Trump nominated his own criminal defense attorney Todd Blanche as Attorney General. No one has ever gone from defending a president to running the DOJ that prosecuted him. The Senate must reject Blanche. Or...will this be the final nail in the GOP coffin? #BlockBlanch #USDemocracy contrariannews.org/p/confirm…

Donald Trump won the rural parts of the United States by 40 points over Kamala Harris, but less than two years later, his approval rating is a net ( 2). open.substack.com/pub/politi…

🚨 BREAKING:A judge just halted Trump's election power grab. The fight over who controls America's elections is heating up fast. Was the judge right to intervene? YES or NO? 👇

New FCC Proposal 🚨 Phone companies will be allowed and required to keep a copy of all American’s government issued ID on file Whenever you buy or activate any new phone service like a regular phone, iPhone, prepaid phone, even an extra SIM card, the company would have to: - Scan and record your government ID (like driver’s license or passport). - Get your real name and address. - Ask for a backup phone number tied to you. They’d keep these records on file The FCC already issued a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to strengthen “Know Your Customer” requirements for voice service providers This is meant to fight robocalls but what it actually does it far worse. We don’t want a copy of our government IDs with phone carriers

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Congress must permanently defund President Trump's corrupt $1.8 billion settlement with himself, a complete fraud on the court and on our country. Not one dollar of taxpayer money can go to insurrectionists, Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. Read Section IV of the 14th Amendment and the Domestic Emoluments Clause, Mr. President. You get nothing beyond your salary from the taxpayers, much less for violent insurrection.

Fifty years of rules keeping off-road vehicles on designated trails — GONE. Lifted trucks, ATVs, dirt bikes, snowmobiles. Anywhere they want. On your public lands. Nixon protected it. Carter protected it. Trump just erased both quietly on a Friday afternoon. A grizzly bear will abandon its habitat when there's just one mile of road per square mile. One mile. Now there's no limit on where these vehicles can go. In the Mojave, desert tortoises have already lost 96% of their population in some monitored areas - partly because off-road vehicles crush their burrows. A federal judge just ordered 2,200 miles of trails closed to protect what's left. Then Trump signed this. No designated trails. No boundaries. No framework at all. When vehicles go off trail they shatter habitat into pieces too small for wildlife to survive in. They destroy stream banks. They push predators toward humans. And when that happens, the animals always lose. There was no vote. No public comment. Just a signature. Now the agencies tasked with writing replacement rules are the BLM, the Forest Service, and the National Park Service - all under an administration that has spent months dismantling every protection they had. The Interior Department, led by Doug Burgum, is in charge of most of it. The same Doug Burgum who has opened public lands to drilling, mining, and grazing at every turn. Don't hold your breath. When the last quiet place is gone, what do we tell the children who never got to hear it? #DemsUnited

RT @LindaMy35506493: One day soon hopefully we will be dragging ICE agents out of their cars and homes for violations of civil rights.🤨

Another broken promise from Trump. Apparently there is no money for your health care but there is about $300 million of YOUR tax dollars for his gold-plated ballroom.

BREAKING: J.D. Vance Pressed On Refugee Admissions After New Figure Was Raised On-Air. During an appearance on The View, Vance was confronted with a statistic claiming that of 6,668 refugees admitted to the United States since October, all but three were white South Africans. Vance questioned whether refugee admissions alone reflect the broader immigration picture, pointing to other legal pathways into the country.

What the hell is wrong with Republicans? Why can't they leave children alone? #DemsUnited

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America. A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact. It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy: 56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases. More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide. 343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information. That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison. The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once: The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry. Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate. Now look at the individual leaderboard: - Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100 - Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800 different tickers - Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late - Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked. She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO. The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine. The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero. And the cruelest part is this: A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed. But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is. They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing. The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

🚨BREAKING: Women detained inside Delaney Hall ICE facility are being sexually assaulted, and the government is ignoring them. They say a guard has sexually assaulted detainees, with at least 10 complaints of groping and abuse, and they’re demanding that she is fired. These women are already protesting spoiled food, unsafe drinking water, inadequate medical care, and being forced to clean the facility for $1 or $2 a day. Now, it has come out that they’re being sexually assaulted, too. And while all of this is happening, we’re being told, by DHS, that there’s “nothing to see here.” This is why people are protesting outside Delaney Hall. And instead of fixing any of it, the people in charge are busy demonizing protesters, transferring detainees who speak up, and trying to convince the public that none of this is happening.

Wow look and even Fox is admitting that prices are skyrocketing right now under Trump.

Iowa: the "waste, fraud and abuse" @hinsonashley is referring to was the #screwworm monitoring program she voted to cut funding for. Keep that in mind as the threat of this pest moves throughout America's farmlands.

A staggering number of parents have been swept up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. From late January 2025 through early April 2026, more than 146,000 US citizen children had moms or dads detained, the Brookings Institution estimates. That’s about 330 a day. motherjones.com/politics/202…

MURRAY: Why didn't OMB think Social Security solvency was important enough to put in the budget? DUNCAN: *repeats Trump talking point* MURRAY: For decades, Presidents sent full budgets with Social Security projections. This Admin failed to, I guess, because they don't care

Four times I introduced amendments on the Appropriations Committee to ensure non-citizen veterans are not deported without legal counsel and a fair hearing. Four times Republicans voted them down by just a few votes. Veterans who served this country were denied basic due process protections by the slimmest of margins, while powerful private detention interests continue to profit from a system built on detention and deportation. Due process is not a privilege reserved for a few. It is a constitutional right.

Todd Blanche was Trump's criminal defense lawyer. Now he's running the DOJ. He is not America's AG - he's Trump's personal fixer w/ a federal badge. The Senate is constitutionally obligated to answer one question: does the DOJ serve the people, or does it serve Trump? #USDemocracy newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

Former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe says Benjamin Netanyahu is about to release the real Epstein files in an effort to sabotage the peace deal. He says the material would include never-before-seen material involving a majority of U.S. government officials. He says Netanyahu will do anything to derail peace.