Eric Lisann

Does not bode well for escorting shipping including oil through the Strait of Hormuz as Trump promised.
Maybe Iran will rename it the Strait of Iran.

The professional career civil servants who normally would effectively handle this were run off by Trump, Musk, and Vought.

How is this not an assault by GOP Senator Tim Sheehy? He should be investigated and charged by the US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. Having failed in their attempted prosecutions of Senator Mark Kelly and others, and President Biden and others, this is a simple one for them.

The Nodfather, even in this dusk of his dotage, is encouraged by fearful Republican Senators (plus John Fetterman) to continue unilaterally plunging the world into violent turmoil with Mad King powers.

This is why Democrats must retake the Senate. Why the elections in Maine and Texas and around the country are so important.

The laws of war, international humanitarian law, rules of engagement, law of the sea, and human decency are often all that will protect Americans abroad. Imagine if an Iranian sub sank a disengaged American ship halfway around the world that had been invited to an international exercise.

Trump DOJ Pushes to Sideline State Bar Ethics Investigations (2) The Justice Department has proposed a regulation seeking to authorize Attorney General Pam Bondi to suspend state bar ethics investigations into current and former DOJ lawyers—a step outside attorneys...

The Justice Department has proposed a regulation seeking to authorize Attorney General Pam Bondi to suspend state bar ethics investigations into current and former DOJ lawyers, a step outside attorneys quickly criticized as an illegal intervention.

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A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured - The American Prospect ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.

We updated our record of people immigration agents have killed or caused to die since Trump took office in January 2025.

As of today, agents have killed at least 28 people in the field and 48 people in custody.

If she ever appears, will she bring her binder and index cards full of bespoke insults for each Democrat on the committee?

The department's failure to build a criminal case against Mr. Biden despite the expenditure of resources diverted from fighting corruption and terrorism, among other normal priorities, is the latest example of its commandeering to serve Mr. Trump's personal interests rather than the public's.

Noem is a tenacious practitioner of non-denial denials, never ever acknowledging the actual question.

Jared Polis and the Slippery Slope of Election Denial Mercy Clemency exists for mercy, not for softening the consequences of undermining elections, or placating Donald

Mercy has a place in justice.

But clemency for someone convicted of undermining election systems sends the wrong message at the worst possible time.
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YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News BREAKING NEWS: Raskin Plays Videos Of Renee Good & Alex Pretti Killings For Noem To Watch

Congressman Jamie Raskin summarizes the lowlights and pronounces judgement on Kristi Noem's tenure at DHS. Required viewing.
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This is an important point - If Kentucky and other states have comparatively higher Medicaid error rates than does Minnesota, where is the outrage and investigations and stop payments directed at those states?

Can not fathom this fecklessness. Does he even try to explain, perhaps he was upset by Trump excluding him when governors visited the White House?

Kirkland Pressed by Democrats on Epshteyn’s Role in Trump Deal Kirkland & Ellis is facing new questions about its deal with President Donald Trump, including the part that Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn played in landing the agreement.

Senators Schiff and Blumenthal and Representative Raskin are charging that big law firms that collaborated with Trump to provide his pet interests free legal services seemingly used this as a vehicle to bribe him. They seek information from Kirkland & Ellis.
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Seems illegal or at the very least should be to be a political appointee at DHS while your spouse benefits from a $143 million contract, a no-bid contract to boot. But in the Trump regime there ard no IGs and no prosecutors or anyone else to even investigate.

Reporting now is that Kurdish forces may be considered now, on the fly, as part of an operation in Western Iran.

He had no idea what was going on. He was probably focused on invading Cuba.

Representative Warren Davidson (R-OH) attempting to sanewash Trump and administration statements on Iran war justifications, tells CNN (without pushback) that ISIS was defeated with air power alone. Not true. The US had extremely effective anti-ISIS allies on the ground, with Kurdish forces.

These people need to be rehired immediately. Fire Patel instead.

Competition to see who is more pathetic

What can you even say? These people deserve their inevitable humiliation and the nation deserves journalists with more self-respect.

Is America First the right euphemism

State censors have approved this programming.

It is so obvious that legislation prohibiting prediction markets should have been enacted already, yes, but it wasn't. Congress just thinking about it now for the first time. The modern Congress is captured by special interests and enacts nothing useful to the public.

The anti General Colin Powell maxim. Replacing "if you break the country you own it" with "we broke your country no go fix it yourself or we'll break it again."

Trump is not following General Colin Powell's famous maxim of the war-starting moral code that - if you break it you own it. Trump is breaking it and throwing it away.

Kash Patel’s Girlfriend Seeks Fame and Fortune, Escorted by an F.B.I. SWAT Team

Kashyap is ordering the F.B.I. to provide open-ended, around-the-clock SWAT coverage for an aspiring right-wing influencer girlfriend living in another city. A former FBI official explains “The inappropriateness of this cannot be overstated.”
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