You can use our new database to explore the financial disclosures — and potential conflicts of interest — of President Donald Trump and more than 1,500 of his appointees.
Here's what Trump budget chief Russell Vought has disclosed:
From Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry:
"In fact, the monster in Potawatomi culture is Windigo, who suffers from the illness of taking too much and sharing too little. It is a cannibal, whose hunger is never sated, eating through the world.” (81-82)
Resonate with anyone?
Trump refuses to apologize for the racist video posted by his social media account.
He lies about it, as does JD Vance.
Both racism and lying are on brand.
Using a proprietary search tool, The NYT identified more than 5,300 files containing more than 38,000 references to Trump, his wife, his Mar-a-Lago and other related words and phrases in the latest batch of Epstein file released by the Justice Department
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
Quite the contrast:
In one part of the Epstein files, DOJ published unredacted nude images of women and potentially minors.
In another part, officials redacted President Trump’s face from a news image that was shared in a text exchange.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
Reports are circulating about Craigslist ads offering $50 for people to watch the Melania movie 😂 and Snopes has confirmed the ad existed.
Great to see that Monterey Bay FC will be adding a USL Women’s team in 2026! I am looking forward to welcoming the team to the Monterey Bay and having them represent the best of California’s 19th Congressional District.
www.ksbw.com/article/mont...
You don’t need to be a legal scholar to know the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are violations of the First Amendment. Nonetheless, it’s always helpful to have a legal scholar around to explain the ugly details.
https://bit.ly/4a0MxRy
Jack Vu, alongside fellow Houston-native and Rice University student Abby Manuel, created ICE Map—a nationwide digital spotlight on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests and detention centers
www.icemap.dev
Sharing one last time before the weekend.
I’m proud of the work I did this week.
Please support independent journalism however and wherever you can.
HAPPENING NOW: Aerial coverage of a HUGE CROWD peacefully demonstrating in L.A. to protest the Trump administration and lCE
📍Los Angeles, California
#NationalStrike
but don't call them Nazis
One of the main reasons why Trump and Republicans canceled taxpayer paid funding to PBS and NPR. They want more Americans to be ignorant about US history and civics.
Canadians dedicated to resisting the Trump administration are hoping Carney can hold the line without sacrificing short and long term economic stability. www.bbc.com/news/article...
While we're waiting to watch (eep, I hope) a new generation sweep into political power -- in some cases, against the wishes of Democratic elders -- here's the piece I published yesterday on the party's gerontocracy:
This acquisition, which will restore 17,000 acres to the Tule River Indian Tribe, is the largest-ever “land return” deal in the Sierra foothills, according to California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office.
If you speak Spanish please consider phone banking to California Voters to
VOTE YES ON PROP 50
GO TO
mobilize.us/cadems
Thank you
Gracias
Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"
#1 Corrupt government officials (with 69.1 percent of participants saying they’re afraid or very afraid of this)
North Carolina
Here's a handy graphic you can save and share if you're in the Bay Area
Exclusive: Leaked documents detail Trump's plans to open East and West coasts to offshore oil drilling.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Disgusting, but also totally in keeping with the emperor’s priorities.
“.. They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world’s most repressive regimes.”
@propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Mainstream news is showing why they’re part of the problem.
