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Ex-federal #judges ask court to reopen #Trump #IRS lawsuit, probe payout #SlushFund
The 35 former judges want a #court to investigate whether the unusual agreement to create the $1.8 billion fund was an act of #fraud.
#law #judiciary #criminal #DOJ #JudicialProcess #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #Jan6 #militia #MAGASlushFund
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Climbing #Inflation
#Prices in the #US are rising at the fastest pace in years.
Officials at the #CentralBank [#FederalReserve] have embraced the possibility of higher #InterestRates [& #JeromePowell is NOT chairing the board anymore] to get resurgent inflation under control.
#economy #affordability #CostOfLiving #recession #trumpcession #Trump #policy
nytimes.com/2026/05/28/busines…
“Iran said it made no concessions on nuclear development.
There was media speculation that #Trump might be considering unfreezing Iranian assets to the tune of $100 billion — a huge humiliation if true considering how often Trump has criticized Obama for offering $1.7 billion to cement his nuclear deal.”
Trump has no way out of Iran.
Trump has no way out on Iran
He can’t win; he won’t say he’s lost. So he dithers.Noah Berlatsky (Public Notice)
#Trump appointees push $250 banknote with his portrait
The printing director who resisted the effort said she was [coincidentally] “reassigned” last month. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye.
#vanity #narcissism #idolatry #currency #USdollar
washingtonpost.com/investigati…
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.
propublica.org/article/donald-…
#News #WhiteHouse #Trump #Pentagon #Defense #Business #Ethics #Law #Government #DonaldTrumpJr
The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.
About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company.Alex.Bandoni@propublica.org (ProPublica)
It's almost like this guy wants his ties to #Epstein kept in the news cycle - pressuring the media hard while simultaneously triggering the Streisand effect.
One is left to wonder: is this intentional, or is he really incapable of learning?
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#Trump #USA #News #DonaldTrump #jeffreyepstein #UnitedStates #President #America #US #Law #Legal #Lawsuit #StreisandEffect #Media #Article #Reuters #Donald #Politics
Putting #Trump lackeys on the Chemical Safety Board has now resulted in dozens of deaths in #Tennessee and #Washington State, with thousands evacuated from Orange County, #California. apnews.com/article/paper-mill-…
#Resist #kakistocracy in #USpol.
The #US military carried out new #strikes overnight in #Iran targeting a military site that officials claimed posed a threat to US forces & commercial maritime traffic in the #StraitOfHormuz, a US official told Reuters on Wednesday.
The official…said the US military also intercepted & shot down multiple Iranian drones that they claimed posed a similar threat.
#TrumpsWar #IranWar #ForeverWars #Trump #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #economy #EnergyCrisis
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Despicable
#DOJ launches a criminal investigation into #Trump #rape survivor #EJeanCarroll
The investigation is focused on whether Carroll committed perjury in testimony tied to her 2 civil lawsuits against Trump–one when testifying about the #SexualAssault by Trump in a NY department store in the mid-1990s, & another for defaming her when in 2019 he repeatedly denied the assault, said she wasn’t his type & claimed she made it up to boost book sales.
Thank you
#House #Democrats announce bill to block construction of Trump’s monstrous #arch
The #legislation would explicitly bar new construction on the small island on the edge of Washington where #Trump seeks to put the arch.
#law #UrbanPlanning #architecture #land #PublicLands
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As expected, #Alabama asks #SCOTUS to allow use of congressional map helping GOP, despite Federal Appeals Court unanimously ruling it is racially biased
#law #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #VRA #RepresentationMatters #redistricting #gerrymandering #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow
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If the case makes it to #SCOTUS, it will be the first major test of the high court’s new standard for challenging congressional maps. The lower court judges made clear that they had reviewed the arguments through the lens of the Supreme Court’s #VotingRightsAct ruling last month but maintained that the state’s map failed under the new standard by intentionally discriminating against #Black voters.
#VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #law #WhiteSupremacy #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #Trump
The ruling further confuses the electoral landscape across the #South, as #Republican-led legislatures have raced to implement new district lines after #SCOTUS narrowed the #VotingRightsAct of 1965. It also demonstrates how the ruling from the nation’s highest court has further muddled how lower courts interpret the landmark #CivilRights #law.
#VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #ElectionLaw #RepresentationMatters #WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #Trump
#Alabama’s AG, Steve Marshall, said he would immediately appeal to #SCOTUS, which last month ruled that a #Louisiana congressional map drawn to create 2 majority-#Black House districts was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Gov Kay Ivey, a Republican, has already set special primaries in August in 4 #House districts that would be affected by her state’s new congressional map.
#VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #law #RepresentationMatters #WhiteSupremacy #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #Trump
Court Rejects #Alabama #House Map, Calling It Unfair to #Black Voters
The Alabama #Republican led legislature, Governor & AG are likely to appeal the ruling, which stops an effort to use a new congressional map that would likely cost #Democrats a majority-Black district.
#VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #law #ElectionLaw #RepresentationMatters #WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow #SCOTUS #Trump
nytimes.com/2026/05/26/us/poli…
New from Justin Miller: The GOP dynamic was basically old-guard establishment vs. ambitious and uniquely hardline insurgents. The typical story, with the now-longstanding wild card of #Trump’s kingmaking powers. texasobserver.org/texas-gop-ru…
#politics #USpol #news #Republicans #Texas
Did Texas Republicans' Restive Runoffs Imperil Their November Ballot?
In almost all cases, the most problematic, extremist, unqualified, and Trumpian candidate won the day.Justin Miller (The Texas Observer)
#ReflectingPool Contract Has ‘#Inflated’ #Profit Margin, Government Analysis Finds
Atlantic Industrial Coatings, the Virginia-based contractor, is being paid $13.1 million, which is seven times the amount that #Trump initially said the work would cost.
The firm that was given a no-bid contract to “repair” the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, is charging 20%. The typical profit margin is 6% to 12%, internal records show.
#GovernmentWaste #scam #economy
nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/poli…
The ruling did not address the legal merits of the #speech restraint, which was enacted during Trump's first term.
The #Trump admin had appealed to #SCOTUS after a lower court ordered findings on whether his firings of the heads of agencies overseeing federal worker complaints had stripped these agencies of the #independence from White House control that #Congress had intended. Such a finding, the lower court said, might entitle the #immigration judges to their day in court.
#law
A group representing the #immigration #judges had also appealed the lower court's determination that the challenge to the #speech restraint belongs before the agencies - so long as they are functional - instead of in court. That appeal was denied Tuesday.
The policy requires #immigration #judges to get prior approval before any "official" speech. Such speaking engagements are those in which a judge "is invited to participate in an event because of their official position, is expected to discuss agency policies, programs or a subject matter that directly relates to their official duties or otherwise appear on behalf of the agency," according to court records.
Really, every single non-MAGA American should be so pissed about this
The dictator is literally giving their money away to criminals including the disgusting #Trump family
Not even hiding or nothing, acting like it's a good thing
What the actual f..
Most Corrupt Act in Presidential History
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#Trump #corruption #US #USA #USPol
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Great news! #SouthCarolina Senate rejects #Trump call to redraw congressional maps
As early in-person voting began Tuesday in South Carolina’s primaries, the state Senate rejected a #Republican plan to #cancel those congressional votes & instead schedule a new primary under revised districts designed to help the #GOP oust the powerful #Democrat #JamesClyburn.
#VotingRights #VRA #redistricting #law #ElectionLaw #WhiteSupremacy #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow
apnews.com/article/redistricti…
#Whitewashing #gaslighting #Trumpaganda
#Trump #DOJ mass-deletes info on #Jan6 #insurrection cases, including violent assaults on cops
The Trump admin has mass-deleted information about prosecutions tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, violent attack on the US #Congress, including cases of defendants who committed & were convicted of #assault of #police officers. The removals mark the latest phase of Trump's effort to rewrite the history of his violent #SeditiousConspiracy.
In a statement Tuesday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry condemned the #US attacks, which it called a “blatant violation” of the #ceasefire, & said it would “leave no act of hostility unanswered.”
The US military acknowledged the strikes Monday evening — hours after #Trump said on social media that Iran’s enriched uranium “will either be immediately turned over to the United States to be brought home & destroyed” or disposed of elsewhere.
#Iran has yet to agree to those terms.
#SCOTUS [shockingly /s] sides with #Trump in fight tied to #speech curbs on #immigration judges
SCOTUS sided on Tuesday with Trump's admin in a dispute involving a #FreeSpeech challenge by federal #ImmigrationJudges to a #US government policy restricting what they can publicly say about immigration.
The justices, in an unsigned ruling, reversed a lower court's decision & returned the case to that court for further proceedings.
#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
reuters.com/world/supreme-cour…
Such a dumb redundancy, if they work on classified info, they already have the equivalent of this in place. #Trump is just too ignorant to know, so he wants to use what he knows from business & his multiple sexual assaults.
Trump admin proposes #NDAs for ALL #FederalWorkers
The rule, aimed at cracking down on #leaks to #media organizations, would expand the redundant NDAs instituted at the #Pentagon & other agencies.
#idiocracy #criminality #law #FreeSpeech
washingtonpost.com/business/20…
There was no immediate public statements from #Iran about a deal being reached, & Iranian officials over the last 24 hours offered some conflicting depictions of what a potential agreement might contain. The #US official said Sunday that a deal had not yet been signed & was still subject to final approval from #Trump & Iran’s supreme leader, which could take days.
The senior #US official said the proposal would reopen the #StraitOfHormuz in the Persian Gulf — a critical waterway for global #oil & #gas — & see #Iran commit to disposing of its stockpiles of highly enriched #uranium. The mechanism by which Iran will dispose of its highly enriched uranium is still being negotiated, the official said. #Trump has insisted that the #UnitedStates seize the material as part of his vow to curb Iran’s nuclear program.
"Today, a coalition of locally elected district attorneys and prosecutors from across the United States have officially put the #Trump administration on notice: any federal agent who shows up at a polling place in violation of state or federal law will be investigated and prosecuted under the laws of the jurisdiction in which they act. And they will be jailed, if needed."
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Local prosecutors warn Trump: "If you send ICE to the polls, we'll put them in jail."
A nationwide coalition of district attorneys has come together to protect polling places from federal agents sent to carry out voter intimidation.Miles Taylor (DEFIANCE.News)
#Trump admin shutting key #US researchers out of #global #virus response talks, documents & sources reveal
Key officials responsible for leading US #research on #InfectiousDisease threats have been #barred from speaking directly with the #WorldHealthOrganization [#WHO] — effectively shutting some of them out of the global discussions on virus #outbreaks, according to documents & multiple sources.
#nationalism #BrainDrain #medicine #science #health #PublicHealth #NIAID
cnn.com/2026/05/25/politics/gl…
Staggering dip in #US #tourism is a troubling sign for the future
There’s no sugarcoating it. The complete 2025 data is in, & the message is clear: International visitors stayed away from the US in the first real year-over-year decline since the COVID19 pandemic. The drop in visitors was larger than during the global #recession of 2008.
This time, it wasn’t a pandemic or a collapse of the market—it was #Trump.
#economy #immigration #WhiteChristianNationalism #HateSpeech
cnn.com/2026/05/25/travel/anal…
As usual Krugman gets a lot wrong here, most importantly by giving Trump too much credit.
Firstly, it assumes coherence on Trump's part. What is a win to him? It is a loss because X and Y conditions weren't met. But no, Trump is a wet noodle without such basic standards and goals. He's been unable to lay out a win or loss condition.
Then there's this: "It’s far more likely that Hegseth and Trump have also been receiving false, optimistic reports"
Well that alone is Krugman pretty much undermining the rest of his piece. If they don't know what's going on, well, that's that. The rest of it comes to nothing.
It needs to be consistently pointed out that #Trump is such a loser incapable of managing much of anything. Here Krugman almost suggests that Trump is a fine manager with misguided goals.
He has no goals.
#USPolitics #Iran #war
Iran is producing drones again as rearmament beats expectations, and a resolution limiting #Trump's war powers is delayed in Congress. Find out more via the link! iranwar.news/p/iran-oman-discu…
Iran, Oman discuss Hormuz tolls; Iranian regime using Binance to evade sanctions; Trump, Netanyahu clash over war strategies.
Meanwhile, Iran is producing drones again as rearmament beats expectations, and a resolution limiting Trump’s war powers is delayed in Congress.Anastasiia Lutsenko (Iran War Dispatches with Tim Mak)
Iran, Oman discuss Hormuz tolls; Iranian regime using Binance to evade sanctions; Trump, Netanyahu clash over war strategies.
Meanwhile, Iran is producing drones again as rearmament beats expectations, and a resolution limiting Trump’s war powers is delayed in Congress.Anastasiia Lutsenko (Iran War Dispatches with Tim Mak)
#US & #Iran Agree “In Principle” to Reopen #StraitOfHormuz, US Official Says
The official said Iran had also agreed to dispose of highly enriched #uranium, but stressed that a deal had not yet been signed. US & Iranian officials have described the terms differently.
#TrumpsWar #IranWar #Trump #WarCrimes #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #economy #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
nytimes.com/live/2026/05/24/wo…
Could be another #MarketManipulation or even just that Trump is feeling like he’s not getting enough attention.
#Trump says a deal with #Iran & opening of #StraitOfHormuz are 'largely negotiated'
#TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #Israel #war #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #economy #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
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before - after
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#gaza #palestine #Photography #iran #israel #lebanon #japan #china #trump #russia #gaming #journalism
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