“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.
