Michael Staudt

The Trump administration just granted the Trump family's cryptocurrency venture preliminary approval for a federal banking charter. That gives the company new powers and credibility—and it's the most egregious way we've seen Trump's business benefit from his presidency to date.

Just 10 people have already poured $617 MILLION into this year’s midterm elections. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. This is not sustainable. We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.

Donald Trump is now responsible for 28% of the US national debt. That's $11 trillion. In 250 years of American history, no president has added more. That's not an opinion. It's math.

Correspondents’ Dinner Eyewitness

This is so well done. 👌

Cuyahoga Falls Ohio... awesome turnout in frigid weather. #nk3 #nokings

Do we have to keep doing this? Any of it?

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS CUYAHOGA FALLS” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

The exact same election rules are now in place when Republicans won the presidency, house and senate in 2024. But now suddenly Republicans are unable to win another election without the SAVE Act because everyone has been cheating. Makes sense.

This moron continues to incinerate alliances that were built by far better people than him over the past 80 years.

Six airmen died when their KC-135 refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq earlier this week, according to the Pentagon. Their deaths bring the total US troop casualties in connection to the war in Iran to 13.

"Media advocacy groups have said Carr is trying to pressure media companies into submission and self-censorship, which would achieve some of what Trump wants without explicit government action," writes Brian Stelter | Analysis https://cnn.it/4sK9d04

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

One week ago. 🤡

ICE bought its Salt Lake City detention facility from a shadowy real estate trust with links to Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/03/14/salt-lake-city-ice-warehouse-who/ 

Posted by the Kurdistan social media page.

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Three-time Trump voter: I'm looking at this awful picture of the Obamas. What an embarrassment to our country. He is not worthy of the presidency. He takes bribes blatantly, and now he's being a racist blatantly. He's pathetic as a president, and I want to apologize for supporting this rotten man.

Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking. Warning: video is hard to watch

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.

I ask this every now and then and I’ve yet to get a good answer. How long does it take for people to realize they’re on the wrong side of history?

Thank you Eugene Goodman for saving Democracy during the Capitol insurrection #January6th

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

Eugenics is exactly what his mythos revolves around. If you need vaccines and can't survive a swim in a river of feces, then what good are you, right?

Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me “I believe all Americans should be able to strive for financial success. But we have reached a point where any mix of solutions to our nation’s economic problems is going to involve the wealthiest Americans contributing more” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

Uneducated voters pose a greater risk to this nation than undocumented immigrants ever will.

ProPublica could not find evidence Trump ever lived at either of the two Florida properties he claimed as principal residences in the 1990s. Legal documents and other records from the period give his address as Trump Tower in Manhattan.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936

Once again, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for the win. 😂

Government shutdowns come with real consequences: limited air traffic safety oversight, federal workers aren't paid, SNAP funding issues and much more. Meanwhile, Trump is building a ballroom and ramping long-term efforts to fire civil servants. This is NOT okay.

$170B for ICE and Border Patrol $40B for Argentina $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation" $200M for Kristi Noem's jets $98M for Trump's golf outings But no money to lower your healthcare costs.

I honestly couldn't feel this post more deeply... live in the light, be decent, and commit to the bit.

Falls showed up!

#NoKings Cuyahoga Falls Ohio. Peaceful, joyful patriotism. Well done, Ohio!

#NoKings Cuyahoga Falls Ohio

Secret Army - Russian Roulette (4th October 1978). Kessler organises a garden party - one which his guests will never forget.

Don't look away.

Don’t look away

If I were charged with a federal crime, I’d hire Pam Bondi’s brother as my lawyer. Because I don’t think this is a coincidence.

There are too many Democrats who are afraid to bite the corporate hands that feed them. It's time for the party to reject Big Money.

Gerrymandering handed the GOP majorities in the House in 2022 and 2024.

The Democratic primary for mayor of New York City in June was the second major election in which the city used ranked-choice voting. Zohran Mamdani ultimately benefited from the system in defeating Andrew Cuomo, especially after his cross-endorsement with Brad Lander, data shows. nyti.ms/47hfyZr

Why is Israel still fighting in Gaza, when it was able to bring its wars against Iran and Hizbullah to swift ends? https://econ.trib.al/uZGV2L6?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=f5d90190-4aa0-42fd-b829-0bff06b9de0d&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky Photo: Getty Images

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

If you’re attending the White House Correspondents Association dinner tonight, be sure to come prepared with a joke about the toddler cancer patient they just disappeared despite her being a citizen. Otherwise it’s going to be awkward when you’re mugging for photos with Stephen Miller.