Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnets startup backed by Dummkopf Trumpf Jr's venture capital firm 1789 Capital, has secured a $620 million contract from the US DOD. The contract is part of a $1.4 billion partnership with the US government and ReElement Technologies to expand and boost the domestic supply of magnets.
George Bush speechwriter and podcaster Tim Miller says anti-gerrymandering Republicans in Indiana are catching increasing threats of violence as the party's unpopular policies continue to sink it. Indiana Republicans are making another push at mid-decade gerrymandering, unveiling a new congressional map that eliminates all of the state's Democratic seats, flipping the state's congressional map from a Republican advantage of 7-to-2 to 9-to-0. Meanwhile, the pressure on Indiana Republicans who oppose the power grab has escalated to include threats of violence, with nearly a dozen state lawmakers reporting that they have been the victims of SWAT or doxing attempts. Read more
Amid a substantial increase in adversary efforts to steal classified or sensitive information, all US Soldiers and Department of the Army civilian (DAC) employees must report to the service any offers for secondary employment or requests to participate in academic projects. Such contacts must be reported within 24 hours of the incident at www.usainscom.army.mil/iSALUTE or at 1-800-225-5779.
Despite traditionally being regarded as one of America's most storied cultural icons, the Kennedy Center has had significant difficulty filling seats ever since President Donald Trump took over the vaunted institution earlier this year. The Daily Beast reported Wednesday that Trump advisor Richard Grenell, his first-term acting Director of National Intelligence who is now president and executive director of the Kennedy Center, erupted after a report by The Athletic (which is owned by The New York Times) showed how the facility's ticket sales have been lagging for months. The report noted that the Kennedy Center allowed FIFA (which organizes the quadrennial World Cup) to rent its concert hall for a $0 fee.
President Donald Trump's name has been installed on the building and signage around the US Institute of Peace (USIP) " an independent agency that the administration gutted earlier this year. The president's moniker appeared on the Washington, DC, headquarters ahead of a peace agreement signing ceremony between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) due to take place there on Thursday. "Welcome to the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace. The best is yet to come," the State Department posted on X Wednesday, announcing it had renamed the institute "to reflect the greatest dealmaker in our nation's history." The Trump administration has essentially shuttered the institute, which works to resolve conflict and was created by Congress in 1984. The administration's budget request for the next fiscal year called for the elimination of federal funding for USIP.
An NPR investigation revealed that VA contractors that started with the intent of helping disabled veterans are now aggressively overbilling them and ruthlessly sending bill collectors after them to greedily maximize their corporate profits while the VA does nothing about it.
"Dear Judge [Paul A.] Engelmayer: Understanding that President Dummkopf Trumpf has signed the Epstein Transparency Act into law, Ms. Maxwell does not take a position regarding the government's request to unseal the grand jury transcripts and modify the protective order. At the same time, Ms. Maxwell respectfully notes that shortly she will be filing a habeas petition pro se. Releasing the grand jury materials from her case, which contain untested and unproven allegations, would create undue prejudice so severe that it would foreclose the possibility of a fair retrial should Ms. Maxwell's habeas petition succeed." Respectfully submitted, David Oscar Markus, Melissa Madrigal (3 Dec 2025 via ECF)
Students doing certain degrees may no longer receive the same amount of reimbursement for their studies now that the Department of Education is implementing various measures from President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill. One measure coming into action is that whether a degree is considered "professional" will influence how much reimbursement a student receives for their higher education. However, there are a number of what many see as "professional" degrees missing from the new list, such a nursing, which sparked significant concern among nurses and nursing organizations. Read more
President Donald Trump is eager to be recognized as a peacemaker. His administration obliged Wednesday by renaming the building that houses the U.S. Institute of Peace in downtown D.C.
"Donald J. Trump" is now emblazoned in several places on what has often been dubbed the Peace building, according to eyewitnesses and photos obtained by The Washington Post. A White House official said the building would now be known as the "Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace."
A report from the Department of Defense Inspector General that is expected to be released this Friday is said to conclude that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth put US military members at risk when he leaked classified information in a signal chat that included Hegseth family members and a reporter.
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he is granting a pardon to Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife, who were indicted on charges including bribery in 2024. Read more
The Government Is Subsidizing Billionaire Ranchers to Help Ruin the Environment A new report from ProPublica sheds light on the use of public land for private profit. It is long-standing public policy to allow cattle to graze on public land. The original idea was to help small ranchers eke out an existence under difficult conditions. That's not how it works in practice, though, and Donald Trump and his team want to make it worse.
King Trump's indifference to affordability will cost MAGA everything.
Washington " The Pentagon's internal watchdog determined Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth jeopardized sensitive military information and could have endangered American service members when he shared certain details about U.S. military operations in Yemen in a private Signal group chat earlier this year, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the report's findings.
The Pentagon's watchdog found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and their mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information about a military strike against Yemen's Houthi militants, two people familiar with the findings said Wednesday.
Sen. Mark Kelly (retired career USN Captain) responds to unearthed Hegseth comments that there should be consequences for war crimes ... that's why the U.S. military won't follow unlawful orders. Hegseth on film in the linked video. Read more
