HA! TACO chewed out Heggy at Camp David last week for understating how dire the US supply of cruise and defensive missiles has become. wapo.st/4hQVTF0 #Inners
Trump, Hegseth clashed at Camp David over Iran missile depletion concerns
At a Camp David summit this weekend, President Trump demanded answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over extreme munitions shortages.
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Guess we know what bug Rand Paul will have up his ass in tomorrow's Homeland Security Committee chat. He's gotten his hands on a copy Fauci's phone from the COVID years, so we'll be treated to another tediously unproductive dissection of its contents. www.wsj.com/politics/pol... #Inners #LastWord
Exclusive | Senate Panel Says It Has Obtained Copy of Fauci’s Covid-Era Phone
Republicans in Congress have ramped up scrutiny of the retired government doctor, and one panel could vote on holding him in contempt on Thursday.
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Looks like somebody's been pumping water into the broken Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Is someone trying to bury evidence of a poor installation by TACO's contractors? #MSNOW #DeadlineWH
Go, Katie, go. Take no prisoners. #MSNOW #DeadlineWH
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 9h agoBREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
Fifteen companies with investment from TACO’s sons have garnered $3.2 billion in federal contracts, investments, and loans. The companies have gained more than three times the number of government contracts than they had before the president’s re-election. #MSNOW #Inners wapo.st/4yWmGps
Lawmakers call for Pentagon probe of Trump family-backed companies
The letter to the Pentagon’s inspector general was prompted by reporting from The Post that startups affiliated with the president’s sons have won $3.2 billion in defense contracts.
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#Portland #Oregon ! WE'RE NUMBER 1 !!! WOOT! WOOT! (cough) WOOF! (gasp) OOF! www.iqair.com/world-air-qu...
With a third of the ballots counted in Michigan, but at least another 100k in Wayne County/Detroit still uncounted, the Dem Senatorial primary is still in play. #Maddow
"During the meeting, Ms. Pirro, her voice raised at times, directly confronted Mr. Burgum, accusing him of misleading the president. She made the case that Mr. Burgum had promoted a self-serving cover story to conceal his own missteps." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u... #Inners #LastWord
Inside the Oval Office Showdown Between Trump and Jeanine Pirro (Gift Article)
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told President Trump that his interior secretary, Doug Burgum, had misled him with a self-serving cover story for his own mistakes.
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The helipad slopes downward away from the WH for water runoff, but TACO has decided he doesn't like the way the slope looks. Now the contractors might level the slope of the entire South Lawn. They're redoing weeks of work, and trying to complete the project by September. #DeadlineWH wapo.st/4fYGqQW
Trump orders changes to new helipad after weeks of around-the-clock work
Contractors have removed the granite seal that had begun to take shape in recent days, after the president complained about the slope of the White House Lawn.
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Ahhhh.... a great episode of #Maddow, with a tasty little dessert! More than 170,000 federal student loan borrowers who said they were defrauded by their schools are set to have $11 billion in debt erased. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
Education Dept. to Wipe Out Student Loans of 170,000 More Defrauded Borrowers (Gift Article)
The sprawling case, centered on students defrauded by for-profit schools, has now become the largest class-action settlement in American history.
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Money laundering has been a life-long career for Trump. Then DA Rudolph Giuliani had him on these charges when Trump bought him off in the 80's. Trump Mob's been servicing the Russian oligarchy this way for decades.
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 2d agoA BIG disclosure in a lawsuit brought by Trump against Capital One reveals the bank closed more than 300 of Trump’s accounts in 2021 after a months-long anti-money laundering review by professionals with decades of law enforcement experience. I explain the details here: youtu.be/YDTqowVWjfc?...
If the DOJ truly intended to end the fund on its own, it would submit the sworn declaration requested, amend the agreement, and make clear that it cannot be revived. Blanche and the administration appear to want to have their cake and eat it too. #MSNOW #DeadlineWH www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Documents Blanche Released to Ease Path to Confirmation Leave Loopholes
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TACO has struggled for years to find a Truth Social business model that works. Now he proposes to distribute early access to his thoughts, which manipulate markets and which he makes exclusive. … so Iran is his Forever Profit War. Cool. talkingpointsmemo.com/the-brief/tr... #MSNOW #DeadlineWH
Truth Social’s Audacious Plan to Sell Banks Early Access to Trump’s Posts Goes Live
The ‘Depraved Essence of Insider Trading’ An API built by Truth Social,...
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At 5PM PT, smoke from the Kaiser Canyon fire can clearly be seen near central Washington. There are smaller hotspots throughout eastern Oregon. #MSNOW
Spokane, Washington wildfires draw National Guard, FEMA as emergency evacuations continue … it's hellish in Spokane but its been a very dry summer in the west, and there are fires everywhere out here. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... #MSNOW
Head Start advocates say that erasing regulations serves as a backdoor way to dismantle a program the administration does not like. The White House last year called Head Start “radical” and tried but failed to freeze spending on it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u... #Inners #LastWord
Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.
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TACO's reached a new record on the NYT polls survey: he now has a net approval of negative 23 percentage points, after starting the year at a dismal negative twelve points. That's an average of over 200 separate polls. #DeadlineWH #Inners www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The tour guide feature that triggered TACO. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u... #LastWord
Trump Gutted the Kennedy Center. A Tour Guide Wants You to See It Anyway. (Gift Article)
In a dogged demonstration of love for a Washington institution, Sandy Weiswasser is among a few dozen volunteers still showing dwindling visitors a hollowed-out building.
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Last Monday, NYT published a feature about an 87-year-old volunteer who's been leading free Kennedy Center tours for 18 years. Apparently someone in the WH didn't like it. The tours stop tomorrow. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u... #PsakiBriefing #LastWord
Kennedy Center Halts Free Public Tours After Five Decades of Service (Gift Article)
The decision to suspend tours indefinitely came after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a Times article detailing President Trump’s dramatic revamp of the Kennedy Center.
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Tens of thousands of immigrant children who arrived in the United States as unaccompanied minors in recent years may be forced to face a judge alone after a federal contract providing them legal representation expires on Friday. wapo.st/4pLMSyS #Inners #LastWord
Thousands of immigrant children on verge of losing legal representation
A federal contract that provides attorneys for vulnerable undocumented minors is set to expire Friday. Advocates fear children will be left to defend themselves in court alone.
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Kash Patel characterized an Atlantic article as a “sweeping, malicious, and defamatory hit piece.” Author Sarah Fitzpatrick said that in the days since it was published, she’d been “inundated” with new sources corroborating it. #MSNOW #Inners ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
Kash Patel’s Ambitious Defamation Lawsuit Foiled By Basic Civil Procedure Doctrine
The litigious FBI director’s case against a blogger who called him a “blatantly incompetent chud” is no match for International Shoe.
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Keith Sonderling has been acting Secretary of Labor since ex-secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer habitually embarrassed herself and resigned. He's a natural villain, too. #MSNOW #DeadlineWH 5 Points on Trump’s Loyal Labor Secretary Nominee: talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/5...
5 Points on Trump’s Loyal Labor Secretary Nominee
Keith Sonderling has been acting Secretary of Labor since ex-secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer...
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Marcus Mariota predicts big season for #GoDucks QB Dante Moore: Part 2 of a 2-part series. “The more that he can continue to trust that all he’s gone through has made him a better player and a better person, I think ultimately the season will reflect that.” - Mariota. 🔗 shorturl.at/YMgSj
Marcus Mariota predicts big season for Oregon’s Dante Moore, who chose development over NFL: Part 2
After Moore's college career got off to a rough start at UCLA, he found his footing at Oregon and has positioned himself to potentially replicate Mariota's 2014 greatness.
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