1. Internal documents reveal that Freedom 250, which purports to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary, is a vehicle to promote Trump and "America First" propaganda, including election conspiracies
Major corporations like Mastercard and Deloitte and spending million to bankroll this effort
2. Freedom 250 says it'll use corporate money to organize events celebrating the nation’s birthday. But an internal “Events Toolkit” reveals the events will promote pro-Trump political talking points
3. For example, a “Talking Points & Messaging Guide” suggests partner organizations feature “issue-based messaging.” One featured message: “President Trump and America First leaders are restoring election integrity and protecting the voice of every legal citizen.”
3. Popular Information has learned that judge is Sherron Ashworth, a former ICE prosecutor with a track record of quickly rejecting asylum claims and accepting the Trump administration’s most specious legal arguments
Ashworth is based in Lousiana but will hear these cases in Kansas City via video
3. The only thing that is changed is that Trump has replaced Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol commander overseeing the Minneapolis operation, with Tom Homan, his border czar.
The idea that Homan is a force for moderation is a joke.
3. Hours after Alex Pretti was fatally shot at point-blank ranger, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy attended a screening of "Melania," a documentary about the First Lady, at the White House.
Amazon is paid Melania $40 million for rights to the vanity project and is spending another $35 million to promote it
1. After months of denials, the Trump administration has admitted that DOGE staff misused Social Security data.
A DOGE staffer signed a deal to share the data with a “political advocacy group” seeking to “overturn election results"
The identity of the staffer is not disclosed but there are clues
2. Antonio Gracias, a DOGE staffer who was embedded at the SSA, publicly spoke about using Social Security data to “expose” voter fraud. During a March 30 rally alongside Elon Musk, Gracias — a fellow billionaire — made a variety of false and misleading claims.
3. Gracias said that he had compared SSA data with voting records and found that non-citizens were registered to vote and did vote. He claimed he referred these people for prosecution. (There are no known charges or convictions resulting from those alleged referrals.)
3. Several of the deaths, according to advocates, are related to substandard medical care. Popular Information reported on Monday that ICE stopped paying for third-party medical treatment for detainees on October 3, 2025.