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SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches — the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into orbit.

While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.

Hello?
April 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Fox Business Panel Sweats Trump’s Global Tariffs Blitz In ‘Hope’ It’s ‘Negotiation’ Bluff https://twp.ai/4imQlY
Fox Business Panel Sweats Trump’s Global Tariffs Blitz In ‘Hope’ It’s ‘Negotiation’ Bluff
Fox Business panelists were feeling apprehensive about Trump’s sweeping global tariffs regime, hoping that the blitz was a “negotiation" bluff.
twp.ai
April 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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March 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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'Heartless': Trump’s $660 million school food cut is latest GOP attack on nutrition aid
'Heartless': Trump’s $660 million school food cut is latest GOP attack on nutrition aid
The Trump administration is cutting over $600 million from a program designed to help schools and child care facilities buy healthy food from local farmers, the GOP’s latest attack on poor families. The administration is also cutting a similar program…
www.alternet.org
March 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Gerrit Cole to Undergo Tommy John Surgery
Gerrit Cole to Undergo Tommy John Surgery - Bleacher Nation
The Yankees will lose Cole for all of 2025.
www.bleachernation.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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U.S. stocks plunged today, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq and broad S&P 500 posting their biggest one-day drop since September 2022, amid heightened risk of recession this year after Trump wouldn't rule one out.
S&P 500, Nasdaq post worst day since 2022 amid recession fears; Dow drops 890 points
US stocks plunge, with S&P 500 and Nasdaq posting the largest one-day loss since 2022 after Trump declined to rule out recession. Dow sheds 890 pts.
www.usatoday.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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“Some experts warn that restrictions on Canadian electricity exports could lead to higher power bills and more brownouts across the continent, owing to the extremely integrated nature of North America’s power grid.”
Ontario imposes 25% surcharge on electricity exports to U.S.
The province used an Electricity Act regulation to make the policy change, and Premier Doug Ford didn’t rule out cutting off all Ontario power headed south of the border
www.theglobeandmail.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Dallas Cowboys’ defensive tackle Osa Odighizuwa agrees to 4-year, $80M contract extension
Dallas Cowboys’ defensive tackle Osa Odighizuwa agrees to 4-year, $80M contract extension
Veteran defensive tackle Osa Odighizuwa and the Dallas Cowboys have agreed to a four-year, $80 million contract extension. The contract includes $52 million in guaranteed money and a $20 million signing...
www.wmclradio.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Screenshot of Rubio while Trump and Vance berated Zelenskyy
February 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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For the record Pres. Zelenskyy has thanked the United States and Americans - 33 times to date including in an emotional speech to Congress.
March 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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February 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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February 17, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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At least 20 FDA staffers reviewing Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant company, were fired in an ongoing DOGE purge of federal workers.
FDA staff were reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company. DOGE just fired them.
At least 20 staffers reviewing Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant company, were fired in an ongoing DOGE purge of federal workers.
www.usatoday.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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New: "Marjorie Taylor Greene Bought Tesla Stock After Named As Chair Of DOGE Subcommittee"

me, for @forbes.com
Marjorie Taylor Greene Bought Tesla Stock After Named As Chair Of DOGE Subcommittee
The Georgia Republican stock purchase puts a spotlight on potential conflicts as she oversees Elon Musk’s federal cost-cutting initiatives.
www.forbes.com
February 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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The guy who racked up almost $8T in debt during his first term has no interest in paying it down.

The federal purge underway is to allow for oligarchs to make trillions in privatization and run roughshod in a deregulated landscape.

Remember that in an oligarchy, everything is run by the oligarchs.
February 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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The Justice Department said a Las Vegas woman filed more than 1,200 tax returns in order to fraudulently claim Covid-19 tax credits of nearly $100 million over a 16-month period beginning in June 2022.
Woman Pleads Guilty in Covid Tax Credit Scheme That Netted $33 Million
A Nevada business owner prepared and filed false tax returns to fraudulently obtain Covid relief money for her businesses and others, prosecutors said.
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Thursday: Trump officials fire hundreds at the National Nuclear Security Administration

Friday: moved to hire them back

“Sources told CNN the officials did not seem to know this agency oversees America’s nuclear weapons.”

www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...
Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say | CNN
Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.
www.cnn.com
February 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Joann is closing nearly 10 stores in the North Texas region as it grapples with restructuring.

Is your nearest Joann closing? Find out here:
Joann to shutter several stores in North Texas amid bankruptcy, retail challenges
Joann is closing nearly 10 stores in the region in an effort to shore up its finances.
www.dallasnews.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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DOGE's chaos isn't preventing waste — it's causing it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Nearly $500m of food aid at risk of spoilage after Trump USAid cuts
US government auditors find cuts have ‘degraded USAid’s ability to distribute and safeguard humanitarian assistance’
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Life gives
February 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM