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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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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The Department of Education announced on Tuesday that it would be culling over 1,300 employees, reducing its total workforce to about half of what it was when President Donald Trump took office. Education Secretary Linda McMahon told Fox News that night that the mass layoffs were “the first step” toward …
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A federal judge has ruled that tens of thousands of employees summarily fired by the Trump administration must be rehired — that is if they even want to return to their jobs. On Thursday, District Court for the Northern District of California Judge William Alsup ruled that the federal government …
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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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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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As a major measles outbreak spreads out of West Texas into other states, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to spread a confusing message about vaccine safety. In an interview with Fox News that aired on Tuesday, Kennedy touted the vaccine — but also suggested that the best way …
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While speaking to the press today, President Donald Trump complained about how much he keeps hearing about the transgender community. “Everything is transgender, everybody transgender, that is all you hear about — and that is why we won the election in record numbers,” the president said. Trump also claimed that …
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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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