A Whole-of-Government Response to One Joke
On October 24, a former president compared a gilded White House to a restaurant. By October 31, the sitting president, the Treasury Secretary, a cable news crew, and the right-wing blogosphere had dec…
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Trump's DOJ Has Found Exactly 28 Fraud Cases
The most aggressive election crackdown in American history has produced exactly 28 suspects, 0.0001 percent of one state's voters, and a president who admits he ordered it. "I'm the one that said do i…
You'll See Iran in a Couple of Weeks
The Pentagon declared the Iran war over on July 7. The White House is now scheduling the next one for the week after the midterms, and the households footing the $1,100 fuel bill get to vote in betwee…
Where Trump Goes, Impeachment Follows
The party that removed the president twice cannot bring itself to say the word, and the man it impeached has turned his opponents' process into a campaign threat. "I mean, honestly, if we wanted to pl…
Maine Trained Its Cops to Keep Trump's Feds Out
One week before the midterms, the Justice Department is sending 1,000 federal observers to polling places, and the state of Maine has responded the only way it knows how: by printing the federal statu…
The Off Switch Nobody Will Flip
An 80-year-old commander in chief could not say the name of the man he was campaigning for, and the Constitution's emergency off switch has entered the conversation for the third time this year. "They…
He Said He’d Stay. The U.S. Was Already Waiting.
Twenty-four hours after swearing on camera that he had never thought of leaving Brazil, the country's defeated presidential candidate was gone, and the United States had already promised him a visa. "…
They Charged Him on the Last Day of the Law
A statute of limitations is supposed to be a wall. This week, the Department of Justice treated it like a suggestion, and filed its charges on the last day the law allowed. "Well, they're back again. …
He Started the War. He Owns the Stocks.
The war is in its eighth month, the pump is at record prices, and the president who started it just confessed, in a whisper, exactly who "we" is when "we're" making a fortune. "I don't give a damn, I'…
Lula Won Again. Flavio Bolsonaro Wants It Voided
A coup failed once. Now the coup family is asking a court to make an election fail too. "If a conservative government in Brazil did this, everyone in the mainstream press in America would lose their m…
The Voter Fraud Doesn’t Exist. The Raids Do.
The voter fraud is a ghost. The armed agents at the doors are real. "They will all go to jail for a long period of time!!!" — President Donald Trump, after Los Angeles County refused to run a 20,000-n…
The Sixtieth Person to Die in ICE Custody
A 48-year-old man from El Salvador was found dead in a Georgia detention warehouse with a ligature around his neck, and the agency that held him counted his death as number sixty. "When our country de…
MAGA's Vile New Low, Endorsed From the Top
The floor of American politics keeps dropping, and this week the president put his name on it. "It's not easy for a mother to say this, but Amy has a serious problem. She is a liar. She lies about her…
They Declared The War Over. The Bombers Fled.
The United States has been winning this war so completely that its own long-range bombers packed up and left the country that was hosting them. "I'm not concerned at all." — Adm. Brad Cooper, CENTCOM …
The Shield Of The Americas Protects No One
When a job is invented, the paperwork has to be invented too. "This was not a press release put out by the State Department. Noem went rogue and created a fake letterhead to post on X." — One of two p…
Thank You, God, Very Much
The president of the United States watched a sixty-second ad built on the childhood rape of his opponent, and his advice to the man who aired it was to look up and thank God. "I only wish the mothers …
Doomsday, According to the Attorney General
The attorney general of the United States has told the country that the Justice Department is ready to break the November elections, should the count come out wrong. "Of course there are scenarios tha…
The Midterms Are A Ceasefire, Not A Peace
The most powerful government on Earth has agreed to a ceasefire with an expiration date, and the date is your election. "Hunting season is open as soon as the elections end and it's obvious that they'…
You Are a Humanitarian, Too, Sir
An American envoy thanks the Russian president for releasing a prisoner, then compliments the man who ordered the invasion of Ukraine. "All I can say is, if I'm ever captured by Vladimir Putin, I'd ra…
The Oil Deal No Future President Can Unsign
The White House sold the biggest oil deal in world history. The fine print was drafted so that nobody can undo it but the people who made it. "THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY!" — President Donal…
Trump's Fraud Tipline Has One Obvious Target
The president most widely considered corrupt in American history has launched a $25 million bounty program to catch fraudsters, and he has appointed himself the judge. "I'd like to report a theft. A m…
How the Pentagon Hides the True Cost of the Iran War
The Pentagon knows what the Iran war has cost. It just decided the American people are not allowed to see the whole bill. "Americans deserve to know how much of their money is being burned on Trump's …
The Only Fraud Trump Can't Find
The Justice Department says it is building a criminal case that a sitting member of Congress is not a citizen. The problem is that the case has already been investigated. Trump's own first-term offici…
Trump Signs Sanctions Law, Voids It in a Month
The president signs a bipartisan law in honor of a dead friend, then signs an executive order voiding it two weeks before the midterms, and the entire justification is one phrase: "the national intere…
Trump's Five-Day Attorney
The White House press secretary lasted five days: hired on social media as an "attorney," fired before the country finished learning her name. "She has suffered over the last few days. Maybe it's not …
Trump Mutes the Stream, Not the Firing Squad
For a week, the United States was one social media post away from broadcasting the first publicly televised state execution in modern history. The feed went dark on Thursday. The firing squad did not.…
Trump's 21,600-Pound Exit Strategy
The Pentagon has a 21,600 pound bomb that cannot destroy the target it was aimed at, and a president who needs the explosion more than the outcome. "The MOAB is a massive information operation type we…
The Hoosier Verdict
Indiana spent the last five years selling its power, its water, its farmland, and its patience to whoever was building the future. The future just sent the invoice. "The people are speaking, and they'…
Trump's $16.4 Million Pool Can't Even Hold Water
He promised a finish that would last 40 or 50 years. It came up in the first summer, and the only thing the pool reflects now is the administration that drained it. "We had vandalism there. Only sick …
Dumped by the Son, Dumped by the Father
In the Trump family, loyalty is a line item, and the bill just came due in the briefing room. "No, she wasn't a member of my family. She, I guess, dated my son a long time ago." — President Donald Tru…
Trump's New Megaphone Can't Pass a Bar Exam
The most important job in the White House is being the government's voice to the American people. The person now holding it has never passed a bar exam in any state, and the White House's only proof o…
Three Weeks Before the Midterms, They Raided Her House
Before dawn on a Monday in October, federal agents carried boxes of seized evidence out of the home of a sitting member of Congress, three weeks before the election that will decide who controls the H…
Trump's DOJ Weaponizes Antitrust Against the Press
The Justice Department that spent two years abandoning antitrust enforcement against Big Tech has just pointed that same law at the news media. "The investigation is nonsense. Trump may view the presi…
He Wanted Their Charts. They Wanted His Boss's
The administration's favorite weapon is a demand for medical records, and the weapon just found a target with a sealed door behind it. "Talafreako needs to release the medical records (if they exist a…
The Midterm Casino Has a Trump Family Discount
By November, every House race will carry a price on a betting machine, and the richest family in American politics holds a stake in the house. "Any conversation about what's going on with prediction m…
The Ambassador Who Priced the White House
Days before her confirmation hearing as the United States ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle sent a loyal Trump donor a text that read like a sales pitch with the price tag still on: wire $100,0…
The U.S. Just Sanctioned Justice Itself
Hours after the world handed a peace prize to a war crimes judge, Washington moved to strangle the court that could one day try its own. "Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC." …
He Signed the Law. Then He Bought the Diesel.
Three weeks after signing a law to choke off Russia's war money, the White House handed Moscow a six-month sanctions holiday, a guaranteed market for its diesel, and, by Zelenskyy's word, a smokescree…
The Pentagon Wants You to Watch
For the first time in nearly a century, America is preparing a public execution, and the Pentagon has promised that anyone can watch it happen on their screens. "gonna get a firing squad of soldiers, …
Trump: I Wanted to Gamble Your Retirement
At a White House ceremony celebrating a $1,000 stock-market account for every American baby, the president confessed to a 2017 plan to bet the nation's retirement trust fund on Wall Street. "Had we do…
He'll Pay You $5,000 to Vote for Him
The president has priced the November 3 ballot: $90 if you are on Medicare, $500 if you bought your own health insurance, and $5,000 to every adult citizen if your party wins. "That's not capitalism o…
The War Is Over. The Bombers Ran Home Anyway.
The United States declared this war over in July. In October, its bombers ran home from England, because the military could no longer protect them. "I'm not concerned at all." — Admiral Brad Cooper, C…
He Called It a Scam. Now He's Telling His Base to Vote It
The man who built a second term on the claim that the ballot was broken just told his base to use the broken ballot. "Whether you vote early, absentee, by mail, or in-person, we must 'swamp' the Radic…
Trump Asked Grok Before the Invasion. Grok Cheered.
The most powerful man on Earth spent hours in the Oval Office asking a chatbot whether the world would forgive him for toppling a dictator, and the chatbot said yes. It always says yes. "He asked Grok…
Morally Binding: The AI Industry's New Constitution
The AI industry wrote its own rulebook at the White House, the president called it "morally binding," and its most famous CEO told the public to just accept the bad things. "We believe that the world …
Trump Felt 'Badly' for the Accused, Not for Her
A president who once bought full-page ads demanding the death penalty for five teenagers now says he feels "badly" for men accused of drugging and gang raping an Ivy League classmate. The thing that s…
The Chatbot Who Told Trump What He Wanted to Hear
America's commander in chief asked a chatbot how a foreign population would react to a regime change. The chatbot said they would cheer. Then the bombs fell. "I like him. Do I trust him? Who do I trus…
Brazil's Spies Confirmed It: America Is Interfering
Four days before Brazil votes, the country's own intelligence agency has confirmed what Democratic lawmakers have been warning about since the summer: the United States is running an interference camp…
The Movement That Hated Big Health Now Hosts It
The anti-corporate health movement held its flagship summit in a luxury hotel ballroom, and the health industry was the guest of honor. "She initiated that contact, I shall make clear, doctor." — Russ…
The Court Said No. The Plane Flew Anyway.
An appeals court struck down the deportation program, and two private jets kept flying over the Atlantic. "The point is to scare people. With countries like Palau or Eswatini, the point is that the Ad…
To Defend Propaganda, The White House Cited Its Inventors
The White House has a new public service announcement, and it is a jingle that asks the country to love a man. "This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political ca…
Supreme Court Revives The Voter Purge Machine
The Supreme Court has not found a single case of a noncitizen casting a ballot. It has found a database that has already mislabeled actual citizens as noncitizens, and a reason to let it keep running.…
Trump Rejected The Deal That Would've Ended The War
A war that could have ended in seven days now has a new deadline: November 3. The president, a self-described dealmaker, turned down the only deal on the table. "I Rejected Their Deal. They Want To Ma…
Twenty-Six Articles of Impeachment, Zero Votes
The most ambitious impeachment file in modern American history was introduced by a congressman who is about to retire, in a chamber that will never vote on it, against a president who knows it will ne…
Paid For By The US Government: Love Me
The White House calls the $443,000 commercial a public service, and the soundtrack says "love me." "Together we will defeat communism, socialism and Marxism in America. America will never be a communi…
Claude Refused to Build Killer AI. The Pentagon Exiled It.
The Pentagon's favorite AI said no to killer robots and mass surveillance, so the secretary of war exiled it from the American defense economy, and a split appeals court just ruled the exile was legal…
The Judge Who Ended the Press Ban Was His Man
On Thursday, a judge appointed by Donald Trump ordered the White House to hand back three newsrooms' press badges, and the White House spent most of the day holding onto them, on the day Xi Jinping wa…
Cheat Like Hell: The January 3 Playbook
The president told his party to cheat, a retired judge published the mechanism for the coup, and the fate of the 120th Congress may now rest on one of the least known jobs in Washington: clerk of the …
The White House Is a Privilege, Not a Right
The U.S. government filed a federal court brief saying the First Amendment is a courtesy the president extends to reporters he likes. "Access to the White House is a privilege, not a right." — DOJ Sen…
Diesel at Six-Fifty Is the GOP's Kryptonite
One number on a diesel pump is now worth more to the Republican Party than the president of the United States, and everyone in the room knows it. "It's a referendum on our government. [Trump] is the h…
America's Disappearances, Now Digitized
The government has a new way of making people vanish: it simply stops saying where they are. "To me, it's just another iteration of disappearing people. Why would we do that in the United States of Am…
A Chatbot Almost Started a War With China
A machine invented a war with China, the American military nearly started it, and the administration's answer was to declare the president himself the only guardrail artificial intelligence needs. "Th…
Grounded: Washington's War on Iranian Skies
The most powerful weapon in the American arsenal has no barrel: it is an invoice, a deadline, and a note to every airport on earth that says, land that plane at your own risk. "You cannot provide them…
U.N.: U.S. Boat Bombings 'Plausibly' Crimes Against Humanity
The United Nations has concluded that the United States is plausibly committing crimes against humanity at sea. The American response is to sink more boats. "The United States military attacks are, ho…
It Took the UN to Notice the School Was a School
The Pentagon's targeting database still listed the school as part of a military base, until the United Nations looked at the satellite photos and noticed the murals, the playground, and the children. …
The Name He Can't Have, the Building He'll Wreck
A president who couldn't get his name on a memorial has started taking the building apart instead. "I saw a forklift carrying what appeared to be a more permanent form of fencing drive over to the nor…
The War's Second Invoice
The war that put gas at $4.32 a gallon is now charging every mortgage, auto loan, and credit card in America a second time. "The board is very hostile. They're very political. They're doing the wrong …
The War They Told You Was Already Won
The most honest document the Pentagon has produced in months is one it had no intention of making public. "This is major damage to our bases that hasn't been communicated to the American public. We're…
The $5,000 Check He Can't Pay For
The cheapest way to keep a government, the president has decided, is to offer every adult a $5,000 check that only pays out if his party stays in power. "Here is my promise: if the Republicans win the…
The First President to Own His Own Bank
Washington spent months arguing over a crypto bill, but the real question was never about the industry: it was about the first sitting president in history who is about to own his own federally charte…
The War He Called 'Over Soon' Is Now $4.32 a Gallon
Seven months after the president promised a four-to-six-week war, its bill has arrived at the pump. "He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia. Let him go after targets, but not diesel fuel, b…
The AI Guardrail Is an 80-Year-Old Man
The builders of artificial intelligence spent the weekend warning that their own technology could end the world. The guardrail the country is now told to rely on is a man who declared himself smart en…
I'll Look at It When I Get Back
Twenty-five years after the worst attack on American soil, the families of the dead did the only thing left to them: they handed the president a list of files and asked him to open them. His answer wa…
We Will Never Forget, Unless the War Needs a Lie
Twenty-five years after the worst attack on American soil, the country's leaders told two false stories in a single week, and between them turned a national day of mourning into a sales pitch for the …
It May As Well Happen Now
The most powerful man on earth flew to Ireland to play golf at a course he owns and, at a press conference beside the taoiseach, suggested the borders of the United States' oldest ally could be redraw…
The President Drew a Map. It Said 'Ours'
An 80-year-old president spent a weekend coloring in an empire on social media, and the most unsettling reaction to the map was not outrage. It was agreement. "That's not insanity. That's intention." …
Raise Your Right Hand: The GOP's Oath Rally
The Republican Party's first midterm convention in the modern era ended the only way it could: with the president asking a half-empty arena to raise its hands and swear an oath of fealty. "Please rais…
The Witch Hunt's Own Prosecutor Quit
The White House installed its most devoted conspiracy theorist to turn the "witch hunt" against Donald Trump into a real criminal case, and five months later he walked out, leaving one line behind tha…
Trump Schedules the Iran War Around the Midterms
The president who started a war on a whim has now given it a calendar: November, after the votes are in. "I think war is going to end immediately after the election because they can't hold out any lon…
Year 25 of the Emergency That Never Ended
Twenty-five years after the towers fell, the president who says two firemen carried him to safety is the same one presiding over the emergency that has kept America at war ever since. "They grabbed me…
Kirk Is Dead. His Purge Isn't.
One year after his murder, Charlie Kirk's witch hunt is still destroying careers, and his widow now runs the machine from his grave. "When you see someone celebrating Charlie's murder, call them out..…
Trump Pledges $5,000 Dividend if GOP Wins Midterms
A president who has run up a $40 trillion national debt tells a crowd he can pay every adult American $5,000, and calls it a dividend. "If the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000. It w…
The Pentagon Runs Lie Detectors on Its Own Officers
A Pentagon that cannot confirm its own stockpiles has started running lie detectors on its own officers to find out who told the truth. "The 'leakers' of these treasonous statements are being hunted d…
Trump Calls the Iran War "Small Potatoes"
Six months into a war he said would last "four to five weeks," the man who started it is now describing it as "small potatoes." "I call it a military conflict because it's small potatoes for us. It's …
IRS Audit Revenue Plunged 35%. The Rich Won.
The government that promised the rich would finally get their due quietly dismantled the only department with the teeth to enforce the promise. "An obvious fact: If you get rid of auditors, you raise …
Trump Buys a Fifth of Venezuela for the Pentagon
A president who kidnapped a foreign head of state now holds, on paper, a hundred-year claim to a fifth of his victim's oil. He calls it the biggest deal in world history. The gas prices say otherwise.…
Let Data Reign. Let the Ratepayers Pay.
The president called the people refusing a data center in their town "backwards and poor." His own party's senators did the math, and they did not like the answer. "No, Mr. President, the 75% of Ameri…
Trump Told Fans to Buy. The Numbers Say They Lost.
A consumer watchdog counted up what happened to the money of the people the president told to go buy his coins. The total was a number the White House declined to contest. "I am not a fan of Bitcoin a…
Trump Bombed an Island No One Hit
The president bombed a place that was never hit, with a video no plane filmed, and then told the country the enemy was finished. "Mr. Trump's tweets are laughable, and conditions in Kharg are calm and…
Trump Turns to the FCC to Silence the Polls
When a president can't stand to see his own approval rating, the natural instinct is to silence the people measuring it, not to improve the numbers. The Trump administration chose the first option, an…
Trump Admin Pushes Deal to Sell Part of Yosemite
A 150-year rule of American public land is being broken by a road that isn't even very long. "This is an attack on the American people that own this national park. It would also be unlawful and a cour…
Trump Renamed a Lake. Google Obeyed.
An 80-year-old president signs a paper to rename a body of water, and Google, of all companies, obliges. "The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declar…
The Biggest Oil Deal in World History: 55% and No Contract
A president who raided another country in the middle of the night now claims to own half its oil, and the whole thing is described, in the main document we have, by a single social media post. "THE BI…
Trump Hyped $3.47 Gas. It May Be Stolen
A president sold the country a miracle at the pump. The miracle, a lawsuit says, was built on fuel someone else didn't get to keep. "KRSM was able to sell such fuel for such low prices and garner such…
Trump Renames Lake Ontario. The Lake Refuses.
The name is more than four hundred years old. It predates both countries. It is the only thing in this trade war that no executive order can touch. "Canadians also know that naming reality means calli…
Iran War Left Allies Short of Missiles. China Watched.
A war fought for the Strait of Hormuz is quietly unmaking the military deterrent meant for the Pacific. "We have just been asked by Iran, and other Middle Eastern Countries, to hold off any attack in …
Trump’s Crypto Grift Cost Investors $4.7 Billion
One man's word was worth $4.7 billion to the people who believed it. "I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin ai…
Trump Aide Ran a Year on No Security Check
A single offhand sentence about a 35-year-old aide set off a White House meltdown, and the fallout reveals a president who cannot seem to tell the difference between a job description and a comfort ob…
Supreme Court Clears Way for Trump Mail Voting Order
The Supreme Court didn't rule that the president can rig the election. It just ruled that the courts have to wait to be allowed to stop him. "This ruling violates well-established precedents concernin…
Big Oil Is Raking In Trump's War Windfall
The war Trump's own voters are deserting is, it turns out, a boom time for the men who already own the country's refineries. "There is a massive transfer of wealth occurring as billions around the wor…
Canada Declares Economic War on Trump
For the first time in decades, Canada's prime minister has told his own people that he is at war, and that the country he leads will not crawl back to the old deal. "You're at war when you get attacke…
Trump Wants Data Centers Everywhere But Not Near Mar-a-Lago
A president insists every community should want a data center, even as his own regulator quietly rewrites the rules so those communities never get to find out one is coming. "Trump thinks that every c…
The Guard Members Are Ashamed of D.C.
The soldiers the president sent to his own capital to make it safe are now the ones telling the country they do not want to be there. "I will say very frankly that the bad taste that this mission left…
The DOJ Whistleblower Behind the Ivy League Probes
When the Justice Department finds nothing wrong, the funding still gets cut. "There's no way we're going to get a letter of no violation cleared." — A Trump administration official, as described by th…
Trump Wants PR Help for Data Centers
The man who won a presidency on a promise to "drain the swamps" of corporate influence is now, at a White House gala, advising Silicon Valley that its unpopular machines could "use a little public rel…
ICE's Passport Office
An administration that calls a foreign government a death machine quietly hands its passport to that same government's agents and books a seat for a dozen of its dissidents. "Iran has requested that I…
He Threatened to Bomb the Peacemaker
A two-month truce is supposed to be a runway toward peace. This one was a countdown to the next threat, and the threat was aimed at a country that has not fired on the United States in two centuries o…
They Pulled the Drills Because Seoul Said No
A president who is fighting a war in the Persian Gulf just told his most reliable ally in Asia that he is disappointed it said no, and that he would like to charge it less for being disappointed. "I r…
They Are Selling the President's Words
A president turns the White House into a data feed and starts selling it to the highest bidder. "Trump is trying to enrich himself by privatizing government information that he has no right to sell. W…
Trump Orders Navy Back to 1950s Steam Catapults
A president who once called the Navy's newest catapults "goddamned" technology has now signed an order to tear them out of a warship mid-build and replace them with steam pipes from the 1950s. "You're…
Trump Regulator Backs His Sons Crypto Bank
A regulator chosen by the president approves a federal bank charter for a crypto firm run by his own sons, 38 percent of which is owned by an entity he is affiliated with. "This is the most brazen act…
Trump: Sailors Not At Sea Long Enough
Five thousand sailors are stranded aboard a floating metal prison, some of them trying to jump overboard. The man who sent them there says the war has not gone on long enough. "Have some sympathy, som…
Board Votes to Bolt Trump's Name Back on the Kennedy Center
A president loses a court case over a building, then instructs the same board to bolt his name back on. "This latest development is a transparent effort to circumvent the court's ruling, and flies in …
Trump's CFTC Uses Cold War Powers to Protect Sports Betting
A federal regulator has invoked emergency powers not used since Carter's grain embargo, telling a company to defy a court order, and even the company it is supposed to protect says it is being set up …
Trump Sued for Selling Access to His Own Presidential Posts
trump, corruption, first amendment, truth social The president of the United States is selling advance access to his own official announcements for up to $100,000 a month. "There is no legitimate inte…
$4 Billion to Build Nothing
$4 Billion to Build Nothing tags: trump, offshore wind, fossil fuel A president promises energy dominance while spending billions to erase the clean power industry. "I've spent 15 or so years working …
Trump's Chaos-by-Design Blueprint to Subvert the Midterms
A former homeland security chief of staff says the Trump administration is building a blueprint to seize ballots in swing states, paralyze election certification, and weaponize chaos if the midterms g…
Trump Flew a Catering Truck, Called Everyone Else Expendable
The president flew on an airplane that was officially not his airplane, using a vehicle that normally delivers sandwiches. "I'm number one on their list, before you. But if I go, you go, right? So per…
President Trump Blocks BBC From His Financial Records
tags: trump, bbc, defamation, courts A sitting president declares an emergency to keep his business empire invisible, and the judge obliges. "It is a transparent effort to evade this Court's clear and…
Trump Sons' Georgia Tower Tied to a Russian Oligarch
A company with ties to sanctioned Russian banks and illegal online gambling is co-developing Trump Tower Tbilisi. The Trump Organization named the company as a partner. The company now says it has not…
Trump Lawyer Confirmed as AG, Promises National Abortion Ban
A president's personal lawyer now sits atop the Department of Justice, and his first order of business is to finish what a Supreme Court majority started. "We're working to get solutions so that the D…
Trump Secretly Privatizes TSA Ahead of 9/11 Anniversary
Twenty-five years after 9/11, the Trump administration is quietly selling off the security system Congress built to prevent it from happening again. "Somebody's forgetting." — Hydrick Thomas, AFGE TSA…
Trump Gives $150M to a Firm With Zero Expertise to Defend Migrant Kids
A law firm whose closest thing to immigration expertise is a corporate lawyer who changed fields five months ago has been handed $150 million to represent the most vulnerable children in the federal d…
The Fraud Czar Throws Trump Under the Bus
A vice president vows to throw fraudsters in prison, working for a president who has pardoned dozens of convicted fraudsters and been found liable for fraud himself. "I don't care where you came from.…
Trump Signs New Orders After Birthright Defeat
The Supreme Court told the president the Constitution does not bend to executive orders. His response was to sign two more. "It's a new world. It's the same Constitution." — Chief Justice John Roberts…
100 Billion in Tariffs, Nothing Back for Americans
100 Billion in Tariffs, Nothing Back for Americans tags: trump, tariffs, consumers, economy A president tells Fox News his economic policy has been incredible while the Treasury writes $100 billion in…
Lincoln at Sea: The Carrier Trump Is Breaking
A ship doctor on the USS Abraham Lincoln warned the crew is about to break. The families of 5,000 sailors say they are already broken. "The morale is not good. Apparently, the ship's doctor or therapi…
Hat and No Cattle: Republicans Failed to Stop Trump's AG
Two Republican senators threatened to block the attorney general nominee, then took his word that a $1.8 billion slush fund would vanish. "I have not seen something as farcical as what I have witnesse…
Capital One: Trump's Business Triggered Laundering Review
trump, banking, capital one A major bank has formally told a court that Donald Trump's business generated transaction patterns flagged for possible money laundering. "Documents and Plaintiffs' own all…
MAGA Eats Its Own: The DHS Secretary Who Was Too Legal
The most loyal movement in American politics is already trying to fire the cabinet secretary who replaced its last pariah. "Mullin is the wrong guy at the wrong time for the wrong job. At a time when …
The US Went to War With Iran. Then It Ran Out of Missiles.
trump, munitions, iran, military The United States went to war with Iran and ran out of missiles before it ran out of things to hit. "It takes several years to produce a missile. If you put money into…
White House Pulled Strings to Free Sex Traffickers' Phones
A White House official with prior representation ties to the Tate brothers told DHS agents to hand back seized electronics, calling it a waste of government time. "The Tates will be free, Trump is the…
Trump Spends 70% of His Brain on Construction
An 80-year-old president has spent the better part of his second term acting as his own architect, designer, and interior decorator while the country he was elected to lead faces a war, economic anxie…
Trump Defends Iran as Its Hackers Target Minnesota Water
A president at war with Iran tells the American public that Iran could not possibly have hacked Minnesota's water systems. "Iran should be so lucky. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minn…
President Sells Priority Access to His Own Posts for $100K a Month
A sitting president has turned his public communications into a subscription service. "No company should help the president convert official government acts into personal profit." — Sen. Mark Warner, …
Trump's Own Man Blocks Trump's AG Nominee
Todd Blanche was supposed to be Trump's reward for loyalty. Instead, he became the proof that loyalty only works when you have something to offer. "They know what they need to do, but they simply refu…
FIFA's \$20B Fire Sale Has the Trump Family at the Table
The world's most-watched sporting event is now being packaged and priced for private equity, with Trump's son-in-law on the buyer's list. "None of us are the owners of football. It is not FIFA's to se…
Sanctioned Trump Lawyer Named Dean of Florida Law School
Florida's public university system found a new way to reward political loyalty: install a lawyer sanctioned by a federal court as dean of a law school. "It looks like politics has superseded merit." —…
Trump Took Venezuela’s Oil. Then the Money Vanished
A president seizes a foreign country's oil, collects $13 billion, and then makes sure nobody can find the money. "All of Congress has been kept in the dark by the Trump administration." — Rep. Joaquin…
CPSC Demands Every ER Patient Record Under the Guise of Toaster Safety
A federal agency tasked with tracking injuries from lawn mowers and coffeemakers is now demanding the personally identifiable medical records of every person who walks into an emergency room. "They wa…
Trump Admits in Court He Punished Blue States on Grants
The Trump administration admitted in federal court that it canceled billions in energy grants because the recipient states did not vote for him. "Defendants freely admit that they made grant-terminati…
Border Czar Admits Killer Agent Should Never Have Been Hired
A federal law enforcement agency hired a man with a documented pattern of domestic abuse to carry a gun and a badge, then watched him kill an immigrant. "No, if those ... are facts ... I don't think h…
State Department's 100-Page Cuba Report Reads Like a Pre-Invasion Propaganda Pamphlet
The Trump administration has spent 100 pages trying to convince Americans that an island suffering daily blackouts poses the single greatest ideological threat to the United States since the Soviet Un…
Trump's Stealth Plan to Erase Immigrants From the Census
The Trump administration is rewriting what it means to "live here," using a regulatory filing so boring that almost nobody noticed it was submitted. "If you can't deport every immigrant, you can at le…
Mullin Threatens Prison for Election Officials Who Defy Trump
The head of the Department of Homeland Security has drawn a line in the sand: obey his election demands or face prison. "Those individuals can also be held accountable by fines, by penalties, and even…
Public Health Implodes Under the Man Who Feared Vaccines
The man who spent decades calling vaccines dangerous now oversees the country's health agencies while diseases return from elimination. "When the Trump administration declares a crisis 'under control'…
White House Used Keyword Searches to Kill Research Grants
The federal government admitted in court that it Ctrl+F'd through scientific grants looking for words like "equity" and "racism," then pulled the funding. "Identified the viewpoints they wanted to sup…
Houthis Blockade the Last Oil Chokepoint. Prices Top \$100
A president who launched a war to protect American interests has watched it choke the one supply line his allies built to survive that war. "If something like that happens, we'll take care of it. We'v…
Pentagon Hides 100+ Wounded as Iran War Casualties Spiral
pentagon, iran war, military, trump The official death toll says 19. A government official says the real number of Americans killed or wounded is far higher, and that the discrepancy is by design. "Of…
Trump Own Documents Disprove His Election Theft Claims
The president released documents meant to prove the election was stolen. The documents prove the opposite. "Ratcliffe's description of the analytical finding here is misleading, and this kind of inacc…
The President Stole the Documents to Steal the Election
The president declassified intelligence to prove the election was stolen. The documents proved nothing. But every career analyst who touched those files is now on notice. "We have deliberately massage…
Epstein Lobbied Foreign Powers. Nobody Charged Him.
House Democrats say the emails prove Epstein was running a foreign influence operation for multiple governments, all while never registering as required by law. "Jeffrey Epstein never registered as a …
Trump Administration Sheltered Accused Rapists
A family of accused rapists has been living freely in America for over a year, shielded by White House connections while the rest of the world tries to hold them accountable. "Yes, it was politically …
DOJ Subpoenas Journalists Families Over Air Force One Leak
The Trump Justice Department subpoenaed the phone records of New York Times journalists' mothers and spouses to find who leaked stories about the president's Air Force One. "These actions demonstrate …
Trump Sells Wall Street Early Access to His Own Posts
The sitting president of the United States is building a toll booth between himself and the American people. "Markets already move on Truth Social posts. As adoption grows, we expect Truth API to beco…
Trump Goes After ABC and NBC Licenses After Speech Snub
trump, fcc, media, first amendment The president threatened to strip broadcast licenses because two networks refused to air his speech. "Fraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses." — …
Terrorism Charges for a Bread Baker in Gaza
The United States has decided that giving bread to starving children in Gaza qualifies as terrorism financing. "I don't doubt the decision was made to seek Chambers' extradition because it looks good …
Trump Tariff Refunds: Wall Street Gets Rich, Consumers Get Nothing
A Supreme Court ruled that the government illegally collected billions in tariffs, so it has to give the money back. The problem is everyone who actually paid those tariffs gets nothing while Wall Str…
Judge Shatters Trump Article II Firing Theory
The Trump administration believed that Article II of the Constitution gave the president unlimited power to fire any federal worker. A federal judge just told them they were wrong. "For the last 140 y…
Trump DOJ Loses 16 Straight Cases Seizing Voter Files
The Justice Department has sued more than 30 states for their voters' personal data and lost every single time, at the hands of judges the Trump administration itself put on the bench. "DOJ is now 0-1…
Trump Subpoenas Journalists Who Exposed His Plane
The Justice Department is subpoenaing journalists who reported a security flaw on a plane the president was too embarrassed to fly. "The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of…
Trump Turned Presidential Speech Into a Stock Ticker
The president's teleprompter operator bet on his speech content. The president's stock trades line up with his social media posts. And now the president's social media platform is selling real-time da…
Congress Quietly Fuses US Military With Israels
trump, israel, military, congress Buried in the annual defense bill is a provision that would give Israel a dedicated Pentagon official with the authority to override US military agencies on weapons d…
Trump Spurred ICE Chaos to Look Tough on TV
An immigration agency operates like a traveling carnival of lawlessness, with a president who fueled the chaos because he wanted it to look tough on television. "It's just surreal. I can't believe thi…
Trump Sons Cash in on Daddys Pentagon Spending
While his father controls the Pentagon's spending decisions, Trump's sons have been quietly building a defense tech portfolio worth billions. "Even if not buying drones from China is in the public int…
Trump Promised Cheaper Groceries. Then He Went to War.
The government says inflation is cooling. At the grocery store, nobody believes it. Trump Promised Cheaper Groceries. Then He Went to War. "June CPI is a rearview mirror. The decline was real, but ref…
Judge Throws Out Trump's $1.8 Billion Slush Fund
A federal judge has declared Trump's $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" a legal nullity, calling out the collusive fraud between the White House and its own Justice Department. "Settlements betw…
Trump Turns Birth Control Into a Baby Factory
The federal government's only family planning program is being turned into a baby factory, and the people who run it believe embryos are already children. "Congress intended this program to help equal…
Trump Gutted the Election Agency. No One Is Left.
The president fires everyone on the only federal agency dedicated to elections, then cites a Supreme Court ruling that gave him permission to do it. "The Republicans should say, we want to take over. …
Iran Strikes the Gulf. The Ceasefire Was Always Doomed.
The world's most vital oil chokepoint has been reduced to a shooting gallery, and the ceasefire that was supposed to fix it is already dead. "A return to full-scale hostilities would have catastrophic…
How Marco Rubio Became Venezuela Viceroy
The United States calls it diplomacy. The arrangement looks like empire. "Insane. Derelict. Unconscionable. And impeachable." — Elizabeth Saunders, Columbia University political science professor, on …
Graham Died. The Senate Has No One Left to Push the Gas
A man who spent his career telling America to keep its military hand on the trigger collapsed the moment he touched down from Kyiv. "Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the greatest people and Senators I h…
Kushner Bought Land From a Cocaine Launderer
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner bought a stretch of Albanian coastline from a man prosecutors say laundered cocaine money using forged deeds, and the purchase price is now frozen in a notary's account.…
Trump Threatens to Decimate Iran While Diplomats Scramble
The president of the United States threatens to annihilate a country on social media while diplomats scramble behind the scenes to stop the very war he is hyping. "1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded …
Trump Empties the Election Commission
With four seats empty and a midterm election three months away, the only federal agency devoted to elections has been left with no one in charge. "The guardrails Congress placed on this agency are cle…
Trump Demands a Supreme Court Do-Over He Knows Will Be Denied
Trump lost his birthright citizenship case at the Supreme Court and his response was to demand a do-over from the same nine people who just told him no. "I will be asking for a Rehearing by the United…
McConnell's Medical Black Box: Three Weeks, No Answers
mcconnell, trump, politics A sitting senator vanishes into a hospital room, and the entire Republican establishment responds with the same thing it always does: total silence. "No, I have no. I have n…
Trump Invents the Islamic Republic of Japan at NATO
The president in charge of the nuclear codes confused an active adversary with America's oldest Asian ally, then called the Ukrainian leader sitting next to him by his enemy's name. "I told this story…
U.S. Sharing Asylum Seeker Data With Iran, Lawsuit Alleges
A country at war with another country is quietly feeding its enemy the names of people who fled it. "Congress made these confidentiality protections mandatory precisely because lives depend on them, a…
Trump Admits Pro-Democracy Measures Would Destroy The GOP
The president says that restoring basic democratic protections would annihilate his own political party. "They do this, and the Republican Party is DEAD!" — Donald Trump, on a resolution to restore vo…
Trump Calls, Red Card Gone: White House and the World Cup
The president of the United States made a phone call. A player's red card vanished. The entire world watched, and nobody knew what to do about it. "Red cards are not overturned by political phone call…
GOP Bloodbath: Senate GOP Panicking Ahead Of Midterms
trump, midterms, republicans, gop Senate Republicans are receiving the same polling data as every other campaign in America, and it is making them panic. "The poll numbers that I am seeing are not ver…
Supreme Courts Shadow Docket Has Overtaken Open Justice
The Supreme Court has quietly become a government by anonymous ballot, deciding more consequential cases in secret than in open court for the first time in modern history. "The result is a body that l…
Trump Postal Plot: Two Judges Block Mail Ballot Scheme
The president wants the Post Office to decide who gets to vote. Two federal judges just said no. "The Proposed Rule violates paragraph 2 of the Agreement because the Postal Service cannot post documen…
30 Years For A Box Of Zines: The Prairieland Sentencing
The Trump administration has just made it federal prison time to possess political pamphlets you disagree with. "The punishment must fit the crimes, not the headlines, not the politics, not the fears …
Trump Pushed More Death Cases Than His Entire First Term
An administration measures its commitment to justice by how many people it can put on death row, and the targets look exactly like the targets always have. "The American public has made a very, very d…
Israel Tries to Kill Iran Negotiators to Derail US Peace
israel, iran, trump, netanyahu The United States went to extraordinary lengths to protect Iran's negotiators from assassination, and the country it asked to protect them from was its closest ally in t…
Kavanaugh Gave Congress the Keys to Undo Birthright Citizenship
Brett Kavanaugh voted to block Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship, then handed Congress the keys to finish the job. "Consistent with the 14th Amendment, Congress could amend that statut…
Trump Orders Secret ICE Surge: 10,000 Arrests in Five Days
After ICE operations ended in bloodshed last year, the administration tried something new: do it quietly, with no cameras and no fanfare. "If you come to our country illegally, we will find you, we wi…
Trump Cashed Out $1.2B From Crypto. Investors Got Nothing.
trump, crypto, corruption The president of the United States made over $1.2 billion from cryptocurrency ventures in his first year back in office. The investors who bought in are sitting on 80 percent…
DOJ Taps Guantanamo Prosecutors to Hunt Domestic Dissent
trump, doj, domestic-terrorism, civil-liberties The Justice Department has recruited Guantanamo prosecutors to treat political dissent as terrorism. "It means they're looking at group criminality, con…
He Made $2.2 Billion. He Just Will Not Pay $5 Million.
The Supreme Court gave him everything he wanted, including nearly unlimited power. But $5 million for a jury verdict he lost? That is apparently too much to ask. "Surprisingly, the Supreme Court decli…
Trump Plan B: Ban Pregnant Women from Entering
immigration, trump, supreme court, birthright citizenship After the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, the Trump administration's next move was to try to bar pregnant women from setting foot…
Kash Patel's Crypto Stake Was a Crime He Forgot to Report
The FBI Director who promised to root out corruption holds a secret stake in the very industry he is supposed to regulate. "Any other FBI Director would have resigned before this story broke. The real…
The President Is About To Become A Federally Chartered Bank
The sitting president of the United States is about to become a federally chartered bank. "For the first time in history, a president is leaning on a bank regulator to give his private enterprise the …
U.S. Deported 146 to Venezuela. Then the Earthquake Hit
venezuela, deportations, trump, earthquake The United States deported 146 people to Venezuela on a Wednesday morning. By afternoon, twin earthquakes had killed over 1,700 in the country. The hotel whe…
Roberts Gives Trump the Government, Keeps the Money
A Supreme Court hands a president absolute power to fire anyone in any agency, then immediately refuses to give him the same power over one institution that controls interest rates. "The result is a P…
5 Million Lost Coverage. Republicans Made Sure Of It.
Five million Americans lost health insurance in six months. Their representatives made sure it happened. "Republicans created this crisis on purpose, and while Americans pay for it with their health a…
450 Years for a Box of Zines: Prairieland Sentenced
The Trump administration has handed down 450 years of federal prison time for what amounts to a noise protest outside an immigration detention center. "The punishment must fit the crimes, not the head…
Trump Built A Fair. Nobody Came.
A president promised a Golden Age celebration for the 250th birthday of the country, then built a plywood ghost town on the National Mall and told everyone the crowds were "incredible." "The Crowd was…
Trump Bombs Iran the Day After Signing Ceasefire
The United States signed a ceasefire with Iran, then bombed Iran. "Obviously, this is a foolish violation of our Ceasefire Agreement." — Donald Trump, Truth Social, June 26, 2026 The memorandum of und…
Bolton Pleads Guilty to Retaining Classified Documents
john bolton, trump, classified documents, justice The man who called for war with Iran and North Korea now has federal prosecutors asking for five years in his own country's prison. "None of which we …
30 Years for Moving a Box: Prairieland Sentences Shatter Justice
A Texas judge just handed down a sentence longer than any January 6 convict received. "The punishment must fit the crimes, not the headlines, not the politics, not the fears that have been mongered ab…
USPS Threatens to Block Mail Ballots Unless States Hand Over Voter Rolls
A federal judge called it what it was: an unconstitutional power grab dressed up as election security. "The Constitution does not grant the President any specific powers over elections." — U.S. Distri…
Congress Finally Votes to Stop Trump's Iran War
For the first time in American history, both chambers of Congress voted to stop a president's unauthorized war. "Regardless of what President Trump says, this measure is binding under the War Powers R…
51 Dead in ICE Custody, and the Government Stopped Counting
The Trump administration has built a detention system that kills people and then stopped counting the dead. "Your Administration either failed to account for this predictable result or proceeded despi…
America's New Colony: Health Data
tags: trump, africa, health, data The United States is trading lifesaving medicine for access to the private medical records of millions of Africans, and the countries have no real choice but to say y…
Congress Wrote the Check. Trump Refused to Cash It.
Congress gave the president a check for foreign aid, he signed it, and then his administration refused to cash it. "It is a huge grab of power from the president, taking powers away from Congress." — …
Trump-Backed Paramilitary Lawyer Wins Colombia Election
trump, colombia, elections, latin america A US president publicly endorses a foreign candidate who represents paramilitary clients, then celebrates his narrow victory as though it were a personal win.…
Trump's \$14.7 Million Algae Pond
The president spent $14.7 million painting a public pool his favorite shade of blue, then tried to arrest citizens for swimming in the green algae that grew in it. "These are very serious crimes havin…
Trump Crypto Firm Set to Get Federal Banking Backing
For the first time in American history, a sitting president is asking a federal bank regulator to give his private cryptocurrency company the implicit backing of the U.S. government. "For the first ti…
Trump Needs Aides To Google His Enemies
Trump's Staffers Can't Keep Up With A President Who Keeps Forgetting Things A president who once built his brand on knowing every deal, every name, and every angle now needs aides to Google the people…
Qatar's $400 Million Gift Is Now Air Force One
A foreign monarchy bought the plane, American taxpayers are paying to modify it, and it will end up in a president's personal library. "Why should our military, and therefore our taxpayers, be forced …
Trump Panics as Iran Deal Cracks Under Israel's Defiance
He signed a surrender document at Versailles, threatened to "drop bombs right smack in the middle of their head" at the G7, and privately lost his mind when he realized nobody believed him. "They've g…
How DOGE Created A $1 Billion Screwworm Crisis
The Trump administration just asked Congress for one billion dollars to fight a parasitic fly that kills cattle. The twist? They dismantled the program that was keeping it at bay. "DOGE has cut fundin…
Trump's Ballroom Lie: Taxpayers Are Paying For It
A president promised his vanity project would cost American taxpayers nothing. Internal documents show he was lying from day one. "Tie the project more closely to security-related issues since USSS is…
Newsom Joins Trump's DOJ Enemies List
The governor of America's most populous state says the Justice Department is hunting for a crime against him, and he seems almost eager to be indicted. "One by one, anyone who has challenged Donald Tr…
Kushner's Albanian Island: The Flamingo Revolution
An Albanian island that no one lived on is now the most fought-over piece of real estate in the Balkans, because a billionaire family decided it looked nice from a yacht. "We were on a friend's boat, …
Trump Turns America 250 Into A Campaign Rally
The president has decided that the nation's 250th birthday is actually his. "On July 4th, at The Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, in beautiful and safe Washington D.C., we are going to host t…
Trump Holds Kennedy Center Hostage Over His Own Name
A president who illegally renamed a national monument is now holding it hostage over his own ego. "The District Court is not allowing us to close in order to properly fix up and repair the Building, i…
Trump Declared Victory in Iran on Day 11. He Was Wrong.
Trump declared victory in his war with Iran eleven days after starting it. More than two thousand hours later, every single objective remains unmet. "We won. In the first hour it was over." : Donald T…
Trump Turns White House Lawn Into UFC Fight Club
A president turns the White House lawn into a fight club, dresses it in military honors, pays the fighters with his family's crypto, and kicks the press out of the building. "I'm literally flabbergast…
Trump's Spy Chief Pick Killed His Spying Law
Trump appointed a mortgage regulator to run America's spy agencies, and it turned out to be exactly what privacy advocates needed to finally kill his surveillance law. "Voting for a clean reauthorizat…
Supreme Court Set to Hand Trump Power to Fire Anyone, Anytime
The Roberts Court is about to hand the president a tool that no American chief executive has ever possessed: the constitutional authority to fire any government worker at will. "This is a choice—an il…
Ambani Pays Trump Jr.'s Failing Startup
A Texas startup that could not raise money for ten years suddenly found a billionaire investor, right after the president's son took a secret stake. "Everybody in the world wants to do business with t…
Trump Bought UFC Stock Before Hosting It at the White House
A president turns the South Lawn into a sporting arena while buying stock in the company that profits from it. "Using the White House to promote a company and simultaneously buying stock in that compa…
Trump Pulte Appointment Forces Dems to Block Spying Law
A Trump administration housing executive with zero intelligence experience becomes spy chief, and suddenly Democrats find their spines. "Voting for a clean reauthorization of Section 702 is co-signing…
U.S. Military Killed People Who May Have Been Trafficked
A Pentagon official admitted in a classified briefing that some of the people the U.S. military killed in its first boat strike may have been victims of human trafficking. "Why would 11 people be on b…
Trump Loves Inflation. America Can't Afford It.
trump, inflation, economy A president told reporters he loves the very force emptying American wallets. "The numbers were great. You know what I really love? I love the inflation." — Donald Trump, Ova…
Vance Held Secret Epstein Meeting After Calling It Fake News
The White House insisted there was nothing to see in the Epstein files, even as its own Justice Department produced millions of pages containing more than 38,000 references to Donald Trump. "I saw the…
Trump DOJ Indicts SPLC for What the FBI Does Daily
The Trump Justice Department indicted a civil rights group for using the exact same informant tactics the FBI employs routinely, then pardoned the president's own proven fraud. "I don't think any pros…
GOP Defies Trump Over Iran War
A president can start a war without Congress, but he cannot stop his own party from eventually turning against it. "I'd say in that part of the world, 'cease-fire' is when you're shooting in a more mo…
Trump Sued His Own IRS. He Got Tax Immunity Instead.
The president sued his own IRS for $10 billion, then settled for something worth more: permanent tax immunity for himself and his family. "As far as I'm concerned, it was a beautiful thing." -- Presid…
DOJ Killed Criminal Probe Into Trump Ally's Coal Empire
The Department of Justice shut down a criminal investigation because the target happened to be Donald Trump's friend. "They were told 'pencils down.'" — A person familiar with the investigation into S…
Hegseth Purges Navy Promotions, Keeps Trump's Doctor
The defense secretary who preaches meritocracy just proved that loyalty to a president matters more than qualification in his military. "He went through the list and scrubbed a few names. It was felt …
Pentagon Rates Israel Espionage Threat Higher Than Russia
America's closest ally has been classified as its highest espionage threat. "The aggressiveness of Israeli intelligence collection on top Trump administration officials has been unhinged." — Senior U.…
$50 Billion Ballroom Pay-to-Play
Corporations wrote checks to fund Trump's golden ballroom and received $50 billion in federal contracts in return. "You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That's not a coincidence." — Rep. …
$620M Pentagon Loan Fast-Tracked for Trump Jr.'s Firm
The Pentagon's new lending office was supposed to strengthen American supply chains. Instead, it became a fast lane for the president's son. "This is our money they're spending. This is corruption we …
Trump's No-Bid Contract Grift
A government contractor expert summed up what should be obvious about sole-source contracts under Donald Trump: "It is corrupt, is the word." "Hiding your friends as subcontractors is like playing hid…
Bolton Pleads Guilty in Classified Documents Case
The man who warned Trump was building a retribution presidency has agreed to plead guilty to felony charges brought by that very administration. "I think it is a retribution presidency." — John Bolton…
DOJ Says Trump Could Bulldoze Statue of Liberty
The Department of Justice told a federal appeals court that if President Trump ordered the Statue of Liberty demolished, no one would have standing to stop him. "So just as long as you move fast enoug…
The House Finally Said No to Trump's Unauthorized War
Three months into an unauthorized war, the House finally voted to end it. "You either follow the law or you change the law. You can't violate the law." \- Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., on why he vote…
No One Is Watching: How Trump Gutted Gun Enforcement
The administration that promised to restore order quietly dismantled the enforcement mechanisms that were reducing violent crime, betting nobody would notice until the bodies started piling up. "Just …
Trump Hands America's Spy Agencies to a Mortgage Attack Dog
A man who built his career investigating the mortgages of political enemies now controls America's spy agencies. "That is how intelligence becomes politicized, how inconvenient facts disappear, how ag…
Trump's Anti-Weaponization Fund Implodes in Two Weeks
A president sues his own government, drops the lawsuit without a judge ever ruling, then uses the phantom case as justification to hand out $1.776 billion from the Treasury to an undisclosed list of a…
Trump Tried to Criminalize Four Numbers
The Trump administration tried to turn four numbers into a crime. A federal judge said no. "The government seeks to squelch core political speech without any articulable, much less evidentiary, basis …
Trump Pressured a Governor Into Freeing His Martyr
A convicted felon who breached her county's election systems is back on air claiming voting machines flip votes, exactly two weeks after a Democratic governor folded to presidential pressure and let h…
205 Dead, Zero Names: America's Secret War on Boats
The United States government has killed 205 people on the high seas, and it still cannot tell you who any of them were. "I can tell you from firsthand experience that all of them could have been arres…
The White House Gutted FEMA. Now Hurricane Season Is Here.
An administration that spent months trying to abolish America's disaster agency is now praying it survives hurricane season. "All of those things made the mission more impossible. And they're going to…
Trump's $1.8B Slush Fund Blindsided His Own Aides
The president sued his own government, settled with himself, and used taxpayer money to create a slush fund for people who attacked the Capitol. "This is f---ing OUR money. At least I think Nixon's sl…
How Israel Bought America's Conservative Airwaves
The man who built Trump's digital war machine now runs a foreign government's influence operation through one of America's largest conservative media networks, and nobody listening to Dennis Prager kn…
The Kennedy Center Is Named for Kennedy, Not Trump, Says Federal Judge
A federal judge told a Trump-controlled board that you cannot rename a national monument after yourself. "Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it." — U.S. District J…
USDA Secretary Celebrates 4 Million People Losing Food Aid as 'American Dream'
A $15 million woman from the USDA told millions of people who just lost their food assistance that they are "moving into the American dream." "Unless the Trump administration has redefined 'the Americ…
Judge Lets Trump Overhaul Mail-In Voting. You Can Sue After Your Ballot Never Arrives.
A federal judge let Trump proceed with his plan to control who gets mail-in ballots, on the grounds that nothing has actually happened yet. "The Court recognizes that the Postal Service may ultimately…
The GOP Dirty Tricks Machine: How a Republican Operative Built a Fake Progressive Super PAC to Sabotage Democrats
A Republican operative who manages hundreds of millions for the House GOP's main super PAC quietly launched a "progressive" political action committee that spent over $3 million rigging Democratic pri…
Trump's Most Corrupt Pick: How Ken Paxton Became Texas's Senate Nightmare
A man convicted of felony fraud, impeached by his own legislature, and abandoned by his wife on biblical grounds is now Donald Trump's pick to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate. "Ken Paxton is the mo…
The Ballroom That Saved America: How the DOJ Declared Trump Party Space a National Security Facility
After a man was shot at a White House checkpoint, Trump's Department of Justice ran to court with an emergency filing arguing that his ballroom is a national security facility. "The singular and vital…
The $40 Billion Warehouse Scam: How Trump's Cronies Stripped Taxpayers Blind
The plan was simple, in the way that every good looting scheme is simple: buy empty warehouses at near-zero cost, then sell them to the federal government for ten times what they're worth. The buyer w…
Trump's Deportation Campaign Created a Market for Fake ICE Agents
The government of the United States has spent the better part of a year manufacturing terror in immigrant communities. It has done this with raids, with public threats, with the deployment of armed ag…
President Grandpa's Perfect Physical
A 79-year-old president spends three hours at Walter Reed, claims his checkup went "perfectly," and nobody — not the White House physician, not the press corps, not the American people — is allowed to…
The War With No Name, And The Ceasefire That Isn't One
An administration insists it is at peace with a country it is actively bombing. Even its own media has begun to notice. "We Will Find You and We Will Kill You." — President Donald Trump, from the fore…