Elon Musk, who owns one of the world’s biggest social media platforms, has spent many millions of dollars on politics as he helps Donald Trump slash the federal government and continue the administration’s attack on immigrants. Now, Musk is saying that he is losing the “propaganda war,” potentially through his …
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) appeared to draw his largest crowd ever as part of his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour in Los Angeles near City Hall on Saturday. About 36,000 people gathered for the rally, according to his team. Joan Baez, Maggie Rogers, Neil Young performed leading up to Sanders’ speech, and …
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Donald Trump has taken extreme measures in his second term to deport foreign nationals legally residing in the U.S., such as revoking the visas of students involved in pro-Palestine protests on campuses around the country. Now, as The New York Times reports, the administration will look to widen the scope …
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B en Vizzachero had his dream job, working as a wildlife biologist with the Los Padres National Forest in California. He was moving up the ladder, had recently received a positive performance review, and was “making the world a better place,” he says. Yet, over Presidents’ Day weekend in February, …
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Millions of Americans flooded into the streets Saturday to protest president Donald Trump; his Department of Government Efficiency hatchet man Elon Musk; the GOP’s agenda to pay for tax cuts for the richest with cuts to Medicaid; preposterous cuts to science, health, and education; Trump’s mistreatment of trans kids and …
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Elon Musk may have bought himself influence over President Donald Trump’s administration, but public criticism of the president remains out of his budget. Instead — as the world braces for Trump’s tariff regime to go into effect at midnight on Tuesday — Musk is picking fights with a fellow presidential …
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Across the federal government, Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has gained access to untold volumes of data containing the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans. The data includes information like addresses, tax filings, family members, and medical records for everyone from average citizens receiving Social …
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John Oliver used the opening segment of Last Week Tonight to mock Donald Trump‘s economic strategy of implementing global tariffs. To kick things off, Oliver showed a video clip of Trump saying, “This will be indeed the golden age of America. It’s coming back.” “If you mean ‘golden age,’ the …
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It’s very important to the Trump administration that the government spend huge taxpayer dollars on ads that repeatedly thank Donald Trump while warning immigrants to leave or stay out of America. There was such “an unusual and compelling urgency” for this propaganda campaign that it could not be subject to …
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Saturday Night Live kicked off with Donald Trump trying hard to calm nerves about the falling stock market, only to come up with a slogan that did anything but: “Make America Great Depression Again.” Markets tumbled before and after the president’s so-called “Liberation Day” tariff announcement this week, which saw …
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