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No is a complete sentence.
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Starting this week, we’ll all pay more at the store because of the Trump tariffs, even while he’s finalizing a multi-trillion-dollar tax cut for the wealthy.

All the bluster is meant to get us talking about literally anything else.
March 5, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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As they grow more and more AI dependent, these people reveal how little they read. See also Bill Ackman, who is constantly demanding “investigations” over stuff that would be solved by reading to the seventh graf. Arrogant, lazy, stupid.
Over on the other site, they're suggesting that the reporters who worked on this, including myself, hid our names. They didn't bother to scroll down to the bottom of the piece where we are listed in full.

Great sleuthing by the do your own research crowd.
March 2, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Did y'all hear about Elon Musk new $2 BILLION FAA contract?

Conflict of interest . . .👀

Instead of Republicans taking jobs and programs away, they need to be investigating this—but OH RIGHT—they report to King Musk.

www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b...
Musk’s Starlink gets FAA contract, raising new conflict of interest concerns | CNN Business
The Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to use SpaceX’s Starlink internet system to upgrade the information technology networks it uses to manage US airspace, raising new concerns about conflic...
www.cnn.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Let's be clear about what this means: Donald Trump is hand-picking the reporters that cover him and his administration.

This is straight out of the Kremlin playbook of intimidating reporters and manipulating press coverage and it should alarm every American.
White House seizes control of press pool, will decide which outlets cover events with president
The move reverses the long established precedent of journalists determining who participates in the press pool.
www.politico.com
February 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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February 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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USAID was investigating Starlink

CFPB was the agency preventing dodgy financial maneuvers like X becoming a bank

Musk is systematically (and illegally) going after the agencies that constraint his business interests
Russell Vought, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and one of the authors of Project 2025, just ordered the agency's staff to effectively cease all operations in an org wide email.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
Federal Financial Watchdog Ordered to Cease Activity
In an email to staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency’s acting director ordered workers to cease “all supervision and examination activity.”
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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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.
February 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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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.
February 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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NEW: President Donald Trump has given Elon Musk sweeping authority to overhaul the U.S. government bureaucracy and its operations around the globe.

ProPublica confirmed the identities and roles of more than 20 key people affiliated with Musk.
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
propub.li
February 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Whole Foods, which is owned by notorious union-buster Amazon, is arguing that Trump's dismantling of the NLRB means the company doesn't have to recognize a newly unionized store in Philadelphia.

Looks like Jeff Bezos' investment in Trump is paying off.
Amazon's Whole Foods cites Trump's NLRB purge as grounds for rejecting union win
Last month, workers at a Whole Foods store in Philadelphia voted in favor of joining the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.
www.cnbc.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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i'm against political nicknames in almost all circumstances but incel clown posse is inspired
The member of Elon's incel clown posse in charge of the US Treasury's galaxy brain idea: "Let's take data formatted specifically for computers to read, filter it through an English language model that will completely ignore the structure of the data, and convert it to a different file format."
February 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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New: A US judge temporarily limited access to the US Treasury Department’s payments system after a group of unions accused the agency of illegally sharing their members’ information with Elon Musk’s government efficiency group
Treasury Access by Musk’s DOGE Partly Limited by Judge for Now
A US judge temporarily limited access to the US Treasury Department’s payments system after a group of unions accused the agency of illegally sharing their members’ information with Elon Musk’s govern...
www.bloomberg.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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🚨BREAKING: In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court REJECTED Donald Trump's motion to block his criminal sentencing in New York.
January 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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The richest man in the world who is about to shutdown our government tweeting support for a German neo-nazi party in the middle of the night
I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.”

The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.
December 20, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Omg
we're cooked
December 10, 2024 at 10:43 PM
They have no comment because they know they are corrupt.
The Trump campaign paid a law firm employing RFK Jr. $100,000 in the weeks after Jr. endorsed Trump.

The campaign made *no* other payments to that firm during the 2023-24 election cycle.

No parties involved responded to NBC News' requests for comment. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Trump campaign paid law firm employing RFK Jr. weeks after he endorsed Trump
The Trump campaign disbursed $100,000 to a California law firm that lists Kennedy as one of its attorneys three weeks after he bowed out of the race and backed Trump.
www.nbcnews.com
December 8, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget
December 8, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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That's because he can't. Why make it seem like it's his choice??
December 8, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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BREAKING: Renowned former federal prosecutor Harry Litman announces he has resigned from his role as a contributor for the LA Times.

"I don’t want to continue to work for a paper that is appeasing Trump and facilitating his assault on democratic rule for craven reasons."
Why I Just Resigned From The Los Angeles Times
By Harry Litman
harrylitman.substack.com
December 5, 2024 at 5:23 PM
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Trump’s *never* lied about crowd sizes, so I’m thoroughly shocked that he’s claiming a “sweeping” mandate after a “landslide” election.
December 4, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Exactly.
Trump is threatening to jump start a recession, send millions to deportation camps, and arrest his political enemies. My words to Laura Coates: Dems need to stop bringing a butter knife to a real fight. The stakes are too high.

youtu.be/wfsX4pJpd84
Rep Crockett: "Democrats are bringing a butter knife to a real fight"
YouTube video by Rep. Jasmine Crockett
youtu.be
December 3, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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Your nominees for best subversive parenthetical of 2024 are… www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
December 2, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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All of this seems wildly disqualifying to lead the Pentagon -- and Fox executives likely know if the behavior continued. www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
December 2, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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Hunter Biden’s TWO criminal cases were political prosecutions in order to attack President Joe Biden.

The DOJ pursued unprecedented charges after a high-pressure campaign by Trump and his surrogates.
December 2, 2024 at 12:26 AM