Worth noting that the guy Trump just put in charge of trying to prosecute anyone who investigated his Russia ties was banned for antisemitism... by FOX NEWS.
Based on a Trump executive order, the DOJ should now be defunded for antisemitism.
In today’s edition of “Thank you for your service now go fuck yourself:” I’m always curious, when stories like this pop up, how many stupid, ignorant, FOTUS supporting U.S. veterans would be directly impacted by something like this. 🤔
Major alarm bells over this. Bessent wants US banks to require customers send in copies of their passports etc. to prove citizenship, which would be far beyond the know-your-customer checks that they're required to do already. Implies this could result in closing bank accounts over non-compliance.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/banks-citizenship-data-collection-customer-accounts.html
NEW: Stories about pardons are often told as stories about presidential power — who had access, who persuaded a president to intervene. But what drew reporter Jeremy Kohler to this story was the people on the other side of that act of grace.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-joseph-schwartz-pardon-lawsuit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Stories about pardons are often about presidential power. But what about people on the other side of that grace? The Coulson family may never receive millions from a wrongful death lawsuit it won years ago.
The Trump administration wants to take an ax to the East's last great forests
https://grist.org/regulation/the-trump-administration-wants-to-take-an-ax-to-the-easts-last-great-forests/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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