Donald Trump, in his speech at the Department of Justice on Friday, said it “should be illegal” for people to criticize judges, adding that it “probably is illegal in some form.” It’s not the first time the president has expressed this sentiment — on the campaign trail last year, Trump …
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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 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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Republicans are playing a game of chicken with Democrats over funding the government. And you’ll never believe who looks like they’re ready to capitulate. Government funding is due to run out Friday at midnight, which will spark a partial government shutdown absent the passage of a new stop-gap spending bill, …
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Ayo Edebiri revealed that she received a deluge of “insane death threats” and racial abuse after Elon Musk retweeted a phony rumor about a Pirates of the Caribbean reboot starring the Emmy-winner. Last February, Musk retweeted a post from an account called Unlimited L’s, which calls itself a “Source For …
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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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Jack White wrapped up the first North American leg of his No Name tour in Boston last month, and his final show featured a special performance of “Corporation,” the bitting Boarding House Reach track he’d only performed once before during the trek. While the song already reads like a bitter …
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