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Drain the Swamp: Not All Heroes Wear Capes—Meet Jeremiah Schofield. Celebrating valor in the fight against corruption and abuse of power.
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We at SwampWatch don’t just identify and analyze conflicts of interest. We also offer solutions, and all of this information is at your fingertips. For more information and a link to our archive that documents abuse of power, read below:
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The Identify > Analyze > Fix framework. SwampWatch's signature approach to accountability journalism. Save & share. https://t.co/IPjQI6atmW

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. American taxpayers are spending $2 BILLION every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.

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The open, brazen corruption is endless.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Q: There's a report that the US has taken in $13 billion from Venezuela. Where is that money going?

TRUMP: I think even more than that

Q: But where is that money going?

TRUMP: We've paid for that war many times over

Q: But where is the money going?

TRUMP: Running the country

Q: No, the money the US is taking in -- where is it going?

TRUMP: Running the country

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This week in SwampWatch: Officials writing rules that enrich their former employers.

Public servants serve the public — not their former (or future) bosses. The Archive documents this as Abuse of Power → Conflicts of Interest. We don't just describe the problem — we map the fix.

Read the case, the analysis, and the proposed reform at https://t.co/QWS1Ay7RSq. #NotOnOurWatch #SwampWatch

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

I previously reported that the growth rate and composition of Trump's wealth gain in office are unprecedented in recent history.

Upon request, here is the data on the relative size of Trump's presidential windfall. The extent of his self-enrichment is even more striking.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Q: You're talking about blowing up civilian power plants and bridges. Much of the civilized world would consider that a war crime. Do you?

TRUMP: I won't respond to that question. Who are you with?

Q: The New York Times

TRUMP: I figured. The failing New York Times.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Federal officials acknowledged in court documents that they canceled grants to states that didn’t vote for President Trump in 2024. https://t.co/FeH69OK3fq

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Check out SwampWatch's Stinkiest Story of the Week! It's about three peas in a pod, all of whom are raking in money. Pssst. Can you guess who they are? Read it here: https://t.co/UsexCMB292

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The Pentagon Is Covering Up the US Death Toll and Casualties in Iran. We have the story, but we also have ways to fix it and for you to get involved. Read more here ---> https://t.co/tztTGZJfJY

[Status Coup News @StatusCoup]

REPORT: The Trump administration plans to lease part of the ocean off American Samoa for deep-sea mining despite opposition from Indigenous communities.

One company spent over $1 MILLION lobbying Congress and is first in line for the lease, as @JTCestkowski reports ⬇️

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FBI Quits Probing Assaults as ICE Killings Rise - Here's Why That's a Problem, but We Offer Fixes to It ----> https://t.co/4czwthNrZ6

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents showed up at a work site in Brownsville, Texas, claiming to be looking for two people… and ended up illegally handcuffing TWO U.S. CITIZENS, throwing one of them against a truck, threatening to arrest him again, and scanning everyone’s faces to determine their “status.”

In the video, ICE showed up looking for two people. They asked the foreman if he knew them. He said no.

Then, they asked if they could talk to the other workers about the people they were looking for.

The foreman said, “If they want to talk to you, they can.”

And then an ICE agent tried to scan the foreman’s face to run him through their system.

The foreman told him he was not allowed to just scan his face.

The foreman then walked over to one of his workers’ trucks, where ICE agents were surrounding the work vehicles at their work site.

He asked what was going on.

He repeatedly asked who they were looking for, and told them the people they claimed to be looking for were not there.

The agent responded, “Well, we want to make sure.”

The foreman told them, “Well, we aren’t them. You all need to leave.”

And then an ICE agent threatened to arrest him.

“You need to settle down or I have to put you in cuffs.”

Except this man was not threatening them. He was not attacking them. He was not even raising his voice.

He was standing there, asking questions and telling government agents to leave his workplace, after they had already expanded their investigation beyond the two people they claimed to be looking for.

So, the ICE agent threw him against a truck and handcuffed him.

A U.S. citizen.

And after they released him, he asked for the agents’ badge numbers.

And the agent responded by threatening to handcuff him AGAIN.

The government cannot simply show up, invade your workplace, surround your vehicles, demand access to people who are not the subjects of their investigation, scan your face, and then arrest you because you object to what they are doing.

The First Amendment protects your right to question government agents and verbally protest their actions.

The Fourth Amendment protects you from unreasonable searches and seizures.

And an arrest cannot simply be used as punishment because an officer does not like the fact that you are standing there, asking questions, or asserting your rights.

Then the foreman saw another person ICE had in handcuffs…

He told them they needed to let him go because he was not the person they were looking for.

The agents eventually released the person they had in handcuffs… after scanning his face and discovering that he was also a U.S. citizen.

The government is creating situations where people are expected to silently obey armed agents, who refuse to explain what they are doing… while they violate your constitutional rights… and then punishing anyone who dares to ask questions.

When the government tells you that your only options are blind obedience or punishment… you are not living in a free country.

[Homeland Dems @HomelandDems]

🚨DISTURBING AUDIO: Listen to the ICE agent who threatened to slit his ex-wife's throat.

DHS gave this psycho a badge and a gun and unleashed him on American streets. They failed to vet him.

An innocent father is dead because of the Trump administration's incompetence.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

😳 Rep. Lieu explodes on Mike Waltz: "You don't even know how many US troops were wounded in this Iran War! Shame on you! You are the US ambassador and you don't even know how many US troops are wounded! You should be ashamed! You should resign!"

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

The Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) opened a federal probe Tuesday into New Jersey’s voter registration software failure and said it will use the disclosure as “an additional basis” to demand the state’s unredacted voter rolls, including sensitive data. https://t.co/F5SN5WHRZL

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so.

Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Anti-ICE protesters interrupted a Houston City Council meeting after Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by an ICE officer in Houston, chanting “Justice for Lorenzo.”

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