Matt Gagnon criticizes Governor Janet Mills’ handling of Maine’s transgender sports policy, accusing her of failing to defend it and instead spinning it as a victimhood narrative. He argues that the policy, which he claims Mills encouraged, was implemented during a politically favorable time for progressives and faced minimal backlash. Gagnon highlights the lack of public outcry and media scrutiny at the time of the policy’s enactment. He suggests that the policy’s implementation was driven by a sense of invincibility among progressives, which has now shifted due to changing public sentiment and the 2024 election. Gagnon also criticizes Mills’ hypocrisy in invoking states’ rights and her ineffective attempts to distract from the policy’s flaws.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the U.S. military carried out three strikes Monday in the waters of the Eastern Pacific against boats suspected of carrying drugs, killing 14 and leaving one survivor.
Officials in Louisiana, Vermont and Virginia pledged Thursday to keep food aid flowing to recipients in their states, even if the federal program is stalled next month because of the government shutdown.
President Donald Trump announced he's ending "all trade negotiations" with Canada because of a television ad opposing U.S. tariffs that he said misstated the facts and called "egregious behavior" aimed at influencing U.S. court decisions.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he's backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after speaking to the mayor, as protesters gathered outside a U.S. Coast Guard base where they were located.