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President Donald Trump has already built a reputation for defying court orders, but now Politico reports his top Homeland Security commander, Secretary Markwayne Mullin, repeatedly confirmed to senators on Tuesday that he, too, is loath to accept court decisions that he does not like.“If we didn’t think courts were politicized, then I would probably be able to answer that,” Mullin said. “But we see courts over and over again that use their bench for their political opinion, not just the rule of law.”Connecticut Sen. Chris

Former Republican speechwriter Tim Miller told MS NOW that there is a reason President Donald Trump keeps delegating so many jobs to so few lackeys. He says it’s all comes down to math.Trump recently appointed Bill Pulte to oversee the entire national security apparatus of the United States. He will serve in the job while also remaining in his current job as Federal Housing Finance Agency Director. This will add to Pulte's other job as chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.But Miller said there’s a reason Trump keeps nominating lackeys and

President Donald Trump has earned a vicious new moniker: “commander in thief,” writes New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who chastised the president for his efforts to engage in a “brazen, in-your-face attempted heist of the U.S. Treasury to benefit himself, his family and his political allies.” Those allies, he said, could include Trump’s supporters who were present at the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — whom Friedman labels “phony defenders of freedom’s frontier.”Friedman also accused Trump of having “conspired with his own Justice Department, headed by h

A prominent conservative commentator recently argued that Democrats and Republicans are both applying a double-standard regarding seemingly disqualifying scandals for their Senate candidates in key races.“Maine Democratic Senate primary candidate Graham Platner and Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton are different candidates dealing with different scandals,” wrote The Bulwark’s Joe Perticone on Tuesday. “Paxton’s infidelity is not the same as Platner’s, nor is Paxton’s pattern of corruption and other moral shortcomings the same as Platner’s Nazi tattoo and history of racist comments online. I am not equa

President Donald Trump has done a number of things that suggest he plans on stealing the 2026 midterm elections. According to experts who spoke with AlterNet. If voters do not act now to stop him, he could conceivably succeed in doing so.There are many factors suggesting Trump will try to steal the midterms. In addition to attempting a coup after his loss to then-Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, he has imposed restrictions on mail-in voting, insinuated that he would deploy ICE and radical groups to polling locations, suggested

Ever since it was announced that the Trump administration would create a slush fund for the benefit of convicted January 6 rioters, Republicans have been unusually vocal with their criticism of President Donald Trump. In a rare moment of bipartisan agreement, GOP resistance to the fund appears to have tanked it. By Tuesday afternoon, Republican Senators were telling reporters that they expected acting Attorney General Tood Blanche to confirm the fund’s end during a testimony later in the day, otherwise, it would further delay their make-or-break immigration budget reconciliation bill. “It was a nonstarter from the get go,” Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)

Former GOP congressman and MAGA lawmaker Joe Walsh said it wasn’t Republicans’ bravery that sank President Donald Trump’s $1.8 slush fund. It was the infuriated voters filling up their inboxes with threats and outrage.“Donald Trump's corrupt, illegal, horrible, $1.8 billion taxpayer funded slush fund to go after his political opponents and reward his political friends is dead,” said Walsh. “Trump admin

President Donald Trump’s policy in trying to contain Ebola may get Americans killed, a former Secretary of State warned on Tuesday.“As secretary of state, one of us saw firsthand how indispensable the U.S. was in arresting the epidemic,” former Secretary of State John Kerry wrote with his daughter, public health expert Dr. Vanessa Kerry, in a Wall Street Journal editorial. He had described how the Ebola virus had spread through West Africa in September 2014 and risked becoming a global pandemic. The dangerous pathogen is highly lethal, with an

On Monday, it was announced that President Donald Trump’s highly controversial slush fund is “dead,” but as it was quickly pointed out, the Justice Department had not agreed to end the effort entirely, just to adhere to a judge’s temporary delay order. This has raised questions as to whether the White House intends to pursue the plan further. But some Senate Republicans are not willing to let the question linger, sending the administration a clear message: end the fund once and for all, or else. This is according to Senator John Kennedy (R-LA), who, in the run-up to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s congressional testimon

President Donald Trump’s former White House communications director just explained how the Republican he once served is instead a literal fascist.“There are 12 chapters in Laurence Rees’s book ... people should know,” Anthony Scaramucci explained in a Tuesday X post. “Spreading conspiracy theories, using us versus them, leading as a hero, corrupting youth, conniving with the elite, attacking human rights, exploiting faith, valuing enemies, eliminating resistance, escalating racism, killing at a distance, stoking fear.”Explaining that he is not using the term “fascism” hyperbolically,