February 11, 2025 JMG Community, Open Thread
Variety reports: Disney is adjusting the content warnings ahead of some of its old movies, including “Peter Pan” and “Dumbo,” amid an overall shift in DEI strategy at the company following President Donald Trump taking office again. Disney is changing the disclaimer that autoplays before these titles. The previous version noted that the film “includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of …
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February 11, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
CNN reports: Trump made no attempt Tuesday to soften his proposal to relocate Palestinians in Gaza and redevelop the land into premium housing, even as his guest in the Oval Office, King Abdullah II of Jordan, suggested the Arab world was opposed. Trump repeated his view that Palestinians should be moved out to “parcels” in third countries, including Jordan. The …
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February 11, 2025 Military, Trump cultists
The Washington Post reports: Dozens of American students at a U.S. military installation in Germany walked out of their middle school on Tuesday as part of protests aimed at an official visit by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, underscoring the scope of disillusionment with the Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The students attend Patch Middle School …
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February 11, 2025 Crackpots, Trump cultists
“It’s the Trump effect, I really think so. There’s masculinity back in America and we’re not afraid to be alpha males anymore. This is fantastic. It’s a great sign of things to come.” – Former SNL cast member turned far-right cultist radio host Joe “Hairpiece” Piscopo, joining Fox host Rachel Campos-Duffy in celebrating the “hot sexy” [white] girl in a …
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February 11, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Associated Press reports: A federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to halt a judge’s order requiring the Trump administration to release billions of dollars in federal grants and loans. States say the money remains frozen even after a court blocked a sweeping pause on federal funding. The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals turned back the emergency appeal, …
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February 11, 2025 Christianists, Extremists
“Already there are signs, most notably from JD Vance, that this administration recognizes that these judges are breaking the law and that their rulings may not be respected, which they shouldn’t be. “In particular, Vance wrote, quote, if a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to …
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February 11, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
“Based on what we’re actually looking to do with the JFK investigation, I’m looking to actually bring in some of the attending physicians at the initial assassination. “Then also people that had been on the various commissions looking into it, like the Warren Commission looking into the initial assassination. There’s been conflicting evidence. And I think that even the FBI …
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February 11, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Associated Press reports: As a global news organization, The Associated Press informs billions of people around the world every day with factual, nonpartisan journalism. Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would …
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February 11, 2025 Elon Musk, Trump cultists
The New York Times reports: Elon Musk plans to file a financial disclosure report to the White House, but it will remain confidential, a White House official said Tuesday. There has never been a White House staffer with the vast potential for conflicts like Mr. Musk, the world’s richest person and the head of leading companies in electric vehicles, space …
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February 11, 2025 Elon Musk, Trump cultists
The New York Times reports: Elon Musk’s cost-cutting effort announced a variety of cuts at the Education Department totaling over $900 million, apparently aimed at hobbling the department’s research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences. The team Mr. Musk has assembled, which has operated in relative secrecy in shuttering other agencies such as U.S.A.I.D. and slashing government programs, said on …
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