“They were asking me to inform,” said a protester, one of dozens contacted by the feds, who was arrested while playing the cello. The post FBI Tried to Flip Anti-ICE Protesters Into Informants appeared first on The Intercept.
Banning “anti-competitive” hospital contracting practices could help bring down healthcare costs across the U.S., according to a White House Council of Economic Advisers report released Thursday. The […]
President Donald Trump suffered a severe humiliation this month when the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was finally ordered by a federal court to remove Trump's name from the side of the building, clarifying that Congress only allowed Kennedy's name to be on the facility.Now, days later, tarps are still covering the spot where Trump's name was, and, according to The New York Times, it's starting to arouse suspicion. Some are even questioning whether the name was in fact fully removed at all.Matt Floca, the operations chief for the Kennedy Center, "filed a sworn declaration with a federal court later that day saying that Mr. Trump’s name had been removed," noted the report. And at least some letters were taken off, as "a New York Times photographer captured evidence through an opening in the tarp that the letter 'A' came off," as well as a "D" in a separate photograph.The Kennedy Center will not give a direct explanation for why the tarps aren't coming down, with one spokesperson saying, “The scaffolding and tarp will remain up as crews address maintenance needs of the marble and soffit panels. Best, Public Relations.”Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH), the Kennedy Center board member who sued over Trump-aligned officials' mishandling of the facility in the first place, told The Times, “Donald Trump is embarrassed. He lost in court, his name came down, and now he is trying to hide the result from the public.”It's the latest episode in a long saga of Trump efforts to assert control over the Kennedy Center, which has seen a collapse of ticket sales and the withdrawal of a number of performers as the facility has grown more explicitly MAGA-aligned.Trump also attempted to shut down the Kennedy Center for two years of "renovations" in response to the decline, which was also blocked by federal courts.
Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old democratic socialist running for Congress, is pushing an ice cream giveaway for early voters in New York’s 13th Congressional District, raising eyebrows as a legally dubious campaign effort. Election experts warn that the giveaway, which promises a free ice cream from a local business, violates federal election law. Sean Cooksey, […]
The Justice Department (DOJ) on Friday snubbed a federal judge’s demand to swear that a nearly $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund is dead, arguing the request raises “serious separation of powers concerns.” Judge Leonie Brinkema indefinitely blocked the fund last Friday and issued a seven-day deadline for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Associate Attorney…
A senior Justice Department official called a judge's demand for a declaration on the status of the "anti-weaponization" fund "unnecessary."
Friday on MS NOW's "The Last Word," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, also known as the SAVE America Act, was the "most anti-election democracy thing that’s ever been proposed." The post Schumer: SAVE America Act ‘Worst, Most Anti-Election Democracy Things That’s Ever Been Proposed’ appeared first on Breitbart.
American intelligence is warning that the Israeli government is probably going to try and undermine the Trump administration’s peace deal with Iran. The Washington Post, citing unnamed former and current U.S. officials, reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is going to continue bombing and occupying Lebanon, even though the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding demands a “permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon.”. “Continuing to occupy part of Lebanon is a recipe for disaster,” an unnamed U.S. official told the Post. “Without a full Israeli withdrawal, the likelihood of resumed hostilities between the [Israeli military] and Hezbollah is all but certain.” ّIsraelis have publicly denounced the 14-point MOU, with media commentators in the country calling it a “catastrophic capitulation” and a “diplomatic Oct. 7,” referencing the Hamas-led attack from 2023. Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Friday seemingly advocated for a genocide in Lebanon, posting on X in Hebrew that “For every tear shed by an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers should cry. All of Lebanon should burn.”Netanyahu has used constant warfare, from relentless war crimes in Gaza to bombing Iran and Lebanon, to deflect against corruption charges and save his political fortunes. Any end to these conflicts would only hurt his chances in Israel’s October elections. He and his far-right, fascistic political allies in Israel are willing to slaughter countless innocent people across the Middle East to save themselves and continue their settler-colonialism.
Israel is desperately trying to sabotage the recently signed memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran, continuing its bombings of Lebanon and secretly launching a right-wing media campaign to shift the narrative on the deal.Israel killed at least three people in attacks on southern Lebanon on Thursday, just hours after the signed MOU specifically required an end to military aggression in Lebanon.Meanwhile, Israel’s military released a new Lebanon occupation map, which shows a larger zone of control for the IDF in southern Lebanon.“Prime Minister Netanyahu needs to tell Trump ‘enough,’” the conservative Likud Party politician Moshe Saada said. “I am bound to defend Israelis, and withdrawing from Lebanon right now poses an existential threat to Israel. Duty demands that we strike Lebanon everywhere, around the clock, with maximum force and with no proportionality.”Aside from dropping bombs, Israel is turning to the right-wing media sphere to kill the deal, with sources telling CNN that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to use pro-Israel voices like Fox News host Mark Levin and Senator Lindsey Graham. (Graham, so far, has tentatively praised the deal.) With the bombings and the media campaign, it’s clear that Israel is feeling much less secure in its relation to the administration, as Trump continues to publicly distance himself from their actions.