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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February 7, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The New York Times reports: Asanda Zondi received a startling phone call last Thursday, with orders to make her way to a health clinic in Vulindlela, South Africa, where she was participating in a research study that was testing a new device to prevent pregnancy and H.I.V. infection. The trial was shutting down, a nurse told her. The device, a …
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February 7, 2025 Politics, Pop Music
The Daily Beast reports: Neo-Nazi influencer Nick Fuentes has co-signed an anti-Semitic social media tirade from the rapper Kanye West. In the middle of an overnight flood of posts calling for disgraced mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs to be freed following his September arrest on charges of sex trafficking, West also ranted against Jews. “F— ALL OF YOUR F— A– UNFAIR …
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February 7, 2025 Immigration, United States
Ireland’s public broadcaster RTE reports: The number of people in the United States seeking to become Irish citizens has significantly increased. The Foreign Births Register allows the descendants of Irish people who have moved abroad to claim Irish citizenship. Last November, saw the highest number of passport applications from the US in a calendar month in the ten years worth …
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February 7, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Axios reports: The Trump administration is being sued over its move to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with unions representing workers in the lawsuit calling the action “unconstitutional and illegal.” The lawsuit that was filed in federal court Thursday seeks to block efforts to place most of USAID’s 10,000-strong global workforce on administrative leave by Friday night …
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