The Third-Worlding of America  —  Oops, they're doing it again.  —  Major news media organizations sanewashed Donald Trump all through the 2024 campaign, cleaning up his incoherence and downplaying his extreme policy positions.  Aaron Rupar reminds us of this:

US fires Greenland military base chief for ‘undermining’ Vance  —  The head of the US military base in Greenland has been fired after she reportedly sent an email distancing herself from Vice-President JD Vance's criticism of Denmark.  —  The US military's Space Operations Command …

Supreme Court says Trump administration must work to bring back mistakenly deported Maryland man  —  The Supreme Court on Thursday said the Trump administration must work to bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to prison in El Salvador, rejecting the administration's emergency appeal.

Government Spending Continues to Climb Even as DOGE Touts Cuts  —  Musk team's $150 billion in savings barely dents $6.8 trillion in spending largely on autopilot, WSJ analysis finds  —  Cumulative total spending since Trump's inauguration compared with the same periods in 2023 and 2024

Fox News Accidentally Wrecks Trump's Tariff Spin as MAGA Panic Worsens  —  After President Trump's supposed tariff “pause,” we still have a 10 percent tariff on most global imports; the trade war with China is intensifying; and markets have plunged again.  Fox News figures are aggressively spinning the …

Trump brags in Oval Office that his billionaire pals made a killing in stocks after he pulled the plug on tariffs  —  President Donald Trump gleefully recounted how much money his billionaire pals made on the stock market after he suddenly suspended most of his worldwide tariffs.

US consumer sentiment plummets to second-lowest level on records going back to 1952  —  Americans are rarely this pessimistic about the economy.  —  Consumer sentiment plunged 11% this month to a preliminary reading of 50.8, the University of Michigan said in its latest survey released Friday …

Chip Roy Says Promise of Deep Entitlement Cuts Won His Vote  —  The Texas Republican, a holdout on the plan until the end, said commitments from President Trump and G.O.P. senators to pursue deeper spending cuts persuaded him to vote yes.  —  For days before the House voted on Thursday …

AI Slop Farms Are Churning Out Fake Heartwarming Videos About Trump Figures  —  Machine-made YouTube videos are racking up views while fooling the MAGA faithful.  —  The judge demanded that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt remove her cross necklace, but soon he was humiliated.

“Not Just Measles”: Whooping Cough Cases Are Soaring as Vaccine Rates Decline  —  While much of the country is focused on the spiraling measles outbreak, experts warn that whooping cough and other preventable diseases could get much worse with falling vaccination rates and Trump's slashing of public health infrastructure.

US law firms quietly scrub DEI references from websites to appease Trump  —  Changes at two dozen prestigious firms underscore Trump's successful intimidation campaign against legal profession  —  Democracy and justice is supported by  —  Nearly two dozen US law firms have quietly scrubbed references …

The Conservative Activist Pushing Trump to Attack U.S. Colleges  —  Christopher Rufo has helped inspire Republican messaging and bills on hot-button issues.  —  Produced by Eric Krupke and Asthaa Chaturvedi  —  Original music by Marion Lozano and Dan Powell  —  Listen and follow ‘The Daily’

How DOGE may have improperly used Social Security data to push voter fraud narratives  —  One of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency lieutenants working in the Social Security Administration has been pushing dubious claims about noncitizens voting, apparently using access to data …

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Social Security Lists Thousands of Migrants as Dead to Prompt Them to ‘Self-Deport’ … Migrants who arrived in New York last year waited for shelter assignments at the Roosevelt Hotel.Todd Heisler/The New York Times  —  Since taking office, the Trump administration has moved aggressively …

Farmers Try to Keep Food on the Table Despite Trump  —  DONALD TRUMP'S PUSH FOR MASS DEPORTATIONS was always reliant on a degree of shock and awe.  Fear and intimidation were both means and ends.  But recently, the administration has had to slow down or even abandon individual deportations in the face of strong popular resistance.

Florida's DOGE agency asks university faculty to hand over research  —  A letter sent last week asks colleges to compile a list of all research and grants.  —  Gov. Ron DeSantis' office has asked colleges and universities across Florida to hand over detailed information on grants received …

Massive cuts to NASA science proposed in early White House budget plan  —  The preliminary version of President Donald Trump's budget proposal to Congress, known as a “passback,” would cut the agency's science budget funding nearly in half.  —  NASA's science budget could be cut nearly …

Trump doubles down on prosecuting his political enemies  —  I've got to hand it to President Trump.  I would not have thought it possible, but he did something on Wednesday that distracted me from his tariff train wreck.  —  Of course, I'm not saying this is a good thing.

How Politicians Get Their Bad Ideas  —  It's almost always from people who think they're savvier than the rubes who vote.  —  I alluded Wednesday to a schism in Democratic ranks over how to attack Trump for tariffing and menacing the United States into economic collapse.