Monthly Archives: April 2025

Raw Story: Trump’s latest order will demand truck drivers in US speak English

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President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order at 5 p.m. Monday requiring commercial truck drivers in the United States to speak English, “America’s official language,” according to his spokeswoman

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt tweeted a link to a Breitbart article on Monday morning.

A document reviewed by Breitbart said, “President Trump believes that English is a non-negotiable safety requirement for professional drivers, as they should be able to read and understand traffic signs, communicate with traffic safety officers, border patrol, agricultural checkpoints, and cargo weight-limit station personnel, and provide and receive feedback and directions in English.”

Just another unconstitutional overreach by our delusional King Donald — this violates the First and (to the extent that interstate commerce is not involved) Tenth Amendments.

Trump’s latest order will demand truck drivers in US speak English
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order at 5 p.m. Monday requiring commercial truck drivers in the United States to speak English, “America’s official language,” according to his spokeswoman White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt tweeted a link to a Breitbart article on Monday morning. A document reviewed by Breitbart sa…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-latest-order-will-demand-truck-drivers-in-us-speak-english/ar-AA1DMdYc

Newsweek: Fired Pentagon Official Says He’s ‘Not Sure’ if Pete Hegseth Is OK

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Colin Carroll, a former top Pentagon official, said in an interview over the weekend that he’s “not sure” if Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is OK.

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Carroll described Hegseth’s leadership as “a tale of two Petes.” He praised the defense secretary’s ability to convince the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus to increase defense spending but criticized Hegseth’s fixation with “weird details” and tendency to get “very agitated” during meetings.

“He was very focused on the leaks and I think it kind of consumed the team a little bit,” Carroll told Kelly. “If you look at a pie chart of the secretary’s day, at this point, 50 percent of it is probably a leak investigation.”

Carroll was also asked about Hegseth’s contention in a recent interview when he said “disgruntled former employees are peddling things to try to save their a**.” Carroll told Kelly he thought Hegseth was unprepared for the questions but added that it doesn’t matter because the defense secretary has “an audience of one,” likely referring to President Donald Trump.

Fired Pentagon Official Says He’s ‘Not Sure’ if Pete Hegseth Is OK
Former Pentagon official Colin Carroll described Hegseth as fixated on “weird details and very agitated.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fired-pentagon-official-says-he-s-not-sure-if-pete-hegseth-is-ok/ar-AA1DNeQY

The New Republic: Karoline Leavitt [Bimbo #1] Refuses to Rule Out Arrest of Supreme Court Judges

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The White House press secretary is quietly warning the Supreme Court.

The Trump administration is open to arresting Supreme Court judges, as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt [Bimbo #1] told it on Monday morning.

“You guys arrested a Milwaukee County Circuit judge for allegedly helping illegal immigrants get away,” Fox News’s Peter Doocy asked Leavitt [Bimbo #1]. “As you guys look at other judges, would you ever arrest somebody higher up on the judicial food chain, like a federal judge or even a Supreme Court justice?”

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The Trump administration is showing open and direct hostility toward the judicial branch, identifying any judge who dares to defy them as an “activist judge.” The arrest of Judge Dugan, the numerous court orders ignored by the administration, the eight immigration judges who have now been fired or put on leave, and now, Leavitt’s alarming answer are all clear indications that Trump has no plans to reel back his abuse of executive power.

Karoline Leavitt Refuses to Rule Out Arrest of Supreme Court Judges
The White House press secretary is quietly warning the Supreme Court.

https://newrepublic.com/post/194481/karoline-leavitt-arrest-supreme-court-judges

Closer to the Edge: An Open Letter to Tom Homan

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Dear Tom,

You probably won’t read this.

Men like you rarely look back at the wreckage they cause — unless it’s to count the bodies and brag about it on Fox News.

But just in case you stumble across it — maybe while Googling yourself between appearances at gun shows and MAGA fundraisers — let’s make a few things perfectly clear.

We know exactly who you are.

We know exactly what you did.

And we’re not letting you slither aroumd now that you’re back in power without dragging the full weight of your cruelty into the sunlight.

Over the next few weeks, Closer to the Edge will be publishing a trilogy of articles about you:

1. “Tom Homan: The Border Butcher Who Mistook Cruelty for a Career Path”

A surgical dissection of your rise from small-town cop to federal sadist.

Spoiler: We found nothing noble at the core — only ambition, obedience, and the hollow echo of a man who mistook breaking families for defending borders.

2. “The Cage Architect: Tom Homan Built an American Horror Story — And Then Bragged About It”

A full accounting of how you turned family separation into a bureaucratic meat grinder, leaving thousands of children traumatized, families destroyed, and the moral spine of this country bruised and bleeding.

You didn’t enforce the law, Tom. You vandalized it.

3. “Breaking the Cruelty Chain: How to End Tom Homan’s America Before It Ends Us”

An action guide for everyone who refuses to let you and your co-conspirators in cruelty — Miller, Noem, Trump — finish the job you started.

Because your legacy isn’t an inevitability.

It’s a warning label.

We are not neutral.

We are not polite.

We are not interested in “both sides” journalism when it comes to men who build cages and call them policy.

We are here to name you, expose you, and bury the myth of your “service” under the avalanche of truth you spent your career trying to outrun.

You will never again hide behind a badge.

You will never again camouflage your cruelty with a flag.

You are seen.

You are remembered.

And you are not getting away with it.

Not this time.

Sincerely,
The Editors and Writers and Staff at Closer to the Edge

P.S.
You built cages for children.
We’re building cages for your lies.
Let’s see who gets out first.

AN OPEN LETTER TO TOM HOMAN
From the Editors and Writers and Staff at Closer to the Edge

https://closertotheedge.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-tom-homan

Telegraph: Trump’s attempt to upend the global order has already been defeated

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America has emerged from the trade war as an international laughing stock

Characterised by screeching handbrake turns, made-up policy on the hoof and mixed-messaging on steroids, it’s been another week of chaos in Washington.

If anyone knows what on Earth it is that the US is trying to achieve on trade, and much else besides, then I’d like to hear from them, because having come to the US capital in the hope of garnering some insights, I’m none the wiser.

What’s now increasingly obvious, however, is that Trump is in ragged retreat; he’s compromising all over the shop, such that if the plan was to upend the established global order, one can almost definitely say that, beyond the rhetoric, it is already over.

Rank lack of professionalism and organisation has defined the endeavour all along, and now it’s coming apart at the seams. Sensing an administration on the run, no one is any longer hurrying to do a trade deal with the US. From Britain to Canada and beyond, getting the right deal rather than a quick one has become the new mantra.

Trump has in the meantime made himself – and the US – into an international laughing stock, never mind the damage that policy uncertainty is inflicting on the global economy. You’d be forgiven for thinking that chaos is itself the policy goal.

Repeatedly forced to row back on its demands and aspirations, the White House has been left looking back-footed and ridiculous.

Trump’s attempt to upend the global order has already been defeated
America has emerged from the trade war as an international laughing stock

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/04/26/trumps-attempt-to-upend-the-global-order-defeated

Washington Post: Trump approval sinks as Americans criticize his major policies, poll finds

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Trump’s overall approval rating is lower than it was only two months ago. The poll shows that 39 percent of adult Americans approve of the way Trump is handling his job, compared with 55 percent who disapprove, including 44 percent who disapprove strongly. In February, those numbers were 45 percent positive and 53 percent negative.

39% and dropping!

Worst.

President.

Ever.

Trump approval sinks as Americans criticize his major policies, poll finds
President Donald Trump’s 100 days poll finds a lower approval rating, growing opposition to his agenda and opposition to many of his major initiatives.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-approval-sinks-as-americans-criticize-his-major-policies-poll-finds/ar-AA1DGR4Y

Alternet: ‘Drowning in hubris’: How a conservative legal doctrine — and his own ‘stupidity’ — could topple Trump

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President Donald Trump is unique among “tyrants” — both in his cruelty and his “stupidity,” Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall writes.

“Measured by willingness and capacity to harm the world’s poorest and most vulnerable, wreak global economic mayhem and threaten nuclear annihilation, Trump is uniquely dangerous — and ever more so by the day,” according to Tisdall.

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Still, Tisdall points to a recent op-ed from University of California, Davis law professor Aaron Tang, who last week wrote an op-ed in the New York Times suggesting “the Supreme Court-tested ‘major questions doctrine’ could bring [Trump] to heel.”

“[The doctrine] requires the government to demonstrate a ‘clear congressional authorization’ when it makes decisions of great ‘economic and political significance,’” Tisdall writes of Tang’s analysis.

“Of all the tools in the tyrant-toppling toolbox, none are so potentially decisive as those supplied by Trump’s own stupidity,” Tisdall adds. “… Corruption on this scale cannot pass unchallenged indefinitely. Avarice alone may be Trump’s undoing.”

“All this points to one conclusion: as a tyrant, let alone as president, Trump is actually pretty useless – and as his failures, frustrations and fantasies multiply, he will grow ever more dangerously unstable. Trump’s biggest enemy is Trump.”

“But right now, the best, brightest hope is that, drowning in hubris, Trump will destroy himself,” the correspondent concludes.

‘Drowning in hubris’: How a conservative legal doctrine — and his own ‘stupidity’ — could topple Trump
President Donald Trump is unique among “tyrants” — both in his cruelty and his “stupidity,” Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall writes. “Measured by willingness and capacity to harm the world’s poorest and most vulnerable, wreak global economic mayhem and threaten nuclear annihilation, Trump is uniquely dangerous — and ever more so b…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/drowning-in-hubris-how-a-conservative-legal-doctrine-and-his-own-stupidity-could-topple-trump/ar-AA1DHD6F

Miami Herald: Another U.S. Citizen Mistakenly Detained by ICE

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Georgia citizen Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez was arrested during a Florida traffic stop and detained by ICE. He was later charged under Florida’s SB 4-C, targeting undocumented immigrants who evade federal immigration inspection. A federal court has since blocked the law’s enforcement, and Lopez-Gomez was ultimately released from custody.

Another U.S. Citizen Mistakenly Detained by ICE
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/another-u-s-citizen-mistakenly-detained-by-ice/ss-AA1DJlDu

Mediaite: OOF! DHS Accidentally Tells Ukrainian War Refugees to Self-Deport

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The Department of Homeland Security mistakenly emailed Ukrainian war refugees in the U.S. on Friday to inform them they must self-deport.

The message, which DHS has acknowledged was sent in error, told an undisclosed number of people in the country legally under the Ukrainian Humanitarian Parole program that they had seven days to leave the country.

CBS News reported the Thursday email read, “DHS is now exercising its discretion to terminate your parole. Unless it expires sooner, your parole will terminate 7 days from the date of this notice.”

The alert added those who failed to self-deport would “be subject to potential law enforcement actions that will result in your removal from the United States.”

The message concluded, “Again, DHS is terminating your parole. Do not attempt to remain in the United States — the federal government will find you… Please depart the United States immediately.”

What a bunch of f*ck*ng clowns!

OOF! DHS Accidentally Tells Ukrainian War Refugees to Self-Deport
The message, which DHS has acknowledged was sent in error, told an undisclosed number of people in the country under the Ukrainian Humanitarian Parole program.
OOF! DHS Accidentally Tells Ukrainian War Refugees to Self-Deport

Irish Star: Donald Trump to bring national holiday ‘back from ashes’ but people spot problem

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President Donald Trump says he will bring a national holiday “back from the ashes” – though people are spotting a problem with the POTUS’ plan.

In a post to Truth Social, the social media app established by Trump following his ban from X, the sitting president confirmed he would reinstate Columbus Day “under the same rules” as it had been originally presented.

Dead White Man’s Day returns! I’m underwhelmed.

Donald Trump to bring national holiday ‘back from ashes’ but people spot problem
A national holiday will be brought ‘back from the ashes’ by President Donald Trump, though members of the public have spotted a clear problem with his plan to reinstate the celebration

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-to-bring-national-holiday-back-from-ashes-but-people-spot-problem/ar-AA1DKvPx