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As Trump Plans to Steal $230 Million From Taxpayers, You Can Thank John Roberts

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President Donald Trump is demanding that the Justice Department transfer $230 million in taxpayer dollars into his own personal bank account. He can do this, because thanks to the Supreme Court’s recent decisions, the executive branch could accurately be described by King Louis XIV—L’état, c’est Trump. When Trump says this is his decision to make, he’s […]

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Report: Trump Demands Taxpayers Hand Him $230 Million

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Earlier this year, Mother Jones published an article headlined “10 Ways to Enrich the Trumps and the MAGA Movement.” Examples included buying crypto with the proceeds filling Trump family pockets, paying up to a million dollars to a Trump PAC for access to the president, shelling out excessive settlements to end dubious lawsuits filed by […]

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It May Be Hard to Stop Trump From Privatizing Our Public Lands

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This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In June, a long-standing effort to sell off massive chunks of federal land grew closer to fruition than ever before when a provision mandating such sales was slipped into President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” The bill […]

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Trump’s Argentina Bailout Enriches One Well-Connected US Billionaire

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This story was originally published by Popular Information, a substack publication to which you can subscribe here. Last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a $20 billion package to rescue the Argentinian economy. The risky taxpayer-financed deal, which involves trading US dollars for Argentine pesos, has little upside for ordinary Americans. Argentina is not a significant US trading partner, and its […]

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The “Mini-Trump” Attacking Lisa Cook Had Paperwork Problems of His Own

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Donald Trump is attempting to seize control of the historically independent Federal Reserve by firing one of its leaders. Not the chair, Jerome Powell—at least not yet. Instead, the president has set his sights on another member of the Fed’s board: economist Lisa Cook, who Trump claimed in a Monday night social media post had […]

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Donald Trump Is Waging a Whole-of-Government Retribution Campaign

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The Trump administration’s campaign of vengeance against perceived political enemies escalated Friday morning when the FBI raided the home and office of former national security adviser John Bolton, a vocal Trump critic. That search follows Attorney General Pam Bondi directing federal prosecutors to open a criminal investigation into whether former President Barack Obama and his […]

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US Guts Mentions of Indigenous Rights, Climate Change From Human Rights Reports

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The reports also reduce criticism of human rights records of Trump administration allies like Israel and El Salvador.

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Ron Johnson: Stock Trading Ban Would Make It “Unattractive” to Be in Congress

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Sen. Ron Johnson is one of the richest members of Congress, with a net worth of tens of millions of dollars.

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DOJ Drops Antitrust Case Against Company Represented by Bondi’s Former Employer

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The decision to drop the case comes days after the Justice Department fired two of its top antitrust officials.

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Trump Really Did Try to Drag His Musk Feud Into Pure Revenge Territory

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As President Donald Trump’s bitter feud with Elon Musk spilled into public view last month, aides to the president reportedly launched a behind-the-scenes effort to carry out Trump’s threats to terminate Musk’s contracts with the federal government. Those threats marked an alarming willingness by the president to take his wrestling match with Musk to a […]

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