Closer to the Edge: An Open Letter to Tom Homan

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 youexpose 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.

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

Metro: Trump 2028 merch goes on sale suggesting plans to ‘rewrite the rules’ with third term

It appears our dictator has no plans to say “Buh, bye” after his second term.

Official ‘Trump 2028’ hats and shirts have gone on sale in the clearest indication yet that President Donald Trump may seek an unprecedented third term. The Trump Store put the hat in the signature MAGA red color with white lettering on sale on its website on Thursday. The Trump 2028 Hat is $50 and features an embroidered front and an American flag embroidery on the side.

https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/other/trump-2028-merch-goes-on-sale-suggesting-plans-to-rewrite-the-rules-with-third-term/ss-AA1DBCTK

Raw Story: ‘Off the rails’: WSJ’s conservative editors tear down Trump’s ‘biggest overreach’

The Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial board went after President Donald Trump for what they framed as an unconstitutional attempt “to run Harvard” University after the Ivy League school rejected his demands for a MAGA-inspired policy overhaul.

Trump’s funding freeze of $2.2 billion in retaliation for the university’s snub drew the ire of the Journal’s board, which scorched the action in a Tuesday opinion piece that detailed the “good reasons to oppose this unprecedented attempt by government to micromanage a private university.”

“The Administration runs off the legal rails by ordering Harvard to reduce ‘governance bloat, duplication, or decentralization.’ It also orders the school to review ‘all existing and prospective faculty . . . for plagiarism’ and ensure ‘viewpoint diversity’ in ‘each department, field, or teaching unit,’” according to the board.

“These reforms may be worth pursuing, but the government has no business requiring them….”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/off-the-rails-wsj-s-conservative-editors-tear-down-trump-s-biggest-overreach/ar-AA1CZV7z

Raw Story: ‘Traitor!’ Vance joins enraged MAGA fans in lashing out at ‘petty’ GOP senator after snub

With their bully boys hard at work, it’s scarcely surprising that there are so few openly honest Republicans left in Congress. Freshly back from insulting Greenlanders, J.D. Dunce heads up an assault on one of their own:

Vice President JD Vance led a barrage of MAGA-inspired attacks against Sen. Mitch McConnell on Tuesday in a rare public rebuke of the former Republican leader over his refusal to support a key Pentagon nominee.

The war of words ignited shortly after McConnell found himself the lone Republican vote against Elbridge Colby, President Donald Trump’s selection to be the Defense Department’s top policy strategist.

“Make no mistake: America will not be made great again by those who are content to manage our decline,” McConnell said in a statement that was quickly circulated on social media.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/traitor-vance-joins-enraged-maga-fans-in-lashing-out-at-petty-gop-senator-after-snub/ar-AA1Cy366

US Mirror: Elon Musk ‘rattled’ as he’s brutally trolled during gaming livestream from his private jet

Elon Musk was told he ‘will die alone’ as the Tesla CEO was brutally mocked during a gaming livestream aboard his private jet before he suddenly quit after his character was repeatedly killed

Another one of Elon Musk’s attempts to prove that he is good at gaming spectacularly backfired on him as the Tesla CEO was ruthlessly trolled during a livestream from his private jet before suddenly quitting the game.

Musk went live on X on Saturday, showing himself playing Path of Exile 2 aboard his private jet in what he called an “airborne continuity test” of his satellite internet service Starlink. But shortly after the livestream started, the tech billionaire became inundated with messages from other players in the game’s chat as they brutally mocked him.

“You have no real friends and will die alone,” one message said. “You ruined the country just like you ruined all your marriages,” another player wrote.

“Elon how is it possible to look this dumb and ugly why is ur Tesla company falling apart,” one gamer commented. Another even pretended to be Ashley St Clair, the MAGA influencer who claimed in February that Musk had fathered her child.

“Elon. It’s me, Ashley St Claire. I have no other means of contacting you so I bought PoE2 early access just for this. Please pay your child support. Thank you Elon,” a message that popped up continuously read. “Anyone spamming the chat will get uhhh,” Musk said as he spotted the trolling and clicked an ignore button on some of the messages.

One player told the Space X founder that his estranged daughter, Vivian Wilson, “was right” in reference to her recent claims about Musk’s poor gaming skills. During a rare interview with Twitch streamer Hasan Piker last month, Vivian said her dad is “god awful” at gaming.

https://www.themirror.com/tech/gaming/elon-musk-mocked-path-exile-1078287

Awwwww … Poor F’Elon can dish it out but can’t take it.

Alternet: ‘Pushed me over the edge’: Here’s why MAGA is enraged at the Trump administration

Awwww, the poor babies who should still be in prison are distraught:

“The anger and depression is hitting hard today,” Richard Barnett, a self-described white nationalist who was sentenced to 54 months in prison for raiding the Capitol on Jan. 6, wrote on X on Monday. Barnett, who was among some 1,500s rioters pardoned by Trump, complained that Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino “stabbed us in the back” and “actually promoted one of our tormenters, Steve Jensen, into a position of great power within the FBI.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pushed-me-over-the-edge-here-s-why-maga-is-enraged-at-the-trump-administration/ar-AA1CvH8S

Daily Mail: Marjorie Taylor Greene makes stock market play days before tariffs

Trumps Cronies rake in the bucks while the “little people” suffer:

US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene made hefty trades days before Donald Trump‘s tariffs announcement tanked the stock market.

The MAGA proponent made 15 investments between March 16 and March 24. Her three largest moves were putting hundreds of thousands of dollars towards US Treasury Bills, also know as T-Bills.

On March 16, March 19 and March 24, Greene spent $100,000 to $250,000 per transaction on T-Bills, according to Capitol Trades, a platform devoted to sharing politician trading data. 

The Trump ally invested between $300,000 and $750,000 in Treasuries, according to the filings. 

These massive purchases were sprinkled among multiple smaller ones that spanned from $1,000 to $5,000 in companies including Apple Inc, AbbVie Inc and Costco Wholesale Group. 

Marjorie Taylor Greene makes stock market play days before tariffs

Daily Beast: Trump’s Joint Chiefs Pick Throws Prez Under the Bus in Confirmation Hearing

President Donald Trump’s pick to be chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff refused to lie for the president and instead threw his prospective boss under the bus at a confirmation hearing.

Retired Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine told a Senate committee on Tuesday morning that he was not wearing a red MAGA hat when he first met Trump in Iraq in 2018—after the president claimed he was.

“For 34 years, I’ve upheld my oath of office and my commitment to my commission,” Caine told Sen. Roger Wicker, a Republican, according to Politico. “And I have never worn any political merchandise.”

Trump’s Joint Chiefs Pick Throws Prez Under the Bus in Confirmation Hearing

The Atlantic: The Hungarian Model

MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.

But the nationalist kitsch and tourist traps hide a different reality. Once widely perceived to be the wealthiest country in Central Europe (“the happiest barrack in the socialist camp,” as it was known during the Cold War), and later the Central European country that foreign investors liked most, Hungary is now one of the poorest countries, and possibly the poorest, in the European Union. Industrial production is falling year-over-year. Productivity is close to the lowest in the region. Unemployment is creeping upward. Despite the ruling party’s loud talk about traditional values, the population is shrinking. Perhaps that’s because young people don’t want to have children in a place where two-thirds of the citizens describe the national education system as “bad,” and where hospital departments are closing because so many doctors have moved abroad. Maybe talented people don’t want to stay in a country perceived as the most corrupt in the EU for three years in a row. Even the Index of Economic Freedom—which is published by the Heritage Foundation, the MAGA-affiliated think tank that produced Project 2025—puts Hungary at the bottom of the EU in its rankings of government integrity.

Tourists in central Budapest don’t see this decline. But neither, apparently, does the American right. 

What is this Hungarian model they so admire? Mostly, it has nothing to do with modern statecraft. Instead it’s a very old, very familiar blueprint for autocratic takeover, one that has been deployed by right-wing and left-wing leaders alike, from Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Hugo Chávez. After being elected to a second term in 2010, Orbán slowly replaced civil servants with loyalists; used economic pressure and regulation to destroy the free press; robbed universities of their independence, and shut one of them down; politicized the court system; and repeatedly changed the constitution to give himself electoral advantages. During the coronavirus pandemic he gave himself emergency powers, which he has kept ever since. He has aligned himself openly with Russia and China, serving as a mouthpiece for Russian foreign policy at EU meetings and allowing opaque Chinese investments in his country.

Orbán’s Hungary Could Be America’s Future – The Atlantic

Mediaite: MAGA Influencer Says She’s Selling Her Tesla Because ‘Vindictive’ Elon Musk Slashed Their Child’s Support 60%

The Daily Mail reported the 26-year-old watched the company load up the $100,000 black Model S in Manhattan on Saturday.

“I’m selling it because I need to make up for the 60 percent cut that Elon made to our son’s child support,” she said.

St. Clair was asked why she believed Musk reduced her child support and whether she viewed the move as “vindictive.”

“Yeah, that’s his modus operandi, when women speak out,” she added.

St. Clair added she had not spoken to Musk since Feb. 13 and pointed to the Tesla stock price as evidence “I’m not the only one who is cleaning up after his messes.”

MAGA Influencer Sells Tesla After Musk Cut Her Child Support