Trump Is Stripping Whistleblower Protections From Thousands of Senior Federal Employees
The Trump administration is about to finalize a rule that strips whistleblower protections from an estimated 50,000 senior federal employees. That’s not spin. That’s what the documents reviewed by Reuters actually say. The Whistleblower Protection Act makes it illegal for agencies to retaliate against employees who report violations of law, gross waste of funds, abuse…
Why AI Panic Misses the Real Threats
Humans have always been better at destruction than robots Every generation picks its apocalypse. Right now, the smart money says it’s AI. Machines will steal our jobs, collapse the economy, render humans obsolete. The solution everyone’s pitching is Universal Basic Income, because apparently that’s the only thing standing between us and complete societal breakdown. There’s…
Why Was a Former Treasury Secretary Asking a Sex Trafficker About Trump?
Larry Summers asked Epstein whether the Russians had something on Trump In the more than 20,000 pages released this week, there’s an email from July 2018, right after the Helsinki summit where Trump met with Putin. It raises a question worth examining. Why was Larry Summers asking Jeffrey Epstein if the Russians had kompromat on…
Start Here: Welcome to The GriftMatrix
More than 20,000 pages just dropped. Here’s what I’m doing with them. Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee released over 20,000 documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate. Democrats on the committee released three emails first, all mentioning Donald Trump - the GOP side called that cherry-picking. Republicans followed hours later with the full dump. The White House…
Trump Pardoned 77 People Involved in the Plot to Overturn the 2020 Election
In case you missed it over the weekend, Trump pardoned 77 - SEVENTY SEVEN! - people who helped him try to overturn the 2020 election. His pardon attorney announced it on Sunday. Rudy Giuliani got one. Mark Meadows got one. So did lawyers like Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Jenna Ellis and Kenneth Chesebro, aides like…
Trump’s 50-Year Mortgage Was Pitched With a Literal Posterboard at a Golf Club
You probably saw that Trump floated a 50-year mortgage plan over the weekend. Maybe you saw the pushback - his own base losing their minds, Republican congresspeople calling it debt slavery, housing experts explaining why it’s economically illiterate. What you might not know is how this disaster actually happened. Saturday night at Trump’s Palm Beach…
Democrats Caused the Shutdown, Then Folded First. Stop Making Excuses for Them.
Stop making excuses for Democrats. Here’s what actually happened, stripped of all the partisan spin and cable news theatrics: The Democrats shut down the government. Full stop. They made a calculated decision to pull the trigger on a shutdown, presumably thinking they had leverage, thinking they had the Republicans cornered. And then they blinked first.…
SCOTUS Is About to Decide If Your Mail-In Ballot Gets Thrown Out
The Supreme Court just agreed to hear a case that could decide whether mail-in ballots have to arrive by Election Day to count. Right now, Mississippi let’s ballots postmarked by Election Day arrive up to five business days later and still be valid. Republicans are challenging that, and the Court took the case. Its called…
SCOTUS Wasn’t Buying GEO Group’s Immunity Defense in ICE Detainees’ Forced Labor Suit
The Supreme Court didn’t seem impressed with GEO Groups claim today that it should be immune from forced labor lawsuits at its Colorado immigration detention center. At least four justices signaled they weren’t eager to overturn the lower court ruling that let the case move forward. More than 30,000 former detainees, led by Alejandro Menocal,…
Trump’s USDA Ordered States to ‘Undo’ the Full SNAP Payments They’d Already Sent
The Trump administration ordered states to “immediately undo” the full November SNAP payments some of them had already sent out to low-income families. The order came yesterday, just hours after the Supreme Court temporarily blocked full program funding. States that don’t comply risk losing federal administrative money. The directive, which followed an emergency stay from…
Why Eight Democratic Senators Voted to Cave on Healthcare: The Real Theory
Dems caved on protecting your healthcare. Here’s my theory on why. The eight Democratic senators who voted for the stopgap funding bill - Tim Kaine, Dick Durbin, John Fetterman, Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan, Angus King, Catherine Cortez Masto, and Jackie Rosen - didn’t just randomly cave on healthcare. This was coordinated political theater designed to…
Trump’s Plan to End Trans Care for Minors Without Ever Writing the Word ‘Ban’
Well, heres how you outlaw something without writing the word ban. The Trump administration is drafting a rule to cut off all Medicare and Medicaid payments to any hospital that provides gender-affirming care to minors. NPR got the draft. If it goes through, hospitals treating trans kids lose access to every federal dollar they depend…