President Donald Trump is threatening to levy a 200-percent tariff on wine and liquor products imported from the European Union after the alliance levied its own tariff on American whiskey products — the latest in a tit for tat tax battle with Trump. “If this Tariff is not removed immediately, …
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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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The death threats were the first clue. On March 7, Laura Jane Grace played her new song, “Your God (God’s Dick),” at a Bernie Sanders “Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here” event in Wisconsin. A bawdy, and, yes, profane, sing-along, the track was meant to be a protest against …
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Corny NFTs and scammy meme coins apparently aren’t enough to scratch the Trump family’s crypto itch. According to a Thursday report from The Wall Street Journal, World Liberty Financial (WLF), the Trump family’s fledgling crypto venture, has explored taking a financial stake in the disgraced cryptocurrency exchange Binance. If it …
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Rosie O’Donnell is no longer living in the U.S. The actor and comedian posted a nine-minute video on TikTok sharing that she relocated to Ireland shortly before Donald Trump took office for the second time. “I moved here on Jan. 15 and it’s been pretty wonderful,” the comedian revealed in …
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As oligarch Elon Musk continues to bulldoze entire sectors of the federal government via his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the backlash has taken a toll on automaker Tesla, which counts him as both CEO and de facto head of marketing. Protesters have targeted the business while denouncing Musk’s …
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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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The second Trump administration’s opening blitz — of reactionary executive orders, extravagant corruption, mass firings of federal workers, and a plan to slash social services to pay for another tax cut for the wealthiest — is generating a progressive backlash, and creating boom times for those who recruit young people …
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