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President Donald Trump has attempted to unilaterally rename Lake Ontario into "Lake America" and the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America." He lacks the legal authority to do either of these things, just as he cannot rename a state on a whim — although he is now attempting to do just that. And even many of his own supporters are turning on him over it. "New Mexico should immediately change its name to New America," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Monday. "We are not Mexico, we are the United States of America! The name would add great value and prestige to the State! Home Values and Incomes would rise, and you would be even prouder while saluting our beautiful American Flag! Maybe even the Crooked Elections, that New Mexico is known for, would become honest again!" The right-wing website The Daily Caller used Trump's statement to point out the soaring costs of the war in Iran. "BTW, the national average price of diesel hi...

Trump officials are scrambling for lawyers as they prepare for an ‘avalanche’ of congressional investigations if the Democrats take control of each chamber in November, according to The Wall Street Journal . According to the report, cabinet secretaries and mid-level staffers are contacting law firms in fear of Democrats looking into pay-to-play pardons for the Kennedy Center renovations and the secret and suspicious financing behind Donald Trump Jr’s wedding. “The calls started sporadically in June and have picked up in frequency since then,” Judd Stone, co-founder of the Texas-based law firm Stone Hilton, told the Journal . With conflict-of-interest rules, the same firm won’t be able to represent multiple officials, which has led to senior administration figures scrambling to quickly secure the top attorneys before their colleagues do, per the lawyer. Although the DOJ can defend the administration figures, some of them feel more comfortable with lawyers who are obligated to protect...

Overnight, Judge Ana Reyes denied President Donald Trump's motion to remove her from overseeing the East Potomac golf course case. On Sunday, after Trump posted a Truth Social comment about the work he intends to do after removing all the historic cherry blossom trees, an emergency conversation took place. That sparked an immediate The government argued that Judge Reyes showed bias against Trump and was overly emotional after she shredded the administration for defying her court orders. Reyes had said that she trusted the government to do the right thing and follow her ruling over the golf course as the case worked its way through the system. That only lasted a few months before it was discovered that the Department of the Interior tore down over 500 trees on the small island in the middle of the Potomac River. Trump falsely claimed the trees were "diseased." Reyes' filing was brutal, taking on each accusation by the Trump administration one by one. "For mont...

The true nature of President Donald Trump's unusually close relationship with his young personal aide, Natalie Harp, has been the subject of much rampant speculation, and now, a doctor has shared a new theory about her role in Trump's life, related to his declining health . Adam James is a licensed physical therapist with years of experience working in the home healthcare sector, giving him extensive up-close knowledge of patients dealing with physical and cognitive decline. He is also a prolific online content creator, better known by the handle "Epistemic Crisis," who has used his professional insights to try to explain the issues that Trump is dealing with and suggest where his condition might be heading next. On Sunday, he was interviewed in a new video from former Democratic strategist turned progressive political commentator, Keith Edwards. He argued that Harp's role in Trump's inner circle, despite the media frenzy , remains underreported, and pressed...

Over the next three weeks, Colorado voters will get to vote on an amendment to their constitution giving one single industry the ability to largely prevent any regulation of itself or its pollution. Amendment 82 says that the state would establish a “right” for the natural gas industry to sell its products. It’ll be the only industry in any state to have a state constitutional right assigned to it. Things like pollution controls to protect air and water that might reduce consumption would violate that right. So would local communities trying to limit or ban gas wells or pipelines. Even during a dry fire time, an effort to ban gas-fueled camp stoves and outdoor grills or lights would be a violation. The amendment is being pushed by a dark money group called Advance Colorado; the original donors behind it are hidden, but it’s not hard to guess. And if it passes in Colorado, expect similar amendments and laws to pop up in every state in the union. This is, frankly, nuts. Instead of incr...

Trump’s Epstein Ballroom is increasingly looking like another giant bribe quid pro quo machine. The Washington Post got their hands on a secret internal spreadsheet Trump and his people were using to track “donors” and it’s a doozie. Even JP Morgan’s JP Dimon wouldn’t go near it because of the “risk,” but plenty of others did. FCC Chair Brendan Carr had opened an investigation into EchoStar until it’s Charles Ergan kicked in $25 million; the entire thing was dropped once the checks cleared. A Rocket subsidiary coughed up a $10 million check just three weeks after federal regulators allowed its acquisition of Mr. Cooper. Around the time Salesforce kicked in big-time, the Pentagon handed them a $5.6 billion contract. Isabela Herrera’s banker father was indicted on bribery charges that got knocked down to a misdemeanor shortly before her $2.5 million donation. (Remember, six corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court ruled that if bribes are paid after a favor or contract is done, it...