Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News

Advertisement

Advertisement

 
Saturday, March 29, 2025

President Donald Trump revealed his intentions to reshape the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order Thursday ... read more


Friday, March 28, 2025

President Trump's administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to lift a lower court's order and allow it to use the Alien Enemies Act to swiftly remove alleged members of a Venezuelan gang. read more


The inventor of the "DOGE dividend check" has said he believes that $5,000 payments for American taxpayers are within reach, once cuts are made to Social Security and Medicaid. read more


A Russian scientist from Harvard Medical School has been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to her friends and colleagues. read more


"President Trump's dramatic rug pull of Rep. Elise Stefanik's (R-N.Y.) UN ambassador nomination has given House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) a new series of headaches," Axios reports. read more


US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth texted the start time for a planned killing of a Houthi militant in Yemen on March 15 as well as other details of imminent waves of US airstrikes, according to a screenshot of a text chat released by The Atlantic today (26 March). read more


Following bombshell reporting that top Trump administration officials used the auto-deleting messaging app Signal to coordinate high-level, allegedly classified war operations, nonpartisan watchdog American Oversight filed a lawsuit against those officials for violations of the Federal Records Act and Administrative Procedure Act. read more


As the trade war between the United States and Canada continues and fears of detention at the U.S. border mount, Canadians are channeling their sentiments through their wallets and choosing to travel elsewhere. According to aviation data firm OAG, airline bookings from Canada to the U.S. have collapsed in recent months. "Using forward booking data from a major GDS supplier, we've compared the total bookings held at this point last year with those recorded this week for the upcoming summer season. The decline is striking -- bookings are down by over 70% in every month through to the end of September," a statement from the firm said. "This sharp drop suggests that travelers are holding off on making reservations, likely due to ongoing uncertainty surrounding the broader trade dispute." read more


China has developed a compact deep-sea device capable of cutting armored undersea cables at depths of 4,000 meters -- twice the operational depth of existing subsea communication infrastructure. The tool, featuring a 150-mm diamond-coated grinding wheel spinning at 1,600 rpm, was designed for integration with China's advanced submersibles. The development has raised concerns over the security of global undersea infrastructure, as such cables carry 95% of global data transmission and support critical military and civilian operations. Beijing has already cut cables to Taiwan and is constructing large 'D-Day' type amphibious landing craft. read more


No one wants to talk to Usha Vance -- at least no one in Greenland. US officials have reportedly been traveling around the Danish-controlled territory looking for locals who wanted to receive a visit from the Second Lady, according to a report from Danish TV 2. Greenlanders' response? No thanks. read more


Hillary Clinton: It's not the hypocrisy that bothers me; it's the stupidity. We're all shocked -- shocked! -- that President Trump and his team don't actually care about protecting classified information or federal record retention laws. But we knew that already. What's much worse is that top Trump administration officials put our troops in jeopardy by sharing military plans on a commercial messaging app and unwittingly invited a journalist into the chat. That's dangerous. And it's just dumb. read more


A 7.7-magnitude earthquake centered in war-ravaged Myanmar reverberated across Southeast Asia on Friday, killing at least three people each in Myanmar and neighboring Thailand and leaving scores of others trapped under a collapsed high-rise in the Thai capital.


A self-confessed "MAGA junkie" from a red-voting city devastated by Department of Government Efficiency firings has said she regrets voting for Donald Trump. In the lead-up to the election in November last year, Jennifer Piggott, from Parkersburg, West Virginia, flew a Trump flag outside her house. She was not the only one; her community in Wood County voted overwhelmingly for the Republican candidate, who scooped 70 percent of the votes in the area. She added that she now "regrets" voting for Trump. "To cut the knees out of the working-class Americans just doesn't make sense to me. I expected more from President Donald Trump," she said.


Thursday, March 27, 2025

Faced with mass protests on a scale not seen in over a decade, the Turkish government has threatened more arrests and an extended ban on gatherings in Ankara. read more


Elon Musk handed out $1 million to a voter in a desperate bid to flip Wisconsin's Supreme Court in favor of the GOP. read more


Students and local activists gathered on Wednesday evening at Powder House Park to protest the detainment of Tufts graduate student, Rumeysa Ozturk, by federal authorities on Tuesday. read more


Advertisement

Advertisement

 

Drudge Retort

Home | Breaking News | Comments | User Blogs | Stats | Back Page | RSS Feed | RSS Spec | DMCA Compliance | Privacy