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Raw Story: ‘Nonsense numbers’: Washington Post delivers math lesson to smash Trump claims

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As President Donald Trump’s tariffs begin to kick in around the world, The Washington Post analyzed two of his claims: “we were losing $2 billion a day [under President Joe Biden], and “now we’re making $3 billion a day.”

In an analysis, Glenn Kessler wrote, “both the Treasury Department and the data released by Customs and Border Protection show Trump is way off the mark.”

‘Nonsense numbers’: Washington Post delivers math lesson to smash Trump claims
As President Donald Trump’s tariffs begin to kick in around the world, The Washington Post analyzed two of his claims: “we were losing $2 billion a day [under President Joe Biden], and “now we’re making $3 billion a day.” In an analysis, Glenn Kessler wrote, “both the Treasury Department and the data released by Customs and Border Protection show T…

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Rolling Stone: Trump Attacks the Supreme Court, Says America ‘Cannot Give Everyone a Trial’

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Due process is an option in King Donald’s world, and the King apparently gets to choose your option:

Donald Trump slammed the Supreme Court on Monday after the justices temporarily blocked him from deporting Venezuelan immigrants, while asserting that America “cannot give everyone a trial” – a bedrock constitutional right. 

Trump Attacks the Supreme Court, Says America ‘Cannot Give Everyone a Trial’
The president slammed the justices for halting his latest deportations while dismissing immigrants’ due process rights as an inconvenience

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Alternet: Trump giving prisoners fewer rights than they had in World War II internment camps: analyst

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President Donald Trump’s refusal to bring a Maryland man, who was wrongfully deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador, back to the United States — despite a Supreme Court ruling — has raised serious concerns among some analysts, who say that such an unchecked use of the Alien Enemies Act is unprecedented.

In a report published in the New York Times Tuesday, reporters note that even during World War II, there was “a check” on the government and individuals who received a hearing under the civilian boards were mostly freed.

“During World War II, the Department of Justice established civilian hearing boards in which ‘registered aliens’ of German, Italian and Japanese descent arrested by the government could argue they were not a danger to the nation, legal scholars said,” the report states.

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WCCO Radio: Hegseth had a second Signal chat where he shared details of Yemen strike

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth created another Signal messaging chat that included his wife and brother where he shared similar details of a March military airstrike against Yemen’s Houthi militants that were sent in another chain with top Trump administration leaders, both The New York Times reported and CBS News has confirmed.

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The second chat on Signal — which is a commercially available app not authorized to be used to communicate sensitive or classified national defense information — included 13 people, the person said. The person also confirmed the chat was dubbed “Defense ‘ Team Huddle.”

The New York Times reported that the group included Hegseth’s wife, Jennifer, who is a former Fox News producer, and his brother Phil Hegseth, who was hired at the Pentagon as a Department of Homeland Security liaison and senior adviser. Both have traveled with the defense secretary and attended high-level meetings.

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Fox News: Border Patrol morale is ‘going through the roof’ under Trump administration, top official says

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U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks told Fox News Wednesday that morale at his agency is “going through the roof” under the Trump administration. 

Speaking to “America’s Newsroom,” Banks said, “We’ve had the handcuffs taken off” and “we’re allowed to actually do our job, which is go out and enforce the law.  

“Under this administration, they have literally taken the handcuffs off and allowed us to enforce law instead of policies that were created to contradict the law and so our morale has continued to rise,” he continued. 

The bully boys are on the loose! Frankly this is scary! We’ve already seen the deplorable results.

Border Patrol morale is ‘going through the roof’ under Trump administration, top official says
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks said morale at his agency is “going through the roof” under the Trump administration and that recruiting numbers are up.

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RNS: Catholic University of America student has visa revoked by Trump administration

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A student at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., has had their visa revoked by the federal government, adding a Catholic school founded by U.S. bishops to the growing list of colleges where international students have had their visas revoked by President Donald Trump’s administration.

According to a CUA spokesperson, the student was removed from the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, a database the Department of Homeland Security uses to track international students and their statuses.

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The move is part of a sweeping immigration crackdown by the Trump administration, with the federal government changing the legal status of more than 1,300 international students in the U.S. — often with little to no explanation — according to Inside Higher Ed. A lawsuit filed on Wednesday by some impacted students against the government alleges the reasons for the revocations are often tied to minor offenses such as traffic stops or criminal cases that were dismissed.

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The Trump administration’s crackdown has impacted more than 210 colleges and universities, including religious colleges such as Baylor University and Oklahoma Christian University, according to Inside Higher Ed.

Catholic University of America student has visa revoked by Trump administration

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CNN: IRS making plans to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status

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The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliation as the Trump administration seeks to turn up pressure on the university that has defied its demands to change its hiring and other practices.

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President Donald Trump in recent days raised the idea of punishing the Ivy League university for not complying with what the administration has sought to portray as a campaign to fight antisemitism.

Big problem here: Just as the First Amendment protects what you say, it also prohibits others from forcing you to support their causes. Whatever the administration has in mind “as a campaign to fight antisemitism”, Harvard’s participation cannot be compelled.

IRS making plans to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status
The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliation as the Trump administration seeks to turn up pressure on the university that has defied its demands to change its hiring and other practices.

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The Hill: Trump administration removes Democratic members of credit union watchdog

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The Trump administration has fired two Democratic board members from the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), the officials said Wednesday.

Todd Harper, one Democrat on the board, shared the news of his removal in a post on LinkedIn and said the firing was “just plain wrong.”

“The decision of the White House to fire me before the completion of my term is wrong. It violates the bipartisan statutory framework adopted by Congress to protect credit union members and their deposits,” Harper said in his statement.

Harper argued the firings were an attack on the NCUA and undermines the organization’s independence and work. The NCUA regulates credit unions and protects credit members.

“If a President can fire an NCUA Board member at any time, how will we maintain public trust in our nation’s financial services regulatory system?” he questioned.

The other Democrat removed was Tanya Otsuka. Their departures leave just one member of the board left, Republican Chair Kyle Hauptman, Reuters reported.

In a separate statement, reported by Reuters, Otsuka said she was informed about her immediate termination in an email Tuesday evening and said it was “yet another attempt to undermine the rule of law and blatantly ignore Congress and our democratic values.”

Trump administration removes Democratic members of credit union watchdog
The Trump administration has fired two Democratic board members from the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), the officials said Wednesday. Todd Harper, one Democrat on the board, shared the news of his removal in a post on LinkedIn and said the firing was “just plain wrong.” “The decision of the White House to fire me…

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RawbStory: ‘The Trump administration is lying’: Dem senator left furious by trip to El Salvador

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Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) accused the Trump administration of blatantly lying about the whereabouts of wrongfully deported immigrant Kilmar Ábrego García on Wednesday.

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Per CBS News’ Scott MacFarlane, Van Hollen explicitly said that “the Trump administration is lying” about García.

“If you listen to President Trump… you would think that U.S. courts have found that Mr. Ábrego García is part of MS-13,” Van Hollen said, referring to the violent criminal gang whose origins are in Central America. “But in fact they have not found that. Recently a U.S. federal judge said that the Trump administration did not have evidence to support the claim that he had ever been part of MS-13.”

He also emphasized that García has never been charged with a crime.

‘The Trump administration is lying’: Dem senator left furious by trip to El Salvador
Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) accused the Trump administration of blatantly lying about the whereabouts of wrongfully deported immigrant Kilmar Ábrego García on Wednesday. After touching down in El Salvador to inquire about García’s whereabouts, Van Hollen said that he was not able to see García nor even to have a phone call with him. Per CBS New…

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Raw Story: ‘Fundamental rights’: Jim Jordan comes out swinging against searches of citizens’ data

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Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) argued in a Washington Post opinion piece Wednesday, that it’s every Americans’ constitutional right to require the government to obtain a legal warrant based on probable cause before conducting a search on private records.

“That’s a key part of the Bill of Rights and an important protection against government abuse,” Jordan wrote, adding that “short of imminent threats to national security, there is no good excuse for ignoring the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement.”

Hello, DOGE? F’Elon Musk?

‘Fundamental rights’: Jim Jordan comes out swinging against searches of citizens’ data
Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) argued in a Washington Post opinion piece Wednesday, that it’s every Americans’ constitutional right to require the government to obtain a legal warrant based on probable cause before conducting a search on private records. “That’s a key part of the Bill of Rights and an important pro…

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