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President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform was slammed as an "unsuccessful and money-losing Twitter competitor" in a Mother Jones article Tuesday.

Yet to him, it remains a valuable tool keeping his cash flow moving and his administration in line, the report claimed.

According to senior reporter Anna Merlan, "The company that owns TruthSocial, Trump Media & Technology Group, has also been a way for the president to draw his political allies closer, through payments, board seats, and generous stock rewards."...

Former Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas released what he claims to be texts showing an aide to former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) coordinating with Trump allies how to spread Biden/Ukraine conspiracy theories.

Parnas, who has been slowly rolling out his correspondences with figures in Trump world, was part of Giuliani's effort to push the idea that Biden sought to oust a Ukrainian prosecutor before his son's business holdings could be investigated, which has been repeatedly debunked.

"Devin Nunes with his aide Derek Harvey coordinated with John Solomon, Victoria Toensing, and Rudy Giuliani how to disseminate the disinformation that they sent me to go get on Hunter and Joe Biden!" Parnas posted to X, teasing that there would be "more to come."...

This story was originally published by CalMatters, nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s announcement that he will vacate his seat and not seek reelection sets off a tidal wave of speculation on who will represent a wide swath of California’s agricultural heartland.

The timing of the announcement also puts McCarthy in a spot to be a political kingmaker if he makes an early endorsement. It’s a role he’s played before and relishes. In announcing his resignation in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, McCarthy reiterated that he will “continue to recruit our country’s best and brightest to run for elected office.”...

Former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), now heading up former President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform, is creating a legal "dumpster fire" for his company with new lawsuits directed at journalists, wrote legal analyst Liz Dye for Above The Law.

"Regular readers of this column will recall that Devin Nunes is a prolific filer of garbage defamation suits, against various news outlets, social media companies, and random Twitter cows," wrote Dye. "He’s usually accompanied on these outings by his clownshoes lawyer Stephen Biss, and indeed, Biss is along for these two suits, chaperoned by local counsel Jason Kobal, head of a two-lawyer shop whose website is tampaworkcomplaw.com."

All of these lawsuits have ended in failure. One particular blow came last month, when a Trump-appointed judge tossed out his lawsuit against Esquire for an article on how his family uses undocumented labor at their dairy farm — ruling the evidence was clear that the story's allegation was true....

Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash found himself the target of intra-party criticism again, as a California colleague accused him of not being serious about his position and lying about the country's surveillance policies in an interview published by Politico on Thursday.