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Trump Defies Court Order to Put Name on Kennedy Center
The Trump-appointed Kennedy Center board first tried to close the Center in May, but that decision was blocked by U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, who argued that the board’s...
DHS Spied on Labor Unions During Anti-ICE Protests in Minnesota
The Trump administration responded to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s killing of nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis in January by opening up investigations into left-leaning groups days later. The New...
Karoline Leavitt Will Soon Lie Somewhere Else
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt—one of the most public facing spokespersons for President Trump and the MAGA agenda—will step away from her role next month to spend more...
Trump Sued for Truth Social Scheme to Manipulate Markets
President Donald Trump has just been sued for trying to sell early access to his Truth Social posts. The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation filed the lawsuit...
Todd Blanche Is Looking For a Way to Funnel Money to Trump Supporters
Newly-confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche seems to want to resurrect President Trump’s $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization” slush fund by another name. Blanche claimed that the fund was dead, while at...
ICE Is Spending Tens of Millions on Gloves That Can Electrocute People
But since Trump took office last year, the administration has funneled $875 million to that account. That money consists of transfers from the U.S. Secret Service and the White...
Colson Whitehead’s Long Con
Like its predecessors, Cool Machine is divided into three novellas that each take place in a different year. The structure makes the books episodic, with one scheme and its...
Report: Trump’s D.C. Military Occupation Isn’t Accomplishing Anything
“If you want to argue that there was an additional decline on top of that due to all these interventions, you could plausibly make that argument,” said crime data...
Alito Made Millions on Fossil Fuels But Won’t Recuse From Exxon Case
Alito, who is the only Supreme Court justice with holdings in energy companies, has refused to step back from the upcoming petition brought by fossil fuel giants Suncor and...
Trump Openly Mulls Dystopian Plan for Stealing the Midterm Elections
Much of the soccer world sees Infantino’s tenure much differently. After a secret plan concocted by Infantino to sell a substantial stake of the World Cup to private investors...
