“A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence Correctional Center died Monday at a Scottsdale hospital due to complications from an infected tooth, a local official in Chandler said Tuesday.”
On February 28, the U.S. and Israel launched major combat operations in Iran.
Americans in 14 countries were not advised to evacuate until three days after the Trump administration began major combat operations. By that time, much of the region’s airspace and most airports had closed.
“Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has rescinded the Biden Justice Department’s policy that tightly restricted when law enforcement agents executing a search could take the exceptional step of bursting into a home without knocking first.”
“After abandoning its defense of President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting major law firms, the Justice Department abruptly reversed itself Tuesday and asked a federal court to let it continue defending the retaliatory orders.”
“A third of American workers now have access to some form of government-issued paid leave — the biggest share ever.”
Students who “aligned politically with President Trump” and were “willing to work hard” were strongly encouraged to apply, even if they had poor grades.
On Friday afternoon, Liberty University Law School emailed its first and second-year students about an “exciting opportunity to intern with the Department of Labor in DC.”
One important caveat: only passionate devotees of President Trump would be considered.
“No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump. He's attacked seven nations, three of which — Iran, Nigeria and Venezuela — had never been targeted by U.S. military strikes.”
“After moving manufacturing to the developing world to save on labor, Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country and into less-developed areas.”
“The New York attorney general’s office has ordered a major Manhattan hospital to resume providing puberty-blocking medication and hormone treatments to transgender adolescents, just two weeks after the hospital had stopped doing so.”
With Trump a year into his term, the U.S. is nearing a right-wing cultural transformation — but not from a swing in popular sentiment.
Instead, it is one wealthy family that has used its roughly $200 billion fortune in an effort to acquire, consolidate, and control news and entertainment media.
In the hours before the strike, six newly-created accounts on the prediction market Polymarket raked in nearly $1 million by betting that the U.S. would strike Iran by February 28.
On February 28, the U.S. and Israel began major combat operations in Iran. For some, the consequences of this action were fatal.
For others, the beginning of the war was simply a money-making opportunity.
“All unaccompanied immigrant children who are pregnant, many by rape, are being moved to a single facility in Texas in order to avoid providing abortion services in a significant human rights violation, critics say.”
“Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent figures who worked to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed the president to declare a national emergency to take over this year’s midterms.”
“Given an opportunity by the Texas Legislature to set aside time each day for students and staff to pray, most school districts appear to have declined the offer.”
MBS’s influence with Trump has grown as the Saudi government has invested billions in projects that personally enrich Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Despite the glaring conflicts-of-interest, Trump installed Kushner as a top negotiator with Iranian officials.
In private calls over the last several weeks, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) reportedly urged Trump to attack Iran.
The lobbying campaign achieved success on Saturday, when Trump announced he had begun “major combat operations in Iran.”
“[ICE] is struggling to keep pace with vetting new hires during its historic recruitment push and is laying out a process to deal with allegations of past misconduct among recruits, the agency said in an internal email on Monday, underscoring concerns about ICE’s rapid expansion.”
“A federal judge has found that the Internal Revenue Service violated federal law ‘approximately 42,695 times’ when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.”
“Staff at a for-profit Pennsylvania immigrant prison serially falsified detention records about a man who died in 2023, according to a federal death review obtained exclusively by The Intercept earlier this month.”
“Kristi Noem told a preposterous story demonizing immigrants in high-profile public remarks alongside President Donald Trump and on Fox News last summer, about a cannibal who ate other people… Now, three officials from federal law enforcement agencies… say the entire story was fabricated.”
According to a new report by NPR, the DOJ is withholding “more than 50 pages of FBI interviews, as well as notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor.”
“We did not protect President Trump.” That is what Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said on January 30, after what he described as the final release of the DOJ files on Jeffrey Epstein.
It turns out that was not true.
“He was moved to Arizona on Jan. 23, before a federal judge ordered that ICE could not deport witnesses. He was deported to southern Mexico on Jan. 26, the day before the wrongful death case for Lunas Campos began.”
“Leaked documents reveal that Meta… has blocked its AI chatbot from discussing topics including abortion with minors—a blanket policy that contrasts sharply with the firm’s handling of child sexual exploitation claims, and that may also inadvertently affect its content for adults.”
“A former instructor for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday accused the agency of dramatically slashing training standards for new officers and lying to Congress about it as the Trump administration seeks to rapidly expand its mass deportation operation.”
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) release of millions of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein included thousands of mentions of prominent billionaires.
