Green cards only if you leave

You’ve lived here for years. You work here. Your kids go to school here. You’ve been doing everything right, following the legal path to permanent residency. Now they’re telling you to leave and apply from abroad. And if you leave? You might not get back in. The Trump administration announced that large numbers of green card applicants can no longer complete the process from inside the United States. Pack up your life, go back to where you came from, and wait. How long? Nobody knows. What are the chances you get denied reentry on some technicality while you’re waiting? Nobody’s saying. ...

May 23, 2026

DOJ 'Anti-Weaponization Fund'

He pardoned the January 6 attackers. He erased the prosecution records. He called the whole thing a hoax. And now he’s created a $1.776 billion fund that could pay them. The Justice Department — his Justice Department — announced an “Anti-Weaponization Fund” as part of his IRS settlement. It will hear claims from people who say they were victims of government “weaponization and lawfare.” It can award monetary relief. And when asked directly whether January 6 defendants could collect from it, senior DOJ officials would not rule it out. ...

May 19, 2026

IRS immunity addendum in Trump settlement

Remember when he promised to release his taxes? Yeah. Instead he got the government to guarantee they can never be audited again. Buried in a settlement addendum — not announced, not explained, just quietly signed by his own Acting Attorney General — is a clause saying the IRS is “forever barred and precluded” from auditing Trump, his family, his businesses, his trusts, and anyone associated with them for any returns filed before the settlement date. Forever. Not this year. Not ever. ...

May 19, 2026

Orders targeting major law firms

Courts said it was unconstitutional. He’s doing it anyway. Trump issued executive orders targeting four major law firms — Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, and Susman Godfrey. The punishment: bar their lawyers from federal buildings, revoke security clearances, terminate government contracts with their clients. The crime: representing clients he didn’t like, running diversity programs, having the wrong political associations. Lower court judges threw the orders out as unconstitutional. The administration appealed. They’re still fighting to make this stick. ...

May 14, 2026

Q1 2026 stock trades

While running the country, Trump reported 3,642 stock trades in the first quarter of 2026. Not “thousands” — 3,642. That’s 58 trades every single market day. Worth somewhere between $220 million and $750 million — they don’t have to tell you exactly, just a range. Think about what that means. The man setting trade policy, tariff policy, regulatory policy, and export controls holds massive positions in the companies affected by those decisions. Every policy call he makes, every executive order he signs, every phone call with a foreign leader — all of it happens while he’s sitting on hundreds of millions in corporate securities that go up or down based on what he does. ...

May 14, 2026