Posts by Kim Browne
National Parks Now Free on Trump’s Birthday, but Not on Black Holidays
The Trump administration removed free national park access on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, while adding it for President Trump’s birthday. Now, two federal holidays that celebrate Black American history will be ticketed—from around $3 to $30—while Trump’s birthday on June 14 is free entry. This change, first reported by SFGATE, is emblematic…
Read MoreFIFA Gives Trump a Dumb Medal So He’ll Stop Talking About Nobel Prize
The U.S. president on Friday became the inaugural recipient of FIFA’s newly minted peace prize. The prize was the invention of Gianni Infantino, the boss of the international soccer league, who shocked his own top officials by cooking up the concept after Donald Trump begged, pleaded, and failed to win the Nobel Peace Prize in…
Read MoreRFK Jr.’s Handpicked Advisers Change Hepatitis B Vaccine Guidance
A federal vaccine advisory panel handpicked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted Friday to recommend delaying the hepatitis B vaccine for most newborns. The 8–3 vote by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices reverses the government’s longtime stance that all babies be vaccinated at birth against the liver infection. Now the panel is…
Read MoreTrump Judges Rule He Can Fire Whoever He Wants
An appeals court judge tore into her colleagues’ decision Friday to “pave the way for autocracy” by allowing President Donald Trump to summarily fire the Democratic members of independent federal agencies. In a 2–1 ruling, Trump-appointed D.C. Circuit Court Judges Gregory Katsas and Justin Walker greenlit the president’s efforts to remove Democratic members of the…
Read MoreMike Johnson Is Struggling to Keep Control of His Party
“I just think being off for 50 days, there was no continuity. Nobody was here. There was nobody like, ‘Hey, you’re doing great. Keep it up,’” the lawmaker continued. “Everyone being back in their district, there was a loneliness. A lot of members may have felt like we’re on our own.” Johnson shocked the halls…
Read MoreD.C. Pipe Bombing Suspect Believed Trump’s Big Lie on 2020 Election
The man who planted pipe bombs at the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters the day before January 6 seems to have been motivated by MAGA election denialism. Virginia resident Brian Cole, 30, was taken into custody on Thursday after being charged with placing the bombs on January 5, 2021, the day before Congress was…
Read MoreSupreme Court’s Texas Map Ruling Hints at Good News for California
California Governor Gavin Newsom has reason to be optimistic about congressional redistricting in his state after a Supreme Court ruling. On Thursday, the court ruled 6-3 that Texas can use a new legislative map that was redrawn to benefit Republicans, with conservative Justice Samuel Alito saying in his concurring opinion that rather than racial gerrymandering,…
Read MorePete Hegseth Brags About Bombing Another Boat as Outrage Grows
“We concluded that the Secretary sent sensitive, nonpublic, operational information that he determined did not require classification over the Signal chat on his personal cell phone,” the 84-page report reads. Hegseth also sent messages on Signal detailing “the quantity and strike times of manned U.S. aircraft over hostile territory” just hours before the strike on…
Read MoreTrump Official Fights for His Life as Fox News Grills Him on Economy
The bombs were placed between 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. the night before the Capitol insurrection but weren’t discovered until 15 hours later. While the bombs did not detonate, they were viable devices that could have seriously injured or killed bystanders. Multiple conspiracy theories about the bombs have proliferated online, including that they were meant to…
Read MoreFrance’s Macron Warned Other Leaders About Potential Trump Betrayal
French President Emmanuel Macron warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other European leaders on a phone call that Donald Trump could betray Ukraine. A transcript of the Monday call to strategize how to protect Ukraine was leaked to the German newspaper Der Spiegel and published Thursday. Macron, Zelenskiy, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, NATO Secretary General…
Read MoreTrump Accidentally Lets Slip Plan to Rename Kennedy Center
President Donald Trump “accidentally” let slip on Thursday the next target for Trumpification: the Kennedy Center. “You have a big event on Friday at the Trump-Kennedy Center—op, excuse me. The Kennedy Center,” Trump said with a laugh. “Pardon me, such a terrible mistake,” he continued, grinning. Trump: “There’s a big event on Friday at the…
Read MoreHegseth Defense Collapses as Dems Reveal Horrific Video Strike Details
Republicans who have seen the video have insisted this was all lawful. Senator Tom Cotton, for instance, said it showed the two survivors attempting to flip a boat “loaded with drugs bound for the United States.” But if Smith’s account of the video is correct, that’s in doubt: The boat looked incapacitated, and the drugs…
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