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The Supreme Court struck down the majority of President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs in February, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren isn’t letting the Administration weasel out of paying back American taxpayers. “If your Administration is successful in its campaign to avoid paying back illegally collected tariffs, it would amount to a theft in broad daylight from each and every American family that has paid the price of your failed economic agenda,” Warren said in a Wednesday statement. Per her office’s estimates, the tariffs have cost families about $1,700 each. The Supreme Court on February 20 ruled against the tariffs 6-3, arguing...

A state employee who admitted vandalizing several Teslas in Minneapolis over a brief span last year received a one-day unpaid suspension from his job for his actions after he was spared prosecution in favor of a diversion program. -snip “Your behavior, as substantiated by the investigation, constitutes a violation of DHS’ and [the Minnesota Management and Budget’s] policies,” read the disciplinary letter sent to Adams on Jan. 21, one day before he served his suspension. The letter to Adams noted that state policy required he be “held to the highest standard of honesty, integrity, and ethical trust.” -snip. Adams explained...

The California governor made the remarks at an event to promote his new memoir, 'Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery.'California Governor Gavin Newsom compared Israel to an “apartheid state” and questioned future U.S. military support for the country. Speaking on stage at an event to promote his new memoir, Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery, Newsom, who is widely expected to enter the 2028 presidential race, was asked by Pod Save America host Jon Favreau about the U.S.-Israel relationship and whether it should be reconsidered. “It breaks my heart, because the current leadership in...

Grifter Shaun King, known by many as Talcum X or one of many other nicknames, used to be a Christian pastor but converted to Islam with his wife in 2024. Now that it's looking like Ayatollah Khamenei has been "martyred," King says that Khamenei's death will have been an honorable one. (snip)How many times has he had to name replacements in the last year? He's going to run out of folks willing to be cannon fodder to cover for him.

WASHINGTON — Aliyah Rahman, a Minnesota woman whom Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., took as her guest to the State of the Union address Tuesday, needed hospital treatment after she was arrested during the speech, Rahman and Omar said. Rahman silently stood up during the part of President Donald Trump’s speech in which he called on Democrats to restore funding for the Department of Homeland Security. The people around her remained seated. When U.S. Capitol Police approached and asked Rahman to sit down, she refused. During her conversation with Capitol Police officers, the crowd around her gave a standing ovation, which...

Several prominent Democrats have been open and vocal about their plans to punish members of the Trump administration, including civilian ICE agents, if they regain power. Eric Swalwell has vowed to make ICE agents' lives a living hell if he's elected governor of California, Rep. Shri Thanedar said Dems will prosecute ICE and Border Patrol agents, as has Philly DA Larry Krasner, and Mehdi Hasan wants the next Democratic president to run on a platform of prosecuting conservatives. Now Suan Rice, the former Obama National Security Advisor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, as promised that Democrats will...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., alleged at the Munich Security Conference on Friday that U.S. aid to the Jewish state enabled a genocide by Israel. AOC’s attack on the Jewish state in Munich unfolded in the birthplace of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi movement that carried out the worst genocide in human history. During the town hall event in Munich, the Squad member said, "To me, this isn't just about a presidential election. Personally, I think that the United States has an obligation to uphold its own laws, particularly the Leahy laws. And I think that personally, that the idea of completely unconditional...

The Fatal Encounter That Sparked National ScrutinyThe killing of Alex Pretti has remained a focal point of national debate over federal immigration enforcement and the use of force. Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, was shot and killed by federal agents during an immigration enforcement operation on January 24. Bystander video from that encounter shows officers confronting Pretti at close range before shots were fired and, later, an agent removing a handgun from Pretti’s waistband after he was down on the ground. ✕ Remove AdsFederal officials have said agents believed Pretti posed an...

🚨 BBC obtains footage from January 13 of a man they say is Alex Pretti Videos appears to show him spitting at federal law enforcement and attacking their vehicle

An environmental group filed suit on Wednesday seeking to prevent the U.S. Interior Department from placing an image of President Donald Trump's face on annual entrance passes for national parks and federal recreational areas that go on sale next year. Federal law requires the $80-a-year "America the Beautiful Pass" to bear the winning image from an annual photo contest depicting scenery or wildlife in a national park or forest, according to the Center for Biological Diversity's 16-page complaint. The winning photo from the latest contest in June, sponsored by the National Parks Foundation, was a picture of Glacier National Park...

[snip] Joel Rubin? With his highfalutin' college degrees from Brandeis and Carnegie Mellon, and background as a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Rubin should know better Yet, on today's CNN This Morning, Rubin said: "Renee Good [was] interested in protecting her neighbors through civil disobedience, discourse, whatnot. That's legal."Civil disobedience is legal? By definition, civil disobedience is the breaking of law, and the willingness to accept the consequences thereof, ostensibly for a higher moral purpose. Joel, Joel--what were you thinking?! Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair Ken Martin compared the U.S. to Iran in several social media posts Sunday, claiming both countries are guilty of "killing protesters." Martin made his first comparison on X, expressing support for both protesters in the U.S. and Iran for rising up against "systems that wield violence without accountability." "From Tehran to my birthplace of Minneapolis, people are rising up against systems that wield violence without accountability. In Iran, brave protestors confront a far-right theocratic regime that crushes dissent and denies basic freedoms," Martin wrote. He continued, "Here at home, tens of thousands are marching after...

Jimmy Kimmel drew backlash online after a monologue in which he accused President Donald Trump of enabling deadly force through U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In a segment aired on Wednesday, Kimmel referenced the recent fatal shooting of a 37-year-old Nicloe Good by an ICE agent during an immigration operation in Minneapolis. "Donald J. Trump is going to kill you," Kimmel said, holding up a T-shirt with that message. "He isn't just killing people overseas." Kimmel questioned Trump's response to the shooting, quoting the president's claim that the victim was "a professional agitator" and that the shooting occurred after she...

On Friday’s “CNN News Central,” Minneapolis City Council Member Robin Wonsley responded to a question on what should replace ICE if it is abolished as she wants by stating that “This was used as a wedge issue to divide Americans, thinking that these immigrant — law enforcement agents are going to go out and get the bad guys off the streets. No, they are the bad guys.” Co-host Sara Sidner asked, “[Y]ou have called for abolishing ICE entirely. But we have seen polling from the American people who have said, look, they did put Donald Trump in office, in part,...

The ICE agent involved in the deadly Minneapolis shooting of Renee Nicole Good has been identified as Jonathan Ross. Ross was an 'experienced' officer, sources told the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Thursday. Good, 37, was shot and killed on Wednesday afternoon while she was driving her SUV down a street where ICE agents were on duty. Multiple videos show the agent, identified as Ross, opening fire on Good and hitting her in the face while she was behind the wheel. The Trump administration says Good was a 'professional agitator' who had been stalking federal agents. But Democratic officials in Minneapolis...

Meet Cea Weaver. She is Zohran Mamdani’s new NYC tenant advocate. She wants to seize private property. And branded home ownership as “white supremacy”. Of course.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) called for House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-KY) to launch a congressional investigation into President Donald Trump’s health on Friday. Jeffries appeared in an interview with independent journalist Aaron Parnas, who noted that Comer has initiated investigations into former President Joe Biden’s fitness for office and Autopen use. Parnas then asked whether Democrats might launch a probe into Trump’s health if they win big in the midterms. “I don’t believe that this is something that should wait until the American people give Democrats the majority in the aftermath of the November election later...

“At the hearing, we will examine ongoing threats to free and fair elections posed by an out-of-control Trump administration, expose the election deniers who hold high-level positions of significance in the executive branch and detail the threats to public safety posed by the hundreds of violent felons who were pardoned on the President’s first day in office,” the New York Democrat wrote. “We will also present a panel of members who wish to share their personal experiences from that horrific day,” Jeffries said, calling on members "who wish to share their personal experiences from that horrific day."

During the LA wildfires, I noted that the LAFD was being run by three lesbians named Kirsten. (Not a joke.) Crowley’s status as the first LGBTQ fire chief appears at the top of her bio on the LAFD site. It’s what got her on the Kelly Clarkson show under the headline, “Meet LAFD’s First Female & LGBTQ+ Fire Chief”. Kristina Kepner, the first lesbian Assistant Chief and a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School for Managing Diverse Organizations, was accused of a domestic violence incident involving her girlfriend. Kristine Larson, who has a degree in Sociology, headed ‘Equity on Fire’,...

The monster who stabbed an elderly Seattle woman in the eye identifies as transgender.As previously reported, a 75-year-old woman lost her eye after she was brutally attacked by a serial assaulter who has a history of punching and stabbing people. 42-year-old Fale Vaigalepa Pea hit Jeanette Marken in the face with a wooden club with a screw through the end of the plank as she was standing on a street corner in downtown Seattle after picking up a food order earlier this month.Surveillance footage shows Pea approached Marken and swung the wooden club with full force at her face.Bystanders rushed...