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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 17h

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp suspended his state's gas tax today for the third time this year. His emergency order blames "global markets" and never mentions the war with Iran, now seven months old. The only federal action it cites is the energy emergency Donald Trump declared on his first day [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Election Day is 37 days out. Before You Vote went live tonight at govbrief.today/vote, 50 pages, one for each state, a year of stories sorted by where you live with the links to check your registration at the top. Nobody narrates it, and nobody paid for it but me.

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

North Carolina's Columbus County set up a checkpoint Thursday night and asked Latino drivers where they were born. Electrician Javier Carbajal showed a deputy his license on the drive home from work and was ordered out of the car anyway. His passenger, also an electrician, couldn't produce [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Supreme Court voted 6-3 to let Homeland Security use a searchable citizenship database built from Social Security data to check voters before the midterms. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in dissent that burdening even a few lawful voters outweighs the "nonexistent harm" of stopping [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Republican Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas wants ICE to call the sheriff before it comes to town. Agents started pulling people over in Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal before dawn Tuesday, and local police learned about it the same way everyone else did. A meatpacking plant delayed its [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Police in Springfield, Missouri, handcuffed a woman at Monday night's city council meeting and ticketed her for a disturbance, listing the evidence as "middle finger to mayor." She came to speak against the city's 41 Flock license plate cameras, but the council had just voted to shelve a [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Donald Trump stood before the United Nations General Assembly today and asked the world's leaders whether he should drive Iran "into hell." He framed it as a choice between a deal and the decision to "annihilate the Islamic Republic," and told the room the deal would probably come "right [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Because space here is limited, you never get to see me talking about this tool on the website. I've forgotten more stories than I would like to admit.

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Donald Trump cut the ribbon on his new White House helipad Monday with a pair of golden scissors, but nobody could understand a word he said. He'd banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House three days earlier, and every other network in the TV press pool refused to take CNN's [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

An ICE agent shot a DoorDash driver in Austin just before 1 p.m. today, and by 4:30 the hospital had released him into ICE custody. Wilber Garces Perez, 28, was shot in the torso in the middle of a delivery. Hospital staff walked his wife and his lawyer off the property when they came to [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Iran-backed Houthis fired a ballistic missile at Riyadh today, three days after Donald Trump said "hopefully we're toward the end" of the war. Saudi Arabia says it shot the missile down. By evening, American embassies in nine countries were warning citizens that airspace across the region [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Donald Trump announced three big wins on Friday and oversold every one of them. He banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House "effective immediately." By evening nobody had left, and his own press office didn't know the details. He said Denmark gave America "permanent control" of [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A federal judge told Donald Trump he cannot tear down the Kennedy Center without asking 30 days in advance. Trump said Wednesday the building would "end up being ripped down" without his name on it. Hours later a photographer caught him on Air Force One reading a poster that said [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Congress sent its first Epstein contempt case to Donald Trump's Attorney General on the day a judge warned he could be next. Billionaire investor Leon Black paid Jeffrey Epstein more than $170 million between 2012 and 2017. He walked out of a closed-door interview with Congress in June and [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Donald Trump's Pentagon stopped answering questions about his war, so the troops and the accountants answered for him. The Congressional Budget Office says the Iran war has cost $38 billion through August 1, and it noted the Defense Department refused to answer its questions. The report [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Supreme Court won't let Donald Trump's post office decide who gets a mail ballot. A federal judge froze his Postal Service rule for this election, and Monday the Court refused to lift that freeze. The rule would have let the post office refuse any ballot from a voter the state had [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Donald Trump's hand-picked board says the Kennedy Center goes broke unless his name goes back on the memorial. He took over the institution 18 days into his term. A judge ruled in May that Congress alone can rename it. Crews pried his name off in June, and a tarp has hidden the sign ever [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The officials who planned to cut FEMA in half deleted their Signal messages about it. Judge Susan Illston ruled Friday that their plan broke the law. She found that Donald Trump's Homeland Security Department stripped FEMA of control over its own people and committed the agency to getting [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Todd Blanche got his job by promising senators in writing that his $1.8 billion payout fund was dead. Forty days later, on a Friday night, his Justice Department filed a two-line notice appealing the ruling that Donald Trump sued himself and the government never defended the case. [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It took the US Supreme Court to make Missouri count 305,000 of its own voters' signatures. They filed a petition in December protesting a map that carved up a Democratic seat in Kansas City at Donald Trump's urging. Missouri's secretary of state sat on it for eight months, then rejected it [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Leitaea Lowrimore needed a lawyer to find a doctor who would keep her alive. Three emergency rooms in two states refused to treat the Oklahoma mother over six days in February. She had an ectopic pregnancy, one growing outside the womb, which ruptures and bleeds without treatment. [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A Border Patrol analyst in Spokane read a stranger's bank activity, and a Montana trooper found a reason to pull him over. Nobody knows how a federal agent in Washington and a state trooper in Montana came to be talking about one black Chevy on Interstate 90, because the government won't say [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Donald Trump answered Canada's tariffs with a Truth Social post, and the tariffs took effect anyway. Ottawa's levies on $20 billion in American goods went live at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, matching the 50% he put on Canadian wine, cement and hockey sticks last month. On Monday he posted NO MORE [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Sunday to let the Post Office refuse to deliver or return ballots that were already in the mail. North Carolina started mailing ballots on Friday. A federal judge blocked the Postal Service rule the same day because no state can comply with it in time. [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Do you remember the 21st night of September? Donald Trump stood at Charlie Kirk's memorial that night and told tens of thousands of mourners, "I hate my opponents, and I don't want the best for them." The same day his administration announced it would tie Tylenol to autism. [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Police in Arlington, Virginia, opened a criminal investigation of ICE agents this week for a beating the federal government calls "necessary force." José Mejía Hernandez was walking to a bus stop one morning last month when two men in plain clothes got out of an unmarked car. He ran. He says [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Every judge on Missouri's Supreme Court agreed that the congressional map Donald Trump wanted has never been the law. Missouri redrew its map last year at Trump's request to erase the Democratic district in Kansas City. More than 300,000 voters responded with a petition demanding a [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Donald Trump's Justice Department told the states to turn in their immigrants or their neediest families will lose their welfare checks. Every state shares $16.4 billion in cash aid for needy families. For 28 years only welfare offices had to report undocumented immigrants to Washington. [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sailors walked off the USS Abraham Lincoln onto a pier in Thailand today after 286 days at sea with no port call at all. Carriers normally pull into port about every six weeks to take on supplies and let the crew ashore. The Lincoln left San Diego the week before Thanksgiving, got sent to [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Construction crews at the White House are working 20 hours a day on a ballroom the Chief Justice says is likely illegal. Five justices let the work continue Monday by ruling that nobody has the right to sue over it, but never decided whether the ballroom is legal. Chief Justice John Roberts [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Donald Trump asked the FCC to punish a journalist for doubting him. Kristen Welker reported on NBC that his primary endorsement record was mixed. Six of his candidates lost Republican primaries in August. Trump called her a "Hostess," accused her of "purposeful inaccuracy," and said she would -more

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security used a tariff audit form to subpoena a Minneapolis reporter's phone records. In February a federal judge twice refused agents a warrant for Georgia Fort's YouTube account because they could not show she had committed a [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Immigration agents are getting electric shock gloves and robots that open doors. ICE signed a no-bid contract this week for 6,000 pairs of gloves that shock anyone "actively or passively resisting," which covers a person who goes limp. The agency said today it would buy four-legged Boston [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Twenty masked federal agents held off a tribe's police so contractors could start drilling for Donald Trump's border wall. They came onto the Tohono O'odham Nation in Arizona at four in the morning Tuesday with a Border Patrol SWAT team and drill trucks to work three sites. The Nation had [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Twenty-four states took the Supreme Court up on its dare in two days. On Monday the Court unblocked Donald Trump's mail voting order, ruling the states sued too soon because courts only review final rules. The final rule says the USPS will not deliver your ballot unless the envelope [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Donald Trump's lawyers told a federal judge today that the Kennedy Center must carry his name or be torn down. A court ordered his name pried off the building in May after ruling the renaming illegal. His board voted it back on this month while he listened in by phone. Now the Justice [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Six justices gave Donald Trump a head start on the midterms. The Supreme Court will let his election order take effect before any court rules on whether it's legal. The federal government now tells your state who counts as a citizen, and your state tells DC the name and address of everyone [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Dr. Oz took three questions on Face the Nation to say a childhood vaccine will not kill your child. Donald Trump called the 55-year-old MMR vaccine "quite lethal" two weeks ago. Asked to clarify, his Medicaid administrator answered questions about parental rights. The third time he was asked,-more

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The Prime Minister of Canada says America attacked his country. The 50% tariffs Trump long threatened hit at midnight Friday after US negotiators demanded in the final hours that Canada surrender its right to make trade deals with other nations. Canada stopped negotiating and set [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Donald Trump threatened to sue a think tank for $5 billion over numbers it published. The Center for American Progress measured crime in Washington, Los Angeles, and Memphis and found his National Guard deployments didn't change the crime rate. His personal lawyer, not the White House [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

ICE's own emails now confirm it let Iran's government edit America's deportation lists. "Per request from the Iran Embassy [sic] I added a few cases," one official wrote before the first of three flights that returned more than 100 Iranians. Detainees had sworn in court that Iranian officials -more

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

They can't ban abortion everywhere, so they tried to ban telling you where it's legal. Indiana moved to punish Planned Parenthood for telling minors which states allow abortion. Separately, HHS killed 53 teen pregnancy prevention programs that worked and ordered abstinence-only lessons in [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Governor Greg Abbott turned Texas into a sanctuary state for one ICE agent. Christian Castro shot a Venezuelan man through the front door of a Minneapolis home in January, then lied about it so thoroughly that federal prosecutors charged the man he shot. Minnesota later charged Castro with [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Donald Trump threatened to bomb the country trying to end his war. Oman is a longtime American ally, the mediator both sides trust and the channel for every Hormuz negotiation. On Saturday, Iran announced the two countries had agreed on a plan to reopen shipping. Trump's answer came Monday: [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Donald Trump just showed every nation the value of being America's military ally. Hours before 18,000 South Korean soldiers began annual joint exercises with US troops, Trump ordered Hegseth on Truth Social to gut the drills because of his "very good relationship" with Kim Jong Un. [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Federal prosecutors spent the past year investigating Loren Merchan because her father presided over the trial that made Donald Trump a felon. Merchan co-owned a marketing firm until late 2024, and the subpoena that opened the investigation never named a crime. It demanded the firm's private [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

At least three sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln have reportedly tried to jump into the ocean, but Trump says their deployment is "not nearly long enough." He has kept the carrier at sea for nine months fighting his Iran war, including a record 208 straight days without touching land. This [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

For the first time since Roe v. Wade fell, a federal judge ruled the Constitution protects abortion in Idaho. Legislators there barred doctors from ending a pregnancy to save a woman who might take her own life. Mental health was the leading killer of Idaho's pregnant women, according to [more]

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Trump has been lying about who pays for his White House makeover since before he broke ground. He said dozens of times that private donations would fund the construction. The Washington Post found his administration stuffing more than $870 million into the White House upkeep budget, including -more

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George Bounacos @georgebounacos.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

ICE agents chased down an American mother in Virginia and put a gun in her face because she cursed at them. Carolina Molina was dropping off business cards at immigration law offices in Falls Church when she told the agents arresting two men what she thought of them. Two SUVs boxed in her car -more

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