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  • Morning Joe To Military: Consider Disobeying Trump Order To Fire on Drug-Smuggling Boats

    09/08/2025 8:57:10 AM PDT · by governsleastgovernsbest · 39 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    On today's Morning Joe, MSNBC analyst and Washington Post columnist David Ignatius admitted that the people on the boat that the U.S. military fired on in the Caribbean "were associated with the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. I'm sure they're terrible people doing despicable crimes." And while he first said that they "appear to have been drug smugglers," he later flatly described them as "drug smugglers." Even so, Ignatius suggested that members of the military should consider disobeying the orders of President Trump, the Commander-in-Chief, to fire on such boats.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.
  • MAGA has a new cautionary tale: England

    09/06/2025 6:58:25 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 16 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | September 6, 2025 | Katie Tarrant
    Leaders of the MAGA movement have a new warning: Don’t let America become like Britain. That was the howling conclusion at a conference of MAGA-aligned policymakers and think tanks this week in Washington, where elite voices, many with close ties to President Donald Trump, painted a dystopian, misleading and anti-Muslim picture of England as a bastion for dangerous immigrants. Stephen K. Bannon, Trump’s former chief of staff who continues to be an influential adviser, decried the “threat of Islamism in the U.K.,” positioning Britain as a cautionary tale of how mass migration could affect the United States. Others called the...
  • Bowser Welcomes Federal Law Enforcement Presence indefinitely

    09/02/2025 2:44:26 PM PDT · by oldernittany · 29 replies
    Washington Post ^ | No Byline
    Mayor Bowser just signed an executive order mandating cooperative with federal law enforcement to the “maximum extent possible”. The order has no expiration date.
  • The Supreme Court has expanded Trump’s power. He’s seeking much more.

    09/01/2025 5:46:13 AM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 45 replies
    Washington Post via MSN ^ | Sep 1, 1015 | Justin Jouvenal
    The Supreme Court has already expanded President Donald Trump’s authority in a string of emergency rulings, but he’s signaling in his firing of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook and other issues likely headed to the court that he continues to seek broader powers for the executive branch. The cases could serve as major tests of how much further the nation’s high court is willing to go to bless the president’s assertion of executive authority. They differ from previous showdowns because of the sheer magnitude of the authority Trump is seeking to wield and because he wants greater control over powers...
  • DOJ reassigned top attorneys. They quit after feeling sidelined.

    08/30/2025 11:33:04 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 35 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | August 30, 2025 8:24 a.m. EDT | erry Stein
    People familiar with the Sanctuary Cities Enforcement working group say members were assigned menial busy work, and their impression was that the real goal was to force senior career lawyers to resign.In the first weeks of the current Trump administration, Justice Department officials gave a select group of top senior career attorneys a choice: They could either quit or go to a newly created Sanctuary Cities Enforcement working group.About a dozen lawyers from high-profile sections including the civil rights and national security divisions agreed to the transfer, jumping into an area most had no experience with but knew was one...
  • BREAKING: CDC Director Susan Monarez Ousted After Less Than One Month on the Job

    08/27/2025 2:38:26 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 31 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | August 27, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    CDC Director Susan Monarez was fired less than a month on the job. CNN and The Washington Post and The Hill confirmed Dr. Monarez has been ousted. Details of Monarez’s departure from the CDC are not immediately available. The Hill reported: Susan Monarez, the longtime government scientist recently confirmed as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has been let go from her position after less than a month in the role. A source familiar with the situation confirmed to The Hill that Monarez is ousted as CDC director. The Senate confirmed her on July 29. The...
  • Same old song from NYT and WaPo editorial boards

    08/26/2025 5:07:35 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 7 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 26 Aug, 2025 | M. Walter
    It is possible for two things to be true at the same time: Trump was absolutely unfairly targeted, and Trump’s targets are now being fairly targeted for evidence of real, actual crimes. Both the New York Times and the Washington Post were out with Editorial Board editorials Friday night lamenting the raid on John Bolton’s home and office and they both read like they came from the same talking points. Both the Times and the Post frame it the same way: the investigations into Bolton, Letitia James, Adam Schiff, etc., are “weightless,” clearly just “revenge” on the part of Trump,...
  • Journalists Against Journalism. [Including pro-censorship hypocritical Glenn Greenwald]

    08/25/2025 2:18:29 PM PDT · by Freeleesy · 1 replies
    The Free Press ^ | Aug 15, 2025
    Journalists Against Journalism.Our critics can call us any name they like. That doesn’t change the facts.“Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova performed a public service by asking and answering a simple question,” write The Editors. (Illustration by The Free Press, images via screen grabs)By The Editors 08.25.25 — Israel and AntisemitismLast week, The Free Press ran an investigation into a dozen viral photos published by major international media outlets aimed at depicting starvation in Gaza. All 12 pictures featured distressed Gazans, mostly children. All were skin and bones. And all suffered from preexisting conditions, like cerebral palsy.Crucially, that last piece of...
  • When the rule of law becomes rule of lawfare

    08/23/2025 5:47:20 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 78 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | August 23, 2025 3:42 p.m. EDT | Megan McArdle
    Friday’s Bolton raid and the rebuke of Trump’s $500M fine show what happens when justice is not impartial.If you are a liberal alarmed by the Friday raid on the home of former national security adviser John Bolton, well, you should be. It’s possible that if charges come out, we’ll learn that Bolton committed a security breach that would have been prosecuted under any president. But there are reasons to suspect otherwise, given that President Donald Trump and FBI director Kash Patel have endorsed lawfare against their political enemies, including Bolton.This is a crisis for American democracy, because even if charges...
  • After Bolton raid, the Washington Post clutches its pearls

    08/23/2025 11:56:54 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 21 replies
    American Thinker ^ | August 23, 2025 | Jack Hellner
    The following idiotic piece that ran from the Washington Post's editorial board said that the FBI raid on former National Security Council advisor John Bolton raid "underscores the danger of putting partisan hacks in top law enforcement positions." FBI raid targeting Bolton crosses a line in the Trump revenge campaign Yes, they wrote that. What a bunch of hypocrites. Of course, they acted as though Democrat hack appointees in comparable positions from not so long ago, such as Merrick Garland, Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, Andy McCabe, James Comey, and others, were absolutely independent and non-partisan no matter what they did....
  • Hegseth fires general whose agency’s intel assessment of damage from Iran strikes angered Trump

    08/22/2025 1:02:46 PM PDT · by DFG · 72 replies
    AP ^ | 08/22/2025 | KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, MARY CLARE JALONICK and MICHELLE L. PRICE
    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of damage to Iranian nuclear sites from U.S. strikes angered President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the decision and a White House official. Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse will no longer serve as head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, according to the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly. The firing is the latest upheaval in military leadership and in the country’s intelligence agencies, and comes a few months after details of the preliminary assessment...
  • Trump’s D.C. Takeover May Be a Prelude to Something Far Worse

    08/21/2025 11:06:35 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 83 replies
    MSN.com ^ | August 20, 2025 | Ed Kilgore
    It’s possible Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to “federalize” law enforcement in Washington, D.C., was just a one-off power grab, reflecting the federal government’s unique control of the capital city and Trump’s own obsession with Washington as a symbol of the American greatness he claims to be restoring. In other words, maybe he took over D.C. because he could. But the exotic and rather fascistic appearance of National Guard units on the streets of Washington absent a riot or some other historically relevant pretext makes you wonder if the 47th president has something far worse in store. Here are some possibilities...
  • Schumer Roasted for Inventing Fake Long Island Couple He Based Entire Career On

    08/15/2025 4:47:40 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 44 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 14 Aug 2025 | Elizabeth Weibel
    Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was roasted on social media for creating a fictional Long Island couple called Joe and Eileen Bailey, whom he has based his entire political career on. During an episode of Last Week Tonight, British-born HBO talk show host John Oliver shared several clips of Schumer talking about the fictional couple, describing them as being “middle-class” and having “bought into Reagan Republicanism in 1980.” Schumer has explained that he has “guided” his political career “through the Baileys.” “They’re a middle-class couple in Massapequa, which is a suburb on Long Island,” Schumer said in one clip from an...
  • What parts of Ukraine does Russia control as Trump suggests a land swap?

    08/10/2025 1:37:59 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 46 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | 6:29 AM EDT August 10, 2025 | Niha Masih, Grace Moon
    President Donald Trump suggested ahead of a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska this week that Ukraine could cede land to Russia as part of a peace deal — an idea that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky swiftly rejected.“Ukrainians will not give their land to the occupier,” Zelensky said in a video address Saturday. The leaders of Britain and the European Union threw their support behind Ukraine’s president, saying a ceasefire must come before any negotiations.Trump had said that “some swapping of territories” could be “to the betterment” of both sides.Ukraine is a vast Eastern European country, covering about...
  • Ex-Washington Post fact-checker faces criticism over claims of 'straight' media coverage

    08/09/2025 2:02:23 PM PDT · by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas · 19 replies
    fox news ^ | August 9, 2025 | Alexander Hall
    One of the internet’s most famous fact-checkers, former Washington Post writer Glenn Kessler, was grilled by author and podcaster Mark Halperin on Friday over media bias. The man behind The Washington Post's "Pinocchios" announced in late July he would be leaving the paper without anyone to fill his shoes. Kessler, who reportedly edited more than 3,000 fact checks as editor and chief writer of The Fact Checker, announced that week he had taken a buyout deal, ending his lengthy career at the Post. "After more than 27 years at The Washington Post, including almost 15 as The Fact Checker, I...
  • Texas ignited a gerrymandering war. We will all pay the price.

    08/05/2025 4:49:35 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 45 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | August 5, 2025 | David Daley
    Redistricting reform could die as it becomes another polarizing and partisan blood sport.David Daley is author of “Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count” and “Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right’s 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections.”The 2026 midterms might not be decided by tariffs, President Donald Trump’s approval ratings or even Sydney Sweeney’s divisive American Eagle ad — but by gerrymandering. Just a handful of seats separate the two parties, and first Republicans and now Democrats are angling for more before votes are cast.Texas Republicans stand ready to adopt a new map that could award them as many as five additional...
  • The Fed was already politicized. Trump’s just playing its game.

    07/31/2025 11:47:12 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 10 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | July 31, 2025 1:08 PM EDT | Kate Andrews
    The president clamors for the Fed to lower interest rates because it serves his wild spending.No one likes to be told no, especially Donald Trump. To refuse the president is to invite a battle that he will pursue to the bitter end. So the Federal Reserve’s decision on Wednesday to leave interest rates unchanged, at 4.25 percent to 4.5 percent, was hardly a routine vote. It was a loud no from the majority of voting members — including the president’s designated nemesis, Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell — to Trump’s demand that “interest rates have to come down.”The retributive president...
  • I might lean left — but Marjorie Taylor Greene is winning my respect

    07/30/2025 5:22:28 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 19 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | July 30, 2025 2:08 PM EDT | Zaid Jilani
    I’m not a big fan of political labels. They invite people to put you in a box, and the only box I want to be in is one labeled “open-minded.” I don’t think anyone has a monopoly on the truth.But anyone who takes a look at my résumé — I worked at a top Democratic Party-aligned think tank and a left-leaning political action committee, where I helped Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats win elections — would acknowledge that over the years, I’ve spent a lot of time in the progressive movement.And yet, for the past week, the politician I find...
  • Longtime Washington Post fact checker takes buyout, says paper has yet to find replacement before exit

    07/28/2025 8:55:38 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 13 replies
    FOX News ^ | July 28, 2025 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn
    The man behind The Washington Post's "Pinocchios" is leaving the paper without anyone to fill his shoes. Glenn Kessler, the editor of The Fact Checker, announced Monday he has taken a buyout, ending his lengthy career at the Post. "After more than 27 years at The Washington Post, including almost 15 as The Fact Checker, I will be leaving on July 31, having taken a buyout," Kessler wrote on his Facebook page. "Much as I would have liked to keep scrutinizing politicians in Washington, especially in this era, the financial considerations were impossible to dismiss." Kessler said he wrote or...
  • Trump’s imaginary numbers, from $1.99 gas to 1,500 percent price cuts

    07/27/2025 8:09:06 PM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 34 replies
    Washington Post via MSN ^ | July 27, 2025 | Naftali Bendavid
    President Donald Trump made a promise at a reception last week for Republican lawmakers that was as impossible as it was specific: He would drive down drug prices by as much as 1,500 percent — “numbers that are not even thought to be achievable,” he said. A price cannot drop by more than 100 percent, but Trump went on to make several other precise but clearly false numerical claims. The cost of gasoline had fallen to $1.99 a gallon in five states, he said; according to AAA, it was over $3 in every state. Businesses had invested $16 trillion in...