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The DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in the first six months of Trump’s second term. (Published March)

Why is this not headline news??? www.mediaite.com/media/news/f...

In case facts still matter

A bunch of people talked about the letter Davey Hearn's lawyers sent to DOJ IG, a follow-up re DOJ IG's refusal to do an investigation. But the earlier letter they sent described an abuse that wasn't public before: Pirro mobbing their defense expert. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

NEW: GOP operative Scott Presler built his reputation registering Republicans and accusing Dems of voter fraud. But a review by The Bulwark found GOP operatives from other states voting from his home—and evidence raising questions about their residency. www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-operat...

Per a database of discrimination complaints obtained by @propublica.org , Trump's Department of Education is actively ignoring reports of rape and assault on campuses so they can instead focus on transgender athletes. Their obsession with trans people is actively putting women and girls in danger.

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Cop murdered a baby over the shoplifting of diapers. Mississippi AG says there's no problem with that.

A group of European diplomats was assaulted in the West Bank, allegedly by Israeli settlers, a day after an attack by settlers that seriously injured Post photographer Heidi Levine.

That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.

This is, what, the third constitutional crisis today? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/10/12/judge-blocks-trump-administration-airing-taxpayer-funded-campaign-style-ads/

Breaking news: Federal authorities searched the D.C. home of Rep. Ilhan Omar on Monday morning, intensifying long-standing immigration-related accusations from Republicans regarding the nation’s first Somali American lawmaker. https://wapo.st/47Qg4wy

🧊✈️ HEADS UP INDIANA‼️ ⚠️ ICE Air inbound to IND Eastern 737 – Tail: N959BP ETA – 10:50am 👀

Tell me the Secretary of the Treasury is a misogynist without…

The Trump administration has denied Illinois’ request for disaster relief — again. The state sought FEMA’s help after days of severe weather in and around the Chicago area in August. FEMA granted Indiana’s request for help with the same storm. buff.ly/P3ElxRb

The Trump administration wants to lift sanctions on a Russian company to benefit mostly Middle Eastern investors (who also happen to be Trump family business partners) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...

Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...

I feel like I’ve heard that before…

4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.

ICE has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens.

Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine "have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner" reports @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

We’re screwed www.esquire.com/news-politic...

JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

Of recent interest here in Minnesota is that ICE is releasing detainees to satisfy Habeas requests, and then immediately detaining again. This really ought to be national news.

A $250,000 donation to a pro-Ken Paxton super PAC came from a businessman whose dad got pardoned by Trump — and who used a fake name and rented mailbox on the donation record.

This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.

Breaking news: The Trump administration is airing campaign-style TV ads using money Congress approved for border security upgrades, efforts to combat drug trafficking and memorials for officers killed in the line of duty, according to records.

The Supreme Court authorizing deportations to third countries in Africa is a sanctioning of cruel and unusual punishment. What are we becoming?

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

Incredible. The 11th Circuit, in a 3-0 opinion (two Obama appointees and one Trump 1.0 appointee), agrees that Trump and his lawyers have failed to rebut the judge's finding that the entire IRS settlement was collusive, highlighting that no other explanation for their conduct was even offered.

Another victim charged as if he was the criminal.

Loved watching Klobuchar go back for a second dunk on him at the end of her time.

#ChuckGrassley is no longer up to the job. He was barely able to read his prepared scripts. He abandoned his chair without appointing anyone to fill in, and didn’t tell them when he’d be back. He’s 93. His staff is complicit in propping him up. #Iowa deserves better.

Donald Trump’s rush to deport as many immigrants as possible is creating a new family-separation crisis, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social writes. She reports on the babies left behind in America:

The Education Department will scrap Biden-era Title IX rules that sought to bolster nondiscrimination protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity, officials announced, marking a return to rules from the first Trump administration.

The administration is using a rare and contested power to ax funding for immigrant services and diversity-focused initiatives. https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/trump-claws-back-nearly-1-billion-in-congressionally-appropriated-funding

An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. (Published May with @azluminaria.org)

Every taxpayer, no matter your party, should be outraged by this. Your money is being used to fund campaign ads for Trump. It’s totally completely illegally. He’s stealing your money for his campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...

Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...

ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.

BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off

The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off.

As you may recall from the original story, part of what made this story so distressing story was that public officials had told these people that they could vote! And in some cases automatically registered them to vote!

NEW: Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin Umar Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses at Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish wedding, including renting out a private island and paying for the fireworks show.

There's always a new grift www.propublica.org/article/dona...

BREAKING: Trump’s FCC pushes Talarico Kimmel interview to YouTube, trampling the First Amendment. Sound familiar? It happened with Talarico and Colbert last February, which resulted in $2.5M in donations and millions of views. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/a...

Financial disclosures released by the Trump administration show the sums gifted to Natalie Harp and two other aides were equivalent to nearly one-third of each of their salaries. On their disclosure forms, the three women described the payments as “Cash Gift for Holidays.” https://wapo.st/3T08M5J