A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
5 verified reports published on April 29, 2026.
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This was not a full-blown catastrophe day, but it was another reminder that the Trump administration’s signature move is to govern through confrontation and then hope the courts, the press, or the public wear out first. Sometimes that works. Sometimes it just leaves a thicker stack of filings.
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A federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted James Comey on April 28, 2026, over an Instagram post prosecutors say amounted to a threat. The post at issue was made on May 15, 2025 and showed seashells arranged to read “86 47.”
The Justice Department says it filed an administrative complaint with OCAHO on April 28, 2026, accusing Cloudera of using a broken email application process and a PERM hiring setup that shut out U.S. workers.
The Justice Department says Cloudera excluded U.S. workers from applying for high-paying technology jobs and filed the complaint with OCAHO on April 28, 2026. The case is still an allegation, but DOJ says it is part of the relaunch of its Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative.
The Justice Department says Cloudera steered some hiring for high-paying technology roles away from U.S. workers and toward people on temporary visas. DOJ filed the complaint April 28, and the case will be heard by OCAHO.
The Justice Department filed a civil complaint in South Florida on April 29 seeking to stop Cedric Reid, Juan Santana and Advance Tax Group Inc. from preparing federal tax returns for others. The government says the operation used fake or inflated tax claims and caused more than $7 million in losses.