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  • With Supreme Court Ruling, Another Check on Trump’s Power Fades

    06/28/2025 10:36:16 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 36 replies
    The New York Times ^ | June 28, 2025, 5:03 a.m. ET | Charlie Savage
    The court tied the hands of judges at a time when Congress has been cowed and internal executive branch constraints have been steamrolled.The Supreme Court ruling barring judges from swiftly blocking government actions, even when they may be illegal, is yet another way that checks on executive authority have eroded as President Trump pushes to amass more power.The decision on Friday, by a vote of 6 to 3, will allow Mr. Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship to take effect in some parts of the country — even though every court that has looked at the directive has...
  • Trump says he will move aggressively to undo nationwide blocks on his agenda

    06/28/2025 10:43:47 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 35 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | June 28, 2025 10:29 a.m. EDT | Justin Jouvenal , Cat Zakrzewski and Jeremy Roebuck
    Emboldened by Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the president said his administration will flex its authority on issues ranging from immigration to higher education.An emboldened Trump administration plans to aggressively challenge blocks on the president’s top priorities, a White House official said, following a major Supreme Court ruling that limits the power of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions.Government attorneys will press judges to pare back the dozens of sweeping rulings thwarting the president’s agenda “as soon as possible,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal deliberations.Priorities for the administration include injunctions related to...
  • California hopes law from bloody era of U.S. history can rein in Trump’s use of troops

    06/28/2025 10:52:57 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 41 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | Sonja Sharp | Sonja Sharp
    California’s fight to rein in President Trump’s deployment of troops to Los Angeles hinges on a 19th century law with a a blood-soaked origin and a name that seems pulled from a Spaghetti Western. In a pivotal ruling this week, Senior U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer ordered the federal government to hand over evidence to state authorities seeking to prove that the actions of troops in Southern California violate the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which forbids soldiers from enforcing civilian laws. “How President Trump has used and is using the federalized National Guard and the Marines since deploying...
  • Canada brutally hits back at Trump's tariffs ultimatum with huge hike that could cripple struggling US industry

    06/28/2025 11:35:35 AM PDT · by DFG · 109 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 06/28/2025 | JAMES CIRRONE
    Canada has dramatically hiked duties on American steel imports after Donald Trump shut down trade talks. The country imposed an import quota late Friday and if it is exceeded, certain US metal will face a new 50 percent surcharge. Canada's Finance Minister, François-Philippe Champagne, said the government was acting to protect domestic industry from 'unjust US tariffs,' NBC News reported. The response came hours after Trump posted on Truth Social about how Canada is a 'very difficult country to trade with.' His reason for suspending trade negotiations came down to a tax Canada is set to impose on major tech...
  • Putin: I’m ready to scale back military spending

    06/27/2025 5:15:16 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 42 replies
    Telegraph Yahoo News ^ | 6/27/2025 | Antonia Langford
    Vladimir Putin has announced plans to scale back military spending after Kremlin officials warned that Russia is “on the brink of recession”. The Russian leader said he would reduce defence spending “next year and the year after, over the next three-year period” at an economic summit of five post-Soviet states in Minsk on Friday. Responding to Nato’s plans to raise defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP, Putin said the alliance’s members would spend on “purchases from the USA and on supporting their military-industrial complex”. “So who is preparing for some kind of aggressive actions? Us or them?” he...
  • Why DOGE Failed

    06/27/2025 10:16:52 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 67 replies
    Foundation for Economic Freedom ^ | Friday, June 27, 2025 | Mohamed Moutii
    Musk’s mission, and why America’s budget crisis can’t be fixed.When Donald Trump vowed to tackle excessive federal spending, few expected Elon Musk, the world’s most prominent entrepreneur, to lead the charge. Yet, in a move that reflected Trump’s unconventional style, Musk was appointed head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), tasked with dismantling the bloated federal bureaucracy.DOGE launched ambitiously, aiming to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, eliminate inefficiencies, and overhaul vast parts of the public sector. However, just months into the experiment, the initiative has faltered. DOGE now finds itself politically isolated, legally tangled, and...
  • Ten Years In, Same-Sex Marriage Is Part of American Life. But It’s Still Under Attack.

    06/26/2025 11:20:43 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 78 replies
    The New York Times ^ | June 26, 2025, 5:04 a.m. ET | Adam Nagourney and Jeremy W. Peters
    On the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationally, supporters say they are secure but also wary and watchful.Could same-sex marriage be next?Gay Americans and their allies have much to celebrate on Thursday, the 10th anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. Same-sex marriage has, by almost every indication, become ingrained in everyday American life. Since the decision, there have been 591,000 same-sex marriages, and today, nearly two-thirds of Americans approve of the policy. Same-sex couples are staples in contemporary movies and television shows, and reside, often with their...
  • Living in lockdown: Undocumented immigrants trade freedom for safety

    06/26/2025 11:34:37 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 38 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | June 26, 2025 3 AM PT | Andrea Castillo, Queenie Wong
    WASHINGTON — An undocumented man from Guatemala who has leukemia postponed chemotherapy because he was afraid to go to the hospital. A Mexican grandmother packed most of her belongings into boxes, in case she is deported. A Pentecostal church in East Los Angeles has lost nearly half of its in-person membership. Across California and the U.S., immigrants are responding to the Trump administration’s unrelenting enforcement raids by going into lockdown. Activities that were once a regular or even mundane part of life — taking kids to school, buying groceries, driving — have become daunting as immigrants who lack legal authorization...
  • Trump is creating new universes of people to deport

    06/26/2025 12:55:54 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 57 replies
    CNN ^ | June 26, 2025 | Zachary B. Wolf
    SNIPA new universe of deportable peopleWOLF: You have this exclusive report about a large universe of new people the Trump administration might be trying to deport. What did you find out?ALVAREZ: The plans that the administration has been working on are targeting people who came into the US unlawfully and then applied for asylum while in the country.The plan here is to dismiss those asylum claims, which could affect potentially hundreds of thousands of people and then make them immediately deportable.It also puts the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency responsible for managing federal immigration benefits, at the...
  • Tucker Carlson’s podcast surges up the charts amid MAGA rift over Israel-Iran conflict

    06/26/2025 1:30:51 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 48 replies
    CNN ^ | 6/26/2025 | Liam Reilly
    Tucker Carlson’s podcast surged up the YouTube and Spotify charts last week, buoyed by his confrontational interview with Senator Ted Cruz and his feud with fellow MAGA media stars over the Israel-Iran conflict. According to the latest available data, “The Tucker Carlson Show” jumped to No. 5 on YouTube’s weekly podcast rankings — a significant leap from his No. 18 ranking upon YouTube’s chart launch last month, and No. 14 just a few weeks ago. Carlson’s program also landed at No. 2 on Spotify’s podcast chart and No. 14 on Apple’s Top Shows for last week.
  • 'From lecturing to listening': Mamdani explains how he drew votes from Trump supporters in NYC race

    06/25/2025 10:33:38 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 34 replies
    MSDNC ^ | June 25, 2025
    In his first national interview since Tuesday's primary election New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani talks with Jen Psaki about the principles of his campaign and how he reached out to voters who had previously chosen Trump,
  • Hunter Biden Laptop Fake News Perpetrator Now Claims Iran Nuke Sites Insider Info

    06/25/2025 1:25:58 PM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 3 replies
    Newsbusters ^ | June 25, 2025 | P.J. Gladnick
    What happens when a reporter gets caught spreading disinformation in the form of the biggest fake news of the 2020 presidential campaign? Why, promote them up the media food chain from a Politico reporter to a national security correspondent at CNN. Such was the reward for Natasha Bertrand for her role in "fortifying" the 2020 election against Donald Trump by hyping the disinformation campaign by 51 intelligence officials who incorrectly claimed that the highly damaging (to the Joe Biden campaign) information on Hunter Biden's laptop was really the result of Russian disinformation.So instead of eternally bearing the Scarlett Letter "D"...
  • Trump threatens tough trade deal for Spain after it refuses to meet NATO defense spending target

    06/25/2025 10:39:42 AM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 26 replies
    CNBC ^ | June 25, 2025 | Sam Meredith
    U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said Spain's refusal to meet the NATO defense spending target of 5% of gross domestic product will mean a tougher trade deal for the southern European country. Speaking at a news conference at NATO's annual summit in the Netherlands, Trump said it was "terrible" that Spain wouldn't commit to meeting the target by 2035. "You know they are doing very well. The economy is [doing] very well. And that economy could be blown right out of the water with something bad happening," Trump said. "You know what we're going to do? We're negotiating with...
  • First mouse with two biological FATHERS has its own babies - in breakthrough that could pave the way for gay men to have children

    06/25/2025 10:55:23 AM PDT · by aimhigh · 90 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 06/24/2025 | JONATHAN CHADWICK
    For the first time, mice born to two fathers have grown up and produced offspring, scientists in China have revealed. The researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University managed to insert two sperm cells - one from each father - into a mouse egg whose nucleus had been removed. A gene editing technique was then used to reprogram parts of the sperm DNA to allow an embryo to develop – a process called androgenesis. The embryo, featuring the genetic material from two fathers, was transferred to a female womb and allowed to grow to term. Finally, the resulting offspring (male) managed...
  • 🇺🇸B R E A K I N G / BARF 🤮 warning — Iran declares VICTORY over Israel ! 🤮🇮🇱🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇱

    06/24/2025 11:54:42 PM PDT · by FRinCanada2 · 78 replies
    https://t.me/beholdisraelchannel/58947 ^ | Wednesday 25 June 2025 | Amir Tsarfati - via telegram
    The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami, recently announced on Iranian state television that Iran has begun building a new uranium enrichment facility, in a secure and secret location. He said the facility is expected to begin operating in the near future. Our pilots know the drill…
  • How Trump Broke The Media

    06/24/2025 12:46:30 PM PDT · by Signalman · 18 replies
    youtube ^ | 1 month ago | MAGAmark
    The mainstream media tried to destroy Trump—but in the end, they destroyed themselves. This is the story of anchors who lost their minds, reporters who lost their careers, and a media machine that couldn’t handle President Trump.
  • Strike Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, U.S. Report Says

    06/24/2025 12:59:22 PM PDT · by whyilovetexas111 · 72 replies
    NYT ^ | 6/24/2025 | Julian E. Barnes ETAL
    A preliminary classified U.S. report says the American bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites sealed off the entrances to two of the facilities but did not collapse their underground buildings, according to officials familiar with the findings. The early findings conclude that the strikes over the weekend set back Iran’s nuclear program by only a few months, the officials said.
  • Russians urge Putin to drop nukes on NATO as 'WW3 inevitable' after Iran strikes

    06/24/2025 10:56:12 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 32 replies
    Express UK ^ | 6/24/2025 | RICHARD ASHMORE
    Russian TV presenters have urged Vladimir Putin to consider dropping nuclear bombs on a NATO country to "solve" the world's problems "at once". In a chilling diatribe hawkish presenter Vladimir Solovyov raged that Russia should move nuclear weapons into Iran, under Kremlin control, and even attack NATO member Poland with an atomic weapon. Speaking on Russian state TV, Solovyov said Russian should use tactical weapons against Ukraine and "just in case, also drop one into Poland", adding: "No one will say a word. They will impose sanctions, so what?". Under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) it...
  • Blasts shake Tehran after furious Trump tells Israel to stop strikes to preserve truce deal

    06/24/2025 10:32:54 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 16 replies
    Reuters ^ | June 24, 202511:19 AM CDT | Jeff Mason, Alexander Cornwell and Parisa Hafezi
    SummaryLATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Iran's president says it will not violate ceasefire unless Israel does so, and is prepared to return to negotiations ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE/TEL AVIV/ISTANBUL, June 24 (Reuters) - Israel bombed a target near Tehran on Tuesday despite a furious rebuke from U.S. President Donald Trump for launching airstrikes hours after agreeing to a ceasefire deal with Iran.Trump scolded both Iran and Israel for early violations of the truce that he had announced at around 0500 GMT, but directed particularly stinging criticism at Washington's close ally over the scale of its strikes, telling it to "calm down now".He said...
  • 'Who are these people?' Masked immigration agents challenge local police, sow fear in L.A.

    06/24/2025 9:36:41 AM PDT · by Mariner · 26 replies
    Los Angeles Times via Yahoo ^ | June 24th, 2025 | Nathan Solis, Richard Winton
    Increasingly aggressive immigration raids carried out by masked federal agents, sometimes using unmarked vehicles, are creating problems for local law enforcement agencies. Police have little or no insight into where the federal enforcement actions are taking place but often have to deal with the aftermath, including protests and questions from residents about what exactly happened. In some cases, local cops have been mistaken for federal agents, eroding years of work to have immigrant communities trust the police.In Bell, chaos erupted when masked men arrived at a car wash and began detaining its workers, sparking a confrontation with residents and immigration...