Donald Trump has made well over $2 BILLION since taking office. Meanwhile, he kicked at least 4.5 million people off SNAP. He gets richer and more children get hungrier. This is not what was promised.

"Iran shut down a British power plant for four days in an unprecedented cyber attack" www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...

Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant

Unprecedented cyber attack believed to be most successful of its kind

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Agents are stopping cars and entering homes past what the law allows, and DHS gutted the civil rights office that investigated those complaints. A new fact sheet lays out both. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/i...

How ICE Went Rogue: Analysis of the Legal Authorities Governing ICE - American Immigration Council

A detailed analysis of how ICE and CBP have expanded their powers through unlawful traffic stops, pedestrian sweeps, home raids, and warrantless arrests — and how Trump‑era policies are undermining…

americanimmigrationcouncil.org

This is the executive director of the Haitian support center in Springfield Ohio What is happening is racist, cruel, inhuman evil.  youtu.be/gzdqiotF1Y8

A Statement from Viles on Yesterday’s ICE Arrests

YouTube video by Haitian Community Help & Support Center

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This January, Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed consular officers to refuse to process immigration visas for people from 75 countries because, he said, those immigrants would be more likely than others to “extract wealth” or (cont.) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Federal judge strikes down Trump’s 75-Country visa ban

The "public charge" ban has been called "equal parts retrograde and unlawful."

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🚨BREAKING: The US Postal Service announced late Friday night that it intends to move forward with its final rule on changing how mail voting is administered. The new rule was created to enact Donald Trump’s executive order, which seeks to restrict mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

USPS pushes final rule on restricting mail voting forward

The federal postal service acknowledges the new rule will impose burdens on states, but says its necessary to help law enforcement hunt for voter fraud.

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One reason for the high % opposition to data centers is it’s a place to put the deep and very reasonable unease people feel at an emerging, powerful, impossible to understand technology controlled by people we know are not trustworthy and may wish to actively harm us.

Good for Carney and Canada, standing up for themselves. The US trade war demand is essentially “let us bully you into subservience.” Appeasement doesn’t work. What a stupid, self-harming effort by the US. Took one of the most productive, mutually beneficial alliances in history and threw it away.

A massive explosion happened in an open area used as a parking lot in the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan, in the early hours of August 22. The explosion led to several injuries and fires in residential houses nearby. Firefighters say the exact cause of the explosion is still under investigation.

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When a few men -- Cubans -- refused to get off ICE plane in *Liberia* yesterday, agents *pressed knees into their necks,* forced them back on the plane and banished them... to Equatorial Guinea. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/w...

Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · 2d ago

Trump has been banishing people to one of the world's worst dictatorships Including: a Phoenix man whose family fled Egypt at 4 yrs old a woman who came to the U.S. at 5 yr old They're now imprisoned, & report being handcuffed and assaulted They've committed no crime tucson.com/news/local/b...

This might get underreported but take note. The USA has threatened to unleash economic hell of those who trade with Iran. The Chinese just called the US bluff. If the USA meekly accepts the Chinese rebuke (which it probably will), the US is acknowledging how weak it is. www.cnn.com/2026/08/21/w...

August 21, 2026 — US gas prices up nearly a dollar from a year ago as Hormuz traffic remains low | CNN

China responded to US President Donald Trump’s threat of an “economic D-Day” against Iran, saying that sanctions do not “fit the interest of any party.”

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The US is impossible to defend against now widely available technologies The White House may have some defenses, but few other domestic sites do Starting a war with Iran, a major manufacturer, and relentlessly threatening it invites a response we do not have the foresight or resources to prepare for

The Northern Sun@thenorthernsun.bsky.social · last wk.

The MSM completely missed the gravity of last night's Ukrainian missile strike on the Progress Rocket Center in Samara, Russia. This isn't just another industrial fire. This is the definitive end of independent Russian space dominance and a massive blow to their national pride. 1/5

EXCLUSIVE: Ukraine considered using AI-controlled drones to shut down Moscow airports and force Putin into a deal—a plan that, if executed, would have marked a terrifying milestone in the history of warfare, Simon Shuster reports:

Ukraine Planned to Swarm Moscow Airports With AI-Guided Drones

The stalled operation, code-named “M&Ms,” sought to isolate Russian elites and force Vladimir Putin to negotiate a truce.

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I worked at OpenAI. Here are the guardrails we need now | Miles Brundage

I worked at OpenAI. Here are the guardrails we need now | Miles Brundage

I understand the pressure on AI companies to rush forward. But employees are right to be concerned

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Hundreds of Afghans who worked for the US, including combat interpreters, now hold green cards and letters saying the visa they were granted for that service has been revoked. www.npr.org/2026/08/15/n...

They fought for the U.S. in Afghanistan. Now they worry about losing their green cards

When the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan five years ago, thousands of Afghans who helped U.S. troops were brought here to rebuild their lives. But now, some fear the U.S. may want to send them back.

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NEWS: Another 60 U.S. service members wounded in Trump's Iran war have been added to the Pentagon’s casualty count, bringing the total to 775: 18 killed and 757 wounded. The Pentagon has not said when or where the newly reported injuries occurred.

21 days before the 25th anniversary of September 11th, the United States imposes 50% tariffs on the country that gave its citizens refuge during the worst terrorist attack in US history.

This is an unbelievable failure of leadership unbelievable except it’s Donald Trump

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2d ago

BREAKING: The U.S. is imposing 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian products after last-ditch negotiations failed. Canada promises to match the tax.

Late tonight, the USPS caved to Trump. How bad is its legal reasoning Here is a sample: "Although ballot mail does not present precisely the same operational issues as cremated remains or replica explosives, it is unquestionably sensitive mail that raises unique operational considerations."

For the last seven months straight, the U.S. government has refused to process immigrant visas for nationals of 75 countries around the world; including visas for spouses of U.S. citizens. Today, a federal judge ruled the policy flagrantly illegal.

Bloomberg Law@bloomberglaw.com · 2d ago

The State Department’s sweeping suspension of immigrant visas to nationals from 75 countries violated federal immigration law and exceeded Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s statutory authority, a district court ruled Friday.

I’ll be heading back to Springfield soon but I also want to stress something: imagine what it must have been like for a Haitian family in Springfield for the past two years. To live under constant, growing threat like that from the most powerful person on the planet. Imagine what it’s been like for…

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 2d ago

Katie Kersh, an immigration lawyer who’s been in Springfield Ohio a lot in the past couple years, tells me just now: “ICE is absolutely everywhere in Springfield. It is very visible.” noticeable ramping up lately. It is going to likely get… worse

EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s pardons have cost crime victims a staggering $1.7 billion in restitution while wiping away penalties for wealthy fraudsters and political allies, according to a new congressional review. The full findings are damning:

EXCLUSIVE: Committee Review Finds Trump Pardons Have Cost Crime Victims $1.7 Billion and Enriched Trump Allies

A Scathing Report from House Judiciary Committee Finds Cost of Trump Pardons Continues to Soar

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The president is threatening to sue a think tank for $5 billion unless they retract a report stating that his National Guard deployments to American cities under the guise of fake emergencies didn't make those cities safer. It's like a Con Law exam question about executive abuse of power.

Trump Threatens Defamation Suit Over National Guard Report, Aiming to Intimidate a Critic

It was the latest example of President Trump’s bid to use the legal system against those who voice unflattering facts and opinions generally protected by the First Amendment.

nytimes.com

The first deportation flight to Haiti since the Trump administration ended humanitarian protections has landed. Deportees from the U.S. are vulnerable to kidnapping, extortion and murder, said Guerline Jozef from the Haitian Bridge Alliance.

ICE begins deporting Haitians who lost TPS back to homeland

Community leaders said Thursday’s removal flight was one of the largest they had seen and included people who were detained in recent weeks.

washingtonpost.com

in part because she and her colleagues manufactured excuses for very similar behavior for the last decade everyone not in the cult understands he’s a self dealing disaster for the country and has tired of communicating further with people committed to not seeing it

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d ago

NOONAN, on Trump’s corruption: “.. An odd thing about all this is the absence of furor. There is no broad public outcry. .. Jimmy Carter’s shaking down the system to see what coins fall out would have been news, Donald Trump’s doing the same is Tuesday.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - Editor of Stars and Stripes says he is being fired for insubordination after saying any censorship is a 'red line.'