February 9, 2025 Extremists, Nazis
The Associated Press reports: The far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is in second place in recent polls and has prompted widespread protests across the country before voters cast their ballots on Feb. 23. The protest at Munich’s Theresienwiese — where Oktoberfest takes place each year — brought a significantly larger crowd than expected, according to the German dpa …
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February 9, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
Politico reports: “I would say, yes, get rid of FEMA the way it exists today,” Noem said Sunday. “We still need the resources and the funds and the finances to go to people that have these types of disasters, like Hurricane Helene and the fires in California, but you need to let the local officials make the decisions on how …
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February 9, 2025 Democrats, Trump Corruption
“In a few weeks, the Republicans are going to try to figure out how they move forward, and they have, for the last two years, needed Democratic votes for every single continuing resolution, and they should not count on that this time. They are simply trying to dismantle the government. So yes, look, if we have to take steps to …
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February 9, 2025 Elon Musk, Trump cultists
Mediaite reports: Elon Musk sounded off on a federal judge for blocking access to the Treasury Department’s data systems to Musk and his DOGE team. Musk was not pleased by the ruling, to say the least. He kicked off what has been a day-long social media screed by pushing a claim from Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) that Engelmayer’s decision even …
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February 9, 2025 News, Politics
Alex Isenstadt writes for Axios: Iran’s threat to assassinate Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign was far more serious than publicly known — and led to extraordinary precautions by his team that included using a decoy plane to avert a feared attempt on his life. My upcoming book, “Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power,” reveals the depth …
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February 9, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Associated Press reports: Trump has spent 20 days in office, and on nearly every one of them, he has signed executive orders — often several. Trump issued Day 1 orders to pardon most members of the mob that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord and keep TikTok functioning. He hasn’t …
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February 9, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump cultists
The New York Times reports: The curious trade came a little past 9 p.m. on Jan. 17 — a $1,096,109 bet less than two minutes after the soon-to-be president of the United States posted on his social media account that his family had issued a cryptocurrency called $Trump. In those first minutes, a crypto wallet with a unique identification code …
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February 9, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The New York Post reports: President Trump has ordered security clearances stripped from a new hit list of antagonists. Trump said his new top target is ex-Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “Bad guy. Take away his passes,” he said of Blinken. “This is to take away every right they have [revoking security clearances] including they can’t go into [federal] buildings.” …
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February 9, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump cultists
CNN reports: Russell Vought, the newly installed acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, sent an email Saturday night ordering all employees at the consumer watchdog to stop virtually all work – including fighting financial abuse. “Effective immediately, unless expressly approved by the Acting Director or required by law, all employees, contractors and other personnel of the bureau shall…cease …
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February 9, 2025 Extremists, Trump cultists
The New York Times reports: The city of Springfield, Ohio, which was singled out by Donald J. Trump and JD Vance during the presidential campaign with false and outrageous claims about Haitian immigrants, has sued a neo-Nazi group that helped draw national attention to the small city in the first place. The suit, filed in federal court on Thursday, was brought …
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