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Senate Republicans to Trump: “Don’t worry, we’ll protect your filthy slush fund, with just enough ‘hall pass’ votes not to make a difference.”
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Bad enough to say “pretexts are fine as long as you’re going after black voters”; worse when the pretext is exploded, and the Court still blocks. www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...
link:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-alabama-voting-rights_n_6a22b848e4b0a18aef0b7ba7?ncid=APPLENEWS00001
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We may need the business execs to also convince Trump officials to stop poisoning the well on permitting reform with illegal regulatory interference. Everyone is sick of that.
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Only after complaints from big corporations roll in does this administration begin to reconsider stupidity. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/06/05/how-big-business-tech-ai-softened-trump-new-green-card-policy/
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Genius move by Trump calling Thom Tillis a “loser” while he needs his vote. Maybe some choice words for Cornyn too? newrepublic.com/post/211450/...
link:https://newrepublic.com/post/211450/trump-tillis-todd-blanche-ultimatum
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Do understand the concept of the “hall pass.” thehill.com/homenews/sen...
link:https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5910606-gop-senators-trump-white-house-ballroom-amendment/
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I will not concede that Ukraine should give up ANY territory to Russian invaders, particularly when Ukraine is so obviously winning, and Russia is reduced to terror attacks that murder civilians. Remember the punditocracy on Ukraine having “weeks” to survive? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/06/05/ukraine-recent-wins-give-trump-chance-make-putin-end-war/
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Punchline from UK: “climate change-driven flooding … has the potential to trigger a destructive shock to the housing market that could ripple across the wider economy.” Time to wake up?
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Even with their own corrupt fossil fuel stooges in key Trump positions, the market just doesn’t support this rotten program. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/06/05/trump-holds-oil-lease-auction-alaska-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge/
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The unthinkable has happened. DOJ lawyers in RI are under federal judicial scrutiny for misconduct, and the longstanding “presumption of regularity” is lost. www.cbsnews.com/news/rhode-i...
link:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rhode-island-judge-justice-department-transgender-care-investigation/
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Pulte has no business at DNI, interim, temporary, part-time or otherwise. Period. Bad enough to weaponize Americans’ banking data; give him intelligence data and the damage to our Intelligence Community’s reputation will be profound. thehill.com/homenews/sen...
link:https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5911508-six-republicans-vote-no-on-fisa-extension/
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Then get him out. apnews.com/article/trum...
link:https://apnews.com/article/trump-pulte-director-of-national-intelligence-5dc0e7f60641968692d2f7f05cbda005
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Punchline: “Every ground line of communication leading into Crimea, or going west into western Zaporizhzhia Oblast and occupied Kherson Oblast, is under Ukrainian fire control.”
link:https://bobhomans.substack.com/p/russias-special-military-operation
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Blanche acts as Trump’s personal attorney and political henchman, but the Attorney General’s client is supposed to be the American people. He will never understand that.
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Trump intends to damage the rule of law, to protect his massive corruption, and Blanche is his hatchet man.
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... pursuing illegal U.S. Attorney appointments, having courts regularly throw out indictments and grand juries return "no bills," and costing the Department its customary "presumption of regularity." He is a walking disgrace.
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Todd Blanche was behind the Epstein Files cover-up, the rotten cop-beaters slush fund, and a sleazy tax fraud amnesty for the Trump family and businesses; all while causing an unprecedented "fraud on the court" investigation of the Department... 🧵
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On behalf of every family touched by pancreatic cancer, I am thrilled. My Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act years ago laid a foundation for this breakthrough. As a result, patients today have new hope.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/05/31/hotly-anticipated-pancreatic-cancer-drug-results-open-new-era-lethal-cancer/
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Even when the fact-finding court made the exact finding that the Supreme Court said would toss a district map, the Supreme Court reversed, applying its highest principle: “whatever helps Republicans win is what we do.” They are now shameless.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/03/supreme-court-allows-alabama-use-voting-map-favoring-gop/
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Even if the Trumpsters dumpster their cop-beater slush fund, that’s not the end of this saga.
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Are Republicans going to defend this free pass on corruption for Trump and all his shady businesses? And why do the Trumps think they need this kind of amnesty anyhow??
link:https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/trump-to-get-audit-immunity-even-as-1-8-billion-fund-in-doubt
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“What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” The federal court proceedings could carefully pull apart the tangled web of deceit emanating from the highest levels of the Trump administration. Watergate was just a break-in.
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I can’t recall the United States Department of Justice ever committing a “fraud on the court,” so this is big.
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The consequences of “fraud on the court” range from sanctions in the case including contempt of court, to professional discipline/disbarment for misconduct, to criminal referral for perjury/obstruction/fraud.
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Next up in court is the administration’s response, signed and sworn, so they have to be VERY careful. If their response does not settle the matter, the federal court likely appoints a special master/special counsel to dig into the facts and report back.
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If this was schemed up via a “fraud on the court” (now the subject of a federal judicial inquiry), that fraud on the court is complete, and dumpstering the slush fund and tax amnesty doesn’t make that fraud go away, any more than returning the jewels makes a robbery go away.
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Even if crooked Trumpsters try to weasel their way back out of their rotten ‘cop-beaters slush fund’ deal, they still have to deal with the equally rotten Trump family business-and-personal tax/crimes amnesty. This ain’t over until ALL of it goes away. But wait, there’s more!
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Guilty as charged :-)
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If, as fired MAGA AG Pam Bondi testified to the House, “since day one…this Department has been committed to accountability and transparency,” maybe they could start by getting that weasel Patel to finally disclose his own grand jury testimony under Fifth Amendment immunity!
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Last, really for government’s “victims”? Or more as slush fund/payroll set-up for Trump election disruption thugs in November?
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Fourth, small matter, but this should be the end of OLC, corrupted beyond repair—such obvious error and BS.
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Third, really bad dirty tricks on the federal court (now under court inquiry, nyuk, nyuk). Also all slush fund payments are stayed.
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Second, what independent review? Everyone involved is a creepy Trump insider — few more so than Blanche and Epshteyn.
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So many stinking problems here. 🧵 First, what harm? Every president releases tax returns (except crooked Trump, but he said he would).
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/us/politics/trump-irs-lawsuit-deal.html
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And Trump’s sick mind would rather destroy Republicans than fail alone.
link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/11/republicans-trump-popularity
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If you’re interested, here is the judge’s actual order requiring a response from the Trump lawyers. It’s terse and calm, but it’s telling. Should send a shiver down their spines . . . that is, if you can be a Trump lawyer and still have a spine.
link:https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172.65.0_1.pdf
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Well, well, well. It looks like the judge in the case agreed there was a real prospect of fraud on the court, and a proper inquiry into the crooked slush fund will begin! Bring it on. Good news.
link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/05/29/judge-probes-whether-deal-creating-trumps-18-billion-fund-constitutes-fraud/
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Hopefully this puts an end to Trump’s corrupt ‘mob bust-out gone wrong’ at the Kennedy Center. Now questions of defalcation and misprision arise for the board members who participated in this scheme.
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As we’ve said all along, the law names the Kennedy Center after President Kennedy and requires the Board to follow proper procedures—including allowing all Board members to vote—before undertaking major actions such as closure.
link:https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kennedy-center-judge-blocks-closure-trump-name-change/
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The Post editorial page has become a creepy sibling to the WSJ’s Polluter Page, when it should fly the moral standard of the paper.
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A fading and degraded Washington Post is not an outcome justifiable by financial concerns, particularly not from owners with uncountable wealth.
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Are financials a metric? Of course. But other metrics also matter in a democracy that counts on a fearless and independent Fourth Estate.
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Bezos BS: “The Post needs to be a profitable enterprise that stands on its own two feet.” A great newspaper is a public trust many owners would be proud to support.
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Punchline: “Trump is not a mentally stable person,” and does “unhinged” stuff “so ridiculous, juvenile and unvetted by any experts that it had to have left our Israeli and Arab allies deeply worried that their American protector is led by a truly unstable man.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/o...
link:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/opinion/iran-deal-trump-us.html
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Only violators of industry’s own standards would pay; money would go back to fund leak repairs; that was too much for them. This is what you can do when your dark money funds and controls a political party.
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Corrupt fossil fuel industry got Senate to gut the methane fee that would have made this happen. www.wsj.com/opinion/natu...
link:https://www.wsj.com/opinion/natural-gas-is-escaping-into-thin-air-bee872ed