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The UK-based Everyone Hates Elon protest group keeps on going viral for its eye-catching unauthorized actions. Who is running the group, and what do they have planned next?
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April 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The UK-based Everyone Hates Elon protest group keeps on going viral for its eye-catching unauthorized actions. Who is running the group, and what do they have planned next?
@matthewchampion.bsky.social has more:
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Donald Trump hates his Colorado portrait? Canada should make thousands more.
Let’s turn our country into one big gallery of mocking effigies. #Opinion
Let’s turn our country into one big gallery of mocking effigies. #Opinion
Vinay Menon: Donald Trump hates his portrait in Colorado? Canada should turn itself into one big gallery of mocking Trump effigies
A portrait of Trump that he didn’t like has been removed from the Colorado State Capitol. What if we weaponized his delusional vanity against him?
www.thestar.com
March 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Donald Trump hates his Colorado portrait? Canada should make thousands more.
Let’s turn our country into one big gallery of mocking effigies. #Opinion
Let’s turn our country into one big gallery of mocking effigies. #Opinion
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Robert Morris—the televangelist who “spiritually advised” Trump during his 2016 campaign—has been indicted by an Oklahoma grand jury for indecent acts with a 12-year-old girl beginning in the 1980s.
Trump’s Former Spiritual Adviser Indicted for Lewd Acts With a Child
The Gateway megachurch founder was indicted for sexual misconduct with a 12-year-old girl.
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March 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Robert Morris—the televangelist who “spiritually advised” Trump during his 2016 campaign—has been indicted by an Oklahoma grand jury for indecent acts with a 12-year-old girl beginning in the 1980s.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has caused outrage after he reposted a tweet on his social media site X which claimed that Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong were not responsible for the deaths of millions of people but the public sector workers were.
Elon Musk retweets post saying Hitler 'didn't murder millions of people'
www.irishstar.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has caused outrage after he reposted a tweet on his social media site X which claimed that Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong were not responsible for the deaths of millions of people but the public sector workers were.
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HEY ELON! Where are you on this one? Donald Trump’s frequent golf outings at his Florida courses have now burdened American taxpayers with over $18 million since his return to the presidency, putting him on track to surpass the $151.5 million spent during his first term.
March 8, 2025 at 9:47 PM
HEY ELON! Where are you on this one? Donald Trump’s frequent golf outings at his Florida courses have now burdened American taxpayers with over $18 million since his return to the presidency, putting him on track to surpass the $151.5 million spent during his first term.
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Less than two months after taking office, US President Donald Trump has reportedly spent $18.2 million of taxpayers' money on his golfing hobby, despite his and Elon Musk's DOGE campaign to slash federal spending.
Trump spends staggering $18 million of taxpayer money golfing amid DOGE cuts
www.irishstar.com
March 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Less than two months after taking office, US President Donald Trump has reportedly spent $18.2 million of taxpayers' money on his golfing hobby, despite his and Elon Musk's DOGE campaign to slash federal spending.
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Fact Check: "This is a Biden hangover.”
Trump added $2.1 trillion to the deficit. Biden then reduced it by $942 billion.
In the last 50 years, the deficit has increased by a total of $3.8 trillion under Republican presidents. Under Democrats, it’s gone down by $2.1 trillion.
Trump added $2.1 trillion to the deficit. Biden then reduced it by $942 billion.
In the last 50 years, the deficit has increased by a total of $3.8 trillion under Republican presidents. Under Democrats, it’s gone down by $2.1 trillion.
Donald Trump Just Proved He’s an Economic Idiot. Again.
His MAGA sycophants knew all along that his central economic proposal was a sham, but they repeated his lies. And now the economy is cracking.
newrepublic.com
March 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Fact Check: "This is a Biden hangover.”
Trump added $2.1 trillion to the deficit. Biden then reduced it by $942 billion.
In the last 50 years, the deficit has increased by a total of $3.8 trillion under Republican presidents. Under Democrats, it’s gone down by $2.1 trillion.
Trump added $2.1 trillion to the deficit. Biden then reduced it by $942 billion.
In the last 50 years, the deficit has increased by a total of $3.8 trillion under Republican presidents. Under Democrats, it’s gone down by $2.1 trillion.
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There’s no chance that Musk and his lapdogs will be yanked from their posts, since the point of DOGE is not really to reform government spending and accountability at all.
DOGE Is a Massive Scam—Even on Its Own Terms
Even if you believe that Musk is trying to root out waste and fraud (and you really shouldn't), he and his dweeby hatchet bros are only making things more corrupt and expensive.
www.thenation.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
There’s no chance that Musk and his lapdogs will be yanked from their posts, since the point of DOGE is not really to reform government spending and accountability at all.
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Defying mainstream media narratives about the exhausted opposition, protests are picking up in D.C. and across the country, led by protesters who never hung up their placards to begin with.
The #Resistance Lives. It Just Looks Different This Time.
Defying mainstream media narratives about the exhausted opposition, protests are picking up in D.C. and across the country, led by protesters who never hung up their placards to begin with.
newrepublic.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Defying mainstream media narratives about the exhausted opposition, protests are picking up in D.C. and across the country, led by protesters who never hung up their placards to begin with.
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"Now we hear that Miller admits that Mexico was already stopping migrants. Before we get to the specifics of what that means, doesn’t that undercut the big story Trump is telling about the tariffs?"
Transcript: Trump’s Tariff Scam Accidentally Wrecked by Stephen Miller
An interview with Adam Isacson, an expert on Latin America, about Stephen Miller’s surprising admission that Mexico is helping stop migrants, why that wrecks Trump’s case for tariffs, and what lies…
newrepublic.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"Now we hear that Miller admits that Mexico was already stopping migrants. Before we get to the specifics of what that means, doesn’t that undercut the big story Trump is telling about the tariffs?"
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It is Elon Musk who is now running the United States. Not Donald Trump | Moira Donegan
It is Elon Musk who is now running the United States. Not Donald Trump | Moira Donegan
A foreign billionaire is running the state through a shadow government without formal checks – the constitutional order, now, is largely window dressing
It’s one of the humiliations of our historical moment that the constitutional order has been…
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
It is Elon Musk who is now running the United States. Not Donald Trump | Moira Donegan
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The U.S. hospitality industry is bracing for huge losses as Canadians are urged to cancel trips to the U.S. in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on most of Canada's goods.
Canadian Travel Boycott Of U.S. Could Cost $2.1 Billion, U.S. Travel Association Warns
Canadians have been told to cancel trips to the U.S. after President Donald Trump announced 25% tariffs on most of Canada's goods.
www.forbes.com
February 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The U.S. hospitality industry is bracing for huge losses as Canadians are urged to cancel trips to the U.S. in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on most of Canada's goods.
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The tragic air collision revealed Trump’s rancid, irredeemable character once again | Sidney Blumenthal
The tragic air collision revealed Trump’s rancid, irredeemable character once again | Sidney Blumenthal
Trump’s pretense as king has quickly devolved into his strutting insult routine. He will always exploit tragedy to display his self-regard
Outrages of Donald Trump’s rancid character topple over each other so rapidly and in such volume that they long ago…
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The tragic air collision revealed Trump’s rancid, irredeemable character once again | Sidney Blumenthal
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A group founded by the billionaire Koch brothers is on a mission: to extend the massive tax cuts Trump instituted in his first term, and to convince working-class Americans that those cuts benefit them, too—despite ample evidence to the contrary.
Trump tax cuts not just good for billionaires, say billionaires
A memo obtained by the Guardian shows Charles Koch's dark-money network spending big on—sorry, against—class warfare.
www.motherjones.com
January 27, 2025 at 11:38 PM
A group founded by the billionaire Koch brothers is on a mission: to extend the massive tax cuts Trump instituted in his first term, and to convince working-class Americans that those cuts benefit them, too—despite ample evidence to the contrary.
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Trump is both more experienced and more extreme than he was in 2017: He and his allies have learned from their failures the first time around and are pursuing a nakedly fascistic agenda.
The First Resistance Failed. The Next One Can’t.
Democrats are wallowing in their failure to stop a second Trump presidency, which looks to be even more damaging than his first one. Snap out of it!
newrepublic.com
January 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Trump is both more experienced and more extreme than he was in 2017: He and his allies have learned from their failures the first time around and are pursuing a nakedly fascistic agenda.
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Pete Hegseth’s ex-sister-in-law accused him of causing his second wife to fear for her life, and of being so drunk in uniform that his brother had to carry him out of a Minneapolis strip club
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New allegations about Pentagon nominee Hegseth circulated to members of U.S. Senate • Arizona Mirror
New allegations of alcohol abuse and misconduct by defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth drew fresh scrutiny Wednesday about the veteran, former Fox News host and author who President Donald Trump wa...
azmirror.com
January 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Pete Hegseth’s ex-sister-in-law accused him of causing his second wife to fear for her life, and of being so drunk in uniform that his brother had to carry him out of a Minneapolis strip club
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President Trump on Tuesday granted a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road drug marketplace and a cult hero in the cryptocurrency and libertarian worlds. Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances. nyti.ms/42ok5qL
January 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
President Trump on Tuesday granted a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road drug marketplace and a cult hero in the cryptocurrency and libertarian worlds. Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances. nyti.ms/42ok5qL
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Dozens of subreddits are banning links to X
Dozen of subreddits are banning links to X
Many other subreddits are considering similar changes.
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January 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Dozens of subreddits are banning links to X
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President Donald Trump's mass deportation plans could have a significant economic side effect: draining Social Security funding.
Trump's mass deportation plan could drain more than $20 billion a year from Social Security
President Donald Trump's mass deportation plans could have a significant economic side effect: draining Social Security funding.
www.businessinsider.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
President Donald Trump's mass deportation plans could have a significant economic side effect: draining Social Security funding.
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Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s pick to run the Pentagon, regularly abused alcohol to the point that he passed out at family gatherings, according to an ex-relative’s account of his behavior
Hegseth Routinely Passed Out from Alcohol Abuse, Witness Says
Trump’s Pentagon pick has denied the allegations, calling them part of a ‘smear campaign.’
www.wsj.com
January 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s pick to run the Pentagon, regularly abused alcohol to the point that he passed out at family gatherings, according to an ex-relative’s account of his behavior
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Breaking News: Pete Hegseth’s former sister-in-law made a sworn statement to senators that the secretary of defense nominee was abusive toward his second wife.
Hegseth Ex-Sister-in-Law Tells Senators He Was ‘Abusive’ to Second Wife
A woman once married to the brother of Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary nominee, submitted a sworn statement to the Senate in a late-hour complication to his confirmation. His attorney denied her a...
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Breaking News: Pete Hegseth’s former sister-in-law made a sworn statement to senators that the secretary of defense nominee was abusive toward his second wife.
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Reactions online were mixed, though some pointed out it looked eerily similar to some of the outfits in the television adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale.
Ivanka Trump’s inauguration outfit sparks concern with 'dystopian message'
www.irishstar.com
January 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Reactions online were mixed, though some pointed out it looked eerily similar to some of the outfits in the television adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale.
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Trump has officially reversed President Biden’s executive order aimed at lowering prescription drug costs for Medicare and Medicaid users. What does this mean for affordable healthcare?
January 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Trump has officially reversed President Biden’s executive order aimed at lowering prescription drug costs for Medicare and Medicaid users. What does this mean for affordable healthcare?
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News Analysis: Donald Trump’s promise to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine in 24 hours, “before I even become president,” proved to be hyperbole.
Trump Vowed to End the Ukraine War Before Taking Office. The War Rages On.
Donald J. Trump’s promise to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine in 24 hours, “before I even become president,” proved to be hyperbole.
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:25 AM
News Analysis: Donald Trump’s promise to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine in 24 hours, “before I even become president,” proved to be hyperbole.
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Wannabe crusader, accused sexual predator, and rampant misogynist Pete Hegseth is also a Confederate apologist.
Trump’s Defense Secretary Nominee Doesn’t See Problem With Confederacy
Pete Hegseth defended naming things after the Confederacy, a new report reveals.
newrepublic.com
January 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Wannabe crusader, accused sexual predator, and rampant misogynist Pete Hegseth is also a Confederate apologist.