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Story by Harry Thompson

Donald Trump’s new name for Lake Ontario is not at all popular with Americans, a new poll reveals.

The 80-year-old president threw a tantrum after trade negotiations with Canada broke down and decided the best way to teach his northern neighbors a lesson was to unilaterally rename “Lake Ontario” “Lake America.”

Canadians have been unimpressed and defiant, thumbing their noses at his executive order, which holds no legal basis in their country. But even south of the border, Trump’s play has not gained much traction.

Only 14 percent of respondents in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll said that renaming the lake was a good idea, while 63 percent said they did not support it.

The same poll gathered opinions on the tariffs Trump has introduced on America’s closest ally, which he said would be imposed after the collapse of trade negotiations between Ottawa and Washington, D.C., last month.
David Edwards

Voters erupted at a Texas commissioners' meeting as Republican officials cut nearly a third of the polling places in a battleground county that Democrats have started to win.

On Tuesday, the Tarrant County Commissioners Court voted 3-2 along party lines to approve 224 Election Day polling sites for November, down from 316 in the 2022 midterms, reported the Texas Tribune.

More than 100 speakers testified during a meeting that ran more than eight hours, and most of them opposed the cuts, the Tribune reported.

One Tarrant County resident spent his allotted minute at the microphone demanding that County Judge Tim O'Hare, a Republican, look up from the dais and meet his eyes.

"What could possibly be so important? Mr. O'Hare, can you listen to me, please? Hello?" the resident said.

"Yeah," O'Hare answered.
Story by Lesley Abravanel

An explosive amicus brief filed on Tuesday, September 1, in a Massachusetts federal court accuses President Donald Trump of using "dictator tactics" to restrict mail-in voting ahead of the midterms.

The brief was submitted by the legal advocacy group Lawyers for the Rule of Law.

It supports a lawsuit brought by the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts against the Trump administration.

The legal team states that the administration's aggressive mail-in ballot crackdown is a "bald-faced grab for power." They compare it to historical authoritarian efforts to suppress voters.

Details of the Filing
The filing argues the administration is weaponizing federal infrastructure through measures like restricting USPS processing to pre-approved voter lists (with a whistleblower report warning of computer system errors affecting a large portion of the electorate), forcing officials to submit voter lists to the federal government, and restricting eligibility via Department of Homeland Security database checks.

These directives face significant legal resistance.

Judge Denise Casper previously blocked parts of the order over ballot-access concerns, and a separate injunction against the USPS system is under appeal, potentially heading to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Story by Charlie Jones

A bleak poll for Donald Trump suggest hiss MAGA base may be turning against him as concerns over foreign policy and cost of living persist.

A new poll has found that around 15 per cent of people who voted for Trump in 2024 would not vote for him again or even just not vote at all. The University of Massachusetts-Amherst survey is evidence there are “clear, consistent signs” that Trump's base is eroding, the poll’s co-director said.

“There are no takebacks in electoral politics,” said Alexander Theodoridis, co-director of the UMass-Amherst poll. “But around 15 percent of Trump voters now tell us they might or would vote differently or not vote at all if they had it to do over again.”
Story by Tierney Sneed, CNN

The US Postal Service effort to develop a sweeping new system for verifying mail ballots has invited a host of IT concerns among agency officials, with some describing the process internally as a “sh*t show,” according to a new whistleblower report released Tuesday by a Democratic senator.

The unnamed whistleblower is alleging that some of the procedures USPS is planning – under mandates put forward by President Donald Trump – have been hidden from the public. Those procedures will make an already complicated and risky plan even more vulnerable to potential mass disenfranchisement, the whistleblower says.

The new report – which was assembled by the whistleblowers’ lawyers and released by Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal – comes as multiple courts are considering the legality of the proposal, which would require that states submit to USPS lists of their mail-in voters. The agency will not deliver ballots for states if there are any discrepancies between the voter information in the USPS system and what’s picked up by agency scanners on the envelopes of the ballots.

“USPS leadership, it appears, has discarded all best practices as they speed the project to be ready for a September 1 implementation - raising questions about whether catastrophic failure would be a feature rather than a bug,” said the report.
Story by Harry Fletcher

Milo Yiannopoulos has said he feels 'ashamed' of supporting Donald Trump after being deported by ICE to the UK.

The far-right troll said he was “swarmed” by Homeland Security agents and repeatedly mistreated ahead of his deportation to the UK last week.

Speaking on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Tuesday (1 September), Yiannopoulos said: “The first I heard of it was when 15 agents swarmed me at the Louisiana airport, and it didn’t get any less theatrical from there on.”

“This was not a normal, lawful process,” Yiannopoulos said, complaining of experiencing “brutality” and “physically degrading” treatment so severe that agents allegedly “walked off the job.”

“On August 28, ICE deported Milo Yiannopoulos, an illegal alien from the United Kingdom, back to his home country,” the department previously told The Independent.
Story by Billal Rahman

A 51-year-old Chinese national died in immigration detention in the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands less than a day after being taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, authorities said.

Lianyong Wei was found unresponsive during routine morning checks on August 23 at the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Corrections facility in Saipan, where he was being held on behalf of ICE. He was transported to a local hospital, where medical personnel attempted lifesaving measures before he was pronounced dead at about 7:30 a.m. Chamorro Standard Time, ICE said.

Wei had been arrested by local authorities on August 21 on allegations including assault with a dangerous weapon, aggravated assault and battery, disturbing the peace, and assault and battery. ICE said he was transferred into the agency’s custody on August 22 while awaiting immigration proceedings.

His official cause of death remains under investigation.
Story by Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN

It is not news, or surprising, that Americans are worried about government corruption.

They twice elected Donald Trump, who twice promised to drain the “swamp” of Washington, DC.

“We are transferring power from Washington, DC, and giving it back to you, the American People,” he said in his first inaugural address.

In his second inaugural address, Trump promised to liberate the country from “a radical and corrupt establishment” that “extracted power and wealth from our citizens.”

On that promise, there’s striking new evidence that Americans believe he has failed to deliver.

It should be of some concern to the White House — and to every American, really — that 89% of Americans said “yes” in a Gallup poll when asked, “Is corruption widespread throughout the government in this country, or not?”

Gallup isn’t alone on this. The University of Massachusetts at Amherst is also out with a poll Tuesday in which 97% of Americans — nearly everybody — says there is some corruption in government. A smaller portion, 75%, said there is “a great deal” of corruption in the UMass poll.
Story by JOEY CAPPELLETTI

WASHINGTON (AP) — Billionaire investor Leon Black refused to appear for a sworn deposition before Congress on Thursday and instead sued the House Oversight Committee, asking a federal court to block subpoenas issued as part of its investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The House Oversight Committee served Black with two subpoenas during a closed-door voluntary interview in June after lawmakers said he refused to answer questions about nondisclosure agreements. One subpoena demanded Black produce NDAs and other documents, while the other compelled him to return for a deposition before the committee.
According to a new Gallup survey, Americans think corruption is widespread in the U.S. government. MS NOW Congressional Reporter Mychael Schnell has the latest from Capitol Hill. Staff Writer for The Atlantic Ashley Parker, political strategist Amanda Litman, Policy Editor for The Bulwark Mona Charen join Katy Tur with their analysis.
By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff and Jonathan Allen

WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - An immigration officer has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of making false statements about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minnesota during a deportation surge last winter, according to a source familiar with the matter on Thursday.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Christian Castro was indicted on six counts of lying to investigators, the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation. The charges will be unsealed once Castro is in custody, the person said.
Story by Alix Martichoux and Addy Bink

(NEXSTAR) – The FBI’s New Orleans field office says it is investigating after a report surfaced that millions of driver's licenses belonging to U.S. and Canadian residents may have appeared on the dark web.

Earlier this week, Brian Krebs, an independent journalist, reported that he had found a dark web site selling the digital scans of more than 153 million driver's licenses. He described finding the records of multiple friends and family members, noting that several of those he spoke with reported renting a car around the same time as the timestamps included with the digital scans.

Krebs alleged that some of the businesses these individuals reported sharing their driver’s license with work with IDScan.net, a company that verifies IDs. A representative for the company reportedly told Krebs the matter was under investigation. Nexstar contacted IDScan.net for comment but did not receive a response.

In his report, Krebs explained that the FBI confirmed it was investigating an apparent breach involving IDScan.net.
Story by Janna Brancolini

Donald Trump’s administration has turned to yet another contractor with a checkered legal past as it tries to fix the botched renovations at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

The monument has been closed for months after Trump’s $16 million “repairs” to the century-old pool resulted in peeling blue sealant and a record-breaking algal bloom that turned the water slime green.

Originally, the task of installing a water-purification system to prevent algal blooms fell to a long-time Trump supporter and two-time felon who pleaded guilty to bribing a congressman and violating campaign finance laws.

Now, the Department of the Interior has awarded a $2.7 million contract to clean the pool to a Massachusetts-based company whose chief executive is being prosecuted for election fraud, according to CNN.
Story by Adam Lynch

With the shape of a 6-foot-2 potato, President Donald Trump looks nothing like an athlete, says conservative columnist Maureen Dowd.

“But in legal terms, the president is an Olympic-class sprinter. He breaks the law so fast that the law is left in his orange dust,” she added.

Trump is an outlaw, she said, and the U.S. system was not built for an open outlaw and a felon in the Oval Office.

“He zeros in on loopholes in the law and the system that are based on trust and the assumption that our leaders — and their families — will be not be voracious scam artists,” said Dowd, who then quotes Trump biographer Tim O’Brian saying “The Constitution was built on this idea that the president would have enough decency and morality that they just wouldn’t run around exploiting the gaps. And for Trump, it’s like red meat. … His whole worldview is built around the idea that you exploit systems for personal gain, and there’s nothing wrong with doing that because the world’s populated by sharks and you just have to be the biggest shark.”

But amid the rampage, of Trump’s defiling institutions and “razing our hallowed spaces,” Dowd complained that Chief Justice John Roberts seems “belatedly alarmed” after proclaiming in a Monday dissent that the president’s $300 million taxpayer-funded ballroom can be completed.
Story by David Edwards

A new rule from President Donald Trump's administration declaring that U.S.-born children of foreign government employees are not citizens drew immediate ridicule from an immigration expert.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin signed the interim final rule, which U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services filed with the Federal Register late Friday afternoon.

The rule took effect on filing and applies to children born on or after that date, the document says. Publication is scheduled for Sept. 9.

"A person born in the United States to a foreign government employee is not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States for purposes of birthright citizenship, unless at least one parent of the person is a United States citizen," the rule states. "That person is not a United States citizen under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution."

David J. Bier, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, posted his reaction within minutes of the filing.

"HA! Sorry. That's not a thing," Bier wrote. "Either you're subject to US jurisdiction or you're not."
Opinion by Paul Waldman

Donald Trump loves nothing more than superlatives, so here’s another he can use: the most corrupt government in decades, according to Americans. A new poll from Gallup finds that “Americans’ perceptions of government corruption in the U.S. are at their highest level in 20 years, with 89% of U.S. adults saying it is widespread.” An estimated 91% of Democrats, 90% of independents and even 83% of Republicans agreed with that assessment.

How could anyone think otherwise? The past two years have been full of self-dealing and exploitation of the Oval Office for Trump’s personal gain.

For instance, four days before Trump was inaugurated, the United Arab Emirates’ national security adviser, known as the “Spy Sheik,” secretly made a $500 million investment in World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s cryptocurrency company. The administration later lifted controls on the export of artificial intelligence chips to the UAE, a key objective of its government.

When the Emirati royal family took a $2 billion stake in Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange, Binance arranged for the investment to be made with World Liberty Financial’s stablecoin. That, in effect, provided World Liberty a $2 billion bank deposit. (The Trump family, World Liberty and Binance all deny wrongdoing.) Not long after, Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who had pled guilty in a sweeping money-laundering investigation.
Chief Justice John Roberts built his reputation as an institutionalist while authoring some of the most radical expansions of executive power in modern U.S. history. Elie Mystal of The Nation puts it bluntly: “If you are a nonwhite citizen, he is the person stopping you from voting. Not Donald Trump, not Stephen Miller, not the Republican Party in the White House – it has been, and it always has been, John Roberts.” Mystal says Democrats must pursue Supreme Court expansion. “If you don’t control the Supreme Court, you control nothing.”
A grand jury found that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration “misappropriated” $10 million in taxpayer money for his wife's charity. Dr. Rashad Richey discusses on Indisputable. Tell us what you think in the comments below.
Roland Martin says CNN’s Trump fact-checker Daniel Dale has vanished from television because executives are bowing to Donald-the-Con Trump and hiding the truth from viewers.
Story by Bennito L. Kelty

The Supreme Court has a new way to hand President Donald Trump victories that threatens to leave "blatant" lawbreaking unchecked, a legal scholar warned.

Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, laid out the warning during an interview with Slate's Amicus podcast. Rather than deciding whether Trump's actions are lawful, the court's conservative majority has been increasingly tossing lawsuits against him on procedural grounds and deciding no one has the right to sue in the first place, Chemerinsky warned.

"If no one has the ability to go to court to challenge something, then the illegal and unconstitutional action will continue," Chemerinsky said.

He pointed to the court's emergency-docket order last week in the case over the demolition of the White House East Wing and Trump's roughly $600 million ballroom project. A 5-4 majority threw out the challenge on standing and ruled that the plaintiff who objected had suffered no real injury. Chemerinsky noted that no justice in the majority claimed the project itself was legal.
Story by Kathryn Wilkens

President Donald Trump threatened to bar Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier from selling its planes in the United States on Monday — despite the company employing hundreds of workers in deep-red Kansas, where it maintains a major U.S. operation.

The president posted on Truth Social:

NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES! Their products aren’t good enough! Over 50% of their revenue comes from the United States — They live off American Buyers, American Companies, American Airports, and American Service — All while Canada blocks our GREAT American Banks, and Companies, throughout the U.S.A. They even blocked Gulfstream Aerospace from doing business in Canada — Completely unjust and unfair! That Era is OVER! If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a “piggybank.” BUY AMERICAN. FLY ON AMERICAN AIRLINERS. ENJOY AMERICAN LIQUOR AND BEVERAGES. SAIL ON LAKE AMERICA. AMERICA FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

U.S.-Canada relations have deteriorated sharply in recent weeks after trade negotiations collapsed and the Trump administration imposed 50% tariffs on roughly $20 billion worth of Canadian goods, prompting Prime Minister Mark Carney to announce retaliatory tariffs. Trump has also repeatedly targeted Canada with provocative rhetoric and symbolic moves, signing an executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America” and, most recently, sharing a map depicting Canada and Mexico as part of the United States.
Story by Nick Hilden

The Trump administration has removed a sign criticizing slavery at Arlington National Cemetery. The change was reported on Monday by the Washington Post, which explained that the sign had stood in place of a memorial to the Confederacy that was relocated in 2023. Experts say this is part of President Donald Trump’s effort to “sanitize” the history of slavery.

According to the Post, “The Confederate Memorial, a 32-foot bronze statue commissioned by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and unveiled in 1914, was removed from the military cemetery in 2023. Its removal followed a congressional mandate to rid U.S. military property of names and symbols honoring the Confederacy and its leaders. The decision by the bipartisan Naming Commission to remove the statue was based on criticism and backlash over the memorial’s depictions, which included an enslaved woman carrying an infant child of a white officer and an enslaved man following his owner to war.”

“A Defense Department website and a marker at the memorial’s former site included contextual language describing the sculpture as portraying a ‘nostalgic, mythologized vision of the Confederacy, including highly sanitized depictions of slavery,’” the Post elaborates. “The website also described the two Black figures as enslaved people, including an enslaved woman depicted as a ‘Mammy,’ and it remarked on how the portrayal of the ‘faithful slave’ helped to shape American pop culture. Now, that language has been removed from the website, and the marker in the cemetery has been replaced by a new sign that omits wording critical of slavery and the Confederacy.”
Story by Gerren Keith Gayno

Black Air Force veteran tells theGrio “whitewashing is an understatement” as critics accuse the Trump administration of sanitizing slavery and erasing Black history.

President Donald Trump is being slammed after removing language criticizing a Confederate monument and its depiction of slavery, as critics accuse his administration of sanitizing Black history and promoting white supremacist ideology.

“To call it whitewashing is an understatement,” said Ed Anderson, a Black veteran and organizer at Common Defense. He told theGrio, “It’s a tidal wave of white supremacy that they’re trying to normalize.”

As The Washington Post reported, the Defense Department removed from its website critical language of slavery highlighted on a page dedicated to the Confederate Memorial. The memorial statue, which was removed from the Arlington National Cemetery in 2023, has long been criticized for its depiction of slavery. After being removed through an act of Congress, the website updated its language to provide historical context.

The Confederate Memorial, which was commissioned by the Daughters of the Confederacy and unveiled 1914, received backlash for depicting an enslaved woman carrying an infant child of a white officer and an enslaved man following his owner to war.
Story by Matthew Rozsa

Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville, who famously helped Bill Clinton win the 1992 presidential election, has previously predicted that President Donald Trump will lose in the 2026 midterm elections because of his unpopular war against Iran and similarly unpopular economic policies.

Now Carville is arguing that, when Democrats retake one or both houses of Congress, they should consider getting Trump to leave office before his term ends in 2029 by convincing him he can keep the money he has unethically earned in office if he simply resigns.
Story by Alex Henderson

With the 2026 midterms less than two months away, election lawyer Marc Elias is warning that President Donald Trump and his allies will do everything possible to fight any election results he doesn't like. And Elias isn't the only one sounding the alarm. The Philadelphia Inquirer, in a scathing editorial, calls for all MAGA election deniers to be voted out of office on Tuesday, November 3.

"With Labor Day passed, the sprint is on to Election Day," the Inquirer's editorial board writes. "But unlike in prior years, when voters looked to candidates for answers on the economy, taxes, healthcare, and foreign policy, the biggest question is whether the United States will hold a free and fair election and certify the winners. That's because President Donald Trump is doing everything he can to cast doubt on the electoral outcome or possibly reject the results — if the Democrats win control of either or both chambers of Congress."
Story by Rob Eastwood

Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has become the least party-loyal Democrat in the U.S. Senate in 2026, voting against his party’s position more frequently than any other senator. This voting record has sparked renewed criticism and internal Democratic Party backlash, especially following a recent Wall Street Journal investigation alleging disengagement from routine Senate duties. The controversy has intensified calls from some Democrats for Fetterman to resign and has fueled speculation about his political future.

Fetterman’s Voting Record Sets Him Apart in the Senate
According to CQ/Roll Call’s 2025 vote study—the latest comprehensive analysis of Senate voting patterns—Senator Fetterman opposed the majority Democratic position on roughly 20 percent of key party unity votes. This defection rate places him at the bottom of Democratic loyalty rankings, a distinction previously held by former Senator Joe Manchin before his 2024 departure from the party. By comparison, the average Democratic senator voted in line with the party 92 percent of the time, while Republicans showed even higher unity, averaging 96 percent.
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