How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory US president's friend Ronald Lauder -- who first proposed Arctic expansion -- is now making deals in the island read more
The Justice Department claims Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie's request for an independent monitor is an overreach. read more
A now viral video appears to show an Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agent bragging about his salary on X. read more
We are cursed by what the historian Barbara Tuchman calls the "bellicose frivolity of senile empires." All empires, when they are dying, worship the idol of war. War will save the empire. War will resurrect past glory. War will teach an unruly world to obey. But those who bow down before the idol of war, blinded by hypermasculinity and hubris, are unaware that while idols begin by calling for the sacrifice of others, they end by demanding self-sacrifice. read more
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense showed up to provide support in Philly amid rising tensions with ICE. read more
Just 16% of Republicans say Trump has helped "a lot" in addressing the cost of living, down from 49% in April 2024, when an AP-NORC poll asked Americans the same question about his first term. read more
The Trump loyalist said she denied the outlet access to a transmitter because it had failed to "align their message" with Trump's foreign policy.
"I sometimes feel embarrassed to walk into my political science classrooms. The students that I'm talking to, this is their whole conscious adult life. College freshmen right now were 8 years old when Trump walked down the escalator. And so their whole conscious experience of politics as a sentient, quasi-adult human is this nightmare politics that never ends. People don't necessarily want to study politics under those conditions, and I can't blame them." -- political scientist David Faris
A stretch of California's Pacific Coast Highway, the world-famous route that winds through steep, rugged and breathtaking terrain along the ocean, has reopened after a yearslong closure that hampered tourism and cast doubt on its future. read more
The first U.S. sale of Venezuelan crude was to a company whose senior oil trader donated to Donald Trump's re-election campaign and attended a White House meeting with the president last week. John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who donated about $6mn to political action committees backing Trump's re-election campaign, was involved in his company's efforts to secure a $250mn deal for Venezuelan crude. read more
A Waymo self-driving car has accidentally ended up on the tracks of a light-rail line in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. read more
David French, New York Times:
Something Is Rotten in the State of America -- I want you to remember the name Mark Peters. -- In 2009 he was on patrol in Afghanistan when he stepped on an improvised explosive device. The incident was captured on video and can be seen in a 2014 documentary series called “My War.” read more
Fred Kaplan: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's campaign to punish Sen. Mark Kelly--a retired Navy captain--for urging members of the armed forces to disobey unlawful orders, is even more outlandish, and legally baseless, than it seems at first glance. read more
[F]ormer NFL player Matt Kalil is suing his former wife, Haley Kalil, claiming that she violated his right to privacy during a livestreamed interview by describing his genitals as being too big. ... During the 12-minute interview, Haley implicitly referenced Matt's genitalia, claiming that his penis was like "two Coke cans, maybe even a third," and described the daunting dick as the primary reason for the couple's divorce. read more
President Donald Trump made an early start to the Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday weekend by flying to Florida to name a road after himself after taking part in "The Great, Historic Investment in Rural Health Roundtable." Immediately after the East Room discussion, if he was able to stay awake for it, the self-declared President of Venezuela rushed to Palm Beach FL for a street-naming ceremony organized solely to flatter his ego.
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There's at least one Jan. 6 participant currently working in the Trump administration, and the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee wants to know how many more may have been hired. read more
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