Shawn Connery

Translated: "Federal power will be used to punish banks that do not tolerate bigotry and far-right extremism"

"Trump Says He Was a Victim of Discrimination by Banks"

"Banks that discriminate against conservatives" 🤣

It's not a fucking "deal" it's an extortion

California Democrats Look to Redraw House Map to Counter Texas G.O.P.

California Democrats Look to Redraw House Map to Counter Texas G.O.P. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

threat of family separation as leverage to get people to leave the country - unbelievable

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers told the couple they could leave the United States with their child and return to their native Russia.

Or they could remain in immigration detention in the United States — but their 8-year-old son, Maksim, would be taken away.

Inside Trump’s New Tactic to Separate Immigrant Families

Inside Trump’s New Tactic to Separate Immigrant Families www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

It's not a fucking "deal" it's an extortion

Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders

Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

Ms. Denholm and Ms. Wilson-Thompson formed the special committee that approved the latest pay package

Ms. Denholm, previously an executive for an Australian telecommunications company, has earned a profit of more than $500 million from TSLA stock options

Tesla Grants Musk $29 Billion in Stock to Keep ‘Elon’s Energies Focused’

Totally off the rails

Tesla Grants Musk $29 Billion in Stock to Keep ‘Elon’s Energies Focused’ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/b...

Opinion | Our President Is Economically Illiterate

Our President Is Economically Illiterate (gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...

A good number of the immigration lawyers we talk to now want to stay anonymous when not many months ago they’d love to be on the record. This is in part because the new Trump admin is actually targeting them. But they’re still doing the work. So it’s the opposite of cowardice

This, however….

DOJ Seeking Voter And Election Information From At Least 19 States The move's alarmed states, which have the constitutional authority to run elections and are protected from sharing individual data with the government.

In an alarming move, the Department of Justice has demanded voter and election information from at least 19 states

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

Trump And Miller Compel Colleges Not To Enroll International Students Trump officials are using rules, policies and agreements to compel and discourage U.S. universities from enrolling international students.

Wow. Had not realized that Columbia’s settlement with Trump admin included a commitment to decrease international student enrollment. In what way does this help “combat antisemitism,” which is supposedly the administration’s objective?
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

Josh Lobel, a financial executive, donated $250,000 in January. The next month, he was announced as a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.

Cody Campbell, a Texas energy investor who had a brief professional football career with the Indianapolis Colts, donated $500,000 to MAGA Inc. in late April. On Thursday, he was named to the newly reconfigured President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition.

People seeking appointments from Mr. Trump also donated to MAGA Inc.

In February, Anjani Sinha, an orthopedic surgeon and businessman who has been described as a friend of Mr. Trump’s, donated $1 million. The next month, he was nominated to be U.S. ambassador to Singapore.

Less than three weeks after Ms. Fago attended the dinner, Mr. Trump signed a full and unconditional pardon for Mr. Walczak. It spared him from having to pay nearly $4.4 million in restitution and from reporting to prison for an 18-month sentence.

The group, which can accept unlimited donations, raised an astounding $177 million in the first half of the year.

The degree to which this dynamic has benefited Mr. Trump, his donors and their lobbyists — while shutting out regular people seeking assistance from their government — was laid bare in MAGA Inc.’s financial report.

Worth a listen. If this is the ideological mastermind, then it's another argument for this entire movement being a power acquisition strategy with a conceptually inconsistent framework based largely on bullshit.

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

"Pay-for-Access Operation" - others might call it CORRUPTION

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

Worth a listen. If this is the ideological mastermind, then it's another argument for this entire movement being a power acquisition strategy with a conceptually inconsistent framework based largely on bullshit.

Opinion | Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement

Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/o...

Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released…

“The country with the Statue of Liberty deprived us of our liberty without any kind of evidence,” Leonardo José Colmenares Solórzano, a 31-year-old Venezuelan who was held in CECOT for months, said two days after he was returned to his family.

Stock Market Posts Worst Week in Months on Renewed Economic Fears

Stock Market Posts Worst Week in Months on Renewed Economic Fears www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...