This week the Pentagon moved F-35 stealth fighters, electronic warfare planes, and notably, rescue helicopters to Puerto Rico. Air Force doctrine is explicit: personnel recovery forces should be in place before combat operations begin. The administration calls Venezuela a “narco-state.” So are several other countries in the hemisphere we’re not surrounding with warships. Venezuela has … Read more
Trump spent years claiming Biden weaponized the Justice Department. Then he promised to do it himself. Then he won. At UCLA, DOJ political appointees ordered career lawyers to “find” evidence of antisemitism within one month to justify a lawsuit they’d already decided to file. Multiple attorneys left before they could be asked to sign. On … Read more
Trump “pardoned” Tina Peters today. She’s still in a Colorado prison because presidents can’t pardon state crimes. He tried to indict Letitia James three times. A judge threw out the first case. Two grand juries refused the next two. The alleged fraud? $50 a month savings on her mortgage. In Indiana, the Heritage Foundation posted … Read more
Pay $1 million and Commerce Secretary Lutnick welcomes you to America as one of the “perfect people.” Show up poor and you get fighter jets circling your coast, your tanker seized, 7,000 troops at a militarized border. The gold card makes it official: there are two Americas now, and wealth is the visa. While Trump … Read more
“Send her back,” chanted a crowd in Pennsylvania Tuesday night. Hours later, ICE agents pepper sprayed a crowd in Rep. Omar’s Minneapolis district and detained a 20-year-old American citizen. The president falsely told speechgoers that prices are “coming down very substantially.” Meanwhile, Navy F/A-18s spent 30 minutes circling the Gulf of Venezuela in the closest … Read more
Alina Habba resigned as interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey on Friday. By Monday she was running political operations at the Justice Department. The woman who defended Trump in his civil fraud trial now works inside the agency that decides who gets prosecuted. Jared Kushner is backing a hostile bid for Paramount and Warner Bros … Read more
In 2014, Bruna Ferreira asked Karoline Leavitt to be godmother to her newborn son. Ferreira was 22. Karoline was 16. Ferreira chose her son’s teenage aunt over her own sister. Now Leavitt is the White House Press Secretary while the government calls Ferreira a criminal. Investigations show she has no criminal record. She’s in an … Read more
Welcome to the Trump Show, where the rest of us are bit players. After the Indiana House agreed to a gerrymandered congressional map, he published a list of nine state senators who “need encouragement” even though there have already been bomb threats and swatting. His Justice Department told prison rape auditors to stop enforcing protections … Read more
The Trump administration published one of the most significant policy documents since COVID. The National Security Strategy defines America’s threats and how to counter them. This one names the threat as demographic change. These are the actual words in a document sent to Congress. The NSS is the architecture for both foreign and domestic policy. … Read more
They killed survivors clinging to wreckage after watching them for 41 minutes. Hours later, they killed four more. And some Republicans finally broke ranks. Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said the attacks “did not pose an imminent threat.” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) put Hegseth’s alibi on record. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called it “outrageous” and demanded … Read more
