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Donald J. Trump White House 2nd Term Page 24
Story by Matthew Rozsa

President Donald Trump’s former White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, has emerged as a frequent critic during the Republican’s second term. Perhaps this is why — in light of the news that after an assassination threat Trump switched planes, hid in a catering cart and used a separate plane containing reporters as a decoy — Scaramucci led the pack on X in ridiculing Trump as a “coward.”

“This image of Trump in the catering cart is going to be hard to shake,” Scaramucci tweeted, showing an image of Trump hiding in a cart that has not been confirmed. “You know he’s livid that it got out. If he wasn’t a coward, he would’ve told them, no chance I’m doing that.”

George Conway, a former Republican attorney who was also married to Trump's first term counsel Kellyanne Conway, took a swipe at Trump's weight with his own comment. While retweeting former President Barack Obama's NSC staffer Tommy Vietor saying "the mental image of Trump hiding from Iran in a catering cart is devastating. A weak, stupid old man hiding from the consequences of his own decision while endangering others," Conway added, "Agree. But also, I’m incredibly impressed with the physical strength and toughness of the catering cart. Wow."

Similarly Democratic strategist Christopher Webb exulted in Trump’s perceived embarrassing story, showing a montage of images purportedly showing him in various carts while posting “the catering cart memes are doing me in.”
Story by Kathleen Culliton

President Donald Trump's administration has quietly "weaponized" a power cloaked in secrecy to punish his critics and prop up corrupt power brokers, according to a new report.

Trump's government has been revoking the visas of foreign leaders, judges and journalists while quietly reinstating those of like-minded allies, the New York Times reported Sunday.

“No recent American administration ever did this kind of open attack on freedom of expression” said John Feeley, a career diplomat. “A congressman or a prosecutor without a U.S. visa...is somebody who is flying with a broken wing.”

Past State departments have also revoked visas but mostly to keep security threats out of the country or fight corruption, the Times reported.
President Trump continues to say that Iran wants to make a deal to end the war and that the U.S. has control over the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, the president downplayed concerns about the conditions aboard the USS Lincoln. MS NOW Senior National Security Reporter David Rohde and New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker join Stephanie Ruhle with more details and analysis.
Story by Sarah K. Burris

President Donald Trump’s second-term revenge campaign, critics warn, is no longer confined to angry posts and political grudges. Instead, Trump is increasingly turning beyond his political foes and deploying the vast power of the federal government against anyone who resists, embarrasses or simply defies him.

New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie argued in a blistering Wednesday column that Trump's ongoing efforts for revenge against his political foes are warping the federal government into an instrument for settling scores.

Bouie cited former officials Trump continues to see as disloyal, including Gen. Mark Milley, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, and Mark Esper. All of his targets go beyond former aides to include civil servants, prosecutors, judges, Republican impeachment supporters, and even voters who rejected him in 2020. The result has been a White House driven less by a public agenda than by the president’s desire to punish people who defy or embarrass him.

The two best examples come from the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case and the prosecution of David Hearn.

Garcia was deported to the brutal prison in El Salvador despite open legal challenges and against the explicit instruction of the judge to turn the planes around.
Long before Donald Trump became a businessman, television star, and president, the people who knew him in Queens were already getting a glimpse of the personality the world would later recognize. Childhood friends and classmates remember a competitive, loud, energetic boy who loved winning, sometimes broke the rules, and wasn't afraid of confrontation.
Story by Alex Bollinger

CNN confronted a conservative pundit with a supercut of Donald Trump insulting women, and he wasn’t able to answer why he still thought Democrats are more sexist than Republicans.

The right has been outraged at Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) this past week for mentioning White House aide Natalie Harp in one of his speeches. Ossoff highlighted her unusually close relationship with the president when, in a speech last weekend, he said that Trump would rather “build his ballroom and travel with Natalie to their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar” than do his job.

“It’s been amazing to watch this White House melt down over this all week,” Ossoff said on MS NOW later in the week, adding that White House staffers are “public officials paid by the taxpayer with immense power in positions of public trust” to explain why he thinks it’s fine to subject them to public criticism.
CNN broadcast a brutal montage of Donald Trump making offensive remarks about women after Scott Jennings expressed outrage over Senator Jon Ossoff's controversial comment.
At a 2016 press conference, Donald Trump publicly urged Russia to locate Hillary Clinton's missing emails, a statement that set off years of debate over foreign interference, political norms, and the boundaries of acceptable campaign rhetoric.
Story by Thomas Kika

The fiasco surrounding the USS Abraham Lincoln has seen President Donald Trump's disrespect for the military reach new lows, and according to a report from The New Republic, some troops have finally had enough and are letting their disgust be known.

In recent weeks, reports have emerged revealing the alarming conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, a vessel that has been stationed in the Middle East since November and is nearing the record for the longest ever deployment, set back in the Vietnam War. Aboard the ship, troops and officers are reportedly dealing with worsening food and resource shortages, as well as deteriorating physical conditions, with some areas becoming infested with mold. Driven to extreme desperation, some troops have also reportedly attempted to jump overboard to escape the conditions onboard.
Story by David Edwards

The Justice Department pressed the Supreme Court to lift an injunction blocking President Donald Trump's mail-ballot order, even after its only argument had "evaporated."

Trump signed Executive Order 14399 in March, directing the United States Postal Service to impose new requirements on mail-in ballots ahead of the November midterm elections. Federal courts repeatedly blocked it, including with two separate injunctions from a Massachusetts federal judge now barring implementation of the order for the Nov. 3 election.

The Trump administration moved forward with the plan anyway. On Friday, the Postal Service published that final rule.

The department had argued before the Supreme Court that the legal challenge was premature because no final postal rule existed at the time.

UCLA election law professor Rick Hasen wrote Monday that the new development wiped out the government's entire case for lifting the injunction.

"DOJ's argument has evaporated," Hasen pointed out.
David Edwards

A federal appeals court ruled in President Donald Trump's favor but warned him that his mail voting order may be impossible to carry out and could be swiftly blocked if he tries.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled Tuesday that the lawsuit was not yet ready for court review, according to Democracy Docket.

The Democratic groups had not yet suffered enough concrete harm to sue, the court found.

The order directs the U.S. Postal Service to withhold mail ballots from anyone not on citizenship lists compiled by the Department of Homeland Security, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.

The Brennan Center said that millions of eligible voters could have their ballots go undelivered, with no notification that they had been blocked. The court insisted that it could intervene if Trump went too far.

"If the federal agencies were to take the actions the Plaintiffs fear and if they were to attempt to impose those massive changes on the States' voting systems on the threshold of the upcoming election," the court wrote, going further than its ruling required.
Story by Matt Naham

As the U.S. Supreme Court weighs a challenge to the ruling of a federal judge in Massachusetts, that same judge has demanded that the Trump administration swiftly respond to the allegation that it "flouted" an injunction.

The DOJ filed a notice on Friday for U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, telling her "after the courts were closed" that the USPS sent a "final rule" to the Office of the Federal Register, to be formally published "on August 26, 2026" and effective as of "August 21, 2026."

While the notice acknowledged Talwani's injunctions in the cases State of California v. Trump and League of Women Voters of Massachusetts v. Trump, the DOJ said the final rule would "make clear that the Postal Service will not take any action to implement the rule specifically for any election to be held on or before November 3, 2026 unless and until the government obtains relief from both of those orders."

The judge, a Barack Obama appointee, has repeatedly held that Section 3 of President Donald Trump's executive order 14399 was an "unconstitutional" directive for the USPS to "refuse to transmit mail ballots for certain voters," a federal takeover threatening the "fundamental right" to vote.

The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision recognized that the president "direct[ed] unprecedented levels of involvement by federal officials in how states administer elections," and left that injunction in place — teeing up an ongoing Supreme Court fight between blue states and the federal government.
The Supreme Court is allowing an executive order by Trump restricting mail-in ballots to proceed just months before the midterm elections. Alicia Menendez – in for Nicolle Wallace – is joined by Lisa Rubin, Ian Bassin, Andrew Weissmann, and Eddie Glaude for analysis on Deadline White House.
Iranian missile and drone attacks inflicted billions in damage to US intelligence sites: Sources
Story by Ishan Jain

WASHINGTON, DC: Iranian missile and drone strikes have wrecked US intelligence sites and surveillance gear across the Middle East, racking up billions in damage. That’s what four people familiar with the situation told NBC News. They said this damage goes beyond anything the US spy agencies have dealt with before, and fixing it will cost billions.

The attacks hit buildings and surveillance equipment used by US intelligence agencies throughout the region.

Scope of the damage and lingering questions
The report doesn’t name the specific facilities that got hit or give a clear dollar figure for the damage.

Instead, it leans on unnamed officials rather than anyone speaking publicly for the government.

Nobody knows yet if the Pentagon or intelligence agencies have released a formal evaluation of the damage or said anything about repairs. US officials also haven’t verified how much the attacks hurt US situational awareness in the Gulf.
Story by Matthew Chapman

A federal judge ruled Monday that President Donald Trump's administration violated her court order blocking new mail-in ballot restrictions, catching officials making contradictory claims to different courts within weeks of each other.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani found that the Trump-governed U.S. Postal Service defied her preliminary injunction by quietly finalizing a rule implementing Trump's executive order on mail-in ballots just days earlier, sending it to the Federal Register on August 21, despite her explicit order barring them from "initiating or completing" any such rulemaking.

"Defendants violated the preliminary injunction in this case," Talwani wrote.

The rule in question would prohibit the delivery of mail ballots in states that haven't turned over extensive information about who is and isn't voting by mail on their voter rolls to the federal government. It faces lawsuits by two dozen states and voting rights organizations.
Opinion by Bill Blum, The Progressive

There is no bigger con man in the United States than Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Not even President Donald J. Trump.

The con began in September 2005, during Roberts’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Articulate, handsome, and energetic at fifty years old, Roberts seemed to have been culled “straight from central casting,” as Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama actually remarked on the first day of the hearings. Roberts was also convincing—he famously promised that if confirmed, he would serve in the fashion of a baseball umpire, calling only “balls and strikes, and not to pitch or bat.” Seventy-eight Senators, including twenty-two Democrats, fell for the ploy and voted to give him the lifetime assignment.

The biggest yarn Roberts told during his hearing concerned his views on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), a cornerstone of American democracy, which the Supreme Court gutted this past April in a redistricting case from the state of Louisiana (Louisiana v. Callais).

As is his prerogative as Chief Justice, Roberts assigned the task of drafting the Callais majority opinion to fellow conservative Justice Samuel Alito, who responded with a 6 to 3 ruling that held that, henceforth, Section 2 of the landmark legislation would require VRA plaintiffs to meet the nearly impossible burden of proving that redistricting maps challenged as “racial gerrymanders” were created with discriminatory intent rather than for permissible political purposes. The opinion allowed Louisiana to eliminate one majority Black Congressional district. It also effectively negated legislation passed in 1982 that had amended Section 2 to permit the Justice Department and private citizens to challenge election laws that have the effect of diluting minority voting power without proving intent.
Leaked documents say Donald Trump's name was a factor in Kennedy Center's financial collapse
Story by OK! Staff

The inclusion of President Donald Trump's name was apparently a major factor in the collapse of the Kennedy Center, according to a new report.

Donald Trump's Influence Behind Kennedy Center's Financial Collapse
Documents obtained by The Washington Post show that adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center's walls seemingly caused widespread discontent among its donors and negatively impacted ticket sales.

The financial situation plunged further when the Trump-allied board of trustees decided to rename the Kennedy Center as The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts last December.

Per The Washington Post, the center’s financial records showed that the arena stood to fall at least $100 million short of its initial projected revenue target for the 2026 fiscal year.
Did Hegseth really fire the Army’s top officer over Kid Rock?
Opinion by Malcolm Ferguson

Army chief of staff General Randy George insisted on conducting a probe into whether the Pentagon violated protocol after the military performed a fly-by around MAGA musician Kid Rock’s Tennessee estate—and a “No Kings” protest. Days later, he was fired.

George was reportedly advised by the Army’s No. 2 officer General Chris LaNeve to drop the probe at the behest of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

This new information, reported by The Washington Post, offers a potential catalyst for George’s abrupt firing, as the Pentagon gave no specific reason when he was booted out in April.
RFK Jr. confronted after 2 die of measles in Pennsylvania as conspiracies explode
Story by Maria Villarroel

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said he “bluntly” confronted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about the dangers of “spreading misinformation” after two individuals died in the state of measles for the first time in 35 years.

Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday night, the Democratic governor apologized for being late, explaining he had just gotten off the phone with Kennedy, who offered help managing the measles outbreak.

“Part of the reason why I was late is I've been sitting out in the parking lot talking to Secretary Kennedy, who reached out to me this morning. And while I appreciate his willingness to offer staff to assist us, we think we're able to manage this through the Department of Health. I was very, very blunt with him,” Shapiro said. It comes as

“And I made very clear that his actions and the rhetoric that's coming from this administration are having a negative impact on communities across America, particularly right here in Pennsylvania, that there are real-life consequences to spreading misinformation. There are real-life consequences to scaring people and not relying on actual doctors and actual medical professionals to provide unbiased information to parents so that we can make reasonable decisions for our kids,” he added.
Trump’s tariffs force closure of century-old Connecticut manufacturer
Story by Dexter Brinson

Leed-Himmel Industries, a custom aluminum manufacturer with more than 100 years of history in Hamden, Connecticut, has announced its closure after decades of operation. Owner Howard Goldfarb attributes the shutdown primarily to skyrocketing business costs and tariffs imposed under President Donald Trump’s administration, marking an end to a long-standing local employer and economic contributor.

Rising Costs and Operational Challenges
For years, Leed-Himmel Industries had been a reliable source of employment and local tax revenue, paying approximately $160,000 annually in property taxes. However, escalating expenses steadily eroded the company’s profitability. Health insurance premiums for workers increased sharply, alongside growing costs for building, vehicle, and workers’ compensation insurance. Even as production slowed, the company’s electricity bills soared past $500,000 annually, straining financial resources.

Goldfarb had expressed concerns about these rising costs as early as 2024, warning that the business might become unsustainable. He told reporters at the time, “We’re just working to pay the electrical bill.” Despite efforts to adapt, the continuous climb in expenses made it impossible to maintain operations at a viable level.

Tariffs: The Final Nail in the Coffin
Goldfarb identifies tariffs imposed by the Trump administration as the decisive factor pushing Leed-Himmel over the edge. These tariffs increased the cost of raw materials, notably aluminum, forcing the company to tie up substantial capital in inventory before receiving customer payments. “If our costs were what they were eight years ago, I wouldn’t have shut it down,” Goldfarb said while walking through the largely empty factory floor in 2026.
ICE arrests of people without criminal records hit record high, new data shows
Story by Julia Ingram

Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a record high of more than 800 people without criminal records a day in July on average, new federal data shows. The surge in arrests comes as the White House pushes the agency to hit a target of 2,000 per day.

July is the first month in President Trump's second term when people with only civil immigration violations — rather than pending criminal charges or convictions — made up more than half of those arrested. An average of more than 1,580 people were arrested each day in July, also a new high for the current administration.

Enforcement ramped up this summer after a drop following public backlash to the Department of Homeland Security's operation in Minneapolis, a funding standoff and a shake-up in DHS leadership. But, as has been the case with ICE's previous big city crackdowns, rising arrest totals come with spikes in community arrests of people without criminal records.
Story by Ed Kilgore

There has always been an element of fundamental duplicity in the second Trump administration’s mass-deportation program. In promoting it during the 2024 presidential campaign, and often since then, the president claimed he and his masked agents were focused on finding, arresting, and supporting the “worst of the worst,” or the “Hundreds of Thousands of Convicted Murderers, Rapists, Kidnappers, Drug Dealers, and Terrorists,” as he put it in one Truth Social post earlier this year.

That claim is important, because polls have consistently shown that a carefully targeted approach to deporting undocumented immigrants has strong majority support. A Fox News poll in July of 2025, for example, found that only 29 percent of Americans wanted to “deport all illegal immigrants.” Eleven percent wanted to “allow all immigrants to stay,” which is consistent, by the way, with a crackdown on new border crossings. But an overwhelming 59 percent wanted to “deport only those illegal immigrants who have been charged with crimes but allow others to remain in the U.S. and eventually qualify for citizenship.” Clearly, people involved in immigration policy are aware of this rather fundamental distinction. Border czar and de facto deportation overseer Tom Homan said so in February of this year:
Department of Education shared Darkest Hour clip linking Trump to Hitler; post removed amid banner controversy.
Story by Steve Benen

Throughout the 2024 presidential race, candidate Donald Trump didn’t just vow a mass deportation campaign — the Republican also assured voters that the effort was necessary to remove violent immigrants who’ve committed heinous crimes from American soil.

Voters who believed the pitch should now realize that what they were promised isn’t what they’re receiving. The New York Times reported:

A surge in immigration arrests this summer has swept up thousands of people who had not previously been the focus of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. They included people married to U.S. citizens, people who had entered legally and were pursuing an asylum claim, and others with a temporary legal status that the administration pushed to revoke.

A majority of the immigrants arrested in July were people who were accused of violating civil immigration laws but who had not been charged with or convicted of a crime, an analysis of newly released federal data shows. The share with a past violent criminal conviction fell to less than 4 percent.
Supreme Court justices 'breaking the law' to deliver for donors installing them: expert
Story by Daniel Hampton

The hosts of the Legal AF podcast are sounding the alarm over what they call a corruption crisis at the Supreme Court, arguing the justices have been captured by the billionaires who bankrolled their rise.

On a recent episode, host Alex Aronson laid out the case as he introduced legal scholars Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan, authors of the forthcoming book Supremacy. Aronson said the court is deeply conservative and compromised.

"A number of the justices have been exposed as breaking the law, entangled with billionaires, delivering results for the interests that have put them in place on this court," Aronson charged.

The accusation comes after years of reporting on the justices' cozy ties to wealthy benefactors.
Trumpworld walloped by judge who rules major act 'to punish and retaliate' was illegal
Story by Alexander Willis

A federal judge ruled against the Trump administration on Thursday after declaring its treatment of the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic to be unlawful, The New York Times reported.

Earlier this year, the Trump administration was working with Anthropic to integrate its AI model into the U.S. military’s classified systems, though the arrangement soon hit a snag after the company insisted that its technology not be “used to spy on Americans en masse, or to develop weapons that fire with no human involvement.”

The Trump administration ultimately cut ties with the company in March over its objections, and furthermore, designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk, a designation that prohibited the Pentagon from doing business with any contractor that does business with Anthropic.

The decision to brand Anthropic with such a designation, however, was unlawful, federal Judge Rita Lin ruled Thursday.
Trump slapped with devastating supercut of key broken campaign promise by Chris Hayes
Matthew Chapman

President Donald Trump's campaign trail promises on groceries have gone down in flames, MS NOW's Chris Hayes told "All In" viewers on Friday.

"You remember back in 2024 when Donald Trump was running for president, and he kept talking like he hadn't heard the term groceries before, like it was this new word," said Hayes. "Maybe he invented it. It's a strange time."

Regardless, he vowed to make groceries cheap for everyone — and Hayes played numerous clips of Trump saying as such.

"Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again," said Trump in one clip.

"We're going to bring prices way down, and we're going to get it done fast," he said in another.

"A vote for Trump means your groceries will be cheaper," he said in yet another.
Trump's 'petulant' new outburst exposes how 'powerless' he now feels
Story by Thomas Kika

President Donald Trump is feeling increasingly "powerless," and according to a new piece from MS NOW, his latest "petulant" policy outbursts reflect his desire "to lash out and attempt to exert control" in response to that feeling.

Writing for the outlet on Saturday morning, reporter Hayes Brown argued that Trump's staff is too overstaffed with "spineless sycophants" for anyone to have told him that his executive order to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America" in response to stalled trade talks with Canada. Aside from his staff's willingness to praise and move fast to implement just about any bad idea that the president has, Brown also argued that the situation exposes other things about the state of affairs for Trump.

"Let’s start with Trump’s obsession with branding," Brown wrote. "He spent much of his career appending 'Trump' to buildings he didn’t build in lucrative licensing deals. In this second term as president, he’s fought to add his name to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Much like the 'Gulf of America' executive order on his first day back in office, Thursday’s order feels like a desperate attempt at getting his followers to associate 'America' with 'Trump.'"

He added: "Trump also tends to lash out and attempt to exert control when he feels most powerless. Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford decided to stand 10 toes down against U.S. negotiators in the face of looming tariffs, rejecting an overwhelmingly unbalanced offer from the American representatives. In response, Trump ordered the government to provide a bandage for his wounded ego, even as he likely views this order as a power move reestablishing his dominance over Ottawa."
New mail voting rule hits 48M. Hakeem Jeffries speaks. New evidence in Black man's lynching
Civil Rights Groups are coming together to block a new rule from the U.S. Postal Service, which imposes stricter requirements on mail voting for 48 million Americans ahead of the midterm elections. I spoke with Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries about that new rule, Democratic investments in the Black community, and his recent meeting with Jared Kushner.
Milo Yiannopoulos deported after years backing deportations
Story by Hollie Silverman

Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right commentator and former Breitbart News editor with ties to President Donald Trump and rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, was deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Friday after being taken into custody earlier this week, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Newsweek in an email Saturday.

The spokesperson said that Yiannopoulos was “an illegal alien from the United Kingdom” and was sent “back to his home country.”

He was arrested by ICE at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) in Kenner, Louisiana, according to the spokesperson, who noted that “Yiannopoulos legally entered the country on May 14, 2019, through New York City, New York.”

“He chose to overstay his welcome in violation of our nation’s laws,” the spokesperson continued.

For years, Yiannopoulos was a vocal supporter of stricter immigration enforcement, often criticizing illegal immigration and backing mass deportation policies championed by Trump and other immigration hardliners.
Lawsuit: 1M gallons of Freedom Fuel was stolen
Story by Bob Cronin with Newser.AI

Discount gas hailed by President Trump as a patriotic bargain is now at the center of a $4 million theft allegation, Politico reports. In a federal lawsuit filed Aug. 19, Georgia-based Mansfield Oil says KRSM Inc. lifted more than 1 million gallons of fuel from a Sunoco terminal in Pennsylvania on Mansfield's account and never paid, then supplied some of it to stations in the Freedom Fuel Network—which Trump promoted over July Fourth for selling $3.47-a-gallon gas "because they love the USA." Mansfield's lawyer says, "That is not an accounting dispute." KRSM calls it exactly that, blaming "misplaced" invoices and declining further comment.
Fury in the Pentagon over generals’ warning about Iran war
Story by Peter Suciu

Generals warned in classified assessments that the Iran War is not sustainable and will weaken US military efforts elsewhere. The Pentagon said publishing the warnings is treason.

Tensions are running high at the Pentagon on Monday, following a scathing report from The Washington Post on Saturday that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was warned by multiple combatant commanders that the ongoing war with Iran is unsustainable, and that if it continues, it will weaken the US military’s ability to address other threats.

Military leaders warned in the August 14 edition of the classified Secretary of Defense Orders Book (SDOB) that extending deployments in the Middle East could compromise global readiness and even homeland defense, the paper of record reported.

The SDOB contained classified assessments from the commanders tasked with overseeing US areas of responsibility in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Those generals expressed opposition to an extended deployment of US military forces in the Middle East. They warned that diverted warships—notably aircraft carriers—and aircraft have degraded abilities elsewhere. According to an assessment from the Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle, only a quarter of the US Navy’s destroyer fleet is currently prepared to deploy. That is a sharp decline from the prewar levels.

The conflict, which is now in its sixth month, has cost $37.5 billion to date.
Story by Cameron Adams

Fans of an iconic Canadian rock band have humiliated U.S. President Donald Trump by refusing to comply with his geographical fantasy.

Canadian band Blue Rodeo performed at Toronto’s RBC Amphitheater on Saturday. The iconic venue is located directly on the Lake Ontario waterfront.

Trump wants the lake, which spans the U.S. Canada border, renamed “Lake America.”

Blue Rodeo’s performance at the venue, which holds 16,000 people, saw the band play their 1993 fan favorite, “Hasn’t Hit Me Yet,” which features the lyrics, “Watching the snow fall on this cold December night, and out in the middle of Lake Ontario, the same snow is falling on the deep silent water.”

On Saturday, before lead vocalist Greg Keelor played the tune, he told the audience, “At the end of this song, there’s a mention of a lake. It’s a lake right behind us right there.” Fans could also watch Keelor’s comments via a YouTube livestream.

Pointing to the lake and noting that its name has “become a little controversial,” Keelor added, “I would just like you to sing tonight with full authority and ownership. And we’ll sing this one for the shining waters that have been there long before any of us were ever here.”
Story by Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Aug. 31 cleared the way for President Donald Trump to continue construction on his $400 million White House ballroom, a major win for Trump's controversial effort to make over Washington landmarks.

Acting on an emergency appeal from the administration, the court ruled 5-4 that a federal judge wrongly paused the project until a legal fight could be resolved.

In an unsigned opinion, a majority of the justices said the administration is likely to win its argument that the group suing to stop construction cannot show its been sufficiently harmed. The court has a 6-3 conservative majority.

Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court's three liberal justices in dissent, calling the construction "likely unlawful" and the potential harms real.

“The White House is an iconic American building whose symbolism and history are wrapped up in its architecture,” Roberts wrote.

Group argued construction could be irreversible
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, which is challenging the ballroom, had told the justices that project would likely become irreversible unless it is stopped now.

The Justice Department said in its appeal that the construction, which includes an underground security complex, is 65% complete and has “passed the point where major changes” to the design are feasible.
Story by Alex Bollinger

True crime YouTuber and forensic psychologist Dr. John Paul Garrison is sounding the alarm about how the president may have suffered a focal aware seizure at a recent public event.

Garrison played a clip of Trump giving a speech to NASA at Houston’s Johnson Space Center this past Friday and said that he had a “distinct neurological event.”

“What you just observed was a distinct and concerning neurological event, and you got to watch it cross both hemispheres in his brain,” Garrison said. “You saw his right arm jerk, and then you saw him blink, you heard his voice hesitate, and then you saw his left arm jerk. You literally watched it travel across his brain.”

Garrison isn’t the only mental health expert who believes that Trump suffered a stroke last year. Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine Professor Bruce Davidson discussed earlier this year that there is evidence that Trump had a stroke on the left side of his brain.
Story by Shay Bottomley

The U.S. has conducted military strikes on Iran for the first time in over a month.

Two missile launchers on Larak Island – a small Iranian island close to the Strait of Hormuz – were targeted in the attacks on Sunday, 30th August.

It marks the first time military action has been taken against Iran since Wednesday, 29th July.

Strikes by the Strait
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed Sunday’s attacks in a statement to Time.

CENTCOM spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins said the strikes on Larak Island came after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) “were observed preparing to launch rockets with sea mines” into the Strait of Hormuz.

Since the war began in February, Iran has used its ability to strike the Strait of Hormuz as leverage.

Struggling to respond militarily, the authoritarian regime has used its relatively newfound ability to control the passage of commercial shipping into and out of the Persian Gulf.
Story by Matthew Rozsa

A recent report reveals that less than half of Republican attorneys general are backing one of President Donald Trump's key voter suppression measures.

"President Donald Trump’s attack on mail voting is reaching a crucial stage in the courts, but he’s only received backup from less than half of the Republican state attorneys general," wrote Alexandra Hutzler on Monday. "Their silence is notable given that they’ve joined other Trump administration priorities. All 27 Republican attorneys general, for example, previously signed onto amicus briefs to keep transgender athletes out of girls’ sports and to defend the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged migrant gang members without due process."

Hutzler added, "Over the weekend, the attorneys general from Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota and Texas filed their opposition to a request from blue states and voting rights groups for a preliminary injunction against Trump’s order and the U.S. Postal Service rule to implement it before November’s midterm elections."

The states whose Republican attorneys general have refused to help Trump include "Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming," Hutzler concluded.

Despite the Supreme Court allowing Trump to temporarily proceed with his mail-in voting restrictions, one legal journalist argued that a lower court has called out their own jurisprudential ideology to lay the groundwork for them to halt his actions.
Michigan households are bearing the heaviest burden of Trump's tariffs, facing an average cost of $5,619 each. A June report from the National Taxpayers Union Foundation says households in California, Georgia, South Carolina, and New Jersey are also feeling the impact. The report says Michigan households are paying over a thousand dollars more because of shared major border and dense supply chains with Canada. During 2025, tariffs reached their highest levels since the 1930s before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional in February 2026.
Trump’s tariff strategy may look improvised, but his economic advisers describe it as the first stage of a much larger effort to restructure international economic relations. The proposed vision would divide countries into favored partners, conditional partners and strategic rivals, potentially linking tariff treatment, military protection and even access to the US dollar system. At the center of the plan is a belief that deindustrialization represents a fundamental threat to American power.
Story by Dan Gooding

A Trump administration official in California criticized the state’s voter ID rules on Monday, alleging that nobody was checking whether voters were American citizens, as it was reported that the federal government plans a wider crackdown on alleged voter fraud in select states.

In an interview with Fox News, U.S. Attorney for Central California Bill Essayli said the state allows “anybody to register to vote on the honor system. There isn’t anybody in government checking to confirm you are a citizen,” when talking about a case of voter fraud.

Essayli’s comments came as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is set to announce thorough investigations into voter fraud in states including New York, Pennsylvania and California, according to CNN. The department is set to announce more details on the crackdown Tuesday, the outlet reported.

“While ICE Homeland Security Investigations is not able to comment on any active investigations, HSI is actively rooting out and investigating election fraud wherever it can be found,” a DHS spokesperson told Newsweek on Monday afternoon. “We have repeatedly demonstrated that illegal aliens can and do vote in our elections. Under President Trump, HSI is committed to restoring integrity to our election systems and ensuring that American citizens and only American citizens are electing American leaders.”
Story by Erik De La Garza

The Supreme Court’s decision allowing President Donald Trump to continue construction of his controversial White House ballroom triggered an immediate wave of outrage Monday.

The justices ruled 5-4 to reject a preservation group’s effort to indefinitely halt construction of the ballroom, according to media reports. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s three liberal justices in dissent.

“The Court’s conservative majority can’t find the spine to tell Trump no about the ballroom,” former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance wrote on X. “Chief Justice Roberts is joined by the 3 liberal Justices in dissent, calling what Trump is doing 'likely unlawful.'"

Political scientist and longtime congressional scholar Norman Ornstein was even more blunt.
Story by Thomas Kika

President Donald Trump's list of failures continues to grow, and as a new analysis from MS NOW argued, he has now resorted to seeking punishments for those who tell the truth about his unpopularity.

In a piece published Monday morning, Steven Benen, a longtime contributor to the network and producer for host Rachel Maddow, discussed Trump's recent demand that his FCC Chair, Brendan Carr, investigate NBC and anchor Kristin Welker after comments she made about him having a "mixed" endorsement record in the midterms so far. Trump accused this of being "purposeful inaccuracy" that ought to be investigated.

“How can anyone be allowed to say this, working for freely given Public Airwaves?” Trump posted to Truth Social on Friday. “Because of this purposeful inaccuracy, she will be reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment... The Press is a Disgrace to our Nation, and I hope that Chairman Brendan Carr, and the fine people of his Commission, will take this Threat to our Country very seriously.”
Story by Matthew Rozsa

A self-described "3-time Trump voter" complained on Twitter that she is upset with President Donald Trump's policies — but also refused to admit she voted wrong in the 2024 election.

"I say this as a 3-time Trump voter, a lifelong Republican who spent an embarrassing amount of money on merch and travel to Trump rallies and DC," Lucy Riles posted on X. "I was duped. The past 14 months have been betrayal after betrayal. It sucks admitting I got it wrong. No, I’m not saying Kamala [Harris] would have been better. But Trump is a politician, a glorified snake oil salesman. He is not God nor should he be worshiped as one. And we need to hold our politicians accountable. Especially the ones we voted for and sacrificed friendships, jobs and family over."

Riles added, "Trump is now attempting to bully his base into supporting another reckless foreign war, ignore the Epstein files and now, accept data centers or else you want to be 'backwards and poor.' I’ve never been in an emotionally abusive relationship[,] and I’m not about to start now."

She concluded, "Thank you for your attention to this matter."
Story by Harry Thompson

Donald Trump’s new name for Lake Ontario is not at all popular with Americans, a new poll reveals.

The 80-year-old president threw a tantrum after trade negotiations with Canada broke down and decided the best way to teach his northern neighbors a lesson was to unilaterally rename “Lake Ontario” “Lake America.”

Canadians have been unimpressed and defiant, thumbing their noses at his executive order, which holds no legal basis in their country. But even south of the border, Trump’s play has not gained much traction.

Only 14 percent of respondents in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll said that renaming the lake was a good idea, while 63 percent said they did not support it.

The same poll gathered opinions on the tariffs Trump has introduced on America’s closest ally, which he said would be imposed after the collapse of trade negotiations between Ottawa and Washington, D.C., last month.
Story by Lesley Abravanel

An explosive amicus brief filed on Tuesday, September 1, in a Massachusetts federal court accuses President Donald Trump of using "dictator tactics" to restrict mail-in voting ahead of the midterms.

The brief was submitted by the legal advocacy group Lawyers for the Rule of Law.

It supports a lawsuit brought by the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts against the Trump administration.

The legal team states that the administration's aggressive mail-in ballot crackdown is a "bald-faced grab for power." They compare it to historical authoritarian efforts to suppress voters.

Details of the Filing
The filing argues the administration is weaponizing federal infrastructure through measures like restricting USPS processing to pre-approved voter lists (with a whistleblower report warning of computer system errors affecting a large portion of the electorate), forcing officials to submit voter lists to the federal government, and restricting eligibility via Department of Homeland Security database checks.

These directives face significant legal resistance.

Judge Denise Casper previously blocked parts of the order over ballot-access concerns, and a separate injunction against the USPS system is under appeal, potentially heading to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Story by David Brennan, Nadine El-Bawab, Ivan Pereira

President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military, government and infrastructure sites.

Delegations from the U.S. and Iran entered negotiations in June aimed at a war-ending deal based on a memorandum of understanding signed by both countries.

The U.S. and Iran have nonetheless continued to exchange strikes, with the strategic Strait of Hormuz as the primary flashpoint.

Iran claims attacks on US bases in Kuwait, UAE

Iran's army claimed Thursday morning that it conducted overnight strikes on U.S. military bases in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

In statements carried by official and semiofficial Iranian news agencies, Iran's army said it used missiles and drones to target satellite communication systems, equipment depots and fighter jet hangars at Ahmed al-Jaber Air Base in Kuwait.

The statements also claimed attacks on troop positions and radar systems at Al Minhad Air Base in the UAE.

-ABC News' Morgan Winsor
Story by Alex Henderson

Since returning to the White House roughly 19 and one-half months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump has found a variety of ways to alienate the United States' closest allies — from steep tariffs to the Iran war to threatening to take Greenland by force. And according to liberal economist Paul Krugman, some of those allies are taking steps that prove the United States "is no longer trusted."

In a Substack column posted on Friday morning, Krugman warns that fears that Trump and his allies will "seize gold" no longer seem far-fetched. And U.S. allies, according to the economist, are taking steps to protect themselves.

"'Rule of law' is not a phrase often applied to the Trump administration," Krugman argues. "And the administration has special contempt for international law. Many of Trump's tariffs have been ruled illegal under U.S. law, but more or less all of those tariffs were and are in clear violation of past agreements solemnly signed by previous U.S. presidents, including Trump himself. So, the idea that the U.S. government might devise some excuse to seize gold held in the Fed's vault is no longer far-fetched. And nations are taking precautions."
Story by Charlie Jones

A bleak poll for Donald Trump suggest hiss MAGA base may be turning against him as concerns over foreign policy and cost of living persist.

A new poll has found that around 15 per cent of people who voted for Trump in 2024 would not vote for him again or even just not vote at all. The University of Massachusetts-Amherst survey is evidence there are “clear, consistent signs” that Trump's base is eroding, the poll’s co-director said.

“There are no takebacks in electoral politics,” said Alexander Theodoridis, co-director of the UMass-Amherst poll. “But around 15 percent of Trump voters now tell us they might or would vote differently or not vote at all if they had it to do over again.”
Story by Tierney Sneed, CNN

The US Postal Service effort to develop a sweeping new system for verifying mail ballots has invited a host of IT concerns among agency officials, with some describing the process internally as a “sh*t show,” according to a new whistleblower report released Tuesday by a Democratic senator.

The unnamed whistleblower is alleging that some of the procedures USPS is planning – under mandates put forward by President Donald Trump – have been hidden from the public. Those procedures will make an already complicated and risky plan even more vulnerable to potential mass disenfranchisement, the whistleblower says.

The new report – which was assembled by the whistleblowers’ lawyers and released by Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal – comes as multiple courts are considering the legality of the proposal, which would require that states submit to USPS lists of their mail-in voters. The agency will not deliver ballots for states if there are any discrepancies between the voter information in the USPS system and what’s picked up by agency scanners on the envelopes of the ballots.

“USPS leadership, it appears, has discarded all best practices as they speed the project to be ready for a September 1 implementation - raising questions about whether catastrophic failure would be a feature rather than a bug,” said the report.
Story by Harry Fletcher

Milo Yiannopoulos has said he feels 'ashamed' of supporting Donald Trump after being deported by ICE to the UK.

The far-right troll said he was “swarmed” by Homeland Security agents and repeatedly mistreated ahead of his deportation to the UK last week.

Speaking on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Tuesday (1 September), Yiannopoulos said: “The first I heard of it was when 15 agents swarmed me at the Louisiana airport, and it didn’t get any less theatrical from there on.”

“This was not a normal, lawful process,” Yiannopoulos said, complaining of experiencing “brutality” and “physically degrading” treatment so severe that agents allegedly “walked off the job.”

“On August 28, ICE deported Milo Yiannopoulos, an illegal alien from the United Kingdom, back to his home country,” the department previously told The Independent.
Story by Billal Rahman

A 51-year-old Chinese national died in immigration detention in the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands less than a day after being taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, authorities said.

Lianyong Wei was found unresponsive during routine morning checks on August 23 at the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Corrections facility in Saipan, where he was being held on behalf of ICE. He was transported to a local hospital, where medical personnel attempted lifesaving measures before he was pronounced dead at about 7:30 a.m. Chamorro Standard Time, ICE said.

Wei had been arrested by local authorities on August 21 on allegations including assault with a dangerous weapon, aggravated assault and battery, disturbing the peace, and assault and battery. ICE said he was transferred into the agency’s custody on August 22 while awaiting immigration proceedings.

His official cause of death remains under investigation.
Story by Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN

It is not news, or surprising, that Americans are worried about government corruption.

They twice elected Donald Trump, who twice promised to drain the “swamp” of Washington, DC.

“We are transferring power from Washington, DC, and giving it back to you, the American People,” he said in his first inaugural address.

In his second inaugural address, Trump promised to liberate the country from “a radical and corrupt establishment” that “extracted power and wealth from our citizens.”

On that promise, there’s striking new evidence that Americans believe he has failed to deliver.

It should be of some concern to the White House — and to every American, really — that 89% of Americans said “yes” in a Gallup poll when asked, “Is corruption widespread throughout the government in this country, or not?”

Gallup isn’t alone on this. The University of Massachusetts at Amherst is also out with a poll Tuesday in which 97% of Americans — nearly everybody — says there is some corruption in government. A smaller portion, 75%, said there is “a great deal” of corruption in the UMass poll.
According to a new Gallup survey, Americans think corruption is widespread in the U.S. government. MS NOW Congressional Reporter Mychael Schnell has the latest from Capitol Hill. Staff Writer for The Atlantic Ashley Parker, political strategist Amanda Litman, Policy Editor for The Bulwark Mona Charen join Katy Tur with their analysis.
Story by Janna Brancolini

Donald Trump’s administration has turned to yet another contractor with a checkered legal past as it tries to fix the botched renovations at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

The monument has been closed for months after Trump’s $16 million “repairs” to the century-old pool resulted in peeling blue sealant and a record-breaking algal bloom that turned the water slime green.

Originally, the task of installing a water-purification system to prevent algal blooms fell to a long-time Trump supporter and two-time felon who pleaded guilty to bribing a congressman and violating campaign finance laws.

Now, the Department of the Interior has awarded a $2.7 million contract to clean the pool to a Massachusetts-based company whose chief executive is being prosecuted for election fraud, according to CNN.
Trump order defying Supreme Court horrifies expert: 'Impeach everyone responsible'
Story by David Edwards

A new rule from President Donald Trump's administration declaring that U.S.-born children of foreign government employees are not citizens drew immediate ridicule from an immigration expert.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin signed the interim final rule, which U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services filed with the Federal Register late Friday afternoon.

The rule took effect on filing and applies to children born on or after that date, the document says. Publication is scheduled for Sept. 9.

"A person born in the United States to a foreign government employee is not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States for purposes of birthright citizenship, unless at least one parent of the person is a United States citizen," the rule states. "That person is not a United States citizen under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution."

David J. Bier, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, posted his reaction within minutes of the filing.

"HA! Sorry. That's not a thing," Bier wrote. "Either you're subject to US jurisdiction or you're not."
A new poll finds nearly all Americans say government corruption is widespread. Blame Trump.
Opinion by Paul Waldman

Donald Trump loves nothing more than superlatives, so here’s another he can use: the most corrupt government in decades, according to Americans. A new poll from Gallup finds that “Americans’ perceptions of government corruption in the U.S. are at their highest level in 20 years, with 89% of U.S. adults saying it is widespread.” An estimated 91% of Democrats, 90% of independents and even 83% of Republicans agreed with that assessment.

How could anyone think otherwise? The past two years have been full of self-dealing and exploitation of the Oval Office for Trump’s personal gain.

For instance, four days before Trump was inaugurated, the United Arab Emirates’ national security adviser, known as the “Spy Sheik,” secretly made a $500 million investment in World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s cryptocurrency company. The administration later lifted controls on the export of artificial intelligence chips to the UAE, a key objective of its government.

When the Emirati royal family took a $2 billion stake in Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange, Binance arranged for the investment to be made with World Liberty Financial’s stablecoin. That, in effect, provided World Liberty a $2 billion bank deposit. (The Trump family, World Liberty and Binance all deny wrongdoing.) Not long after, Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who had pled guilty in a sweeping money-laundering investigation.
Roland Martin says CNN’s Trump fact-checker Daniel Dale has vanished from television because executives are bowing to Donald-the-Con Trump and hiding the truth from viewers.
Story by Bennito L. Kelty

The Supreme Court has a new way to hand President Donald Trump victories that threatens to leave "blatant" lawbreaking unchecked, a legal scholar warned.

Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, laid out the warning during an interview with Slate's Amicus podcast. Rather than deciding whether Trump's actions are lawful, the court's conservative majority has been increasingly tossing lawsuits against him on procedural grounds and deciding no one has the right to sue in the first place, Chemerinsky warned.

"If no one has the ability to go to court to challenge something, then the illegal and unconstitutional action will continue," Chemerinsky said.

He pointed to the court's emergency-docket order last week in the case over the demolition of the White House East Wing and Trump's roughly $600 million ballroom project. A 5-4 majority threw out the challenge on standing and ruled that the plaintiff who objected had suffered no real injury. Chemerinsky noted that no justice in the majority claimed the project itself was legal.
Story by Kathryn Wilkens

President Donald Trump threatened to bar Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier from selling its planes in the United States on Monday — despite the company employing hundreds of workers in deep-red Kansas, where it maintains a major U.S. operation.

The president posted on Truth Social:

NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES! Their products aren’t good enough! Over 50% of their revenue comes from the United States — They live off American Buyers, American Companies, American Airports, and American Service — All while Canada blocks our GREAT American Banks, and Companies, throughout the U.S.A. They even blocked Gulfstream Aerospace from doing business in Canada — Completely unjust and unfair! That Era is OVER! If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a “piggybank.” BUY AMERICAN. FLY ON AMERICAN AIRLINERS. ENJOY AMERICAN LIQUOR AND BEVERAGES. SAIL ON LAKE AMERICA. AMERICA FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

U.S.-Canada relations have deteriorated sharply in recent weeks after trade negotiations collapsed and the Trump administration imposed 50% tariffs on roughly $20 billion worth of Canadian goods, prompting Prime Minister Mark Carney to announce retaliatory tariffs. Trump has also repeatedly targeted Canada with provocative rhetoric and symbolic moves, signing an executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America” and, most recently, sharing a map depicting Canada and Mexico as part of the United States.
Story by Nick Hilden

The Trump administration has removed a sign criticizing slavery at Arlington National Cemetery. The change was reported on Monday by the Washington Post, which explained that the sign had stood in place of a memorial to the Confederacy that was relocated in 2023. Experts say this is part of President Donald Trump’s effort to “sanitize” the history of slavery.

According to the Post, “The Confederate Memorial, a 32-foot bronze statue commissioned by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and unveiled in 1914, was removed from the military cemetery in 2023. Its removal followed a congressional mandate to rid U.S. military property of names and symbols honoring the Confederacy and its leaders. The decision by the bipartisan Naming Commission to remove the statue was based on criticism and backlash over the memorial’s depictions, which included an enslaved woman carrying an infant child of a white officer and an enslaved man following his owner to war.”

“A Defense Department website and a marker at the memorial’s former site included contextual language describing the sculpture as portraying a ‘nostalgic, mythologized vision of the Confederacy, including highly sanitized depictions of slavery,’” the Post elaborates. “The website also described the two Black figures as enslaved people, including an enslaved woman depicted as a ‘Mammy,’ and it remarked on how the portrayal of the ‘faithful slave’ helped to shape American pop culture. Now, that language has been removed from the website, and the marker in the cemetery has been replaced by a new sign that omits wording critical of slavery and the Confederacy.”
Story by Gerren Keith Gayno

Black Air Force veteran tells theGrio “whitewashing is an understatement” as critics accuse the Trump administration of sanitizing slavery and erasing Black history.

President Donald Trump is being slammed after removing language criticizing a Confederate monument and its depiction of slavery, as critics accuse his administration of sanitizing Black history and promoting white supremacist ideology.

“To call it whitewashing is an understatement,” said Ed Anderson, a Black veteran and organizer at Common Defense. He told theGrio, “It’s a tidal wave of white supremacy that they’re trying to normalize.”

As The Washington Post reported, the Defense Department removed from its website critical language of slavery highlighted on a page dedicated to the Confederate Memorial. The memorial statue, which was removed from the Arlington National Cemetery in 2023, has long been criticized for its depiction of slavery. After being removed through an act of Congress, the website updated its language to provide historical context.

The Confederate Memorial, which was commissioned by the Daughters of the Confederacy and unveiled 1914, received backlash for depicting an enslaved woman carrying an infant child of a white officer and an enslaved man following his owner to war.
Story by Matthew Rozsa

Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville, who famously helped Bill Clinton win the 1992 presidential election, has previously predicted that President Donald Trump will lose in the 2026 midterm elections because of his unpopular war against Iran and similarly unpopular economic policies.

Now Carville is arguing that, when Democrats retake one or both houses of Congress, they should consider getting Trump to leave office before his term ends in 2029 by convincing him he can keep the money he has unethically earned in office if he simply resigns.
Story by Alex Henderson

With the 2026 midterms less than two months away, election lawyer Marc Elias is warning that President Donald Trump and his allies will do everything possible to fight any election results he doesn't like. And Elias isn't the only one sounding the alarm. The Philadelphia Inquirer, in a scathing editorial, calls for all MAGA election deniers to be voted out of office on Tuesday, November 3.

"With Labor Day passed, the sprint is on to Election Day," the Inquirer's editorial board writes. "But unlike in prior years, when voters looked to candidates for answers on the economy, taxes, healthcare, and foreign policy, the biggest question is whether the United States will hold a free and fair election and certify the winners. That's because President Donald Trump is doing everything he can to cast doubt on the electoral outcome or possibly reject the results — if the Democrats win control of either or both chambers of Congress."
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