Social Security has removed from its rolls 12.3 million individuals listed as 120 years old or older, according to the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed a lawsuit May 9 against President Donald Trump and various federal officials.
The suit, filed with 14 other state attorneys general, challenges the Trump administration’s declaration of an energy emergency. The 61-page lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, seeks to block a January executive order that declares a national emergency and directs federal agencies to expedite permits for energy projects, including the Line 5 Pipeline...
In fact, if one needed a primary source to study how scientific ambiguity can be massaged into policy certainty, this article would serve beautifully. The authors begin by acknowledging the obvious:
“there’s also a lot that we don’t know”...about how climate change affects hurricanes.
This initial concession gives the impression of intellectual humility.
Yet what follows is a masterclass in rhetorical misdirection—a piece that deserves to be taught in schools, not for its science, but for its persuasive structure. Rather than treating uncertainty as a reason for caution, Sobel and Emanuel treat it as a trigger for urgency.
They write, “In general, uncertainty increases risk”.
This sounds profound until you realize it’s a tautology masquerading as logic.
More uncertainty does not inherently increase actual risk—it increases the range of possible outcomes.
But in the world of policy-driven science, this range is always framed around the worst case...
Harvard University has many problems these days, but one of the biggest still appears to be academic dishonesty.
Francesca Gino — a professor of business administration who has long studied the psychology of organizations, dishonesty, and how people justify unethical behavior — was called out in 2021 for alleged data falsification, then later for apparent plagiarism. Her years-long fight to keep her job appears to have come to an end.
The Harvard Corporation, the university's governing board, decided earlier this month to both revoke the prominent professor's tenure and give her the boot.
Patrick Henry 1736 - Prominent figure in the American Revolution, known for his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
1765 - Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses.
1849 - A patent for lifting vessels was granted to Abraham Lincoln.
1912 - Fifteen women were dismissed from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia, PA, for dancing the Turkey Trot while on the job.
1990 - Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian republic by the Russian parliament.
2015 - The Obama administration removed Cuba from the U.S. terrorism blacklist. The two countries had severed diplomatic relations in January of 1961.
2018 - Starbucks closed thousands of stores for part of the day for a training session on unconscious bias.
"Why isn’t Harvard saying that almost 31% of their students are from FOREIGN LANDS, and yet those countries, some not at all friendly to the United States, pay NOTHING toward their student’s education, nor do they ever intend to," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Nobody told us that!"
Trump said Harvard should reveal who its foreign students are, calling it a "reasonable request" since the university has received "billions of dollars" from the federal government.
"We want those names and countries. Harvard has $52,000,000, use it, and stop asking for the Federal Government to continue GRANTING money to you!" Trump wrote...
The renaming of the Gulf of America isn't renaming the whole gulf.
It is renaming the area above our land shelves as our territory.
You can't exactly put signs or border walls in the middle of the ocean.
So for legal reasons, we need to identify these new changes on the map, so that new borders are made clear to maritime traffic.
Those new maps will set the latitude and longitudes of where our border begins, or the Gulf of America. So all maritime traffic knows when they are leaving international waters.
This is where knowing what is happening in the world, will help you filter out drama, and help you understand the legalities in your own country.
This had nothing to do with Trump's ego, he is strengthening our borders and making sure all maritime traffic understands the changes that happened in 2023....
The release explained the ACLU’s “latest attempt to wage lawfare against the Department was dropped. This lawsuit tried to prevent DHS from removing dangerous criminal illegal aliens from the country.”
“We are glad to see the ACLU’s meritless, frivolous, and frankly dangerous lawsuit fall apart,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.
The Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), a major electrical grid operator, directed the energy company Entergy to reduce power with only three minutes’ notice to prevent a blackout, affecting nearly 100,000 customers...
...President Donald Trump’s administration, energy policy experts and multiple North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) reports have signaled that MISO is at an elevated risk for blackouts due in part to phasing out coal-fired power plants...
“How does this happen?” New Orleans City Council member Joe Giarrusso told Nola.com. “There are lots of questions that need answering.”...
The case brings into focus a much deeper issue: how artificial intelligence, job platforms, and corporate partnerships have quietly reengineered America's hiring infrastructure. Through algorithmic filters and foreign-aligned job pipelines, U.S. workers are being screened out, systematically replaced by a workforce handpicked and trained to bypass them entirely. And it's happening beneath the radar, through the very technology Americans are told is designed to be "fair."
"FOX News Sunday" host Shannon Bream interviews journalist and author Alex Thompson and asks about a passage from his new book "Original Sin," where he was told the plan for a second term was to have aides run the show while President Biden occasionally made appearances for "proof of life."
“DOGE is an advisory group; we are doing the best we can as an advisory group.” “We do not make the laws, nor do we control the judiciary, nor do we control the Executive Branch,” Musk elaborated. “We are simply advisors. In that context, we are doing very well. We cannot take action beyond that because we are not some sort of imperial dictator of the government. There are three branches of government that are, to some degree, opposed to that level of cost savings.”
The Trump administration has claimed DOGE has saved taxpayers $160 billion so far.
Critics, including some on the right, said DOGE hasn’t achieved that level of savings.
So, who is right?
And how can the average person see the data and decide for themselves?
At Open the Books we take these questions seriously and have tried to bring some transparency to the question in the analysis below...
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed a lawsuit May 9 against President Donald Trump and various federal officials. 
When Trump started using tariffs the free trade fetish conservatives howled as loudly as the Democrats. 
