White House Is Not Happy With ‘View’ Co-Host For Her Comments On ‘Latino Trumpers’
Ana Navarro has been reminding Latinos who voted for Donald Trump on her Instagram that recent raids and deportations are “s**t you all voted for.”
Visitors To Black History Museum Say Trump Is ‘Whitewashing’ Slavery
The Museum of African American History is the latest target of Trump’s campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion — not to mention basic facts.
Murray rips Border Patrol arrests of wildfire crew members: ‘Immigration policy is fundamentally sick’
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) on Thursday condemned the Trump administration for the reported arrest of two wildfire crew members working to contain the Bear Gulch fire engulfing Olympic National Forest. The Seattle Times reported on Wednesday that two private contractor crews were targeted by immigration officials who requested their identification while the groups were working…
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Trump buying shares of Intel is socialism — government should stay out
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is defending the Trump administration’s decision to purchase a 10 percent equity stake in Intel, the multinational tech company. In a recent Cabinet meeting, he sat alongside President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and explained why the federal government owning part of a massive private company was not, in…
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Border czar: ‘I don’t particularly like masks, but the agents need the mask’
President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said Thursday that he is not a fan of masks, but argued federal immigration officials need them during raids since they and their families are being doxed. “I don’t particularly like masks, but the ICE officers need the mask because their families are being doxed. Believe me, I know,…
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Obama Says Use Of Military On Domestic Soil ‘Puts The Liberties Of All Americans At Risk’
“The erosion of basic principles like due process and the expanding use of our military on domestic soil puts the liberties of all Americans at risk,” he said.
Senate filibusters rile presidents, confuse the people
In May and July of 2017, early in his first term, President Donald Trump unleashed flocks of shrieking tweets imploring the Senate to change its filibuster rule for legislative measures. He advocated reducing the number of votes to stop interminable debates from 60 to 51. One tweet summed-up his frustration: “Republican Senate must get rid…
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Biden White House official on RFK: ‘This is wacky, flat-earth, voodoo stuff’
Former White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha, who served under former President Biden, criticized Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday for suggesting he could identify children suffering from mitochondrial challenges just by encountering them in public settings. “I’m sorry but what?” Jha wrote in a post on the…
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Watch live: White House briefs press amid CDC shakeup, Trump crime bill push
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief reporters Thursday afternoon, a day after the Trump administration moved to oust the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). CDC Director Susan Monarez, who was confirmed to the role just last month, was fired Wednesday after she refused to step down following calls…
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Ossoff accuses Trump of ‘campaign to destroy the CDC’ as agency leaders leave
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) on Thursday said the firing and resignations of top leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is further evidence of the “grave error” made in confirming Robert F. Kennedy to helm the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The HHS announced CDC Director Susan Monarez — confirmed…
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Obama highlights ‘dangerous trends’ in police federalization, militarization
Former President Obama highlighted “dangerous trends” in recent months in the wake of the Trump administration’s actions to federalize and militarize local law enforcement. “This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization…
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Jan. 6 Rioter Killed As She Stormed Capitol Will Receive Military Funeral Honors
The Babbitt family also received a settlement of $5 million earlier this year.
RFK Jr. says ‘aggregation of causes’ likely leads to autism
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Thursday he thinks his agency’s forthcoming report on autism will reveal an “aggregation of causes” that lead to the neurological disorder. “This is a crisis,” Kennedy said in a “Fox & Friends” interview. “There is not a single cause. There are many, many — there’s…
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Becerra on CDC resignations: ‘People will die’
Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra on Wednesday lamented the resignations of four senior leaders at the Center for Disease Control (CDC), warning of major concerns for public health. “I worked alongside the three leading scientists at the CDC who resigned tonight,” Becerra, who served in the Biden administration, wrote in a…
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As Trump Strips Away Trans Rights In America, This Organization Found A Resilient Way To Fight Back
The TransLatin@ Coalition held its inaugural Walk4Humanity to raise funding that the president has cut during his ongoing anti-trans crusade. The result was a community triumph.
RFK Jr. defends CDC shakeup after high-level resignations
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Thursday that he is addressing problems at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) amid a wave of high-profile resignations following the ouster of the agency’s director. In an interview on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends,” Kennedy said he was not surprised that…
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The Project 2025 Senate candidate who could unseat Lindsey Graham
In our current political environment, opportunities to oust incumbents are rare; opportunities to oust the most notorious incumbents are virtually nonexistent. But once in a while, political circumstances present an opportunity to dispense with the old and bring in the new. In South Carolina, that moment has finally arrived. There is no senator more emblematic…
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Discussions underway to use naval base for Chicago ICE operations: Homan
The Trump administration is discussing using a Navy base near Chicago to support immigration detention efforts, border czar Tom Homan confirmed Thursday. The Washington Post first reported that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had reached out to officials at the Naval Station Great Lakes about providing “limited support” for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).…
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Russia pounds Kyiv with strikes, killing at least 18 and damaging EU building
Russia’s military pounded Kyiv with a massive drone and missile attack overnight on Thursday, killing at least 18 people and damaging both the European Union’s (EU) mission building and British Council offices in Ukraine’s capital. Russia’s attacks destroyed a five-story building and severely damaged others in Kyiv as rescuers worked to clear the rubble in…
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Fed Governor Cook Sues Trump After He Attempted To Fire Her
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook filed a lawsuit on Thursday claiming U.S. President Donald Trump has no power to remove her from office.
The government’s massive data dragnet isn’t about efficiency — it’s about fear
Under the banner of modernization and efficiency, the Trump administration has launched a campaign to tear down what it calls “data silos” across agencies. A March 2025 executive order required federal agencies to eliminate these silos by sharing information within and across agencies. It also ordered federal agencies to take steps to ensure they…
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Melania Trump: Minnesota school shooting ‘illuminates’ need for ‘pre-emptive intervention’
First lady Melania Trump weighed in on Wednesday’s school shooting in Minneapolis, arguing it “illuminates” the need for “pre-emptive intervention” in identifying potential shooters. “Early warning signs are often evident, with many individuals exhibiting concerning behaviors and making violent threats online prior to their actions,” she wrote Wednesday night on the social platform X. “To…
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When politicians target data, public safety takes a hit
On the first Friday of every month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases federal data on unemployment, jobs and wages from the month prior. Sometimes the economic outlook is good, sometimes it isn’t. It’s not perfect, but Americans have always been able to count on those numbers for the best estimates possible, unbiased and unpolluted…
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GOP Health chair: High-profile departures at CDC will ‘require oversight’
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, says the departures of several high-level officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including CDC Director Susan Monarez, “will require oversight.” Cassidy, who cast a pivotal vote to confirm Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy,…
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A Trump Supporter Sat Next To My 12-Year-Old Black Son On A Plane. I Couldn’t Believe What She Said.
“My son is growing up to face dangers made worse by the president this woman voted for.”