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One Maryland lawmaker has a great idea: Ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents hired to enforce President Donald Trump’s deportations from ever getting jobs in state law enforcement. “It says something about the morals of the person—the character of the person—if they see what’s happening on TV, they see what happening in the streets and say, ‘You know what? I want to join that,’” Democra…

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Well, well, well, would you lookie here. The Department of Health and Human Services appears to have realized that slashing $2 billion in mental health and substance abuse treatment out of the blue might not be met with warm fuzzy feelings. So now, they have reinstated the funds, all within about 24 hours. On Tuesday, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration—or SAMHSA, a divi…

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado told the press on Thursday that she “presented” President Donald Trump with the Nobel Peace Prize she was awarded in 2025. It was the latest example of the groveling Trump demands—which is usually accompanied by further public humiliation down the line. “I presented the President of the United States the medal of the Nobel Peace Prize,” Machado to…

They say you should follow the money. But in this case, following the donations to GoFundMe accounts supporting slain mother Renee Good and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who killed her paints an extremely polarizing picture. Fundraising efforts behind the fundraisers for 37-year-old Good and ICE agent Jonathan Ross skyrocketed since her killing on Jan. 7, with both hitting impress…

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt lost her Christian cool during a press conference on Thursday, when a reporter asked how Renee Good being “shot in the head and killed by an ICE agent” fits with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's assertion that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are " doing everything correctly ." “Why was Renee Good unfortunately and tragically kill…

Washington Post staff are expressing anger that billionaire owner Jeff Bezos has not spoken out publicly after the Department of Justice raided the home of one of its reporters earlier this week. In an escalation of the Trump administration’s sustained attack on the truth, the FBI raided the home of reporter Hannah Natanson Wednesday morning, seizing her personal and work-related devices as part …

As if we weren't already convinced that running Kyrsten Sinema out of office and replacing her with Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego wasn't the right choice, a lawsuit filed in federal court this week confirms how awful the former Arizona senator allegedly is. The ex-wife of a member of Sinema’s security detail sued her under North Carolina's so-called "homewrecker law," which allows people to sue t…

GOP Rep. Randy Fine of Florida is trying to blame Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and other Democrats for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s deadly actions. Following another shooting involving a federal agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 14, the famously bigoted Fine took aim at Democrats’ refusal to bend the knee to justify President Donald Trump's authoritarian overreach. “[Frey] is fomenting a seco…

Troops from several European countries continued to arrive in Greenland on Thursday in a show of support for Denmark as talks between representatives of Denmark, Greenland and the U.S. highlighted “fundamental disagreement” over the future of the Arctic island. Denmark announced it would increase its military presence in Greenland on Wednesday as foreign ministers from Denmark and Greenland were …