President Ulysses S. Grant created our nation’s first national park. President Theodore Roosevelt expanded them. And incompetent President Donald Trump is destroying them.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's son quietly landed a political appointee job as a lawyer in the Treasury Department early last year — posing a potential conflict of interest as courts wrestle with challenges to Trump's deal to avoid future tax audits and the new slush fund to enrich his allies.
The Trump administration has fueled federal agents' reckless abuse by insisting they operate with "absolute immunity." But no one is above the law.
We're urging Congress to pass legislation that would allow people to sue federal agents who've violated their constitutional rights.
BREAKING: Judge Amit Mehta says Jeanine Pirro's "Because I said so" reason is NOT sufficient for him to rule on whether to dismiss the charges against the Oath Keepers. Pirro has until June 5th to provide a satisfactory reason. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
A federal judge just ordered Trump's name removed from the Kennedy Center and blocked his planned two-year shutdown of the institution.
The bigger question: Is this a one-off defeat, or the beginning of a contagion marking a broader judicial pushback against Trump's reshaping of DC in his image?
BREAKING: A Russian attack drone has struck a residential building in Galați, Romania, according to reports from the scene.
Romania is a NATO member state. Initial reports indicate multiple people were injured.
BREAKING: A federal judge greenlit Tennessee's GOP gerrymander, which wiped out the state's only majority-Black district, for use in the 2026 midterms.
The new map hands Republicans one more congressional seat.
🚨BREAKING: 3-judge panel finds that congressional map that Alabama wants to use for this year's midterms is intentionally discriminatory and issues a preliminary injunction.
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Trump: "In two wars recently we've lost a total of 13 service members, in Venezuela -- which was a complete and total victory, where we're working very closely with the Venezuelan government right now. We took that over in one day. Lost no one. In Operation Epic Fury we lost 13 wonderful souls."
Sen. Thom Tillis to CNN: "When you see these mistakes made by Hegseth, I think with all these mistakes in total, it's beginning to make Kristi Noem look like a five-star recruit."
Hasan and Code Pink committed the unforgivable crime of bringing food and meds and diapers to a country we're illegally starving. Zero Epstein pedophiles arrested, but this fascist terrorist regime is making humanitarianism a crime.
Trump is paying Iran $25,000,000,000 to return things back to the way they were before he started his pointless, lost war to distract from the Epstein inconvenience.
He's an "Art of the Deal" genius that way.
How did I only just discover that Don Jr is marrying the daughter of a prominent Epstein enabler?
Her late dad, a banker, wrote Epstein a reference letter calling him "a gentleman of the highest integrity" to help get him tax breaks &… his island.
Can’t make this stuff up.
Trump, the relentless opportunist, will use today’s gunman as another excuse for his tacky ballroom.
But if Donald can only be safe in a billion dollar ballroom, he wouldn’t spend almost every weekend in an open golf cart on a course where an assassin was supposedly previously on.
U.S. officials privately told Iran that Trump’s social media posts are mainly intended for domestic media and political messaging, and should not be taken too seriously during negotiations.
NYT reporting that a proposed Trump-backed memorandum with Iran would reportedly release $25 billion in frozen Iranian assets www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...
BREAKING: Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismisses indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia based on selective and vindictive prosecution.
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NEW: After being asked to testify behind closed doors before Congress, Howard Lutnick made a $5M donation to House Republicans. After his testimony, Jim Comer said he was satisfied Lutnick was truthful. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...
The IRS leak that was the subject of Trump’s suit occurred in 2018-2020, when he was president.
So, in effect, he was suing over what his own IRS did.
Then he dropped the suit after he got his own Justice Department to give him a $1.8B slush fund to reward his thug army.
What an outrageous scam.
A federal judge has ordered White House personnel to continue complying with the Presidential Records Act after the Trump Justice Department argued in a legal opinion last month that the law was "unconstitutional" and that Trump has the authority to destroy presidential records from his term.
It’s amazing the difference between how some Republicans speak 5 minutes after their political careers are over compared to the time when they wanted the cult leader to love them.
House Republicans aren’t keen on Trump $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded pot of $$ for convicted crooks
Rep Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA): “We’re gonna kill it”
Rep David Schweikert (R-AZ): “I have big concerns about it”
Rep Don Bacon (R-NE): How did President negotiate with himself?
Massie and I never saw eye to eye on policy, i was a moderate and he wasn’t. But i always respected him because for the most part (except the Jan 6 stuff) he stuck to his truth.
There’s no room for that in today’s GOP.
Incumbent Republican Thomas Massie lost his primary tonight because Donald Trump was mad at him for trying to get justice for the Epstein survivors. Seeking justice for survivors makes you persona non grata in MAGA. This is who they are. This is who they’ve always been.
And then there's this:
The settlement gets sweeter for Team Trump
In a newly-posted, one-page document, the Justice Dept details that it is now prohibited from pursuing tax claims against Trump or his family in the future
Signed by Todd Blanche
Here’s the interesting thing. Trumps “locker room talk” was excused and straight up described sexual assault.
Platner, what I’ve seen so far, is a marine joking with dark military humor….
Why is locker room talk ok but not military humor?
GARAMENDI: Did CENTCOM fire on Iranian attackers earlier this month?
ADM COOPER: Yes
GARAMENDI: Is it your assessment that hostilities have ceased since April?
COOPER: We remain in ceasefire, yes
GARAMENDI: You just cannot answer a question directly
A Pentagon leader openly defying his apolitical role isn't just “unusual” – it opens the floodgates for thousands of employees to think it’s OK to participate in partisan politics against DOD policy.
If this is public, what is Sec. Hegseth hiding behind closed doors? We'll keep investigating.
The only reason for Trump to want the parliamentarian fired is if he really was planning to use the money to build the ballroom — and not on the stuff the White House claims to want to use it on in their one-pager.
Her ballroom decision didn’t kill the funding. It just requires narrowing the scope.
Rather than conclude that democrats are bad because people like Fetterman and Polis are democrats, I prefer to conclude that people like Fetterman and Polis are not democrats and they need to get the hell out of our party.
Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.
Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.