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Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, admitted that finding undocumented immigrants with criminal records has been difficult, requiring full ICE teams for field raids.

Both dems overperformed compared to November

In a since-deleted Substack post, a member of Elon Musk’s team praised an essay by Ron Unz—who has called the Holocaust potentially a “hoax” and said Trayvon Martin was “a violent young thug.”

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow the firing of Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), a whistleblower protection agency.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s “border czar” said Sunday he is “not happy” with the number of undocumented migrants being arrested by immigration agents and deported to their home countries.

Trump administration cuts million dollars donation for Nepal.

I don't think this has been a local phenomenon either; my impression is that people are doing this nationally.

"The single most un-American and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an American president."

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Prosecuting Mangione as a terrorist undermines his right to a fair trial and risks dismissing valid critiques of systemic healthcare inequities.

Trump's defiance of court orders—refusing to release funds or reinstate officials—signals a dangerous drift toward dictatorship.

Donald Trump sparked backlash after quoting Napoleon on social media: "He who saves his Country does not violate any Law."

Donald Trump and Elon Musk told Fox News' Sean Hannity that they believe the media is attempting to create a rift between them.

The Justice Department fired multiple immigration judges, including five assistant chief judges and 13 new hires, amid a record 3.6 million case backlog.

Sheryl Crow announced on Instagram that she is selling her Tesla and donating the proceeds to NPR, citing concerns over Elon Musk’s leadership.

EPA’s chief is also trying to claw back $20 billion, implying wrongdoing. Attorneys call it an evidence-free tactic to get around judges’ orders.

Incredible that this was written before even the first trump presidency, and it so elegantly captures this moment in time.

JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference signaled a deepening rift between the U.S. and Europe, focusing on populist grievances rather than security issues.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is touring Iowa and Nebraska to rally against “the oligarchy,” aiming to energize progressives rather than launch a 2028 presidential bid.

With a government shutdown looming, Democrats are debating whether to use it as leverage against Trump’s sweeping federal cuts.

The Trump administration abruptly fired multiple National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) employees, then struggled to reinstate some due to a lack of updated contact information.

Intriguing

A leaked USAID memo warns employees not to discuss disruptions in humanitarian aid caused by Trump and Musk’s funding freeze, threatening dismissal.

The judge threatened to sanction the IG lawyers if they didn't immediately rescind the request for an emergency hearing because she's so busy with other cases caused by Trump.

Good on these people for doing the right thing.

The Trump administration, led by Elon Musk, has escalated its mass firing of federal workers, dismissing thousands across multiple agencies.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for NYC Mayor Eric Adams to resign or be removed after revelations that his legal team allegedly sought a deal to dismiss his corruption charges in exchange for aiding federal immigration enforcement.

Fair Election Fund has yet to reveal evidence of voter fraud despite deep-pocketed backers – and has now gone silent

Transparency advocates, however, warn that suspending enforcement could deal a significant blow to global anti-bribery efforts.

The Trump administration mistakenly fired over 300 National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) employees, only to reverse course after realizing their roles in overseeing the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, after he suggested her "Know Your Rights with ICE" webinar could be illegal.

The president has been discussing plans to rip up the grass in one of the White House’s most iconic locations and put in a hard surface to serve as a patio like the one at his Florida home and club.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years, WIRED has learned. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

Congressional Republicans are quietly concerned about Trump’s deep budget cuts, which are impacting red states, but few are openly opposing them.

The Treasury Department’s Office of Inspector General is launching an audit of the federal government’s payment system due to concerns about access granted to Elon Musk’s DOGE team.

During its first few weeks, the Trump Administration has unleashed a flurry of measures to radically reshape the federal government. Many of these moves are overtly unlawful. This paper identifies the legal problems with many prominent actions: closing federal agencies or departments and removing federal employees, ending the independence of independent agencies, placing employees on indefinite administrative leave, or pressing them to resign.^[2]^

Judge Tanya Chutkan, who presided over Donald Trump’s election interference case, has been assigned a major lawsuit challenging Elon Musk’s authority in the federal government.

Trump has weakened U.S. anti-corruption safeguards, alarming experts.

Huh, who would have guessed young, inexperienced neo-Nazi don't understand basic security practices?

Interestingly, unlike cases where publication like this was in the public interest, as with Reality Winner, Elon Musk has yet to be arrested.

It seems to be Bezos’s as well. With Amazon and Blue Origin, Bezos’s space company, competing for billions in government contracts, it makes perfect business sense for Bezos to cozy up to Musk and Trump. From a journalistic perspective, however, it’s nothing short of a disaster, one that’s playing out daily in the pages of the Washington Post.

President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered federal agencies like the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to add disclaimers railing against “gender ideology” to pages restored by a recent court order, The Washington Post reported. The notice reads:

Reminder that some of their actions are not well planned - just incompetent

"Queer people commit suicide at a higher rate than everybody else. … This is not because they are inherently prone to commit suicide due to their sexual orientation or gender identity. It is because of how they are treated. If you pass this, you will have queer blood on your hands.”

House Democrats, led by Rep. Pramila Jayapal, introduced the *We the People Amendment* to overturn *Citizens United*, aiming to curb corporate influence in elections.

President Donald Trump on Thursday nominated David Keeling, the former safety executive from UPS and Amazon to lead the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. During Keeling’s tenure at Amazon, the company was cited numerous times for “serious violations of Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (“OSH Act”) for AMAZON’s failure to furnish a place of employment which was free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees,” according to the Department of Justice.

The top-level post uses a gift link with a view count limit. When it runs out, there is an archived copy available

The Treasury Department’s Office of Inspector General has launched an audit into the security controls of the federal government’s payment system after concerns over access granted to Elon Musk’s DOGE.

When Pam Bondi was sworn in as attorney general last week, she made a promise to President Donald Trump: “I am truly honored that you have asked me to take on this role, and I will make you proud, and I will make this country proud.”

from the *democracy-in-peril* dept

A network working to end female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) in the United States and globally says President Donald Trump’s January 28 executive order attempting to restrict gender-affirming care for transgender youth “wrongly and dangerously” conflates the two.

U.S. lawmakers are concerned that China will expand its influence as the U.S. reviews foreign aid programs, including demining grants in Cambodia.

Frustrated by Democratic leaders' failure to counter Donald Trump’s swift policy changes, grassroots liberals are pushing for a Tea Party-style insurgency within their party.

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board criticized Trump’s economic understanding after he linked interest rate cuts to tariffs on Truth Social.

Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and sexual and racial harassment on hold.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth struggled to answer what Russia would concede in Ukraine peace talks, instead defending the Trump administration's negotiations.

A fourth federal judge has blocked Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, ruling it likely violates the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.

President Donald Trump’s return to the White House sent a clear signal about Medicaid to Republicans across the country: Requiring enrollees to prove they are working, volunteering, or going to school is back on the table.