Pete Hegseth modeled his Pentagon prayer Wednesday on the Samuel L. Jackson biblical monologue from Pulp Fiction. The next day at the Pentagon press podium, he said the U.S. military was “locked and loaded” to destroy Iran’s power grid and energy industry if the ceasefire collapses, a threat Amnesty International calls a war crime. Gen. … Read more
The Army deleted its own tribute to Sen. Tammy Duckworth today. Duckworth flew Black Hawks in Iraq until an RPG took both her legs. She came home with a Purple Heart, earned her PhD, served as Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and raised a family. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, who couldn’t answer her questions at … Read more
Donald Trump pardoned over 1,000 January 6 insurrectionists on his first day in office but wouldn’t forgive the extremist organizers behind the seditious conspiracy. His Justice Department asked a court today to entirely erase their convictions. The last time we forgave insurrectionists who attacked us, we spent 161 years subsidizing their memorial societies and watching … Read more
The United States military has killed 170 people at sea since September and never shown the world a single piece of evidence of their criminality. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called the strikes extrajudicial killings and demanded they stop. So did the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The ICC’s former chief prosecutor concluded … Read more
The United States Navy will blockade the Strait of Hormuz beginning Monday morning under a ceasefire the president says is holding well. The two-week truce is five days old and already fiction. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard warned that any military vessels approaching the strait would violate the ceasefire. Trump sent them anyway, announcing the blockade hours … Read more
The majority of voting Americans believed Donald Trump when he said he would only deport criminals. Two Venezuelan doctors in South Texas have been jailed this week despite having valid permits and active cases. Two international students whose only offenses were writing a campus editorial and attending a protest were jailed, then freed by immigration … Read more
The permanent record your teacher threatened you with is real now, and the federal government is the one building it. A grand jury in Washington has subpoenaed Reddit to unmask a user whose offense was criticizing ICE and posting “TSA sucks.” The Justice Department went back to court Thursday and demanded the right to search … Read more
The First Lady of the United States stood behind the presidential seal today and denied a close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. That’s exhausting to read, and it barely scratches the surface of what this country has lived through in a year. Melania Trump spoke for three minutes in the Grand Foyer, confirmed a warm personal … Read more
The United States and Israel say they are honoring the ceasefire with Iran, but the Pakistanis and Iranians who negotiated it say they are not. That’s exhausting to read, and it barely scratches the surface of what this country has lived through in a year. Consider what we’ve witnessed. The sexual abuse of children by … Read more
Donald Trump told the world a civilization would die Tuesday night, and for about twelve hours, nobody could be sure he didn’t mean it. On Easter Sunday he posted “open the fuckin’ Strait” and signed it “Praise be to Allah.” He told children at Monday’s Easter Egg Roll about hostile territory in Iran while standing … Read more
Donald Trump gave Iran until 8 PM Tuesday to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or he will destroy its bridges and power plants, and when asked if he was concerned about 93 million civilians losing electricity, he said no, they want us to do it. That is a war crime threat from a president whose … Read more
The President of the United States spent Easter morning threatening to bomb 93 million people into darkness and signed it “Praise be to Allah.” Donald Trump posted his ultimatum to Iran at 8:03 a.m. on the holiest day of the Christian calendar, then skipped church. He promised to destroy the country’s power plants and bridges … Read more
The Trump administration filed an emergency motion Friday night to save its $400 million ballroom. The administration’s lawyers told a federal appeals court that halting construction was “shocking” and warned that canvas tents on the grounds are vulnerable to missiles and drones. “Time is of the essence!” they wrote, with the exclamation point, in a … Read more
An American aviator is missing tonight inside a country Donald Trump told you was finished two days ago. On Wednesday, the president addressed the nation in primetime, declared Iran “completely decimated,” and called America’s military “unstoppable.” On Friday, Iran shot down an F-15E Strike Eagle over its territory and a second attack aircraft near the … Read more
Donald Trump’s criminal defense attorney is now running the Justice Department, and his first act was to kill the law his client was charged under. Todd Blanche defended Trump through two federal prosecutions, including the classified documents case built on the Presidential Records Act. Trump announced today that he had fired Attorney General Pam Bondi, … Read more
Donald Trump went on national television tonight to declare victory in a war that has driven American troops out of their own bases. His first primetime address about the war came 35 days in and answered nothing. He said the objectives are “nearing completion,” then promised to bomb Iran “extremely hard” for two to three … Read more
Donald Trump announced plans to attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, the first sitting president on record to do so, as the justices hear his administration’s challenge to the Fourteenth Amendment. Today, three federal judges drew lines he wasn’t expecting. Judge Leon, a Bush appointee, halted the $400 million White House ballroom … Read more
The profit taking is open now. Dwight Eisenhower warned the country about the military-industrial complex in his 1961 farewell address. He probably never imagined the defense secretary would try to profit from it weeks before a war. The Financial Times reported that Pete Hegseth’s broker tried to invest millions of dollars in the defense fund … Read more
One day after eight million people marched in protest, the country quietly resumed springtime activities around vacations, basketball, and upcoming holidays. Lost in the day’s sheer normalcy was Donald Trump’s interview with the Financial Times, where he mused openly about invading Iran with ground troops. He told the paper that American forces could seize Kharg … Read more
Eight million of you showed up today. People filled 3,300 events across all 50 states and around the world, with 200,000 in Minneapolis, where Bruce Springsteen performed “Streets of Minneapolis” about the two Americans ICE killed there in January. People marched because gas is up a dollar a gallon in one month, grocery prices keep … Read more
Saudi Arabia flew its investment summit to Miami Beach so Donald Trump could keynote it on his way to yet another extended weekend at Mar-a-Lago. Thirteen American troops are dead. Over 300 have been wounded. Gas is up a dollar a gallon and the reasons for starting the war keep changing as fast as the … Read more
The Republican Party is building a wall around the ballot box to stop a crime its own leaders say hasn’t happened. Bill Barr was the United States Attorney General in 2020 and found no evidence of widespread fraud capable of changing an election. Chris Krebs ran the federal cybersecurity agency and called 2020 the most … Read more
Pete Hegseth prayed to God for “overwhelming violence” at the Pentagon yesterday, then eliminated most of the faiths the military chaplaincy serves. Pope Leo XIV already warned him that “God cannot be enlisted in darkness.” The head of the Episcopal Church expressed alarm. Senator Raphael Warnock, pastor of Martin Luther King’s church, rebuked him for … Read more
Evidence only matters to this administration when it can be aimed at someone. The Fed Chair withstood Trump’s public insults and threats to fire him, so the DOJ opened a criminal investigation into a building renovation he oversees. A newly unsealed transcript shows the government had no evidence Chairman Powell committed a crime. Eight days … Read more
Donald Trump cast a mail ballot for a Florida special election while demanding Congress pass a law to make mail voting illegal. He never solves problems he can still use. Republican senators pitched him a plan Sunday night to end the five-week DHS shutdown by funding everything except ICE. Trump rejected it. No deal until … Read more
ICE took another step tonight toward becoming Donald Trump’s personal army. He tried this in 2020. Federal agents in unmarked vans grabbed protesters off the streets of Portland because the military wouldn’t do it for him. So in this administration, he went around that roadblock. ICE agents don’t have the same institutional limits as the … Read more
Judge Douglas Micko rebuked federal prosecutors Friday for charging a Minnesota woman with conspiring to violate religious freedom at a church protest she never attended, writing, “the government had an intense appetite to initiate” the case. Fifty-year-old Heather Danae Lewis picked up auction items from a parking lot where church protesters later gathered. Prosecutors traced … Read more
Denmark watched the United States kick in the doors in Caracas and deployed its military ten days later to make sure Greenland wasn’t next. That’s what the world learned two days ago when Danish broadcaster DR published an investigation based on more than a dozen official sources. Copenhagen endured Trump’s threats throughout 2025. He sent … Read more
Alexia Moore took abortion pills and went to a Georgia emergency room in pain, where a security guard called the police. The fetus was delivered at the hospital and did not survive. The county coroner ruled the cause of death undetermined. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation declined to perform an autopsy. Local police charged Moore … Read more
The Pentagon today asked the White House for $200 billion to continue a war that neither of them has the constitutional authority to declare. The Constitution assigns only Congress the power to declare war. Three weeks into bombing Iran, they’ve abandoned it for the third time. Wednesday’s war powers resolution failed 53-47 after Republicans voted … Read more
Donald Trump threw a war and none of our friends came. With the entitlement of a petulant child, the president spent more than a year threatening and belittling America’s traditional allies while publicly mocking their war dead. When the UK offered to help last week, he told them we didn’t need anyone. Days later, with … Read more
Trump told reporters today he can do “anything I want” with Cuba, a country of 9.6 million people sitting in the dark because his oil blockade killed their power grid. He also said, “I do believe I’ll have the honor of taking Cuba.” It was also when we learned that the State Department drafted a … Read more
The president and his FCC chair spent the weekend at Mar-a-Lago scheming to punish news networks for accurately covering a war that’s going badly. Political strategist Will Robinson mapped America’s attention deserts and what they mean for this year’s midterms. Local news coverage has collapsed across the districts that will decide control of the House. … Read more
Donald Trump can never run for office again, but he’s still fundraising, this time with photos of America’s unburied war dead. A Trump-linked PAC named Never Surrender Inc. sent donors a fundraising email this week built around a photograph of a dignified transfer, the military ceremony where the fallen come home for the last time. … Read more
Jared Kushner learned how to shake down a target from his father and his father-in-law. His father went to federal prison for tax evasion and witness tampering. His father-in-law was a protégé of legendary mob attorney Roy Cohn. Now Jared is running the family playbook on Middle Eastern governments. Six months after Trump left office, … Read more
Elected officials last talked about Muslim Americans this way in 2001. Republican members of Congress have spent the last four weeks saying they would choose dogs over Muslims and declaring they don’t belong in America. The Speaker of the House called Islam a “misguided religion” to justify the Iran war, then refused to condemn any … Read more
The U.S. military killed 168 children because nobody updated the map. The military’s coordinates were 13 years old. The building had become a school a decade ago, and satellite imagery from three months ago showed children playing there. Pentagon investigators confirmed the findings Wednesday. Trump said “I don’t know about that.” He also said there’s … Read more
Someone walked out of Social Security with your identity on a thumb drive. A whistleblower says a former DOGE employee left the Social Security Administration with records on more than 500 million living and dead Americans, the kind of information that defines a person, like race, citizenship, and your mother’s maiden name. He wanted to … Read more
Running a prison or winning a billion dollar drone contract no longer requires experience. ICE just awarded $426 million to two firms with little or no detention experience to convert warehouses into large-scale holding centers. Neither has ever run an ICE facility, and they’ll now be responsible for thousands of detained migrants as part of … Read more
Trump’s war with Iran has moved from regional to global. Fighting broke out all over the Gulf in week one. This weekend, attacks reached Baghdad, Oslo, and a sidewalk outside the New York City mayor’s home, where an IED was thrown into a crowd during Ramadan. Four days ago, the United States called Volodymyr Zelenskyy … Read more
Nine days into a war in 2026, they’re still settling scores from 2021. Three years ago, Congress passed a law requiring a plaque honoring the police officers who protected the Capitol on January 6. They had to sue to get it displayed, and when it finally went up this morning, two workers bolted it to … Read more
We bombed a school full of girls and the Pentagon’s takeaway is that they need better technology. 150 people were killed when the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran was destroyed on day one of the war. It took only eight days for Pentagon investigators to conclude that we probably did it. On the same … Read more
I believe we’re growing numb to stories that should stop us cold. Tonight the Justice Department released FBI interview summaries it had been accused of suppressing from the Epstein files. A woman told federal agents four times that the president sexually assaulted her when she was a child. She brought an attorney to three of … Read more
This time America is fighting the holy war. Animus toward Iran runs back to the 1979 hostage crisis and the events that shaped a generation of neocons and worse. Now those grievances have an outlet, and the people running this war have stopped pretending it isn’t personal. Asked to rate the war on a scale … Read more
Kristi Noem spent the training budget on herself and her friends. She commissioned nearly a quarter billion dollars in ads routed to a company her spokesperson’s husband set up 11 days before the contract was awarded, then starred in them herself on horseback at Mount Rushmore. While she was doing that, she cut ICE training … Read more
The president who promised “I am your retribution” is getting it, and everyone is paying for it. Last week, while the Iran attack was already approved, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen counterintelligence staffers because they worked on the classified documents investigation. They were also Iran experts, the squad that tracked Iranian retaliation in … Read more
Three American troops were killed in Kuwait Sunday, two days after Donald Trump started a war he never asked Congress to authorize. Eight countries are now involved. The FBI is investigating a mass shooting in Austin as terrorism tied to the attack. Protesters breached the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, and security forces killed at … Read more
America First was always just a slogan. One head of state sits in a New York jail cell. Another was killed Saturday when U.S. and Israeli forces bombed the capital city where he lived. Donald Trump remains who he has always been. Tonight’s most dangerous story is the reporting that surfaced about Michael Flynn, Trump’s … Read more
Fifty-nine days into 2026, the United States is at war with a third country. Donald Trump launched joint strikes with Israel across Iran tonight, and Tehran retaliated against U.S. bases in four Gulf states. In January he sent Special Forces to kidnap Venezuela’s president. Since December he’s been bombing Syria under an operation named after … Read more
Eight days ago a federal judge fined a government lawyer $500 a day for defying her order. That was the warning shot. Today, Minnesota Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz threatened criminal contempt after his review found more than 200 court order violations since January. Another judge ruled the IRS broke the law 42,695 times by bulk-feeding … Read more
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