GOP Senators Stall Budget Process Over Trump’s $1.776 Billion ‘Weaponization’ Fund
Senate Republicans delayed key budget and immigration funding votes Thursday as internal backlash over President Donald Trump’s controversial $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” intensified on Capitol Hill. According to reporting from multiple outlets, Republican senators privately voiced serious concerns about the proposed compensation program during closed-door discussions — including questions about how it would legally operate, […]
San Diego Mosque Shooting: Lessons In Security And Skill
On Monday, May 18, 2026, two attackers opened fire outside the Islamic Center of San Diego, the largest mosque in the county. Three adult men were killed before the attackers fled the scene and were later found dead in a nearby car from what police describe as self-inflicted gunshot wounds. By Jacob Paulsen for Concealed Carry […]
Man Charged With Attempted Murder After Attack Outside California ‘Trump House’
A California man is facing attempted murder charges after a brutal daytime attack outside a well-known San Diego “Trump House” left an elderly homeowner fighting for his life and a bystander injured, according to police. Authorities say 32-year-old Thomas Caleb Butler is accused of critically injuring the homeowner outside a residence on Buchanan Street in […]
DHS Announces New Ebola Outbreak Flight Restrictions
The Department of Homeland Security announced new travel restrictions as an expanding Ebola outbreak in Central and East Africa has prompted heightened concern among global health officials. Under the new rules, all civilian flights carrying passengers who have been in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Uganda, or South Sudan within the previous 21 days […]
California Death Row Inmates Accused Of Misusing State-Issued Prison Tablets
California’s prison tablet program is facing growing backlash after reports revealed a convicted child sex offender allegedly used the communication system to contact and exploit a young girl from behind bars. The controversy centers on a multimillion-dollar initiative backed during Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration that distributed roughly 90,000 digital tablets to inmates across California prisons […]
Republican Attorneys General Escalate Legal War Against DEI, ESG Practices In Corporate America
Republican attorneys general are intensifying a legal offensive against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing practices inside major American corporations, with Nebraska becoming the latest state to sue one of the country’s most powerful proxy advisory firms. Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers announced Wednesday that the state filed […]
Jared Polis Censured By His Own Party After Freeing Tina Peters
The Colorado Democratic Party voted Wednesday to formally censure Gov. Jared Polis in a sharp rebuke of his decision to grant early release to former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, triggering a growing political firestorm within his own party. Peters was convicted in Colorado state court in 2024 on seven charges — including four felonies […]
Don Lemon Claims Colbert Cancellation Threatens Free Speech
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon is framing Stephen Colbert’s cancellation as a warning sign for free speech and media independence under President Donald Trump, but critics argue Lemon’s own firing from CNN undercuts his central claim. In a lengthy Substack essay published ahead of Colbert’s final episode of “The Late Show,” Lemon argued that Colbert’s […]
Coming Up Short: Robert Reich Doesn’t Know What An Effective Tax Rate Is
There is a particular sort of dishonesty available only to a man with credentials. The ordinary liar must hope his audience does not check. The credentialed liar trusts that his audience will not check, because surely a Cabinet secretary, a Berkeley professor, the subject of a Netflix documentary on inequality, would not say something obviously […]