Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey's viral dance video draws sharp conservative mockery
A TikTok video of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey dancing to hip-hop at a local fair has drawn a wave of online ridicule from conservative commentators, and renewed questions about his priorities as the city struggles. Frey appeared at the Black Entrepreneur State Fair, held August 9, 15 at Minneapolis's Midtown Global Market, where a clip […]
Democrats erupt over ICE plan to spend $20 million on electric shock gloves
Congressional Democrats and progressive state officials are lining up to condemn ICE's planned purchase of up to $20 million in electric shock gloves, but the agency and border czar Tom Homan say the devices are designed to reduce deadly force, not increase it. Immigration and Customs Enforcement published an acquisition notice this week for thousands […]
Federal judge clears Trump border wall to proceed across tribal lands in Arizona
A federal judge denied the Tohono O'odham Nation's bid to block border wall construction along 62 miles of its Arizona reservation, ruling that border security interests outweigh the tribe's claims of harm. U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon, a George W. Bush appointee sitting in the District of Columbia, issued the opinion on Friday, finding […]
Treasury guts corporate ownership disclosure rule, drawing bipartisan fire over illicit finance risks
The Trump administration finalized a rule scrapping federal requirements that U.S. companies reveal their true owners, a move Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calls deregulation but bipartisan critics warn will shield criminals hiding dirty money. Bessent's Treasury Department on Tuesday eliminated the beneficial ownership reporting mandate under the Corporate Transparency Act, a bipartisan law enacted during […]
Nine Democrats broke ranks to oppose Massachusetts law removing all abortion limits
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed a law eliminating every gestational limit on abortion in the state, and nine members of her own party voted against it, with one calling the measure "barbaric." The Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act passed the Massachusetts state House 119, 33 on July 22, with all Republican members and nine […]
Rosie O'Donnell says Wynonna Judd is the only Trump supporter she can tolerate
Rosie O'Donnell revealed that country music star Wynonna Judd is the lone Trump supporter in her life, and admitted she cannot understand anyone else who backs the president. O'Donnell, 64, made the remarks on a recent episode of The Tangle with Kyle Ridley podcast, where she described a friendship with Judd that survives only because […]
Clarence Thomas dares critics to question his race: 'Look at me'
Justice Clarence Thomas confronted critics who challenge his identity as a Black man over his political views, calling the attack a hollow substitute for genuine argument, and tracing his intellectual independence to an economist the left would rather ignore. During a conversation at the Hoover Institution with host Peter Robinson, recorded August 11, Thomas addressed […]
