Alex Taliadoros

SCOOP: DOGE moved to kill Direct File, the IRS's popular free tax filing tool, days after meeting with private tax filing software lobbyists. wired.com/story/doge-dir…

Just finished taping with Stephen Colbert who announced his show was cancelled. If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better.

This is a terrifying case. DHS did not recognize DACA as a protective status, & proceeded to arrest & detain Diaz. With the massive increase in enforcement that is about to start, are DACA recipients also enforcement targets? latimes.com/california/sto…

NEW: We uncovered multiple photos of Jeffrey Epstein at Donald Trump‘s wedding. Photos of the pair together earlier that year at an event. And video of Epstein and Trump at the 1999 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. cnn.com/2025/07/22/pol…

DHS is so disingenuous. Venezuela's country conditions have improved? Haiti? AFGHANISTAN? They're canceling people's legal status to create new targets for deportation not because country conditions are improving. Be honest and say: "we don't like legal immigrants either!"

I'm introducing legislation to redraw Maryland congressional districts if any other state cheats & draws new maps outside of the census period. Seems Trump has convinced Texas, Missouri & others, and FWIW TX did it years ago & got away with it because nobody responded. #mdga26

Breaking News: Speaker Mike Johnson said he would shut down the House until September to block a vote on calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. nyti.ms/4nZtblR

Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out Biggest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, 4 times the size of the previous biggest; $894-$990 bn Kicks 10 million off health insurance Biggest SNAP cuts ever, $187 bn Still increases deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts

130 people were killed and more than 1,000 wounded in Gaza this weekend. People are starving. Many were shot by the Israeli military while simply trying to get food. This is completely insane and unacceptable. No more U.S. military aid to Israel.

"Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs" according to a {Human Rights Watch} report." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

In my career representing DC in Congress, I've rarely seen a DC appropriations bill as unreasonable and patronizing to the 700k+ DC residents as the one released today.   Statement: bit.ly/44F1VSd

Flooding on Rock Creek has nearly filled the Peirce Mill waterfall.

Breaking News: Israeli troops killed more than 60 Palestinians after crowds gathered near a border crossing where aid trucks enter, Gaza officials said. nyti.ms/3GRuuTp

What a joke. This isn’t an autopsy, it’s a fig leaf on the status quo. The overriding goal here is not to seek answers, it’s to avoid making anyone mad - a clear sign of a fundamentally cooked organization.

Is RFK Now! a grassroots group, though? It’s an initiative of Opportunity D.C., an independent expenditure group that has received tens of thousands of dollars from real estate companies, the Graham family (former WaPo owners), and more.

The Robert Bobb Group analysis on the RFK Stadium development is now available on the Council website at: lims.dccouncil.gov/Hearings/heari…

Senator Dick Durbin writes to AG Pam Bondi, saying his office has received information that FBI agents were told to "flag" anything in the Epstein files mentioning Trump -- and critically, demanding a rundown on any examples of Trump appearing in the files:

Cardinal Pizzaballa leads mass at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza—just one day after an Israeli tank shell struck the church, killing three Christians.

By the end of the summer, families, some of whom have lived at the Harbor Light Center migrant shelter for months, will have had to find somewhere else to go as they are told they have to leave the District’s last city-funded migrant shelter. Read more at streetsensemedia.org/article/reside…

Exclusive for @axios : More singles are getting romantic with an AI bot in D.C. than in most big cities. And the District residents most likely to get flirty with a GPT? Single men and Gen Z-ers ⬇️ axios.com/local/washingt…