Less than three months after its public debut, the “anti-woke” banking startup GloriFi is canceling itself. The company has laid off employees and informed them the end is nigh, via an email from Chief Marketing Officer Cathy Landtrop obtained by the Wall Street Journal. Landroop cited “financial challenges related to …
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Elon Musk is reinstating Donald Trump’s Twitter account, ending a ban that was instituted on the social media site two days after the former president’s followers stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The new Twitter owner made the decision after conducting a poll asking Twitter users to vote …
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If he is elected speaker of the House next year when Republicans take control, current Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy has promised to strip certain Democrats — Reps. Adam Schiff, Ilhan Omar, and Eric Swalwell — of their committee assignments. When asked about the possibility of losing his place on …
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out Rep. Lauren Boebert for her weak response to a Saturday night shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs that left at least five dead and 18 injured. Boebert — who is a gun enthusiast, former owner of gun-themed restaurant Shooters Grill and spreader of …
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Members of Congress on the Jan. 6 committee are preparing their final report and considering whether to issue a criminal referral against Donald Trump for being “at the center of” a conspiracy to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 win. Appearing on Sunday news shows, Reps. Adam Schiff and …
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Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed former Department of Justice Public Integrity Section Chief Jack Smith as special counsel to determine whether criminal charges stemming from Justice Department investigations should be brought against Donald Trump. Garland announced in a Friday briefing that Smith will determine if “any person or entity …
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When it was clear, late on election night, that a majority of Kentucky voters had rejected a measure that would have carved the right to abortion access out of the state’s constitution, Tamarra Wieder, the director of Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates of Kentucky, headed to a dive bar in Louisville …
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Elon Musk has managed to piss off just about everyone on Twitter, and after announcing that he would be instituting what appears to be a shadowbanning policy on the platform, even the right wingers who lauded him as the savior of “free speech” are in an uproar. Twitter is currently …
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When Allen Weisselberg took the stand for a second day to testify against several of Donald Trump’s eponymous companies, he described his and other company honchos’ efforts to scrub sketchy payment practices when his boss became president — by stopping an allegedly yearslong practice of providing untaxed benefits. “We were …
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The Biden administration has taken pains to distance itself from Donald Trump’s treatment of the media — which the 45th president delighted in railing against as “the enemy of the people.” And in late October, Attorney General Merrick Garland officially announced that the Department of Justice will no longer investigate …
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