Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth defended the Trump administration’s purge of top military lawyers because they don’t want people in those roles who “attempt to be roadblocks to … anything that happens.” Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream brought up the firings, which happened Friday night, in an interview today …
Read More »Republican Senator Calls Trump's Mass Firings a 'Big Problem'
Sen. Susan Collins is “very concerned” about how the Trump administration’s mass firings in the federal government will affect her home state. “I’m very concerned about the impact on the state of Maine, on everything from our national parks to biomedical research,” the Republican told CNN’s Manu Raju on Sunday. …
Read More »ICE's Next Deportation Target Is Unaccompanied Migrant Children
The Trump administration is ordering immigration agents to find and deport thousands of undocumented immigrant children who came to the U.S. without their parents, Reuters reported, citing an internal government memo. The memo, titled “Unaccompanied Alien Children Joint Initiative Field Implementation,” stated that children would be deported if they have …
Read More »Kristi Noem Says $200 Million DHS Ad Campaign Thanking Trump Was His Idea
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — The Department of Homeland Security has budgeted up to $200 million to run anti-immigrant ads in the United States and overseas that repeatedly thank President Donald Trump for leading an immigration crackdown. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Friday night that these ads were Trump’s idea, …
Read More »Tesla Takeover: How the Protests Against Elon Musk Signal a National Turning Point
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is taking a chainsaw to the US government and, at first glance, no one is standing in his way. Musk and his rogue’s gallery of minions are moving fast, dead set on breaking the things that hundreds of millions of people in this country …
Read More »How Ukraine's Teenagers Are Growing Up in Wartime
I met Karina on a sunny hillside in Eternal Glory Park in central Kyiv last April. The spring tulips and cherry blossoms that line the park were in full bloom. Ukraine’s omnipresent flowers have a rebellious quality during wartime. We sat to talk as the shouting and honking of a …
Read More »CPAC 2025: Conservative Elites Celebrate Trump as America Self-Immolates
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — As the Beatles’ lyric goes: “Everybody had a hard year. Everybody had a good time. Everybody had a wet dream. Everybody saw the sunshine.” The 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference held this week just outside of Washington, D.C., was exactly like that, if you’re someone who …
Read More »Elon Musk Says He'll Fire Every Federal Worker Who Ignores His Email
Last summer, Donald Trump gushed to Elon Musk about the billionaire’s propensity for firing people. “You’re the greatest cutter,” Trump said in a conversation with Musk on X, formerly Twitter. “I look at what you do. You walk in and say, ‘You want to quit?’ I won’t mention the name …
Read More »Trump Is Planning to Take Over the Postal Service
Not even your mail is exempt from Donald Trump‘s wholesale power grab. The president is expected to fire the Governance Board of the United States Postal Service (USPS), and absorb the independent agency into the Department of Commerce. According to The Washington Post, which first reported the plans, the takeover …
Read More »Georgians Mercilessly Boo Their Republican Rep. Over Trump's 'Tyranny'
Donald Trump and Elon Musk have spent the first month of the president’s second administration systematically dismantling the federal government. Trump has been issuing a flurry of ostensibly illegal executive orders aimed at consolidating power in the White House, while Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have …
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