That’s pretty much the cult line. All he’s got left are people who will drink the kool-aid if the order was posted on Truth Social.

What happened to $5K DOGE checks?

What happened to $2K tariff refund checks for Americans?

What happened to lowering inflation or gas and grocery prices?

What happened to decreasing national debt?

What happened to releasing all Epstein Files?

MAGA is a lie. MAGA is evil.

The Redistricting Vote: Virginia Is Where Trump’s Scheme Came to Die The commonwealth’s voters just gave Democrats four more House seats—and dealt the Orange One a humiliating defeat in a fight he started.

The commonwealth’s voters just gave Democrats four more House seats—and dealt the Orange One a humiliating defeat in a fight he started. trib.al/hWo8PhB

Yes, Virginia!

They paused Oversight Committee hearings the minute we started getting answers about the Epstein files.

Now it’s “roundtables”: no rules, no oaths, no subpoenas.

You do the math. Because the moment accountability shows up, they shut it down. The survivors deserve better.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

The birth of the Supreme Court’s shadow docket has long been a mystery.

Until now.

the shadow papers
The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

"Truly blockbuster reporting." -Melissa Murray

Gift:
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Honestly it's a complete miracle that there have been no major terrorist attacks on US soil in the last 16 months.

screenshot of fact sheet from Planned Parenthood Federation of America (c3) and Planned Parenthood Action Fund (c4) with first bullet point highlighted in yellow: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/68/a6/68a6c411-5e28-4112-b7ec-ce3bc3043574/fact_sheet_c3c4.pdf Republican Lawmakers and President Trump are Decreasing Access to Birth Control and Dismantling the Health Care Safety Net H.R. 1 [the "Big Beautiful Bill"] and its provision “defunding” Planned Parenthood to try to block patients from using Medicaid at Planned Parenthood health centers — combined with the months of withheld Title X funds in 2025 — left entire communities without access to basic care. As attacks from the Trump administration and its backers in Congress continue, health care costs are rising for patients and communities, as other providers cannot fill the gap left by Planned Parenthood health centers. IT’S EVEN HARDER TO GET BIRTH CONTROL Taking away access to birth control and basic care creates contraceptive deserts in more communities *In 2025, over 50 Planned Parenthood health centers closed across 18 states, including over 20 closures since H.R. 1 was passed. Nearly all closures occurred in contraceptive deserts. • When people cannot afford the full cost of contraception, they rely on a network of publicly funded providers that offer free or reduced-fee care through public funding, primarily Medicaid coverage and Title X-funded services for individuals living with low-incomes or uninsured. *Planned Parenthood health centers serve one-third of all female patients seeking contraceptive care at publicly funded health clinics. • Over half of the counties where a Planned Parenthood health center closed now lack any Planned Parenthood provider. In those counties, these centers provided the majority of contraceptive care for low-income women in those counties

The war on birth control access is well underway, it's just less explicit

Planned Parenthood says 50 of its clinics closed last year as a result of an anti-abortion budget provision—and nearly all of them were in contraceptive deserts (link in alt). Translation: it's now harder to get birth control

a map showing a Mississippi where all 82 counties are shades of red

A map showing Mississippi's 82 counties, many shaded red and pink, many shaded blue and purple.

Left: How people think Mississippi votes

Right: How Mississippi actually votes

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. www.wired.com/story/new-ga...

The aggregate level results from Virginia’s election last night suggest that Black voters overwhelmingly rejected the disinformation campaign and put “yes” over the top. Hampton Roads and Richmond, the big AA population centers, had strong turnout and broke heavily yes.

Black people prove once again that we are sophisticated and strategic voters who not only know how to navigate a political system trained against us but can defy mis- and disinformation.

Thank you, Virginia.

"DOGE terminated the contract that was a systems management contract that managed all of our contracts and they needed it in order to actually terminate contracts."

from Wired's "Inner Loop" newsletter that includes an interview of the USAID whistleblower

The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act.

Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.

USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.

NEW from me: According to USAID whistleblower Nicholas Enrich, the DOGE takeover was even worse than we knew, rife with conflict between political appointees who wanted an orderly "drawdown" and a DOGE team that wanted to flip the kill switch. @wired.com

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DOJ moves to drop Oath Keepers and Proud Boys charges, refund January 6 restitution, and another rioter is convicted of child pornography.

New #aisle45pod podcast with @muellershewrote.com & @libradunn1.bsky.social #MSWMedia

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Stand up. Do not accept this reality. Fight back. This is unsustainable. At some point, even the weakest and most ignorant will have to stand up to the daily tyranny occurring, or give in and be ground to dust under the heels of the oppressors. IMHO.

So let me get this straight: The Trump Justice Department is accusing the SPLC of masterminding the Unite the Right Rally that President Trump has said was actually a good thing with good people?

Trump’s Morbidly Rich Machine Is Crushing Democracy Behind the noise is a ruthless, coordinated effort to dismantle the American system and rebuild it for the ultra-wealthy…

Behind the noise is a ruthless, coordinated effort to dismantle the American system and rebuild it for the ultra-wealthy…

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At least 34 tankers linked to Iran, including vessels carrying crude oil, have successfully bypassed the U.S. blockade, per FT

Screenshot of article which reads: Carter also tapped university staff members and outside relationships in a failed effort to help build and launch Vlachos’s app. The report indicates that Carter connected Vlachos to multiple staff members to discuss the idea. However, Ohio State staffers quickly dismissed the idea, noting that Vlachos appeared to have little technical knowledge and the app was not of interest to the university. But when staffers shut the idea down, Carter called Chris Kabourek, senior vice president for administration and planning and senior adviser to the president, to help lobby for it. Carter also referenced an unrestricted gift of $100,000 from a donor that could be used. Kabourek then drafted a proposal that included $20,000 in Ohio State funding for the app. However, that proposal was not acted on.

Screenshot of article which reads: Two staff members allegedly took their concerns to Kabourek. In return he told them to raise their concerns with Carter directly. The report suggests a “refusal or unwillingness” by Kabourek “to respond appropriately to such concerns” and states that directing junior employees to confront the university president was “a dereliction of duty” by Kabourek. Kabourek, who followed Carter from Nebraska and resigned April 13, was excoriated in the report. Investigators found he “went far beyond any other employee in supporting Carter’s efforts to assist Vlachos, both inside and outside the university; he failed to stop or report those efforts himself; and he failed to appropriately address concerns raised to him by other employees.” (Kabourek has since been hired as senior vice president and chief financial officer at West Virginia University. He did not respond to a request for comment sent through WVU. The university declined to comment on concerns raised in Ohio State’s investigative report.)

Ummm WVU, you in danger girl

Screenshot of article which reads: While the nature of that relationship was not clear when Carter stepped down, the new report sheds light on how he sought to steer university resources to Vlachos. And while he was not found to have broken any laws, the report determined that Carter misused his position, “betrayed Ohio State’s shared values” and violated university policies. While the university found that staff mostly acted appropriately, the report acknowledges that some senior officials ignored clear warning signs raised by other employees. The report indicates that Carter asked Ohio State officials to consider Vlachos for employment, repeatedly sought to use university resources to advance her idea for an app to connect veterans to benefits, requested staff and technical support for her podcast, and took at least five business trips out of state associated with Vlachos. Carter also floated the idea of tapping university donors to fund the app, according to the report.

Asking donors to fund her app is a wild one

Great job staff. Still can't get over that we're in our podcast-cronyism era.

Republicans: [unsavory tactics]

Media: Gosh, that’s some maneuvering.

Democrats: [punch back]

Media: We need to ask ourselves if this is the sign of a healthy democracy.

CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.

Trump and RFK, Jr., continue to suppress information showing that COVID shots work. wapo.st/41JhAhb

The Price of a Lost Russia: A Correspondent’s Eulogy Marc Bennetts’s new book, “The Descent,” shows how Putin has violently snuffed out the promise of a democratic Russia.

"The Russia I left in 1992 was chaotic, uncertain," writes @markoskounalakis.com, reviewing Marc Bennetts's new book, "The Descent."

"The Russia Bennetts was forced to flee is tragic—a country that had a chance to become an open society. Putin’s iron fist punched that door shut."

Trump gutting the U.S. Forest Service puts communities in Arizona and across the country at risk — the Forest Service plays an essential role in preventing wildfires. I supported legislation last year to restore staffing so our forests stay accessible, safe, and maintained.

The criminal cult is corrupt to their core.

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
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