US Justice Dept disbands cryptocurrency enforcement unit The U.S. Justice Department is disbanding its National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team and ordering prosecutors to focus instead on criminal investigations involving cartels and terrorist groups that use digital currency to finance illicit business, according to a memo seen by Reuters.

US Justice Dept disbands crypto enforcement team, citing Trump order - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Judge Orders White House to Restore AP’s Access to Trump A federal judge ordered the White House to restore the outlet’s access to certain White House events and agreed that it had been singled out over its editorial decisions.

Yes! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.

Frightening: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...

He’s the Face of a White House Press Corps Under Attack by Trump Eugene Daniels, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, is pushing back on the administration’s hostility to reporters as he navigates a move to MSNBC from Politico.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/b...

"Putin couldn't be happier" over Trump-Zelenskyy meeting, Trump's former national security adviser says Rep. Don Bacon, Sen. Angus King and H.R. McMaster, who served as Mr. Trump's national security adviser during his first administration, weigh in on the U.S.-Ukraine relationship.

Former Trump national security advisor HR McMaster:

“Vladimir Putin couldn't be happier… because what he sees is all of the pressure on Zelenskyy, all of the pressure on Ukraine and no pressure on him."

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-z...

Trump and the Press The president wants journalists to parrot his views and face consequences if they don’t.

Worrying: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/b...

After He Ran a Cartoon on the War in Gaza, Gannett Fired Him Tony Doris, the editorial page editor at The Palm Beach Post, was fired after he selected a cartoon that drew criticism from a nearby Jewish organization.

Well, this is a load of crap: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/b...

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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Never forget this day, February 28, 2025, when an American president abused and betrayed a democratic ally in the midst of a barbaric war with Russia. This grotesque stain will never wash away.

US family in Kyiv mourns son killed in war, upset by Trump's lurch to Russia For the mother of U.S. veteran Ethan Hertweck, travelling to Kyiv to collect the body of her son who was killed in Russia's war in Ukraine in 2023 has rammed home the realities of the conflict.

His mother voted for Trump in November. // US family in Kyiv mourns son killed in war, upset by Trump's lurch to Russia - www.reuters.com/world/us-fam...

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

Actual question, after watching Oval Office spectacle w one president standing up for his country, and a prez and VP pandering for Putin:

I don't recall ever being more ashamed, as an American, of a president's public behavior. (Many have erred in private)

What has been more shameful than this?

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Opinion | Trump’s Ban on The A.P. Echoes Orwell’s ‘1984’ As a former White House reporter, I’m familiar with the conventional disputes between journalists and the president. This isn’t one of those.

Well said

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...

A.P. Sues Trump Officials Over White House Ban The wire service sued three of them for denying its reporters access to press events. The White House has objected to The A.P.’s references to the Gulf of Mexico in articles.

Continued …

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/b...

Fox News, CNN and Other Outlets Urge White House to Drop AP Ban Dozens of major news organizations, including some conservative outlets, urged the Trump administration to stop blocking The Associated Press from press events.

To be continued …

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...

DC temperature was in 20s F, with bitter wind and wind-chill in teens or below, when:

-JFK 1961
-Carter 1977
-Obama 2009

Took their oaths of office and delivered inaug speeches outdoors, at the Capitol.

But they were young, vigorous men.

(Inaug ceremonies next week have been moved indoors.)