By a vote of 6-3, the Supreme Court has granted Trump a stay so he can fire FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter while determining if Trump has the authority to override the landmark 1935 Humphrey’s Executor ruling, which limits presidential authority over independent commissions. Read the dissent.

NEW: After days of "having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy [Kimmel]," ABC has confirmed that his late show will return to its airwaves on Tuesday. It is still unclear whether Nexstar and Sinclair — two major television operators that own many ABC affiliates — will air future episodes.

New Covid protocols: CDC advisers now say people younger than 65 are eligible for the vaccine, but they have to consult with a clinician about the risks/benefits. Vaccine advisers previously recommended them broadly to anyone 6 months and older, without many restrictions. www.npr.org/2025/09/13/n...

The Trump administration will end a longstanding USDA annual Household Food Security Report, which provides yearly data on the lack of access to adequate nutrition for low-income Americans, and helps shape policy on how to combat it. www.npr.org/2025/09/22/n...

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Trump will nominate senior aide Lindsey Halligan - who was previously censoring art at the Smithsonian - to serve as the top federal prosecutor for the VA office that was thrown into turmoil after Erik Siebert was ousted for refusing to charge Letitia James. Her qualifications? She follows orders.

In an undercover op last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, the now White House border czar, accepting $50,000 after indicating he could help agents, posing as business executives, win contracts in a second Trump administration. Trump shut down the investigation. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump will announce that using Tylenol during pregnancy could contribute to autism risk and will also highlight leucovorin, a cancer and anemia drug, as a potential therapy for people with autism. Follow the money, people. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

‪Republican Senator Rand Paul went on Meet the Press on Sunday to say that FCC Chair Brendan Carr's comments threatening to take action against Disney's ABC were "absolutely inappropriate" and that he will fight this kind of censorship.

At the service for Charlie Kirk on Sunday, Donald Trump praised the Kirk as a “great American hero” and “martyr” for freedom, in yet another attempt to whitewash Kirk's racist and bigoted views. History will not be reading so slowly off of a teleprompter and it will not be so kind.

CAMP has served about 2,400 students annually at colleges and universities since its creation in 1972, providing students with internship resources, mental health counseling, tutoring and financial aid. Trump is cutting all funding for program this fall. www.npr.org/2025/09/22/n...

NO SLOWING on the gun violence this week: there were eight separate mass shooting incidents in the United States where 10 people were killed and 32 were injured. My Sunday recap covers this and all the critical legal and political details of last week: shero.substack.com/p/shero-on-s...

"Judge Faruqui made a point to say on the record that the US Atty's office has tarnished its reputation by routinely bringing cases that don’t belong in federal court and needlessly keeping people in jail for days while it evaluates charges." Must read: shero.substack.com/p/theres-no-...

A new AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll shows Republicans’ outlook on the direction of the country has soured dramatically. Only about half in the GOP see the nation on the right course, down from 70% in June. apnorc.org/projects/pes...

BREAKING: A federal judge has dismissed Trump's $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times after finding the complaint was "decidedly improper and impermissible" for being unnecessarily long. Trump's legal team has 28 days to refile, though an amended filing "must not exceed forty pages."

The mortgage fraud investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James is at a standstill because federal agents and prosecutors don’t believe they have enough evidence to get a conviction if the case were to go to trial, but Trump won't let it go. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee, temporarily blocked the hasty deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children, saying the Trump administration had misleadingly presented its actions as a “reunification” effort and relied on false pretexts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

More than a dozen elected officials — including the city's fiscal watchdog — were arrested Thursday while protesting conditions at a NYC immigration holding facility where a federal judge demanded the government to shape up detainee treatment. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

"Judge Faruqui made a point to say on the record that the US Atty's office has tarnished its reputation by routinely bringing cases that don’t belong in federal court and needlessly keeping people in jail for days while it evaluates charges." Must read: shero.substack.com/p/theres-no-...

Rep. Massie (R-KY) told the House Judiciary Committee that he thinks the FBI has the names of at least 20 influential people tied to Epstein, while Kash Patel uses Acosta as the fall guy to get the heat off of Trump. www.miamiherald.com/article31214...

"Part of what you see now in the Middle East is the consequences of a mindset that some people are worth more than others."

Trump has run to the Supreme Court with another emergency request to stay an Appeals Court ruling and allow him to fire Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook during litigation, in an attempt to take control of the powerful interest-rate setting body. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES. shero.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

BREAKING: ABC has announced it is pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show off the air “indefinitely” to censor the host after comments he made Monday night about the "MAGA gang" doing everything to claim Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin was "anything other than one of them." Here is the clip:

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES. shero.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

Donald Trump, Sex Trafficking, and the Epstein Files shero.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

You have GOT TO SEE THIS. When asked by the Senate Judiciary Committee about white supremacist Dylan Roof and his horrific antisemitic mass murder, Kash Patel, the head of the FBI, had no clue who that was saying: “I’m sorry, Dylan Ruth?” Patel is completely in over his head and it shows.

Facing growing pressure from Donald Trump, the Federal reserve lowered interest rates by a quarter percentage point on Wednesday in an effort to cushion the sagging job market. www.npr.org/2025/09/17/n...

Donald Trump, Sex Trafficking, and the Epstein Files shero.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

"According to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller." www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

UK Police arrested four adults “on suspicion of malicious communications following a public stunt in Windsor" after photos of Donald Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were projected onto Windsor Castle on Tuesday night. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

The time change from daylight savings could increase obesity and strokes by 1%, which means it would be WORTH IT to ends the whole thing. wapo.st/47KIklE

The Trump administration has canceled at least 22 federal projects under the EPA, DoJ, Department of the Interior, and Department of Agriculture, to fix problems like raw sewage leaks, toxic pollution, and chronic flooding in southern Black communities. www.binnews.com/content/2025...

Trump officials demanded the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at national parks — including this historic photo — to comply with an executive order which target signs and exhibits related to slavery at "multiple" national parks.

Global postal traffic to the United States dropped over 80% immediately after the Trump administration ended an exemption allowing goods worth $800 or less to enter the country duty-free, the United Nations postal organization says. www.npr.org/2025/09/07/n...

After claiming his brand is worth $100 billion, Trump has sued The NY Times and four reporters for defamation, claiming that they sought to undermine his candidacy and disparage his business reputation before the 2024 election. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Per WaPo: The 22-year-old who allegedly shot Charlie Kirk seems to have confessed to friends on Discord on Thursday night, about two hours before being taken into custody, saying: “Hey guys, I have bad news for you all. It was me at UVU yesterday. im sorry for all of this.”

BREAKING: Finding that the evidence presented to the grand jury was insufficient to support a charge of terrorism, Manhattan Judge Gregory Carro has dismissed two terrorism-related murder charges against Luigi Mangione, the accused killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Godspeed, Robert Redford. Thank you for being here and for being an artist. 🩷

Trump has threatened to once again federalize Washington, DC's police force, as a response to the Mayor Bowser's refusal to cooperate with immigration enforcement raids. apnews.com/article/trum...

When Donald Trump and other Conservatives try to blame the Charlie Kirk shooting on "radical left political violence" don't forget they are projecting their own method of using political hate speech and vigilante victimism so that it serves them. Here is Trump mocking Paul Pelosi's attack:

"With very few exceptions, US winemakers are legally prohibited from selling their product directly to consumers...they also are generally prohibited from selling their product to wine shops or restaurants." How Trump tariffs will jack up wine prices: wapo.st/47ILy9h

The Trump administration is asking Congress to approve an additional $58m in taxpayer money for security services to protect the members of the executive and judicial branches after the killing of Charlie Kirk. WE STILL DON'T HAVE HEALTHCARE FUNDING. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Fox News Channel host Brian Kilmeade apologized on Sunday for advocating for the execution of mentally ill homeless people last week, saying his remark was “extremely callous.” The only response anyone should have to this is "who is Brain Kilmeade?" apnews.com/article/kilm...

NO SLOWING on the gun violence this week: there were seven separate mass shooting incidents in the United States where four people were killed and 31 were injured. My Sunday recap covers this and all the critical legal and political details of last week: shero.substack.com/p/shero-on-s...

NO SLOWING on the gun violence this week: there were seven separate mass shooting incidents in the United States where four people were killed and 31 were injured. My Sunday recap covers this and all the critical legal and political details of last week: shero.substack.com/p/shero-on-s...

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The Charlie Kirk Gun Safety Act - which would require nationwide background checks and/or purchase permitting, Extreme Risk laws, secure gun storage requirements, and a ban on Stand Your Ground - would be a great idea right about now.

After collecting data since 2010, the Trump administration will no longer require coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other facilities to report the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases that they release into the air to the EPA. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

BREAKING: After explaining that he will be moving National Guard troops to more cities "I, 2, 3 and then we'll do a few at a time," Trump confirms he is sending troops to Memphis to address "crime concerns." Nothing to see here, just getting ready to take the next election by force.