If Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has its way, a 28-year-old college dropout guided by the right-wing libertarian ideologies of figures including Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel and Argentine president Javier Milei will oversee the dismantling of a Washington nonprofit that promotes peace worldwide. Following a February …
Read More »Trump Admin Admits It Wrongfully Deported Man to El Salvadoran Prison, Won't Bring Him Back
The Department of Homeland Security admitted that it deported an innocent man with protected status to an El Salvadoran prison known for torture and human-rights abuses. The Trump administration claims there’s nothing they, or any American court, can do to bring him back. According to a Tuesday report from The …
Read More »Cory Booker Bashed Trump on Senate Floor for 25 Straight Hours
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said as he began speaking on the Senate floor Monday night that he intended to disrupt “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able,” citing his belief that “our nation is in crisis.” He wasn’t kidding. Booker spoke …
Read More »One Photo From Abu Ghraib Lost the Iraq War. Kristi Noem Continues the Tradition
I remember returning from serving in support of the Iraq War, while my ship was undergoing a maintenance period, and seeing news of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal breaking on CNN. The scandal was the worst thing to happen to the U.S. Army since the Vietnam War. Sitting on my …
Read More »Top Trump USAID Staffer Accused of Violent Outbursts, Racist Remarks
The lawyer working for Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) who now leads the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has a history of violence and racist remarks, 10 people who knew him allege. Jeremy Lewin recently became deputy administrator for policy and programs for …
Read More »Health Secretary RFK Jr. Promised Radical Transparency. Now He's Closing FOIA Offices
Following weeks of mass purges of employees across federal agencies led by Trump officials and Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is next on the chopping block, with some 10,000 workers set for dismissal. The cuts will see medical researchers, …
Read More »Elon Musk Says He's Giving Out $1 Million Checks to 'Get Attention'
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, delivered $1 million checks to two of his supporters on Sunday evening at his town hall, saying the point of giving out these payments is to “get attention.” “I should say that the reason for the checks is that it’s …
Read More »Trump Wants to Convince the World That Climate Change Is a Good Thing
Windmills cause cancer. They’re killing birds and whales. Electric vehicles don’t work. Have you heard about the electric sharks? Climate change is a hoax. There are many things Donald Trump has said about climate change and renewable energy that are difficult to make sense of, but Trump’s newest line on …
Read More »Stock Market Tumbles Ahead of Trump's Tariff 'Liberation Day'
Investors are seeing red on Monday as the stock market and major indexes continue their downward plunge ahead of Donald Trump’s expected April 2 announcement of a sprawling tariffs package, which the president is billing as “Liberation Day.” Trump is expected to enact a massive economic package that will match …
Read More »Musk Blames Dems for Trump Giving Immigrants Social Security Numbers
At his million-dollar elections giveaway in Wisconsin on Sunday night, Elon Musk shared a supposedly “mind-blowing” chart showing a sharp uptick in immigrants receiving Social Security numbers. The chart showed that noncitizens have increasingly been granted Social Security numbers, not benefits, although Musk and Antonio Gracias, a staffer with his …
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