Only One Way To Stop Your Party From Going Down The Drain–‘Nationalize The Elections’:
President Donald Trump said Monday that Republicans should nationalize elections, continuing to double down on false conspiracy theories about widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
The suggestion — which runs contrary to the Constitution’s delegation of election administration to state governments — comes less than a week after the FBI raided an elections office outside Atlanta, seizing ballots and other voting records from the 2020 election.
“The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over. We should take over the voting in at least 15 places.’ The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting,” he said during an appearance on former Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino’s podcast, which he relaunched Monday.
The president repeatedly insisted that he won the 2020 election “in a landslide,” alleging without evidence that people “voted illegally” in the election. He also nodded to the FBI’s raid in Fulton County, Georgia, teasing that “you’re going to see some interesting things come out” in Georgia (Barack Obama’s REAL birth certificate, perhaps?).
“Remember, the States are merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes,” he wrote in an August social media post. “They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY, to do.”
That’s not true, but whatever.
Ed Martin, who has been working inside the Trump Justice Department for over nine months after failing to secure a confirmation as US Attorney in Washington, DC, is expected to leave the department in the coming weeks, according to a source familiar with his plans.
Martin had been previously described as President Donald “Trump’s favorite US Attorney,” but sources say his imminent departure is the result of moves made by another one of Trump’s favorite Justice officials — Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Martin, a Missouri Republican, burnished his MAGA credentials following the 2021 US Capitol attack, becoming a vocal defender of Trump’s voter fraud claims in the 2020 election and of January 6 rioters — some of whom he represented as an attorney.
Trump appointed Martin to serve at the interim US attorney for Washington, DC, shortly after taking office in January 2025. Martin immediately started working on Trump’s agenda, including demoting senior prosecutors who worked on cases related to January 6 and vowing to protect employees of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
He ultimately failed to receive enough support from the Senate and Trump pulled his nomination for the position in May 2025.
Trump then put Martin in serval new positions within the Justice Department, including the director of the Working Weaponization Group and pardon attorney.
Martin urged for the prosecution of Trump’s political adversaries and, this summer, posed for photos outside the Brooklyn home of New York Attorney General Letitia James while he was also conducting investigations into her conduct.
ICE Thugs Ask: “Where Are Our Massive Bonuses?”:
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is facing an unusual wave of internal backlash after employees began publicly accusing the agency of failing to pay salaries and activate health insurance weeks after recruitment.
Despite a historic recruitment drive that added 12,000 agents in recently, the agency’s administrative backbone appears to be buckling, with employees desperate enough to turn to the Reddit to detail their struggles.
In raw, unfiltered Reddit posts now spreading beyond law-enforcement circles, ICE officers describe going a month or more without a paycheque, struggling to secure medical cover for sick children, and watching promised bonuses quietly stall.
What began as routine onboarding complaints has now snowballed into a viral reckoning about how a major US federal agency manages its workforce while aggressively expanding enforcement operations. As screenshots circulate across social platforms, critics argue the issue is no longer bureaucratic delay but institutional dysfunction, raising uncomfortable questions about morale, accountability and the human cost of America’s immigration enforcement machine.
Might I suggest the following negotiating tactic?: The beatings will stop until morale improves.
Yet Another DHS ‘Smear Campaign’. ‘Vicious Venezuelan Gang Members’ were nothing of the sort:
Immediately after a US border patrol agent shot two people in Oregon last month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the targets were “vicious” gang members connected to a prior shooting and alleged they had “attempted to run over” officers with their vehicle.
In the weeks since, key parts of the federal government’s narrative have fallen apart.
According to a DHS press release and social media posts issued the following day, border patrol agents were conducting a “targeted” stop of a vehicle in Portland occupied by two members of Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang. Yorlenys Zambrano-Contreras, a woman in the passenger seat, had been “involved” in a Portland shooting last year, the agency wrote.
During the border patrol stop, the driver, Luis Niño-Moncada, “weaponized their vehicle against” officers, DHS said, prompting an agent “to defend himself and others” by shooting the occupants. Zambrano-Contreras was hit in the chest, Niño-Moncada was hit in the arm and both were hospitalized, then taken into federal custody, DHS noted. The agents were uninjured.
But court records obtained by the Guardian reveal a Department of Justice prosecutor later directly contradicted DHS’ Tren de Aragua statements in court, telling a judge, “We’re not suggesting … [Niño-Moncada] is a gang member.” An FBI affidavit issued following the incident also suggests that in the previous shooting cited by DHS, Zambrano-Contreras was not a suspect, but rather a reported victim of a sexual assault and robbery. Neither Niño-Moncada or Zambrano-Contreras have prior criminal convictions, their lawyers have said.
Immigration and criminal justice experts who reviewed the case records characterized the federal government’s communications as a “smear campaign” against the two Venezuelan immigrants, with mischaracterizations of their pasts and unsubstantiated allegations of criminality.
Delaware’s quest to build one of the mid-Atlantic’s biggest port container terminals may have quietly cleared a key hurdle last month.
During a meeting on Monday of the state board that oversees the Port of Wilmington, Secretary of State Charuni Patibanda-Sanchez said Delaware is no longer required to secure an approval from the Port of Philadelphia in order to move forward with efforts to recapture construction permits that a federal judge invalidated in 2024.
Delaware port officials need the permits to fulfill their longstanding, yet beleaguered, goal of building a new port at the site of a former chemical plant in Edgemoor. Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars have already been committed to the project, which port officials say will create thousands of new jobs in the state.
Patibanda-Sanchez said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — which is in charge of issuing the permits — agreed last month to grant an exception to a rule requiring Delaware to obtain a formal ”statement of no objection” from the Port of Philadelphia – a regional competitor that has long opposed Delaware plans to expand the Port of Wilmington.
Now, with an exception to the rule, Patibanda-Sanchez said the Corps of Engineers can begin its review of Delaware’s application for permits to build a port seawall, and to dredge the Delaware River from the Edgemoor docks to the main channel.
Hmmm, interesting.
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