. (And more evidence that the speech didn't need to be aired live)

Drugmakers give consumers financial help to afford costly medications. But some health insurers keep that assistance without applying it to consumers’ deductibles or out-of-pocket maximums.

The U.S. Border Patrol abandoned a blind, disabled Rohingya refugee to die in frigid Buffalo, a new low for the Trump regime, writes @willbunch.bsky.social.

The Department of Justice has illegally “withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor." The biggest coverup in presidential history just got worse. Release the files.

This is so damn outrageous.

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress. “She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me. But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.

Thanks to the @apnews.com for not merely calling this a “controversial” post.

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

1/ In the US, horrifying footage shows ICE agents killing civilians and terrorizing communities in broad daylight. In the West Bank, settlers are filmed beating families and burning homes. As Jews, we are obliged to speak out.

From the Epstein email archives. Jeffrey Epstein: "trump is likely to be [asked] questions soon about me…supposedly a girl said that donal= had sex with her at my house when she was underage."

Trump swore he cut off contact with Epstein before he was arrested in 2006. So why would Epstein be calling Trump in 2011?

Shameful.

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

A woman was gunned down in Minneapolis, and our dictator-wannabe barely mentions her killing. Instead, he can’t stop talking about whether Renee Good’s father is still one of his fans. His ego constantly needs to be fed.

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

This is a gift he could really use.

The New York Times thinks that when a criminal tries to steal someone’s stuff and they say no, it’s a “standoff.”

That Gestapo analogy seems more and more appropriate.

Gerontocracy rules everything around me