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For more background on Trump's history with Vietnam, please google "Trump's personal Vietnam."
A good reminder that the UAE bought a big stake in Trump's World Liberty Financial last year. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Incredible. www.investing.com/news/stock-m...
SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...
it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.
NEW: In court filing, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro asks a court to order the handover of taxpayer-funded reimbursement money to a pair of Jan 6 riot defendants
The defendants had been ordered to pay damages to a fund to help victims & repair Capitol
Instead, we'll pay for it
finally, oil companies notch a win.
Grotesque: In a dispute over a will, two brothers including a retired Alabama state trooper now working at a federal courthouse, appear to have gotten their mother-in-law arrested by ICE.
Using the state to remove disfavored family members is the sort of thing that happens in totalitarian regimes.
A good question: will TMZ offer Hill staffers payments for hot tips, and would those staffers take them? courthousenews.com/tmz-in-dc-ho...
the freest speech I’ve ever seen
He's right
Just in:
Another Jan. 6 defendant pardoned by Trump has agreed to plead guilty to charges of child sexual abuse.
David Daniel, who earlier pleaded guilty to assaulting police on Jan. 6, is now pleading to federal child pornography charges.
One victim was under 12 years old.
DOGE turbocharged the deficit.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...
Let's not act like it's normal for the president to be posting weird graphics insinuating that a business he owns and profits from wants to develop the moon
Not sure if "I was just pretending to be a doctor" is that much better.
The FBI checking on the Pope's mortgages:
Palantir was a sponsor of Trump's military parade last summer and is a sponsor of Freedom 250, the Trump-backed group planning events for the country's 250th birthday. They donated $10 million to Trump's White House ballroom.
They paid to gain Trump's favor, and they got it.
As consumer confidence hits record lows, President Trump is set to headline a gala luncheon at Mar-a-Lago for top holders of his $TRUMP memecoin later this month, once again selling access to the highest bidder:
A nice shoutout for one of the donors to Trump's ballroom
The sharply conservative Supreme Court, reshaped by President Trump’s three appointees, is the first since at least the 1950s to reject civil rights claims in most cases involving women and minorities, according to an analysis conducted for The Post. https://wapo.st/4tCkcJB
I just think it's interesting that www.cnn.com/2026/03/21/p...
NEW: We sent a complaint to CIGIE urging an investigation into whether Labor IG Anthony D’Esposito violated federal ethics laws by making political statements and aligning his independent office with the Trump admin's politics while reportedly considering other partisan jobs.
It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.
How many people would be alive today if SCOTUS hadn’t nullified the Fourteenth Amendment’s Disqualification Clause? How many families would be whole? How many lives would be prosperous and happy?
Me watching this Easter Egg Roll footage
Kentucky state Sen. Julie Raque Adams was paid $80,500 over three years as executive director of a nonprofit funded by interests that lobby the legislature.
Tom Loftus reports on the odd financial history of Kentucky Strong Inc.
kentuckylantern.com/2026/04/06/l...
"In the texts from 2020, Gonzales asked his campaign’s political director more than a dozen times to send nude photos over a period of three days, and persisted each time she declined." www.expressnews.com/politics/art...
Great thread from @citizensforethics.org on this: bsky.app/profile/citi...