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The Trump administration makes it really easy to write stories that sound like the latest episode of “The Real Housewives of the White House.” This time, the drama is swirling around Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her rumored lover Corey Lewandowski, a former campaign manager for President Donald Trump. Last week, Lewandowski—who was once charged with battery against a reporter and h…

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin appeared on right-wing media Friday to spin a dubious accounting of Immigration and Customs Enforcement thugs. This newest work of fiction was around detaining a five-year-old Minnesota child in the driveway of his home after he returned from school. “The facts are actually that this little boy was abandoned by his own fat…

You’d think that a dude who was just the centerpiece of a massive New York Times story about how his first year on the job has been “marred by vendettas, mismanagement, and meltdowns” might be engaging in the tiniest bit of self-reflection. But since that dude is FBI Director Kash Patel, you would be so, so wrong. Instead, Patel decided to do yet another purge of senior FBI employees for having t…

Nearly two-thirds of registered voters (61%) think Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have gone too far in their tactics as they seek to fulfill President Donald Trump's deportation agenda, a New York Times/Siena University poll released on Friday found. But not Republican voters. The same poll found that more than half of Republican voters (56%) think ICE's tactics have been "about rig…

The city of Philadelphia is suing the Trump administration over the decision to remove an exhibit at Independence National Historical Park depicting the factual history of slavery in the United States. The suit was filed on Thursday in response to agents from the National Park Service removing the display, which has been in place for 16 years. Video recorded by The Philadelphia Inquirer shows the…

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Hey kids, it’s Coalie! He’s a cute and cuddly lump of coal wearing a hardhat, and he’s here to tell you just how great coal mining is and just how great the Trump administration is at mitigating the harms caused by coal mining. Coalie made his debut Wednesday on the official government webpage for the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, a division of the Department of the Interi…

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Another day, another private lawsuit by the president of the United States. This time, President Donald Trump is going after JPMorgan Chase—the world’s largest bank by market capitalization—and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, demanding $5 billion in damages for being “debanked” after Jan. 6, 2021. “Debanked” sounds scary and illegal and much more fraught than what really happened here, which is that after …

Friday is “ICE Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth & Freedom,” a general strike supported by Minnesota’s unions, progressive faith leaders, Democratic lawmakers and community activists. The “ICE Out” day proponents are encouraging all Minnesotans to stay home from work, school and refrain from shopping — suspensions of normal orders of business to protest the presence of federal immigration agents in …

Congratulations, Republicans: Your mentally incapacitated president—who’s running the country without guardrails, constraints, or adult supervision—is burning through nearly a century of international goodwill, with consequences that will echo for decades. “You cannot put the genie back into the bottle. Things might get better and more calm a few months down the road, and Trump, he can’t be reele…