Trump adds Brian Tyler Cohen to official enemies list

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump adds Brian Tyler Cohen to official enemies list
Brian Tyler Cohen breaks down the shocking news that he has been added to the White House’s official “Media Offenders” list for his tireless efforts to expose the administration’s crimes.

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Trump ballroom donors awarded $50B in taxpayer-funded contracts in last six months: watchdog
More than half of the 27 publicly-identified donors to President Donald Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom have been awarded new or expanded federal contracts since construction work began, according to a watchdog’s report. Fourteen of the donors to Trump’s pet project saw their government business grow in the first six months after he ordered the demolition of the East Wing, with the contract awards worth a combined $50 billion, new analysis from Public Citizen reveals.

Per the non-profit, the largest individual recipient of new business over the course of the time period concerned was the defense giant Lockheed Martin, which has received approximately $43.8 billion in new or enhanced government business since the autumn. Other contributors to the ballroom who have also reportedly received new or improved deals for their services during the timeframe include Booz Allen Hamilton, Palantir, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Caterpillar and T-Mobile.

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Pre-order Brian Tyler Cohen’s new book today!
The Day After: Some exciting news from our friend, Brian Tyler Cohen. His new book, The Day After, is now available for pre-order! The book explores how Republicans have abused power, how Democrats have failed to effectively wield it, and finally, what Democrats must do when they get power back. It’s a blueprint for progressives who are not satisfied with the status quo. Please support independent media by pre-ordering here — and grab tickets to his book tour in NYC, DC, Chicago, San Francisco, or LA.

A federal judge strikes down Trump administration immigration policy affecting 39 countries
A federal judge on Friday struck down a Trump administration policy enacted after the shooting of two National Guard members that made it harder for immigrants from dozens of countries to stay and enter the U.S. In a ruling harshly criticizing the administration, U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell Jr. said the policy “threw the lives of countless immigrants living in the United States into indeterminate legal limbo,” and he accused the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of ignoring the law.

“In enacting its latest immigration policies, USCIS: claims statutory and regulatory authority that it does not possess; makes decisions without the reasoned explanations that it must provide; acts without regard for the reliance interests of applicants that it must consider; and justifies its actions with pretextual concerns of ‘national security’ that mask anti-immigrant sentiments that it is forbidden from letting influence its decision-making,” he wrote. “In legal terms that means USCIS’s actions are contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious.”

Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say
The Pentagon is increasingly concerned about Israel ramping up its spying on the U.S., recently raising the counterintelligence threat level from America’s top ally in the Middle East to the highest level, according to two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official.

The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency in recent weeks issued the new counterintelligence threat assessment amid rising tensions between Israel and the U.S. over the way forward in the war with Iran, the officials said. They said the DIA posted an internal message, viewed by one of the current officials, that raised the level for Israel to “critical.”

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DOJ office says “multiple” probes of California elections underway after Trump cries foul
A federal prosecutor in California said Friday that authorities have launched investigations tied to the state’s recent elections following President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of fraud. Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, said Friday morning on X that his office was pursuing “multiple election fraud investigations” alongside the FBI, without providing details.

Platner’s fellow Marine pushes back on accuser’s claim about their tattoos
A Marine who served with Graham Platner in Iraq and got matching tattoos with him in Croatia pushed back on a new claim, published in the New York Times on Thursday, that they deliberately chose a Nazi-style symbol.

“No, we did not purposely get hateful fucking shit because we’re racist people,” he said. “We got matching tattoos because we were in our 20s, drunk in Croatia, and that’s it. That’s all that fucking happened.”