He moves the goalpost every other da it seems like. There have been about five different arguments, political arguments most of them. He's put forward but all of them I'm illegal because this is money Congress has appropriated to the project.It's sitting in an account waiting to be put to work. We have about a thousand workers whose jobs are imperiled today, about 100 ,000 over time and so we took. Trump to court.We won. There is that restraining order. They've got to start spending the money.It's time for ...

this new data. Less than 14 percent of the nearly 400 ,000 ICE arrests in President Trump's first year back in office involved individuals with violent criminal charges or convictions. That's according to new reporting from CBS News, citing an internal DHS document.CBS reports that the document shows during the first year of Trump's second term, nearly 40 30 % OF THOSE ARRESTED BY ICE DID NOT HAVE ANY CRIMINAL RECORD AT ALL AND WERE ONLY ACCUSED OF CIVIL IMMIGRATION OFFENSIES, SUCH AS BEING AN UNDOCUMENT AM ...

kana of California. He was co-sponsor of Epstein Files Transparency Act. It was among the lawmakers who reviewed the files yesterday, shown to members of Congress by the Justice Department.I don't understand. I really don't. I don't, I don't, I don't understand why you have Comer, Republicans on the Hill, Republicans in the Justice Department, Republicans in the White on the Hill, Republicans in the Hill.And I understand that even some of the documents you got, the names of, of these, these apparently horri ...

Ben Smith, your latest piece for Semaphore is titled How Trump's Politics Returned to EARTH AND IN IT YOU WRITE IN PART, TRUMP'S POLITICAL STANDING WHICH HAS EVOLVED OVER JUST A FEW MONTHS FROM DOMINANT TO DESPERATE IS A GOOD REMINDER OF A FEW THINGS CONVENTIONAL WISDOM HAS GOTTEN WRONG. REMEMBER THE DEEP FAKE, PANIC. LAST YEAR MANY WERE CONVINCED AMERICAN POLITICS WOULD BE DESTABILIZED BY VIDEOS MANIPULATED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OR LULLED INTO A POST-TRUTH STUPOR BY AI SLOP.BUT IT TURNS OUT THAT THE P ...

And one of the stories that's not going aw for the president is the Epstein fis. Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell refused to answer any questions yesterday during a deposition for the House Oversight Committee. Maxwell, as you know, was a longtime companion of Jeffrey Epstein, serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for her role in aiding Epstein's sexual abuse of underage girls.But she repeatedly invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination yesterday. Ms. . Maxwell, did you at a ...

TO DO THEIR on halftime show because the NFL's halftime show failed its one true mandate. Doing a halftime show in all Spanish is not unifying. The Super Bowl halftime show divided in a time that's supposed to be a unifying moment.They could have found somebody more uniting. Why the f**k is it the Super Bowl halftime entertainer's job to unify In what world is that their job. Oh, isn't there another person whose job That description is much more along those lines.Let me ask you a question. Hmm, I I MEAN, IT ...

from anoer partial government shutdown. This time it's just funding for the Department of Homeland Security, and that's set to expire on Friday at this point. The deadline's approaching after Democrats recently unveiled 10 demands for guardrails on the Trump administration's nationwide immigration crackdown.They include requirements that DHS officers wear body cameras and obtain judicial warrants before entering private property. These are pretty baseline things. But Politico reports that a partial shutdown ...

refused to answer any questions yesterday during a deposition behind closed doors for the House Oversight Committee. Maxwell, a long-time companion of Jeffrey Epstein, is serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for her role in aiding Epstein's sexual abuse of underage girls. But she repeatedly invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination yesterday.Watch. Ms. . Maxwell, did you at any time, play any role in Jeffrey Epstein's activities involving the recruitment, grooming or trafficking of y ...

So, there isn't really a way to sugarcoat it. The Trump economy is not going great. Whatever the opposite is of great.That's how it's going. And I say that for some specific reasons. In just the first month of this year, 2026, the total number of layoffs in this country was more than 108 ,000.That's more layoffs in any January since 2009, since the Great Recession. That's not good. For that same month, January 2026, U .S.companies only hired about 5 ,000 people total, which is also the fewest jobs added in ...

to punch your moral dance card at the moment, if you're, say, Paul Weiss with your radioactive Epstein Files chairman stuffed into the back office where you hope no one notices him. Where your firm is literally described now as the face of capitulation, right. When you're trying to avoid a picture THE FUTURE OF YOUR FIRM APPEARING IN THE HISTORY BOOKS AND THE CHAPTERS ON THE SHAMEFUL COWARDICE OF THE ONCE VAULTED AND POWERFUL AMERICAN LEGAL PROFESSION IN THE face of the tiniest nudge from a tin-pot dictator ...