July 23, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
Mediaite reports: Tulsi Gabbard listed off a series of Hillary Clinton conspiracy theories Tuesday — as part of her breifing appearance to discuss newly-declassified documents targeting the Obama administration. Gabbard released a report Friday that the House Intelligence Committee originally drafted in 2017, which she says proves Russia favored Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election — going against the Obama …
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July 23, 2025 Democrats, Politics
Axios reports: Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) is preparing to launch his Senate campaign next week, multiple sources told Axios. Cooper is the Democratic Party’s top recruit in 2026, bolstering their chances of flipping a critical seat from Republicans. Cooper, a popular former governor, will instantly become the Democratic favorite to challenge the GOP for the open Senate …
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July 23, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
The Washington Post reports: The Pentagon’s independent watchdog has received evidence that messages from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Signal account previewing a U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen derived from a classified email labeled “SECRET/NOFORN,” people familiar with the matter said. The revelation appears to contradict longstanding claims by the Trump administration that no classified information was divulged in unclassified group …
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July 23, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Corruption
Government Executive reports: The Office of Management and Budget is now billing CFPB $4.7 million for Russ Vought’s security detail, according to a memorandum obtained by Government Executive. The memo, sent by CFPB’s deputy chief financial officer to staff last week, spells out that OMB and CFPB are entering into an interagency agreement to pay the costs. The memo spelled …
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July 23, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Corruption
The New York Times reports: A federal judge in Florida on Wednesday denied a request from the Trump administration to release grand jury transcripts from an investigation into the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, stymying efforts by President Trump to dispel a storm of criticism from many of his supporters. The quick denial came in response to a request by the …
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July 23, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Corruption
The New York Times reports: The federal program to combat H.I.V. in developing nations earned a reprieve last week when Congress voted to restore $400 million in funding. But that may be short-lived: Officials at the State Department have been mapping out a plan to shut it down in the coming years. Planning documents for the President’s Emergency Plan for …
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July 23, 2025 Media, Trump cultists
The Hollywood Reporter reports: Big changes will come to CBS and CBS News, once Skydance‘s takeover of Paramount Global is closed. Skydance has told the FCC that once its acquisition of Paramount Global is complete, it will initiate a “comprehensive review” of CBS to ensure that the network is operating in the public interest, and that it will hire an …
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July 23, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
The Hill reports: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, is calling on the Justice Department (DOJ) to charge former senior national health adviser Anthony Fauci with lying to Congress to test whether former President Biden’s pardon of Fauci will hold up in court. “I do believe Anthony Fauci committed a felony by lying to Congress,” …
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July 23, 2025 Crackpots, Idiocracy
The Guardian reports: One of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the US says he caught measles in west Texas and traveled back home – but he seems not to have alerted local authorities of his illness, which means the highly transmissible virus may have spread onward. Brian Hooker, chief scientific officer of Children’s Health Defense, filmed an interview in …
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July 23, 2025 Military, Trump Administration
The Daily Mail reports: An effort is under way among some Pentagon officials to denounce Pete Hegseth as unfit to serve as Defense Secretary. Since May, drafts of a letter have been circulating among high and mid-level military brass and civilian workers to ‘Let the American public know this guy has no clue what he’s doing,’ one of them told …
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