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President Trump's financial disclosure shows more than $630 million in income from 2024 including tens of millions from cryptocurrency and Trump-branded products touted on the campaign trail.
The responses to Zohran Mamdani’s showing in the New York City mayoral primary were the latest examples of how some Republican lawmakers have grown more overt in using bigoted language and tropes.
Trump’s reckless and discriminatory travel ban doesn’t make us safer. All it will do is further isolate the United Statesfrom our allies and weaken our global leadership.
National Public Radio and three local stations filed a lawsuit Tuesday against President Donald Trump, arguing that an executive order aimed at cutting federal funding for the organization is illegal.
Painting of Cathay Williams in her union uniform.
Pvt Cathay Williams
First black woman to enlist in the US military, a former slave, she joined the army under the male pseudonym William Cathay, 1866. She was discovered when being treated for smallpox and honorably discharged, 1868.
She remains the only known female buffalo soldier
In his second term, Donald Trump has explicitly defined the goal of his Presidency as a sort of racial-justice quest—for white people.
-$1.5T in new tax cuts predominantly for the rich
-$700B in Medicaid cuts
-$500B in Medicare cuts
-$300B in SNAP cuts
-Leasing public lands to Big Oil
-Ending IRS Direct File
-Ending clean energy tax credits
-Banning AI regulation in the states
The oligarchy's wish list.
"This president is engaged in the most direct assault on the Constitution in our history," U.S. Sen. Angus King writes.
This is the greatest non-handshake since Wayne Bridges / John Terry (though Doug Emhoff came close with Bruce Fischer).
That’s what happens when you side with dictators against your allies.
This seems right, and all of this is WRONG.
Banning trans athletes was never about sports — they want to erase us.
Trans people are valid NO MATTER WHAT. 🗣️
NEW: The Social Security Administration is rushing cuts to phone services at the White House's request, the agency's acting commissioner told Social Security advocates in a meeting on Monday, two sources who attended tell Axios.
Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Disgusting!
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Elon Musk shared a call from conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro urging Trump to pardon Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the 2020 killing of George Floyd.
Blatant racist firing of a qualified Black man and replacing him with an unqualified white man.
Federal workers have been given about 48 hours to explain what they accomplished last week. Elon Musk says not responding will be taken as a resignation. apnews.com/article/elon...
Some federal employees who accepted Trump’s buyout offer are now being notified that their buyout has been denied, and they are being terminated instead.
Across the government, probationary employees and Schedule A workers—including individuals with severe physical, psychiatric, or intellectual disabilities, as well as veterans—are being let go.
I asked Sen. Warren about Musk's attacks on the CFPB.
A: "He is moving to get the CFPB out of the way just before he launches his money platform. It’s a little like a bank robber managing to fire the cops just before he strolls into the lobby of the institution." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Why is this important? The chairman stepped down on January 20 and was not replaced by an acting chairman until after a major crash. This is not only a blatant conflict of interest but also a situation where Musk’s actions may have contributed to the loss of American lives.
SpaceX, which holds billions of dollars in government contracts, was penalized by the FAA for ignoring regulations. In response, Musk pushed for the resignation of the agency’s chairman.
Where are all the law an order Republicans now?
Fired? He needs to be arrested!!
As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget.
Really think about how twisted this all is.
