ICE had no idea it was being deployed to airports. A DHS official told CBS News: "I have no idea what we're doing."

Trump is flooding security checkpoints with immigration agents — not because they're qualified, but because over 400 TSA workers have quit since February 14, the day the government shutdown began and their paychecks stopped.

The same shutdown Senate Democrats triggered demanding accountability after ICE killed two U.S. citizens in January. Trump is holding 50,000 TSA workers' pay hostage to protect the agency that did the killing — then sending that agency, unprepared, into the airports falling apart as a result.

Border czar Tom Homan's grand plan: guard exits. That's it.

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries put it plainly: "We have already seen how ICE conducts itself."

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Trump posted an image on Truth Social demanding a third term as a "reward" for the thoroughly debunked lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him. The 22nd Amendment prohibits it, but Trump told NBC News in March 2025 he was "not joking" — and Steve Bannon says he's actively "working" to make it happen. The GOP's response: sell "Trump 2028" merch.

The U.S. and Iran are now threatening each other's critical infrastructure in real time. Trump set a 48-hour deadline Saturday (then abruptly extended it to 5 days this morning) demanding Iran fully open the Strait of Hormuz — or the U.S. destroys its power plants, "STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST."

Iran's parliament speaker fired back: strike our infrastructure and energy and desalination facilities across the region get destroyed — "irreversibly." The war, launched by the U.S. and Israel on Feb. 28, has already killed over 2,000 people.

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican candidate for California governor, seized more than half a million ballots from county election officials in February, claiming a discrepancy between handwritten ballot logs and final vote totals. Elections officials say the actual difference was about 100 votes. Bianco's number: 45,800. California Attorney General Rob Bonta called the seizure "unprecedented" and designed to "sow distrust in our elections."

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While bombs were still falling on Iran, the fossil fuel industry was already counting its money.

U.S. natural gas exporters are the clear financial winners from the U.S. war with Iran, according to The Washington Post — and that tells you everything you need to know about who this conflict actually serves.

The logic is straightforward and ugly: war destabilizes the Middle East, Middle East instability spooks global energy markets, spooked markets drive up prices, and U.S. liquefied natural gas exporters — who sell into those same global markets — pocket the difference.

This is the donor class monetizing foreign policy in real time.

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