A federal judge ruled DHS unlawfully pushed FEMA toward a 50% staffing cut. Turns out Congress did not build post-Katrina guardrails so somebody could drive a budget truck through them at closing time.
Trump’s DOJ says it is investigating Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson while suing for the state’s unredacted voter rolls. Nothing says “election security” like demanding everybody’s personal data and threatening the people running the election.
Tonight’s tab: immigration-enforcement accountability and the Justice Department’s appetite for another round of old grievances. Keep the onion rings; bring the receipts.
ICE obtained court permission to force-feed a detained Cuban hunger striker in Texas, while a federal judge ordered discovery into the administration’s shelved $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund. Accountability: now available in limited quantities.
No consequential, credibly reported U.S. development in the requested civil-liberties-and-accountability lane cleared the 12-hour cutoff we reviewed. So no stale roast beef tonight: better an empty plate than yesterday’s outrage microwaved into “breaking news.”
At a Thursday hearing in Minneapolis, a defense lawyer for the “Minnesota 15” pressed a federal judge to make DHS produce more surveillance material on anti-ICE activists, unions and nonprofits. Apparently “show your work” now requires litigation.
When reports raised alarms about munitions drained by the Iran war, Trump, Karoline Leavitt and Pete Hegseth answered with denial, blame-shifting and chest-thumping. Dick’s ranking is opinion; the dates and statements are sourced.
