Not even your mail is exempt from Donald Trump‘s wholesale power grab. The president is expected to fire the Governance Board of the United States Postal Service (USPS), and absorb the independent agency into the Department of Commerce. According to The Washington Post, which first reported the plans, the takeover …
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk have spent the first month of the president’s second administration systematically dismantling the federal government. Trump has been issuing a flurry of ostensibly illegal executive orders aimed at consolidating power in the White House, while Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have …
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J. Cole shared a new song, “Clouds,” via his blog, the Algorithm. The hazy track, produced by DZL and Omen, sees Cole rapping about the danger of AI and the assassination attempt on Donald Trump last year in Philadelphia. “I’m that bass in your trunk, the bullet that missed Trump/ …
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President Donald Trump met with the National Governors Association at the White House on Friday, where he had a terse confrontation with Maine’s Democratic Governor Janet Mills over his efforts to bar transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports. Earlier this month, the Maine Principals Association (MPA) said it would …
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At the first rally to kick off his 2024 campaign, Donald Trump played a bizarre rendition of the national anthem in which he himself recites the Pledge of Allegiance while a “choir” of January 6 rioters sing the national anthem. It would become a regular feature at his rallies. Some …
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Senate Republicans have confirmed Kash Patel — a MAGA conspiracy theorist sympathetic to QAnon who has signaled a thirst for retribution against Donald Trump’s political enemies —as the new FBI Director. Patel was confirmed in a 51-49 vote Thursday afternoon, with Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) joining …
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Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the permanent top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia is promising to use the full breadth of his powers to “protect DOGE” and “hold accountable those who threaten workers.” In an email obtained by Rolling Stone, former “Stop the Steal” organizer turned interim …
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was created under the guise of eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse in federal spending. But, like many of Musk’s grand pitches — Hyperloops, Mars colonization, Tesla robots, robotaxis, self-driving cars — DOGE is just another empty promise from one …
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As Donald Trump attempts to consolidate power within the executive branch, his declarations of despotism are becoming increasingly explicit. On Wednesday afternoon — after ordering his administration to intervene in New York City’s recently implemented congestion pricing model — Trump wrote on Truth Social: “CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and …
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s administration has been firing federal workers en masse, pausing and shuttering whole federal agencies, and furiously hunting for examples of waste, fraud, and abuse that they can show their supporters to prove all the destruction is necessary and good. At the same time, Trump’s Department …
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