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
The body count from federal immigration enforcement keeps climbing and nobody is changing that. Tonight we learned Nurul Amin Shah Alam is dead. Shah Alam was a 56 year old Rohingya refugee in county jail, released improperly to Border Patrol. Agents held him four hours, realized they had no reason to, and dropped him at … Read more
The longest State of the Union address in American history lasted over two hours. Donald Trump talked about children when they were useful to him, parading stories of kids he claimed were hurt by immigrants and transgender policies. He never mentioned the ones his government is hurting. Unaccompanied immigrant children are being threatened with jail … Read more
Contempt kills. Two carrier strike groups surround Iran tonight and the State Department is evacuating personnel from Lebanon. Earlier today, U.S. forces killed three more people in a Caribbean boat attack. That’s at least 150 dead across 44 attacks since September. The only witness to DHS’ killing of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas … Read more
Europe told Donald Trump to sit down twice today. The EU formally demanded the United States honor the trade agreement Trump signed in July, after he raised tariffs to 15% through a different legal loophole hours after the Supreme Court struck down his first ones. Greenland’s prime minister rejected Trump’s offer to send a hospital … Read more
Two threats are tightening around Donald Trump at the same time. Ghislaine Maxwell filed suit late Friday from prison to block 90,000 pages from a civil defamation case brought by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre, who took her own life last year. The pages include more than 30 depositions and financial and sexual information about Maxwell … Read more
They’re building it in secret because they know what it looks like. Today we learned that DHS killed two people in Texas before Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota. A Homeland Security agent shot and killed a 23 year old U.S. citizen during a traffic detour on the Texas Gulf Coast last March. In … Read more
Trump hosted his first Board of Peace meeting today. Nine countries pledged $7 billion toward rebuilding Gaza. He pledged $10 billion that Congress never appropriated. Meanwhile, his aides briefed him on options for attacking Iran, ranging from targeted strikes to full regime change. Two carrier strike groups, nine destroyers, combat ships, jets, drones, and airborne … Read more
The government made it impossible for refugees to get green cards, then ordered their arrest for not having them. DHS halted green card processing months ago for dozens of countries, and yesterday issued a memo authorizing federal agents to arrest and indefinitely detain any refugee who hasn’t obtained one. An estimated 100,000 people entered this … Read more
They’re rewriting the stories they don’t like. DOJ expanded its probe into the officials who documented Russian election interference in 2016, not because seventeen agencies and a Republican Senate committee got it wrong, but because this administration didn’t like what they found. Six groups sued the Interior Dept. today for stripping slavery, climate, and Indigenous … Read more
They came for the history and the ballot box. A federal judge forced the government to restore slavery exhibits at the house where George Washington kept nine enslaved people because someone in this administration decided that story shouldn’t be told anymore. The judge quoted Orwell and compared the government to a “Ministry of Truth.” Civil … Read more
Last night we told you Attorney General Bondi dared to call the Epstein files finished, and today the bipartisan lawmakers who actually wrote the Epstein Files Transparency Act are calling her out. They really want to see the internal memos explaining why prosecutors decided not to charge the people who abused those children. This isn’t … Read more
Attorney General Pam Bondi told Congress she handed over 3.5 million Epstein documents and a list of “politically exposed persons” that includes Trump, Biden, Zuckerberg, and Musk, then dared to call it done. We’ve built an Epstein Sex Crime Network tracking page because we believe much more needs to be done. The stories are color … Read more
Most DHS departments shut down at midnight because Democrats say ICE’s abuses must be halted. ICE suspended two agents for lying under oath about the shooting of a man in Minneapolis. But suspending federal agents who shoot someone and lie about it is not enough. Agents are following protesters home and rousting them where they … Read more
Donald Trump’s government condemned the planet today by eliminating the climate change endangerment finding that has been global scientific consensus for decades. They also told a Senate committee after watching a video in slow motion that Alex Pretti was “fighting back nonstop” when federal agents shot him while he was pinned to the ground. In … Read more
Nothing is more dystopian than gathering pregnant migrant children in a detention center where adequate reproductive health care isn’t available for high risk pregnancies. Horrible things happened today. The Speaker of the House called for six Democrats to be criminally charged for their video encouraging military service members to refuse illegal orders. Despite court orders … Read more
The FAA declared “national defense airspace” over El Paso, grounded every flight for 10 days, and authorized deadly force against any aircraft that enters the zone without offering an explanation. The FAA declared “national defense airspace” over El Paso, grounded every flight for 10 days, and authorized deadly force against any aircraft that enters the … Read more
They’re silencing the investigators and giving top secret intelligence to Trump’s campaign lawyer. The nation’s top spy told a whistleblower’s attorney he has no legal right to brief Congress about a classified complaint her office blocked for eight months. DHS’ Kristi Noem demanded a full list of every open investigation into her agency, then sent … Read more
Democrats have five days to negotiate ICE reforms before the only leverage they have disappears until fall. The Fifth Circuit ruled 2-1 that anyone who entered the country without going through a port of entry can be held without a bond hearing for the duration of their case, overruling more than 350 federal judges who … Read more
Two thirds of Americans say ICE has gone too far. On Friday, two judges gave them permission to go further. The Fifth Circuit ruled 2-1 that anyone who entered the country without going through a port of entry can be held without a bond hearing for the duration of their case, overruling more than 350 … Read more
“I’ve called President and Mrs. Obama to apologize. I thought it was funny, and I was wrong.” Leaders know those two sentences take almost all the anger out of Trump posting images of the Obamas as primates. He didn’t apologize. He petulantly said he did nothing wrong. It was reminiscent of him telling Anderson Cooper … Read more
Americans are trying to kill each other over politics, and the pace is accelerating. A Jan. 6 rioter Trump pardoned pleaded guilty today to threatening to kill the House Minority Leader and walked away with probation. This week, another man was charged with attempted murder after spending months planning to assassinate the president’s budget director, … Read more
The Constitution remains under intense pressure from Trump’s MAGA movement. Today a federal judge in Oregon halted warrantless ICE arrests after agents testified they create warrants after people are already detained and operate under daily arrest quotas. The judge insisted that great power must exercise great restraint. Today was also the third consecutive day that … Read more
Minnesota is broken and getting worse. ICE killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti. But the rot goes deeper than the shootings. In open court today, a government attorney told a federal judge that “the system sucks. The job sucks” before adding she wished she would be held in contempt so she could sleep. She’s not … Read more
He keeps telling us exactly what he’s going to do. He said he’d take Venezuela. We laughed. He invaded. He said he’d put troops in American cities. We said that was campaign talk. Troops remain in DC and have been deployed to Los Angeles, Chicago, and the Texas border. He told 20,000 people, “I am … Read more
Three million pages of Epstein files hit the Justice Department website on Friday, weeks late because more than 500 lawyers had to individually review them. By Saturday the New York Times was calling to tell them they’d published unredacted nude photos of young women whose faces were clearly visible, some of whom may have been … Read more
This is not our America. Federal agents grabbed a five-year-old in his own driveway after preschool and used him to lure his family outside. His father crossed at a port of entry, filed for asylum through CBP’s own app, and had no criminal record or deportation order. This is exactly the kind of person Trump … Read more
One year ago tonight, ten days into Trump’s second administration, I started sending headlines to family and friends because I was horrified at how fast our norms, rules, and laws were being shattered. By day three, I was posting publicly. My friends and connections shared it, and by day four, strangers were sharing it and … Read more
The president is suing us again, this time for $10 billion. Last October he demanded $230 million from DOJ for investigating him. Now he wants $30 from every man, woman, and child because of a leak someone is already serving five years for. He controls both agencies and appointed their leadership. His Treasury Secretary canceled … Read more
Minneapolis has consumed the country’s attention for weeks. Federal agents have killed two Americans, protesters have faced pepper spray in sub-zero cold, and a 5-year-old is locked in a Texas detention center. All of it deeply matters. But today the FBI loaded 700 boxes of 2020 ballots into trucks in Georgia after a judge denied … Read more
ICE agents killing two people in Minneapolis has scarred the country. House Democrats had already threatened to impeach DHS head Kristi Noem over the carnage and fear her agents have caused. Then a federal agent tried to enter the Ecuadorian consulate in Minnesota this morning. Ecuador called it an “attempted incursion” and filed a diplomatic … Read more
Two Americans have been killed by federal agents in Minneapolis this month, and nothing has changed. The attorney who advised the ICE agent after the first killing quit the governor’s race after the second. He called the whole operation an unmitigated disaster and the civil warrant raids unconstitutional. Trump held a two hour meeting with … Read more
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