Month: August 2025

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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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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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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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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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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The Babbitt family also received a settlement of $5 million earlier this year.

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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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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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.

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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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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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’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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Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook filed a lawsuit on Thursday claiming U.S. President Donald Trump has no power to remove her from office.

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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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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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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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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“My son is growing up to face dangers made worse by the president this woman voted for.”

Leadership of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is in limbo after the Trump administration moved to oust its leader, Susan Monarez, a decision likely to shake up vaccine policy. The White House defended the firing late Wednesday, after Monarez refused to step down, claiming her policies were not aligned with President Trump’s…
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Between the Jeffrey Epstein files, unleashing the National Guard in Washington D.C., masked ICE agents snatching law-abiding citizens off the streets, the U.S. government’s new stake in privately-owned Intel, the crisis in Gaza, capitulation to Vladimir Putin and DOGE cuts, my cup of President Trump outrages runneth over.   But now, he has crossed the economic Rubicon. Trump’s attempted firing of fed governor Lisa Cook is a…
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The White House said Wednesday that Susan Monarez has been fired from her post as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after she refused to step down from the position. “As her attorney’s statement makes abundantly clear, Susan Monarez is not aligned with the President’s agenda of Making America Healthy Again,”…
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The Fox News anchor scolded the president for taking credit where he believed it wasn’t due.

The revelation drew laughter from a summit audience but prompted the California governor to warn: “This is serious, guys. This is serious.”

The former president took a time-out.