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September 5, 2026

The Trump administration had a busy Friday, US District Judge
Talwani blocked Trump’s illegal and unconstitutional plan to use
the US Postal Service to screen mail-in voters, A day after
Interior Secretary Burgum announced that work was starting on
Trump’s arch, US District Court Judge Chutkan ordered the
administration to give the court notice before proceeding, Trump
said the Iran War is not a war, and denied that military
personnel are seeing record long deployments, and that the US
controls the Strait of Hormuz, Trump also denies reports of a
shortage of munitions, and Pete Hegseth is forcing members of the
military’s Joint Staff to take lie detector tests to prove they
were not source of leaks, The Defense Department and NIH are
moving funds for medical research to the Pentagon, where the Navy
has run out of money, Trump appears to misunderstand how trade
and trade deficits work, And the US was the only country to vote
against a UN resolution to change the world map to more
accurately reflect the size of continents, more than 450 years
after the commonly used Mercator projection was created.

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