Elon Musk is using his position within the Trump administration to funnel lucrative federal contracts to his companies. The president’s family is reportedly cashing in, too. According to a Monday report from Bloomberg, Donald Trump Jr. — the president’s eldest son — has invested $50 million into SpaceX and xAI …
Read More »Trump Is Leading an 'All-Out Assault' on the Climate
It’s no secret that Donald Trump has zero interest in fighting climate change and enthusiastically supports the fossil fuel industry. Trump’s 2024 victory was expected to set the climate fight back, but in less than two months, his administration has already done irreparable harm to efforts to address climate change. …
Read More »Trump Admits He's Willing to Let Americans Suffer for His Trade War
Donald Trump once again acknowledged that his foolish trade wars will disrupt the economy, potentially causing a recession. But the president still spoke about the impending tariffs on Mexico and Canada as if they are paid by the exporting country rather than the American companies importing goods, who then pass …
Read More »Trump Doubles Down on Lie, Says Government Funded 'Transgender Surgery on Mice'
President Donald Trump perpetuated and expanded on a lie he told during his joint address to Congress where he claimed the Biden administration spent millions of dollars on scientific research to make mice transgender. Trump in an interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that aired today said that the head …
Read More »ICE Arrests Palestinian Student Activist Who Helped Lead Columbia University Protests
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested a Columbia University activist who helped lead the Palestinian solidarity encampment on campus last year, multiple outlets reported. Authorities claimed to be responding to a State Department order when they arrested Mahmoud Khalil, who was a lead negotiator in discussions with university administration during …
Read More »Mass Layoffs at the Veterans Administration to Begin in June: Report
The Veterans Administration (VA) is planning for mass layoffs that will start in June, according to Reuters, which reviewed an internal government memo. The March 6 memo instructs the VA’s human resources department to review agency operations by June. Once the review is complete, “VA will initiate Department-wide RIF actions,” …
Read More »Trump's Threat to Take Over Canada Is a Scandal
As an American teenager who grew into a semblance of political consciousness during the height of George W. Bush’s War on Terror, it was easy to notice how the post-9/11 period corroded our political culture and our grasp of decency in ways from which we have never truly recovered. One …
Read More »Is Trump's 'Minerals Deal' a Fossil Fuel Shakedown?
It has been one week since a calamitous Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine ignited one of the most tumultuous periods in U.S.-Ukrainian relations since the 2022 Russian invasion. Overnight, Russia conducted one of its largest ever missile and drone strikes against Ukraine …
Read More »Trump's Shockingly Lawless Second Term
T here were less than four days to go until Donald Trump was sworn into office for a second time. In those final days of the presidential transition, Trump and his team were busy finalizing their blitz of executive actions, which included a widespread crackdown on civil rights, trans Americans, …
Read More »Pentagon Flags WWII Plane That Nuked Japan as Woke
How does one go about purging a federal department of all references to diversity, equity, and inclusion? At the Department of Defense, it seems that the tactic is to simply input icky woke words into your system search and mark anything you find for deletion — even if it’s a …
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