White House sued for abruptly halting services for deaf when Trump took office
The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) sued the White House for allegedly violating federal law and the U.S. Constitution by declining to provide American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters at prominent events like briefings and press conferences.
According to the 25-page suit, the White House abruptly stopped providing services for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals when President Donald Trump took office in January.
"In January 2025, the White House inexplicably stopped using ASL interpreters for any of its public press briefings or similar events," the suit said. "The White House's failure to provide qualified ASL interpreters during public briefings, press conferences, and related events is against the law. Federal law unequivocally prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities and requires them to have meaningful access to the federal government's programs and services. Failing to provide ASL interpreters deprives deaf people of meaningful access to the White House's press briefings."
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In a statement, interim NAD CEO Dr. Bobbie Beth Scoggins insisted that "[d]eaf and hard of hearing Americans have the right to the same access to White House information as everyone else. Denying them ASL interpreters is a direct violation of that right, and the NAD will continue to fight for their full inclusion in the democratic process."
"Such information must be provided not only through captioning but also in American Sign Language," she added.
NAD successfully sued the White House in 2020, resulting in the inclusion of Certified Deaf Interpreters (CDIs) in COVID-19 briefings.
‘Forefront of resistance’: How a small business took on Trump’s tariffs and won
A small father-daughter run wine company in Upstate New York stood up to President Donald Trump's tariffs in a "David and Goliath" showdown — and came out on top, according to reporting by CNN.
The company, called VOS Selections, agreed to be the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit against the Trump administration, "which prompted a three-judge panel at the US Court of International Trade to strike down Trump’s sweeping global tariffs on Wednesday," the report said.
According to the decision, Trump "overstepped his authority by invoking emergency economic powers to impose sweeping tariffs on China, Canada, Mexico and other US trading partners."
But VOS founder Victor Schwartz said he "never intended to be at the forefront of the resistance to US government policy" — he just wanted to protect the business he started decades ago.
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“Put it this way: when I started VOS 40 years ago I had no idea that I was signing up for something like this, getting involved in a lawsuit against the executive branch of the United States,” Schwartz told CNN. “I just wanted to bring in these delicious wines from interesting appellations across the world and sell those wines to a like-minded community.”
Schwartz told CNN that his business suffered under Trump’s tariffs during the first administration, prompting him to "fight back" this time around.
He worked with lawyers from the libertarian advocacy group Liberty Justice Center, and led the charge against the administration. Four other small businesses joined the battle, including a Pennsylvania company that sells fishing tackle, the maker of small electronic kits for children, a women-focused cycling company, and an ABS pipe manufacturer.
If the case goes all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, Schwartz told CNN he will see it through to the end.
“We knocked back the tariffs. It’s going to change the whole game plan,” he said.
Trump has yet to respond to the ruling that affects the crux of his entire economic plan.
Trump has a ‘verbal tic’ that is causing ‘a worldview problem’ in US: analysis
President Donald Trump's "verbal tic" is creating "cognitive dissonance in America," according to a Washington Post column.
“The verbal tic of President Donald Trump that has always most fascinated me is his predilection for the word ‘beautiful,’" Monica Hesse wrote.
Giving several examples of the usage, she said, “On Trump’s first day back in office, he signed an executive order titled ‘Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture.’ Golf courses are beautiful, but so are White House telephones, farming, fighter jets, notes from the Chinese president, chocolate cake, the Supreme Court, Harambe the gorilla, and Christians.”
Hesse questioned, “Is this a vocabulary deficit?”
“Trump uses ‘beautiful’ to describe sleeping gas (‘They have a gas that’s a beautiful sleeping gas’). He uses it to describe fossil fuels (‘clean, beautiful coal’).” She even noted a list from Politico, which aggregated “weird times” he’s used the word beautiful.
“To be told that something is beautiful when it seems ugly to you is not a linguistic problem — it’s a worldview problem,” Hesse said. “It’s not gaslighting, exactly, but it leads to cognitive dissonance, to looking out the window and wondering how other people can see what you’re seeing and think it looks so radically different, or if they’re even seeing the same thing at all.”
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“‘Beautiful’ is an adjective that describes a thing,” the columnist wrote, “but it’s also a reflection on the person using it: what they care about, what they think is worth saving.”
Taking aim at the ‘big, beautiful bill,' Hesse asked, “Do we think it’s beautiful to make it harder for families to see doctors when they’re sick? To make it harder to feed their children? Is it beautiful to make it easier to buy gun silencers? Is it beautiful to charge asylum seekers $1,000 to apply for safety?”
“The Big Beautiful Bill works for Donald Trump because it uses a common, euphonious word to sell a tantalizing concept: that the federal government is simple instead of being a giant, complicated mess,” she said.
Hesse believes Trump is using the phrase because “The Big Beautiful Bill is the One Ring of legislation, the only bill you’ll ever need. ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ is a phrase that could lull you into believing it contained only good things. And it does not.”
MAGA men lured by influencer’s yoga pants and ‘unusual’ pose: ‘She isn’t subtle’
A MAGA influencer has blended politics with OnlyFans, using the adult platform to court right-wing male followers in a striking new way, according to a report Thursday.
Will Sommer, senior reporter at The Bulwark, detailed how Savanna Cannon has emerged as a new MAGA personality, sharing her views on TikTok and Instagram. She's referred to people who disagree with her as "braindead" and wears a Charlie Kirk "Freedom" shirt. In her videos, she "looks and sounds like she came straight out of the Turning Point USA or PragerU conservative influencer pipelines."
"But Cannon has one big advantage over her rival conservative commentators: she sits in an unusual way," Sommer explained.
"Cannon typically records her videos leaning back in a chair while wearing yoga pants, with her legs pulled up on either side of her," Sommer wrote.
"It’s a pose that highlights everything a more prurient viewer might hope to see: her bare feet and—forgive me, I am only reporting the facts here—the faint outline of her genitals," Sommer wrote, including the addendum, "Her buttcrack, too."
Cannon started on OnlyFans, making content of herself working out at the gym. But now she has shifted to a particular goal.
"Cannon isn’t subtle about it," Sommer wrote. "Scroll through her Instagram page and a good 80 percent of the posts are her sitting in that pose, wearing yoga pants, often pulling them up to make them fit tighter. 'My videos are for straight men,' she explained."
It's a strategic move — leveraging her audience on OnlyFans by talking politics and drawing on a male audience.
"It was a smart call," Sommer wrote. "Pro-Trump social media is a rich field for finding new, smitten subscribers—or, in the language of the industry, 'simps'—who could end up following you on OnlyFans, too."
As her following has grown, she's built an audience using the "symbiotic relationship" between right-wing influencers and subscribers.
"If anything, Cannon stands out because she merges the two roles," Sommer added. "Rather than being an OnlyFans model subject to the whims of a dating podcast host or a feud with a far-right pundit, she is creating the MAGA content on her own. Perhaps it was only a matter of time before some enterprising ingénue tapped this particular market."
