Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has resigned after allegations of having an affair with a subordinate and drinking alcohol on the job.
She is the third Trump cabinet member to leave in recent weeks, following the removal of Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem. All three are women.
March 6: Trump demands Iran’s “unconditional surrender” after launching an unprovoked war.
April 17: Trump begs Iran to take a $20 BILLION bribe so he can save face and keep the Strait of Hormuz open.
Oil prices plunged on Friday after Iran announced that the Strait of Hormuz is now open, following the ceasefire with Lebanon and Israel.
Former Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax killed his wife, Cerena, and then killed himself this morning, according to police. He served as lieutenant governor from 2018 to 2022.
Europe has only 6 weeks of jet fuel left, as Trump’s war on Iran drags down the global economy and threatens flight cancellations and skyrocketing plane tickets heading into the summer travel season.
The Trump administration is trying to stop college students from voting by blocking data schools use to bolster campus voter turnout.
Trump claims the data violates students’ privacy rights. But he’s demanding colleges turn over to the government lists of Jewish students on campus.
The war in Sudan has now created 9 million refugees while 19 million face hunger. The death toll has climbed to 59,000 people and another 11,000 are missing.
The Messiah Con-Plex: How Trump conned the willing religious right into embracing the most unchristian president in modern history. And why they’ll still support him when the controversy dies down from his blasphemous Jesus post.
Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz
Iran gets $2 million a ship for passage
Iranian regime remains in power
Iran keeps its enriched uranium
Iran makes no political reform
Iran gets US sanctions lifted
— The Art of the Deal
TRUMP BACKS DOWN TO IRAN AGAIN.
Agrees to hold off on threat to destroy Iran while Iran continues to shut down the Strait of Hormuz. 🌮
Nobel Peace Prize loser threatens genocide.
Trump claims Iranians in Iran are sending secret messages to him to “please keep bombing” and says they “are willing to suffer” if he blows up their infrastructure and turns off their power.
Iran has rejected a 45-day ceasefire of Trump's war. Trump said on Sunday that if no peace deal is reached with Iran in the next 48 hours, "we're blowing up the entire country."
New video shows ICE lied about the shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant in Minneapolis. An ICE agent claimed that three attackers beat him with a shovel and broom for three minutes before he opened fire, but new video shows that never happened. Charges against Julio Sosa-Celis have been dropped.
Trump claims he personally "rebuilt" the US military and "decimated" Iran's, but the two planes Iran shot down this week are the first US military jets shot down by enemy fire in more than 20 years.
Under Presidents Obama and Biden, no US fighter jets were ever shot down by enemy fire.
The firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi should be a lesson for all Trump appointees. No matter how much you suck up to Trump, it will never be enough.
Trump has fired Attorney General Pam Bondi, the second woman to be removed from his cabinet in less than a month, after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was ousted. Trump’s former personal attorney, Todd Blanche, will serve as acting attorney general.
Trump’s Iran speech was the most embarrassing presidential war speech in U.S. history — rambling, delusional, repetitive, and filled with lies “like nobody’s ever seen before.” If the war is already won, why are we still fighting? And why is he begging for our allies to open the Strait of Hormuz?
Nick Cannon and Chilli are the latest celebrities to be used against us by the media misinformation machine. It’s time to fact check the famous and follow the truth tellers.
Trump backs down on his threat to bomb Iran’s power plants as Iran rejects his 48-hour deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
This is a disaster. U.S. gas prices have soared 27% in the past month, the second-largest four-week increase in nearly four decades. The only bigger jump came after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The higher gas prices translate up to a $50 per month tax on American drivers.
Joe Kent, Trump’s director of the National Counterterrorism Center, has resigned, saying he “cannot in good conscience” back the war in Iran.
Iran “posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel,” Kent said.
Trump is demanding that other countries help the United States unblock the Strait of Hormuz closed by Iran, but not a single country has agreed to his demand.
Pete Hegseth burned through $93 billion, including:
$15.1 million for ribeye steak
$6.9 million for lobster tail
$2 million for Alaskan king crab
$140,000 for donuts
$124,000 for ice cream machines
$99,000 for a grand piano
$26,000 for a violin
$21,750 for a flute
$12,000 for fruit basket stands
The New York Times analyzed newly released satellite imagery, verified videos, and official government statements and detemined that U.S. missiles likely destroyed tbe elementary school in Minab, Iran, killing 175 people.
The Trump administration would only say that it’s “investigating” the matter.
The war in Iran is another manufactured crisis — brought to you this time by America’s scandal-plagued president and Israel’s scandal-plagued prime minister.
Warner Brothers Discovery employees fear massive job losses as Paramount executives plan to cut $6 billion from WBD.
Meanwhile, Paramount CEO David Ellison has promised Trump to make sweeping changes at CNN. Bari Weiss, the editor-in-chief at CBS, could take over the cable news network.
The alleged gunman shot and killed at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday was identified as Austin Tucker Martin:
• 21-year-old white male
• Trump supporter
• self-identified Christian
• golf course illustrator
• came from a Republican family
• lived with Trump-supporting parents
• from small town North Carolina
