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June 13, 2026
ICE Officers Arrive Unannounced At Nonprofits Repping Migrant Kids
(Huff Post) ICE officers have arrived unannounced in recent days at the offices of nonprofit groups that provide legal representation to unaccompanied migrant children, the groups said. The groups called the visits “the latest example of intimidation tactics” from the Trump administration, and detailed visits in which ICE investigators, as well as agents from the Department of Health and Human Services, arrived at their offices and sought access to “documents and financial records relating to the organizations’ child clients.”
Go to discussionIRS moves to hire 8,000 employees after DOGE cuts, memo reveals
(The Independent) The Internal Revenue Service has received special permission to quickly hire 8,000 employees through September, according to a memo obtained by NOTUS, after more than a quarter of the agency was downsized during Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts last year. Trump administration officials had initially brushed off concerns that the IRS would struggle to handle the 2026 tax season with significantly fewer employees. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told lawmakers in April the agency was “still able to maintain current services and implement new initiatives.”
Go to discussionJudge orders restoration of national park plaques removed under Trump directive
(The Guardian) A US district court judge has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate any history or science materials it removed from the nation’s public monuments, finding that the White House’s actions “set a dangerous precedent of censorship and sanitization”. In March 2025, Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “restoring truth and sanity to American history”, calling upon the secretary of interior to examine monuments, memorials and statues to see if they had been altered after January 2020 to represent a “false construction of American history”.
Go to discussionJudge orders restoration of national park plaques removed under Trump directive
Fri 12 Jun 2026 21.04 EDT Last modified on Fri 12 Jun 2026 21.06 EDT A US district court judge has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate any history or science materials it removed from the nation's public monuments, finding that the White House's actions "set a dangerous precedent of censorship and sanitization". In March 2025, Donald Trump signed an executive order titled "restoring truth and sanity to American history", calling upon the secretary of interior to ...
Go to discussionElisabeth Hasselbeck is serving as guest host for Bari Weiss' CBS
12h Right-wing TV personality Elisabeth Hasselbeck is due to guest host CBS Mornings next week as Bari Weiss’s CBS News attempts to boost its ratings. Hasselbeck, 49, was the conservative voice on The View from 2003 to 2013, appearing alongside Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, and Rosie O’Donnell, among others. She was fired from the show after being informed by an ABC executive that they were moving in a “less political direction,” she said in her 2019 book. Next week, she will ...
Go to discussionMattress company Sleep Number plans $415 million bankruptcy sale
Published Fri, Jun 12 2026 3:16 PM EDT Mattress company Sleep Number filed for bankruptcy in New York on Friday and said it plans to sell its assets under a $415 million buyout offer from Canadian bedding company Sleep Country Canada Inc. Sleep Number, which recently entered into a sponsorship agreement with National Football League star Travis Kelce, entered bankruptcy with $672 million in debt. It blamed tariffs and inflation for its recent business stumbles. President Donald Trump’s “unpr ...
Go to discussionWorkers begin removing Trump's name from Kennedy Center
Workers begin removing Trump's name from Kennedy Center After courts knocked down attempts to delay the signage change, the Kennedy Center missed the Friday deadline to remove President Donald Trump's name by midnight. June 13, 2026 at 3:33 a.m. EDT 21 minutes ago 8 min Spectators watch as workers put up scaffolding ahead of a court-mandated deadline to remove President Donald Trump's name from the Kennedy Center's facade. (Craig Hudson/For The Washington Post) By Jonathan Edwards https://w ...
Go to discussionElephant at Texas GOP Convention Shocks Audience by Peeing All Over the Floor
Jun 12th, 2026, 5:36 pm There’s an old Hollywood saying about never working with children or animals because of their unpredictable and uncontrollable nature and the Texas Republican Party may be wishing it had heeded that warning after an elephant brought to the party’s annual convention caused quite the disruption. Texas Republicans have gathered in Houston to elect party leaders, make preparations for the upcoming November midterm elections, and conduct other party business. Elected offic ...
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