Source: Smith Collection/Gado / Getty As we’ve previously reported, since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, the Department of Homeland Security has significantly lowered the standard for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recruitment. The administration has confirmed that it reduced the number of days new recruits must train before hitting the streets. It […]
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Source: Al Drago / Getty In the latest instance of President Donald Trump trying to privatize the federal government, three U.S. airports have announced they will be opting into a program that places control of security screenings with private security companies. The New York Times reports that the Tampa International Airport, Des Moines International Airport […]
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The White House’s Domestic Policy Council essentially called the Smithsonian an extremist, anti-white, anti-American organization, writing that the museum “has become subject to institutional capture by a radical, activist ideology that is fundamentally opposed to telling the noble, honest story of the great country we know and love.” “As it stands today, it would benefit […]
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President Donald Trump and the conservative think tanks that inspire his policies want to privatize the Transportation Security Administration screeners who check your bags and bodies before you fly. It’s been a goal of theirs since Trump’s first term—the Heritage Foundation has been banging on about it since at least 2017—but they’ve re-upped the call […]
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Source: ROBYN BECK / Getty Now that funding has finally been approved for TSA workers, most of whom worked for more than 40 days without receiving paychecks, President Donald Trump is turning the calamity — which was part of the second government shutdown to happen during his second term — into an opportunity to privatize […]
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The woman, who worked as the political director for Gonzales’s 2020 congressional campaign but now volunteers for GOP nominee Brandon Herrera, said she approached the newspaper after she heard about his affair with staffer Regina Santos-Aviles in 2024 and its tragic aftermath, sharing the messages with the Express-News. Gonzales had begun the affair after pressing […]
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As a result, TSA workers still won’t be paid even as Americans travel for Easter this weekend, meaning that long security lines will continue at airports. On Wednesday, Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune released a joint statement saying that the House would support the Senate’s plan to fund DHS without more money for […]
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But now, Johnson and Thune have agreed on something that could have happened on Friday, or even weeks before. The sudden reversal seems to have come after Trump’s own 180, as he blessed Republicans on Wednesday to move forward with the two-track approach, and demanded a bill to fund DHS on his desk by June […]
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But now, Johnson and Thune have agreed on something that could have happened on Friday, or even weeks before. The sudden reversal seems to have come after Trump’s own 180, as he blessed Republicans on Wednesday to move forward with the two-track approach, and demanded a bill to fund DHS on his desk by June […]
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On Tuesday, Poland also rejected a U.S. request for the country to send a Patriot missile battery to the Middle East to help intercept Iranian missiles. Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz posted on X, “Our Patriot batteries and their armaments are used to protect Polish airspace and NATO’s eastern flank. Nothing is changing in this […]
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On Tuesday, Poland also rejected a U.S. request for the country to send a Patriot missile battery to the Middle East to help intercept Iranian missiles. Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz posted on X, “Our Patriot batteries and their armaments are used to protect Polish airspace and NATO’s eastern flank. Nothing is changing in this […]
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Source: The Dallas Morning News/Hearst Newspapers / Getty Since the Trump administration began deploying ICE agents to U.S. airports to assist TSA, which is short-staffed because its agents are not getting paid, many people have been nervous about the deployment being a “test run” for normalizing ICE presence in places where they don’t belong, such […]
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Source: Jerod Harris / Getty Over the weekend, Billionaire filmmaker Tyler Perry tried twice to provide financial assistance to TSA agents at the Atlanta International Airport who had been affected by the ongoing shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. After being told he couldn’t give cash tips to federal workers, Perry instead gave TSA […]
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Hegseth had been pushing Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll to remove the four officers for months, but given their years of exemplary service, Driscoll refused, military officials told the Times. Hegseth finally removed their names himself, likely without the legal authority to do so. As per military policy, the defense secretary is technically only supposed to […]
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Still, it’s a deal that suggests that Democrats are still paying for mistakes they made at the start of Trump’s second term. In January 2025, in the wake of Democrats’ shocking election loss, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer gave vulnerable members an opportunity to showcase their hard-line immigration credentials: He signaled he would vote to […]
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Source: Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers / Getty The monthlong shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may be coming to a close after the Senate unanimously passed a bill that funds most of the department, except for ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. According to The New York Times, the vote came after President […]
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Source: JIM WATSON / Getty When President Donald Trump declared, “We ended DEI” during his State of the Union address, two things became clear: his administration aimed to elevate white supremacy, and everyone who supported this regime shares the blame. “White people were very badly treated,” Trump told the New York Times earlier this year […]
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A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies, or IPS, takes a deep dive into the battery of corporations they call the “Low Wage 20”: 20 firms that currently employ 6.7 million people across the United States. The names are familiar—Amazon, Starbucks, FedEx, Walmart, and Tyson Foods are habitual malefactors—but their sins are growing […]
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Source: Megan Varner / Getty When it comes to the Trump administration’s deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement at U.S. airports, where they’ve supposedly been sent to assist TSA — which is short-staffed because it turns out a lot of people would rather quit their jobs than work without pay — people have a lot […]
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Source: Anadolu / Getty As we previously reported, the Trump administration has begun deploying ICE agents to U.S. airports, allegedly, to assist the understaffed Transportation Security Administration, where employees have been working without pay due to a partial government shutdown. ICE has been deployed to airports to help reduce wait times, not necessarily to conduct immigration […]
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Marc Andreessen, the egghead, Twitter-obsessed co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. His net worth is estimated at $1.9 billion. Interestingly, Andreessen generally voted Democrat until 2024, when he concluded that Joe Biden’s administration “flat-out tried to kill us”—by which he meant they were attempting to regulate crypto and AI. Andreessen promptly donated $2.5 […]
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Marc Andreessen, the egghead, Twitter-obsessed co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. His net worth is estimated at $1.9 billion. Interestingly, Andreessen generally voted Democrat until 2024, when he concluded that Joe Biden’s administration “flat-out tried to kill us”—by which he meant they were attempting to regulate crypto and AI. Andreessen promptly donated $2.5 […]
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Mullin is the father of six children, including two twin girls, whom he described as unimaginably “loving” even after they were spanked. “I can spank them and I’m still upset and they’ll come and crawl on my lap two minutes later and just hug on me,” he went on, before diving into a disturbing story […]
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Mullin is the father of six children, including two twin girls, whom he described as unimaginably “loving” even after they were spanked. “I can spank them and I’m still upset and they’ll come and crawl on my lap two minutes later and just hug on me,” he went on, before diving into a disturbing story […]
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Source: Anadolu / Getty On Monday, the Trump administration began deploying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to U.S. airports to assist unpaid TSA agents amid a partial government shutdown that revolves around Department of Homeland Security funding, specifically ICE funding. By Monday night, members of the GOP Senate said they believe Trump is open to negotiating […]
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Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune / Getty – March 23: Travelers stand in a long Transportation Security Administration (TSA) line that wrapped throughout Terminal 1 at San Diego International Airport on March 23, 2026. Travelers across the United States faced a frustrating reality this past weekend: long TSA wait times, in some cases stretching to […]
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But Iran’s foreign ministry quickly denied the news and claimed that there has been “no dialogue” between the two countries, with one top official adding that Trump “retreated after hearing that our targets would be all power plants in West Asia.” When questioned about Iran’s response later on Monday morning, Trump stuck to his story. […]
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Source: CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / Getty The Trump administration seems to keep doubling and tripling down on everything that makes it unpopular with everyone outside of President Donald Trump’s cult-like MAGA base. That’s really the only explanation possible for why Trump and his Cabinet of reverse-DEI imbeciles thought it was a grand idea to send Immigration […]
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But it seems that even Trump knows that ICE agents’ presence at U.S. airports is a bad look: He asked federal officers on Monday not to wear face masks while “helping our Country out of the Democrat caused MESS at the airports.” ICE officers’ masks have been a sticking point in negotiations with Democrats. ICE […]
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During a period at the start of 2026 when Donald Trump repeatedly threatened a military takeover of Greenland, the Danish military were prepared to blow up airport runways on the island to repel U.S. forces, DR reports. Blood supplies were also shipped to the island so the wounded could be treated if fighting occurred, sources […]
Read MoreDuring a period at the start of 2026 when Donald Trump repeatedly threatened a military takeover of Greenland, the Danish military were prepared to blow up airport runways on the island to repel U.S. forces, DR reports. Blood supplies were also shipped to the island so the wounded could be treated if fighting occurred, sources […]
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