The commander of a US Space Force base in Greenland has been relieved of duty after sending an email to the base staff and workers attacking Vice President JD Vance.
The Space Force removed Col. Susannah Meyers from her position as base commander of the Pituffik Space Base “for loss of confidence in her ability to lead.”
Following Vance's visit to Greenland last month, Meyers issued an email sent out to base personnel, including non-military contractors working on base, in which she made partisan attacks on Vance and the Trump administration.
A statement from Space Force Command explained, "Commanders are expected to adhere to the highest standards of conduct, especially as it relates to remaining nonpartisan in the performance of their duties."
Meyers failed that mission spectacularly by sending this blatantly partisan email that made a political attack on the Trump administration. Considering President Donald Trump is the head of the military chain of command, Meyers's antics could very well end her career.
Meyers has been in command of the 821st Space Base Group since July 2024, but that was all thrown away by her email claiming that the Vice President's views "are not reflective of Pituffik Space Base."
Meyers's email was obtained by Military.com, and its authenticity was confirmed by the Space Force. In that email, Meyers stated, "[I] spent the weekend thinking about Friday’s visit — the actions taken, the words spoken, and how it must have affected each of you."
The email continued, saying, "I do not presume to understand current politics, but what I do know is the concerns of the US administration discussed by Vice President Vance on Friday are not reflective of Pituffik Space Base. I commit that, for as long as I am lucky enough to lead this base, all of our flags will fly proudly — together."
This attack on Vance was clearly in reference to talks in the Trump administration about acquiring Greenland from Denmark.
Meyers's email not only doesn't make sense, but it also clearly undermines the stated foreign policy of the federal government. For Meyers, as a base commander, to go against the chain of command is a foolish move that could torpedo her career.
Meyers's email could be seen as insubordinate as it demonstrates to the world that the U.S. military and the federal government are not in alignment, a situation that could be exploited by foreign entities.
The effectiveness of the U.S. military is at stake due to infiltration by leftist partisans who have embedded themselves in military leadership. The previous Biden administration aggressively pushed leftist politics in the armed forces, and now the Trump administration needs to clean house.
Thankfully, Meyers has essentially taken the trash out herself by exposing herself as a partisan actor. Her email made it clear that she is unfit for military leadership and that her allegiance is to a political cause, not the United States government.
Meyers is likely just one of the untold hundreds of military personnel who are pushing leftist politics and ideas in the military, which is supposed to be strictly non-partisan.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order repealing a 13,000-word restriction on the amount of water that can flow through a showerhead, The Western Journal reported.
“Overregulation chokes the American economy and stifles personal freedom. A small but meaningful example is the Obama-Biden war on showers,” Trump wrote in the executive order.
Trump joked with reporters about the restriction and its impact on his shower regimen.
“In my case, I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair,” he said as he signed the order, a video posted to X showed.
“I have to stand in the shower 15 minutes until it gets wet,” Trump said. “It comes out drip, drip, drip. It’s ridiculous."
NOW: President Trump signs executive order to de-regulate water pressure
"I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair." 🤣 pic.twitter.com/tIObqakZgS
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) April 9, 2025
Trump also said he believed that people just used more water over a longer period of time from a restricted showerhead.
“And what you do is you end up washing your hands five times longer, so, same water,” he continued. “We’re going to open it up, so that people can live.”
“Any time you see a new faucet you know it’s going to be a long wash of the hands. … It’s a big deal.”
A fact sheet about the order said it would “end the Obama-Biden war on water pressure and make America’s showers great again."
“The Order frees Americans from excessive regulations that turned a basic household item into a bureaucratic nightmare. No longer will showerheads be weak and worthless,” it continued.
Trump originally rescinded the regulation during his first term, but former President Joe Biden re-imposed it when he got into office.
"Americans pay for their own water and should be free to choose their showerheads without federal meddling,” the fact sheet further said.
Trump further noted that his predecessor “aggressively targeted everyday appliances like gas stoves, water heaters, washing machines, furnaces, dishwashers, and more, waging war on the reliable tools Americans depend on daily.”
The Trump administration has pushed a California judge to recuse herself from a suit concerning immigration and someone she was formerly affiliated with.
Aracelia Martinez-Olguin previously served as the managing attorney for the plaintiff, Community Legal Services, according to a report by The Washington Free Beacon.
Olguin, who is now a federal judge in San Francisco, ruled that the Trump administration should restore funding to the tune of $769 million for a federal program that provided legal services for illegal immigrants.
The Biden administration appointee was previously the lead attorney for the case plaintiffs.
The administration asserts that her past work for the plaintiff in the case is a "concerning conflicts of interest that has created a serious appearance of impropriety."
In addition to her actual affiliation with the group with which she ruled, Olguin also has a history of harsh opinions for President Donald Trump over his immigration policies.
The judge previously worked as an attorney for the nonprofit law firm in question, and as part of her day-to-day responsibilities, she represented many of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
the Department of Justice cited those facts when calling on Olguin to recuse herself from the case that it would appear she has a strong vested interest in, and dissolve her ruling demanding that the Trump admin fund her former employers.
"A reasonable person would likely question Judge Martínez-Olguín’s impartiality, and accordingly, recusal is required," wrote Department of Justice attorneys.
Olguin co-founded the Immigrants' Rights Project at CLSEPA in 2017 and worked there until 2018. During that time, she "identified issues for local or state policy advocacy and impact litigation."
While at CLSEPA, Martinez-Olguin advocated for a taxpayer-funded program to offer legal assistance to undocumented immigrants with San Mateo County officials.
CLSEPA is one of 11 subcontractors who brought suit against the Trump administration, asking that funding be restored for the legal services that CLSEPA and others offer to minors found at the broader without guardians.
Before she was confirmed in 2023, Olguin also worked for the National Immigration Law Center, representing plaintiffs in similar cases.
In it's court filings, CLSEPA said federal money "is one of our primary sources of funding for our immigration work," and makes up 15 % of the organization’s immigration cases budget.
Should the government funding be upheld, "CLSEPA will need to find another source of funding to continue representing our clients," CLSEPA attorney Martha Ruch said in last month's court filing.
For the second time in two days, a higher court has put on hold a decision that would have employed thousands of government workers who were fired en mass at the recommendation of the Department of Government Efficiency.
The legal effect of this ruling is that thousands of probationary workers are once again at risk of being out of a job due to government downsizing, as Fox News reported.
A three-judge panel of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals briefly overturned a Maryland judge's order that agencies in 19 states and the District of Columbia had to hire back their workers. The vote was 2-1 in favor of the Trump administration.
The majority thought it was likely that the government would be able to show that the Maryland district court did not have the power to hear the states' claims that federal agencies had engaged in an illegal Reduction in Force (RIF).
The decision comes just the day after the Supreme Court issued a different stay that had a similar effect on a California court's decision that forced some agencies to bring back probationary workers who had been fired.
On Tuesday, the high court put the preliminary stay on hold while claims of illegal firing go through the appeals process. The order was not signed, but it was made public, impacting the government's response.
In the Maryland case, however, Judge DeAndrea Gist Benjamin said she would have let the preliminary order stay in place, which was keeping the affected probationary workers from being fired.
“The states clearly have standing to challenge the process by which the government has engaged in mass firings,” she wrote in a dissent. “I see no reason to stay the district court’s preliminary injunction pending its appeal.”
Although court orders barring agencies from large-scale probationary worker terminations are on pause, this week's verdicts are not the end of the Maryland or California cases.
In the Maryland case, which alleges the government engaged in RIFs without the required notice to the states, the Fourth Circuit is rushing to hear full arguments on whether the preliminary injunction was legal.
In California, the court is considering issuing a new preliminary injunction to fight the Supreme Court's order from Tuesday.
The justices found that outside organizations harmed by the mass firings lacked standing to sue, but left open the possibility that other plaintiffs, including federal unions, could win an injunction.
On Wednesday, Judge William Alsup of the San Francisco Superior Court heard arguments concerning the standing of the unions to sue and obtain a second injunction.
He delayed a ruling until attorneys in the case provided more information, including data on how many employees were affected by the mass terminations, what their relationships are with the union plaintiffs, and possible evidence that the agencies' firing decisions were made at the Office of Personnel Management's request.
An official from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said during an episode of the All In podcast that millions of migrants who entered the country illegally have found their way onto Medicaid rolls and many have been able to get Social Security cards.
Antonio Gracias explained on the podcast that migrants freed into the U.S. under Biden have been able to get work permits and Social Security cards, which in many cases allows them to get Medicaid and to vote.
A DOGE chart shows that during Biden's time in office, more than four million non-citizen Social Security cards were issued--more than two million of them were in fiscal year 2024.
“[Border Patrol] was giving people at times Notices to Appear [NTAs], and what that allows you to do is come in the country and then you’re scheduled a court date like six years out,” Gracias explained.
"So now you’re in the country with some quasi-legal status, you’re waiting for your court date, while you’re waiting for your court date — six years is the average by the way, it could be longer than that — you can fill out an asylum application, so without an interview, just an application … once that application is in, you can file another form, a 765 [form] to get work authorization, once you get that, you get a 766 which is the authorization and we automatically send you a Social Security card in the mail," he went on. "No interview, that is the majority of the growth you see in these numbers."
About a quarter of the migrants released into the U.S. were not even fingerprinted at the border, and there is no income verification when they apply for asylum and are sent a Social Security card.
This opens the door to massive entitlement fraud, voter fraud, and other types of fraud on a massive scale. Let's hope DOGE can do something about it before the entire system is useless.
“We mapped this through the benefit programs, we found every benefits program that is being accessed by these people, 1.3 million are on Medicaid right now, today. And by the way, it’s just ramping up, it’s just starting,” Gracias said.
"We looked at voter rolls and we found that thousands are registered to vote in friendly states. And we looked even further in those friendly states and found that many of those people had actually voted," he continued.
"It was shocking to us. If I hadn’t seen this with my own eyes, I wouldn’t believe it … it is shockingly bad," he said.
Gracias said the issue went beyond politics.
"This is not a political issue, this is about America," he said.
When a country effectively loses its borders, can it even be called a country anymore?
Three more people have died in California from hantavirus, the same rare but serious mouse-borne disease that killed Betsy Arakawa, Gene Hackman's wife, in New Mexico in February.
The deaths all occurred in the rural California town of Mammoth Lakes, and public health officials are worried about further illnesses and deaths from the disease.
Mono County Public Health called the deaths both "tragic" and "alarming."
“The occurrence of three cases in a short period has me worried,” Mono County Public Health Officer Dr. Tom Boo said.
When hantavirus is present, it occurs in the urine, droppings and saliva of infected mice, according to the CDC. In America, it infects deer mice.
The disease cannot be passed from person to person, it usually manifests after humans have contact with infected mouse secretions or they inhale vaporized secretions that have gotten into the air.
This often occurs when people clean up mouse-infested areas with a vacuum or a broom. Two of the California deaths happened just this way, officials have determined.
One victim vacuumed rodent droppings, while another had a known mouse infestation in their home.
Hantavirus can manifest in two ways: hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), which affects the lungs and breathing, and hantavirus fever with renal syndrome (HFRS), which causes kidney failure in some cases.
About 38% of those who contract HPS die from the disease (good thing it's so rare); while 1-15% of those with HFRS die from it.
Police and health officials are puzzled by the third person who died of hantavirus; there was no known infestation or contact with rodents in this case.
Before you start freaking out, hantavirus is rare. There are only 20 to 50 cases of it in the U.S. in a given year, but having this many deaths from it so early in the year is unusual.
There is no known connection between Arakawa's death in New Mexico and the ones in California.
Still, having so many cases so early in the year is unusual; most hantavirus cases occur in later spring and summer, officials said.
President Donald Trump's recent imposition of massive tariffs on dozens of foreign countries has been a huge win for many American industries, most notably the seafood harvesting industry.
Despite the impact that Trump's tariffs have had on the U.S. stock market, many industries are happy with the situation and are praising Trump for fighting for American workers after decades of "free trade" eroding American industries and destroying blue-collar jobs.
Leann Borsarge, the COO of Bosarge Boats, went on Fox News to praise Trump's tariffs saying, "The U.S. domestic shrimp industry has been on a downward trajectory for decades now as a direct result of the unfair trade in the overseas aquaculture industry for growing shrimp overseas and these tariffs threw us a lifeline that we needed to hopefully live to fight another day in our industry in this country."
For decades, American industries have been devastated, thanks to having to compete with cheaper foreign labor or, in some cases, outright slave labor.
Trump is the first President in modern American history to recognize that we are getting ripped off and has dropped the hammer hard. These new tariffs are leveling the playing field and allowing American companies to compete while paying living wages to American workers.
In a massive move on Wednesday, Trump put a baseline levy of 10 percent on imports from foreign countries and “individualized reciprocal higher” tariffs on certain countries that Trump wants to target as countries that have taken advantage of the U.S.
Over the past few decades, U.S. seafood harvesters have been eaten alive by foreign competitors employing cheaper labor and having to meet much less stringent environmental and conservation standards.
The shrimp industry in particular has been mauled with nearly 95% of shrimp consumed in the United States imported from foreign countries like India, Ecuador, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Argentina.
In just two years, under the leadership of President Joe Biden, the shrimp industry's value plummeted from $522 million in 2021 to $269 million in 2023.
The Southern Shrimp Alliance praised the Trump administration's actions in addressing this sharp decline, stating that subsidies and forced labor in foreign countries made it impossible for them to compete, leading to the industry's downfall.
A statement from the organization explained that the tariffs "are expected to slow imports and prevent Americans from becoming completely dependent on foreign shrimp producers while the administration addresses harmful trade policies and enforcement deficiencies."
Trump's tariffs follow up on his promises to protect the American worker and uphold American interests over the interests of our "allies" that have been taking advantage of an unequal trade partnership for decades.
Of course, these tariffs are terrible news for the ultrawealthy and massive corporations that exploit cheap foreign labor and lax environmental standards to create cheaper goods that are sold for higher profits to Americans.
Unequal trade relationships have devastated entire regions of the nation and destroyed our manufacturing industries. Trump wanted to fix that in his first term and is still committed to tackling the problem in his 2nd term.
Former President Barack Obama shocked Americans by admitting that his marriage with former First Lady Michelle Obama is in a tough spot amid rumors that the pair is getting divorced.
During a conversation with Hamilton College President Steven Tepper, Obama admitted that his marriage had seen better days. Obama confessed that he was in a "deep deficit" with his wife, in a nod to the toll that his extensive political career took on his personal life.
According to The Daily Beast, Obama told Tepper, "I was in a deep deficit with my wife. So I have been trying to dig myself out of that hole by doing occasionally fun things.”
Obama was President of the United States from 2008 to 2016, and even since leaving the White House, Obama has been leading the Democrat Party from behind the scenes.
Despite being less publically facing and with lighter duties since his days as president, Barack Obama's marriage has been the subject of intense speculation.
Rumors of the Obamas splitting began at the memorial of former President Jimmy Carter in December.
Barack Obama attended the memorial alongside many of the nation's most prominent figures, including President Donald Trump and former Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton.
While Trump, Bush, and Clinton all attended the memorial with their wives, Obama was noticeably on his own. Michelle Obama isn't a reclusive figure, so her absence from the event was immediately noticed by observers.
The rumors only strengthened when Michelle Obama also declined to attend President Trump's inauguration just over a month after Carter's memorial.
While Barack Obama attended Trump's inauguration, his wife was once again absent. This was the final nail in the coffin, launching the divorce rumors from a far-fetched conspiracy to the biggest story in Hollywood and American politics.
Of course, the Obamas' relationship has been heavily scrutinized over the years. Back in 2023, Barack Obama gave an interview saying, "Let me just say this: It sure helps to be out of the White House and to have a little more time with her," while speaking about the struggles of balancing presidential duties and family duties.
Michelle Obama has kept her cards close to her chest by choosing to address the rumors in a minimalist and dismissive manner in order to downplay the rumors without inflaming them.
In her podcast that she hosts with her brother, Michelle Obama talked at length about “negative energy” and misinformation impacting public figures. This could easily be interpreted as Michelle Obama taking a shot at those spreading rumors about her marriage with Barack Obama.
It's entirely possible that rumors of divorce are completely inaccurate, but it's also likely that something is going on behind the scenes. Michelle Obama's absence from two significant public events wasn't without reason.
With Obama's confession that things have gotten rough in the marriage, it is possible that there is a quiet divorce going on behind the scenes. However, Americans will simply have to wait and see what happens in the coming months.
The undersecretary for management at the State Department, Tibor Nagy, stepped down on Friday after less than three months on the job, but it shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone who had the inside scoop on the situation.
Nagy served in the first Trump administration and came out of retirement to take his current position.
Officials said he was returning to retirement and that doing so had always been the plan.
"Ambassador Nagy was honored to come out of retirement to help stand-up the second Trump administration, and it was always his plan to perform the duties of the Under Secretary for Management until more State Department leaders were confirmed," a State Department spokesperson said in an email.
Nagy helped oversee DOGE's actions in cutting USAID and making other changes at the State Department.
"We have long needed to examine the fundamentals of how we conduct foreign policy," Nagy wrote in the email. He also said more changes were needed to transform the department into one more "suited for the 21st century."
"While these changes can be unsettling, please continue to be receptive and supportive of these efforts," he wrote to the workforce.
Assistant Secretary of Administration José Cunningham will succeed Nagy, the email said.
The department has been embattled because of the changes to how foreign policy is conducted with the elimination of USAID.
Critics of the changes warn that eliminating so much foreign aid so quickly could make the U.S. more isolated, but some reports said that many of the aid programs were based on DEI and other principles antithetical to the values of the countries receiving aid.
Around 83% of the aid previously administered through USAID was cut, and the rest was absorbed into the State Department, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been trying to cut $1 trillion from the U.S. annual budget in order to eliminate deficit spending and get a handle on the nation's $36 trillion in debt.
The White House reported this week that Elon Musk, who has been spearheading DOGE, can only serve in that capacity for 130 days because he is not an official government employee.
As an advisor, Musk has been hard at work looking for fraud and waste wherever it can be found so that taxpayers are not being taken to the cleaners for nothing.
More discoveries from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have uncovered more obscene fees being paid by taxpayer dollars.
According to a recent report by Fox News, the Department of Veterans Affairs has been in the habit of paying hundreds of thousands a month for minor website changes and maintenance.
This was before the new administration canceled the contract due to an internal staff takeover facilitated by DOGE.
The agency discovered the $380,000 per month bill while parsing through loads of data DOGE received from the VA, showing the charge for site maintenance.
"Good work by @DeptVetAffairs," DOGE said in a post on X on Wednesday.
"VA was previously paying ~$380,000/month for minor website modifications. That contract has not been renewed, and the same work is now being executed by 1 internal VA software engineer spending ~10 hours/week."
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins defended the cuts being recommended by DOGE at the VA as part of the Trump administration's money saving efforts.
According to Collins, the changes will allow his department to serve veterans better, something that should be an undisputed goal for the agency.
Good work by @DeptVetAffairs
VA was previously paying ~$380,000/month for minor website modifications. That contract has not been renewed and the same work is now being executed by 1 internal VA software engineer spending ~10 hours/week.
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) April 2, 2025
DOGE has moved through federal departments at an astonishing pace, making recommendations to the president to cut funding to entities and projects that many Americans didn't know existed.
As of April 2, figures distributed by DOGE assert that the agency has saved Americans $140 billion in frivolous spending, which equates to $869.57 per taxpayer.
Musk has been the face of DOGE since President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish the agency on Jan. 20, the day he took office.
The organization was given 18 months to complete the task of optimizing the federal government, streamlining operations, and cutting spending.
Critics of DOGE critics claim that the organization is dangerous because it has too much access to federal systems.
Musk's detractors say that DOGE shouldn't be permitted to be involved in the cancellation of federal contracts or make cuts within federal agencies.
As it stands, DOGE does not make cuts; rather, it makes recommendations to the president for changes to current budgets and systems.