Donald Trump Jr. sits on the board of a drone company called Unusual Machines, which now stands to benefit from the $1.4 billion allocated to small drone production in Trump's budget bill. That raises ethics concerns. theintercept.com/2025/07/28/don…

"We were stupid stupid children," one victim told me. "All I remember is I was wearing the same pair of shoes for three years and I thought I could give a man a massage and finally get new shoes." When you are 14 years old, and have little or no parental guidance, or you've

Today, Los Angeles and the Bay Area will see 130 flights in both directions, equivalent to a plane departing every 6.5 minutes for 18 hours a day. Hard to argue it's not a perfect candidate for fast trains.

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” Judge for yourself. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-smas…

She’s Black Lung✨

Despite the circus-like news cycles coming out of the White House, Trump's role in creating this economic catastrophe is not lost on the public. A whopping 60% say that Trump has made their cost of living worse. Commentary: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

Glenn Kessler, fact checker extraordinaire who is leaving us, wrote a lovely farewell note to the staff. He called the copy desk "the unsung heroes of our enterprise, who doublechecked every link & recalculated every statistic, saving me from countless errors." No truer words 🙏

When a history museum rewrites history to appease the president, it stops being a museum and starts being state propaganda. Straight-up Orwellian.

Will Trump take the test?

So "all" of the, what, few thousand women who've ever been invited to a black-tie event at the White House have clamored for a ballroom that ... all the rest of us common folk are going to pay for? And don't believe them when they say we won't be ...

Think how quaint this would sound now:

"Women are built to be traded ... " -- a post shared by #ElonMusk . So half of our species are simply flesh crypto. huffpost.com/entry/elon-mus…

“That same fear, that same terror, is not something we normally see from the Cuban American community with a Republican president!” Madrid said. “We’ve never seen that before.” Public sentiment shifts against Trump’s immigration crackdown | Miami Herald miamiherald.com/news/local/imm…

The DOJ has halted lawsuits accusing Louisiana of keeping prisoners locked up long after they were meant to be released and South Carolina of institutionalizing thousands of mentally ill people — sometimes for decades — in violation of federal law. propublica.org/article/trump-…

Ancient pre-Hispanic grave unearthed under residential Lima street reut.rs/47b6aXg reut.rs/47b6aXg

Show us the money:

Has nothing to do with drugs and everything to do with Trump's glass ego and #Canada is not truckling to his bullying.

Behold, another of the many ways that MAGA and its Dear Leader are selling out Americans.

Despicable and shameful conduct --a tyrant's tool in tyrannical hands. Every visitor should print out this and post it in every Smithsonian bathroom and cloakroom. cbsnews.com/news/house-vot…