The video shows a woman trying to get to her apartment when she is confronted by a line of enforcement officers. The woman appears to exchange words with the officers. Then one of the officers fires and hits her with something, perhaps a rubber bullet. The woman who captured it on video goes to help her and the wounded woman can be heard crying and trembling. "I live here, I live here." read more
In this letter written to DNI Tulsi Gabbard, senior Democratic lawmakers accused her of violating the law with personnel moves that threaten the independent oversight of the 18 intelligence agencies she oversees. In this letter, they provide new details of a standoff between Gabbard and her congressionally mandated inspector general. At stake is the fate of an office established by Congress in 2010 to provide independent oversight over what are now 18 US civilian and military intelligence agencies. Dotard Trumpf has frequently shown hostility toward inspectors general " he fired one of Johnson's predecessors during his first term in 2019 " and in Jan 2025 he fired most inspectors general at federal Cabinet agencies.
President Donald Trump's trade wars are expected to slash economic growth this year in the United States and around the world, the World Bank forecast Tuesday. read more
PRRI: Most Americans (76%) oppose spending $45 million to hold a large parade of soldiers, weapons, and combat vehicles on the streets of Washington, D.C., in celebration of the Army's 250th birthday and President Trump's birthday, including 48% who strongly oppose, compared with only 21% who are in favor. Solid majorities of Democrats (93%) and independents (80%) oppose the military parade, as well as a slim majority of Republicans (52%).
"The soldiers you saw in the photo were resting as they were not currently on mission and due to the fluid security situation, it was deemed too dangerous for them to travel to better accommodations," a Defense Department spokesperson told Snopes.
During a speech at Fort Bragg, N.C., Donald Trump said that he would restore the names of all US Army bases that were named for treasonous Confederate generals but were ordered changed by Congress in the waning days of his first term. His move skirts the law mandating the removal of Confederate symbols from the military through the same maneuver used to restore the name of Fort Bragg, which was briefly renamed Fort Liberty. The US Army stated it would "take immediate action" to restore the old names, but the base names would instead honor other American soldiers with similar names and initials. For example, Fort Eisenhower in Georgia, honoring the late president, would revert to the name Fort Gordon, the Confederate slave owner and suspected KKK member. This time around, however, the US Army said the base would instead honor MSG Gary Gordon, who fought in the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia for which he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. read more
"California may be first, but it clearly won't end here. Other states are next. Democracy is next. Democracy is under assault right before our eyes -- the moment we've feared has arrived. ... Trump is pulling a military dragnet all across Los Angeles. Well beyond his stated intent to just go after violent and serious criminals, his agents are arresting dishwashers, gardeners, day laborers and seamstresses." -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom
The Drudge Retort should be back to normal functionality. The server ran out of inodes, which are files that hold metadata about files such as the owner, timestamp and the like. Fortunately there isn't much going on in the news. Use this thread if anything is still weird.
The wildest, scariest, indisputable truth about AI's large language models is that the companies building them don't know exactly why or how they work. read more
Donald Trump has ordered the National Guard to enter Los Angeles in their thousands, in a move with the potential to set off the biggest domestic political crisis the US has faced since Trump's supporters attempted an insurrection in Washington DC in 2021. read more
Issac Bailey: I've said Pete Hegseth is the least-qualified defense secretary ever. I was wrong. He's the most-qualified. My mistake was comparing him to men whose job was to protect the United States. But Hegseth is working to re-establish white supremacy. read more
The Trump administration diverted 20,000 anti-drone missiles originally promised to Kyiv to American forces in the Middle East, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. read more
Amid rising tensions over immigration raids in the Los Angeles area, the city of Glendale announced Sunday night it has ended its agreement with the federal government to house detainees captured by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. read more
A plurality of Americans don't approve of the Trump administration's deployment of the National Guard and Marines in response to Los Angeles protests, the latest YouGov polling shows. read more
This year, two other GOP-led states -- Arkansas and Tennessee -- passed over-the-counter ivermectin laws. read more
Heather Cox Richardson points out the connection between the Trump Administration's escalation in LA and their desperation to get their enormously unpopular bill passed through the US Senate. "Republicans' "One Big, Beautiful Bill" is the MAGA regime's attempt to replace the American government we've had since the 1930s with one that reflects the antidemocratic values of Project 2025. The measure is unpopular. According to a new CBS News/YouGov poll, 60% of Americans think the bill will help wealthy people, while 54% think it will hurt poor people." read more
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