Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s children were taken away from him after a tip from someone who turned out to be “mentally unstable,” according to police records.

Last month, the 44-year-old’s four-year-old twins, Penelope and Gus, were separated from him and his husband after an anonymous caller told Child Protective Services that he had committed “unspeakable violent crimes” and warned that the children could still be at risk.

It has now transpired that authorities later deemed the source possibly untrustworthy, due to her potential mental instability.

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House Democrats who voted against cutting US aid to Israel received three times as much money from pro-Israel donors as those who voted in favor. (Median = 3.1 times as much.)

Democrats who voted against the amendment accepted an average of $348,239; those who voted in favor received $115,932 on average. All together, $34 million in pro-Israel cash was behind the votes against cutting aid to Israel.

Did the money actually buy votes? Or did the money simply help keep in office politicians who are comfortable ignoring voters?1 Neither option is very good.

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The man at the helm of the Democratic Party’s main organizing apparatus is beginning to crack under pressure, according to insiders.

Nestled in a New York Times story about the Democratic National Committee’s dire financials was the mention of an incident between chair Ken Martin, a junior aide and a cell phone. Martin, who is contending with $2 million of DNC debt and a shrinking list of allies, reportedly threw his phone “in a pique of frustration” earlier this month.

Although the Times spoke with half a dozen people familiar with the incident, none witnessed it firsthand. There was also some contention over “how aggressively the phone was tossed,” and whether it was aimed at the desk or the aide. However, the incident sparked a formal complaint to the DNC’s human resources department.

Revoking an immigrant's citizenship has proven to be a costly and controversial practice over the years, but the Trump administration says hundreds of people deserve to have their citizenship stripped anyway.

The plan calls for ramping up the previously rare denaturalization process as a part of a broader immigration enforcement agenda, expanding a practice President Donald Trump started in his first term.

So far, the Justice Department has moved to revoke the citizenship of nearly 90 people since the start of 2025. By October, the government is aiming to file at least 250 denaturalization cases in federal court.

Under federal law, the government can ask a judge to revoke the citizenship of someone who obtained it through fraud or misrepresentation – such as using a false identity or concealing a disqualifying criminal record during the naturalization process.

At its current rate, the administration is on pace to pursue more denaturalization cases than any other in recent modern American history. By comparison, the Biden administration brought 24 cases over four years, while the government filed 102 denaturalization cases during Trump's first term, according to the DOJ.

Revoking citizenship? They're saying this was because of fraud, but that is inching extremely close to just revoking citizenship from anyone. Hell, I'm sure the fraud stuff is suspect with at leasr a few of those people.

Revoking citizenship from people such that theyre left stateless is a fast track to getting brought in front of the Hague because it violates the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. In fact, this is one of the leadups to a genocide.

The Nazi camps originally started out as deportation camps. When they couldn't find anywhere to send the people from there, the solution evolved into the Final Solution at the Wannsee Conference.

Hey Republicans, if you resent being called Nazis so much, stop doing Nazi shit!

Mass hearings, removal orders ‘in absentia’ – judges are wrapping up immigration cases in unprecedented numbers The second Trump administration recorded its highest number of immigration arrests so far last month. One significant and alarming reason that is far less noticeable than armored, masked agents swaggering in the streets with weapons may be a sudden change in America’s immigration courts. Here, in recent months, accelerated mass hearings are giving people facing existential questions about their fu...

Although he referred to multiple “Manuals,” the president’s Truth Social screed is really about a single manual: the Federal Judicial Center’s Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. The Reference Manual serves “as a go-to document judges can use when they deal with issues involving scientific testimony.” For the first time, the most recent version of the manual contains a climate science chapter. It describes the hard scientific evidence that fossil fuel burning is influencing extreme weather events. This science is anathema to the oil industry and to its conservative supporters, including the president, and they have responded by attacking the manual and its authors.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani charged Benjamin Nentayahu with genocide, said he is unwelcome in New York City, and called for his arrest. Two years ago, that would have been unimaginable. Going forward, it should be a litmus test.

“President Donald Trump is set to visit Michigan on Monday to highlight manufacturing and auto industry jobs ahead of the state’s Aug. 4 primary elections,” NewsNation reports.