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The regime officially shut DOGE down this week. And you’re the reason we can write a report on the wreckage that they wouldn’t—everything in today’s edition exists thanks to your support. Want to do even more? Upgrade to founding member, or gift a subscription to someone who could use some hope right now. One Fired Worker Just Humiliated Trump’s Whole Regime, His Sons Got Dragged Into The Light, and His DOGE Is Officially DeadProof the momentum is ours heading into the midterms
Every con has the same weak spot: it only works as long as nobody runs the numbers. Everything this regime does starts loud and ends quiet—the DOGE chainsaw got a stadium rollout, the final results got a shrug on a holiday weekend. They’re betting the noise of the announcement outlives the silence of the outcome, and that bet pays off big in corporate media. Not here. This edition is what happens when somebody stays in the room after the cameras leave—and what we found is a very good week for the resistance. So before you scroll another inch, do the thing that rattles them most: hit the ❤️ like button and restack this. The regime’s whole strategy depends on being the loudest voice out there. A like turns our volume up, and a restack hands this to someone who only ever caught the headline and never the whole story. Be the reason the quiet part gets heard. Then keep us in the room long after everyone else goes home—digging through the contracts and court records nobody else reads, then handing you the receipts. No advertiser funds work like that; readers do, or nobody does. We have to get 12 new paid subscribers today to keep the fight to flip Congress moving. Become one. A NEW TRUMP BUSINESS: THE PENTAGON
A paper trail of federal money keeps showing up right behind the Trump name. Don Jr. joined drone maker Unusual Machines’ advisory board in November 2024—and within a year, one of the company’s largest orders ever was placed by the US Army. Last August, Don Jr.’s firm, 1789 Capital, bought into a startup called Vulcan Elements; three months later it landed a $620 million loan, the biggest in the Pentagon’s lending office history. ProPublica found the loan was initiated by senior White House official Peter Navarro—a friend of Don Jr.’s—and pushed through in a matter of weeks, sending Vulcan’s value skyrocketing from $200 million toward $2 billion. The sons swear their names have nothing to do with it, but the record says otherwise: roughly $3.7 billion in federal money went to at least ten companies tied to the brothers since the regime took power. That’s your April taxes, meant to defend the country, rerouted to whoever hired the right last name. Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, is now demanding the Pentagon’s inspector general investigate: “his sons are cashing in on defense contracts funded by hardworking taxpayers.” They built this in the dark to work in secret, betting nobody would ever turn on the lights. The investigation just started, the receipts are already public, and every dollar gets traced. This fight is only beginning. DOGE IS DEAD. THE DAMAGE ISN’T.
DOGE’s mandate expired July 4, the end date written into Trump’s own executive order. Elon Musk swore he’d cut $2 trillion. DOGE’s website claims $215 billion—a number they haven’t updated since January and that budget experts don’t buy. Even taking their figure at face value, that’s a dime in cuts for every dollar promised. Molly Hardy was the National Endowment for the Humanities’ 2024 employee of the year. DOGE laid her off anyway. Then in March, the agency came crawling back, emailing to ask if she’d return. She turned them down—not bitter, just clear-eyed: “It didn’t feel good. It just felt really sad.” She’s not alone, and that’s the part they didn’t see coming. All over the government, the wreckage is being reversed: HHS fired 10,000 workers and is now scrambling to hire 12,000. Agencies that bragged about the chainsaw are begging people to come back. Asked if shrinking the workforce was even still the goal, OPM chief Scott Kupor admitted: “I’m not hearing that.” And when Congress asked what DOGE actually accomplished, budget director Russell Vought had nothing to show: “We have no plans to do kind of a closing DOGE report.” The people who took a chainsaw to our government don’t get to slink off without a full accounting. We’ll see to that. TRUMP STOLE AMERICA’S BIRTHDAY. IT BACKFIRED.
Congress spent a decade planning America’s 250th birthday—a bipartisan commission built to throw a party every American could love. Trump shoved it aside, handed the celebration to his own loyalists, and turned the whole thing into a taxpayer-funded rally for himself. America answered. The performers quit rather than share his stage. Seven Democratic-governed states refused to send delegations. His June kickoff drew crowds so thin the aerial photos enraged him, and White House officials who’d posted them quietly deleted their posts. By the Fourth, the whole thing had come apart: a record 102 degrees, a dozen people hospitalized from the heat, and a Confederate flag on the North Carolina booth’s screen that led Mt. Olive, the country’s top pickle brand, to pull out in protest. Sen. Alex Padilla named the whole sorry spectacle for what it was: “President Trump couldn’t help but try making America’s 250th birthday all about himself.” Trump wanted a coronation. He got a heat wave and a boycott. CALIFORNIA SEALED TRUMP’S SLUSH FUND SHUT
Remember Trump’s fund to reward the Jan 6 rioters? Here’s where it stands. Earlier this year, the DOJ settled his bogus $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS for $1.776 billion, dressed up as compensation for the rioters and the loyalists who kept him afloat. He picked the number 1,776 on purpose. Subtle, these people are not. A federal judge froze the fund in May. Acting AG Todd Blanche told Congress the fund wasn’t going forward—but he wouldn’t put that in writing, so the judge extended the freeze indefinitely. The regime still wouldn’t officially kill it. They left the door cracked, betting they could quietly reopen it once no one was watching. California slammed that door shut. On June 30, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law taxing 100% of any payout from that fund to California residents—so the second anyone in the state tries to cash a check, every dollar is owed straight back to the taxpayers. Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel drew the line: “there will be no windfall for anyone who has engaged in corruption or attacked our democracy.” The regime never had the nerve to kill this fund on paper. So Newsom made sure that in California, it’s dead on arrival. THIS LAND IS OUR LANDTHIS LAND IS OUR LANDTHIS LAND IS OUR LANDHere’s what the regime doesn’t seem to understand: the damage they’ve done doesn’t have to be permanent. They swung a chainsaw at the government and, instead of a monument to their toughness, they left behind agencies scrambling to hire back everyone they fired. That’s what happens when they bet you’ll be too worn down to fight—and lose that bet. It’s the same wager they made on the slush fund, on the Pentagon grift, on the birthday he threw for himself: that no one would be watching, no one would push back, no one would keep the receipts. They bet wrong every time. Our coalition has sent more than 784,000 letters to Congress since November 2024, from readers who stood up, spoke out, and refused to let their elected officials look away. That’s not a mailing list—that’s a movement, and it’s the reason a bad headline can still become a win for the resistance. It’s what we do here every single day, and it runs on nothing but people who decided the truth was worth paying for. So here’s the ask, plain and simple: the regime is counting on you to quit before they’re held to account. Don’t give them that. We need 12 of you to become paid subscribers today and push the fight to flip Congress one step closer. Be one of them. Then hit the ❤️ like button and restack this edition. Somewhere out there is a person who was told DOGE saved them money and Trump threw himself a beautiful party. A few taps from you, and they’ll hear what actually happened. Onward! Scott $3.7 billion in federal money flowed to companies tied to Trump’s sons. If a Democratic president’s grown children pulled this, what would Fox be calling it right now? Let me know in the comments! Thanks for your support! Another way to help us out is by gifting subscriptions to friends and family! You can get yours by clicking the link. For all contact Congress links, or to volunteer, you can go here: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-up-for-the-watchdog-coalition Tell your Senators to vote NO on Todd Blanche. Click and send: 👇 https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-senators-oppose-todd-blanche-for-attorney-general/ 🚨 Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have announced the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Center Moratorium Act, legislation that would enact a reasonable pause to the development of AI to ensure the safety of humanity. Learn more & support this bill in Congress here: https://bit.ly/4twnWMU 🚨 SIX OTHER URGENT ACTIONS TODAY Pass Bill to Create 25th Amendment Commission https://tinyurl.com/44afaxvd Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service: https://tinyurl.com/mrx8cvv7 Demand Acting AG Blanche release ALL of the Epstein files: https://tinyurl.com/2uc9vca9 Defend voting rights! https://tinyurl.com/3f3m728j Stop Trump from deporting people with Temporary Protected Status https://tinyurl.com/yc8rfa7j COMMENTS: |
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And let's just say this so we are clear.
Fuck the incumbents.
Jim McLaughlin, doing his level best to find the sunny side for the GOP, argued Republicans can still ride out the storm by drawing contrasts on "banning transgender athletes from women's sports."
There it is. There's the whole goddamn strategy in one clause. The house is on fire — gas prices underwater, Trump's approval on handling the economy at a limp 31 percent, his gas-price number at a wretched 23 in mid-June Fox polling — and the big plan, the war room's best idea, is to point at some trans fifteen-year-old on a track in Ohio and holler hey, look over there. That is not a policy. That is a broke-ass magician who's out of tricks, sweating through his tux, waving the same tired scarf for the ninth time and praying to Christ you don't notice both hands are empty and always were. It has worked before, God help us. And they are betting the entire midterm it works again, because they have got not one other thing in the bag — not a single solitary idea for the price of your insulin, your rent, the eggs, the heat that just cooked two hundred million people while these clowns workshopped bathroom bills.
It is beyond amazing how obsessed the R's are with whatever's going on in other peoples' underpants. What a bunch of sexual perverts.
Well said!👏👏👏👏👏👏 They can't get their minds out of the gutter!
$3.7 billion in federal money flowed to companies tied to Trump’s sons. If a Democratic president’s grown children pulled this, what would Fox be calling it right now?
FOX would be calling the first family, the CRIME FAMILY! The fleecing of Americans by the CRIME FAMILY!
Well, maybe FOX isn't calling the Trumps THE CRIME FAMILY....most of the remainder of the world certainly is!!!!!!!!!! Aaaaaaagh!!!!!!! WE HAVE GOT TO RID OURSELVES OF THIS SICK, DEMENTED PRESIDENTIAL FAMILY/REGIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You know what gets me?
The moment Molly Hardy said “It didn’t feel good. It just felt really sad.” That’s the quiet truth behind every chainsaw stunt and every headline they tried to bury. The damage wasn’t permanent, the grift wasn’t invisible, and the people they underestimated are the ones turning the tide. Thanks for being here to help carry the receipts.
This week showed exactly why staying in the room after the cameras leave matters. The numbers didn’t match the noise, the receipts didn’t match the spin, and one worker’s answer said more about this regime than any press conference ever could.
I am a news media veteran and a strong advocate for the free press. But it is the press that too often keeps Trump's name front and center in nearly every "news" report they air. This is so even of MsNow, of which I am an avid viewer. At some point, the new media has to start tellling the whole story or too many Americans won't grasp what truly is going on. You will find it difficult to find coverage of other world events as long as Trump gets all the attention. Perhaps if we didn't water the flower so much, it would wilt and die.
I Too was a news junky until the I could tell the media was all breathlessly talking about trump and bashing President Biden. The news media is what got the idiot re-elected! Most of our media is run by the billionaires so this is the only place we can get real news! Or you may try PBS or BBC.
And The Guardian. You get better news from Al Jazeera! There’s plenty of good news to read but what bothers me is most people still rely on broadcast and cable news. Rather than reading. So they don’t really know what they’re missing. It used to be we could rely on those sources but not anymore.
I love The Guardian! The NYT is pretty good too, IMHO, though I know some folks don’t like it. I find it decidedly blunt, stating the hard facts and keeping its integrity and credibility intact.
My 'like' is for the Guardian. I really haven't ever seen enough of the NYT to have an opinion.
Hopefully there is no problem with re-posting this shout video. It cute, funny, totally non-political and a welcome break from the other stuff ...
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2044421872817222
A dachshund and a duck are racing and, I swear, they are laughing.
Oops - that should be SHORT video.
I wish I could open it! It sounds adorable!😊
I was surprised. I'm not on Facebook, but this opened for me. I don't know if you read Jay Kuo's 'Status Kuo' here on Substack, but that's where I found it ... Oh, it opens with a Facebook notice, but if you hit the X to close that it should be available to you - you just need to also click on the sound/audio icon if it has an x attached.
I do subscribe to Jay’s Substack (love that brilliant man!). I haven’t looked at last week’s (last Saturday’s) Skeets and Giggles yet; I’m not on Facebook either but can usually see their stuff through his link. I’ll go check it out! Is it in this past week’s S and G?
Thank you for all...!
I have an unrelated question: I never hear anyone speak to the fact that Trump himself benefitted from BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP! His father was from Germany his mother I think from Ireland and ONLY because of our laws was he born a citizen!!! I would like to hear something about that ... thanks again for all you do!!
I believe his grandfather was German and his mother was from Scotland. But yes. His first wife was Czech (?) and Melania is Slovenian.
But of course we know that Trump’s stunted emotional state doesn’t recognize any humanity outside of himself. Not the world population, not his children. His capacity is only for momentary recognition of whoever is fueling his greed (and then just as a vehicle for the hit of money, power…), or whoever is providing emotional sustenance of flattery.
Trump is losing the support of his own people now. His departure time is approaching and knows it ... but, despite using his old play book of Lie, Deny & Repeat," it is NOT working this time around because you can't convince people that they are doing better when our paychecks don't go as far as they used to at the grocery store, gas pumps, energy bills, etc. Even the uneducated notices when their limited dollars doesn't buy them as much anymore. Trump is screwed now for screwing the working class who fuel our economy. Vote BLUE /Democrat up and down your ballot in every state in the critical Nov 3rd midterm election. 🗳💙🇺🇸
VOTE OUT THE TRASH 🗑 IN NOVEMBER 💙
Yep, and there sure is a heaping pile of trash to get rid of on Nov 3rd. The stench from the unattended trash that has been accumulating for years in DC is now unbearable, domestically and internationally. 👃🦨🗑
We’ve only been irretrievably broken since 2016, when McConnel purposely started the process of making the courts, and especially SCOTUS so broken they all remain on life support to this day. If voters return the government to people who will reform, and overturn what has happened in the last decade, there is a slim hope to fix what has been shattered.
Two of the weekly protests I normally attend here in Charlotte were cancelled (Fri. afternoon due to extreme heat; Sat. morning because so many people were out of town for the 4th).
But this morning I did attend a special "Signs of Freedom" edition of a regular Monday morning protest. The previous times I've attended protests at this corner, we have had in the range of 15 - 18 protestor (plus a canine mascot). Which is IMO a respectable number for 8 am on a Monday!
There are 28 different signs with "Freedom is .... " and then a freedom that is under threat by the Trump Regime. I grabbed the sign that said "Freedom is ... Peaceful Protest".
The organizer came prepared with portable easels in case we fell short of enough participants to hold all the signs. But that wasn't necessary - THIRTY-EIGHT people showed up!! And the reception from the motorists driving by was enthusiastic!!
How much longer does our country have to witness this corruption before its finally stopped even before the midterms. He's laughing in our faces!!! What's the strategy? THIS ADMINISTRATION IN FULL MUST BE STOPPED ASAP!!!!!!
Shrinkage is depreciation and loss of value. That’s what DOGE did.
Thank you for your clear, informative reporting. I'm 75 yrs. old and I've been missing Walter for a long time now, but you've given me hope. Some days I'm exhausted, but I'm NEVER giving up!
DOGE decimated the federal contracting force. Regulations were cast aside so DJT could reward his rich crooked pals and family members. Years of contracting expertise were removed from the federal work force. You can see the results every day in news stories. Incompetent and unethical contractors making billions. Shoddy work. Exorbitant profit margins. But here’s the cherry for the top of the sundae—the federal government is now hiring all new staff. Inexperienced in government contracting which is unlike other contracting. It used to take 3 years to get a new hire up to competent levels with the government’s ever-changing rules and regulations to prevent just what we’re seeing now. The stupidity and lack of forethought boggle my mind. And who is paying for it? We are.
Faux News is more hypocritical than The Orange Lard Ass!
They are all cut from the same cloth.
Hey where is New York's Gov. Hochul and the NYS legislature on also taxing any income from the slush fund at 100%. Oh, home for recess - the NYS legislature meets for less than half the year, goes home in early June and doesn't return again until January. And then fights the governor's attempts to make policy via the budget for the next five months.... When do we actually get some representation?
The Largest Grift, Greed, and Gluttony in the history of America - the Trump family and their enablers. It is being reported that Musk may be responsible for the MOST Deaths EVER in history with his Cutting and Gutting and Taking Away and Eliminating of resources to people around the world. The world's wealthiest man killing the world's most people.........what happens with too much money in one persons hands. Welcome to the new Gilded Age where life of average and poor people mean NOTHING to the wealthiest! (Oh, and P.S. if you haven't noticed.......the Republicans are actively working to END Social Security and PRIVATIZE it so ALL the Billionaires and get their hands on THAT money......It NEVER ends with these CROOKS!!)
I called my Republican senator to tell him not to vote to confirm Todd Blanche. His staffer looked up my address and read it to me. It made me think that she was also looking at my voter registration, which is Democratic, and would likely not even share my call with him. I'm thinking of registering as an Independent. The state where I live, Pennsylvania, does not have open primaries so I would be giving up my right to vote in the primaries, however, it might make the politicians listen to me since most think that Independents swing elections.
Your experience is very telling. Bet it is the same story in many other states. Thanks for sharing.
I feel the same as a resident of Pennsylvania & then not being able to vote in the primaries.
The corruption of the r drumpf bits is a full circle contract for drones with the DOD and it is for I think 10 years. Denver Riggleman has all the info in that
$3.7 billion in federal money flowed to companies tied to Trump’s sons. If a Democratic president’s grown children pulled this, what would Fox be calling it right now? Don't know I don't watch them. It is clear that the Republicans can do what they want no matter what and the Dems clean it up and get criticized as they do it. Done with the Double standards and I am Registered an Independent. I see the pattern.
I want to see bills sent to Trump. Invoice for every unapproved expense. He never divested from his personal holdings so his Trump Organization activities are subject to direct attachment. Every Trump child is beholden to the country. Send them all an avalanche of bills due on arrival; charge interest for every day payment is late.
Hope you stayed cool in the heatwave, Scott. More great energy in this newsletter. Thank you!
The Trump regime, every last one of them, including his family members and members of Congress and SCOTUS, who have benefitted from this blatant corruption must have their assets frozen so we can investigate. Full stop. Their full-blown hubris and their arrogance in openly admitting it are all the receipts we need, and they are everywhere: social media, televised press conferences and interviews, etc.
I imagine there will be people who will want their jobs back but at what cost? Wonder how the Looney Tunes will spin that? I think every single person needs to contact their election boards to find out how they will be protecting voters' rights and how to make sure people will feel safe going to polling stations.
So, Russell Vought says that there will be no after-action report on the effectiveness of DOGE. I know, but, still... they can't even be bothered to gin up a fake report claiming to prove how beneficial their radical cuts to services has been for the nation? That is a level of confidence in being beyond accountability that cannot end well for him and his Project 2025 cronies and fellow vandals. Oh, how I hate these arrogant ideological fanatics.
That’s my thought exactly
It's amazing how often the "efficiency" crowd ends up creating more work. Turns out you can't run a government on buzzwords, photo ops, and a chainsaw. Funny how the receipts always show up after the applause fades.
Oh the hypocrisy of the GOP over the OVERT GRIFT by the Convicted Felons family!! All their screaming over Hunter Biden, and CRICKETS over all this???
It’s outrageous. Hard to fathom. Heartbreaking.
I LOVE Newsom’s tax plan for criminals/Seditionists. Come on ALL Blue states..do the same thing!
Myself and over 75% of America look forward to charges and investigations being brought on this crime family. They are protected right now, but a blue wave is coming!