Nearly two-thirds of Americans feel "dissatisfied" or "upset" with President Donald Trump's projects remaking the look of Washington, according to a new poll from The Washington Post released on Thursday.
A federal judge in Massachusetts has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against President Donald Trump's executive order (EO) targeting mail voting, setting the stage for the challenge to proceed. In her order Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani called the order "unconstitutional" and said that, if allowed to stand, "disenfranchisement as to the upcoming election is plausibly likely and imminent."
Quoidbach et al. elicited estimates of people's personality, values, and choices and compared how much, for instance, 33-year-olds believed that they would change in the next 10 years with how much 43-year-olds reported that they had changed in the past 10 years. For groups spanning 18 to 68 years of age, people of all ages described more change in the past 10 years than they would have predicted 10 years ago. Read more
The majority of immigration officers who faced charges were accused of sex offenses or crimes against children.
During the first 18 months, 27 Senate-confirmed officials have left their Trump administration jobs, per the analysis. On average, about 4.3 such officials departed during the first 18 months of the Bush, Obama and Biden administrations, which means that the Trump administration's second-term exodus is more than six times that average, the analysis noted. During Trump's first term, 11 Senate-confirmed officials left in the first 18 months. The analysis noted that one in nine such officials in Trump's second term has left their role, or about 11.4 percent. The average tenure of departed officials in Trump's second term was eight months. For 30 percent of departed officials, the wait for Senate confirmation was longer than their actual time in the job, per the analysis.
Confidence is essential in combat, but swagger is dangerous because it tempts leaders into believing they already know what will happen, or how a battle or war will end. The enemy always gets a vote. Swagger may energize political supporters and produce memorable television clips, but it is not strategy. Strategy begins with a clear understanding of the enemy, realistic assessments of what military force can accomplish, and enough humility to recognize that wars rarely unfold according to plan. More than two decades after learning that lesson in southern Iraq, I still remind myself never to predict the outcome of a war while the enemy is still fighting. Secretary Hegseth and President Trump would be well served to remember that lesson today. Read more
The nefarious Trumpf junta plans to privatize TSA operations at three airports in 2027, launching a program called TSA Gold+ at airports in Tampa FL, Charleston SC, and Des Moines IA.
This will work out just fine for private security contractors like George Zoley, Erik Prince, or other White House insiders
The satanic Trumpf junta is abandoning sexual education programs that prevent teen pregnancy, STDs, and child abuse in favor of an abstinence-only approach that stresses "the importance of marriage and procreation" and ignores helpful information for LGBTQ teens. HHS criteria to receive any of the $100m in federal funds must discourage teenage girls from taking birth control and must discourage boys from masturbation. Clinics and programs that do not follow this HHS guidance are cut from federal funding.
The people at the Heritage Foundation are not good human beings
"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" does not apply to nearly one in four US workers (24%) who suffer from "job lock." Approximately 23m Americans stay unhappily in their current job, even though they want to leave, because they are afraid of losing their health insurance.
Medical debt crushing Americans
Mass layoffs, AI anxiety, and corporate surveillance have heightened interest in unions among IT professionals. Organizers who've been through it explain how to get started -- and what to expect.
Talarico Sends Trump a Blunt Message, Vows to Repeal DOGE Cuts
Texas state Rep. James Talarico criticised President Donald Trump's policies on war, education and the economy, arguing that public funds should prioritise healthcare, schools and working families over tax breaks and military conflicts.
Talarico also pledged to reverse DOGE cuts, defend public education and expand economic opportunities through affordable childcare, housing, and support for small businesses.
The Pentagon insists the Strait of Hormuz remains open, but after weeks of renewed Iranian attacks on ships, traffic through the vital waterway has slowed again, pushing up global oil prices. ... President Trump threatened Wednesday to "bomb and destroy" an Iranian bridge or power plant for every new attack by Iran on a ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
A nondescript facility south of Cleveland has become an early staging ground for the auto industry's next supply-chain pivot: replacing vehicle hardware from China. The plant belongs to Eagle Wireless, a maker of electronics that was formed in late 2025, largely in response to a federal rule that bans certain Chinese connected-car software and hardware in U.S. vehicles by the end of the decade.
A special prosecutor on Wednesday dismissed felony criminal charges against Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, who was indicted on accusations of threatening the jobs of New Orleans officials who fought a Republican-led overhaul of courts in the heavily Democratic city.
The US House of Representatives passed a $1.15tn defense policy bill in a near-party-line vote on Wednesday, after Democrats refused to back the measure amid the war with Iran and Donald Trump's push to impose new restrictions on voting nationwide. A key plank of the president's plan to spend $1.5tn on the military in the 2027 fiscal year, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), passed the Republican-controlled chamber by a 216-212 vote, with all but six Democrats opposing its passage. Seven House Republicans broke ranks to oppose it. The measure now goes to the Senate. Read more
As temperatures rise this summer, Japanese men are baring more leg at work than ever before, thanks to a new policy allowing them to wear shorts. Some women describe the experience of "leg hair harassment" or "sunehara", referring to the discomfort of being forced to see their colleague's leg hair.
