Donald Trump is suing the federal government for $10 billion—money that would come directly from your pocket—because someone leaked his tax returns to journalists six years ago. The president wants you to pay him billions because the public found out he didn’t pay federal income taxes for years.

WHAT’S GOING ON: Trump filed suit Thursday in a Florida federal court against the IRS and Treasury Department—agencies he now controls as president. His sons Eric and Don Jr., along with the Trump Organization, are also plaintiffs. The complaint claims the leak of Trump’s tax records caused “reputational and financial harm” and “unfairly tarnished their business reputations.”

But here’s the thing: The guy who actually leaked the information, former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn, was already caught, prosecuted, and sentenced to five years in prison. Justice was served. Case closed.

But that’s not enough for Trump. He wants a $10 billion payday on top of it.

Eight GOP senators broke ranks Thursday and joined every single Democrat to kill a Department of Homeland Security funding bill—blocking $64.4 billion for the agency overseeing ICE’s increasingly brutal operations in Minneapolis. Democrats are demanding basic accountability measures before they’ll fund the agency that’s killed two American citizens in two weeks, and they’re willing to shut down the government Saturday to get it. Read the full story.

The Department of Veterans Affairs tried to stop a memorial service for Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old ICU nurse and veteran caregiver shot ten times by ICE agents in Minneapolis. Officials told local VA leadership to “pause the memorial.” VA employees say they’re grieving a colleague who dedicated his career to serving veterans, only to be told by Trump appointees to memorialize him “in their own way” without interfering with work duties. Read the full story.

I’m telling you, they are built different in Minnesota. A Minnesota man allegedly showed up at Luigi Mangione’s Brooklyn detention center claiming to be an FBI agent with a court order for his release—armed with a barbecue fork, a pizza cutter blade, and absolutely zero federal credentials. Read the full story.

The DOJ lawyer who authorized this week’s FBI raid on a Georgia election office? He used to work as second-in-command to Missouri’s attorney general—who actively tried to overturn the 2020 election. Thomas Albus signed off on the warrant that sent federal agents to seize 700 boxes of records from Fulton County, the same county Trump infamously pressured to “find” votes, based on a Venezuela conspiracy theory that was already debunked in court in 2023. Read the full story.

Yesterday we asked: Will Democrats actually rein in ICE?

54% of you said NO:

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Another day, another mass layoff announcement disguised as “efficiency.” This week, chemicals giant Dow announced it’s axing 4,500 jobs—on top of the 1,500 it already cut earlier this year. The reason? A familiar corporate line about “streamlining operations” and “putting more emphasis on AI and automation.”

Translation: People cost money. Robots don’t ask for healthcare.

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