Does lying to Congress carry penalties, or is it just another casualty of our sunsetting? We'll wait for maybe 2 years to find out!

Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 4h ago

Trump energy chief lied to Congress about canceled clean energy funds, lawmakers allege

“If built as planned, the gas burning plants — scattered across states including Texas, Ohio and Wyoming — could release as much planet-warming pollution in a year as roughly half of all the passenger vehicles in the United States.”

Trump’s Push for More A.I. Data Centers Will Mean Major Air Pollution (Gift Article)

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So is this administration going to claim military families are criminals and that we are unsafe because we think families should together and not broken up by irrationally cruel people in power?

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 5h ago

President Donald Trump’s administration has detained more than 50 spouses and parents of U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families, an AP investigation has found.

"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."

A veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suing

Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home.

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"The Department is currently monitoring polls in Detroit, Hamtramck, Lansing, and East Lansing with DOJ staff from the Civil Rights Division’s Voting Section and Michigan’s U.S. Attorney’s Offices for both the Western and Eastern districts." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

Justice Department Announces Monitoring of Polling Sites in Four Michigan Cities

Today, the Department of Justice is monitoring polling sites in four Michigan cities for the state’s primary election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law.

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This is a global threat to democracy, and the remaining democracies need to act against it.

Kyle Ruggles 🇨🇦@kyleruggles.bsky.social · 2d ago

Hey @mark-carney.bsky.social Thoughts? Are we getting off of US services or are we just staying the course? Is our travel advisory still green? Good to visit the fascist states of America?

Tillis and Cornyn have caved to Trump’s $100 million IRS immunity, but that’s just one reason to reject him as AG. Here are many more:

Barb McQuade@barbmcquade.bsky.social · 4d ago

Blanche should be blocked for IRS/slush fund AND - targeting Comey, James, Hearn, Powell, Walz, Frey, MOCs - Epstein - payouts to Flynn, Page, Babbitt, Vaughn - rejecting ethics advice to recuse from Trump cases - “war” on judiciary - “cleaning house” of DOJ personnel who worked on Trump cases

The tax immunity is the most illegal part. As outrageous as it is to give a settlement to the J6ers, it's within the DOJ's power to negotiate financial settlements on these terms. Tax immunity isn't something that can legitimately be given.

Joyce White Vance@joycewhitevance.bsky.social · yesterday

Todd Blanche's last-minute promise won over Senators Cornyn & Tillis, but shouldn't have. The "deal" leaves Trump's tax immunity intact. It confirms what the Senators should have already known about Blanche's lack of fitness to be AG. My analysis: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

“After being given assurances by Lucy , I will be kicking the football again today.” – John Cornyn

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "Given this agreement with Mr Blanche, I expect the DOJ to live up to this in future litigation and I will vote to advance him out of the committee today"

The complaint is available here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 2d ago

Twenty-five states sued the Trump administration Monday over its latest tariffs, calling them a pretext for replacing import taxes the Supreme Court struck down in February. https://to.pbs.org/450C3j8

No one in public life talks about red states this way.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."

Can they do this for Senator Schumer?

Crawford Kilian@crof.bsky.social · 2d ago

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Communist economies degraded under the unaccountability of “soft budget constraints.” We’ll see what happens to the MAGAist national-socialist economy under its soft legal constraints.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d ago

no agreement with trump is binding, it's impossible that anyone at this point fails to understand that. All that's happening here is spineless toadies folding as anticipated bsky.app/profile/matt...

Maintaining Sparta is hard.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d ago

Emigration FROM Israel is about 50% higher than it was before October 7. "Those leaving included disproportionately large numbers of doctors, Ph.D. holders, engineers, academics and high-income earners." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Kissingerian. 🗺️

Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 2d ago

AYFKM: "Trump has been considering strikes akin to a 'fireworks' display... which could hit either the same or similar sites... in the hopes of a symbolic victory that would allow him to exit the war without actually accomplishing one of his initial aims: ridding Iran of its nuclear program."

Friends don't subject friends to economic coercion and threats of colonisation

ProPublica@propublica.org · 4d ago

As U.S.-Canada relations worsen, Michigan’s Sault area has lost an estimated $62.7M due to decreased crossings. It’s bewildering, a state senator says. He recalls Canadians helping locals fix the grid after a storm: “This is our best friend in the entire world.”

i suspect this won't get nearly the coverage it deserves, but the implications are obvious: trump admin does not want coverage of its failing, illegal wars except on its own (lying) terms. nb: looks like the times is helping defend cole, which is 💯 b/c freelancers don't always get that.

David Kaye@davidakaye.bsky.social · 3d ago

once you go after reporters & their sources, you can start to kiss natsec journalism goodbye

The far right has discovered democracy’s weak point - if you make up enough nonsense about what is actually happening accountable government becomes impossible

Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4d ago

He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane.

👇🎯🧵 This is what more folks need to understand. The fascists aren’t going anywhere & they exist in every country in roughly the same proportion, & it’s a question of whether we keep a set of bad political institutions that allows them to control the government or not.

[Christopher M. Federico]@chrispps.bsky.social · 4d ago

They -- as in most nations -- are a minority of roughly 25-35% of the population, but institutions need to be restructured to prevent that minority from exercising national power: shifting to some variant of PR, getting rid of the EC, expanding SCOTUS, adding states to fix the Senate, etc. (2/2)

You don’t have to look very far for one rather simple answer to the question of “But what could we be doing differently?” 🌱 🔌💡

Abilu Tangwa.@abilutangwa.bsky.social · 3d ago

The IMF says we pay $5T/year to subsidize fossil fuels — that's $13M per MINUTE to destroy our future. Meanwhile solar & wind fight for scraps. We don't have a funding problem. We have a priority problem.

More news about the Trump crime family. Isn't the entire Trump real estate business a money-laundering operation? And the entire Republican Party are enablers of or participants in this criminality. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe

The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to the president's family business.

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This is standard operating procedure — at the same time that 🇺🇸 imposes tariffs supposedly discouraging “forced labor”.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d ago

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

These third country deportations are among the most evil acts of the Trump administration. They're trying to extrajudicially punish people for seeking asylum, up to and including with death.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 4d ago

Great reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social about a gay man who’s been in the US since he was four, imprisoned in a “hotel” in Equatorial Guinea since April. He says he’s being denied soap and toilet paper in retaliation for filing a complaint w African Commission. 1/ tucson.com/news/local/b...

Senior Republican congressional staffer on trying to recruit new policy experts: “We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots.”

Are Young Republicans Too Based to Work for Congress?

Party veterans are concerned that the pipeline of young Republican talent is veering off course — and into terminally online extremism.

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Again, it’s also crucially important to note that inflation was basically over & the economy was surging in 2024, when 55% of people thought things were getting worse. They’re <actually> getting worse now. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

CNN: 65% of Americans say Trump's policies have worsened economic conditions, that's 10% more than in the finals months of the Biden administration. What do you say to that person who's part of that 65%? KEVIN HASSETT: I just don't believe a poll like that

Okay if this was a push by a Foriegn power you are immediately playing into their hands by this shit. Solidarity people isn't that what the EU is founded on....

OSINTRadar@osintradar.bsky.social · 5d ago

Finnish Interior Minister calls for Spain's membership in the "Schengen" area to be suspended

Maga USA is doing its best to stir up trouble in Spain (again). ⬇️ Maybe it was Trump being erased from Spain's world cup win photo that did it? 🤷🏼‍♀️

Eva Helada@evaspinola70.bsky.social · 5d ago

Quieren un peón a sueldo en la Moncloa y no van a parar hasta tenerlo. Da miedo.

Amplifying so university colleagues can (1) be aware that there's more than one current story about detained researchers, and (2) be reminded that you probably know/work with people who could be detained at any time.

Sarah Kendrew@sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 5d ago

I heard a story about a detained health researcher the other day and assumed this was it - but no, there‘s a second local scientist, from UMD, who is being held by ICE. On his way home from receiving a “teacher of the year” award. www.wbaltv.com/article/umb-...

Not sure why this messaging isn’t everywhere.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)@repstansbury.bsky.social · 5d ago

While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.

Ka$h Patel’s FBI has taken a new and dangerous step in its quest to root out alleged voter fraud—tracking down the IP addresses of people who register to vote online. An IP address shows the user’s geographic location, service provider, and the network they’re on. newrepublic.com/post/213812/...

FBI Escalates Trump’s “Voter Fraud” Crusade With Disturbing Move

The Trump administration is getting new voter data from states in its attempt to take over elections.

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