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‘Men need to be perp-walked’ after Epstein files release, Massie tells BBC

A GOP lawmaker says the Epstein document releases are still falling short—because redactions and withheld material may be blocking accountability and survivor-centered justice.

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Trump fires Kristi Noem as Homeland Security Secretary

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The Trump gold coin is not normal : Consider This from NPR

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White House Confronted Over Huge Bets Made Minutes Before Trump’s Big War Move

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Trump, 79, Displays Worrying New Skin Condition

A president’s medical team offered a vague “preventative” explanation for a visible condition while withholding basic details, normalizing opacity where public trust depends on clarity.

Executive

Mar 2, 2026

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-displays-worrying-new-skin-condition

Summary

President Donald Trump was photographed with a red rash on the right side of his neck during a Medal of Honor event at the White House. The White House physician described it as a “preventative skin treatment” with expected redness but did not identify the underlying condition the treatment is meant to prevent. The lack of specificity has intensified public speculation about the president’s health and the administration’s transparency.

Reality Check

When the presidency treats basic health disclosures as optional, we condition the public to accept governance by ambiguity rather than accountable facts. Vague, non-falsifiable explanations weaken a core democratic safeguard: the public’s ability to assess a leader’s capacity through transparent, verifiable information. Over time, this kind of opacity trains institutions to protect power first and inform the public last, corroding trust that is essential for lawful, stable government.

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Photographs taken as President Donald Trump attended a Medal of Honor event at the White House showed a red rash extending from below his jawline toward the right side of his neck. The irritation appeared more pronounced on Monday, with skin behind his right ear described as scabbed and flaking.

In a statement to the Daily Beast, Trump’s physician, Dr. Sean Barbabella, said the president was using “a very common cream” on the right side of his neck as “a preventative skin treatment,” prescribed by the White House Doctor, for one week, and that redness was expected to last for a few weeks. The White House did not identify what the cream was intended to prevent.

Photos suggested the redness first appeared during a trip to Corpus Christi, Texas on Friday. Online speculation followed, including guesses ranging from contact irritation to shingles or reactions to prescription medications.

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Pentagon restores webpage for Black Medal of Honor winner but defends DEI purge

When the Pentagon can erase and relabel a Medal of Honor record as “DEI,” our military history becomes subject to political filtering instead of institutional duty.

Executive

Mar 18, 2025

Sources

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/defense-department-black-medal-honor-webpage-restored

Summary

The Defense Department restored the Medal of Honor webpage for Army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers after it had been removed and its URL altered to include “deimedal.” The restoration occurred as Pentagon officials publicly defended an ongoing campaign to remove content highlighting women’s and minority groups’ contributions and rejected the premise that diversity is a strength. Our military’s official public record is being treated as disposable infrastructure in a political purge, making basic historical recognition contingent on internal filters and public backlash.

Reality Check

This conduct threatens a core democratic safeguard: government-controlled history and honors can be silently removed, relabeled, and restored only after public outrage, leaving our right to an accurate public record at the mercy of internal purges. Nothing here clearly establishes a prosecutable federal crime on the facts provided, but it squarely implicates abuse-of-office norms—using state power and federal platforms to enforce ideological compliance while denying accountability for who ordered, executed, and reviewed the removals. When officials publicly reject “diversity is our strength” while thousands of pages honoring women and minority service members disappear, the message to the institution is coercive: recognition is contingent on political approval. That is how our government trains itself to treat truth as a switch it can flip—until the same machinery is aimed at other rights and other records.

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The Defense Department restored an online Medal of Honor profile for Army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers after the page returned a “404 – Page Not Found” error and the URL was altered so “medal” became “deimedal.” The page had been reported as nonfunctional on Saturday, with a “page not found” notice stating it may have been moved, renamed, or temporarily unavailable.

A Bluesky post shared a screenshot showing a Google preview that still described Rogers and stated that, “as a Black man, he worked for gender and race equality while in the service,” while the Pentagon page itself no longer loaded. By Monday, the webpage was operational again and the URL reverted to its original format without “DEI.”

A Defense Department spokesperson told the Guardian the story was “removed during auto removal process,” without further explanation. Spokesperson Sean Parnell said pages about Rogers and Japanese American service members had been taken down mistakenly, while defending a broader effort that has removed thousands of webpages deemed “DEI.”