Mastodawn

Trump’s $10 BILLION lawsuit against his own government just hit a wall.

A federal judge says the case looks collusive, raising serious concerns that Trump is trying to use the courts to get a payout from the Treasury Department.

Now the judge is demanding answers, ordering Trump or his administration essentially to explain why this isn’t a fraud on the court.

One possible outcome? The judge could pause the entire case until Trump leaves office—so that a real adversarial process can exist.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-meidastouch-podcast/id1510240831

Mister Shade 22h ago

Chris Geidner 22h ago

NEW: DOJ plans to "strengthen" the federal death penalty — but only three people are on death row.

DOJ seeks to expand federal methods of execution to include the firing squad.

This evening, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/doj-plans-to-strengthen-the-federal

DOJ plans to "strengthen" the federal death penalty — but only three people are on death row

DOJ seeks to expand federal methods of execution to include the firing squad. Also: Fifth Circuit rejects challenge to Texas's criminal immigration enforcement law. And: Trump's IRS suit hits a snag.

Law Dork

Mister Shade 1d ago

Picard Tips 1d ago

Picard diplomacy tip: The greatest threat to lasting mutual respect is egocentrism. It may never leave you, but resist it at every turn.

Mister Shade 1d ago

ABlueView 1d ago

Trump Getting Weaker, Dems Stronger #ABlueView 🧵1/3

Trump poll numbers cratering, Democrats liking to be Democrats again & a majority want Trump impeached ... facinating poll results & analysis from @gelliottmorris at https://twp.ai/NSUQCT (definitely worth subscribing to!)

Mister Shade 1d ago

McSpocky 1d ago

tRump at 1:13 AM: “The 2020 election should be permanently wiped from the books!”

Still raging about a loss from six years ago, now tying random “Democrat hoaxes” to erasing democracy itself.

Unstable. Obsessed. A clear and present danger to our country.
https://mcsp.short.gy/iPUF

'Permanently Wiped': Trump Has A Full-Blown Freakout In 1:13 A.M. Social Media Rant

The president fired off a wild series of messages into the wee hours of the morning.

HuffPost

Mister Shade 1d ago

emptywheel 1d ago

As I have repeatedly laid out, before Trump rolled out a Fraud Task Force run out of the WH (and so inherently political), he fired the Inspectors General who had found the underlying fraud, effectively weaponizing fraud. CATO lays out how he wants to do more of this. www.cato.org/blog/trump-c...

Trump Cuts the Inspectors Gene...

"Fox News is embracing the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz due to President Donald Trump’s war against Iran as an economic boon for U.S. petroleum exports — even though the closure will further increase American gasoline prices."

~ Zachary Pleat

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #economy #ApprovalRating #FoxNews #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas
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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/gas-prices-go-iran-war-fox-news-celebrates-biggest-payday-history-oil-companies

As gas prices go up from the Iran war, Fox News celebrates the “biggest payday in history” for oil companies

Fox News is embracing the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz due to President Donald Trump’s war against Iran as an economic boon for U.S. petroleum exports — even though the closure will further increase American gasoline prices. Fox has already tried to downplay the increasing fuel prices that have resulted from the closure, which is currently straining both the U.S. and global economies in numerous ways, including threatening famine and global recession.Fox’s embrace of Trump’s disastrous war echoes how the network previously supported the president’s illegal tariffs scheme — with full-throated backing of the policy and claims that it would help the U.S. economy, even though in reality the tariffs resulted in further job losses for the industries they were intended to support, higher inflation, weaker economic growth, and, ultimately, effectively zero revenue due to court-mandated refunds.

Media Matters for America

Mister Shade 1d ago

TheWholeTruthXX 🎨 ❤️ 🍁 🛡️1d ago

RE: https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/116459798064806188

Oh look. He's pulling this crap on the UK now after we folded on it.

Guess he took that as encouragement.

Mister Shade 1d ago

Dave á Jus 1d ago

Let’s Hope America’s Dumbest War Doesn’t Become Its Most Tragic

The fight to support ideals of the colonialist, white-nationalist, expansionist USA outpost which has absorbed the United States as its own client state, could not in any universe have ended well for the former superpower -- nor for any person.

https://newrepublic.com/post/209477/trump-iran-jcpoa-dumbest-war-tragic

Let’s Hope America’s Dumbest War Doesn’t Become Its Most Tragic

Almost nine weeks in, let’s remind ourselves: Trump strengthened Iran and then came back and told us Iran was too strong!

The New Republic

Mister Shade 1d ago

emptywheel 1d ago

@raskin.house.gov @[email protected] Have your committees inquired why the FBI wasn't able to use an ADL tip to prevent the Evergreen shooting? emptywheel.net/2026/04/24/k...

Kash Patel Just Invited SPLC T...

Kash Patel Just Invited SPLC To Demonstrate Their Importance (and His Negligence) - emptywheel

In July last year, the Anti-Defamation League provided the FBI a tip about a far-right extremist who seemed to be preparing for violence. Kash Patel's FBI failed to act before Desmond Holly shot up Evergreen High. The SPLC prosecution is bound to expose the FBI's use or misuse of similar tips.

emptywheel