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The Trump administration wants to turn the U.S.–Mexico border into a military zone, sidestepping Congress. Soldiers shouldn't be enforcing immigration law.

THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

Friggin' bonkers story www.al.com/news/2025/05...

Who hid Americans during the 1979 hostage crisis? Canada. 🇨🇦 👊🏻

All 47 member of the Democratic Caucus voted against Hegseth. They were joined by three Republicans: Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski, and Susan Collins. So it took JD Vance to usher Hegseth into a position that he is so obviously not competent to lead. Shouldn’t we get rid of Vance too then?

Every bribe has a receipt. Every payoff leaves a trail. Is the Trump cult finally cracking? hartmannreport.com/p/will-trump...

They're killing American children and fomenting hate against law-abiding American citizens. They're using their culture war to distract from their destruction of the US.

Great crowd in Pueblo, CO today braving snow and cold! Hands Off!!

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

Incredible things continue to happen on the federal worker subreddit.

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

I posted this earlier today but the original post was deleted, but here it is again in screencap form, about the probably not actually legal shenanigans the new administration is up to at the office of personnel management: www.reddit.com/r/fednews/co...

So the raids, threats, and actual deportations will happen. Share widely. #USDemocracy

The moon setting over a snowy Pueblo West! My attempt to distract from distressing political news!

He’s anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration

This piece is fantastic. Read the whole thing.