President Trump said in June he wants to eliminate FEMA and transfer the responsibility for disaster management entirely to the states. Even after the deadly Texas Hill Country floods, that’s still very much on the table.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/flooding/2025/09/10/530398/fema-remains-on-the-chopping-block-even-after-the-hill-country-floods/

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FEMA remains on the chopping block, even after the deadly Texas Hill Country floods

President Donald Trump said in June that he wants to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency and transfer the responsibility for disaster management entirely to the states. Subsequent statements by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem indicate that’s still very much on the table.

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A Houston attorney has filed a lawsuit against several federal departments and officials in response to a mandate requiring some immigrants to register with the government, arguing the mandate violates Fifth Amendment protections.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/immigration/2025/08/08/528239/houston-based-attorney-sues-homeland-security-over-trump-immigration-mandate/

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Houston attorney sues feds over Trump administration’s immigrant registration mandate

The lawsuit argues the mandate violates the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by requiring the registrant to fill out a form in which they have to disclose that they are not in the country legally. 

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Chris Hedges: Trump’s Useful Idiots

By refusing to acknowledge or name the genocide in Gaza, and persecuting those who do, the liberal class in the U.S. provided the bullets to their executioners. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost The media, universities, the Democratic Party and liberals, by embracing the fiction of “rampant antise

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PATRICK LAWRENCE: The White House as Playpen
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/28/patrick-lawrence-the-white-house-as-playpen/
It is time, plain and simple, to give up the thought that anything good is to come out of Trump’s next three and a half years. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News O.K, the Gulf of Mexico will remain…
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PATRICK LAWRENCE: The White House as Playpen

It is time, plain and simple, to give up the thought that anything good is to come out of Trump's next three and a half years. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News O.K, the Gulf of Mexico will remain so named, and the Government Publishing Office on North Capitol Street in Washi

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