Marco Rubio Personally Signed Off to Detain Mahmoud Khalil on 'Foreign Policy Grounds,' Sources Confirm The government is staking its entire case to deport Khalil on whether Rubio “personally” thinks the Columbia student protest negotiator would “compromise” US foreign policy.

🚨 The Trump administration has Marco Rubio *personally* signing off on orders to deport Mahmoud Khalil, according to sources inside DHS & State Dept.

With no stated evidence of crime.

Source said the administration has “multiple targets” beyond Khalil to detain, in similar fashion.

Where have they been?

DOGE “seemed unsure” of what USAID programs they cut and is now attempting to reverse some of the cuts, says @propublica.org reporter Brett Murphy. “This is the opposite of a careful review."

Thou shalt not claim to be improving efficiency when all you do is fire people and then beg them to come back.

Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

Giant corporations are using Donald Trump’s haphazard tariff announcements as an excuse to raise prices.

The Trump Administration has no plan to stop it – and working families will unfairly foot the bill.

Trump Quietly Plans To Liquidate Public Lands To Finance His Sovereign Wealth Fund President Donald Trump’s executive order to create a sovereign wealth fund requires that the United States come up with heaps of cash quickly, which may make selling out and selling off public lands...

Public lands belong to us. They're not for sale.

Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.

“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”

@kyivindependent.com

Hundreds of NOAA employees are being fired by Trump and DOGE.

The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US.

A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans.

Again, this isn't about efficiency.

It’s been a long day, but in short, bullies ain’t shit! I don’t care what title you hold! This isn’t some long gone reality tv show or failed casino; it is war!

How dare a draft dodging dumb dupe humiliate an ally & berate a brave man who has actually been on a battlefield for his people?!

And then there's the question of how long we'll have intelligence, in all senses, including the intelligence services one, under this stupid regime.

Mark Kelly: “This is a gift to Putin … this makes us look weak. it’s not normal behavior”

Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’

Desperately trying to get someone to notice this story from today’s Guardian.We have opened our doors to Russian hackers and US media not reporting it. I can hardly breathe. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I want everyone to know that screaming match in the Oval

Was all for Russia TV that was there

I’ve said this before and I will probably say it again, but we forget so easily that everyone from history we look back on as the face of some movement had something else they wanted to do with their lives. I think every day about the fact that all Fred Hampton wanted was to play for the Yankees.

TRUMP’S PUBLIC HUMILIATION OF A WARTIME ALLY There are moments in history where you can feel the tectonic plates of power shifting under your feet, the precise seconds when empires declare themselves rotten and ready to collapse.

Incredible writing … we have not yet seen a better analysis if what happened yesterday.

Still We Rise.

open.substack.com/pub/closerto...

another great example along with Wired and Teen Vogue of how real journalism these days can be a lot braver at outlets where no one is trying to get in good with the White House press secretary

they’re out here with us, reporting on what’s happening to us all, instead of trying to get inside access

Trump ousts Joint Chiefs chairman, other leaders in major Pentagon shake-up The Navy’s top admiral and a senior Air Force general also were dismissed as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moves to align the military with Trump’s agenda.

One of the big questions with coups is who the military sides with. It's a big question now. Does the firing of a whole lot of leadership make the military now more malleable, or does it anger and alienate a lot of people down the chain of command? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

We are one news cycle away from Trump giving military aid to Russia.

Trump has ordered the Justice Department to stop enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act .

It's yet another alarming move by the most unabashedly corrupt president in American history. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/bribery-unbound

It's Trump's fourth week on the job and he's already taking a week-long vacation in Florida. Tell me more about how nobody gets anything done when they work from home.

Site’s still up (for now). Was able to order tests without a problem.

Chris Murphy: "This deal that Donald Trump just cut with the mayor of New York -- it's a big deal ... they did that out in the open on TV because it's a signal to everybody else out there that the law will be applied differently to you if you are loyal to the president."

Duckworth: "He essentially just surrendered to Putin."

I find Brian to be the most informed, trenchant, fearless, and literate tech critic/journalist and have a paid subscription to BLOOD IN THE MACHINE and everyone should.

Trump calls himself “THE KING”

Donald Trump has reportedly spent an estimated $10.7 million worth of taxpayer money to play golf since his inauguration.

This is happening as Head Start programs have struggled to access previously approved federal funding due to the Trump admin's illegal impoundment.

Hello?

I have faith in the American people--faith that we're an unruly, insubordinate bunch scattered across a vast swathe of land, from our beautifully diverse cities to our remotest rural communities, that we are not easy to subdue and control, that even those who have supported the current authoritarian cult will not like losing some of the federal government's services that make our lives livable, that we have more power than is recognized and that some of us are already organizing to use it. Protests and organizing of all kinds are happening, from high-school student walkouts to protest attacks on immigrants to demonstrations in front of hospitals from New York to Los Angeles that are complying with the malicious order suspending gender-affirming care for young trans people.

New newsletter: The majority does not like this, and as I wrote Sunday we can make that matter when we act. And we are acting--it's far from enough yet, but it's also far from nothing (and likely more than they bargained for)... The rest at: www.meditationsinanemergency.com/notes-on-not...

Now we come to the part of the day where I yell at Congressional Dems, because they’re still treating a Constitutional and national security crisis as a messaging opportunity, rather than an emergency that needs to be addressed.

(stretches)

(hydrates)

All right, let’s go yell at folks.