Trump’s Iran War Powers Vote Meltdown Shows Republicans Are Losing Control

https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-to-know/u-s-politics/trumps-iran-war-powers-vote-meltdown/

#HouseRepublicans, you tiny wimpy nothings

Republican leaders pulled a resolution to halt the #IranWar that had been scheduled for a vote Thursday evening, after it became clear they just didn’t have enough votes to defeat it.

#TheRealSuckersAndLosers #Congress #USpol #TrumpsWar #US #Iran #war #ForeverWars #Trump #law #WarPowers #NationalSecurity
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/us/iran-war-powers-trump-measure.html?smid=url-share&smid=nytcore-ios-share&rsrc=cl-share

Anti-LGBTQ+ activist to testify before Congress against Southern Poverty Law Center

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/tyler-oneil-daily-signal-splc

Mother Jones | Trump Admin. Has Up to 120,000 Pages of Documents on Ghislaine Maxwell’s Prison Transfer by David Corn

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The article examines the puzzling 2022 transfer of convicted sex‑trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell from a medium‑security co‑ed prison to the low‑security, women‑only Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas—a facility known for amenities such as yoga classes and a puppy program and previously housing high‑profile inmates like Elizabeth Holmes. After a lengthy interview with former deputy attorney general Todd Blanche in which Maxwell praised Donald Trump, journalist Michele McGowan filed a Freedom of Information Act request for every record concerning the move, only to encounter months of delay and a claim from the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) that retrieving the data involved “15.8 GB of potentially responsive records”—roughly 120,000 pages that crashed the agency’s system. The BOP’s slow, understaffed FOIA office, now burdened by thousands of backlogged requests, mirrors a broader federal trend of dwindling FOIA resources and mounting delays across the Defense, State, and Health departments, prompting lawsuits by Mother Jones and the Center for Investigative Reporting to force disclosure. Meanwhile, reports of special treatment for Maxwell at the Bryan camp and political talk of a possible Trump pardon have heightened calls for transparency, underscoring the need for the Justice Department to simply explain the rationale behind her relocation rather than leaving the public to wade through an enormous, delayed FOIA request.

Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/ghislaine-maxwell-trump-prison-transfer-foia/

#GhislaineMaxwell #JeffreyEpstein #ElizabethHolmes #ToddBlanche #DonaldTrump #BOP #ReportersCommittee #MotherJones #CenterforInvestigativeReporting #HouseRepublicans #criminaljustice #politics #prisons

GOP Threatens ActBlue CEO with Contempt Amid Widening Fraud Probe

House Republicans may hold ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones in contempt for not providing documents in a probe into illegal donations. Who is affected?

#ActBlueProbe, #DonationFraud, #ReginaWallaceJones, #HouseRepublicans, #CampaignFinance

https://newsletter.tf/actblue-ceo-contempt-donation-probe/

House Republicans are threatening ActBlue's CEO with contempt. This is due to a widening probe into illegal donations, with Republicans claiming the company has not shared enough information.

#ActBlueProbe, #DonationFraud, #ReginaWallaceJones, #HouseRepublicans, #CampaignFinance
https://newsletter.tf/actblue-ceo-contempt-donation-probe/

House Republicans Intensify Scrutiny on Democratic Fundraising Platform ActBlue Amid Fraud and Foreign Donation Allegations

House Republicans are investigating ActBlue, a Democratic fundraising platform, over claims of fraud and foreign donations. Subpoenas issued to employees.

#ActBlue, #HouseRepublicans, #Fundraising, #PoliticalDonations, #ElectionIntegrity

https://newsletter.tf/house-republicans-subpoena-actblue-fraud-donations/

House Republicans have issued subpoenas to ActBlue employees, intensifying their investigation into allegations of fraudulent and foreign donations on the Democratic fundraising platform.

#ActBlue, #HouseRepublicans, #Fundraising, #PoliticalDonations, #ElectionIntegrity
https://newsletter.tf/house-republicans-subpoena-actblue-fraud-donations/