In just the week before Trump took power, CFPB: - ordered Equifax to pay $15M - ordered a major auto lender to return $10M to customers - ordered CashApp to refund $120M to customers - sued Capital One for cheating people out of interest payments This week it's closed.

read this letter. just read it. in any other presidency, this letter alone would trigger impeachment proceedings. this is a blatantly corrupt quid-pro-quo and the media should be covering this like watergate

In other words, Medicare paid $83 billion more for Medicare Advantage enrollees (in one year) than it would have paid for similar people in traditional Medicare, according to MedPAC. That's more than Medicare paid for physician services in 2024.

Today, we published a year long investigation of how a broken transit system has upended the lives of city students. Greg Morton analyzed millions of data points to prove the system fails the city's most ambitious and vulnerable kids. thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-12…

Wow: The City of Clarksdale, Mississippi, got a court order yesterday directing a newspaper to delete an editorial criticizing city officials -- without a hearing. Here's the TRO issuing the prior restraint:

I'm hearing from experts around the world about what the destruction of USAID is meaning: "a global health massacre," in the words of a doctor who has devoted her life to humanitarian work on the front lines. Millions of malnourished children left to starve. Pregnant women not

ICYMI: No criminal record. No gang affiliation. Owned a towing business. Spent 11 years renewing work permits and trying to obtain his own citizenship. Wife is an American citizen. Grabbed by ICE as he was taking out the trash. Shipped to a detention center in New Mexico. Read

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

Elon Musk Let me try to change your mind: Meet Evan Anzoo. He was a five-year-old boy infected with HIV at birth, and USAID kept him strong with 12-cent-a-day medicines. The, Elon Musk, you fed USAID "into the wood chipper," as you put it, and without medication he died. No regrets?

PJM proposal would unlawfully saddle Maryland customers with nearly $800 million for out-of-state data center growth, OPC tells federal regulators. Read OPC's press release: content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MDOPC…

From Bruce Springsteen on Instagram : "Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour in Manchester, England. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his

Rightfully, the cuts to Medicaid (over 10M people will lose their health care) and the tax cuts for the rich have been the story of the disastrous Republican budget bill. But I read the whole thing. And there are some hidden rats in there you need to know about. 1/ A quick🧵

I'm not sure the public fully appreciates the impact of the deportation regime, which is about to get worse. thebulwark.com/p/the-shock-an…

Over 16k Americans weighed in on the click-to-cancel rule, overwhelmingly supporting our effort to end subscription traps. The rule was set to go into effect in May but this FTC slow-walked it—and now a court has tossed it out, claiming industry didn’t get enough of a say.

ICE arrests Maryland pastor, a father of 3 with no criminal record, family says buff.ly/pJ2EIh3

Look away! New: US Secret Service has closed access to the Ellipse park where journalists had been capturing live images of the East Wing demolition.  CNN had a photojournalist capturing live images of the demolition at the time. Reuters was also ushered out of the park.

“Officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.” wgbh.org/news/local/202…

I cancelled my World Cup tickets. The ICE may decide that I am a gang member, and I'll be locked in prison for a year with no charges, no hearing, no trial, no right to consult a lawyer, no phone call. The US is not safe to visit.

This is bone-chilling, Gestapo shit washingtonpost.com/investigations…

EXCLUSIVE: An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. Other documents that mention Trump have been taken down (and some restored). npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-…