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Trump Orders Hegseth and Bondi to ‘Determine How Military’ Can Be Used in Domestic Law Enforcement

So is Trump gonna militarize white guys in cowboy hats and badges or give cowboy hats and badges to military white guys?

President Donald Trump directed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to determine how the U.S. military could be used for domestic law enforcement on Monday.

In an executive order titled, “Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Civilians,” Trump issued several directives, including the establishment of a legal defense mechanism for law enforcement officers and a crackdown on state and local officials who “willfully and unlawfully direct the obstruction of criminal law, including by directly and unlawfully prohibiting law enforcement officers from carrying out duties.”

The math Trump’s admin used to calculate tariff rates stuns economists

President Trump’s administration says they used a formula to calculate tariff rates for foreign countries. CNN anchors Dana Bash and Phil Mattingly break down the numbers and how economists are reacting.

Trump’s show of support for Conor McGregor is making fertile ground for Ireland’s far right

Rapist racist endorses to racist rapist.

The fighter won’t be Irish president any time soon, but the Trumpocracy seems to think it can shift the country’s politics by endorsing him.

Trump administration sets out to create an America its people have never experienced − one without a meaningful government

The U.S. government is attempting to dismantle itself.

President Donald Trump has directed the executive branch to “significantly reduce the size of government.” That includes deep cuts in federal funding of scientific and medical research and freezing federal grants and loans for businesses. He has ordered the reversal or removal of regulations on medical insurance companies and other businesses and sought to fire thousands of federal employees. Those are just a few of dozens of executive orders that seek to deconstruct the government.

More than 70 lawsuits have challenged those orders as illegal or unconstitutional. In the meantime, the resulting chaos is preventing the government from carrying out its everyday functions.

Donald Trump ‘Paving Over’ White House Rose Garden: What We Know

Why? Because fuck history and tradition!

Options have been drafted for how to remake the surface of the Rose Garden, and there have been discussions over whether it should be limestone, an easily interchangeable hard surface, or whether it could be possible to install hardwood floors for dancing, according to The New York Times, which cited individuals briefed on the discussions, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.