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- Trump Is Ramping Up His Lawfare Against Kids at the Border
Last Friday, the Trump administration canceled a contract that funded legal representation for about 26,000 unaccompanied minors who had crossed into the United States. In a memo sent by the Interior Department, dozens of non-profits were told to cease their legal representation work under the contract with the Department of Health and Human Services(HHS), and that they would no longer be receiving the more than $200 million they were relying on to continue providing lawyers to minors for the next year. This move came a little over a month after the administration issued a “stop-work order” on February 18 for these same services before quickly rescinding it amid backlash. It also comes as the administration ramps up its efforts to target unaccompanied youth for deportations. Gerson, who asked that his last name be withheld, is one of tens of thousands of minors who had to navigate this complex immigration… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago - DOGE vs “The Pitt”I think The Pitt is the best television show I’ve ever seen. That’s perhaps not quite the paean that it appears—I mostly use the TV to watch sports, and there have been long periods when, following overlong exposure, I haven’t watched it at all. But this winter I’ve been camped out with my wife at 8:59 on Thursdays, waiting impatiently for Max to upload the next episode of the medical drama set in the emergency room of a Pittsburgh teaching hospital. (The first 12 episodes are now available; the penultimate show airs this Thursday.) One reason for our dedication is that the show’s truly compelling—never-a-false-note dialogue, casting that makes it clear what magic can happen when handsomeness is not your only priority, and a cinematography so immersive that half the time I forget I’m not watching a documentary. But the other reason is, it provides the perfect counterpoint to… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago
- Wisconsin’s Message for Trump
There is a temptation to overhype or read too much into the results of off-year elections. In this case, I suggest we succumb.Yesterday, Wisconsin voters exposed, humiliated, and decisively rejected the world’s richest man. And they sent a stark message to Republicans in Washington.On Sunday, when Elon Musk parachuted in for a rally that featured $1 million checks for voters, he described the race for state supreme court here in apocalyptic terms. Tuesday’s vote, he declared, would determine which party controlled the House of Representatives, presumably because of the court’s role in redistricting. “That is why it is so significant,” he said. “And whichever party controls the House, you know, it, to a significant degree, controls the country, which then steers the course of Western civilization. So it’s like, I feel like this is one of those things that may not seem that it’s going to affect the entire destiny… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago - Elon Musk Can’t Take the HeatElon Musk has a simple diagnosis of what’s ailing America: It’s being destroyed by empathy. In a long interview with Joe Rogan, in numerous tweets, and possibly even in his sleep, Musk has argued that “empathy” is a “suicidal” trait that is a driving force behind civilizational extinction. It is time, he believes, for “the West” to get tough and make hard choices—to bar its doors to immigrants of a certain type and endure “temporary hardship” so that government can be transformed and “the woke mind virus will die.” As the de facto head of the Department of Governmental Efficiency, Musk has deployed this brand of tactical callousness to maximal effect. He has boasted about throwing the United States Agency for International Development into a “woodchipper” and stumbled around the stage at CPAC with a chainsaw. He has presided over the dismantling of the administrative state and the harassment… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago
- She Launched “The Daily Show.” Now She’s Fighting Red State Abortion Bans.For abortion rights advocate Lizz Winstead, her work has never felt more urgent. But her path to advocacy was a curvy one. She started out as a comedian, first as a stand-up and eventually as the co-creator of The Daily Show, which redefined television by deftly combining comedy and politics. “I kept getting increasingly unnerved and also frustrated that I was just shelling people with information, even though it was funny, and not giving them a way to fight back,” Winstead says. Today, Winstead produces the Feminist Buzzkills podcast and is founder of Abortion Access Front. Again, she’s weaving together politics and comedy to educate people about abortion laws and provide resources on independent abortion providers. But this time, she’s also giving them the tools to fight. “I wanted to combine the effectiveness of using humor to expose hypocrisy and bad actors and then combine that with a call… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago
- No Tariff Exemptions for American FarmersAmerican farmers are pleading for exemptions from President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Republican members of Congress from farm states are working to deliver the relief farmers want. But farmers do not deserve special treatment and should not get it.Tariffs will indeed hurt farmers badly. Farm costs will rise. Farm incomes will drop. Under Trump’s tariffs, farmers will pay more for fertilizer. They will pay more for farm equipment. They will pay more for the fuel to ship their products to market. When foreign countries retaliate, raising their own tariff barriers, American farmers will lose export markets. Their domestic sales will come under pressure too, because tariffs will shrink Americans’ disposable incomes: Consumers will have to cut back everywhere, including at the grocery store.Farmers will share this tariff predicament of higher costs and lower incomes with almost all Americans—except the very wealthiest, who are less exposed to tariffs because they consume less… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago
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