Mark Mazengarb is a phenomenal musician and the reason we went to New Zealand! We had the chance to learn and cover this song with him and it was so fun. Enjoy! P.S. Germany, Denmark and US shows coming up "
The number of measles cases in the U.S. has risen to 884, according to new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data published Friday. Cases have been confirmed in 29 states including Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Washington.
Grassley pushed Trump to institute sanctions on Russia " which Trump has previously threatened to do if they didn't come to the negotiating table on the war " and added that Russia is "playing America as a patsy."
Afghans who fled the Taliban, including some who helped the U.S. military during America's 20-year war there, are facing the risk of deportation as the Trump administration moves to end legal protections for them.
President Trump on Thursday requested Attorney General Pam Bondi investigate ActBlue and other donation groups in what the White House says is a crackdown on "illegal 'straw donor' and foreign contributions in American elections."
The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a Milwaukee County Circuit judge Friday, FBI Director Kash Patel said on social media, accusing her of helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest. Judge Hannah Dugan is facing two charges for obstruction and concealing the individual from arrest, a law enforcement official told CNN. Read more
The national debt is being used to justify spending cuts - but do these cuts actually reduce it?
Thousands of living Americans have been mistakenly declared dead at the Social Security Administration (SSA) under the leadership of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to a federal worker. Rennie Glasgow, a claims technical analyst at the SSA's Schenectady office in New York state, told The Daily Beast that DOGE staffers have mistakenly moved the records of living people to the SSA's Death Master File, which holds information about individuals who had Social Security numbers and whose deaths have been reported to the federal agency.
Joe Kasper, the controversial chief of staff to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and a key figure in a recent power struggle at the Pentagon, will depart the agency and take a role as a Special Government Employee (SGE), a Senior Defense official told Newsweek. Hegseth has been under siege following reports of a second Signal chat group in which the defense secretary allegedly shared highly sensitive information about U.S. airstrikes in Yemen. Hegseth previously shared similar information in a Signal group that included a journalist from The Atlantic. The second group chat reportedly included Hegseth's wife, brother, lawyer, and others. Hegseth has denied leaking classified information. Instead, he has insisted the messages were "informal, unclassified coordinations" related to media planning.
According to sources, the US is poised to offer Saudi Arabia an arms package worth well over $100 billion. Trumpf is to make the official announcement during his visit to Riyadh in May. In his first term, Trumpf celebrated weapons sales to Saudi Arabia as good for US jobs (meaning the salaries and bonuses of the CEOs heading the military-industrial complex). Here is the quid pro quo: The US bombs the Houthis for Muhammad bin Salman and Benjamin Netanyahu, Trumpf returns with good news about the mammon-sized defense contract. Footnote: In Feb 2024, France President Emmanuel Macron pushed MBS to purchase Rafale stealth fighters and other weapons. Read more
Musk's net worth has declined by a staggering $122 billion this year " nearly matching the $160 billion in government savings claimed by DOGE, which budget experts believe is wildly inflated.
The head of IAEA said that North Korea's nuclear weapons program has grown "exponentially," and urged talks between Washington and Pyongyang. "You cannot have a country like this which is completely off the charts' with its nuclear arsenal," said Rafael Grossi, Director-General of the IAEA. Pyongyang has anywhere from 30 to 50 nuclear warheads and enough fissile material for 70 to 90 nuclear weapons. On 10 Jan 2023, North Korea joined Israel outside the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) by its withdrawal, while Iran remains a signatory. The morbidly obese Kim Jong-un is nefariously building his WMD program with help from Vladimir Putin while the North Korean people starve or get killed fighting for Russia. Read more
Federal agents on Friday arrested a judge in Wisconsin on obstruction charges after she allegedly helped an undocumented immigrant evade arrest, FBI Director Kash Patel announced.
General Yaroslav Moskalik (59) pictured below, in charge of Ukraine operations at the Russian Ministry of Defense, was rendered ineffective by a powerful IED. A vehicle parked in the courtyard of a residential building detonated as Moskalik passed by. The explosion reportedly threw the general several meters away. Two other unidentified persons may have become casualties: x.com Read more
President Donald Trump has pardoned a former Las Vegas City Council member and one-time Nevada gubernatorial candidate who was found guilty of fraud last year, the latest example of the president using his pardon power to reward allies. Michele Fiore " who has occasionally been dubbed "Lady Trump" " was convicted in October of using $70,000 she solicited to build a memorial for two fallen police officers on personal expenses, including political fundraising bills and rent payments. Last week, a judge dismissed her request for a new trial and scheduled her sentencing for May 14. Trump pardoned Fiore Wednesday, according to court documents filed Thursday by Fiore's attorneys.
Defenders of Trump's unorthodox way of doing business will often say that he's a "disrupter," meaning it as a compliment. But what he's been disrupting lately is his own presidency. His splashy tariff announcements, rapid reversals, and sense of mystery about where he's headed next all have real-world consequences on businesses, consumers, and allied nations, and none of it is redounding to his political benefit. The good news is that having created this situation of his own volition, he can undo most of it if he reverses field on the tariffs. In the meantime, the vibe has definitely changed.
