New in PN: Totalitarian art "Trump’s taste, such as it is, doesn’t come out of nowhere. Wittingly or not, he has joined a long tradition of fascists imposing a grinding totalitarian aesthetic on the populace."

Inadvertently killing endangered animals while logging a forest or building a dam would no longer be considered illegal under a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act.

EXCLUSIVE: In a 20-page order, the judge in my lawsuit for the Epstein Files just ordered Todd Blanche to produce to him, in chambers & by 9/24, the unredacted handwritten FBI notes implicating Donald Trump in the sexual & physical abuse of a 13-year-old girl: youtu.be/Yo1ZUGe_O4o?...

This is what corruption looks like. A Russian oligarch close to Putin spends hundreds of thousands of dollars bankrolling celebrations for the president’s son. And we’re supposed to believe it was just a generous wedding gift with no strings attached? #StopTrumpCorruption

Join @katiephang.bsky.social and me tomorrow morning, as she explains the two new orders Judge Sullivan entered in her case to enforce the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Better hide the ketchup bottles. joycevance.substack.com/p/there-are-...

The ruling follows a court filing by Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) that raised alarms over a picture that appears to show the building being torn down.

JUST IN: Trump is melting down over interest rates, demanding they be slashed to “1%, or less” just hours after the Federal Reserve did the exact opposite under his new hand-picked Fed Chair, hiking rates by 25 basis points.