Lawmakers call for Pentagon probe of Trump family-backed companies The letter to the Pentagon’s inspector general was prompted by Post reporting that startups affiliated with the president’s sons have won $3.2 billion in defense contracts. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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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But more than three months after the election, the recalled officials still won’t leave, claiming the process was unlawful. At a meeting in June, they made it official, voting 3 to 0 to ignore the results. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...

They Were Voted Out. They Refuse to Leave. Now What? (Gift Article)

Avenal, Calif., a city in the rural Central Valley, has become an unlikely example of election denialism months after a recall election.

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A North Korean missile unit has begun deploying to western Russia and could be equipped with 120 ballistic missiles and six launchers for strikes against Ukraine, an official at Ukraine’s military intelligence agency said. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08...

North Korean missile unit deploys in Russia for Ukraine war, Kyiv says

Russia has fired scores of North Korean ballistic missiles at Ukraine for years, but the deployment of North Korean missile forces would be an expansion of the two’s cooperation.

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Trump’s immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents. apnews.com/article/mili...

AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents

An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.

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Arrested at Reflecting Pool, woman details ‘heartbreaking’ toll case has taken Sophie Dennison-Gibby was one of three defendants charged with a misdemeanor related to Reflecting Pool damage. The charges were all dropped. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Arrested at Reflecting Pool, woman details ‘heartbreaking’ toll case has taken

Sophie Dennison-Gibby was one of three defendants charged with a misdemeanor related to Reflecting Pool damage. The charges were all dropped.

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US only has 43-day emergency buffer of crude oil left in 45-year low. www.themirror.com/news/world-n...

US only has 43-day emergency buffer of crude oil left in 45-year low

The U.S. only has about 43 days of an emergency buffer of crude oil left — a 45-year low as President Donald Trump continues to wage war against Iran, throwing global markets into chaos

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DSA candidate Will Lawrence wins Dem nomination in battleground MI-7 district. www.themidwesterner.news/2026/08/dsa-...

DSA candidate Will Lawrence wins Dem nomination in battleground MI-7 district - The Midwesterner

The endorsement of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, likely assisted far-left Democratic candidate William Lawrence in his Tuesday night primary win in Michigan’s 7th  Congressional District. The progre...

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I think Trump knows he just lost Michigan.

From Stuart Greenberg: GOP Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis are assholes!! If they really wanted to do the right thing, they’d use their new found power to get all the Epstein Files released before voting to advance Todd Blanche. Instead they roll over, sit up and perform on cue.

Donald Robert E Lee Trump

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h ago

Trump: "The thing they should look at is blue states and blue cities. Cities run by Democrats. Because that's really the threat to the country. Because they're a disaster."

O yea she gonna get Axed

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h ago

Q: Is Pirro safe? Are you going to keep her in her position? TRUMP: Uh, I haven't made a determination

TAPPER: Do you know what a tall order it is to believe that 3 women who don't know each other made up accusations of you being violent, and you are telling the truth and they are all lying? That's difficult to believe, right? MAX MILLER: No. Not in this instance.

Law arrested 38-year-old Jeanine John Taele at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes after federal agents observed him photographing golf club days before POS Trump's scheduled visit. Police seized several weapons and ammunition, including a 16-round magazine in the pocket of his pants.

Man arrested at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes ahead of Trump visit

Law enforcement arrested 38-year-old Jeanine John Taele at the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes.

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MacFarlane: I think it's an anti-establishment era we may be entering here. Look at all the different ways in which people are bucking against establishment. If El-Sayed is somebody who channels people who don't want the establishment to run and to reign, he's going to have a big night…

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president" The Face of a COWARD❗

We see that our political system is broken, then keep behaving as if it worked. We need serious change, and it's time to take bigger swings.

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Man arrested at Trump golf course with loaded gun just days ahead of president’s visit

Authorities say they arrested a man who was walking the grounds and appeared to be monitoring security at President Donald Trump’s California golf course.

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Marcus Johnson, the Michigan college student who went viral for schooling Vice President JD Vance, joins @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social to discuss the Gen Z vote as Michigan Democrats choose between progressive Abdul El-Sayed and moderate Rep. Haley Stevens in the state's U.S. Senate primary.

Law arrested 38-year-old Jeanine John Taele at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes after federal agents observed him photographing golf club days before POS Trump's scheduled visit. Police seized several weapons and ammunition, including a 16-round magazine in the pocket of his pants.

Man arrested at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes ahead of Trump visit

Law enforcement arrested 38-year-old Jeanine John Taele at the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes.

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Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) reacts to another death at Delaney Hall, a detention center in her district in New Jersey. Officials say 39-year-old Salvadoran immigrant Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died at the facility on Saturday. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

“There is no substantive evidence to back up the charges that our elections aren't accurate & certainly not that they're fraudulent.” Ben Ginsberg joins @PreetBharara.bsky.social & me to discuss Trump’s election fraud claims on a new @cafedotcom.bsky.social Insider podcast: cafe.visitlink.me/e-y6fk

Are the Midterms Safe?

Republican election lawyer Ben Ginsberg joins the Insider podcast

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She's one of a couple republicans told she can vote no. If she weren't up against Troy Jackson, she'd totally confirm Blanche.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19h ago

BREAKING on MS NOW: Susan Collins says she's voting against Todd Blanche's nomination to be Attorney General.

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 "

reporting live from michigan today and just wanted to say: thank you to all our election workers. 💙 *especially* with Trump consistently questioning the integrity of their work — even sending DOJ monitors here.

You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

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

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

It’s past time to BAN CONGRESSIONAL STOCK TRADING!  No member of Congress [or the White House] should be trading stocks. Period. The American people deserve to know their representatives are working for them, not corporations and stock portfolios. It’s time to ban Congressional stock trading.

Summer’s almost over and Sean Duffy’s controversial road trip reality series has yet to launch, leaving corporate sponsors out millions of dollars and critics asking what the money was really for.

Sean Duffy’s Road Trip Sponsors Spent $100 Million Lobbying Congress Last Year

Summer’s almost over and Sean Duffy’s controversial road trip reality series has yet to launch, leaving corporate sponsors out millions of dollars and critics asking what the money was really for.

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The fuss so many Republicans in D.C. make about the LGBTQ community is resentment. They resent people brave enough to live openly…while they keep their own desires hidden, terrified of what colleagues and constituents would do if they knew. Republicans…you KNOW who you are. We do, too.