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 …

Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency  —  White House aims to end NOAA's research office; NASA also targeted  —  Skip backwardsGo ten seconds backward Skip forwardsGo ten seconds forward  —  Audio is AI-generated.  Report an issue|  Give feedback

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

SCOTUS says Trump admin must “facilitate” Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday evening upheld a district court's order that the Trump administration “facilitate and effectuate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man sent to a prison El Salvador illegally …

An Uprising at a Big Law Firm Targeted by Trump  —  MORE THAN 500 ASSOCIATES and staff at a top global law firm have signed a letter urging firm leadership not to enter into a consent agreement with Donald Trump as the White House ramps up its targeting of the legal profession.

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 …

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 …

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.

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’

CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has rejected a request from health officials in Milwaukee for help with a lead poisoning investigation, after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated the agency's response team.

State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’  —  “It's very 'Handmaid's Tale'-esque,” one official said.  —  The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying “anti-Christian bias” …

Trump pushes Congress to make daylight saving permanent  —  President Donald Trump called Friday for Congress to adopt permanent daylight saving time — meaning there would be more daylight in the evening hours and most Americans would no longer have to change their clocks twice a year.

Trump floats plan for undocumented farm and hotel workers to work legally in the U.S.  —  The president's comments suggested a vague plan that would allow the government to bring back “great” people who are “working hard” and who “go out ... in a nice way.”  —  President Donald Trump suggested …

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“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.

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 …

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 …

Am I Still Allowed to Tell the Truth in My Class?  —  Recent orders from the Trump administration run a real risk of muzzling professors like me who teach about the racism of the country's past.  —  Scholars of racism face a peculiar accusation: that studying racism causes racism.

She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her  —  President Trump's immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine.  She fears arrest if she is deported there.  —  President Trump's immigration …

How Politicians Get Their Bad Ideas  —  I alluded Wednesday to a schism in Democratic ranks over how to attack Trump for tariffing and menacing the United States into economic collapse. … The substantive difference here is, for most purposes, larger than the political one.

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.

Surprise bird landing has Doocy screaming outside White House  —  Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy screamed Friday after a bird landed on his head outside the White House.  —  Doocy was updating the crew of Fox News's Fox & Friends on U.S.-Chinese relations amid …

One Justice Department Office Is Key to Trump's Authoritarian Plans  —  IN THE FIRST WEEKS OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S second term, the administration undertook a series of troubling steps to transform the U.S. Department of Justice into an armed political organ.  As we have already seen …