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The Trump administration is laying the groundwork to crack down on political dissent, Ken Klippenstein reported on his Substack — using a three-letter acronym.

The whole situation, he said, recalls how the George W. Bush administration constantly raised the boogeyman of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and this acronym came to be a scare word disparaging anyone who would dare question the Iraq war — even though ultimately no active weapons of mass destruction program existed in Iraq at the time of the 2003 invasion.

President Donald Trump's is reportedly considering escalating the war in Iran by sending ground troops to take a key island in the Strait of Hormuz, a move that alarmed one political analyst on Wednesday.

The Wall Street Journal reported, citing "U.S. officials," that Trump hosted a meeting in the Situation Room late Tuesday night to discuss options for taking Kharg Island "and other territory along the Strait of Hormuz." The report added that "airstrikes against more targets in Iran, including energy sites, also [remain] a possibility."

President Donald Trump has resumed open hostilities with Iran, waging a war in apocalyptic terms and painting them clearly as an enemy. But behind the scenes, his administration was cooperating with Iran for one specific reason: deportations.

According to The New York Times, sworn affidavits "provide a detailed account of behind-the-scenes contacts that led the United States to deport more than 100 Iranians to Tehran between September 2025 and January 2026, not long before the initiation of U.S. military action against Iran in February."

President Donald Trump is not only violating civil liberties by setting Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on the public without body cameras, he is also putting those agents themselves in danger, former ICE chief of staff Jason P. Houser told MS NOW's Katy Tur on Wednesday.

This comes after ICE briefly stood down from traffic stops after public outrage exploded following killings by agents in Maine and Texas — then went back to business as usual after Trump ranted on Truth Social, "We CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP! Once we do, we are playing right into the criminal’s hands."

Vice President JD Vance admitted to podcast host Joe Rogan that the Trump administration was "guilty" of mishandling the Jeffrey Epstein files after the podcaster said the White House's claims of transparency were little more than a "performative display."

The admission came Wednesday on the Joe Rogan Experience, during a lengthy back-and-forth in which Rogan pressed Vance on the administration's Epstein record.

A Canadian woman got into a physical altercation with a young Trump supporter on the Jersey Shore — and the incident ended with her under arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

According to the New York Post, police have confirmed 33-year-old Kaitlyn Tracey "was taken into custody after she filmed herself confronting two girls wearing 'patriotic colored' sweatpants over Fourth of July weekend at Point Pleasant, one of whom she struck across the face and body."