Approaching the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the official plaque honoring the police who defended democracy that day is nowhere to be found. read more
The Trump transition team was informed about the DOJ's bribery investigation into Tom Homan, the former acting director of ICE whom Donald Trump tapped as his border czar shortly after he prevailed in the 2024 presidential election ... read more
Dear President Trump, Of all the wrong ideas you hold in your heart"that tariffs are paid by foreigners, that good looks are the chief credential for cabinet offices, that the 2020 election was rigged, that allies are bloodsuckers we'd be better off without"perhaps the most gobsmacking is your cherished notion that people respect you when they kiss your ass. read more
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has attempted to explain President Donald Trump's "mathematically impossible" claim that he is cutting drug prices by up to 600 percent ... read more
Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died at 91. read more
Trump officials shielded border czar Tom Homan from normal vetting despite bribery probe, report claims
Unclear how Homan obtained a security clearance after FBI agents believed that he was not able to pass a background check, according to report
www.independent.co.uk
Emil Bove is all over this one. Sooprise.
The goonish Tom "Bagga Cash" Homan is poster boy for the most corrupt presidential administration in American history, bar none.
The case and its coverup really is a beaut. See:
"Tom Homan and the Case of the Missing Fifty Thousand
Lawmakers and ordinary citizens have to keep asking about the bag of cash, or accept an executive branch without any accountability."
By Ruth Marcus
October 20, 2025
www.newyorker.com
Cassidy's vote in committee guaranteed Kennedy a narrow party-line victory in the Senate floor vote. But for his supposedly handwringing vote in committee, the nomination would have died in committee. Instead, we have another Republican gift to America. These people deserve to be forgotten but need to be remembered.