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Justice Department publishes documents with sexual assault allegations against Trump The department shared FBI documents outlining allegations involving Trump.

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Massive war price tag could be a massive problem for GOP leaders The prospect of a ballooning new spending bill has GOP leaders bracing for a messy internal fight.

The US is spending *$2 billion* a day on a war with no purpose, no strategy, and no end goals.

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Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.

Firing Kristi Noem isn't going to change the Trump administration's fundamental cruelty.

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Live Updates: U.S. Employers Cut Jobs in Sign of a Shakier Economy

The Trump economy is going great!

Employers cut 92,000 jobs and unemployment rose to 4.4 percent.

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Capitol rioter who was pardoned by Trump gets a life sentence for molesting 2 children in Florida A Florida handyman who was sentenced to life in prison for molesting two children had been convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but was pardoned by President Donald Trump.

Meanwhile...

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ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Lindsey Halligan Is Under Investigation by the Florida Bar

Aha. Now we know why DOJ wants to intervene in state bar investigations:

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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Ousts Noem as Homeland Security Secretary

Noem is going to be the "special envoy to the Shield of the Americas," whatever that is.

Which means Americans' tax dollars will continue to go toward her salary.

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The Statues Were Mostly Men or Nude Women. So These Knitters Got to Work.

As a crocheter and aspiring knitter, I love this:

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"Pledged"

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June 2025)

A month in, TrumpRx falls short of president’s grand promises Trump wants to focus on his efforts to lower drug prices, but the TrumpRx website is falling short of his promises.

Shocker. TrumpRx is a bust so far.

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Trump DOJ Pushes to Sideline State Bar Ethics Investigations (3) The Justice Department is seeking to empower Attorney General Pam Bondi to suspend state bar ethics investigations into current and former DOJ lawyers—a step outside attorneys quickly criticized as an...

AGPam Bondi wants the authority to suspend state bar investigations of DOJ lawyers, thereby giving her henchmen the power to act with impunity.

It’s basically immunity from state accountability.

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Possible person-to-person swine flu case reported in Spain. Should we be concerned? Health officials in Spain reportedly informed WHO of a possible human case of swine flu that may have been caused by human spread. Is there reason for concern?

America is *so* not prepared.

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‘Cheap’ and ‘Appalling’: Trump’s Ballroom Plans Receive a Flood of Negative Comments

It's not too late to submit your thoughts on the Trump ballroom!

Click "Submit Written Comments" at the link below and choose "East Wing Modernization Project" from the drop down menu.

The commission votes Thursday. Act now!

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Live Updates: Trump Says Strikes Killed Leaders U.S. Saw as Successors in Iran

Killing the people you hoped to negotiate with seems rather problematic.

No strategy, no plan, and here we are barreling toward World War III.

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'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.

"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

CNN poll: 59% of Americans disapprove of Iran strikes and most think a long-term conflict is likely | CNN Politics Nearly 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of the US decision to take military action in Iran, as most say a long-term military conflict between the two nations is likely, according to a new CNN poll conduct...

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Exclusive | Trump Administration Drops Defense of Law Firm Sanctions The Justice Dept. plans to abandon its defense of the president’s executive orders that targeted Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.

The law firms that didn't cave got the last laugh.

Seems like maybe an important lesson here.

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ICE Plans to Spend $220 Million on Tasers The company that manufactures the product spent nearly $2.5 million on lobbying efforts.

ICE will soon be arming itself with 17,800 new Tasers--more than triple what it has now.

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"The Peace President."

911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.

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An Ohio newspaper has a new star writer. It isn’t human. At the 184-year-old Cleveland Plain Dealer, a top editor’s push to let AI draft news articles is boosting traffic — and spooking staffers.

As if the trust in media isn't already at historic lows...

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Trump Stays Out of Public View After U.S. Launches Military Assault on Iran

Coward.

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The GOP's cruel plans for another Big Ugly Bill The Republican Study Committee's framework for a second reconciliation bill aims to make life even more miserable for immigrants, including legal residents.

The House Republican Study Committee's next plan is to strip all *legal* immigrants (green card, refugees, asylees) of any access to federal benefits.

Me @washingtonmonthly.com, plus reax from our writers on Iran, and more:

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3 US troops reported killed in Iran attack The Central Command announced the casualties.

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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres: “Military action carries the risk of igniting a chain of events that no one can control in the most volatile region of the world"

Worms in food, poor medical care, lights on 24/7: Families tell of life in Texas detention center When ICE officers in Minneapolis detained a 5-year-old boy and his father last month and sent them to a Texas detention center, many Americans were alarmed.

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Pentagon to Cut Ties With Top Universities and Think Tanks

Instead of Harvard's Kennedy School and Johns Hopkins' SAIS, the Pentagon could send its leaders to Hillsdale College and Liberty University.

"This decisive change will ensure our leaders receive a more rigorous and relevant education,” says the "Dept of War."

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