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‘REBELLION’?: Courts Weigh Oregon, Illinois Arguments Against Trump’s National Guard Deployments

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Two federal courts heard arguments Thursday about President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to quell unrest near U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in Portland, Oregon, and Chicago. “The district court found that the Portland ICE facility protests were small—less than 30 people—largely sedate and generally peaceful,” Oregon Assistant Attorney General Stacy Chaffin told the three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The hearing was held remotely by video.  Two of the judges, Ryan Nelson and Bridget Bade, are Trump appointees. Another judge, Susan Graber,…

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Pity Trump’s Defenders

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Minutes after news broke that ABC had bowed to the Trump administration’s threats and indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel, Ari Fleischer, the former Bush-administration press secretary, tried to explain why the thing that just happened was not actually what happened. “Liberals want to make this firing about ‘free speech,’” he wrote on X, “Did it ever occur to them the issue might be accuracy? Kimmel told his viewers that Charlie Kirk was murdered by MAGA.” Nothing to see here, just a network imposing a zero-tolerance standard for factual accuracy upon its…

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House Republicans Back President Trump’s Crackdown on DC Crime

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It’s no secret that violent crime is spiraling out of control in our cities.  Some would have you believe that rampant crime is just a fact of life when you live in a big city, but that’s not true. Rampant crime is a consequence of failed policy and moral leadership. For the last 20 years, the city of Washington, D.C., has had an average of three homicides a week. In 2024, 29,348 crimes were reported in Washington, including 3,469 violent offenses, 2,113 robberies, and 5,139 vehicle thefts. In 2025, there…

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Education Sec. McMahon Defends Trump’s Freeze on Harvard Funds, Cites Title VI Violations

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Secretary of Education Linda McMahon joined “Fox News Sunday” where she defended President Donald Trump’s freezing of Harvard’s funding grants and attempted to relieve concerns about Chinese students in the U.S. While the Trump administration is in the midst of a legal battle with Harvard regarding Trump’s freezing of its federal funding, McMahon reminded Americans of Harvard’s history of censoring Jewish students and faculty on its campus.  “They cannot do the things that they’re doing relative to taking away the rights of other students,” McMahon said.  She also said the…

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Trump’s Medicaid Tax Cuts: Here’s What to Know

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Senate Republicans passed the largest cuts to Medicaid since the program began in the 1960s, a reckless move that would strip health insurance from nearly 17 million Americans over the next decade. To pay for Trump’s tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations, Republicans deliberately chose to cut Medicaid funding by $ 1 trillion and to drastically cut other vital programs like SNAP and housing assistance. Health care workers and experts say these extreme Medicaid cuts could result in vulnerable Americans no longer being able to receive care—either because they…

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