Of course he did. What’s the surprise here?

The Staggering Amount Trump Is Profiting From the Presidency Revealed The New Yorker pieces together how much Trump and his family have pocketed since his first term.

Trump has leveraged both terms of his presidency to pocket billions of dollars, according to a bombshell report.

Maybe he’s giving it back to them

Watch legacy media water this story down or worse not report on it.

Breakthrough the noise:

This step in DC is a pilot project for militarizing other American streets.

President Trump just said so.⬇️

Even when DC violent crime is down 26 percent.

Reminder of August leaked memo (via @gregsargent.bsky.social): newrepublic.com/article/1987...

Not American. Not Democratic.

Opinion | A Dangerous Escalation of the Science Wars

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

YouTube video by Yo Ben Cohen Ben's Nuclear Arsenal Demonstration

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Midterms are more than a year away, but Trump is already challenging them | Opinion Trump's loss in 2020 taught him to cast doubt on our elections well before Election Day. His DOJ sycophants are starting now, with an eye on 2026.

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

Midterms are more than a year away, but Trump is already challenging them | Opinion

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Opinion | I Survived an Atomic Bomb. It’s Time to End the Nuclear Threat.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

Nearly 2 million Americans on unemployment, highest since pandemic era

"Simply insanity": Texas State Rep. Gene Wu ‪‪@genefortexas.bsky.social‬ responds to Governor Greg Abbott trying to sue him out of office.

He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now he’s facing deportation. Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.

Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister.

“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"

Dems should fight on every front.

If Texas steals 5 seats, Dem states should redistrict 30 GOP members out of their districts.

We should insist DOJ release the entire Epstein File.

Not only shouldn't we bring knives to a gun fight, if they bring pistols, we should bring machine guns.

This is what media sanewashing our insane president looks like, courtesy today of ABC, CNN and The NY Times:

Opinion | The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...

YouTube video by MSNBC Maddow: U.S. profoundly changed by authoritarian leader; 'We're beyond waiting and seeing now'

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The E.P.A.’s Disastrous Plan to End the Regulation of Greenhouse Gases

New Firm Seeks to Confront Trump on Executive Power

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

Applebaum on Autocracy Anne Applebaum warns that Sudan’s descent into chaos shows what happens when institutions fail—and why a free press is essential to prevent America from following the same path.

Anne Applebaum: "If American media can’t convey how dangerous this behavior is—for our prosperity, for our health, for our democracy—then American media will eventually cease to exist."

More from our convo in @status.news: www.status.news/p/anne-apple...

When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.

With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.

If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

I support and applaud the Texas Dems who have demonstrated what fighting looks like.

The Politics of Fear As a Presidential candidate, Donald Trump made his world view plain: there was “us” and there was “them.” Once he was in the White House, the fear factor would prevail.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Cory Booker’s message to the Democratic Party: Don’t bend the knee to Trump | CNN Politics “History is going to remember these people for their complicity …”

www.cnn.com/2025/08/02/p...

I Am Suing the Department of Justice for the Epstein Files Training Videos On July 20th, I was the first to report the existence of training videos instructing FBI personnel how to flag mentions of Trump and others in the Epstein files. Today, I'm suing for those videos.

BREAKING: I am suing the Department of Justice for the training videos instructing FBI personnel to flag mentions of Donald Trump in the Epstein files. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/i-am-suing...

New Hampshire Enacts Strict New ID Rules for Absentee Voting Read more here.

New Hampshire enacted a new voter suppression law today. Now, it will be sued and it will lose. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

'Make America Healthy Again' means eating French fries fried in beef tallow and drinking water that gives you cancer, apparently

Will everyone quit and roll over? The law firms, media companies, universities, government employees. Will you all cling to what you have and hope you can just ride it out, Republic be damned? Shame on all of you who don’t stand up, just remember we will never forget.

Off the rails.