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Over the next three weeks, Colorado voters will get to vote on an amendment to their constitution giving one single industry the ability to largely prevent any regulation of itself or its pollution. Amendment 82 says that the state would establish a “right” for the natural gas industry to sell its products. It’ll be the only industry in any state to have a state constitutional right assigned to it. Things like pollution controls to protect air and water that might reduce consumption would violate that right. So would local communities trying to limit or ban gas wells or pipelines. Even during a dry fire time, an effort to ban gas-fueled camp stoves and outdoor grills or lights would be a violation. The amendment is being pushed by a dark money group called Advance Colorado; the original donors behind it are hidden, but it’s not hard to guess. And if it passes in Colorado, expect similar amendments and laws to pop up in every state in the union. This is, frankly, nuts. Instead of incr...

Trump’s Epstein Ballroom is increasingly looking like another giant bribe quid pro quo machine. The Washington Post got their hands on a secret internal spreadsheet Trump and his people were using to track “donors” and it’s a doozie. Even JP Morgan’s JP Dimon wouldn’t go near it because of the “risk,” but plenty of others did. FCC Chair Brendan Carr had opened an investigation into EchoStar until it’s Charles Ergan kicked in $25 million; the entire thing was dropped once the checks cleared. A Rocket subsidiary coughed up a $10 million check just three weeks after federal regulators allowed its acquisition of Mr. Cooper. Around the time Salesforce kicked in big-time, the Pentagon handed them a $5.6 billion contract. Isabela Herrera’s banker father was indicted on bribery charges that got knocked down to a misdemeanor shortly before her $2.5 million donation. (Remember, six corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court ruled that if bribes are paid after a favor or contract is done, it...

President Donald Trump's White House is once again embroiled in chaos after the abrupt departure of his new press secretary , and now, his one-time biographer has predicted the "inevitable" next firing from the administration. Within the span of a work week, right-wing commentator Katie Zacharia made her debut as White House press secretary in a disastrously bad briefing , was caught out for false claims about being a lawyer and was pushed out of the office after just five days. The whole affair exposed a new storm of chaos underway within the White House, with subsequent reports suggesting that Trump hired Zacharia without input from Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and might now be looking to replace Wiles herself . Michael Wolff is a longtime author and reporter, best known for his extensive coverage of Trump's political career, including a handful of books about his hectic first term. In the latest episode of his Daily Beast podcast, he and co-host Joanna Coles discu...

An attorney from President Donald Trump’s first presidential administration shared his remarkably dim view of the current crew, particularly in the five-day dismissal of Trump’s latest press secretary. Former Trump attorney Ty Cobb laid low the current administration and its inept crew on CNN’s “ out Front with Erin Burnett ,” while lamenting that it appeared only the women in the Trump administration suffered for their mistakes. “[Katie Zacharia] met the she met the key qualification, of course, having filled her [video] pieces on TV with adulation and praise for the president,” said Cobb. “She met the obsessively loyal idolater standard, which is the essential standard for Trump hires. And of course, she's blond, sort of, like creepy Karoline [Leavitt] and Natalie Harp. But Trump also thought she was a lawyer and he was a little surprised when she wasn’t.” He corrected Trump’s claim that Zacharia was “treated unfairly” by the media. “She hasn't been treated unfairly by the b...

Politico reports a federal appeals court panel sounded “deeply skeptical” Friday about President Donald Trump’s bid to invalidate a Watergate-era law that governs presidential records — one that formed the base of the criminal charges he faced for stealing classified documents . “Two judges on the D.C. Circuit panel sharply questioned Justice Department attorney John Bailey about the administration’s assertion that the Presidential Records Act, a federal law intended to ensure that presidential papers are retained by the government, is unconstitutional. That position, legal experts warn, gives Trump leeway to destroy or refuse to turn over White House records from his current term. On Friday, judges Patricia Millett and Cornelia Pillard said the administration’s far-reaching argument that presidents own taxpayer-funded official papers could “lead to absurd and even dangerous results.” “Can the president then offer on eBay to sell them, all of our national security secrets to the high...

MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace reached her limit after hearing the slew of manosphere , high-testosterone nonsense now peppering the administration of President Donald Trump and his helpers. Pentagon Reporter Priya Sridhar and other reporters had spent a good 10 minutes pounding Wallace’s ear Friday night with MAGA-podcaster-grade “medical announcements” pressed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other members of the Trump administration within the last two years. This includes a n ew high testosterone or “high T” policy, the removal of vaccine requirements, including those for diseases known to strike U.S. soldiers on patrol in other nations. But among the policies proponents of the administration are considering for the military are unnecessary nicotine infusions as a way to boost testosterone and mental clarity — another theory praised by the MAGA online community against doctors’ advice. “They're going to start handing out cigs? I want some of those. I'm going to ne...