Donald Trump’s Crackdown On Political Dissent Is Here
AdvertisementIt augurs the worst crackdown on political dissent in generations. AdvertisementSo what kind of speech is now subject to a person or entity potentially being deemed a domestic terrorism threat? The memo explicitly states that groups espousing “extremism on migration, race, and gender” are under suspicion as supporters of domestic terrorism. Vance alluded to stripping nonprofit groups like Open Society and the Ford Foundation of their tax-exempt status. Even the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, which has generally been sympathetic to Trump, has strongly sided with protections for the kind of core political speech targeted by Trump’s memo.
Source:Huffington Post
September 27, 2025 17:51 UTC
A Woman Tried To Publicly Slut-Shame Me. She Wasn't Prepared For My Response.
I’ve survived the negative attention thanks to a strong support network from my husband, family, friends and fellow sex workers. Courtesy of MelRose MichaelsThis type of shaming is a common experience for sex workers. She didn’t read the note aloud, but over the next several weeks she continuously threatened that she would. Then I had another idea: a line of clothing to help sex workers take back public spaces. Her latest projects include SexWorkCEO.com, a platform to help sex workers think like entrepreneurs, and the sex-worker-focused fashion line Networthy.
Source:Huffington Post
September 27, 2025 17:31 UTC
Masked Gunmen Dragged My Father Out Of Bed And Killed Him. Here's What I Didn't Expect To Feel.
My mom didn’t say much. I had those moments too — brief flashes of warmth, of a father who made me laugh or feel seen. “After years working in Saudi Arabia, my dad came home and made me represent the country for U.N. Day at school,” the author writes. So when we saw the news about Duterte, it didn’t stir anything in us — not outrage, not closure, not even relief. My brothers and I didn’t just share a father; we chose each other.
Source:Huffington Post
September 27, 2025 12:43 UTC
Trump Says He Doesn't Like This 1 Kind Of Person... He Might Be Telling On Himself
And he does an amazing job in his country.”AdvertisementExperts have thoughts about Trump’s ‘opinionated people’ quip. Anadolu via Getty Images President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan photographed in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington D.C., United States on September 25, 2025. Instead, he thinks Trump is focused on “winning the moment,” and that there’s no “continuity of mind” for him — or at least very little. Support HuffPost Already contributed? McAdams pointed out that Trump sandwiched his remarks about opinionated people in between saying, twice, that Erdogan is “tough.”Advertisement
Source:Huffington Post
September 27, 2025 12:36 UTC
Leonardo DiCaprio Shares Name Change Request By Agent
Leonardo DiCaprio via Associated PressLeonardo DiCaprio would’ve been an Oscar-winning actor with a totally different name, if one agent had his way. It’s Leonardo DiCaprio’. Now you’re Lenny’,” he recalled the agent saying. Leo appeared on the podcast alongside his One Battle After Another co-star, Benicio Del Toro, who said the same thing happened to him. ‘You’re Benny Del’,” Del Toro said.
Source:Huffington Post
September 27, 2025 07:17 UTC
Trump Says Government Will ‘Have To Shut Down’ If Democrats Don’t Drop Demands
“They want to have transgender for everybody,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Friday, referring to Democratic support for transgender rights. It’s possible some Democrats will support the measure when it comes up for another vote next week. But Democrats would likely need something more substantive than a suggestion of a possible future negotiation over the ACA tax credits. Klobuchar also said Democrats are willing to negotiate on their demands — but that Republicans need to first agree to sit down with them. “We want to negotiate with them to make this health care crisis less bad.
Source:Huffington Post
September 26, 2025 22:42 UTC
Trump's Control Over The DOJ May Break It Completely
But his indictment represents just a fraction of the weaponization that has been unfolding at the Justice Department, increasingly under Trump’s direct bidding, for months. The attorney handled sensitive political cases during the first Trump administration and President Joe Biden’s administration, and resigned just before Trump was inaugurated again. A special Republican-led committee investigating Trump’s version of Jan. 6 was formed just weeks ago. The DOJ abruptly closed a Biden-era probe of Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, for allegedly accepting $50,000 from FBI agents posing as business executives. “I don’t know how we rebuild this level of devastation at the Justice Department.
Source:Huffington Post
September 26, 2025 22:16 UTC
Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Arrested By Immigration Agents
Immigration agents have arrested the superintendent of Des Moines public schools. This photo provided by WOI Local 5 News in September 2025 shows Des Moines schools Superintendent Ian Roberts. State Patrol assisted in locating the subject and he was taken into ICE custody.”Des Moines, Iowa, school's administrative offices are shown Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Scott McFetridge) via Associated Press“This suspect was arrested in possession of a loaded weapon in a vehicle provided by Des Moines Public Schools after fleeing federal law enforcement,” ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations St. Paul Field Office Director Sam Olson is quoted as saying. ICE also alleged Roberts had $3,000 in cash and a fixed-blade hunting knife when he was arrested.
Source:Huffington Post
September 26, 2025 22:10 UTC
Law Experts Call Trump's Latest Threat Against ABC 'Troubling'
LOADING ERROR LOADINGOn Tuesday, an hour before Kimmel’s show aired live on most ABC stations, Trump slammed the network on Truth Social, saying, “I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled!”AdvertisementHe later claimed in his post that the host is “another arm of the DNC,” before he lobbed a legal threat at ABC. Let’s see how we do,” he wrote, before he referenced ABC’s agreement in 2024 to settle a defamation case brought by Trump. Heidi Kitrosser, professor of law at Northwestern University, told HuffPost of her concerns about Trump’s recent threat to take legal action against ABC. “ABC falls in the media exception and cannot remotely be construed as an arm of [the] DNC,” he said.
Source:Huffington Post
September 26, 2025 15:11 UTC
My Mom Tortured Me — And Made My Brothers Her Enforcers. Years Later, I Finally Discovered Why.
I’d tried to call my mom from a public phone booth, but the rotary dial was broken. Read: My Mom Used My Hair To Inflict Pain. They heard my mother call me in her high-pitched voice, order me around, and constantly interrupt my time with them. Also Read: My Mom Dreamed Of Getting On 'The Price Is Right.' My mother is not the woman she once was, and I’m no longer the girl she tried to destroy.
Source:Huffington Post
September 26, 2025 12:35 UTC
Democrats Running For Senate To Schumer: Don’t Give In On Government Funding
LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s administration is threatening mass firings of federal employees, putting maximum pressure on Senate Democrats in the hopes that they’ll drop the health care concessions they’re demanding in order to avoid a government shutdown. But many Democratic candidates running to join the Senate are urging their party’s leadership not to back down, further squeezing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who faced widespread intraparty criticism after allowing a Republican-drafted spending bill to pass in March. AdvertisementHuffPost contacted a dozen campaigns of major Senate Democratic candidates running in next year’s midterm elections. Her progressive rivals in the contested primary, Michigan State Sen. Mallory McMorrow and former public health official Abdul El-Sayed, both agreed. Care more about democracy than decorum over in the Senate,” Craig told The Bulwark this week, referring to the decision by 10 Senate Democrats to allow a GOP funding bill to pass in March.
Source:Huffington Post
September 25, 2025 21:17 UTC
Protect Free Speech And Become A HuffPost Member
If you’re wondering where we are in Donald Trump’s authoritarian playbook, we have reached government censorship of speech. Jimmy Kimmel is back on the air after his talk show was suspended in one of the gravest attacks on free speech rights in generations. Join us to defend free speech, protect truth, and hold those in power accountable. At HuffPost, we know free speech is not an abstract concept — it is your right to know what’s happening in this country, and hear from an array of voices that wish nothing more than to keep you informed. And we hope you’ll become a direct defender of free speech by joining our membership program today.
Source:Huffington Post
September 25, 2025 17:32 UTC
Jimmy Fallon Gleefully Rides Donald Trump Over Escalator Snafu
For two decades, HuffPost has been fearless, unflinching, and relentless in pursuit of the truth. Support our mission to keep us around for the next 20 — we can't do this without you. We remain committed to providing you with the unflinching, fact-based journalism everyone deserves. Thank you again for your support along the way. Your initial support helped get us here and bolstered our newsroom, which kept us strong during uncertain times.
Source:Huffington Post
September 25, 2025 17:15 UTC
Trump Goes On Rampage Against U.N., Citing ‘Three Very Sinister Events’
LOADING ERROR LOADINGPresident Donald Trump did not let up on his attacks on the United Nations on Wednesday, citing “three very sinister events” that took place during a speech he gave at the body’s General Assembly the prior morning. The trio of concerns he raised included an escalator stopping while he was on it, his teleprompter malfunctioning while he spoke and the sound system allegedly glitching throughout his remarks. And while Trump claimed that attendees could not hear his speech unless they were wearing interpreters’ earpieces, a U.N. official noted that this may have been due to the system’s design. “The sound system was designed to allow people at their seats to hear speeches being translated into six different languages through earpieces,” the official told the BBC. Trump’s digs this week follow years of broadsides he’s levied against the U.N. and have only been used to justify his dissatisfaction with the body.
Source:Huffington Post
September 25, 2025 14:27 UTC