NEWS: IRS documents show conservative propaganda machine PragerU spent $650,000 on a gala at Mar-A-Lago - and soon after Trump targeted PBS for elimination, setting up PragerU to fill the educational void in schools across the country America. levernews.com/prageru-is-mov…

Trump is now ordering Republicans to do whatever they can to “pick up 100 House seats” in 2026, including through massive gerrymandering, voter suppression, and overturning the Voting Rights Act.

Trump’s efforts to circumvent Senate confirmation for US Attorneys blows up and puts prosecutions at risk.

BREAKING: The FBI raided the home of John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser turned fierce Trump critic. FBI Director Kash Patel tweeted, “No one is above the law… FBI agents on mission.” This is what authoritarianism looks like.

This needs to be said over and over and over and over and over again, as apparently that's what it takes to get any message through the noise in 2025: Trump took $175 billion to create a personal army. And the things he'll do with that army are and will continue to be disgusting.

The MAGA movement is focused on touting only the exceptional parts of our past “because having to look too closely at the disturbing parts of American history would mean having to look closely at the disturbing parts of themselves,” Clint Smith argues: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The search of Mar a Lago was based on months of obstruction by Trump, signed off by a judge in the normal way, and produced tons of criminality once the search was done. Even Bill Barr said Trump committed crimes with the stolen natsec documents. Stop the ‘both sides’ nonsense.

The FBI under Kash Patel is lowering recruiting standards and reducing training for new agents. Instead of 18 weeks of training, they’re only receiving 8. In a world with more complexity and more threats, this Administration is again wrecking the institutions that keep us safe.

Is there anyone who can get President Trump to watch this short segment of the last speech President Nixon gave in the White House? It's in Mr. Trump's interests to see it as he travels further down the road of Revenge and Retribution.

“If you are nice to President Trump, he will use the full force of the state to help you. There is no “law.” Not even a pretense of objectivity. There are only friends and enemies. This is Putinism. It’s happening, right here. Today.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…

When Trump took office, the effective tariff rate was below 3%. Now it’s over 18%. Unless he backs down again, your prices are going to skyrocket… and this administration will be directly to blame.

It’s also estimated that the tax breaks for billionaires will INCREASE the deficit by up to $5 trillion over 10 years. Simple math says we still have a big deficit AND those tariffs are a tax on YOU.

🚨Trump is threatening to send the “regular military” — Army and Marines — into US cities, with Chicago “probably next.” Make no mistake: This isn’t about safety. It’s about control. Using our Troops as political weapons erodes trust in the military and betrays the Constitution

Fifty years of post Watergate norms, up in smoke.

Two questions: 1) What does a convicted sex trafficker consider "inappropriate?" 2) If she WERE trying to win a parole or commutation--or a transfer to a minimum security, "Club Fed" prison camp--aren't these precisely the things she would say? politico.com/news/2025/08/2…

A few hundred people are gathered in the Columbia Heights Civic Plaza to protest Trump’s federal surge in D.C., especially the crackdown on the immigrant community. More than 250 arrests of immigrants have happened over the past 10 days.

People should be familiarizing themselves with what Putin did to Russia's leading private companies and their directors early in his administration.

This is what authoritarian regimes do. Replace the competent with loyalists. In this case, the head of state wants the total collapse of national security and defense to the benefit of Putin and Xi.

In Trump news today: * The FBI raids the home of anvocal Trump critic. * Spy chief whose report contradicted Trump is fired. * After taking control of DC, Trump now plans to send troops into the streets of Chicago and New York.

Unfortunately, the question, "Why didn’t Russians rise up and do something as Putin was destroying their democracy?" is becoming much easier to answer. What say you, Americans? Does this look like Trump and his gang are waiting for 2026 or 2028?