“HMP greatly encourages one of the most unpopular men in America to campaign with Republicans across the country,” says Katarina Flicker, a national press secretary for the House Majority PAC, a spending group that spends millions each cycle to elect Democrats to Congress. “His efforts will be crucial to Democrats taking back the House in 2026.”
The [Washington] Post wrote that "US officials say Trump is much more upset about the inclusion of a liberal journalist on a confidential group chat than he is about exposing secrets to foreign adversaries. But White House officials have found Waltz's denials increasingly hard to believe."
Where do they find these guys?
But in fulfilling a key campaign promise, he also ignored warnings that targeting key trading partners – from the likes of China, Japan and the European Union – will raise prices at home and risk the eruption of a global trade war.
The guy did own a casino, after all. For a while.
On Friday, Trump issued full and unconditional pardons to four individuals and a related cryptocurrency exchange, BitMEX.
Corporations are.
And Trump, he's just a crypto kinda guy. Multiple millions worth of kinda guy.
“TV interviews aren’t just a forum to test-run your latest thought bubble.”
No baking necessary there.
The center's Veterinary Laboratory Investigation and Response Network tests raw pet food for bird flu. In recent weeks, the FDA has issued several pet food recalls after detecting bird flu contamination.
Guacamole lovers flinched when President Trump threatened a trade fight with Mexico, which accounts for roughly 90% of U.S. avocado imports.
SPOILER: Still working on it.
Wilmore and Williams, the first crew to ride Boeing's faulty Starliner spacecraft last summer, spent days undergoing routine medical checks by NASA's astronaut office after returning to Earth on a SpaceX capsule in March and before they reunited with their families.
They've been working remotely — from, you know, orbit — for nine months. Great to be back, guys!
I hope they got a cake. Or something.
One of the two, Suni Williams, said they have a "very unique perspective" on their recent adventure.
Most Americans know very little about Elon Musk’s team of brainiacs at the Department of Government Efficiency, and may have misconceptions about who they are.It's a fawning op-ed from the New York Post. And yeah, at least some of it's true. But incomplete.
Whiz Kids was a name given to a group of experts from RAND Corporation with which Robert McNamara surrounded himself, in order to turn around the management of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) in the 1960s. The purpose was to shape a modern defense strategy in the Nuclear Age, by bringing in economic analysis, operations research, game theory, computing, as well as implementing modern management systems to coordinate the huge dimension of operations of the DoD, with methods such as the Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS). They were called the Whiz Kids, recalling the group at Ford Motor Company that McNamara was part of in the 1940s and 1950s.
That from a stub article in Wikipedia. More here. Sound familiar?
McNamara and his Whiz Kids got us into the Vietnam War. And kept us there.
Just mentioning.
George Washington in 1796 set the precedent for a two-term presidency, a self-imposed limit that was observed by most U.S. presidents for more than 140 years until Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940.
Roosevelt, a Democrat who was president during the Great Depression and World War 2, broke tradition and served a third term, then died months into his fourth term in 1945. This paved the way for the amendment on term limits in 1951.
Trump says "there will be bombing" if Iran does not make nuclear deal
In a telephone interview with NBC News, Trump said U.S. and Iranian officials were talking but did not elaborate.
…about how J.D. gets to go around playing soldier all the time.
[I'm so old I can remember when we had real soldiers in the government (can you spell "Ike"?) and these ain't them.]
A Reuters review of data from two auto research firms found just 16 models with an average sticker price less than $30,000 and only one, Toyota's Corolla, that is assembled in the United States. All others are made in Mexico, South Korea, or Japan.
Amanda Cameron said her family's 2-year-old cat, Mr. Pugsley Addams, has always had a long tail, and the subject even came up during his first visit to the vet.
"We inform you that Executive Order 14173, Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-based Opportunities, signed by President Trump, applies to all suppliers and service providers of the U.S. Government, regardless of their nationality and the country in which they operate," reads the letter, according to a copy that French newspaper Le Figaro published on its website.
Forget the bleu.
Lula [Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva] shrugged off the hotel crunch in a recent visit to Belem, suggesting those who cannot find accommodation should sleep "looking at the sky – it will be wonderful."
No room service but plenty of bugs, one imagines. And, hopefully, free. (Currently, rooms are averaging $1,500 per night.)
“A lot of people are interested in it, a lot of people are making a play. We hope that they [Greenlanders] choose to partner with the United States because we’re the only nation on earth that will respect their sovereignty…
No kidding. He said that.
The Vances are making an important State Visit™ to the U.S. Air Force base at the north of the island. They are accompanied by National Security Intern Mike Waltz and miscellaneous other officials.
Usha Vance originally was due to attend Greenland’s annual dog sled race farther south, but that visit was canceled after a hostile reception from local politicians and businesses.
HANOI, March 28 (Reuters) - The Trump Organization and its partner in Vietnam are working on multiple investments worth billions of dollars in golf courses, hotels and real estate projects in the Southeast Asian country, a spokesman for the consortium told Reuters.
Saigon Greens has a nice ring, doesn't it? A little revisionist, perhaps. But it's a new, new world.
How new, we are rapidly finding out.
“There are so many great reasons to be on Signal,” he said on X. “Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations.”
If you're lucky. And then you can be called a sleezebag by the President.
But that's a (rather awkward) joke. Signal offers rock-solid encryption. (Meta's WhatsApp also runs on Signal encryption.) And it's free to use. A lot of people do. For various reasons. (And yes, some are criminal.)
But it's not approved for government-classified information because if the device on either end of the communication is hacked, the communication is too. Which is true of any messaging app.
