Foxtrot India Tango. Go Albania! 🇦🇱

Two members of the advisory board for Stars and Stripes are suing the Defense Department over a memo they say threatens the military newspaper’s long-standing editorial independence.

The Defense Department is eliminating roughly 150 religious designations from military personnel records, cutting the available options from about 180 down to 31 almost all are Christian denominations.

The price tag for work on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool keeps climbing. The Trump administration has now committed another $1.1 million to apply a blue-tinted waterproofing material, pushing the total project cost to $14.2 million, according to federal contracting records.

A win! A federal judge in Rhode Island has blocked several Trump administration immigration policies, ruling that they unlawfully left many immigrants trapped in legal uncertainty.

Trump found a new way to steal. The Trump administration is redirecting at least $90 million in National Park Service fee revenue to Washington, D.C. projects tied to this year’s July 4 and America 250 celebrations. According to published reports, that includes a $1.6 million fireworks

Way to go, Albania! 🇦🇱

Trump campaign donors are receiving disproportionate access, influence, and financial benefits from the government after helping fund his political campaigns.

The Kennedy Center is preparing to restore its original identity. According to an internal memo, attorneys for the institution have instructed staff to begin removing references to Trump from official materials and to once again use the venue’s full historic name

The amount of corruption in this administration is astounding.

John Bolton, who served as Trump’s national security adviser during his first administration before becoming a sharp public critic, has agreed to plead guilty to a charge related to improperly retaining classified national security information.

Voters in Monterey Park, California, overwhelmingly approved a measure that bans new data centers within city limits. Election results show nearly 86% support for the proposal, making the Los Angeles-area community one of the first in the country to enact a complete ban on data center development.

Trump has signed an executive order reclassifying nearly 8,000 federal employees in policy-related positions, stripping away long-standing civil service protections that previously shielded them from political dismissal.

House passes measure to end Iran War!! 215-208

A win! A federal judge has temporarily stopped the Trump admin’s attempt to dismantle part of a major U.S. climate research institution. In a preliminary ruling, Judge R. Brooke Jackson blocked plans to remove a key supercomputer from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in CO.

The House is expected to vote on a measure requiring Trump to either end U.S. military involvement in Iran or obtain authorization from Congress to continue it. The resolution was originally poised for consideration in May, but Republican leadership pulled it from the schedule at the last minute.

Exciting news!! Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has won the New Mexico Democratic primary for Governor and if elected, she will make history as the nation’s first Native American woman to serve as governor. 

Simple math 8 + 6 + 4 + 7 = 25. Thanks, Judge. 😉

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The Department of Education is finalizing a rule that would judge college programs based on how much money graduates make after leaving school. Programs whose graduates don’t earn enough compared to their student debt would lose access to federal student loans.

Trump ends federal rebates that helped homeowners switch from gas-powered appliances to electric alternatives, rolling back incentives aimed at lowering energy costs and reducing emissions.

The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean monitoring network 900+ sensors tracking climate currents, fishery health, ocean carbon absorption, and coastal flooding along the East Coast. Ships go out in June to start pulling it up. Congress funded it twice after Trump

A win! A federal judge in Washington ruled that protesters near the Capitol cannot be forced to remove flags displaying “8647,” finding no evidence the message constitutes a true threat against Trump.

Trump is planning to drop his $1.8B slush-fund.

Patiently waiting for an update on Trump’s reopened $10 billion IRS lawsuit. He has until June 12th to respond.

Happy Pride Month! We’ve raised 10k so far for Have A Gay Day. Our pride sticker is available through the end of the month, with all profits going directly to them. Our public lands belong to everyone! 🌈

The U.S. just had its worst year for international tourism since the pandemic and it wasn’t even close. While the rest of the world broke records in 2025, America was the only country out of 184 to see a drop in foreign visitor spending.

The SEC has formally proposed scrapping the rule that would have required publicly traded companies to disclose their climate-related risks to investors.

It’s absolutely crazy they can void an election with no consequences.

What an absolute mess and a complete disgrace!

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Trump posted on Truth calling out “third rate artists” who dropped out of his government-sponsored “Freedom 250” event in Washington, D.C., and suggested he may replace it with a different patriotic event.

The first lawsuit against the largest immigration detention facility in the United States was filed this morning, and it’s been a long time coming.

Glad they caught him! Federal immigration agent Christian Castro was arrested in Texas in connection with a Minneapolis shooting earlier this year. Castro faces assault and false-reporting charges, was taken into custody.

Nearly every artist booked for the Trump-backed Freedom 250 “Great American State Fair” on the National Mall has backed out. Morris Day & The Time, Young MC, The Commodores, Martina McBride, Bret Michaels, and Milli Vanilli have all withdrawn.

Celebrating this win! Trump’s name will be stripped from the Kennedy Center.

A win! A federal judge has blocked the government from moving forward with Trump’s proposed $1.8 billion slush-fund, halting any effort to establish the slush-fund.

They didn’t let the public vote. Louisiana Republicans pushed through a new congressional map today that removes one of the state’s two majority-Black districts and replaces it with an additional Republican-leaning district.

This is messed up! The White House rolled out an extraterrestrial-themed “aliens” webpage not about UFOs, but as a tool targeting immigrants. If you haven’t seen it. It’s just a WTF moment. Link: www.whitehouse.gov/aliens/

You all never cease to amaze. We are $900 away from a $10K donation to Have A Gay Day, and we did it in under three days. Thank you. Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

We’d like to set the record straight. At the Cabinet meeting, Trump said the Obama and Biden administrations spent “hundreds of millions of dollars” trying to fix the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and claimed his own renovations were being done far more cheaply.

Corruption in plain sight. It will take a decade to fix this debacle. #TrumpCorruption

Bessent says the Treasury has prepared legislation that would allow Trump’s face to be portrayed on a $250 bill.

The DOJ filed lawsuits against Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington state over their refusal to issue confidential “undercover” license plates to ICE.

A federal judge today refused to block Trump’s executive order tightening rules on mail-in voting, leaving it fully in force heading into a midterm election year. The ruling came from U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols (a Trump appointee in Washington, D.C.)

The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into whether E. Jean Carroll “committed perjury in testimony” during her lawsuits tied to sexual abuse allegations against Trump.

Another state is joining in. California Governor Gavin Newsom says the state is looking at taxing 100% of any money paid to Californians from Trump’s proposed $1.776 billion January 6 “slush fund.” We think they should go to 110%!

An internal National Park Service analysis flagged the no-bid Reflecting Pool repair contract as a financial outlier. The agency’s own contracting specialist found that federal construction contracts of this type typically carry a profit margin of 6 to 12 percent,

It’s embarrassing, and honestly it’s starting to look like Idiocracy could see the future.

We want to bring attention to something that happened last month that hasn’t gotten nearly enough coverage. On April 23, a DHS contractor building Trump’s border wall bulldozed 60 feet of the Las Playas Intaglio a 1,000-year-old fish-shaped geoglyph etched into