Aaron Rupar

New in PN: DOJ nopes out of Ticketmaster antitrust suit

"Thanks to the Trump administration’s corruption, a mafia-like monopoly survives, and Americans will continue to pay exorbitant fees to see live music.

*Trump take ticket* … along with everything else." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/ticketmaster-suit-doj

New in PN: The worst cabinet in history

"Even having one or two cabinet members as disastrous as Noem, Hegseth, Kennedy, or Bondi would be a stain on any administration; putting them all in one government has created a kind of Bizarro World 1927 Yankees, an all-star team of incompetence and malevolence." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-cabinet-worst-ever

New in PN: The bombing of Iranian children is an unforgivable crime

"American disinterest in the lives of people abroad is a resource politicians use to justify cynical wars. It's hard to see on what moral grounds we claim a right to decide the fate of those about whom we clearly care so little." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/iran-elementary-school-bombing

Here's back to back clips of Fox & Friends this morning misleading viewers this morning by presenting as though it's new an old clip of Donald Trump attending a dignified transfer without his campaign baseball cap on (unlike yesterday, when he wore one), then apologizing for it later in the show

"We have to understand him not as some extremist right-wing fascist, though he is, but as a crazy person — a genuinely crazy person who wakes up every day and you never know what he's going to do, because he doesn't know what he's going to do."

New episode of Nir & Rupar on Trump's illegal war of choice is live: https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trumps-illegal-war-of-choice

New in PN: "At a time when it’s tempting to believe nothing matters, Noem's ouster provides reassurance there still can be consequences for abusing power, harming people, and corrupt self-dealing." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/kristi-noem-fired-markwayne-mullin

New in PN: Vance's "war on fraud" is a fraud

"It's bad enough that the campaign against Minnesota is driven by gutter racism. Just as shocking is that this president, who spent a lifetime running scams and swindles, says with a straight face that he wants to fight fraud. And that Vance is the man to do it." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/vance-war-on-fraud

New in PN: Pete Hegseth C*ckblocks Anthropic

"It’s an abuse of power by an intemperate cable news host using national security law to destroy a company that dared to defy him. It’s also a signal to every government contractor that negotiating too hard may lead to being exiled from the federal marketplace." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/anthropic-hegseth

New in PN: Trump's Iran War and the Article One crisis

"Unless and until the GOP acknowledges that the country is in the grip of a madman bent on consolidating all constitutional power in him and him alone, Trump is free to singlehandedly decide to go to war. That's not how it's supposed to work." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-iran-war-congress

New in PN: The irrational strongman we’ve been warned about is here

"The fantasy monster that president after president has conjured up is real, and he is squatting orangely over his phone in the bathroom at Mar-A-Lago." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-iran-strikes-rationale

New in PN: Manosphere podcasters have second thoughts

"Listening to the Stand-Up Podcast Bros puzzle at what they wrought is an abject lesson in the perils of political media in the influencer era. The problem isn’t that politically ignorant pontificators have inserted themselves; it's that shrewd politicians like Trump know how to promote themselves and their agendas by exploiting ostensibly non-political media spaces." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/rogan-trump-schulz-theo-von

New in PN: Trump targets SCOTUS for stochastic terror

"The rule seems to be that Trump can direct his violent minions at absolutely anyone, and there will be no consequences and barely any comment. The grim takeaway is that even the Supreme Court justices, with all their power and prestige, are no longer living in a democracy." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-supreme-court-justices-families-tariffs

New in PN: The Trump boys are Making Corruption Great Again

"Heck, if you can’t be bothered to fake a board seat and you’re not interested in Trump-branded monopoly money, you can just pay $500,000 to join Don Jr.’s private membership club. It’s called Executive Branch.

Yes, for real." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-family-crypto

New in PN: Trump is about to start a war he hasn't bothered to explain

"He’s about to write a new chapter in the ignominious history of presidents thinking they impose their will by dropping bombs on foreign countries, yet he himself doesn’t seem to know why, let alone how it’s supposed to end." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-iran-war

New in PN: The tariffs ruling is the right result from a terrible process

"Even though this particular case turned out correctly, it highlights that the six conservative justices — even the ones who ruled against Trump — have radical anti-constitutional ideas about how American democracy works." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/supreme-court-tariffs-ruling

New in PN: A conversation with Margaret Sullivan on the state of political coverage in 2026

"This is a long-term campaign against a reality-based press. Thanks to a lot of factors that are going on in the overall media ecosystem, it’s been successful." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/margaret-sullivan-interview-trump-coverage

New in PN: How MAGA learned to love Christian persecution

"Some on the hard right think is religion amounts to a punitive impulse: the desire to punish perceived evildoers and transgressors, even when they are fellow Christians." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/ice-persecutes-christians

New in PN: Yeah, US Olympians are woke. Deal with it.

"While the administration nominates white supremacists, attempts to purge non-white immigrants, and wages war on diversity, the Olympic team is a living rebuke — a spinning, flying, super-fit, and undeniably hot one — to their entire worldview." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/us-olympians-speak-out-trump

New in PN: CBS obeys in advance

"A routine TV hit which would have been quickly forgotten became a national story about government censorship and a Democratic candidate being silenced by Trump’s henchmen. In a tough primary, you couldn’t buy better exposure. Nice work, FCC Chair Brendan Carr." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/colbert-james-talarico

New in PN: Trump somehow got worse on public health after covid

"Trump has brought us fascism, he is threatening war and violence. But it is all too possible that his most lasting and horrific legacy, in his second term as in his first, will be plague." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/rfk-jr-moderna-vaccine

New in PN: Trump is clowning his evangelical base

"Trump now knows religious conservatives and their motivations well enough that he doesn’t feel a need to perform anymore. Like his supporters, he’s stopped pretending he’s anything but his worst self." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-evangelical-support

New in PN: The Fulton County raid is part of Trump's total war on voting

"The SAVE Act is not expected to pass the Senate, but in some ways, it doesn’t really need to. It's already served the same purpose as the raid: undermining confidence in elections by amplifying debunked lies about fraud." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-fulton-county-raid

New in PN: We are all passengers in Trump’s death cab

"Trump’s adulation of Putin could hardly offer a starker warning of just how far he's willing to go, and how much more damage he may be willing to impose, to maintain his grip on power, particularly if — as seems likely — that grip begins to flag." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-polling

New in PN: Trump tries and fails to extort Canada

"The American president is a toothless old tiger, roaring on social media as his real power slips away. He can still extort a secondhand Nobel Prize from a dissident leader, but he’s not taking the Stanley Cup." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-gordie-howe-bridge

New in PN: The death of the CIA Factbook and Trump's war on usefulness

"There’s nothing partisan about the CIA World Factbook, so it’s hard to imagine how allowing people to use it could impede the MAGA agenda. Unless, that is, you realize that the Factbook had to go *precisely because it was useful.*" https://www.publicnotice.co/p/cia-world-factbook

New in PN: The blowback to Trump's racist video reveals his weakness

"What has changed is not Trump’s racism (which is the same as it ever was) but his poll numbers (which have dropped precipitously)." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-obama-ape-video

New in PN: Anne Applebaum on Trump's betrayal of Europe

"They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen. And yes, you do hear Europeans saying, 'why aren’t people protesting?' This all comes as a real shock to people who had a different expectation of what America was." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/anne-applebaum-interview-trump

New in PN: Why Delia Ramirez thinks DHS needs to be dismantled

"We have to ask ourselves, fundamentally, why would we ever want to give them more money to keep doing what they’re doing?" https://www.publicnotice.co/p/delia-ramirez-interview-ice

New in PN: Lower courts can't fix what's broken in Minnesota

"Judge Menendez’s decision isn’t a failure of will. It’s a result of a world where conservatives on the nation’s highest court have decided their job is to help President Trump achieve a desired result, law and procedure be damned." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/judge-menendez-ice-minnesota

New in PN: Inside the resistance with Will Stancil

"They seem to have thought they could come in here with big guns and intimidate everyone, then we would all just sort of run away. That didn’t happen. Ultimately, I don’t see a way out for them that isn’t some kind of defeat or retreat." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/will-stancil-interview-minneapolis-ice

New in PN: Guns for me, but not for thee

"The larger lesson of Pretti’s murder is that when it comes to guns and gun rights, most defenders of Trump’s proto-fascist police state clearly believe the Second Amendment exists to protect conservatives but bind liberals." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/alex-pretti-second-amendment

New in PN: The regime moves to make journalism a crime

"The way he’s targeting the press isn’t just about quieting criticism so he doesn’t have to hear people being mean to him. It’s the same impulse we see on the streets of Minneapolis: He wants to dominate those who oppose him and force them into submission." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/don-lemon-charges

New in PN: The protection racket regime

"While the administration blamed Pretti for his own murder, Bondi went full protection racket. All Minnesota has to do for payment is agree to her thuggish demands that have literally nothing to do with Trump's supposed justification for occupying the state." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/bondi-letter-minnesota

New in PN: 'Abolish ICE' is imperative

"There's no amount of training that can instill basic humanity in thugs who willingly mistreat women, children, and old men. ICE agents reportedly had lunch at a Mexican restaurant in Minnesota before arresting employees. How does 'training' fix that level of moral depravity?" https://www.publicnotice.co/p/abolish-ice-minnesota

New in PN: The investigation is the coverup

"At the same time on Tuesday that the White House was speed-dialing journalists about Trump's supposed 'pivot', it was weaponizing its own investigation to ensure Pretti’s murderer can never be prosecuted." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/pretti-investigation-coverup

New in PN: Federalism can protect Americans from tyranny

"The question we face is whether the nation’s sovereign states will use their constitutional authority to protect the rights of citizens against a tyrannical federal regime, including by holding federal officers responsible for their crimes." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-minnesota-occupation

New in PN: The regime's mind-bending lies are a tactic

"The VP told them they could kill anyone who annoyed them. Pretti annoyed them. So they killed him. Now the lies that Bovino and Noem are telling about Pretti’s death are intended to encourage further extrajudicial executions and likely will do so." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/alex-pretti-trump-lies

New in PN: The legal lesson of 2025? Thank God for the swamp

"The American legal system’s inefficiency is exactly the point. Because it’s that same inefficiency that prevents Trump and company from steamrolling the Constitution entirely." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/court-system-trump

"It's kind of a miracle there hasn't been more violence. And the thing that's really unsettling about this is that there's a sense ICE and CBP want there to be more violence."

New pod episode is live with David Nir about life in the occupied Twin Cities: https://www.publicnotice.co/p/life-in-besieged-minneapolis