EXCLUSIVE — The Department of Housing and Urban Development has sent federal employees into Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, to investigate federally administered aid programs following the discovery of a massive welfare fraud scheme believed to have been carried out by Somali immigrants. A HUD spokesperson told the Washington Examiner that the department is the latest […]

The corporate press has consistently depicted the Indiana Senate’s Thursday vote against creating more pro-Republican congressional maps as a sign of “loyalty” or “betrayal” of President Trump. But the reality is a lot more complicated, and it has a lot to say about the current distraction and incompetence of the Republican Party. “Indiana lawmakers defy […]

News media and politicians are howling in alarm over the U.S. government’s supposedly dangerous and shocking seizure of “a Venezuelan oil tanker.” Same framing with more detailed whining in The Guardian: Amid a bunch of Democratic Party alarm-sounding, the panic is at least partially bipartisan. Sample quote: Rand Paul, a Republican senator of Kentucky, told NewsNation that “seizing […]

‘A CRITICAL MOMENT’: Negotiations have reached a furious pace in Berlin, where for a third day Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been trying to hammer out a response to the U.S.-proposed peace plan that would be acceptable to President Donald Trump and the Ukrainian people. The latest negotiations went about five hours, with Zelensky reportedly […]

What’s the deal with people typing in all lowercase? You’ve seen that, right? everything they type looks like this. it doesn’t matter if it’s a text. it doesn’t matter if it’s a post on x. it doesn’t matter if it’s a comment on someone’s photo. everything they type is lowercase. ‘If I see “LOL,” that’s […]