Trump waves the white flag in HUGE defeat

Trump taps political hack with no intelligence experience for top intelligence post

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump waves the WHITE FLAG in HUGE defeat
Donald Trump’s $1.776 billion insurrection slush fund is on thin ice, as acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has all but thrown in the towel on the brazenly appalling grift. In a statement released Monday, the DOJ said that, while they disagree strongly with the decision “put forth by the United States District Court Judge in the Eastern District of Virginia,” they will nonetheless abide by its ruling.

Interestingly, US District Judge Leonie Brinkema did not “kill” the MAGA cult leader’s slush fund. She simply placed a temporary ban until she could rule later this month on an emergency motion to block it. That our grifter-in-chief is preemptively waving the white flag really tells us all we need to know: the slush fund was so unequivocally unpopular across the board Donald had no choice but to tuck his crooked tail and amble away.

Take Action: Investigate and disbar acting Attorney General Todd Blanche!

Trump says “crazy” Netanyahu has made everyone hate Israel in furious phone call
According to two unnamed officials, the MAGA cult leader had a heated phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, where he lambasted the war criminal, screaming, “You’re fucking crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.”

“This” being Israel’s continued violation of whatever’s left of the latest meaningless ceasefire in the Middle East, where IDF strikes have claimed the lives of at least 3,400 Lebanese and injured another 10,000.

In his public remarks after the two leaders spoke, Trump laughably announced that a partial truce had been agreed between Israel and Hezbollah and that the call had been “very productive.” How exactly does a “partial truce” work in war, by the way? Half the kablooey, or the same kablooey but somewhat less deadly?

Take Action: Boats are killing endangered right whales — stop Trump’s vessel speed limit rollback!

Progressive champion Graham Platner SURGES in new polls
Graham Platner for Senate: The battle for Maine’s Senate seat held by the perpetually “concerned” MAGA toady Susan Collins could mean the difference between Trump retaining control of the Senate or Democrats being able to put an end to his tyranny. But momentum is on our side! A pair of new polls shows former Marine, oysterman, and progressive champion Graham Platner leading Collins by two and SEVEN points, respectively. While Collins digs herself deeper and deeper into the hole with her votes for Trump’s Big Bad Bill, Platner is surging on a message of economic populism, no more wars, and rightfully naming the Epstein class as the culprit for the woes of the American worker. Will you chip in to help us flip this critical Senate seat and make Trump a lame-duck president?

Pete Hegseth personally nixed Black and female officers’ promotions
DUI hire threatened by DEI measures declares senior military officers’ hard-earned promotions DOA. Can we DTMA?

Take Action: Demand Congress refund working families the money they lost on Trump’s tariffs!

60 Minutes star correspondent accuses CBS chief Bari Weiss of “murdering” the show
A 60 Minutes staff meeting reportedly flew off the rails Monday morning when longtime host Scott Pelley tore into Bari Weiss’ new pick to run the news magazine as its new executive producer. Weiss, who was installed as the editor-in-chief of CBS News by Paramount Skydance CEO and longtime Trump ally David Ellison, tapped Nick Bilton, a former Vanity Fair writer with almost zero formal experience in broadcast journalism to lead the venerated program.

The meeting was intended to introduce Bilton to the show’s team, though Weiss herself was conspicuously absent. “Bari loves this institution,” Bilton told staffers during the meeting. “She loves 60 Minutes.“

Pelley was in no mood, countering, “She’s murdering 60 Minutes. She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it — and she’s doing exactly that.

Trump goes on midnight “lawfare” tear demanding past prosecutions be “dismissed”
Always the victim, ever aggrieved, Donald embarked on yet another late-night Truth Social tirade, demanding that criminal and civil convictions he suffered in New York be dismissed. Trump went on to demand that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James be held “criminally responsible for their terrible misdeeds,” citing a Substack post Michael Cohen published in January where the ex-felon and former Trump-fixer shared some of his broader concerns on prosecutorial practices and the US justice system in general.

An applicant to Trump’s racist South Africa refugee plan is a right-wing politician who admits he’s never faced persecution
SJ Du Venage — a right-wing provincial council member and former youth leader of the far-right Conservative Party, which opposed the end of apartheid — has applied for asylum in the United States under Trump’s nakedly racist refugee program aimed exclusively at white South Africans, despite admitting that he has never personally experienced any tangible mistreatment in his 56 years in the country. The life coach and former personal trainer explained that his specific refugee claim is based on nebulus fear of future persecution rather than past harm, both of which can qualify an applicant for Trump’s program. Color us shocked!

MAGA pollster admits he’s “concerned” about GOP turnout in the upcoming midterms: “Not a good sign”
“I am concerned about one thing, and that is Republican turnout. In Georgia, Democrats turned out 150,000 more early voters than Republicans in the state — the red state — of Georgia. That is not a good sign to me,” GOP pollster Matt Towery told Fox News bloviator Sean Hannity last night.

On the contrary. It’s a very good sign, and a very reasonable collective reaction to a Republican-controlled Congress willfully enabling the most corrupt president in American history.

US hospitals see diseases resurge as vaccinations decline
Transmission accomplished! Great job, Bobby.

AIPAC affiliate has funded lavish trips to Israel for dozens of Congress members since October 7, 2023, filings reveal
Dozens of members of Congress and Capitol Hill staffers have enjoyed lavish gifted travel to Israel funded by an Aipac affiliate since October 7, 2023, amid Israel’s expanding wars on its neighbors and despite plummeting levels of support among Americans for the country’s policies, a Guardian analysis has found.

Congressional ethics filings and other public records show the trips, led by the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF), revolved around one-sided briefings on Middle East politics and Israeli domestic and foreign policy. Lawmakers and their staffers from both parties met Israeli officials, military contractors and civil society figures, including Benjamin Netanyahu and advocates for the annexation of the West Bank and the displacement of Palestinians from Jerusalem.