Sally Jo Effenson

President Trump was right in 2020:

"We've spent $8 trillion in the Middle East and we're not fixing our roads in this country? How stupid. How stupid is it? And we're not fixing our tunnels, our bridges, our hospitals, our schools? It's crazy."

Opinion | Trump’s Strikes on Iran Were Unlawful. Here’s Why That Matters.

The strikes on Iran are blatantly illegal. I explained in June why the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities were unlawful under US and international law. Everything I wrote then is true today, but this is a far larger assault with far graver consequences.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

Radiohead to Trump: “Take it down… Go fuck yourselves.” 🎵

Trump admin. keeps Gabbard whistleblower complaint from Congress on executive privilege As a former lawyer for the National Security Agency noted, “Executive privilege is rarely used as a reason to not give information to the Gang of Eight.”

The unanswered question for Team Trump on the Gabbard/whistleblower story:

If the intercepted messages re: Kushner really were just “gossip,” and what the foreign nationals were saying wasn’t true, why assert executive privilege to keep the relevant details from Congress?
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

AI chipmaker Nvidia reported $120 billion in profits over the last year, in part thanks to Big Tech’s massive data centers.

Meanwhile, monthly electricity costs have skyrocketed by as much as 267% in areas near data centers.

Big Tech barons are getting rich while everyone else pays the price.

great replacement except they want to import racists

Here’s my takeaway from the State of the Union:

NPR reports that the DOJ has “withheld” documents that include allegations that Donald “sexually abused a minor.”

Epstein Files Are Missing Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump

So, the Trump DOJ failed to release files concerning an Epstein accuser with claims involving Trump... but did manage to accidentally reveal that the files existed?

Americans are fed up with this administration’s mix of incompetence and corruption. Time to come clean.

Epstein Files Are Missing Key Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump

Not the first headline you want to see in the NYT if you are the White House the day after the State of the Union.

Katyal: "I was able to go to court - the son of immigrants-- & say on behalf of small businesses, 'Hey, this president is acting illegally.' I was able to present my case, have them ask really hard questions, & at the end of it they voted & we won. That is something extraordinary about this country"

Why are folks not asking more questions about this FBI complaint in the Epstein Files?

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Every single year, regardless of use, my healthcare costs have incrementally increased, but you know what has NOT increased... my access to, or quality of, HEALTH CARE.

I want the health care deal that my senator has. Full stop.

Oh?

people.com/jeffrey-epst...

Markets Rise After Supreme Court Strikes Down Tariffs The three major indexes all rose shortly after the decision.

The three major indexes all rose shortly after the decision.

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

This case is insane:

ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.*

The young man they killed had no criminal history.

All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs.

We don't know officers' names.

We don't have footage.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir “If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement.

This agreement allows DHS agencies like CBP & ICE to essentially skip the competitive bidding process.

Palantir's software is considered dangerous primarily because its technology facilitates mass surveillance & enables targeting which erodes civil liberties.

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Let this sink in: Trump's son is a top advisor to Polymarket and Kalshi.

This top Trump official used to work for a firm that represented Polymarket. And his old client raised *millions* for Kalshi.

…And he is now using his new government job to shield Polymarket and Kalshi from regulation.

You can hear the midterm campaign ads being written right now:

@waysmeanscmte.bsky.social

Pete Buttigieg campaigns for Chris Pappas in New Hampshire Buttigieg made the rounds Thursday at the Puritan Backroom in support of the U.S. Senate campaign of U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas.

Great to be on the trail with my friend @chrispappasnh.bsky.social today.

As New Hampshire’s next Senator, he will relentlessly focus on making life more affordable, and stand up to end the chaos and corruption of this moment.

There's a great opportunity for Kamala Harris, right now, to separate herself from Gavin Newsom and support the 5% Wealth Tax, which Newsom is spending money to oppose. Yet her active "headquarters" profile and personal profiles aren't even talking about the Wealth Tax.

Almost like she opposes it.

How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.

She lives with her grandmother in Colombia and travels frequently to the U.S. to visit her mother. Her visa made them targets for ICE.

A trip to Disneyland ended with a 9-year-old, who had broken no laws, detained at Dilley, Texas.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court.

Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business.

As well as everyone else who stepped up.

Turns out there’s an economic cost to everyone hating us.

It’s can’t be said enough — this is a wildly corrupt betrayal of the MAHA crowd, and flies in the face of everything RFK JR has ever promised them.

Driven entirely by greed and paying off their big pesticide corporation donors.

A heist in broad daylight

Hmm. The US is giving $10 billion in taxpayer dollars, not appropriated by Congress, to a fake board set up by the President and which he put himself in charge of *for life*... seems very, very illegal.

Remember back in the day when Congress used to be in charge of appropriations?

How much was the fee to join this group? Who controls the funds?