“A political committee President Donald Trump uses to pay legal bills is in debt — and owes $1.6 million to a roster of law firms, according to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission. Trump’s Save America PAC is nearly $500,000 in the red, according to FEC data published Wednesday.”
“President Donald Trump has repeatedly said his deals with drugmakers would bring down prescription drug prices in the U.S. But a report released by Senate Democrats finds prices have continued to climb — in some cases, sharply.”
“The NAACP filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI on Tuesday, accusing the artificial intelligence company of violating the Clean Air Act with its use of natural gas-burning turbines to power data centers in and around Memphis, Tennessee.”
An email sent by Sinan Kanatsiz, an obscure but well-connected figure in Trump’s political orbit, offers its recipients a “one-on-one meeting and private photo with President Donald Trump” in exchange for a “contribution of $500,000 to TPUSA PAC.”
On Friday, Trump is scheduled to appear at the Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona, for a Turning Point USA event.
The event is free for people who would like to listen to Trump’s speech from the pews at Dream City Church.
But a more interactive experience is available — for a price.
“Senior staff at [FEMA]. The [DHS] budget for an office focused on weapons of mass destruction. Training programs for prison guards. Those are just some of the federal resources that the Trump administration has redirected to support the president’s mass deportation agenda.”
“One in seven people who signed up for Affordable Care Act plans this year failed to pay after premium costs rose sharply, according to an analysis that provides the first comprehensive look at the impact of expiring federal subsidies.”
“A small conservative legal group used direct access to the Federal Communications Commission chairman’s office last September to accelerate a complaint targeting Jimmy Kimmel and his employer, ABC, according to internal emails obtained by WIRED.”
Tesla is not an anomaly. So far, 88 profitable corporations have reported paying $0 in federal income taxes last year, according to a new report by the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP).
In 2025, Tesla reported $5.7 billion in U.S. profits. The company paid absolutely nothing in federal taxes.
To achieve this remarkable result, Tesla took advantage of several corporate tax breaks expanded or made permanent last summer as part of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.
“An independent privacy audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic in California found that the companies may be violating state regulations… According to the audit… 55 percent of the sites it checked set ad cookies in a user’s browser even if they opted out of tracking.”
“Trump pulled in $28.1 million in revenue from partners across the region in 2024. Trump-connected projects now being developed there have a combined value of roughly $17 billion—with the bulk of that funding coming from sovereign wealth funds and various other Trump business partners.”
"Emboldened by overturning Roe v. Wade, conservative legal groups hope Ken Paxton’s successor will help them overturn gay marriage and public school access for undocumented students.”
With health care costs rising and more Americans losing their insurance, the leading AI companies are selling an alternative to the public: chatbots.
In January, Elon Musk promoted a video clip that urged his followers on X to “upload your X-rays or MRI images to Grok” for a “medical diagnosis.”
In a 17-page order, Judge Darrin Gayles found that, even assuming everything in Trump’s complaint is true, Trump’s lawsuit “comes nowhere close” to meeting the standard for defamation.
On Monday, a federal judge dismissed Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal.
The lawsuit alleged that the WSJ defamed Trump when it reported on a bawdy letter allegedly authored by Trump in 2003 in celebration of Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday.
“Attorneys representing immigrants held at the ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention site alleged… that guards beat and pepper-sprayed detainees after a protest over lost phone access — allegations they argue show state and federal officials defying a recent court order protecting detainees’ civil rights.”
“This week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)—the federal agency that oversees Wall Street—announced that it has brought almost 30 percent fewer new enforcement actions against companies in the first year of the Trump administration.”
"The Trump administration said Monday it will resume flying a rainbow Pride flag on a federal flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument in New York City, reversing course two months after removing the banner from the first national monument commemorating LGBTQ+ history.”
Coachella is run by Anschutz Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of The Anschutz Corporation, which is owned by right-wing billionaire Philip Anschutz.
Money from The Anschutz Corporation’s treasury, which includes the profits from Coachella, is funneled directly to right-wing organizations.
Sabrina Carpenter, a headlining act of Coachella 2026, is an outspoken critic of the Trump administration and MAGA politics.
Whether or not Carpenter is aware, the proceeds from her headlining set at Coachella — along with the other musical acts at Coachella — will help elect more MAGA Republicans.
“Energy executives sold stock worth $1.4 billion in the first quarter on the back of historic shock to the world’s crude supplies.”
“Trump has championed the U.S. steel industry, promising to strengthen it and to impose stiff tariffs on foreign metals to shield manufacturers from overseas competitors. Yet the White House has secured tens of millions of dollars worth of donated foreign steel for [Trump’s] $400 million ballroom.”
“The Maine Wire launched in 2011… as the U.S. right took a hard nativist turn — and amid an infusion of cash from some of the most powerful right-wing money men in the country — the site developed a fixation on Maine’s Somali community.”
Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois have variously sought to prevent Kalshi, Polymarket, Crypto.com, and Robinhood from running what they claim are “unlicensed gambling sites that circumvent state laws.”
Several of these companies are business partners of President Trump and his family members.
In an unprecedented move, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it had filed lawsuits against several states to block their efforts to rein in prediction markets.
Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois have variously sought to prevent Kalshi, Polymarket, Crypto.com, and Robinhood from running what they claim are “unlicensed gambling sites that circumvent state laws.”
Several of these companies are business partners of President Trump and his family members.
“A federal judge Tuesday refused to block filling prescriptions for the abortion pill mifepristone by mail across the U.S. — at least for now — in a setback to Louisiana’s effort to stifle groups that send it into states where abortion is banned.”
