Trump fought to keep the ballroom fundraising contract secret. Here’s what’s in it. The agreement governing hundreds of millions in private donations was kept secret until a watchdog group sued and a judge ordered it disclosed.

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Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

So bad!
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Trump’s statements on Iran increasingly contradict each other The president has made conflicting comments on questions both large and small related to the war.

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DOJ’s First ‘Weaponization’ Report Is a Bust The document purports to show bias under the Biden administration—and fails spectacularly.

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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

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‘Clueless buffoons’: USAID whistleblower reveals true damage DOGE did to critical agency Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Justice According To Trump The Justice Department has moved to drop the last remaining January 6 insurrection criminal matters: the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys seditious conspiracy cases.

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Prosecutor Withdraws From Trump Team’s Investigation of Ex-C.I.A. Chief

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A Timeline of Donald Trump's Creepiness While He Owned Miss Universe From walking into a teen dressing room to joking about his obligation to sleep with contestants, Donald Trump is a storied pageant creep.

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2020 Vision: Intelligence and the U.S. Presidential Election YouTube video by The Hayden Center

Here’s a link to that event. Worth a watch especially in light of the allegations being made.

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Popes have spoken out on politics before. But with Trump and Pope Leo it's different President Trump's attacks on Pope Leo are unprecedented, religious experts told NPR. Here's how the situation differs from other popes' political critiques.

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Pope Leo decries ‘tyrants’ ravaging world, days after insults from Trump The pontiff did not name the president during a speech in Cameroon. He criticized those who manipulate religion “for their own military, economic or political gain.”

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One Emergency After Another As President Trump’s use of emergency powers outstrips his predecessors, Congress and the courts must act to rein him in.

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"He's The Antichrist" | Teleportation Juice | America's Not Making Enough Babies YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Unpacking claims Trump's 'DoorDash Grandma' was 'paid actor,' testified at previous hearing Social media users shared a variety of claims about Sharon Simmons after she participated in an April 2026 White House event with the president.

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Historians suing Trump administration say National Archives won’t commit to preserving presidential records during lawsuit | CNN Politics The historians who are suing over the Trump administration’s eschewal of a Watergate-era records retention law for presidential documents said Tuesday that the National Archives won’t agree not to des...

Destruction of evidence is a crime. The National Archives is now controlled by Trump.
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Trump post appearing to depict himself as Jesus sparks backlash from religious right Evangelical and Catholic allies call the post “blasphemous” and urge its removal in a rare public break from a base that has largely stood by Trump.

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Mueller's Report Says I Was Right All Along: The Pee Tape Is Probably Real Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

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Trump summary of the past weeks:

- “Open the strait”
- “Help us open the strait”
- “We don’t need the strait open”
- “Open the f’king strait or I destroy you all”
- “We block the strait”

A longtime observer of Trump explains the rationale behind his actions | CNN Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Studies at Yale University, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld joins Smerconish to discuss Trump’s decision making process.

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The Prosecution of Smartmatic A rare corporate FCPA indictment tests whether courts will more closely interrogate prosecutorial motive.

The success of the company's motion to dismiss its indictment due to selective or vindictive prosecution "depends on whether it can convince a judge that prosecutors are targeting Smartmatic not because of the facts of the case but because of this fantasy," writes @mollyroberts.bsky.social.

'We Are in a Completely Mask-Off Fascist Moment' Dan Clayton talks to Christopher Mathias about his book 'To Catch a Fascist', on the secret war waged by US anti-fascists against the far-right, and what happens when extremists now sit in government

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Melania's Immigration Witness, Paolo Zampelli, Asked to Get His Baby Mama Deported - emptywheel Even as Melania rushed to the cameras to insist the story of how she first met Donald Trump was true, the now-deported baby mama of her witness to that claim, Paolo Zampelli, has been making a stink.

We can be fairly certain Melania's statement last night was at least partly an attempt to stave off Amenda Ungaro's claims bc AFTER she made it, Paolo Zampolli told the Daily Mail he would back her story under oath.

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BREAKING: Another Statement From Melania In the early hours of Friday, when everyone else at the White House was fast asleep, Melania Trump made the following statement.

BREAKING: Another Statement From Melania
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Trump and the GOP really don't want people to vote. They hate democracy. share.google/EI9YvkCHDWtt...

Companies connected to election interference & influence campaigns
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Stormy Daniels testifies she had sex with Trump, defense attacks her credibility Porn star Stormy Daniels described her 2006 encounter with Donald Trump in unflattering terms at his criminal trial on Tuesday, testifying she tried not to think about the sex while it took place and ...

"This is the only way you're getting out of the trailer park." Donald Trump to Stormy Daniels, as he blocked her attempt to leave his hotel room.
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How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran

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