Zack Stanton

Can Anyone Rescue the Trafficked Girls of L.A.’s Figueroa Street?

"Drugs are sold once and gone forever, but girls can be resold indefinitely."

What a piece.

Opinion | The Trump Family Crypto Business The Administration will regulate the tokens the Trumps are selling.

“The Democratic midterm campaign ads write themselves: Millions in secretive crypto profits for the Trump family, but Mr. Trump’s famous ‘two dolls’ and ‘five pencils’ for everyone else.” www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Curtis Yarvin helped inspire DOGE. Now he scorns it. The neo-monarchist muse of Silicon Valley helped inspire Elon Musk’s DOGE. Now he compares it to an orchestra of chimpanzees.

“It’s not like Marc Andreessen and David Sacks and Elon and JD and Trump are all sitting at the dinner table at Mar-a-Lago planning DOGE and in a lightbulb moment, they were like, ‘Let’s just instantiate the ideas of Curtis Yarvin,’” one person added. “It’s more like, Yarvin is the brain.”

Trump poised to announce trade agreement with UK Specifics of the agreement were not immediately available.

SCOOP: President Donald Trump plans to announce details of a major trade agreement with the United Kingdom Thursday morning

AOC won't seek top Oversight Committee post She cited the caucus' preference for seniority.

NEWS: @aoc.bsky.social won’t seek top Oversight Committee post, @nicholaswu12.bsky.social reports.

”It’s actually clear to me that the underlying dynamics in the caucus have not shifted with respect to seniority as much as I think would be necessary.” www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

A household with $2 million in assets and an annual spending of $500,000 enjoys a luxurious lifestyle, far beyond what a household earning $500,000 per year can afford, as only $250,000 remains after taxes for expenses, Galloway explains.

I just feel like the only example in this article being this is kind of symptomatic of the problem with financial journalism in general www.thestreet.com/retirement/s...

Pope Francis’s final gift to the children of Gaza: His popemobile The vehicle, which Francis used during a 2014 visit to the West Bank, will be turned into a health clinic on wheels designed to treat Palestinian children.

"The vehicle, which Francis used during a 2014 visit to the West Bank, will be turned into a health clinic on wheels designed to treat Palestinian children."

I am going to become the Joker.

Trump’s knuckle sandwich

“Trump’s new-ish material is darker,” says @zackstanton.bsky.social. “It’s not simply the Bukele video, which is so dark it’s practically Vantablack ...”

Thank you so much for reading!

The Most Consequential, Damaging, Head-Scratching Things Trump Did in His First 100 Days POLITICO’s newsroom experts make sense of the whirlwind we’re all still trying to process.

"In his first administration, he fired James Comey in the second hundred days and then had the Charlottesville 'very fine people' debacle just after Day 200. Who knows what's in store this time around?" says @zackstanton.bsky.social.

In 1967, a Black Man and a White Woman Bought a Home. American Politics Would Never Be the Same. What happened to the Bailey family in the Detroit suburb of Warren became a flashpoint in the national battle over integration.

Tonight, President Trump will mark his 100th day in office with a big rally in Warren, Michigan.

Why has Warren (and Macomb County) become ground zero for so much of American politics the last 50+ years?

Here's the hidden history behind that:

A few months ago, Pierre Poilievre appeared poised to become the next Canadian prime minister.

Just before 5 a.m. this morning, CBC News declared that he has lost his own bid for reelection.

Mark Carney Says He’s Ready to Confront the U.S. He’s Done It Before. Canada’s prime minister has a background in central banking. He also has more experience as a politician than he lets on.

Canadian PM Mark Carney, a former central banker, might seem like an unlikely political figure. But elements of his unusual background now seem quietly relevant.

My latest column, for some Canadian Election Day reading:
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Donald Trump Is Enjoying This The president explains how he plans to change America forever.

“You know at some point, they give up,” Trump said, referring to media owners generally and — we suspected — Jeff Bezos specifically. “At some point they say, No más, no más.”

He laughed quietly. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Buick vulnerable to Trump tariffs: 'It could just disappear altogether' Buick in 2024 sold more than 157,000 vehicles in the United States that were imported from South Korea and China — almost 86% of its U.S. deliveries.

Buick vulnerable to Trump tariffs: 'It could just disappear altogether' via @detroitnews.bsky.social:

JB Pritzker blasts ‘do nothing Democrats’ at New Hampshire fundraiser The two-term Illinois governor accused Democrats of being too timid in standing up to the Trump administration.

“Preserving habeas corpus is not some fever dream of the left wing echo chamber,” said Pritzker. “It’s a fundamental concept of justice that people have fought and died for dating back to the Middle Ages.”

Canada vs. Trump: How Monday’s Election Will Play Out The U.S. president’s tariffs and insults have altered alliances everywhere, with reverberations from Quebec to Alberta to Washington.

"One of the big projects is figuring out how does global security work when the U.S. is not the guarantor of the free world."

Indiana lieutenant governor calls Three-Fifths Compromise ‘a great move’ Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith (R) said the compromise ultimately helped end slavery, while historians generally agree it reinforced the power of slave states.

Indiana lieutenant governor calls Three-Fifths Compromise ‘a great move’

WHCD weekend has arrived in Trump's Washington

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This is *quite* the sensationalized headline at Fox News.

Click through, and you'll find that the "third party" is… God.

Vivid, affecting writing from Gothamist:

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Shari Redstone kept tabs on ’60 Minutes’ segments on Trump Tensions between CBS and parent company Paramount culminated in the resignation of a longtime producer this week.

“Following Trump’s demand that the FCC inflict ‘punishment’ on CBS over a recent 60 Minutes piece on Greenland and Ukraine, Paramount executives, including Redstone, asked the program to provide a list of upcoming Trump-related pieces it was reporting on” www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

RFK Jr.'s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans The autism study is planning to link confidential data "with broad coverage in the U.S. population" in one place for the first time.

"Medication records from pharmacy chains, lab testing and genomics data from patients treated by the Department of Veterans Affairs and Indian Health Service, claims from private insurers and data from smartwatches and fitness trackers will all be linked together, he said."

April 18, 2024: Trump's messy breakup with mainstream media Podcast Episode · POLITICO Playbook Daily Briefing · 04/18/2025 · 9m

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"Some people think the crucifixion only took place on Calvary. Well, they'd better wise up."

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Why the Cabinet secretary Trump world loves to hate isn’t going anywhere Most Trump allies are trying to get Howard Lutnick ousted from his job. But his friendship with the president protects him.

Trump and Howard Lutnick have "ice cream sundaes most Friday nights to gossip and replay the week."

The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers The world’s richest man juggles more than a dozen children and ‘harem drama’ along with running his companies and advising Trump. He recently took a paternity test in a battle with one woman over mone...

"While Musk posts sometimes dozens of times a day on X about right-wing politics or his companies … he often interacts with lesser-known users. He replies to them and sometimes interacts through direct messages, some of whom he eventually solicits to have his babies"

From a spox for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer:

“The governor was surprised that she was brought into the Oval Office during President Trump’s press conference without any notice of the subject matter. Her presence is not an endorsement of the actions taken or statements made at that event.”