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We don’t need to wait until Wednesday’s oral arguments in the birthright citizenship case for this week to suck at the Supreme Court. Getting a jump on things, the court dropped an 8-1 decision in Chiles v. Salazar that is equal parts depressing and weedy, the world’s worst combination. Factually, it’s pretty simple. In 2019, Colorado adopted a law banning conversion therapy for minors, barring m…

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Another day, another executive order-signing spectacle from President Donald Trump, where he does a bunch of bigoted rambling, signs a little piece of paper, and pretends that it’s now the law of the land. Trump’s latest bit of make-believe, Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections , purports to create—on the fly—an entire new nationwide scheme for verifying voter elig…

Errol Musk, father of billionaire Elon Musk, has revealed his belief in long-debunked conspiracy theories that America never landed on the moon. The senior Musk made his argument at a press conference hosted by Russia’s TASS news agency on Tuesday. Discussing one of the biggest achievements in world history, Musk said, “One has to question some things,” adding that he was “curious as to how they …

As GOP Gov. Joe Lombardo of Nevada faces a tight race with Democratic challenger Attorney General Aaron Ford, Lombardo is desperate to distance himself from President Donald Trump’s disastrous and illegal tariffs, even after he said that Nevadans may need to “feel a little pain” as prices increase. “It would be poor for me to say I have a complete understanding of the tariffs,” he said, adding th…

President Donald Trump's approval rating is reaching new lows as Americans grow frustrated with the high cost of living and Trump's choice to mire the country in a new foreign war . In fact, since Trump launched the boondoggle of a war in Iran, his average net approval rating has fallen roughly 5 percentage points, according to polling analyst Nate Silver. His approval rating now stands at an aby…

A photograph of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has been purged from photo services. Why? Because it was supposedly taken at an unflattering angle. Yes, really. According to Status , the photo—which shows Leavitt holding her son during a White House Thanksgiving event—was removed from AFP and Getty Images archives. The disappearing photo is just the latest example of the administrati…

The bad news keeps rolling in for Kristi Noem, the fired former head of the Department of Homeland Security. On Tuesday, the Daily Mail reported that her husband is a crossdresser who wears large fake breasts and hot pants while messaging with online adult entertainers. According to the report, Bryon Noem sent at least $25,000 to interact with fetish models, whom he communicated with using a phon…

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to suspend its construction of a $400 million ballroom where it demolished the East Wing of the White House. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington granted a preservationist group’s request for a preliminary injunction that temporarily halts President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project. Leon, who was nominated to the ben…

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is muddying expectations ahead of what could be another disappointing jobs report later this week. “I'm looking forward to Friday's numbers to see exactly what the trends are,” she told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, before blaming last month's depressing report on a “strike” and “the weather.” YouTube Video “But again, it's a snapshot in time,” Chavez-DeRe…