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Ex-prosecutor & other “#Trump critics” [sane humans who believe in the #law] sue to block payouts from $1.8B 'anti-weaponization' #SlushFund
A coalition of “Trump’s critics”, including a fired prosecutor & a college professor acquitted of assaulting federal agents at a protest, sued Friday to block payouts from the $1.776 billion “settlement” fund for Trump allies claiming to be victims of a weaponized government.
#DOJ #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MAGASlushFund
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—Paul Krugman
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-w…
#trump #stagflation
A Whiff of Stagflation
Consumer confidence hits a new low — but that's not the number that should worry youPaul Krugman
#Trump US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ #Ebola outbreak after massive public health cuts, experts say
theguardian.com/world/2026/may…
US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola outbreak after massive public health cuts, experts say
Hundreds of cases reported in the DRC after USAID has been dismantled and key scientific research canceledMelody Schreiber (The Guardian)
Exclusive: #Trump officials tried to ban half of US #VotingMachines, citing #ConspiracyTheories
Trump’s “election-security czar” last year sought to ban voting machines used in more than half of #US #states by asking whether the #Commerce Department could declare their components national-security risks, according to 2 people with direct knowledge of the matter.
#law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy
reuters.com/legal/litigation/t…
There’s a Way to Stop Trump’s #IRS #SlushFund
by #JamieRaskin
These days it takes a spectacular burst of #corruption to get the attention of our scandal-weary nation, but #Trump & his admin have managed, once again, to transfix Americans by establishing a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund in the #DOJ that will undoubtedly be used to line the pockets of Trump’s partisans & foot soldiers — with your tax dollars.
#law #criminal #theft #TaxpayersMoney
nytimes.com/2026/05/22/opinion…
'No means no': Greenlanders protest against #Trump outside new US consulate
The inauguration of the new consulate comes amid a push by the US president for greater control over the island.
#US bears brunt of Israel’s missile defense, #Pentagon assessments show
The US military has depleted much of its inventory of advanced missile-defense interceptors after expending far more high-end munitions defending #Israel amid hostilities with #Iran than Israeli forces used themselves, according to #Defense Department assessments described to WaPo.
#Trump #TrumpsWar #IranWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #GovernmentSpending #GovernmentWaste #NationalSecurity #economy
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#HouseRepublicans, you tiny wimpy nothings
Republican leaders pulled a resolution to halt the #IranWar that had been scheduled for a vote Thursday evening, after it became clear they just didn’t have enough votes to defeat it.
#TheRealSuckersAndLosers #Congress #USpol #TrumpsWar #US #Iran #war #ForeverWars #Trump #law #WarPowers #NationalSecurity
nytimes.com/2026/05/21/us/iran…
This is so truly disgusting on top of all other from the past year..
"How Trump's IRS settlement could block tax audits of him, his family and their businesses"
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Please.. Congress step in and DO something!
#Trump #US #USPol #corruption
How Trump's IRS settlement could block tax audits of him, his family and their businesses
Some lawmakers and legal experts say the department has violated federal law with its addendum to the settlement.Lisa Lambert (BBC News)
#Senate #Republicans, unhappy with #Trump $1.8B settlement #SlushFund, delay a vote on paying for #immigration enforcement
Senate Republicans appeared increasingly unlikely to meet their self-imposed deadline for passing a ~$70 billion immigration enforcement bill as disputes over “security” funding for the Trump #ballroom & the $1.8 billion #MAGASlushFund derailed progress.
#law #criminal #DOJ #JudicialProcess #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #Jan6
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A new lawsuit alleges the Trump administration awarded the bulk of new Texas border wall contracts to two firms without “genuine competitive opportunities.”
One of the chosen firms has faced legal issues and claims of shoddy construction work.
propublica.org/article/trump-b…
#News #Texas #Border #Immigration #Trump #Construction #DHS #Business
The Trump Administration Is Facing Scrutiny for How It’s Handing Out Billion-Dollar Border Wall Contracts
A new lawsuit alleges the Trump administration awarded the bulk of new Texas border wall contracts to two firms without “genuine competitive opportunities.” One of the chosen firms has faced legal issues and claims of shoddy construction work.cengiz.yar@propublica.org (ProPublica)
Just a little favor for his #billionaire #donor #TechBros
#Trump delays executive order on #AI #oversight hours before planned signing
The White House had already sent out invitations to the event, where Trump had been expected to sign an order increasing government scrutiny of new #ArtificialIntelligence models.
#law #tech #business #regulation #MentalHealth #plutocracy #aristocracy #technocracy
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"What is missing is a recognition of what it actually took, the first time, to pass federal civil rights legislation in the 1960s. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was not the work of legal advocates alone." texasobserver.org/supreme-cour…
#politics #USpol #news #voting #democracy #SCOTUS #Trump #history
The Response We Really Need to the Supreme Court’s Gutting of the VRA
The instinct of the response so far has been right, but incomplete. New maps. New litigation. State-level laws. Congressional pressure. All necessary. None sufficient.Robert Ceresa (The Texas Observer)
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no muther f⁕⚠︎ers!!!
#Trump officials say they can build 250-foot #arch without Congress’s okay
To build the “triumphal” arch near Arlington Cemetery, the admin wants to rely on a 100-year-old authorization for a different project on the site. Hell no.
I am so sick of the constant f⁕⚠︎ing bullshit #Congress & the #Judiciary keep letting these asshats get away with!!!
#law #PublicLand #vandalism #defacement
washingtonpost.com/politics/20…
Contributor: Trump has left himself only bad options on Iran
Nearly three months after the United States and Israel launched their large-scale bombing campaign against Iran and about…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Iran #ceasefire #day #deal #regime #stockpile #strait #Tehran #thursday #trump #TrumpAdministration #U.S.blockade #UnitedStates #uranium #War
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#Trump White House resisted allowing an American doctor exposed to #Ebola while working in the #DRC to return to the #US, acc/to 5 people familiar with the Ebola response…, delaying the #evacuation & #care of Peter Stafford, who was ultimately transported to #Germany [Danke Deutschland].
The admin’s reluctance to bring an infected American back to US soil marked a sharp contrast with the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak.
#NoCompassion #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
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The deal #Trump reached with his subordinates relies on a mechanism created by #Congress that legal experts warned was subject to manipulation.
…The whole enterprise is a jarring shock to conventional understanding of the #constitution, raising…profound questions of #PresidentialPower. If allowed to stand, Trump will have managed simultaneously to thwart Congress’s #PowerOfThePurse & the ability of the #courts to police the #SeparationOfPowers.
So, I noticed something about #Trump’s trip to #China, because I tend to pay attention to #bioethics stuff. Amongst all the panopticon bros was a solitary biotech executive; Jacob #Thaysen, CEO of #Illumina.
Illumina holds the patents that mean 80% of the world’s #genomic analysis is done via their products or databases.
According to #CIA agents, the #US left the #WHO so we didn’t have to admit that we’d funded the Chinese lab where #COVID seems to have originated.
Leaving the WHO also means Illumina no longer has to share their data with public health experts. And they’ve been first on the ground in both #hantavirus and #Ebola to sequence these outbreaks. #African countries must sign away their #genome rights before America will pay the health budget Congress authorized. So, that’s fun.
And once again, as I start digging, the #DreyDossier brings receipts. She’s a hella investigator.
#Rutte justifica que #Trump retire tropas de #Europa: “Debemos dejar atrás la dependencia poco saludable de #EEUU”
Que poca verguenza !
Dimisiô de este pelele de #Trump
elespanol.com/mundo/europa/202…
Rutte justifica que Trump retire tropas de Europa: “Debemos dejar atrás la dependencia poco saludable de EEUU”
Los ministros de Exteriores de la Alianza discutirán en su reunión en Helsingborg este jueves y viernes sobre la guerra de Irán y la reapertura del estrecho de Ormuz.Juan Sanhermelando (El Español)
New from Jesús Jank Curbelo: Under #Trump, more than 50 American kids per day have an undocumented parent yanked into #ICE detention.
These children are citizens and the government has left them struggling to survive. Here are the stories of some from #Texas ... texasobserver.org/ruptured-fam…
#children #immigration #HumanRights #politics #USpol #fascism #news
Ruptured Families: The U.S. Citizen Children Left Behind by Deportations
More than 800,000 Texan kids with citizenship depend on an undocumented parent. Trump’s immigration crackdown is tearing their households apart.Jesús Jank Curbelo (The Texas Observer)
🚨South Carolina House Passes New Map Aimed at Forcing Out Clyburn🚨
The #SouthCarolina House passed a congressional map that aims to eliminate the seat now held by #JamesClyburn, a powerful #Black #Democrat.
The map will eliminate the state’s ONLY Democratic seat at the urging of #Trump.
Among the changes is a significant shift of the Sixth District currently represented by Democratic power broker James E. Clyburn.
#law #election #redistricting #RepresentationMatters
nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/poli…
Former Cuban President #RaulCastro is #indicted in #US as #Trump pushes for #RegimeChange in #Cuba
#law #InternationalLaw #sovereignty
reuters.com/world/americas/us-…
Thank you!
#Jan6 Police Officers Sue to Block #Trump $1.8 Billion #SlushFund
2 officers who defended the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, sued the Trump admin to try to stop the creation of a $1.8 bn fund they argue would benefit #insurgents who committed violence to support Trump. The lawsuit argues the admin exceeded its authority to create the fund without #Congress’s authorization.
#law #criminal #fraud #DOJ #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #MAGASlushFund
nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/poli…
#StephenColbert’s top-rated late-night TV program goes off the air for the final time Thursday, effectively silencing a high-profile #Trump critic.
“The legacy of this show needs to be that we remember it as the show that was canceled because a presidential administration wanted it off the air,” says Heather Hendershot, a professor of #communication studies & #journalism at Northwestern University.
#law #democracy #FreeSpeech #FreePress #media #authoritarianism
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most importantly, it looked like Paxton was going to win.
So, as he often does, Trump hitched his wagon to the side that was already going to win so he could claim the win for himself.
#Trump doesn't really care about all of that other stuff. He's spineless and oblivious to anything of substance.
He just wants the superficial chance to proclaim himself a winner again in front of his adoring crowd, and all of that factual stuff is just irrelevant annoyance.
#Midterms #primaries updates #GiftArticle link [you *should* be able to access the link till polls close; I probably won’t stay online updating the results]:
So far…
Rep #AndyBarr, a Republican backed by #Trump, easily won a contested #primary for #Senate in #Kentucky, where he will be strongly favored in November to replace the long-serving Senator #MitchMcConnell, who is retiring.
#law #Congress #elections #USpol
nytimes.com/live/2026/05/19/us…
#Trump orders #banks to take a closer look at clients' #citizenship
Trump on Tuesday signed an #ExecutiveOrder that requires banks to take a closer look at the citizenship of their customers, a new measure in his admin’s push to clamp down on people living in the country illegally.
The order directs #bank regulators & government depts to look for signs that people without legal status are opening accounts or obtaining #loans or #CreditCards.
Of course he does. Paxton was a full fledged member of the #SeditiousConspiracy to overturn the #2020election. He brought that lawsuit to #SCOTUS to nullify Biden’s win.
He’s also a #criminal, his own staff tried to get him fired from being the #Texas Attorney General.
#Trump endorses #KenPaxton in Texas #Republican primary, boosting his challenge to incumbent Sen. Cornyn
You know they’re just laughing it up about how easily #Trump can be manipulated.
#Putin visits #China to reaffirm #Russia ties after #Xi - Trump summit
The Kremlin has said Putin & Xi plan to discuss economic cooperation between the two countries, but also “key international & regional issues.” The visit coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship signed in 2001.
#geopolitics #NewWorldOrder #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism
apnews.com/article/china-russi…
Umm… say what now???
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The agreement the #DOJ made with #Trump to settle his lawsuit against the #IRS includes a provision BARRING the agency from pursuing #tax claims against Trump, his family or his businesses. The new provision was released a day after DOJ agreed to settle Trump’s lawsuit by creating a $1.8 billion compensation fund for people *he believes* were wronged by federal investigations or prosecutions.
Another good article from Paul Krugman.
"The #Looting of America"
"Think of it this way: The gravity of what the #Trumpists have already done has created a sort of black hole at the center of American political life — and the Trumpists have already crossed the event horizon, the boundary beyond which there is no escape. So they will do ever more terrible things, because they have nothing more to lose"
Blanche will face questions from #Congress over a nearly $1.8B fund to compensate #Trump allies
Acting AG #ToddBlanche will appear on Capitol Hill for his first congressional testimony since taking over #DOJ. The agency faces intense scrutiny over plans to create a $1.776 billion fund to pay allies of Trump who believe they were political targets.
#criminal #law #JudicialProcess #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #Jan6 #militia #MAGASlushFund #SlushFund
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25 Democrat #states & DC sued the #Trump #Education Dept over new graduate #StudentLoan limits, arguing the restrictions will worsen the #HealthCareWorker shortage.
“#HigherEducation is expensive, & our #health care system is already under immense strain. This rule will shut talented people out of critical professions & leave communities with fewer #healthcare providers they desperately need,” NYAG Letitia James, who is leading the coalition, said in a statement.
The #Trump admin is proposing increasing the “#refugee” admissions ceiling for fiscal year 2026 to 17,500 but only for #White #SouthAfricans, according to an “emergency” determination sent to #Congress & obtained by CNN.
#law #immigration #WhiteSupremacy #racism #asylum #FactCheck #TrumpLies
cnn.com/2026/05/18/politics/tr…
Should have happened a year ago
Judge Bars #ICE From Making #Immigration Arrests at #Courts in #NewYork
The #Trump admin’s practice of detaining immigrants at federal #courthouses [#entrapment] has stirred outrage.
#law #SafeSpace #Constitution #CivilRights #DueProcess #UseOfForce #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #MafiaState #CBP #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
nytimes.com/2026/05/18/nyregio…
👏👏 #ICE Agent Charged in #Shooting of a #Venezuelan #Immigrant in #Minnesota
The agent is the second federal officer to face #felony charges in Minnesota stemming from Operation Metro Surge, the #Trump admin’s #immigration crackdown.
#law #UseOfForce #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
nytimes.com/2026/05/18/us/ice-…
Transcript: #Trump Rages Wildly at David Sanger, a NYT Journo—and Exposes his Big Iran Blunder
“Trump doesn’t understand why the world won’t admit that he’s won a world-historical victory over #Iran.
In one of his angriest rants ever, he berated a reporter at great length for questioning his success, even accusing the reporter of treason.”
newrepublic.com/article/210551…
Transcript: Trump Rages Wildly at Journo—and Exposes Big Iran Blunder
As Trump’s tirade reveals his biggest Iran mistake of all, a political scientist explains how his pathologies undermine him abroad—and why his international failures are producing worsening autocracy at home.The New Republic
#Trump shows his hand on Taiwan
“As more than one #China analyst put it this weekend, Taiwan is no longer at the negotiating table. It’s on the menu.
Reducing #Taiwan to a transaction also strips away the larger case for why any of this matters. America defends democracies. We defend allies.”
cosmopolitics.news/p/trump-sho…
Trump shows his hand on Taiwan
Trump's Beijing summit lowered the temperature. It also raised the stakes.Elise Labott (Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott)
