As Tesla CEO Elon Musk leads President Donald Trump’s relentless purge of the federal government’s workforce via his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a string of attacks and vandalism have hit vehicles and dealerships bearing the automaker’s logo. Musk and several DOGE top aides sat down with Fox News …
Read More »Trump Says Union Rights Are a Threat to National Security
Donald Trump wants to end union rights he says could “interfere” with America’s national security interests. On Thursday night, the president signed an executive order aimed at preventing groups of employees who deal with national security from collective bargaining. The move comes as federal unions have been challenging the administration’s …
Read More »Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Him Deport Migrants Without Due Process
On Friday, Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to overturn a temporary court order and let him deport migrants without a hearing after he sent almost 300 Venezuelan migrants to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. The filing argues that the president has the ultimate authority to remove people based …
Read More »Trump Defends Fraudster He Pardoned: 'He Supported Trump'
Donald Trump explained why he pardoned Trevor Milton, a campaign donor who was convicted of defrauding investors by making false claims about his electric truck company, in comments at the Oval Office on Friday, telling reporters that Milton’s treatment was “very unfair” and that “the thing that he did wrong” …
Read More »International Tufts Student Detained by Feds, Video Shows Masked People Handcuffing Her
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen and a doctoral student at Tufts, wrote an opinion essay for her school newspaper The Tufts Daily last March. She, along with three other students, penned the piece criticizing university leaders for their response to its community union Senate passing resolutions demanding Tufts “acknowledge the …
Read More »Republicans Vote to Let Banks Screw Over Working Americans
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) instituted a $5 cap on overdraft fees under President Joe Biden. Thankfully for major banking institutions — and unfortunately for working Americans — Donald Trump won the presidential election last November, and with his administration’s blessing, Republicans just advanced legislation to repeal the cap …
Read More »'The Atlantic' Releases New Messages … Which Sure Seem Like Sensitive War Plans
After various senior members of the Trump administration denied sharing “war plans” — classified or otherwise — in a Signal group to which they had inadvertently added The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, the magazine is now releasing additional details about the chat’s contents previously withheld over national security concerns. The Atlantic …
Read More »Supreme Court Says the Government Can Regulate Ghost Guns
The Supreme Court has upheld the legality of Biden-era restrictions on the distribution of parts and “kits” used to assemble so-called ghost guns. In a 7-2 ruling on Wednesday, the justices rejected a bid to overturn rules allowing the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to include …
Read More »Dems Slam Trump Intel Chiefs to Their Faces Over Group-Chat Fiasco
“Deliberations should be conducted through classified channels,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe said Tuesday. He was speaking during a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee that took place just a day after The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeff Goldberg revealed that he had been inadvertently added to a group chat in …
Read More »Trump's SEC Nominee Consulted for Wall Street, Big Oil, Crypto Interests
As he courted cryptocurrency investors last year, Donald Trump promised to fire Gary Gensler, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair who had scrutinized the industry, and install a new crypto-friendly regulator in his place. Trump, who launched his own crypto meme coin days before he took office, didn’t just …
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