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SCOOP: Less than 3 weeks before Trump pardoned Paul Walczak, his mother, Elizabeth Fago, attended a $1M/head fundraiser with Trump at Mar-a-Lago for MAGA Inc. Walczak's pardon application emphasized Fago's financial support for Trump, & her connection to a plot to publicize Ashley Biden's diary.

BREAKING: Sweeping ProPublica report reveals over a dozen Trump officials conveniently sold off their shares just days before their president crippled the stock market with his sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs. https://trib.al/kxqc6ZJ

He had a double coating on this morning

Some psychological terms on display here: tangential thinking, circumstantiality, flight of ideas, slurred speech - all concerning behaviors in an elderly person

FEMA’s new leader has admitted that the all-important disaster relief agency has not completed its plan for hurricane season, which begins in just two weeks.

🚨NEWS: I've obtained a list of the Medicaid cuts in the Republican reconciliation package. The big one is that they're going to raise premiums and co-pays on beneficiaries at or above the federal poverty line ($15,650 for single people, $21,150 for a couple). That's what helps pay for the tax cuts.

The White House are such big Star Wars fans that they gave Trump a red lightsaber while trying to claim he's the good guy.

Van Hollen: "This case is not only about one man, as important as that is. It is about protecting fundamental freedoms and the fundamental principle in the Constitution for due process that protects everyone who resides in America."

Today @annamerlan.bsky.social and I wrote about the many factual errors RFK Jr. made in his autism press briefing this week—and his featured researcher's ties to pseudoscience groups. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This country is being ripped apart because of sheer ignorance, privilege, and selfishness.

Under the Trump administration, America is retreating from hard power, surrendering soft power, and yielding economic power, David A. Graham writes in The Atlantic Daily. Is this what greatness looks like?

Who had the inside scoop and traded on it illegally?

AOC has demanded an investigation into “insider trading” in Congress after the stock market resurrected when Trump's “Liberation Day” tariffs were put on hold.

Now that’s a split-screen. ⛳️ @wsj.com

If you’re still using cod liver oil to treat measles and haven’t tried raking beaver teeth over your junk, you’re clearly not committed to clean living.

I'm no lawyer, but it seems like discussing war plans in Signal outside a SCIF is maybe just a little bit worse than using a private server to send emails that weren't even marked as classified. But what do I know.

Wyden: "I'm of the view that there ought to be resignations, starting with the national security adviser and the secretary of defense."

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

Two market meltdowns. One common denominator.

Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

Somebody ask Putin if the orange guy and robot25 got all their lines right in the oval with Zelensky today.

Your tips are still getting taxed. Your overtime is still getting taxed. Your Social Security is still getting taxed. Trump and Republicans have changed NOTHING — NONE of those changes were in the resolution they passed. Don’t let them lie to you.

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Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene are actively spreading anti-immigrant disinformation about the perpetrator of the attack in New Orleans, who was born in the U.S. and is an army veteran.