February 7, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Politico reports: The Trump administration has moved to push out a swathe of federal workers previously involved in combating election-related disinformation. Employees from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency who once worked in its Election Security and Resilience division were notified Thursday night they were being put on administrative leave. The move comes shortly after the installment of new DHS …
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February 7, 2025 Elon Musk, Trump cultists
ABC News reports: House Judiciary Democrats sent a terse letter Friday to newly minted Attorney General Pam Bondi, expressing concerns that Elon Musk’s role at DOGE creates “conflicts of interest” due to what they said are his “sprawling financial interests” in federal contracts and subsidies. Democrats contend that Musk’s companies’ routine engagement with federal agencies on defense contracts, telecommunications regulations, …
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February 7, 2025 Extremists, Trump cultists
Mediaite reports: Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), suggested that The Wall Street Journal reporter responsible for uncovering a DOGE employee’s racist tweets should be fired on Friday. In a story published on Thursday, the Journal‘s Katherine Long revealed that a “key DOGE staff member who gained access to …
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February 7, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
San Francisco’s PBS affiliate reports: The Federal Communications Commission is investigating San Francisco-based KCBS for its coverage of immigration enforcement actions in San José last month, sparking concerns from press freedom advocates and drawing right-wing backlash to the radio station. In an interview on Fox News, Trump-appointed commission chair Brendan Carr said he opened the investigation after KCBS shared the …
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February 7, 2025 Christianists, Trump cultists
Betsy DeVos writes for the Detroit Free Press: The Department has failed at its mission and no longer needs to exist. I can understand how that idea, which President Donald Trump is committed to advancing, might sound a bit radical. But having spent four years on the inside as secretary of education, struggling to get the department’s bureaucracy to make …
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February 7, 2025 Politics, Republicans
NBC News reports: Republican donors at a gathering last week in Palm Beach County openly discussed the prospect of Casey DeSantis’ running for governor in 2026, and for the first time, Florida’s first lady is seriously considering the idea. Gov. Ron DeSantis, her husband, faces term limits and cannot seek re-election. There has long been speculation about whether Casey, a …
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February 7, 2025 Crime, LGBT News
Tampa’s ABC affiliate reports: A Hillsborough County jury found Gerald Declan Radford not guilty for the shooting of a gay man at a Tampa dog park last year. Radford was charged with second-degree murder for the death of a gay man at a Tampa dog park in 2024. According to prosecutors, Radford fatally shot Walt Lay last February after witnesses …
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February 7, 2025 Politics, Russia
Politico Europe reports: Russian bots have driven a dramatic surge of disinformation on the social media platform X days before Germany’s election, according to a government report seen by POLITICO. At the center of the effort to influence German voters is Doppelgänger, a Kremlin-backed operation, according to the German Office of Foreign Affairs. The campaign uses fake news sites, sleeper …
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February 7, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
ABC News reports: “We care,” Melania Trump declared in 2018 during a visit to Egypt as first lady to promote her partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development. “We care, and we want to show the world that we care, and I’ve partnered and am working with USAID,” she continued. “And that’s what I want to share — that …
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February 7, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
NOTUS reports: Republicans are already staring down the possibility of a politically disastrous government shutdown, with funding set to run out on March 14 and lawmakers seeing little reason for any optimism. “The clock is ticking and running away from us right now,” senior appropriator Rep. Steve Womack told NOTUS on Thursday. The March 14 deadline, House Appropriations Chair Tom …
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