As evidence for Warsh’s rough start as Fed chair, the Treasury secretary is now going after reporters for their coverage of the central bank.

My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.

It just never ends with this guy

Trump's Griftathon Rolls On as He Sells Traders Early Access to His Market-Moving Social Media Posts: An Executive Watch Roundup

Our early-August selection of the president’s latest and greatest assaults on the rule of law

theunpopulist.net

American Gestapo

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 17h ago

Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Two wins for abortion rights: Voters in Kansas and Missouri easily defeated ballot measures that could have threatened abortion access in their states

This law firm was just awarded a $150 million/year contract to lead representation of unaccompanied minors through immigration proceedings. Seems really bad!

Corey Rayburn Yung@coreyryung.bsky.social · 20h ago

In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/

In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/

Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC

Our Team

burkegroup.law

Politico@politico.com · 20h ago

26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court

RFK Jr. led HHS just doled out $150 million to this firm to represent 24k+ kids which "bills itself as a “boutique” firm “known for elite counsel in high-stakes litigation, environmental, regulatory, and corporate matters.”" w/ "none" of its lawyers listing "immigration law as an area of expertise."

Politico@politico.com · 20h ago

26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court

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 · 20h ago

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

Alternative headline.... www.phoenixnewtimes.com/food-drink/s...

SNAP work requirements don’t help people get jobs. They prevent getting food

“I lost my job, I need food benefits. Well, you can only get food benefits if you have a job.”

phoenixnewtimes.com

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Rollins: "For those who love work and celebrate work and want people to work and not be on food stamps, it's a pretty big win when we've moved 5 million people off food stamps, y'all."

NEW: Jeanine Pirro has pushed a slew of flimsy, short-lived, Trump-endorsed prosecutions — but Trump's fury over her failure to prosecute Reflecting Pool vandalism is a sign of his 2nd-term obsession and desire to use DOJ to fulfill it w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Jeanine Pirro struggles to give Trump the wins he craves the most

She’s delivering on some core priorities — but the Reflecting Pool is just the latest politically charged prosecution to fall flat.

politico.com

Moderate Democrat Bobby Pulido is up by 6 over incumbent Republican Monica De La Cruz in TX-15. Recalled 2024 vote is Trump +15. But will Pulido get anywhere near the level of coverage the national media gives to the DSA? Nope.

17 days before trump took office

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump on Washington DC: "This was the crime capital, frankly, of the world. It was the most unsafe capital of any country anywhere in the world."

MAGA is raging at DHS Sec Markwayne Mullin for discussing immigration reform. But the real reason MAGA is so furious is he admitted immigration can be managed in a way that benefits our country. This is absolutely lethal to white nationalist ideology. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2138...

MAGA Erupts at Trump DHS Chief—and Accidentally Exposes Big MAGA Scam

Markwayne Mullin just said the unsayable: That immigration can sometimes help the economy and the country. Now MAGA wants his head.

newrepublic.com

Oh FFS. DC was doing phenomenally well until this guy moved back last year. Now we're holding on for dear life as National Guard troops wander aimlessly through our streets.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump on Washington DC: "This was the crime capital, frankly, of the world. It was the most unsafe capital of any country anywhere in the world."

“.. At least 67 ships have been attacked or boarded—and 17 seafarers killed—since the start of the Iran war ..” @wsj.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.wsj.com/world/middle...

the next president has a duty to the country to prove that “tax immunity” is a completely made up thing that doesnt exist. they need to do this through intense prosecution to signal to future leaders what will happen if they try this

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

I'm a full Professor of Immunology and fully vaccinated. I didn't get vaccinated out of obedience, but after decades of studying the immune system and evaluating all evidence. Calling that "lack of critical thinking" is not an argument. It's ideology masked as pretend intellect.

“The @nytimes.com has been tracking abortion laws in each state since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which ended the constitutional right to an abortion.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/... I saw an echo of American history on the map.

Hard to take any rightist hawk on China seriously ever again. Congratulations, you played yourself www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

Opinion | Trump, TikTok and Federal Devices

The Justice Department green lights the app for U.S. officials, despite spying worries.

wsj.com

Blanche’s appeasement is hollow. Trump still gets immunity from tax audits worth $100 million. And last week’s payout to abortion clinic blocker shows the path to payouts to rewrite history will be individual settlements instead of one designated fund. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

Blanche Gives G.O.P. Senators Written Assurances on Trump’s I.R.S. Deal (Gift Article)

Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general has been held up over concerns about a planned $1.8 billion fund for Trump allies and the president’s immunity from tax scrutiny.

nytimes.com

19 more administration abuses of authority, corruptions of law, and wastes of resources collapse. bsky.app/profile/brad...

Brad Tabke@bradtabke.bsky.social · 3d ago

“Upon a further review of the evidence and affidavit in support of the complaint, the government does not believe that probable cause for assault exists." They are filing to dismiss their own cases because it’s all made up. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

I disagree. Le Pen hasn’t instigated a coup d’état. Meloni does not have track record of openly racist remarks. And Orbán accepted his electoral defeat. Not to say that Europeans would no longer vote for these leaders if they did, but we simply don’t know yet. Trump is much more extremist!

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Tl;dr: Americans have trouble understanding there is ~nothing unique about Trump. He is part of the broad wave of far right parties/politicians since 2008 across rich democracies. Our institutions just suck more. Europeans have trouble understanding there is ~nothing unique about Trump. See above.

"...provide businesses with a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform’s most market-moving Truths...Trading firms and other paying subscribers can now access the posts earlier than other users – for a fee of up to $100,000 per month." They're basically openly selling insider trading.

Luke Steuber@coolhand.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is for an API. A hundred thousand dollars for an API. But so far as I can tell, the posts themselves will still be visible on the site … ?

JD Vance in the Washington Post in February.

But this could never happen in America, right? /anakin_padme.gif

How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners (Gift Article)

An unsecured police dashboard was a rare window into how the authorities track foreigners by collecting and aggregating vast amounts of private data.

nytimes.com

Capital One Financial fights back over litigation tied "decision to close ‌the Trump Organization's bank accounts years ago, stating that it did so after a review by anti-money laundering experts...Marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns" to Trump family. Via Reuters

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 Trump's family business.

reuters.com

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.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

futurism.com

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.

Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

I’m so naïve I really didn’t think they would let the president sell high-level oval office information to traders for his own enrichment.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d ago

$DJT