An outgoing Commerce Department official in charge of expanding rural broadband authored an email to colleagues warning that the Trump administration is preparing to further enrich billionaire Elon Musk by diverting money for rural broadband to Musk’s satellite internet company. “Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet …
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday seeking the dismantling of seven more federal agencies, including one that oversees government-funded media outlet Voice of America (VOA). “This order continues the reduction in the elements of the Federal bureaucracy that the President has determined are unnecessary,” the White House said …
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Thousands of U.S. Forest Service and National Park employees have a collateral duty to work on wildland fires as a part of a firefighting militia. Aside from their work monitoring fragile ecosystems and educating people about “Leave No Trace” principles, they are frequently called upon to jump on an engine, …
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A federal judge has ruled that tens of thousands of employees summarily fired by the Trump administration must be rehired — that is if they even want to return to their jobs. On Thursday, District Court for the Northern District of California Judge William Alsup ruled that the federal government …
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The world’s richest gamer has seen to it that he can plug in whenever he likes at his bureaucratic office in Washington, D.C., according to a report from Politico. The article, published Wednesday, takes a close look at the inner circle of oligarch and top White House vizier Elon Musk, …
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Nathan Tankus publishes the Notes on the Crises newsletter. In my last column in Rolling Stone 37 days ago, I explained that the constitutional crisis that Elon Musk and Donald Trump set off by refusing to spend what Congress ordered the executive branch to spend — a process known legally …
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Last month, a federal judge issued an injunction blocking President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing multiple executive orders designed to purge the government of anything related to diversity — including an order to prohibit contractors and grant recipients from doing literally anything to promote the concepts of diversity, equity, and …
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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the head of Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), wants massive cuts to America’s core safety-net programs. “Reports don’t mean anything, you’ve got to actually take action,” Musk said in an interview today on Fox Business Network, explaining that his goal …
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Elon Musk — the world’s richest man, who for the past two months has been dismantling or threatening to dismantle government services that help the less fortunate —is having a bad week, and Donald Trump feels sorry for him. The president’s trade wars have been tanking the stock market, and …
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It started with a “wood chipper.” Now it has reached the paper-shredder stage. When the shredder is tired, it will reach the burn-bag phase. The Elon Musk-led destruction of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that began in early February, with a freeze of federal grants and an order …
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