Speaking to a conservative radio host on Monday, the top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles made an unusually pointed prediction that cast doubt on the results of California’s primary races, even as votes were still being counted. “We will be charging some people,” the prosecutor, Bill Essayli, told the host, Glenn Beck, delivering a promise […]
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Source: Tom Williams / Getty President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will nominate Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to serve in the role of attorney general permanently, which isn’t a surprise. We all know Trump loves and requires a good sycophant to serve in his Cabinet, and Blanche is such a loyal stooge that […]
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Source: Al Drago / Getty Last week, we reported that a federal judge temporarily put the brakes on President Donald Trump’s $1.766 billion woe-is-MAGA reparations fund — or what the Justice Department called the “anti-weaponization fund” — which happened after 35 retired federal judges asked a district judge to open an investigation into the fund […]
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Source: KENT NISHIMURA / Getty President Donald Trump is such a daily spectacle of outlandish bigotry, buffoonery, and abject incompetence that one could almost forget that, on top of all that, he is deeply and transparently corrupt. Almost… On Tuesday, we reported on the Justice Department’s nearly $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to pay what would […]
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Source: UCG / Getty The Justice Department announced an IRS settlement agreement with Donald Trump that would use a nearly $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded pity pot, a.k.a. “The Anti-Weaponization Fund,” to redress claims from white grievance goblins who believe they were victims of state persecution. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a press release: “The […]
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Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Since the start of his second term, President Donald Trump has been toying around with the idea of paying reparations to Jan 6 convicts, in his ongoing effort to rewrite the history of what happened that day, as well as who ultimately caused it. And if the federal government paying […]
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“Thus, allowing President Trump to conduct discovery on actual malice, where his initial attempt at pleading a defamation claim fell short, is exactly the type of ‘expensive yet groundless litigation’ the Eleventh Circuit has cautioned against,” Gayles wrote in his ruling. Trump sued the Journal in July 2025, claiming that the newspaper’s reporting that Trump […]
Read MoreI can’t imagine that either party is eager to write such a memorandum. Instead, the race is on to settle before May 20. And whaddya know, the parties turn out not to be very far apart, even though Trump’s case would be weak even if he weren’t president. (More on that here.) According to Andrew Duehren and […]
Read MoreSource: Kevin Dietsch / Getty Here’s the thing, good people: Republicans lie, Democrats lie — numbers don’t. Sure, statistics can be manipulated, and the figures often don’t tell the full story, regardless. Still, a court record, for example, is a court record, and it indicates to us that a legal dispute occurred. And even if […]
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Source: Nuoriginal2017 / Getty On Tuesday, the Trump administration reclassified medical marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug. According to AP, the order was signed by President Donald Trump’s acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. The reclassification doesn’t legalize marijuana on the federal level, but it does label it as a less dangerous […]
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Source: Anadolu / Getty Exactly one year after civil rights groups publicly declared their commitment to defending against the Trump administration’s anti-civil rights agenda, the empire struck back with politically motivated charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center. News of the Department of Justice filing charges against SPLC follows a pattern and practice of revisionist […]
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Source: Anadolu / Getty Here’s a question: If the Trump administration isn’t a white supremacist organization, then how come President Donald Trump’s thoroughly subjugated Department of Justice is prosecuting one of the nation’s most well-known civil rights organizations for using paid informants to infiltrate white supremacist organizations? According to the New York Times, on Tuesday, […]
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Source: Anadolu / Getty FBI Director Kash Patel really wants to keep his job. And despite it not working for Pam Bondi or Kristi Noem, he seems to think that ramping up his support for President Donald Trump and his many delusions is the way to secure his position. That’s the only reason I can think […]
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Source: ROBERTO SCHMIDT / Getty The Trump administration has continued its efforts to rewrite history when it comes to the events of Jan. 6. The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to dismiss seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders who were previously sentenced for their role in leading members […]
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Source: J. David Ake / Getty Trump supporters across the country might find it comforting to know that, while President Donald Trump’s deeply unpopular war in Iran gets more costly, deadly and, frankly, embarrassing for the Trump administration by the day, the MAGA-fied Department of Justice still has plenty of time to do the president’s […]
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Source: Tom Williams / Getty There are people on social media who have expressed fears that, when President Donald Trump and his administration fired now-former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, he would only replace her with someone significantly worse. But truthfully, when Trump starts shaking things up in his administration, especially during this second term, he doesn’t tend […]
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Source: Pool / Getty Welp, another devoted, thoroughly MAGA-fied member of the Trump administration has bitten the proverbial dust, as President Donald Trump has fired U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. Not long before it was made official, mainstream news outlets, including CNN, the New York Times, and NBC News, had reported statements from Trump administration […]
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Source: Bill Clark / Getty For possibly the first time since President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda began, the Trump administration is being made to explain why immigration agents are showing up at people’s immigration court hearings to make arrests. As usual, the explanation is that the administration is comprised of a gaggle of xenophobic […]
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Source: Davidoff Studios Photography / Getty The Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files has come under scrutiny from victims, politicians, and the public due to the perception that there has been more effort put into protecting the rich and powerful than the victims at the heart of the case. On Thursday, the Department of […]
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Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Look, at the very least, can we all just admit that the Trump administration is janky? President Donald Trump has essentially turned the executive branch into a ghetto with a golden toilet, filled his Cabinet with DE-white hires who are barely qualified to install actual cabinets, and has White […]
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Source: Anadolu / Getty At this point, a person could randomly trip, stumble, and fall right smack into new evidence that federal immigration agents are using violence and excessive force as a regular practice in performance of their duties, and then lying to cover it all up. In fact, it appears to be getting so […]
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