So, has anyone heard any new updates on Mitch McConnell's "recovery" or "rehab" or whatever the fuck we're calling it this week? Asking for a friend. 🤷‍♀️

Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterday

Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS

If Elon Musk paid the same tax rate as most Americans with a good salary (~40%), he would still have $47 billion(!), and our society would be better funded and protected from trillionaires. Tax billionaires like the rest of us. After all.., Fair is fair. 😎✨

No one spending that money cares about debt or deficits. They all plan to be living in gated communities or better while some future Democratic president has to figure out how to pay the tab. Rinse. Repeat.

Using National Guard soldiers as props in authoritarian theater is pricey. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump’s National Guard deployment in D.C. set to cost additional $1.4 billion

The estimate, provided to Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, covers the period from Oct. 1, 2026, through the end of the president’s term.

washingtonpost.com

NEWS: Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) just dropped out of his re-election race at 3:32 a.m.m. He said he’s done running but will finish out his term. This after the House Ethics Committee found “substantial reason to believe [he] violated House Rules related to sexual harassment and hostile workplaces.”

Facts suck, if you're delusional and in a cult.

So now the next step is to find out what Capital One's months-long anti-money laundering review by professionals with decades of law enforcement experience discovered about Trump's 300+ accounts...

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · yesterday

Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."

NEWS: Trump just bragged about gutting endangered species protections so oil drilling, logging, development, and even military training can expand with fewer restrictions.

Trump Announces Rollback of Endangered Species Protections

Trump: ”The United States of America is going to BUILD again.”

meidasnews.com

Bessent is fine with deficits to fight needless wars, it’s only deficits to pay for healthcare or education that bother him

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 23h ago

BREAKING: Republicans are no longer worried about deficits and debt Bessent: "I'm not as bothered by it ... if '26 is flat to slightly up, this isn't wasteful social spending "

If only it hadn’t been illegal. 😞

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 23h ago

Bessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."

The founders are calling. They suggest you read the damn Constitution.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

In a "normal" United States, a President who was found to have 300 bank accounts closed for suspected money-laundering would be subject to immediate impeach/removal. For comparison, the GOP tried to impeach Biden for writing a check to his brother for $10,000 for a used pickup truck.

"President Trump has directed contractors to redo weeks of work on his planned White House helipad, frustrated with its appearance and questioning whether the slope of the White House lawn needs to be changed"

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.

wapo.st

🔥 Here's Whitehouse's entire remarkable speech opposing Blanche: "What's left of this committee when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has DOJ been asked what became of the $50k that the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our R colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, & speak no evil."

Whitehouse on Blanche: "Today is a sad and embarrassing day"

YouTube video by Aaron Rupar

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This is so true. Texans you have to turn Texas back to blue. You have to want better.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

I Remember, Hope you do….

So far, 65,000 people have been displaced from Spokane, Washington. Europe too is burning, while 1000 year floods routinely inundate the nation and world. On some other planet, Trump and his army of Republican idiots continue to insist climate change is a hoax. This is what Novembers are made for.

I had completely forgotten about this. The zone flooding works!

Will Sommer@willsommer.bsky.social · 2d ago

Transportation secretary Sean Duffy benefited from millions in corporate donations to make a show about road trips. But two months after Duffy said the show would premiere, it doesn't appear to exist at all. My latest False Flag @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-the-h...

Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.

Almost two dozen Democratic-led states asked the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to uphold a block on President Donald Trump’s sweeping attack on mail voting, saying it poses “extraordinary threats to our democracy.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Blue states urge Supreme Court to uphold block on Trump’s anti-mail voting order

The states and D.C. said Trump's order poses “extraordinary threats to our democracy.”

democracydocket.com

Two senators on their way out the door. Nothing left to lose. Total leverage. And they traded it for a memo. A piece of paper. Cornyn and Tillis folded like lawn chairs, and everybody knew they would. Again.

STATE RUN TV.

11 years ago today, Ken Paxton surrendered at the Collin County Jail on felony securities fraud charges. This is his mugshot.

CARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)

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Exxon just posted $14.5 billion in profits for 2026-Q2, more than double year-over-year. Trump's war with Iran is a tremendous money making machine for U.S. oil companies. He's as much as said so himself. Our billionaire bros are gonna be popping corks tonight. Hope you're as excited as I am!