Trump cultists

Mint reports: A controversial bill introduced in the Minnesota Senate seeks to modify the state’s definition of mental illness by including a new condition labeled Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). The bill, if enacted, would amend Minnesota Statutes 2024 to formally recognize TDS as a mental health disorder. The proposed legislation, introduced during Minnesota’s Ninety-Fourth Legislative Session, aims to redefine mental …

The Hill reports: The Senate voted mostly along party lines Friday afternoon to pass the House Republican-drafted bill to fund government through September, avoiding a government shutdown only hours before funding was due to lapse. President Trump is expected to sign the bill into law. The final vote was 54-46. Two members of the Democratic caucus voted for the bill, …

Florida Politics reports: Republican congressional candidate Randy Fine wants his Democratic opponent arrested. Fine, a Palm Bay Republican, called for the action days after a third-party contracted worker was arrested while handing out campaign flyers for Democrat Josh Weil on a stolen bike. While Weil’s campaign distanced themselves from the individual, Fine said that’s not enough as the campaign continues …

Politico Europe reports: Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen snapped back at Donald Trump’s recent comments suggesting that Greenland’s latest election results are “good” for United States interests. “It’s a misinterpretation of the Greenlandic election to conclude that we’ll have an independent Greenland tomorrow, flying a white flag that can then be painted with stars and stripes,” Rasmussen said in …

The New York Times reports: Dr. Mehmet Oz, the TV celebrity doctor, is expected to face a tense confirmation hearing on Friday, with Democratic senators planning to question how he would oversee Medicare and Medicaid now that Republicans and the Trump administration are weighing significant changes affecting millions of Americans. Among the possible plans being considered by Republican lawmakers and …

The Independent reports: When right-wing network Newsmax and Smartmatic agreed to settle the voting software firm’s election defamation lawsuit last fall, the financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed and seemingly remained confidential. That is no longer the case. In a regulatory filing released this week by Newsmax as part of its planned initial public offering, the channel revealed …

The Associated Press reports: Before answering an attendee’s question about President Donald Trump’s “destructive and disastrous trade war,” U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards made a plea to the rowdy crowd at his Thursday town hall in Asheville, North Carolina. “Let me answer and then if you don’t like it, you can boo or hiss or whatever you’d like to do,” Edwards …

The New York Times reports: Meta won a legal victory on Wednesday against a former employee who published an explosive, tell-all memoir, as an arbitrator temporarily prohibited the author from promoting or further distributing copies. Sarah Wynn-Williams last week released “Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism,” a book that describes a series of incendiary allegations …

The New York Post reports: Le’Veon Bell vehemently denied rape allegations, which were made in a March 2024 lawsuit filed by his cousin Jada Bell, and claimed he was never served in a Twitch live stream on Tuesday. Bell claimed in the live stream that he was made aware of the allegations this week — and that his signature was …

The Texas Tribune reports: With unanimous Republican support, the Texas Senate appears poised to pass a priority bill requiring Texans to prove their citizenship before they could vote in state, local, and presidential elections. Senate Bill 16, which would apply to new registrants as well as existing registered voters who did not provide proof of citizenship when they registered. That …

Florida Politics reports: Rep. Juan Porras’ proposal to begin mandating the phrase “Gulf of America” in K-12 instructional materials is finally moving. The House Education and Employment Subcommittee is advancing legislation (HB 549) that would compel School Boards to “adopt and acquire” materials using the Gulf of America name and to “update geographical materials for Floridians.” “We would be the …

Semafor reports: The conservative broadcaster Newsmax quietly removed from its website an interview on Monday with an executive who criticized the powerful Federal Communications Commission. The article, titled “Telecom Company Urges FCC to Reverse Biden-era Fine,” featured the CEO of the digital calling company Telnyx, the target of a recent FCC fine for allegedly failing to take adequate action to …

Electrek reports: A Tesla Cybertruck sank in Ventura harbor in California when trying to launch a jet ski despite Tesla CEO Elon Musk saying that you could use the truck as a boat. Elon Musk has often made claims before about how Tesla vehicles could float and briefly serve as a boat. Ahead of launching the production version of the …

“Tucker has no actual substance, right? He’s been attacking me since 2022 when he became obsessed with me. I live rent-free in that little mongrel’s head. And yeah, you know, people ask me all the time, like, ‘Why does he hate you? And I’m like, you know, the fact that you can’t answer that question is indicative of the fact …

“When it comes to protesters, we gotta make sure we treat all of them the same. Send them to jail. Free speech is great, but hateful, hate, free speech is not what we need in these universities. And they don’t need to be doing things that they’re preaching from Hamas about anti-Semitism.” – GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who celebrated the …

Politico reports: Steve Bannon isn’t taking 2028 off the table. In an profanity-laced interview on Wednesday with POLITICO, the MAGA firebrand repeatedly refused to rule out a presidential bid, as GOP sources close to him are increasingly speculating he is serious about running should President Donald Trump himself not campaign for a third term — a constitutionally barred idea Bannon …

“What is the goal of all of this? Seriously, I don’t understand. What is the goal? I want President Trump to succeed. If President Trump is to succeed, we need a thriving economy. Declaring a trade war on Canada under the terms of the USMCA, which he himself negotiated in Trump term one, is not going to be a productive …

“Trump did not run in 2024 on making the market reach record highs immediately again. [This is a lie.] That’s not what he ran on. He ran on tariffs. He ran on bringing back American industry. He ran on necessarily raising the cost of certain goods, imported goods to help rebuild the American industrial base. [Also a lie.] He ran …

NOTUS reports: When Donald Trump first suggested his desire for the United States to “absorb” its northern neighbor, Canada, Republican senators laughed him off — sometimes literally. “He was mostly trolling Trudeau,” Sen. Ted Cruz told NOTUS in January. Senate Republicans are no longer laughing, but said they would vote in favor of Canadian statehood if that’s what the country’s …

“So today there was a hearing, and the Republican chair is a guy named Self — S, E, L, F. Do we have a picture of him? There he is. He just wouldn’t go with this nonsense. And let’s face it, it’s not just McBride. It’s the entire culture that needs to have a correction moment. And he did his …