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Trump's DOJ is going after E. Jean Carroll — the woman a jury already found he sexually abused — for the crime of telling the truth about him. Gavin Newsom wants to tax Trump's January 6 slush fund at 100%. The Democratic Party just called Stephen Miller an ugly fuck. And now Jill Biden is saying she thought Joe was having a stroke on that debate stage. Happy almost Friday.

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KEY DEVELOPMENTS

1. Democrats come for Stephen Miller — FINALLY

After Texas Republicans nominated indicted, scandal-ridden Ken Paxton to run for Senate — handing Democrats their best shot at flipping Texas blue in a generation — it got ugly, quick.

The DNC posted photo of their candidate, James Talarico, and Stephen Miller responded by calling Talarico — a cisgender, straight man — the Democrats' "first transgender senate candidate."

It's the predictable move MAGA makes when they can't find real dirt: deliberate misgendering as a slur.

But the unpredictable part? The official Democratic Party account sent the internet into a tailspin after responding with five words, no asterisks: "shut up you ugly fuck"

Conservatives clutched their pearls. The same crowd that spent years defending their guy on tape bragging about sexual assault is now apparently very concerned about decorum.

Democrats getting a little feral online isn't a substitute for policy, but a party that stops rolling over and starts swinging back is at least pointing in the right direction — and Talarico faces Ken Paxton in November, so they're going to need every bit of that energy.

2. Trump’s DOJ goes after E. Jean Carroll — and everyone knows why

Trump's Justice Department has opened a criminal inquiry into E. Jean Carroll — the woman a jury already found he sexually abused and defamed. The case is settled. The verdict is in. He lost. And now he's using the full weight of the federal government to go after her anyway, because that's what abusers do when they get power — they come back. Carroll has already paid an enormous price for telling the truth about Trump.

Now his DOJ is making sure every other woman watching knows exactly what happens if you hold him accountable.

3. Newsom to hit Trump's $1.8bn "anti-weaponization" payout with a 100% tax

California Governor Gavin Newsom is coming for Trump's slush fund dressed up as a "victims of lawfare" settlement — proposing a 100% state tax on any slush fund payout received by California residents.

"People who assault cops and overthrow democracy don't deserve a taxpayer-funded payday," Newsom said Wednesday. Hard to argue with that.

The $1.776bn fund came out of a settlement between Trump and the IRS over his leaked tax returns. The DOJ has offered zero clarity on who qualifies, but speculation has centered on January 6 rioters, many of whom Trump already pardoned and repeatedly calls patriots.

Even the New York Post editorial board called it an embarrassment with "no two ways about it." A Republican congressman got savaged at a town hall where voters called it a "slush fund for crooks." Lawyers for Jan. 6 defendants are already calling it a "lifesaver." New York state is also considering a 100% tax on payouts.

Five appointees of the attorney general — currently Trump’s personal lawyer Todd Blanche — will decide who gets paid from a pool normally reserved for court judgments.

4. AP investigation finds ICE detention ‘suicides’ skyrocket

The Associated Press published a major investigation finding that ICE detainees are dying by suicide at a rate that is unprecedented in the agency's two-decade history. Experts cited in the report point directly to failures in care and oversight. This story lands as a New Jersey ICE facility is already in crisis — detainees on a hunger and labor strike for five days, protests outside the gates, and a U.S. senator who was pepper-sprayed trying to conduct oversight. The administration's response to the AP's findings? DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the senator deserved to be pepper-sprayed and then claimed ignorance about the hunger strike. Mullin, for additional context, was simultaneously caught trying to get his wife installed as a "special government employee" at the agency he just took over.

This is not an immigration story. This is a story about a detention system that is killing people, run by officials who are either lying about it or don't care.

5. Workers would need to work for 200 YEARS to earn what the CEO made last year

A new AP analysis of S&P 500 pay data found that the typical CEO compensation package hit $17.7 million in 2025 — nearly a 6% jump — while the median worker at those same companies took home $89,744.

At half the companies surveyed, it would take the worker at the middle of the pay scale 200 years to earn what their CEO pulled in last year — up from 192 years the year before. Meanwhile the AFL-CIO's own numbers show S&P 500 CEOs now average 285 times a typical worker's salary, and the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ working its way through Congress would hand the average CEO a nearly $490,000 tax cut while giving a typical worker $765. At Starbucks — where workers at over 500 stores have voted to unionize — the CEO-to-worker pay ratio sits at 6,666 to 1. That number is not a typo.

The worst offender: Starbucks, where the CEO-to-worker pay ratio sits at 6,666 to 1 (not a typo) — the median barista earns $14,674, which falls below the federal poverty line for an individual — while the company spent years illegally busting union drives at hundreds of its stores.

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What the algorithm buried:

NOTICE POLLING

Yesterday we asked, Do you think James Talarico will win and flip Texas blue? 92% OF YOU SAID YES:

  • “I believe people everywhere are totally fed up with the Republicans and how they’ve allowed the felon free rein to totally destroy our country. That leads to voting for whomever isn’t the Republican candidate, even in Texas.

    - a.smoot

  • All Texans hate Paxton’s corruption, except for Trump and the current Governor.”

    - fernando.seisdedos

  • “Not unless Texans have had their fill of the way the Republicans are running the state. Not sure some of them are smart enough to vote for their own self interests.

    - twoasps

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