Any day now, Todd Blanche’s nomination to be our nation’s next attorney general — the top law enforcement official in the federal government — will be coming up for a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.

Blanche should not have made it this far. But two outgoing Republican senators on a key committee, John Cornyn (Texas) and Thom Tillis (North Carolina) — following some performative displays of integrity — caved in and voted to advance Blanche’s nomination to the full Senate.

On Friday night, a court filing from Capital One denied there was any political motivation behind the closure of more than 380 bank accounts in the names of Donald Trump and the Trump Organization. Instead, it stated, the accounts were closed “for anti-money laundering reasons.” It said “transaction patterns” had triggered the review.

Robert Kagan, veteran warmonger extraordinaire, wants to know what the “utility” would be of admitting that the war on Iraq was “a mistake.” I’m glad he asked.

Just before midnight last night, news broke that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche had rescinded the order of May 18, 2026, establishing a $1.776 billion slush fund for those who claimed that the Department of Justice under former president Joe Biden had persecuted them. The fund was widely perceived to be a way to pay off those convicted of crimes related to their attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

 (Originally posted October 27, 2023 and reposted July 31, 2026)

Uninsured patients and hospital closures are surging. This is what Trump’s healthcare cuts actually cost

Since October 2023 more than 20,000 children

were killed and over 44,000 injured.

Early on Sunday morning, Israelis set fire to two mosques in the West Bank, as well as agricultural land and property, according to Palestinian reports and footage, as settler violence continued to intensify in the wake of clashes that left two Israelis and four Palestinians dead on Friday. The IDF has since detained at least 27 Palestinians and two Israelis.

It turns out Trump has not abandoned his plan to paint the massive grey granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building white. As Philip Kennicott reported in the Washington Post yesterday, more than two dozen experts have sued to stop the plan, saying paint could irreversibly damage the stone and would be a “taxpayers’ nightmare” as the building would have to be repaired and repainted regularly.

Tony Romm and Brad Plumer of the New York Times reported this afternoon that the Trump administration’s claim last October that it was cutting programs in order to protect taxpayers against waste was, in fact, a lie. In court filings, federal officials admitted that the $7.5 billion in cuts from clean energy projects begun under former president Joe Biden were “based solely” on whether states had voted for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

Indiana’s faith community relies on relationships as they join together to advocate for the marginalized, push for social justice, and respond to Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith’s inflammatory remarks. (Photo/Pexels.com)

For years, relationships connecting many of Indiana’s faith traditions have existed quietly: clergy members meeting over coffee, nonprofit leaders collaborating on community needs and advocates looking for ways to build trust despite theological differences.

Andrew Tate, right, and his brother, Tristan, center, speak to the media as they arrive in Romania in March after a visit to the United States. Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty Images

Online influencer Andrew Tate, a self-described misogynist who has millions of young male followers, was facing allegations of sex trafficking women in three countries when he and his brother left their home in Romania to visit the United States.

The United Auto Workers is under attack from both wings of the ruling class. President Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating claims that UAW President Shawn Fain retaliated against UAW Vice President Rich Boyer.

“The Republican Party’s new favorite talking point is calling Democrats communists,” Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) said yesterday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.

“Really? Communists? Did we accidentally step into a time machine?”

Like millions of you, I spent many hours in the past month watching the World Cup. As usual, I was pulling for Uruguay, a place I’ve never visited but have admired for being the first South American country to legalize same-sex marriage, marijuana, abortion, and to outlaw salt shakers from being placed on restaurant tables in their capital, Montevideo.

Last week, in an update about efforts to save the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building—a.k.a. “the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal”—I mentioned in passing the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, or ACHP.

Federal agents detain a person after a court hearing at immigration court in New York City on 1 July 2026. Photograph: Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images

A guest editorial by our friend and colleague Greg Palast

Here are two ways an American can make a citizen.

• 1. Take your partner out for a nice dinner and a romantic dance.

• 2. Once home, with no light but candles, remove unnecessary clothing, and let Nature guide you.

• 3. Roughly nine months later, a citizen arrives…

…OR,

• 1. Spend $75 online to set up a Limited Liability Corporation in Delaware.

Nolan Wells’s mother Christine Wonsley held a press conference on July 10, 2026, in New York City after her son’s mysterious death over the Fourth of July off the coast of Mississippi. Photo: Steve Sanchez/Sipa USA via AP Images

The deaths of Nolan Wells and Kohen Wiley are symptoms of a nation retreating from any pretense of equal rights.

There is a tangible heat to being Black in America this summer.