'Do Not Interrupt!': Rep. DeLauro Puts Sec. Mullin In His Place

During Thursday's House Appropriations Committee on the Department of Homeland Security's 2027 budget, Rep. DeLauro refused to be bullied by DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin to the point where the ranking member warned Mullin to b.

DELAURO: Let me just say this to you, sir, again, it is my time, 3,900 children were separated from their families.

MULLIN: 450,000 kids were lost during the Biden administration, you didn't say a word about it.

DELAURO: Mr. Secretary, Mr. Secretary, do not interrupt.

MULLIN: Don't you point your finger at me.

DELAURO: I will point my finger at you.

Sec. Mullin pulled a Pam Bondi and continued to attack the Biden administration while refusing to answer DeLauro's questions and thought being an asshole was good form. Finally, she turned to Rep. Amodei, the chair of the committee to intervene.

DELAURO: Mr. Chairman, could you put him in his place?

MULLIN: Don't yell at me.

DELAURO: You should be put in your place.

AMODEI: Mr. Secretary, if you would like four minutes for a closing statement when everybody's done, I'll give you that.

But while members are on their eight minutes, I need them to have their eight minutes.

DELAURO: I started my comments. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate that.

AMODEI: We are going to something resembling order here.

The time is the ranking members.

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Democrat To Trump: Veto The Housing Bill And Congress Will Publicly Humiliate You

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Andy Kim gave Donald J. Trump, the golf-course president, a reminder while appearing on CNN with Wolf Blitzer. Kim tore into Trump after the president canceled the signing of the sweeping bipartisan bill that could boost the U.S. housing supply and lower costs for millions of renters and buyers nationwide.

"I mean, I have an eight-year-old and a ten-year-old, two little boys, I know what temper tantrums are like, but what my boys would never do is do something that would harm other people," Kim said. "And that's what Trump's doing."

"He's throwing a temper tantrum, but it's going to be at the expense of the American people, who can get so much out of this bill in terms of support for their housing," he continued. "Look, I'm from New Jersey. We are used to Trump screwing us over. He screwed over Atlantic City. He screwed over so many people in our state."

"And I will just say to him, if he really wants to see what people need right now, the next time he comes to New Jersey, he shouldn't go to his golf course in Bedminster," he said. "He should go to Newark, New Jersey, talk to the people there who need affordable housing."

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Notion Mail shuts down amid agent takeover

The company said it is discontinuing its email inbox in favor of its AI agent offering as users are increasingly handing over the reins of their email to the agents.

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New website names and shames companies that still don’t offer passkeys to users

According to a new site, 24% of the most popular websites in the world don't offer support for passkeys, which are considered the most secure way to log in to apps and services.

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Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks

The tokenmaxxing era was brief. We now appear to be entering the era of token rationing.

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Judge Orders Trump Admin To Explain Reason For Tarp At Kennedy Center

A federal judge is demanding an explanation for the tarp that now hides where President Donald Trump's name once stood on the Kennedy Center's façade.

U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper issued the order Tuesday in Beatty v. Trump, the lawsuit brought by Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) over Trump's illegal renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Cooper ordered the parties to file a joint status report addressing "the purpose for and status of the tarp and scaffolding that Defendants have erected on the front portico of the Center."

Workers put up the tarp on June 13 — the night Trump's name came down under Cooper's court order. It has not come down since.

The Kennedy Center says the covering is needed for marble maintenance. Beatty's lawyers aren't buying it.

"Willfully sabotaging Kennedy Center's iconic façade to assuage Defendants' vanity or massage broken egos is a clear breach of fiduciary duty," her attorneys wrote.

Mallory Miller co-founded the activist group Hands Off the Arts and got behind the tarp to photograph the façade. She told NBC News the administration's motive was plain.

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Here’s why Slate changed the battery in its cheap EV truck

While there was probably a moment when Slate’s leadership had to green-light the switch from one battery type to another, the momentum toward that decision had been building for years.

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