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- The Hound | Aug. 26
The Hound | Aug. 26
DHS admits noncitizen voter numbers were a lie, Trump threatens to demolish Kennedy Center, and more.
Hi there,
It’s Wednesday. After losing several times in court, the Trump administration's response is a threat: the DOJ filed a brief arguing the "decrepit" Kennedy Center faces an imminent "death spiral" without Trump's intervention — and that without a name change and two-year closure, the building may need to be demolished.
Under Hegseth, the Pentagon has evicted the New York Times and NPR from their long-held desks, replacing them with outlets like Breitbart and One America News.
🖊️ Sign the petition to call on the media to cover the Kennedy Center standoff not as a culture war squabble, but as what it is: an administration threatening to destroy a national landmark unless a court lets it break the law.
This is not a renovation dispute. It is a president using the threat of demolition to coerce a federal judge into reversing a legal ruling. The public deserves reporting that treats judicial defiance as the constitutional crisis it is.
In addition, a court ruling will soon tell us how DOGE helped ICE get tax and Social Security numbers of taxpayers. And conservative groups are siding with Minneapolis protesters against Trump’s crackdown, asking a federal judge to force to disclosure of confidential files about undercover ICE agents infiltrating left-wing protest groups.
Read about these, and more, with today’s stories:
We’re About to Learn How DOGE Helped ICE Get Taxpayer Data (The New Republic)
Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway. (ProPublica)
The Youth ‘Treatment’ Centers Kids Risk Their Lives to Escape (The Marshall Project)
Until next time,
Harry from The Hound
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