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Happy Sunday! Trump wants to strip a Black Pearl Harbor hero's name off a Navy carrier and slap his own on it instead. We'll get into that, plus:
USPS caves to Trump, rewrites mail-in voting rules
A federal judge struck down Trump's visa ban on 75 countries as illegal
The Pentagon fired Stars and Stripes' top editor for "insubordination"
Natalie Harp's first-ever Trump devotion video has surfaced
Todd Blanche's first week at DOJ
And we’ve rounded up some other headlines you might have missed. Let’s get into it.
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1. USPS rewrites mail-in voting rules — and Marc Elias says it "caved to Trump"
The U.S. Postal Service has issued new rules that would tighten mail-in voting procedures, contingent on court approval. The move drew an immediate and unambiguous response from Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias, who said USPS had "caved to Trump."
The rules aren't in effect yet — a court still has to sign off — but the fact that the agency responsible for delivering ballots is now in the business of restricting them tells you everything about what this administration considers a threat. Mail-in voting is how millions of working people, elderly voters, and rural communities cast ballots. Trump himself used mail-in voting the Florida primary last week.
2. A federal judge struck down Trump's visa ban on 75 countries as illegal
U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas vacated Trump's policy suspending immigration visa processing from 75 countries on Friday, ruling it "contrary to law and in excess of statutory authority.”
The policy had effectively frozen legal immigration pathways for people from a sweeping list of nations — not through Congress, not through any democratic process, but through executive fiat. Vargas didn't hedge. The ruling is a clean win for the rule of law, and a reminder that "contrary to law" is a phrase this administration has to hear from judges because it stopped hearing it from anyone else.
3, The Pentagon fired Stars and Stripes' top editor for "insubordination" — meaning journalism
The Pentagon's public affairs office fired the publisher, editor, and a reporter at Stars and Stripes — the military's own independent newspaper — charging them with "insubordination."
Top editor Erik Slavin confirmed the charge publicly. Stars and Stripes serves as a free press for the troops. Hegseth's Pentagon apparently finds that arrangement inconvenient. Firing the press that covers your own soldiers for doing their jobs isn't a personnel decision — it's a purge, and it's happening inside the U.S. military.
4. Trump wants to rename a carrier after himself — the one that was supposed to honor a Black Pearl Harbor hero
The Trump administration is reportedly working to rename the USS Doris Miller — a carrier under construction named for a Black sailor who fought heroically during the attack on Pearl Harbor — after Donald Trump.
Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy officer, said the ship "shouldn't be renamed at all." NAACP President Derrick Johnson put it plainly: "Doris Miller earned his place in American history through courage, sacrifice, and service. Donald Trump only wants to serve himself." This is happening while sailors on another carrier are rationing food and water.
5. Todd Blanche's first week at DOJ: a blowtorch to 50 years of norms
Trump's new Attorney General Todd Blanche — his former personal criminal defense lawyer — has spent his first week openly dismantling Justice Department standards that survived Nixon, Reagan, and every other administration that tried to weaponize the department.
The New Republic's accounting describes conduct more openly corrosive than John Mitchell's (who went to prison), A. Mitchell Palmer's (who deported thousands for their politics), or Harry Daugherty's (who sold pardons). The difference, the piece argues, is that those men were furtive. Blanche is straight up advertising it.
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KEPT OUT OF YOUR FEED
What the algorithm buried:
Natalie Harp's first-ever Trump devotion video has surfaced — recorded nine years ago, when she was in her mid-20s
Trump is reportedly floating a wild new promotion for Harp
Melania Trump made her first public appearance in a month — right as scrutiny of Natalie Harp reached a fever pitch. The timing is, as they say, something.
A judge just slashed Alex Jones's $50 million payment to Sandy Hook families
Brian Kilmeade has solved Iran: just win the damn thing — social media was skeptical, to put it mildly
Omaha police agreed to stop carrying electric shock gloves into middle and high schools, which is an insane practice to begin with
CNN's Abby Phillip said she can't get over Trump's latest claim about the economy — then debunked it with a single number.
Trump publicly declared Karoline Leavitt the best press secretary ever
Vanity Fair writer calls BS on Natalie Harp interview claim
A bullet sent to Charlie Kirk had an inscription prosecutors say proves he was targeted for his politics
Tomi Lahren compared Trump's foreign meat import policy to "throwing cheap SHEIN s**t into Nordstrom"
Michael Cohen called Trump "sir," played "Why Can't We Be Friends," and spent an hour relitigating their shared persecution on his own podcast
Putin is sending 14th-century religious relics to the front lines in Ukraine to boost troop morale
Trump attacked Tucker Carlson, MTG, and Thomas Massie online — and they hit back
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