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The Supreme Court Is About to Decide Four Cases Defining Trump’s Power
Decisions involving immigration and power to fire government officials will help shape the president’s relationship with the court.
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Spencer Pratt Has Now Defined His Legacy. It’s Not Pretty.
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Los Angeles was never the hellscape Spencer Pratt claimed it was. But he's found a way to make a divided city even more so.
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Trump's 'mad hatter' legacy cemented following latest cabinet member fiasco: analysis
The Washington Post’s bombshell report Sunday that revealed Tulsi Gabbard may have been guided throughout her political career by a “cult guru” cemented the Trump administration’s legacy for the worse, argued Zeteo’s Martin Pengelly, who noted how the revelation made clear that the federal government had transformed into a full “kakistocracy.”Gabbard, who resigned from her position as Director of National Intelligence last Friday, was revealed to have received guidance throughout her 20-plus years in politics from Chris Butler, the leader of a religious group that countless former members have described as a “cult.” That guidance allegedly shaped nearly every facet of her political life – from her talking points to the bills she introduced – with the Post identifying several instances where she appeared to follow through.“Ask yourself a question: ultimately, what does Gabbard’s career tell us about how we are governed now?” Pengelly, who previously worked for Raw Story as an investigations editor, wrote in an analysis published Monday in Zeteo.“A Fox weekend host with an alleged drinking problem is secretary of defense. An anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist runs health and human services. And a dedicated cult member became director of national intelligence, despite the association being long known. This is what a kakistocracy looks like.”The revelation also painted a rough picture of President Donald Trump’s legacy, Pengelly argued.“And Gabbard’s extreme behavior in particular, highlighted by [journalist Jon] Swaine and the Post, shows us it’s not just a matter of Trump being mad as a hatter,” Pengelly wrote. “He’s dragged us all through the looking glass now.”
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Truthout
Keir Starmer Resigns, Leaving Legacy of Persecuting Palestine Activists
“It’s hard to remember the last time that a government lost so much support and respect so quickly,” said one activist.
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Democracy Now!
"Document of Capitulation": Spencer Ackerman & Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi on the U.S.-Iran Deal
Mediators from Pakistan and Qatar say the United States and Iran made “encouraging progress” during 18 hours of negotiations in Switzerland, where the two sides agreed to a roadmap toward reaching a final deal within 60 days. The talks took place despite Iran on Saturday announcing it was closing the Strait of Hormuz after Israel killed 83 people in Lebanon on Friday. Israel said it would agree to a new ceasefire in Lebanon but is also refusing to end its occupation of southern Lebanon. “Iran has, through its throttling of the Strait of Hormuz, enormous leverage to produce pain on not just the United States, but global markets,” says award-winning journalist Spencer Ackerman. “We’re going to await how the Iranians will ultimately play that card when it comes to Lebanon.” Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, fellow at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center, says that by demanding the ceasefire extend to Lebanon, “the Islamic Republic focused on creating a rift between Israel and the U.S., and I think, possibly, along with the successes in the war front politically, that was one of the most successful projects that they followed.”
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Obama Center visitors say project symbolic of 'Black excellence,' claim scandal-free legacy while Trump ripped
Visitors at the Barack Obama Presidential Center opening praised his legacy as "black excellence" while lamenting divisions under President Trump.
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'Stinky, slimy and unrelenting': Trump’s ghastliest blunder defines him
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd says there can be no more fitting metaphor of President Donald Trump’s second term than “trillions of microscopic organisms suck[ing] up all the oxygen and endanger[ing] life around them.”“A historian once told me that the presidency would distill Donald Trump to his essence,” wrote Dowd. “… That essence is slimy, stinky and unrelenting, as reflected in the mass of algae that infests the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial.”The Lincoln Memorial, she said, was the “hallowed site where Marian Anderson serenaded a throng after getting banished from Constitution Hall for her race, and where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech to an even bigger crowd around the 2,028-foot pool.”But now National Park Service workers are sloshing through the green soup in waders, using hoses to suck up dead algae and flush the vibrant green ick into DC sewers.And while Trump is deep in denial mode over his new $14 million taxpayer-funded green lagoon, the Interior Department is laboring to blame it all — somehow — on Barack Obama to please the boss.“The advanced nanobubbler technology very effectively killed the algae that has plagued every Lincoln Reflecting Pool reopening — most infamously Obama’s reopening — since 1922,” the Dept. Interior posted on X (with a carefully crafted photo hiding the muck beneath the water’s reflective surface). “The Reflecting Pool water is crystal clear, and our National Park Service team is now vacuuming up the dead algae resting on the bottom of some parts of the Reflecting Pool — just like the destroyed Iranian Navy resting on the bottom of the Persian Gulf.”“Reports of Trump victories, with the knotty issues of Iran and the Reflecting Pool, are premature,” assures Dowd. “Iran is gloating about Trump’s bad deal. Senate Republicans … are deriding it. And the hydrogen peroxide that park workers used to kill the algae is peeling off the ‘American flag blue’ paint that Trump just had directed be applied to the bottom of the pool.”Trump may have restored local fountains and statues with debt spending, but for each laudable effort, “there’s a litany of loathsome ones,” said Dowd.“[L]ike his plans for the hulking ballroom, the egotistical Arc de Trump, the cheesy Mar-a-Lago patio where Jackie’s Rose Garden used to be and the desecration — now halted by a federal judge — of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,” she said.And — as in all things, be they local renovations or massive Middle Eastern wars — Trump has a habit of “rushing in unilaterally, refusing to consult anyone except sycophants, insisting the results are amazing even when we can see that they’re not.”Plenty of Americans miss the days when the U.S. built grand things, she adds, so there is a certain appeal for a “crazy president [to] squash the bureaucracy and get it done.”“But as usual with Trump, you eventually have to accept that he’s incompetent and corrupt and tacky, and just an all-around mess,” said Dowd.
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The Gateway Pundit
Obama Opens His Library at Last – Another Total Mess Added to His Legacy
Yesterday’s opening of Obama’s Presidential Library was, as expected, a trainwreck. The post Obama Opens His Library at Last – Another Total Mess Added to His Legacy appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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New York Post
Spencer Pratt breaks silence on FBI’s Skid Row voter fraud probe as stunning detail revealed
Palisades firebrand and former LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt publicly admired the FBI's work cleaning up potential voter fraud in Skid Row Thursday.
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