39 h. ago MIKEY SMITH: 6 authoritarian things Donald Trump's team did in 24 hours as he faces contempt charge

With Donald Trump's administration facing a contempt of court ruling from a federal judge, it raises an unprecedented question: Are there any consequences for Donald Trump ignoring a court ruling? And if not...what happens next?

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4 d. ago JD Vance fumbles Ohio State’s national title trophy during White House visit

Vice-president unable to hang on to trophyBuckeyes were celebrating last season’s title winJD Vance, the man entrusted as America’s back-up in times of emergency, may not be the safest pair of hands if Monday’s events are anything to go by. The vice-president ended the Ohio State football team’s visit to the White House by fumbling the team’s national championship trophy.After laudatory speeches by Donald Trump, Buckeyes coach Ryan Day and Vance on the South Lawn, the Vance – an Ohio State graduate – tried to lift the trophy. He didn’t appear to realize that the top of the trophy is detachable from its base. After a moment of struggle, the vice-president lost his grip on the two pieces. OSU running back TreVeyon Henderson, standing behind Vance, grabbed the football-shaped top of the trophy, but the base fell to the ground, forcing Vance to grasp around as it rolled away from him. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago F1 team issues statement as Donald Trump's US tariffs prompt changes

Donald Trump's tariff announcements and their economic impact are being felt in all sectors and have prompted a statement from one Formula 1 team after their parent company's announcement

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1 week ago Donald Trump's team 'declares war' on masturbation with 'insane' new US sex laws

MAGA politicians are going after the burning issue causing all of American's problems – the sex toy. Lawmakers in Texas want to ban the sale of vibrators anywhere outside of strip clubs, the suckers

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1 week ago MIKEY SMITH: 5 unhinged things Donald Trump and his team did while the US economy kept tanking

Perhaps in 2,000 odd years, whatever's left of humanity will be talking about people 'watching the golf while the economy tanked'

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2 w. ago Trump fires staff of 'idiot' adviser embroiled in Signal scandal after urging by controversial MAGA influencer

President Donald Trump has fired several members of his National Security Council team, Axios reported Thursday.

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2 w. ago Who is in Donald Trump's top team? Could Elon Musk be on the way out?

The US President suggested Musk could be leaving the government soon

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2 w. ago Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that's the price of protest in Britain today | George Monbiot

It seems to me that whatever the charges facing the activists at the Quaker meeting house raid, their fundamental crime is dissentThe faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks.Last week, six young women were having tea and biscuits in the Quaker meeting house in Westminster. Twenty police officers forced open the door and arrested them on conspiracy charges. Had the police discovered a plot to blow up parliament or to poison the water supply? No. It was an openly advertised, routine meeting of a protest group called Youth Demand, discussing climate breakdown and the assault on Gaza.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnistThe Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison, was published in paperb...

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2 w. ago 7 unhinged things Donald Trump's team did in 24 hours as JD Vance doesn't rule out an invasion

Donald Trump sent JD Vance to Greenland to insult them - and he wouldn't rule out using the military to take the island by force - and he didn't even wear a tie

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3 w. ago Putin and Trump will 'team up against Europe' because they have 'same core values'

A Russian TV propagandist and Mad Vlad bootlicker reckons Donald Trump and the Vladimir Putin will team up against Europe becuase they have the same 'core values'

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3 w. ago Donald Trump moves to end union rights for many government agency employees – US politics live

White House signs executive order limiting numerous federal workers from unionisingTrump news at a glance: judge orders now-infamous Signal chat be retainedFor beleaguered and divided congressional Democrats desperate to find an effective line of attack against Donald Trump, news that the US president’s national security team discussed plans to bomb Yemen on a widely available messaging app in the presence of a journalist came at just the right time.The leak has put the White House and the Republicans on the defensive, generated multiple days of aggressive media coverage and forced top officials to publicly twist themselves in knots as they seek to explain – or downplay – the blunder. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The Signal fiasco is a political gift to Democrats but their power is limited

The ball now appears to be in the Republicans’ court, where there have been some signs of diverging from TrumpFor beleaguered and divided congressional Democrats desperate to find an effective line of attack against Donald Trump, news that the US president’s national security team discussed plans to bomb Yemen on a widely available messaging app in the presence of a journalist came at just the right time.The leak has put the White House and the Republicans on the defensive, generated multiple days of aggressive media coverage and forced top officials to publicly twist themselves in knots as they seek to explain – or downplay – the blunder. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Donald Trump faces 'massive loss of authority' after 'total lies' in leaked war messages scandal

The Atlantic magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was minding his own business when he received an invite into a Signal messaging chat where secret war plans were being discussed by the key players in Donald Trump's team

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3 w. ago Donald Trump's demands to 'charge Europe for missile strikes' exposed in leaked texts

A member of Donald Trump's team revealed the White House's plans to 'levy' its allies after Vice President JD Vance said the US strikes on Houthi rebels could 'bail out' Europe and raise oil prices

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3 w. ago Donald Trump's top team embarrassed as more bombshell war messages released

The latest messages appear to disprove Donald Trump's team's claims that no war plans were made during the private discussion, which was leaked to the public when a journalist was accidentally added to the group.

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3 w. ago Donald Trump's top team HUMILIATED as MORE bombshell war messages released

Further texts have been leaked from Donald Trump's top security team after a major national security blunder saw a journalist added to a group chat discussing US military strikes on Yemen

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3 w. ago Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it

The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted When Donald Trump won November’s election, a small team working on a key new US government tool charting impacts of the climate crisis scrambled into action. They hastily renamed the resource to remove the word “climate” and quietly released it without fanfare in December, before Trump’s return to the White House. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Donald Trump war plan text leaks expose major problem nobody is talking about

Donald Trump's team has been left red-faced after classified information was shared to the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine following a 'huge security failure'

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3 w. ago Donald Trump's leaked war chat shows his 'unreliable' team act like 'kids in playground'

Body language expert Judi James told The Mirror of the Trump administration texts: 'Group chat messaging like this reduces communication down to its most basic and unreliable level.'

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3 w. ago Russia and Ukraine agree to Black Sea ceasefire, US says – Europe live

White House says both sides agree to ‘ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force and prevent the use of commercial vessels for military purposes’A former head of Dutch cybersecurity has expressed his surprise at Donald Trump’s top team’s use of Signal for classified communications that revealed “visceral anti-European messaging”.Bart Groothuis, an MEP for the Dutch liberal VVD party, who used to run the cybersecurity bureau at the Dutch ministry of defence, said he was “a bit surprised” at the US government’s use of a commercial app for highly classified conversations. Continue reading...

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