NEW: Stories about pardons are often about presidential power. But what about people on the other side of that grace? The Coulson family may never receive millions from a wrongful death lawsuit it won years ago. @jeremykohler.bsky.social
For lawyers, this is the day's essential reading. Steve Vladeck: "In the first major case in which the Court granted emergency relief as a means of shaping nationwide policy, it turns out that the justice who led the charge was the one who was doing quite a bit more than calling balls and strikes."
Screenshot of a Substack note by account 'JoJoFromJerz' that says: 'In a sane administration, the FBI Director doesn’t go on the morning news to prove he’s not a drunk, the Defense Secretary doesn’t quote Tarantino to prove he’s a man of God, and the President doesn’t take multiple cognitive exams to prove he’s not insane.'
None of this is normal.
Not enough people are talking about this.
Hungary’s incoming PM has said that Viktor Orbán used Hungarian government funds to help finance CPAC, the flagship networking event for GOP candidates, members of Congress, and conservative media in this country.
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:
Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%
Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%
This is what a rigged system looks like.
Pay attention folks. This is how it's done. Trump sues his own DOJ, run by his private attorney, for $10 billion. Normally that would go through the courts with the DOJ arguing AGAINST giving Trump $10 billion.
Instead, his DOJ will negotiate a settlement OUTSIDE of court. Literally inside dealing.
As USPS warns it may be insolvent by 2027 and Amazon is cutting USPS shipments, FedEx and UPS increased federal lobbying, spending nearly $20 million in 2025.
Read more: www.opensecrets.org/news/2026/04...
Health care costs go up? Republicans don’t care.
Trump starts an illegal war with Iran? Republicans don’t care.
Gas prices go up? Republicans don’t care.
All they seem to care about is tax breaks for billionaires and inflicting pain on the American people.
A budget is a declaration of priorities. Trump has made clear that you and your family aren't one of his.
Trump wants to rob American families to pay for war.
That is what his budget for next year boils down to.
DOJ demanded voter files from all 50 states.
DOJ sued 31 states for refusing their demand.
My law firm intervened to protect voters in those cases.
DOJ is now 0-5.
My firm is 5-0.
Lesson: When we fight we win.
Reminder: Qatar gifted Trump a $400M jet. Taxpayers are now billed $1B to refurbish it. Normalized corruption isn't shocking anymore and that's the problem. Part 1 of my deep dive on Trump's moral decay is live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JwU...
ICE is not about immigration.
ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets.
Abolish ICE.
I’ll never get used to the president being a petty, whiny little bitch
Stand for others.
Defend the bullied.
Support those in need.
Uplift when it’s hardest.
Show up - especially when it matters most.
This principal showed what principled leadership looks like.
Both docs should be declassified to the extent possible. We are not doing this whole “secret exceptions to the 4th amendment” crap again or we are going to face a problem of another Snowden-like figure running off with tons of classified docs.
Exactly one year ago today:
Clarence Thomas ruled in favor of Citizens United.
Harlan Crow's political contributions then went up 862%.
Then we later find out Thomas let Crow take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house, and help fund his wife's conservative nonprofit.
But go on about how "progressivism" is a problem...
Guess who's winning the war? "The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran..."
WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public'
IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated
W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?
BALINT: Are you trying to get revenge on states that did not vote for your boss?
VOUGHT: What's interesting about your question is Joe Biden--
BALINT: Oh, for goodness' sake!
and you can get paid for this?
Literally just QAnon. "Big week ahead." "Booms incoming." "SOON."
It's all just a big prosperity scam.
The white kind of immigrants
"The gas stations better obey our price controls" says the Treasury Secretary of the Free Markets Party
ZOHRAN: “I ran on taxing the rich — Today, we’re taxing the rich… the first ever pied-a-terre tax for second homes worth $5 Million+… $500 MILLION from the richest of the rich to fund child care, etc…💰”
Promises kept.
Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater.
This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning.
Never doubt your power to change the system.
