On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning transgender individuals from the U.S. military. In the order, Trump declared that “expressing a false ‘gender identity’ divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service” — a transgender troop’s …
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The Trump administration has begun mass layoffs at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), even as the agency reels from a fiery mid-air collision just outside Washington, D.C., a deadly runway crackup, and mysterious crashes from Pennsylvania to Alaska. Hundreds of “probationary” FAA employees have received pink slips, amid an Elon …
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Demonstrators from New York to Atlanta to San Francisco have taken to the streets Monday in the largest mass-protests since the beginning of the second Trump administration. The Presidents’ Day protests — branded, cheekily, as “No Kings Day” — are evidence of a growing public backlash against the authoritarian executive …
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Although Elon Musk’s quixotic purchase of Twitter, which he redubbed X, seems to have played a significant role in giving him full and unfettered access to the gears of government, one right-wing rich guy’s purchase of a media company did not result in his desired electoral outcome last year. Putative …
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Sheryl Crow has had enough of Elon Musk. The singer shared a new Instagram post on Friday waving goodbye to her Tesla, confirming that she sold her car following Musk and President Donald Trump‘s efforts to gut government programs through the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). “My parents always …
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Elon Musk and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are operating unconstitutionally, and their actions must be reversed. That’s the striking claim made in a lawsuit filed by 14 state attorneys general on Feb. 13 in federal court. The lawsuit runs 60 pages, detailing the chaos Musk and his DOGE …
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Donald Trump has been back in office for less than one month, and he, Elon Musk, and his senior administration officials have already plunged the nation into an ongoing constitutional crisis and openly performed various brazen acts of lawlessness and gleeful corruption, while threatening to “look at” judges who object …
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Authoritarian movements don’t spring up out of nowhere. They require a certain set of conditions on the ground, like a growing class of people who feel frustrated, disempowered, and out of place. They require major investment, above all in the disinformation and distraction that keeps supporters in line with a …
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After New York City MayorEric Adamswas indicted on federal criminal charges in September, the man soon embraced Donald Trump in an overt attempt to get the president to overturn his case. As Manhattan federal prosecutors readied to bring the bombshell indictment charging the mayor with destroying evidence and instructing people …
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Every regime’s enforcement mechanisms rely on threats and politicized intimidation. In the case of Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s ongoing power grab, it’s involved young staffers with Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) barging into different federal agencies, departments, and institutes, demanding that security officials and other senior staff …
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