High Court Reins In Trump’s Domestic Troop Power Grab
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow President Donald Trump to deploy National Guard troops to the Chicago area, dealing a setback to his expanding use of military forces for domestic purposes. The justices denied the Justice Department’s request to lift a lower-court order that blocked the deployment while litigation continues, keeping hundreds of Guard members from being sent into Illinois for now. Continue reading “Supreme Court Blocks Trump’s National Guard Move on Chicago, Reining In Domestic Troop Deployments”
In the latest episode of Democracy, but Make It a Tantrum, President Donald Trump has once again taken to Truth Social—America’s most secure location for unverified rage—to declare that The New York Times is not merely wrong, biased, or annoying, but a full-blown “serious threat to the National Security of our Nation.” This revelation, delivered in all caps at an hour typically reserved for insomnia and poor decisions, comes without evidence, specifics, or even the courtesy of naming an offending article. But why burden a national security claim with facts when vibes will do? 
What’s being sold here as a series of discrete corporate decisions is, in reality, a slow-motion liquidation of journalistic independence, with Donald Trump acting less like a president than a feudal lord dispensing favors. The merger fights surrounding CBS, CNN, and Warner Bros. Discovery are no longer about market efficiency or shareholder value; they are loyalty tests. Media conglomerates, suffocating under debt and desperate for scale, have discovered that the fastest route to regulatory approval is not innovation or public trust, but submission—preferably televised. Trump doesn’t need to nationalize the press when he can simply dangle merger approval like a scepter and let executives volunteer their own newsrooms for sacrifice. 
The Trump administration has once again perfected its signature move: take an unspeakable tragedy, flatten every inconvenient fact, and weaponize it into a blunt policy cudgel it has wanted to swing for years. Within hours of the Brown University shooting, the White House and DHS rushed to suspend the diversity visa lottery—a congressionally created program—despite the awkward detail that the suspect, Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente, entered the U.S. legally on a student visa in 2000, vanished from public records for more than a decade, and only later obtained a green card in 2017, during the first Trump administration, after extensive vetting. But why let timelines, laws, or logic get in the way of a good moral panic? In Trump-world, causation is optional, correlation is negotiable, and tragedy is merely an accelerant for long-standing ideological grudges.