politics

Who would have thought putting a alcoholic, sad tv personality, with no requisite should in charge of the armed forces would lead to such catastrophic results?

Robert Mackey (now); Lucy Campbell, Marina Dunbar and Tom Ambrose (earlier) Wed 7 May 2025 20.23 EDT

Lauren Gambino Wed 7 May 2025 19.41 EDT

The Trump administration is planning to deport a group of migrants to Libya, according to reports, despite the state department’s previous condemnation of the “life-threatening” prison conditions in the country. Libya’s provisional government has denied the reports.

Sam Levine and agencies Wed 7 May 2025 12.35 EDT

Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a birth certificate update ban as well as two DEI bans that explicitly included transgender people.

With Trump’s help, Republicans across the country are sowing doubt about next year’s congressional elections—and gearing up for 2028.

A recent deal between an Emirati investment firm and a cryptocurrency company tied to the Trumps could endanger national security, Warren said.

The Oklahoma Republican Party has added several new priorities to its party platform, including opposing funding increases for public schools, banning 5G technology and eliminating mail-in and early voting.

Apparently Trump didn’t know Pentagon paused Ukraine aid back in February. Reuters: U.S. military aid to Ukraine was paused in early Feb — not by Trump, but by Defense Secretary Hegseth. There was no presidential order. The White House and State Department weren’t informed

President Donald Trump made a surprise announcement on Tuesday that the United States would stop bombing the Houthis in Yemen, insisting that the rebel group had agreed to stop attacking U.S. ships in the Red Sea.

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JD Vance attempted a charm offensive on Tuesday, and failed with the charm while succeeding in being offensive.

NFL is a Nazi enabling organization. Boycott the NFL.

President Donald Trump is demanding the release of Tina Peters, a former election official who parroted Trump's 2020 election conspiracy theories and is serving nine years in prison for compromising the security of election equipment.

Since 1992, the program has helped American families and businesses save more than $500 billion in energy costs, a federal report says.

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the sudden cancellation of 11 U.S. weapons flights to Ukraine in February without Trump’s knowledge, blindsiding the White House, Pentagon, and State Department, Reuters reported.

In an exclusive interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Trump also outlined a White House renovation he hopes to carry out — which he said he will pay for himself.

Veteran 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley reported on Donald Trump’s efforts to strong-arm some of the country’s top law firms into doing his bidding on Sunday night’s episode of the embattled CBS newsmagazine.

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The Trump adviser is trying to redefine the Constitution in order to carry out his extreme immigration agenda.

The West was moving to the right — and then Donald Trump got elected again

Doesn't even know the presidential oath he pledged.

Washington Sen. Patty Murray grilled Collins about a lack of transparency under his leadership, including a new policy that prevented her from meeting with veterans and health care providers at the Seattle VA hospital in April. She also questioned his goal of cutting 15% of the department’s workforce while accelerating the rollout of the electronic health record system that has hamstrung Spokane’s Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center since it became the testing ground at the end of the first Trump administration.

Edward Helmore Tue 6 May 2025 09.32 EDT

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To a question about Trump's remarks about Canada becoming the 51st U.S. state, the newly elected Carney replied, "There are some places that are never for sale ... having met with the owners of Canada over the course of the campaign, it's not for sale. It won't be for sale ever."

Elbows up!

The local elections weren’t just a series of wins but a sweep. MAGA-backed candidates got absolutely trounced across the state.

Because the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal can't hurt you if you can't see it.

University told by education secretary Linda McMahon research grants and other aid ‘will not be provided’

Let’s face it: a new generation of scholarship has changed the way we understand American history, particularly slavery, capitalism, and the Civil War. Our language should change as well. The old labels and terms handed down to us from the conservative scholars of the early to mid-twentieth century no longer reflect the best evidence and arguments. The tired terms served either to reassure worried Americans in a Cold War world, or uphold a white supremacist, sexist interpretation of the past. The Cold War is over, and we must reject faulty frameworks and phrases. We no longer call the Civil War “The War Between the States,” nor do we refer to women’s rights activists as “suffragettes,” nor do we call African-Americans “Negroes.” Language has changed before, and I propose that it should change again.

Jessica Corbett May 05, 2025

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/43481567

The town hall in Somers, a leafy section of Lawler’s Hudson Valley district, began to teeter off the rails soon after it began.

AfD-Verbot: Rot-Rot-Grüne Koalition in Bremen will Verfahren einleiten

Secretary of state, acting administrator for USAID, acting lead archivist, acting national security adviser. Marco Rubio, the politician Trump once dubbed “little Marco,” has become the president’s go-to guy for big roles in the administration. But Democrats are casting doubt on whether it is possible for Rubio — or anyone — to balance all of those jobs.

House Republicans authorized a new rule to prevent Democrats from probing the Trump administration’s scandals until October.

Three people died in ICE custody in April, bringing the total deaths under Trump’s current term to at least seven. Victims include Brayan Garzón-Rayo, Nhon Nguc Nguyen, and Marie Ange Blaise, whose case raised questions about denied medical care.

A banjo player and a Black MAGA influencer, among others, now attend Trump administration press briefings

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Who needs to read books when you got TV?

The president’s temper tantrum comes less than two days after U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr., whom Trump appointed during his first term, struck down his use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to expel hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador. The administration had argued that the law—which was last used during World War II to justify carting Japanese-Americans off to internment camps—allowed it to deport migrants without due process because the country is at war with gangs and drug cartels.

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency declared the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party a “proven right-wing extremist organization,” citing Holocaust trivialization, Nazi slogans, and anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, was intended as an “anti-woke” alternative, but “Trump-y X users” now complain it “doesn’t see things their way.”

On how the coming shortages are set to damage the governments already low popularity

More! I need more of this!

Trump said that instead of a separation of church and state, he will bring "religion back to our country."