SURPRISE!!!! The NYT did an analysis of the press room and exposes how Karoline Leavitt relies on planted stooges in the room to throw propaganda soft balls she uses to lie to the public. This is how authoritarian states are run.

🚨 NPR reports that it has learned that the White House has begun the search for a new Secretary of Defense.

This Saturday is Indie Bookstore Day. Plan accordingly.

EXCLUSIVE: WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer, two people familiar with the line told The Associated Press. Known

BREAKING: National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is out, along with his deputy Alex Wong. Additional names likely to come. Expect to hear from POTUS on this soon, I’m told.

Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy—it’s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies

NEWS: ICE WILL ALSO TARGET MUNDO VERDE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL (@mundoverdepcs) THIS WEEK, PER SOURCES CLOSE TO THE WASHINGTON, D.C. RAIDS.

NEW: Report of 4 ICE agents outside Columbia Heights Educational Campus around 6 AM wearing vests that say police, via dcmigrantmutualaid.org

Heard from reliable sources that ICE has raided multiple DC restaurants today. Whatever your stance on the issue, it's incontrovertible that the current U.S. food chain relies on immigrants - from the farm to your plate and everything in between.

🚨UPDATE: Migrant Insider has learned that some DC area restaurants are now locking their doors and putting a sign in the window telling to knock or call to be let in. PLUS, DoorDash/UberEats drivers are being encouraged to stay off the streets today / tomorrow to avoid ICE.

Just confirmed ICE visited Ghostburger in Shaw too seeking I-9 verifications. "It feels like they're trying to make an example out of nothing," says owner Josh Phillips. "If they're supposedly looking for criminals, then why are they harassing restaurants?"

NEW: Restaurants across Washington D.C. have been visited today by agents identifying them as Homeland Security, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to multiple sources who spoke to NBC News.

Lauriol Plaza too. At least a dozen more places I haven’t independently confirmed, all parts of the city.

Scoop: The US may deport migrants to Libya for the first time this week, officials said, despite Washington's past condemnation of its harsh treatment of detainees. The US military could fly out the migrants as soon as Wednesday via Phil Stewart Idrees Ali Hümeyra Pamuk

NEW tonight — Two U.S. officials tell CBS News the Trump administration may soon start deporting migrants to Libya, expanding its mass deportation campaign to the troubled North African country. The deportations could start as early as this week, the officials said.

Pirro is the 23rd former Fox employee Trump has named to his administration. She's wildly unqualified to be DC's top prosecutor and was been described by her former executive producer as a "reckless lunatic." Gonna thread some of her lowlights.

Since the beginning of this year, The Atlantic has hired twelve journalists away from The Washington Post. The New York Times has poached at least ten Posties. CNN has picked up half a dozen. The exodus is deeply distressing to Post staffers.🧵

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden's physical deterioration was so severe that advisers privately discussed the possibility he'd need to use a wheelchair if he won re-election, Jake Tapper 🦅 and Alex Thompson write in their new book. axios.com/2025/05/13/bid…

Exclusive: Biden's physical deterioration — most apparent in his halting walk — had become so severe that there were internal discussions about putting him in a wheelchair, but they couldn't do so until after the election From my book w/ Jake Tapper 🦅 axios.com/2025/05/13/bid…

BREAKING: Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his office said. apnews.com/article/biden-…