Archive for June 2026
An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.
[ad_1] In late November in Jamnagar, India, the scions of two of the most powerful families in the world stood face-to-face. On one side was 30-year-old Anant Ambani, son of one the richest men in Asia. On the other was Donald Trump Jr. For months, the Trump administration had been on the offensive against the sprawling Ambani energy empire, placing…Read More
A U.S. Senator Pushed to Cut Firefighting Aircraft Inspections the Same Month His Former Company Failed One
[ad_1] A little over a year ago, Sen. Tim Sheehy floated an audacious proposal to reshape the way the federal government fights wildfires. It called for expanding the use of private planes and helicopters to quickly attack blazes while also eliminating the U.S. Forest Service’s rigorous airworthiness inspections for those aircraft. The idea stood to benefit Sheehy, a Montana Republican,…Read More
How the Pentagon picked a fight with Mormons
[ad_1] The spires of the historic Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2016. | George Frey/Getty Images Over the weekend, the Department of Defense stepped into one of the more delicate questions in American religiosity: who gets to be called “Christian.” More specifically, does the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called the Mormon Church),…Read More
The World Cup has a Trump problem
[ad_1] Donald Trump at the FIFA World Cup 2026 Official Draw at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on December 5, 2025. | Dan Mullan/Getty Images This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The…Read More
Republicans Soft Launch Their 2026 Election Disinfo Campaign With California Freakout
[ad_1] Big Lie 2026 Gets Underway It was already burbling up in various venues toward the end of last week, but it officially got underway over the weekend: the long-expected 2026 midterm election disinfo bonanza. At its core, the extremely predictable claim is this: That as we all watch California slowly, slowly tally its millions of mail-in ballots, we are…Read More
An apology, Senator!
Shouldn’t everyone get one? Nino Amato wants an apology. So do Betty Mitchell Banks, a children’s TV producer; Richard Harris, author of Growing up Black in S. Madison; and M. Kinney James, Madison’s first black woman police officer. The last three want mea culpas, on behalf of black people uprooted from Madison’s old Greenbush neighborhood. […] Source link davidblaska.comRead More
Ken Paxton’s Own Defense Lawyer Denounces Him, Announces Support For Talarico
[ad_1] Ken Paxton is already having a bad week. The prominent lawyer who (successfully – dammit!) defended him in his impeachment trial has quite publicly denounced him. AND announced support for Paxton’s Democratic opponent James Talarico. AND started donating to Talarico’s campaign! Yes, I’d call that a pretty bad start to the week. Still, everything I […] The post Ken…Read More
Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator’s Coal Companies
[ad_1] Trump administration officials earlier this year killed a federal criminal investigation into the coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice, a Republican from West Virginia and a close ally of the president’s. The investigation examined potential criminal violations of the Clean Water Act by the multistate mining operations largely run by Justice’s son, Jay, according to current and former…Read More
Trump's attendance at the Knicks' historic NBA championship game faces mounting criticism
The New York Knicks return to Madison Square Garden Monday night, riding a historic 13-game playoff win streak with two wins from the NBA championship, but amid the excitement, President Donald Trump’s attendance at Game 3 forced the cancellation of watch parties across New York City. MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” panelists questioned whether Trump’s attendance at the Knicks’ first championship…Read More
What does the state owe the dead?
Matthew Gault, writing for 404media:Almost 30 years ago a farming family deeded land to the City of Taylor, Texas, on the condition the city use it for a public park…Now the land that was supposed to belong to the community will become a 135,000 square foot data center.The story Gault tells here is practically tailor made to elicit the sympathy…Read More