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Sunday, May 24, 2026

Trump's DOJ suffers brutal loss in landmark case

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Sunday Dose of Democracy:

VIDEO OF THE DAY: Justice Department suffers brutal loss in landmark case
Brian Tyler Cohen and legal expert Glenn Kirschner break down U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw's decision to dismiss all the bullshit charges brought by Trump's administration against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran immigrant who was mistakenly deported and thrown into the notorious CECOT terror prison.

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We should all be mad as hell about Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund
Sasha Abramsky, The Nation: "“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore,” newscaster Howard Beale hollers, as he spirals into an environment-induced madness, on air, in the classic 1976 movie Network. Speaking to a TV camera, he urges his audience to open their windows and scream out that they are also mad as hell. From coast to coast, as Americans respond to Beale’s primal scream, those windows open and those screams of rage and of fury at being betrayed by their own government are heard. Right about now, I’m tempted to open my windows and scream the same crie de coeur out into the ether. For more than 16 months, the Trump regime has done one outrageous or cruel or corrupt or unconstitutional thing after another, but this week I reached my breaking point.

I refer to the extraordinary agreement between Trump, the Trumpified Department of Justice, and the Trumpified Treasury Department to settle the president’s outrageous $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service by both granting Trump and his hoodlum family immunity from investigations into potential tax fraud, and also creating a $1.776 billion slush fund to be disbursed at will to January 6 insurrectionists and others who claim to have been “victims” of the “weaponization” of the Justice Department. The kicker: It would be funded using tax money from you, me, and everyone else in this country.

To be 100 percent clear here: unlike the men, women, and children who have simply been disappeared into makeshift concentration camps by Trump’s regime, those “victims” actually received jury trials, were found guilty by their peers, and were sentenced not for being Trump fans but for battering Capitol police officers, for hunting Congressional members with the intent of killing them, for vandalizing the citadel of American democracy, and for trying to subvert the will of the people by preventing the peaceful transfer of power. Now, members of this ragtag band of traitors, fools, hucksters, and brass-knuckle men stand to gain wealth, possibly millions, through the transfer of your and my hard-earned tax dollars into their bank accounts. Six dollars from every man, woman, and child in this country; that’s about what this slush fund for fascists will end up costing if the courts don’t stop it—a number of Capitol police officers have already sued—or if Congress doesn’t muster the decency to intervene.

One of the hallmarks of an authoritarian government is that the ruler regards the nation’s treasury as their personal piggy bank—to be raided at will, with its contents parceled out to friends, family, regime loyalists, and enforcers. It is the quintessence of public corruption. Howard Beale, who found absolute clarity of vision in his frenzied madness, would have simply added it to the list of heinous woes confronting society. Then Beale would have looked into the camera and, his righteous fury in full flowering, told his audience to open their windows and scream at the top of their lungs that they were mad as hell and weren’t going to take it anymore."

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Nobody better represents Israeli politics today than Itamar Ben-Gvir
Ben Reiff, The Guardian: "On Wednesday morning, Itamar Ben-Gvir arrived at the port where Israel had detained hundreds of participants in an international aid flotilla that was attempting to breach the naval blockade of Gaza. In a video he posted to social media, the minister can be seen mocking the activists as they are forced to kneel in rows with their heads on the ground and hands bound with zip ties. Israel’s national anthem can be heard blasting over loudspeakers, before we see Ben-Gvir waving an Israeli flag and shouting: 'Welcome to Israel. We are the landlords here.' The international reaction was swift and unequivocal – including from Britain’s foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, who said she was “truly appalled” at the video, and that it “violates the most basic standards of respect and dignity in the way people should be treated”.

Representatives of the French, Italian, Canadian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Polish, Greek, Irish, Australian and New Zealand governments joined the chorus, with some of them additionally summoning their respective Israeli ambassadors for formal censure. Even the Trump administration voiced its condemnation, with the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, asserting that Ben-Gvir had “betrayed [the] dignity of his nation”.

Let’s start with the obvious: far from being a marginal figure in Israeli politics, Ben-Gvir is one of the most senior ministers in the government. The national security ministry, which was created specifically for Ben-Gvir, grants him supreme authority over Israel’s regular and militarised police forces both within and beyond the state’s internationally recognised borders. It is in this capacity that he has waged a mass crackdown on the freedom of expression of Palestinian citizens of Israel; distributed 10,000 assault rifles to Jewish-Israeli civilians, including West Bank settlers; and worked diligently to upend the decades-old, highly sensitive religious status quo on the Temple Mount/Al-Aqsa compound.

He is also in charge of Israel’s prison system, which, in the words of B’Tselem, Israel’s leading human rights organization, has become a network of torture camps. Palestinian captives in those jails report being raped and sexually abused and almost 100 are known to have died in custody since 7 October 2023. And perhaps most infamously, he has used his position to pioneer the newly passed legislation imposing a death penalty on Palestinians only.

But Ben-Gvir’s influence on Israeli politics extends far beyond the limits of his ministry. Over the past five years, he has forced into plain sight the racist undercurrents of Israeli politics that have been present since the state’s foundation, but which have largely been reined in for the sake of international audiences. While Ben-Gvir may be the most provocative and brazen of Israel’s current leaders, the truth is that he’s in good company – and not only in the political sphere. His ideological spirit can increasingly be felt among the country’s youth, in its police and army, and at the top of its security agencies. What better face could there be for Israel today?"

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Trump gets nightmare news as his top impeachment witness launches run for Senate
Alexander Vindman for Senate: Alexander Vindman made history as one of the star witnesses in the first impeachment case against Trump — and now he’s running for Senate so he can hold the wannabe dictator accountable from the halls of Congress. Vindman has vowed to take on "a Republican Party that’s failing to deliver accountability and underwriting chaos and corruption," but to win in Florida, he’s going to need some help. Can you chip in to help kick-start his run?