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On Memorial Day, federal agents outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility in Newark pepper-sprayed U.S. Senator Andy Kim. He’d been trying to ensure that detainees engaged in a hunger strike weren’t being mistreated. ICE also fired rubber bullets into the crowd. Let that register: a sitting United States Senator, exercising congressional oversight, got pepper-sprayed by federal agents. Inside Delaney Hall — a privately run, 1,000-bed facility currently holding around 300 detainees — people have been on a hunger strike for days. Their complaints: medical care they can’t access, food that’s inedible, water problems. Detainees were seen flickering lights and waving from windows in response to protesters chanting outside. ICE’s official position is that there is no hunger strike. ...

Yesterday was Memorial Day. A day to honor the men and women who died in service to this country. No politics. No score-settling. Just grief, and gratitude, and silence for the ones who aren’t coming home. This is what the President of the United States posted on Truth Social yesterday morning: “Happy Memorial Day to all, including the Dumocrats, who disrespect our Military and all of the tremendous success that it has had over the last year. God Bless those that have made the ultimate sacrifice. I love you all! President DONALD J. TRUMP” ...

2026-03-16T00:00:00-07:00 This is what state media pressure looks like before it becomes state media. The Trump administration launched a coordinated campaign against news organizations covering its Middle East military operation — one that a majority of Americans oppose. Pentagon briefings now include attacks on outlets like CNN. Trump is posting on Truth Social accusing news organizations of “LIES” and floating “Charges for TREASON” against journalists. Not off-the-cuff rage — a sustained, multi-front effort to make the press back off. ...

Let’s just say it plainly: the President of the United States is a convicted felon. On May 30, 2024, a jury found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The crime: covering up hush money payments to a porn star to hide an affair and influence the 2016 election. The jury deliberated, considered the evidence, and came back guilty. Thirty-four times. He was sentenced on January 10, 2025 — ten days before taking office. The sentence: unconditional discharge. No jail. No probation. Nothing. He walked out, flew to Mar-a-Lago, and two weeks later was sworn in as President. ...

At a conservative forum on July 18, 2015 in Ames, Iowa, Donald Trump looked at a man who spent five and a half years being tortured in a North Vietnamese prison and said he wasn’t really a war hero. Why? Because he got captured. “He’s a war hero because he was captured,” Trump said. “I like people that weren’t captured.” John McCain, a Navy pilot shot down over Hanoi, refused early release as a POW because it would have meant leaving his fellow prisoners behind. He came home with both arms permanently damaged. Trump, who received five draft deferments during the same war, decided that didn’t count. ...