“It’s what we would call a lie. False. Not true. … He’s wrong. No one thinks that. Even conservative economists don’t think that. Even protectionist economists don’t think that.”

“The Department of Agriculture is no longer allowed to use the phrase ‘safe drinking water.'”

“The U.S. Department of Education is giving state education agencies 10 days to certify that their schools do not engage in any practices that the administration believes illegally promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

“The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for its food testing laboratories as a result of staff cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services.”

“All of the full-time employees in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vessel Sanitation Program are now off the job, multiple officials tell CBS News, gutting the agency’s ability to investigate outbreaks and conduct health inspections on cruise ships.”

“The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division.”

“New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them.”

“The Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially millions of borrowers, officials said.”

“Deputies are stopping Hispanic drivers for minor, unprovable traffic violations like veering left of center, then handing them over to Border Patrol agents who are sometimes already at the scene, the Syracuse.com investigation shows. In other cases, immigration agents act on anonymous tips and stake out homes. They follow migrant workers from work sites to restaurants. Undercover officers in ski masks show up at dairy farms in unmarked cars. They split up families. They take children from schools, even when they turn out to be U.S. citizens.”

“During a stop in Massachusetts, one of the men said to her, ‘We are not monsters,’ and ‘We do what the government tells us.’ She said they repeatedly refused her requests to speak to a lawyer.”

“Immigration agents detained a U.S. citizen for 10 days after he was accused of illegally entering the United States while reportedly visiting Arizona this month, his family said.”

“SpaceX and Musk have declined to comment on whether Musk is involved in any of the discussions or negotiations involving federal contracts with his businesses.”

“[The Republican Party chair] has shared with followers a video entitled ‘5 Reasons Why I BELIEVE in the Flat Earth (And You Should Too!),’ as well as numerous other videos claiming that the earth is flat.”

“The Australian says he was detained and deported when returning from the memorial in March, despite holding a working visa still valid for more than a year.”

“The United States Department of Homeland Security sent an email this week informing people living in the US on a temporary legal status that their ‘parole’ has been revoked and instructed them to leave the country ‘immediately.’ However, the email was also addressed to at least one US citizen, an immigration attorney from Massachusetts.”

“The email said Frantz — a 68-year-old retired college administrator and teacher, and American citizen born in western Pennsylvania — was in the United States on humanitarian parole and his parole was being terminated.”

“Despite following all of the rules and procedures, these Afghan Christians are now facing deportation.”

“An officer broke her car window, unlocked the door, and removed the mother from the vehicle.”

“Nobody is stopping them, they’re acting with impunity, they’re just going to keep going, and I fear it’s going to get worse.”

“They didn’t allow him to show ID to prove he’s a citizen and instead they grabbed him, put him face down on the pavement, handcuffed him and took out his wallet.”

“Amid stories of travellers facing hurdles or even being detained at the U.S. border, some immigration lawyers say Canadians should expect extra questioning, have plenty of documents on hand and carry a burner phone.”

“Her advice to anyone planning to travel to the US is simply not to go.”

“The latest tourist horror story to come out of Trump’s America is from German friends Charlotte Pohl, 19, and Maria Lepere, 18, who claimed they were detained after landing in Hawaii from New Zealand.”

“The number of foreigners passing through customs at the 10 busiest U.S. airports fell by over 20% year over year toward late March.”

“I was the only one in there so it seemed pretty clear that he saw me enter the restroom and he assumed that I am trans because of my height.”

“Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping alive a 32-year-old tradition that began in 1993.”

“Washington has become the court of Nero: an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a buffoon on ketamine tasked with purging the civil service.”

“Nobody that I’ve talked to understood the devastation that having this administration in office would do to our lives.”

“Never, ever heard him mention it. Ever. No clue where that is coming from.”

“The EPA also will take aim at rules restricting industrial pollution of mercury and other air toxins, soot pollution and a ‘good neighbor’ rule intended to restrict smokestack emissions that burden downwind areas with smog.”

“You’re looking at a much weaker economic engine than what otherwise would’ve been, not just because of tariffs, but the rhetoric and condescending tone around it.”

“NIH staff internally are very worried that the mRNA grants will follow the outcome of the vaccine hesitancy grants and be terminated.”

“From funding cuts to tariffs, farmers have found themselves caught in the middle of President Donald Trump’s escalation of trade wars and efforts to slash billions of dollars in spending, leaving a growing number now struggling to find markets for their products and facing the risk of steep losses for the year ahead.”

“Wilson also explicitly lent her support to Great Replacement theory, a racist and xenophobic conspiracy theory that holds that non-white immigrants are being lured to the United States to replace white Americans.”

“What followed was a nearly three-week battle to resurrect himself. He called Social Security two or three times a day for two weeks, with each call put on hold and then eventually disconnected.”

“An Oklahoma City retiree said his Social Security benefits were suspended without warning — and with no explanation given when he reached out.”

“Millions of Americans, including Bartell, had voted for President Donald Trump’s promise to crack down on ‘criminal illegal immigrants.’ But eight weeks in, the mass deportation effort has rapidly expanded.”

“‘Medicaid is not just for Black people in the ghetto, these are our voters,’ said a Republican operative close to the White House.”

“Crowds gathered in the capital, Nuuk, waving Greenland’s flag and holding signs with messages such as ‘Respect Greenland’s sovereignty,’ ‘We are not for sale’ and ‘Make America Go Away‘.”

“The Trump administration has frozen millions of dollars in federal funding meant for Habitat for Humanity.”

“Tesla vehicles suffer fatal accidents at a rate that’s twice the industry average, according to a new report.”

“United States customs officers are making more seizures of poultry products, including eggs, than fentanyl.”

“As the Office of Personnel Management oversaw the layoffs of thousands of federal workers and pressed others to justify their positions, the agency’s chief spokesperson repeatedly used her office for a side hustle: aspiring Instagram fashion influencer.”

“The United States launched a trade war against Canada, their closest partner and ally, their closest friend. At the same, they are talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin, a lying, murderous dictator. Make that make sense”

“You’re Dr. Phil. You’re on TV.”

“It’s kind of been sad, because I’ve been trying to prove to people that it’s a really awesome truck that’s not falling apart, and then mine starts to fall apart.”

“If the government wants to change the exceptional American grant of birthright citizenship, it needs to amend the Constitution itself. That’s how the Constitution works, and that’s how the rule of law works.”

“Orwellian is a term that gets overused, usually to suggest some a 1984-style omnipowerful dictatorial regime. This is more Orwellian as in a bunch of pigs clumsily rewriting rules as they go along.”

“It’s unclear what the canceled meeting will mean for people in the United States who want to get a flu vaccine next season.”

“It’s a bad look to support lead poisoning children.”

“SEC halts fraud prosecution of Chinese national who sent Trump millions.”

“Musk’s Starlink gets FAA contract, raising new conflict of interest concerns.”

“Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce.”

“Donald Trump is celebrating his administration’s move to ignore a law that targeted money laundering.”

“Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered a halt to a years-old federal law enforcement effort to combat secret influence campaigns by China, Russia and other adversaries that try to curry favor and sow chaos in American politics..”

“The US justice department under Donald Trump is disbanding an effort started after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine to enforce sanctions and target oligarchs close to the Kremlin.”

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia.”

“The United States is drawing up a plan to potentially give Russia sanctions relief as Donald Trump seeks to restore ties with Moscow.”

“President Donald Trump’s administration evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her home with three hours of notice — not even enough time to gather her personal effects.”

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy’s first female chief, without any clear explanation — part of a purge of top uniformed leadership that included the Joint Chiefs chairman, who is Black.”

“White House adviser Alina Habba said Tuesday that military veterans affected by the DOGE-led layoffs of federal workers may not be ‘fit to have a job at this moment.’ … ‘I really don’t feel sorry for them,’ Habba said.”

“I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist”

“A federal system for doing background checks on law enforcement officers has gone offline — thanks to an executive order signed by President Trump.”

“The confinement and legal limbo the deportees face has raised alarm in the Central American country, especially as images spread of migrants peaking through the windows of their rooms on high floors of the hotel and displaying the notes pleading for help.”

“Over the course of an NBA or NHL broadcast, the viewer will see the logo of a betting company or hear some reference made to gambling 2.8 times per minute.”

“And, to put it bluntly, these are liberal religionists objecting to a conservative governmental policy, instead of the other way around. Will the Court’s six conservatives be consistent with their principles, or their politics?”

“We hold that an Assistant District Attorney who uses opening statements to expose the jury to incriminating allegations from a non-testifying codefendant, repeatedly accuses a defendant of witchcraft, and relies on inflammatory and inadmissible evidence throughout the case, has knowingly committed misconduct so unfairly prejudicial and with such willful disregard for reversal on appeal that retrial is barred.”

“People are doing things. You will meet those people when you start doing things.”

“Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile.”

“National Nuclear Security Administration officials on Friday attempted to notify some employees who had been let go the day before that they are now due to be reinstated — but they struggled to find them because they didn’t have their new contact information. … The individuals the letter refers to had been fired on Thursday and lost access to their federal government email accounts.”

“The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that, over the weekend, it accidentally fired ‘several’ agency employees who are working on the federal government’s response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak. The agency said it is now trying to quickly reverse the firings.”

“The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.”

“With the Department of Government Efficiency and the Office of Management and Budget moving at a rapid clip and flouting federal law to carve up the government, the lawmakers face monumental challenges in getting the White House to spare their constituents from the ax.”

“It was also part of an eventual wider series … that includes striking comments denying the Holocaust, questioning 9/11, and engaging in anti-Black racism.”

“The Texas Observer has identified the operator of ‘GlomarResponder,’ an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden,”

“Texas Republicans have largely stayed quiet on the cuts, despite protest from medical institutions across Texas, which collectively received $1.9 billion in NIH funding last year.”

“Musk and Trump seem to have a particular knack for shortchanging veterans — even those who don’t rely on  care from the Department of Veterans Affairs or work for the federal government.”

“The U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ordered lawyers hired to represent unaccompanied children to stop working.”

“If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

“Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend.”

“A video on his YouTube channel titled ‘Elon Musk is Lying About Being Good at Video Games‘ has garnered over 1.2 million views in the month since it was posted.”

“It’s not exactly comforting that the people with access to the entire federal government can’t even set up a basic website.”

“To earn the vote he needed to become the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a special promise to a U.S. senator: He would not change the nation’s current vaccination schedule. But on Tuesday, speaking for the first time to thousands of U.S. Health and Human Services agency employees, he vowed to investigate the childhood vaccine schedule that prevents measles, polio and other dangerous diseases.”

“Her resignation is the latest by career Justice Department prosecutors to protest what they see as improper political interference by the Trump administration in criminal investigations.”

“Matt Schlapp, the Chairman of the American Conservative Union, which hosts the CPAC convention, allegedly engaged in lewd conduct and allegedly sexually assaulted a man at a restaurant and bar in Virginia on Saturday night, six witnesses and the man who alleges he was assaulted tell me.”

“In a 19-16 vote, the South Dakota Senate voted Tuesday to kill a bill that would raise the age of marry in South Dakota to 18-years-old.”

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”

“The answer is not pretty — and it’s the same reason that helps to explain white evangelical support for Trump: racism.”

“Of the more than two dozen Cabinet and staff members Trump has nominated, there are nearly as many accused sexual abusers as there are women.”

“Hegseth’s sexual misconduct isn’t a drawback to be judged against his lickspittle loyalty, it’s an essential part of the audition.”

“The idea that Nancy Mace wants little girls and women to drop trou in front of who — an investigator? Who would that be? — because she wants to suspect and point fingers at who she thinks is trans is disgusting. It is disgusting.”

“The new law prohibits all public and private schools and colleges from offering multi-stall bathrooms that are gender-neutral.”

“J.D. Vance has endorsed without qualification both the analysis and the plan laid out in Unhumans, saying it’s what needs to be done to ‘fight back.'”

“Just look at some of the headlines from the time: ‘Alabama immigration: crops rot as workers vanish to avoid crackdown.'”

“This was the beginning of what you might call the national fight against ‘illegal immigration’ — because before this virtually all immigration to the United States was legal.”

“If that were really true, wouldn’t you expect a much stiffer sentence for Herring?”

“Medical debt burdens 100 million people in the United States.”

“In the immediate aftermath of Synapse’s bankruptcy, which happened after an exodus of its fintech clients, a court-appointed trustee found that up to $96 million of customer funds was missing.”

“Financial institutions across the board are not reimbursing consumers, even when it appears the wire transfer request was not done by the consumer but someone who gained access to the consumer’s account and initiated the wire.”

“Taken together, these proposals would, on average, lead to a tax cut for the richest 5 percent of Americans and a tax increase for all other income groups.”

“The chief executive of Delta Air Lines says the incoming Trump administration will be a ‘breath of fresh air’ for airlines after what he calls government ‘overreach’ under President Joe Biden.”

“If you don’t understand wrestling, you’ll never understand Trump.”

“Protesters waved Nazi flags outside a community theater production of The Diary of Anne Frank in Michigan, leaving performers ‘understandably shaken’ by the hateful and antisemitic display.”

“Experts on terrorism and extremism said the lineup is particularly concerning because it brings together more mainstream conservative speakers with fringe figures who have close links to neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists.”

“Callers also reported the group was using racial slurs toward people of color on the street, shouting about Jewish people and white power and appeared to be armed, [Columbus, Ohio] police dispatchers said.”

“Just hours after President-elect Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidency last week, dozens of Black K-12 and college students across the country began receiving racist text messages telling recipients to ‘return to the plantation and pick cotton.'”

“Donald Trump appeared to confirm that he is willing — even eager — to declare a national emergency and use the military to carry out his plans for mass deportations.”

“Homan swears he is going to carry out Trump’s plan to deport 15 to 20 million people, or about 4 to 6 percent of the entire American population. There are only perhaps 13 million unauthorized immigrants in total.”

“The Haitians who filled thousands of jobs at area packaging and auto plants have helped rejuvenate once-blighted neighborhoods and contributed to the local economy in myriad ways.”

“I don’t think there is any way Gabbard could pass a normal background check to authorize her to see highly classified information, but Trump doesn’t care.”

“The group is called Science of Identity Foundation (SIF), founded by an acid-dropping white surfer guy named Chris Butler, AKA Guru Dev Srila Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa, AKA Jagad Guru, AKA Sai Young, in the 1970s, as an offshoot of the Hare Krishnas, AKA the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.”

“The woman who was at the center of a yearslong Justice Department investigation into sex trafficking allegations surrounding Rep. Matt Gaetz testified to the House Ethics Committee that the now-former Florida congressman had sex with her when she was 17 years old.”

“Are you shittin me, that you just asked that question? No! But hell, you’ll print that and now I’m going to be investigated.”

“The steps illustrate how seriously some potential targets of Trump’s retribution are taking the possibility that he or his allies could use the U.S. legal system against them, or that vigilante actors could take justice into their own hands.”

“She finds Hegseth’s fixation on the Crusades “really troubling — but also it’s completely consistent with the Christian Reconstructionists. That’s particularly troubling for someone who might have the biggest military in the world under his control.”

“They need to give states more flexibility on what segments of the population are covered and which ones are not.”

“Oklahoma public schools superintendents received an email Thursday night from Walters ordering them to show the video … to their students. In the email, which contained multiple grammatical errors, Walters wrote, “We are in a dangerous time for this country. Student’s (sic) rights and freedoms regarding religious liberties are continuously under assault.”

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“Detectives executed a search warrant and found the bear costume — complete with a furry snouted head, paws and metal tools in the shape of claws — in the suspects’ home.”

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”

“There are going to be deaths that didn’t have to happen. There are going to be severe complications that didn’t have to happen.”

“Between 2021 and 2022, infant deaths in Texas increased from 1985 to 2240, or 255 additional deaths.”

“Newbern, Alabama, a small town in which two-thirds of 133 residents are Black, has not held a municipal election for some 60 years.”

“Louisiana High Court: Priests Have a ‘Property Right’ Not to Be Sued For Sexual Abuse”

“I realized that we were not, we were not serving schools and we weren’t going to serve schools.”

“A bipartisan bill that would outlaw all child marriages in Missouri has run into resistance from Republicans in the Missouri House.”

“The youth pastor had declared that God wanted the victim to be his spouse.”

“She was 14 at the time.”

“The New Hampshire Republican lawmaker who called teenagers ‘ripe’ and ‘fertile’ says the uproar over his comments was an overreaction.”

“According to Friske’s biography, he serves at his local church and is a member of the National Rifle Association, Farm Bureau, Michigan United Conservation Clubs and Right to Life.”

“The right answer — criticizing/resisting the Biden administration’s indefensible ongoing support of the invasion/occupation, while doing so in a way that doesn’t go too far in terms of making it more likely that Trump will be re-elected — is easy to put into words, and very difficult to put into action.”

“Between 1976 and 1985, states that passed [no-fault divorce] laws saw their domestic violence rates against men and women fall by about 30%; the number of women murdered by an intimate partner declined by 10%; and female suicide rates declined by 8 to 16%.”

“Horse-race reporting has its place. But it won’t matter much if the men in the MAGA hats blow up the horse track.”

“Extremist commentator Christiane Northrup has promoted a pro-Nazi film that denies the Holocaust, encouraged people to check out the infamous antisemitic tract Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and repeatedly pushed the conspiracy theory that a secretive mafia is hiding behind Jewish identity to control world events. Still, Northrup has spoken twice at Trump’s Miami resort alongside Eric and Lara Trump.”

“As part of his plea agreement, Deming agreed to forfeit more than $1.9 million and a yellow monster truck.”

“I think that’s fair to say: I’m a victim of cancel culture.”