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The end of the investigation into Tom Homan is more evidence that post-Watergate controls on graft are fading away
The president’s border czar was caught in a sting operation
Then the administration waived it away
econ.st
September 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The end of the investigation into Tom Homan is more evidence that post-Watergate controls on graft are fading away
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Am I the last to know? The Qatar jet offered to Trump turns out to be an item unsuccessfully for sale since 2020. The "gift" is not only a Trump grift, but also an attempted scam on the US taxpayer, who will assume costs the owners no longer wish to pay. onemileatatime.com/qatari-royal...
Qatari Royal Family Selling Boeing 747-8 Private Jet
The Qatari royal family is selling a Boeing 747-8 business jet. Here's what we know about the sale of this epic plane.
onemileatatime.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Am I the last to know? The Qatar jet offered to Trump turns out to be an item unsuccessfully for sale since 2020. The "gift" is not only a Trump grift, but also an attempted scam on the US taxpayer, who will assume costs the owners no longer wish to pay. onemileatatime.com/qatari-royal...
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Pete Hegseth‘s affinity for Signal group chats with former Fox News producers is worse than we thought.
Hegseth Has Another Blonde Fox Producer Aide—Who’s on Signal
The U.S. defense secretary has another Signal group chat. This one reportedly includes his wife and her former Fox News producer friend.
www.thedailybeast.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Pete Hegseth‘s affinity for Signal group chats with former Fox News producers is worse than we thought.
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David Frum Show Episode 4 is up today: How Trump is Making America Infectious Again
Episode 4 of the David Frum Show: America's pro-disease movement. US is gripped by a measles outbreak, and an anti-vaccine Trump administration is making things deadlier. On YouTube here www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH2L...
America’s Pro-Disease Movement | The David Frum Show
YouTube video by The Atlantic
www.youtube.com
April 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
David Frum Show Episode 4 is up today: How Trump is Making America Infectious Again
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NEW: After USDA cuts aid to food banks, one charity in WV tries to make lunch out of craisins, crackers and vegetable soup. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/u...
After Trump Aid Cuts, Food Banks Scrounge and Scrimp
In one of the country’s poorest areas, the quantity and quality of government deliveries have dropped, forcing one charity to make do with thin soup and dried cranberries.
www.nytimes.com
April 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
NEW: After USDA cuts aid to food banks, one charity in WV tries to make lunch out of craisins, crackers and vegetable soup. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/u...
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Trump Offers a Private Dinner to Top 220 Investors of His Memecoin
The offer, which caused President Trump’s memecoin to surge in price, was his family’s latest effort to profit from cryptocurrencies.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/t...
The offer, which caused President Trump’s memecoin to surge in price, was his family’s latest effort to profit from cryptocurrencies.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/t...
Trump Offers a Private Dinner to Top 220 Investors of His Memecoin (Gift Article)
The offer, which caused President Trump’s memecoin to surge in price, was his family’s latest effort to profit from cryptocurrencies.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Trump Offers a Private Dinner to Top 220 Investors of His Memecoin
The offer, which caused President Trump’s memecoin to surge in price, was his family’s latest effort to profit from cryptocurrencies.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/t...
The offer, which caused President Trump’s memecoin to surge in price, was his family’s latest effort to profit from cryptocurrencies.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/t...
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Elon Musk is now attacking Tesla's regulators.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is DOGE's latest target.
This is after Musk attacked
- FAA (which investigated SpaceX)
- USAID (which investigated Starlink)
- CFPB (which would regulate X as a payment app)
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is DOGE's latest target.
This is after Musk attacked
- FAA (which investigated SpaceX)
- USAID (which investigated Starlink)
- CFPB (which would regulate X as a payment app)
April 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Elon Musk is now attacking Tesla's regulators.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is DOGE's latest target.
This is after Musk attacked
- FAA (which investigated SpaceX)
- USAID (which investigated Starlink)
- CFPB (which would regulate X as a payment app)
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is DOGE's latest target.
This is after Musk attacked
- FAA (which investigated SpaceX)
- USAID (which investigated Starlink)
- CFPB (which would regulate X as a payment app)
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President Trump on Thursday said he was allowing commercial fishing in one of the world’s largest ocean reserves, introducing industrial operations for the first time in more than a decade to a vast area of the Pacific populated by endangered sea turtles and whales.
Read more: nyti.ms/3Rpkm68
Read more: nyti.ms/3Rpkm68
April 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
President Trump on Thursday said he was allowing commercial fishing in one of the world’s largest ocean reserves, introducing industrial operations for the first time in more than a decade to a vast area of the Pacific populated by endangered sea turtles and whales.
Read more: nyti.ms/3Rpkm68
Read more: nyti.ms/3Rpkm68
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“If the government can disappear anyone it wishes, dump him in a Salvadoran dungeon and prevent any court in this country from providing relief, we all should be very, very afraid,” two constitutional scholars write in a guest essay.
Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago
Trump is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
“If the government can disappear anyone it wishes, dump him in a Salvadoran dungeon and prevent any court in this country from providing relief, we all should be very, very afraid,” two constitutional scholars write in a guest essay.
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First episode of the David Frum Show is live! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTfV...
Rahm Emanuel and Trump’s Tariff Chaos | The David Frum Show
YouTube video by The Atlantic
www.youtube.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
First episode of the David Frum Show is live! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTfV...
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Much of Elon Musk's DOGE remains shrouded in secrecy, but two sources said it's using AI to surveil workers, marking an extraordinary use of technology to identify expressions of perceived disloyalty in a workforce already upended by widespread firings reut.rs/443eKWL
April 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Much of Elon Musk's DOGE remains shrouded in secrecy, but two sources said it's using AI to surveil workers, marking an extraordinary use of technology to identify expressions of perceived disloyalty in a workforce already upended by widespread firings reut.rs/443eKWL
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Exclusive: Trump administration officials have told some US government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using AI to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda reut.rs/4i5ORZq
Exclusive: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say
Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda, said two people with knowledge of the matter.
reut.rs
April 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Exclusive: Trump administration officials have told some US government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using AI to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda reut.rs/4i5ORZq
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Elon Musk’s young DOGE goons have made yet another tech blunder as they launched untested software, crashing the Social Security website.
DOGE Goons Cause Major Crash to Social Security Site
Elon Musk’s crew of young goons have caused a massive cyber disruption.
www.thedailybeast.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Elon Musk’s young DOGE goons have made yet another tech blunder as they launched untested software, crashing the Social Security website.
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Judge Boasberg said he would rule on if there was probable cause to hold the Trump Administration in contempt for ignoring his order barring Venezuelan deportees from being flown to El Salvador. His record shows that President Trump has chosen an especially hard target to paint as “a troublemaker.”
Trump’s Least Favorite Judge Has Friends in High Places
To President Trump, Judge James E. Boasberg is “a troublemaker” and a “Radical Left Lunatic.” But his record and biography, including a friendship with Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, say otherwise.
www.nytimes.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Judge Boasberg said he would rule on if there was probable cause to hold the Trump Administration in contempt for ignoring his order barring Venezuelan deportees from being flown to El Salvador. His record shows that President Trump has chosen an especially hard target to paint as “a troublemaker.”
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Read the full story:
Trump Orders Four Mile Military Parade for His 79th Birthday
The president was previously forced to abandon plans for a procession in Washington, D.C., due to its colossal price tag.
www.thedailybeast.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Even as the stock market crashed, President Trump was in Florida at his Doral golf resort and Mar-a-Lago club helping pump up family businesses, evidence that Trump continues to monetize the presidency. A NYT behind-the-scenes look with Theodore Schleifer and Zolan Kanno-Youngs nyti.ms/3XPqyIa
Trump Family’s Cash Registers Ring as Financial Meltdown Plays Out (Gift Article)
The party was on at a Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament at the president’s Doral resort in Florida and a fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago, even as markets tumbled.
nyti.ms
April 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Even as the stock market crashed, President Trump was in Florida at his Doral golf resort and Mar-a-Lago club helping pump up family businesses, evidence that Trump continues to monetize the presidency. A NYT behind-the-scenes look with Theodore Schleifer and Zolan Kanno-Youngs nyti.ms/3XPqyIa
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The tiny Southern African kingdom of Lesotho — which Trump has described as a country 'nobody has ever heard of' — is one of the world's poorest nations. Thanks to Trump’s tariffs, 'Lesotho will be dead, so to say,' an economic analyst there said reut.rs/4joDEVb
April 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The tiny Southern African kingdom of Lesotho — which Trump has described as a country 'nobody has ever heard of' — is one of the world's poorest nations. Thanks to Trump’s tariffs, 'Lesotho will be dead, so to say,' an economic analyst there said reut.rs/4joDEVb
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When President Trump fired the head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command on Thursday, it was the latest in a series of moves that have torn away at the country’s cyberdefenses just as they are confronting the most sophisticated and sustained attacks in the nation’s history.
Trump’s National Security Firings Come as He Weakens U.S. Cyberdefenses
The firing of the head of the National Security Agency was only the latest move that has eroded the country’s fortifications against cyberattacks, especially those targeting elections.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
When President Trump fired the head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command on Thursday, it was the latest in a series of moves that have torn away at the country’s cyberdefenses just as they are confronting the most sophisticated and sustained attacks in the nation’s history.
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A coalition of 21 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the federal agency charged with supporting the nation’s libraries.
States Challenge Trump’s Effort to Dismantle Library Agency
In a lawsuit, 21 state attorneys general argued that the steep cuts to the Institute of Museum and Library Services violate the Constitution and other federal laws related to spending.
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
A coalition of 21 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the federal agency charged with supporting the nation’s libraries.
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Trump is driving the world to a global depression -and destruction of all US influence - using powers delegated to him by Congress. Congress could recall those powers and save everyone from the disaster Trump is determined to inflict
April 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Trump is driving the world to a global depression -and destruction of all US influence - using powers delegated to him by Congress. Congress could recall those powers and save everyone from the disaster Trump is determined to inflict
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With the abrupt shutdown of USAID funding, many clinics, including those serving women in remote areas, have shuttered. Midwives are reporting that mothers and babies are dying as a result.
A midwife says of the aid cuts in Afghanistan: 'No one prioritizes women's lives.'
With the abrupt shutdown of USAID funding, many clinics, including those serving women in remote areas, have shuttered. Midwives are reporting that mothers and babies are dying as a result.
www.npr.org
April 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
With the abrupt shutdown of USAID funding, many clinics, including those serving women in remote areas, have shuttered. Midwives are reporting that mothers and babies are dying as a result.
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BREAKING - WilmerHale BEATS Trump, wins restraining order
Order stops Trump from blocking Wilmer attys from gov buildings — and forcing gov agencies to strip contracts from Wilmer clients — to punish them for hiring Robert Mueller
Trump keeps LOSING almost every court decision
Order stops Trump from blocking Wilmer attys from gov buildings — and forcing gov agencies to strip contracts from Wilmer clients — to punish them for hiring Robert Mueller
Trump keeps LOSING almost every court decision
March 29, 2025 at 2:20 AM
BREAKING - WilmerHale BEATS Trump, wins restraining order
Order stops Trump from blocking Wilmer attys from gov buildings — and forcing gov agencies to strip contracts from Wilmer clients — to punish them for hiring Robert Mueller
Trump keeps LOSING almost every court decision
Order stops Trump from blocking Wilmer attys from gov buildings — and forcing gov agencies to strip contracts from Wilmer clients — to punish them for hiring Robert Mueller
Trump keeps LOSING almost every court decision
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DOGE is actually INCREASING the deficit.
It has cut only a small fraction of what it’s claimed to cut.
And it’s cutting the IRS and CFPB — both of which GAIN revenue for the government.
So DOGE is a money loser — except for Elon Musk, who profits off fat government contracts.
It has cut only a small fraction of what it’s claimed to cut.
And it’s cutting the IRS and CFPB — both of which GAIN revenue for the government.
So DOGE is a money loser — except for Elon Musk, who profits off fat government contracts.
March 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
DOGE is actually INCREASING the deficit.
It has cut only a small fraction of what it’s claimed to cut.
And it’s cutting the IRS and CFPB — both of which GAIN revenue for the government.
So DOGE is a money loser — except for Elon Musk, who profits off fat government contracts.
It has cut only a small fraction of what it’s claimed to cut.
And it’s cutting the IRS and CFPB — both of which GAIN revenue for the government.
So DOGE is a money loser — except for Elon Musk, who profits off fat government contracts.
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The sheer number of Cabinet officials implicated in Trump's Signalgate eclipses the scope of past scandals - but the ghosts of Iran/Contra & Watergate may yet bedevil the Trump administration-
www.thedailybeast.com/all-the-lega...
www.thedailybeast.com/all-the-lega...
All The Legal Jeopardy Trump’s ‘Signalgate’ Team Could Be Facing
The ghosts of many past administrations’ debacles—Watergate, Iran-Contra and more—are haunting the White House right now.
www.thedailybeast.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The sheer number of Cabinet officials implicated in Trump's Signalgate eclipses the scope of past scandals - but the ghosts of Iran/Contra & Watergate may yet bedevil the Trump administration-
www.thedailybeast.com/all-the-lega...
www.thedailybeast.com/all-the-lega...
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Another Shead dunk!
“I know that I can dunk. Everybody else doesn’t know that I can dunk.”
Jamal Shead is used to surprising people; he’s been doing it all season. On the Raptors rookie point guard, who could go down as one of the biggest steals in last summer’s draft: www.tsn.ca/talent/nba/j...
Jamal Shead is used to surprising people; he’s been doing it all season. On the Raptors rookie point guard, who could go down as one of the biggest steals in last summer’s draft: www.tsn.ca/talent/nba/j...
Josh Lewenberg: Rookie Shead a pleasant surprise for rebuilding Raptors | TSN
Jamal Shead’s teammates were in awe, even though they had all seen it before. The Raptors’ 6-foot rookie point guard was lurking in the paint when RJ Barrett drove to the basket in a game against Was...
www.tsn.ca
March 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Another Shead dunk!