Rachel Maddow Warns of New ICE Surveillance Tool: 'Turns Your Own Phone Into a Spy Against You' | Video Rachel Maddow warned viewers of the Trump administration's embracement of new spyware tech that turns your phone "into a spy against you."

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The FBI director is flying his girlfriend around on private government planes while FBI agents go without paychecks and families prepare to go hungry as SNAP benefits are being suspended

Trump hosted a dinner last week for White House ballroom donors.

Then he went to Mar-a-Lago for a $1 million-per-person dinner benefiting his super PAC.

Last night, he treated big GOP donors to dinner on his new White House patio.

The government has been shut down for 22 days.

Now that Trump has illegally bombed a seventh boat in the Caribbean, please note this: Rep Adam Smith, ranking Dem on Armed Services, tells me that *at no point* have officials given lawmakers even the most basic information about these extrajudicial murders:

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In response to HuffPost’s query about who suggested Budapest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and White House communications director Steven Cheung replied: “Your mom.”

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

"Virginia Giuffre died by suicide on 25 April 2025."

"I’d show up, perform whatever sex acts Epstein wanted, then hang out beside his vast swimming pool while he got some work done. If Maxwell was there, I was often told to attend to her sexually as well."

- She was 16

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

What I’ve Learned: Ted Osius The former U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam, now leading the US-ASEAN Business Council in Ho Chi Minh City, reflects on diplomacy, resilience, the lessons of a life spent building bridges.

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This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

More good work by Greg Sargent

There is no budget "deal" to be made President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

@kenwhite.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social

this Garrett Graff is astute:
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Rep. Stephen Lynch speaks for all of us.
We’re with you, Senator — much respect for speaking out and standing strong. 💯

Agree except they are not morons they are tools of a small group of enemies with the malicious intent to destroy our country

National Weather Service at ‘breaking point’ as storm approaches The National Weather Service is struggling to maintain its forecasting operations due to significant staffing cuts under the Trump administration.

"Staffing cuts under the Trump administration mean forecasters are struggling to maintain normal operations...."

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I understand bailing out farmers who suffered some sort of natural disaster or blight to their crops from a parasite, disease, etc.

But that’s not what is happening. They can’t sell their abundant crops because of one man. Trump did it, he can pay the farmers out of his crypto.

September 26, 2025 Today Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that twenty men who were awarded the Medal of Honor for their participation in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre would keep their medals, despite more than ...

September 26, 2025

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‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’ Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

Again: the right mounted a huge, billionaire-funded conspiracy to take over US media, degrade US institutions, & erode US rule of law. It happened right out in the open, over decades, & the US media & political establishment not only ignored it but punished all attempts to discuss it.

Opinion | Let’s Not Make America Gilded Again

Gift link (I figured out how to do it)

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This makes me so mad...

Five years ago, Jared Wise was filmed calling on rioters to "kill" police at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, who he said were "Nazis" and "Gestapo."

Today, Jared Wise is a senior adviser at Trump's Department of Justice.

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August 4, 2025 President Donald J.

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Peter Thiel in Hungary with Orban