President Trump warned Omani officials against getting “in the way” of the U.S. during negotiations with their Iranian counterparts over reopening the Strait of Hormuz. “If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the s— out of them,” he told Fox News’s Trey Yingst. TAT: [Foreign policy]

Trump threatens to ‘bomb the s‑‑‑ out of Oman’ over Iran deal

President Trump on Monday warned Omani officials against getting “in the way” of the U.S. during negotiations with their Iranian counterparts over reopening the Strait of Hormuz. “If Oman gets in t…

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The Trump administration cancelled at least three NIH grants at Emory University and the University of Pittsburgh studying how racial discrimination and social disadvantage affect Alzheimer's and brain health, worth approximately $15 million. The grants had previously be... TAT: [Attacking science]

Alzheimer’s research is latest casualty in Trump administration war against ‘DEI’

Grant cancellations at leading research institutions appear to target study of impacts of racism on brain health

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President Trump ripped “Fox News Sunday” anchor Shannon Bream over on-air guests, charts and polls that Trump said weren’t reflective of the successful measures undertaken by his administration. TAT: [Controlling information | Suppressing dissent]

Trump rips Fox News anchor Shannon Bream: ‘Beyond redemption’

President Trump ripped “Fox News Sunday” anchor Shannon Bream over on-air guests, charts and polls that he said weren’t reflective of the successful measures undertaken by his administr…

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President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon on Sunday to scale back planned joint military exercises with South Korea after the Republican president said it declined to help denuclearize Iran. TAT

Trump orders Pentagon to scale back joint exercises with South Korea

President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to scale back planned joint military exercises with South Korea after the Republican president said it declined to help denuclearize Iran.

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The U.S. Navy is considering a major redesign of its new aircraft carriers to better match President Donald Trump’s preferred aesthetic for the warships. Trump’s preference, current and former officials said, is for the new aircraft carriers to look more like those that were in... TAT: [Corruption]

Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences

The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more resemble those from World War II. Such a change could cost billions.

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The Trump administration accelerated deportations through major changes to immigration court procedures, including mass "mega master" hearings with limited notice, rapid issuance of in-absentia removal orders and reduced opportunities for immigrants to... TAT: [Nationalism | Weakening civil rights]

US immigration judges are deporting people in mass hearings – some without notice

Inside ‘mega master’ calendar hearings, the new tactic of scheduling hearings on short notice and deporting the people who don’t show up

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President Trump targeted several Democratic politicians in a series of Truth Social posts. One image showed El-Sayed alongside Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), all of whom are Muslims, under the word “Jihadists.” Trump also posted an image... [link] TAT: [Suppressing dissent]

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted preliminary conditional approval for World Liberty Trust Co., a proposed national trust bank sponsored by World Liberty Financial, which is partly owned by an entity controlled by President Trump's family. The charter would ... TAT: [Corruption]

Trump family crypto company receives approval for conditional banking charter

A crypto firm partially owned by President Trump’s family received preliminary conditional approval for a bank charter on Friday.  The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) granted c…

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The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel issued an opinion expanding the circumstances in which President Trump can claim executive privilege over communications with private advisers outside government, potentially shielding those c... TAT: [Controlling information | Undermining democracy]

Blanche says DOJ opinion on executive privilege is not ‘any novel legal concept’

Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday dismissed criticism over the Justice Department’s (DOJ) recent opinion on executive privilege over communications between the president and “priv…

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The Trump administration directed federal agencies to consider targeting Colorado in the allocation of federal grants and support after President Trump criticised the state's treatment of election denier Tina Peters and its election policies. A White House... TAT: [Corruption | Suppressing dissent]

Colorado Was Targeted as Trump Fumed Over Election Denier, Email Shows

The state has accused the government in a lawsuit of retaliating after the conviction of Tina Peters, a Trump supporter. An administration official convened a group to discuss “immediate actions.”

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A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to strip nearly 1,100 Somalis of legal protections against deportation that ​have allowed them to live and work in the United States. TAT: [Nationalism | Weakening civil rights]

US judge clears way for Trump to end Somalis' deportation protections

A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to strip nearly 1,100 Somalis of legal protections against deportation that ​have allowed them to live and work in the United States.

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A U.S. federal appeals court handed President Donald Trump’s administration a legal victory in its efforts to seek data from providers of transgender healthcare to minors, reinstating a Justice Department subpoena that a lower court had blocked a... TAT: [Weakening civil rights | Attacking science]

US appeals court revives Justice Department subpoena to gender-affirming care provider

A U.S. federal appeals court handed President Donald Trump’s administration a legal victory on ‌Friday in its efforts to seek data from providers of transgender healthcare to minors, reinstating a Justice Department subpoena that a lower court had blocked as politically motivated.

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The White House released a report called "The Great Transshipment Scam,” in which it accuses over 40 countries of helping China avoid US tariffs. The report accused China of routing billions of dollars of goods through other countries to avoid President Trump’s 2018 tariffs... TAT: [Foreign policy]

White House accuses more than 40 countries of helping China avoid US tariffs

The White House accused China of routing billions of dollars of goods through other countries to avoid President Trump’s 2018 tariffs, costing the U.S. billions of dollars in lost revenue, accordin…

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Internal investigative reports show the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent undercover agents to meetings and infiltrated chats of groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota earlier this year. The records sho... TAT: [Nationalism | Suppressing dissent | Undermining democracy]

US conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records reveal

DHS sent undercover agents to meetings and infiltrated chats of groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) accused dozens of hospitals and healthcare providers of improperly billing for gender-affirming care ​and referred them to the Office of Inspector General and the Justice Department ‌for inve... TAT: [Weakening civil rights | Attacking science]

Trump administration accuses hospitals of improper billing over gender care for minors

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services accused dozens of hospitals and healthcare providers on Thursday of improperly billing for gender-affirming care ​and referred them to the Office of Inspector General and the Justice Department ‌for investigation.

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The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (which is dominated by Trump appointees) voted to inscribe President Donald Trump's name on the building, setting up a potential clash with a federal judge ​who had ordered the name removed. TAT: [Attacking education]

Kennedy Center board votes to inscribe Trump's name on building

The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted on Thursday to inscribe President Donald Trump's name on the building, Democratic U.S. Representative Joyce Beatty said, setting up a potential clash with a federal judge ​who had ordered the name removed.

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The Trump administration has been accused of “bullying and intimidation” after a labor union leader and critic was put under investigation and suspended from his job at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Stephen ... TAT: [Weakening civil rights | Suppressing dissent | Hollowing state]

Trump administration accused of ‘bullying’ union leader at consumer protection agency

Critic of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau leadership was put under investigation and suspended from job

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The justice department (DOJ) arrested a leading expert on far-right extremism, charging her with financial crimes as part of the government’s ongoing case against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The justice department charged the SPLC in April over a now-ended ... TAT: [Suppressing dissent]

Trump’s justice department arrests expert on far right as part of SPLC crackdown

Prosecutors charge Heidi Beirich with financial crimes as part of case against the Southern Poverty Law Center

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced the withdrawal of its support for the Arctic Report Card, which has provided environmental updates on the Arctic to scientists and the public since 2006. Over the last 20 years, the peer-reviewed report... TAT: [Attacking science]

Trump administration pulls support for annual Arctic environmental report

Move by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is latest government rollback of climate science activity

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The Dept of Justice (DOJ) filed a request asking the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to put on hold a decision that blocks the US Postal Service from nationwide enforcement ⁠of the directive’s tighter rules for voting by mail. Last week's decision by US district judge Indira ... TAT: [Undermining democracy]

Trump officials again urge US supreme court intervention on mail ballots

Justice department asks justices to pause decision that blocked Trump’s order to tighten voting-by-mail rules

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to spend $20 million on gloves that produce electric shocks when used to detain a person and are deemed a “humane, low-optics... TAT: [Nationalism | Weakening civil rights | Suppressing dissent]

ICE to spend up to $20m on gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks

According to manufacturer, shock ‘is usually effective in bringing individuals into compliance in less than three seconds’

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The Treasury Department announced it will no longer enforce reporting requirements of the 2021 Corporate Transparency Act, which was intended to crack down on money laundering. The law, which passed with bipartisan support, was intended to prevent the il... TAT: [Corruption | Undermining democracy]

Treasury Scales Back Scrutiny of U.S. Shell Companies

The Trump administration will not enforce reporting requirements of the 2021 Corporate Transparency Act, which was intended to crack down on money laundering.

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Two Democratic senators are demanding answers from two Belgian firms about an 18-carat gold ring encrusted with 321 diamonds that was given to U.S. ​President Donald Trump weeks before the U.S. exempted Europe's diamond industry from new tariffs. TAT: [Corruption]

Democratic senators question Belgian diamond industry about ring given to Trump

Two Democratic senators are demanding answers from two Belgian firms about an 18-carat gold ring encrusted with 321 diamonds that was given to U.S. ​President Donald Trump weeks before the U.S. exempted Europe's diamond industry from new tariffs.

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services barred federal Medicaid dollars from being used to provide gender-transition medication and surgery to transgender adolescents. Dr. Oz, its administrator stated: "Children deserve our protection, not... TAT: [Weakening civil rights | Attacking science]

Trump Administration Bars Medicaid Funding of Transition Treatment for Transgender Youth

Transgender rights advocates said the new rule would face a legal challenge.

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Department of Justice new legal counsel opinion concludes that three STEMP programmes overseen by the National Science Foundation (NSF) are unconstitutional. These programmes are all designed to encourage more minorities/women to enter sci... [link] TAT: [Weakening civil rights | Attacking science]

The Department of Energy (DoE) has removed solar power from a major Biden loan that was intended to prevent electricty blackouts in Puerto Rico TAT: [Attacking science]

DOE cuts solar from loan meant to stop blackouts in Puerto Rico

The loan looks very similar to a conditional commitment for a loan guarantee to Amanecer Puerto Rico announced in January 2025. 

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ICE detained a family of lawful permanent residents, including a teenage boy, and sought to revoke their green cards based on the father's family connection to a woman who had worked as a translator for Iranian hostage-takers in 1979, before he was bor... TAT: [Nationalism | Weakening civil rights]

One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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President Donald Trump in a new interview declined to rule out declaring a national security emergency as a means to try to assert more control over the 2026 midterm elections. It’s merely the latest warning sign that Trump could try to mess with the election not jus... TAT: [Undermining democracy]

Trump declines to rule out declaring a national security emergency to control the 2026 election | CNN Politics

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White House officials have asked the Justice Department to consider a new prosecution of a man accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Its original case was dismissed last week after the Dept of Justice acknowledged that poo... TAT: [Suppressing dissent | Undermining democracy]

Exclusive | White House Asks Justice Department to Consider New Reflecting-Pool Prosecution

Officials asked the department whether it is possible to bring a new charge against an Olympic canoeist after the U.S. attorney dropped the case.

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President Donald Trump said Friday the federal government will fund $180 million in grants for mining schools across the country as part of his administration’s goal of rebuilding the U.S. coal industry. Trump framed the announcement as part of his ongoing effort ... [link] TAT: [Attacking science]