June 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM EDT
Laughingstock Trump's feeble stumbling this week is exactly what Americans need to see

The best thing that California Governor Gavin Newsom did""certainly the best thing in the past few months, as his political posturing has been out of sync""was to tell Donald Trump this week to come and arrest him. Faced with threats by Tom Homan, the so-called border czar, regarding Newsom's rightful outrage of Trump federalizing California's National Guard without Newsom's request amid protests over immigration raids, Newsom made it clear he's not afraid. He called Trump an "authoritarian" and said he was "unhinged." He called him a 'liar and said he should "grow up."

June 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM EDT
Freak out: Why wealthy tech donors may be fundamentally incompatible radical right politics

Former chairman Zia Yusuf has rejoined Reform after quitting days previously. Yusuf had said he no longer wanted to work to get the party into government when new MP Sarah Pochin called for a ban on burqas in the UK. However, he seems to have had a change of heart and will return, ostensibly to lead the party's "department of government efficiency". Donald Trump and Elon Musk's bromance, however, is on much rockier ground. There's no sign of the world's richest man reconciling with the US president, his former employer.

June 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM EDT
'This must stop!' ICE impersonator zip-tied woman and stole $1,000

"This is what people have feared." That was how American Immigration Council senior fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick responded on social media Monday to reporting that a man impersonating a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent zip-tied a woman working as a cashier at a cash-only auto repair shop in Philadelphia and stole around $1,000 on Sunday afternoon.

June 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM EDT
'$10 trillion secret': Low-income voters are finally miffed at Republicans

Former World Bank leader Robert P. Beschel reports in the Atlantic that Republicans prefer to "focus on spending""when they're not responsible for it," and this has obscured the fact that the U.S. is bankrupting itself through decades of tax cuts. But voters are catching on to the ruse.

June 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM EDT
Feeling 'the squeeze': US border town 'an early victim of Donald Trump'

For generations, residents of American and Canadian border towns -- from New York State, Minnesota, Michigan and Maine on the U.S. side to Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia on the Canadian side -- have enjoyed a mutually beneficial relationship. Canadians have a long history of spending money in the United States, and Americans have a long history of spending money in Canada. But Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney believes that U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war is damaging a relationship that has been quite profitable for both countries. And he is warning that Trump's policies will hurt all the border states that benefit economically from their Canadian neighbors.

June 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM EDT
'Effort to frighten people': Experts warn Noem push a 'prelude' to invoking Insurrection Act

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem reportedly requested that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth grant law enforcement powers""including the authority to detain and arrest""to the thousands of military troops President Donald Trump deployed to Los Angeles to suppress anti-deportation protests. Such powers are typically barred under federal law, and experts warn the move marks another step toward the administration invoking the Insurrection Act.

June 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM EDT
Red state Republicans laugh and defend Trump admin's secretive tactics as Dems are aghast

WASHINGTON -- Masked ICE agents are the mysterious and menacing face of the Trump administration's mass deportation drive. Increasingly alarmed, Democrats are trying to conduct oversight on the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and related offices.

June 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM EDT
LA is just a dress rehearsal for what Trump really has planned

Trump: Well, we're going to have troops everywhere. Reporter: What's the bar for sending in the Marines? Trump: The bar is what I think it is.

June 10, 2025 at 5:31 AM EDT
Why Trump wants to turn America violent

The man who launched an attempted coup on the United States in 2020 and instigated an insurrection at the Capitol that resulted in five deaths now claims that people in Los Angeles are launching an insurrection. They're not. Yesterday, the Pentagon activated 700 Marines out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California, to join the 4,000 federalized National Guard's military occupation of parts of Los Angeles.

June 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM EDT
Kristi Noem flip-flop blasted by critics

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is being called out by critics after dramatically shifting her stance on the president's use of the National Guard. The controversy stems from Noem's recent endorsement of President Donald Trump's decision to deploy troops in Los Angeles in response to protests against immigration arrests -- a move that stands in stark contrast statements she made previously about such actions. On Sunday, Noem appeared on CBS's "Face The Nation" to defend Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles. She claimed the action was necessary due to "bad decisions" by California Governor Gavin Newsom and emphasized that the decision was made for "the safety of this community."

June 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM EDT
Trump unleashes incredibly dubious claim about the cost of air travel

President Donald Trump's repeated claims about $2 airfare between Los Angeles and San Francisco have raised eyebrows and drawn criticism, highlighting the tensions between his administration and California over infrastructure projects and immigration policy. On Monday, amid ongoing protests in Los Angeles County over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, Trump once again made the dubious claim about cheap flights while discussing California's high-speed rail project. This came as the president faced questions about his controversial decision to federalize the California National Guard, a move that has escalated tensions with state officials.

June 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM EDT
'You're dangerous': Trump allies turn on each other

President Donald Trump's public falling out with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is now prompting additional infighting in MAGA circles between some of Trump's most high-profile supporters. Semafor reported Monday that "War Room" podcast host Steve Bannon - who was White House chief strategist in the first Trump administration - is now setting his sights on venture capitalist and second Trump administration AI czar David Sacks (who is close to Musk and co-hosts the popular "All In" podcast). The MAGA pundit mentioned Sacks on a recent episode of his podcast, and accused him of exploiting his relationship to Trump to further his own goals.