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President Donald Trump told the New York Post in an interview that the military used a "discombobulator," but the Pentagon says he's confused. A "discombobulator" is not a standard or officially recognized military weapon or device. The term does not appear in military equipment databases, Department of Defense documentation, or official weapons systems nomenclature.The word itself is slang meaning to confuse or perplex someone, and it has occasionally been used colloquially or humorously to describe various non-lethal devices or tactics intended to disorient targets. However, there is no formal military equipment known by this name.

A bombshell report on Sunday revealed a ten-minute secret recording over the course of two events in which Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) met with donors and trashed the president and vice president. Among the allegations from Cruz is that former Fox News host Tucker Carlson created Vice President JD Vance, highlighted MS NOW's Molly Jong Fast. “Zoom in: During his talks, Cruz cast Vance as a pawn of conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson. Cruz has accused Carlson of promoting antisem

Another government shutdown is looming, with a Friday deadline, and there is no agreement in sight. After another shooting death at the hands of an ICE agent, lawmakers are pausing the funding bill that pays for such operations across the country. While the ICE bill has passed the House, Senators announced on Saturday that they aren't approving the funding without reining in the violence. Punchbowl News co-founder John Bresnahan told CNN on Sunday that the trillion-dollar funding package cannot pass as it is right now. "There's no way Democrats will vote for ICE funding. There's no way they'll vote for DHS funding. That's the umbrella agency

President Donald Trump appeared to be in retreat after insulting NATO last week when he claimed it never came to the aid of the United States. While at the World Economic Forum, Trump told Fox Business "We have never really asked anything of them. You know, they’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan or this or that, and they did. They stayed a little back, little off the front lines."The Washington Post reported that King Charles III personally called Trump to school him on the only time Article V of NATO was invoked after the U.S. was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. Socia

After the latest shooting of a Minneapolis protester, President Donald Trump's campaign to deport immigrants is quickly losing support from Republican lawmakers, loyalists and conservative publications.On Sunday, the conservative Wall Street Journal posted an analysis calling the Trump administration out on its lies that VA ICU nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti walked up to ICE officers with a gun, intending to “massacre law enforcement.”"See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation Saturday," the subheading of the Journal reads. It notes at the close of the story that reporters continue to ask the administration at what point, exactly, Pretti's gun came out.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was secretly recorded trashing President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, Axios reported Sunday morning. According to the report, Cruz spoke to Republican donors in two meetings last year. The combination of the recordings is nearly ten minutes, talking about himself as a "traditional free trade, pro-interventionist Republican."Axios characterized the recordings as "some of the harshest criticisms of Trump and Vance by a fellow Republican since they took office a year ago. After Trump's tariffs in early April 2025, Cruz said that he and a few other senators had a call with him, try

Russian-American columnist M. Gessen wrote for The New York Times on Sunday that President Donald Trump’s ICE operations in Minneapolis have crossed into state terror—not mere repression, but deliberate, arbitrary violence designed to instill pervasive fear in which no one feels safe.In the past month, ICE agents have shot and killed two US citizens: Renee Nicole Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti. Neither had a criminal record. Another U.S. citizen was pulled from his home in his underwear by agents who later realized he wasn’t their target.Gessen argues this is part o

During his speech at the World Economic Forum, President Donald Trump claimed "sometimes, you need a dictator." Republicans continue to back the philosophy one columnist wrote. In a piece Sunday, Salon's Chauncey DeVega cited Public Religion Research Institute data along with other experts showing that "a large plurality — in some surveys, a substantial majority — of White American Christians exhibit authoritarian personality traits and reject pluralism and multiracial democracy."While it might be true for MAGA, it's also true of Republicans and cons

President Donald Trump is proving to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney — and to the world — why other leaders may want nothing to do with his controversial statements, a New York Times columnist argued Sunday.Columnist Ezra Klein wrote that America’s president now looks less like a world leader and more like a sulking hegemon. “Everything Trump has done over the last week has made him look tawdry, addled and small,” Klein said.Trump recently disinvited Canada from his so‑called “Board of Peace,” which he claims will be resp

As a growing number of encounters between civilians and Department of Homeland Security agents — including the widely scrutinized fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis — are scrutinized in court records and on social media, federal officials are returning to a familiar response: self-defense.In more than a handful of recent encounters, the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, has said its agents acted in self-defense during violent encounters, even as eyewitness testimony and video footage raised questions about whether those accounts fully matched what happened.And in a ruling for a recent civil lawsuit, a U.S. district judge said federal immigration officials were not forthcoming about enforcement efforts, citing discrepancie