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
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
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