February 5, 2025 State Television, Trump cultists
Laura Ingraham: “I think it’s so foreign to us to hear this, that, wait a second. We actually may solve a problem, we actually may make money on it. Like that’s a bad thing for the United States to get repaid for the tens of billions of dollars just in the last few years we’ve dumped into the Middle East …
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February 5, 2025 Republicans, Trump Administration
The Associated Press reports: The Trump administration said late Tuesday that it is pulling almost all U.S. Agency for International Development workers off the job and out of the field worldwide, moving to all but end a six-decade mission to shore up American security by fighting starvation, funding education and working to end epidemics. The administration notified USAID workers in …
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February 5, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Axios reports: President Trump’s stunning declaration that the U.S. could “take over” Gaza surprised many of his own advisers, thrilled right-wing Israelis, and deeply alarmed the governments in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan. Trump’s plan to displace two million Palestinians came at a very sensitive point of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage deal. It could even embolden both Hamas and …
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February 5, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
The HIPAA Journal reports: Arizona Congressman Rep. Andy Biggs has reintroduced a bill that seeks to abolish the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Biggs views OSHA as part of “the bloated federal government” and believes safety and health issues are better handled by states and private employers. OSHA is a federal agency part of the Department of Labor and …
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February 5, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
The Hill reports: Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) has called for the deportation Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a U.S. citizen, to her birth country of Somalia. “America would be a better place if @IlhanMN were deported back to Somalia,” Gill wrote Tuesday on the social platform X. Gill, a first-term lawmaker representing Texas’s 26th Congressional District, was responding to a clip …
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February 5, 2025 Elon Musk, Trump cultists
“Elon Musk, you didn’t create USAID—the United States Congress did, for the American people. And just like Elon Musk did not create USAID, he doesn’t have the power to destroy it. And who’s going to stop him? We are. We’re going to stop him. “Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payment systems of the United …
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February 5, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump cultists
NPR reports: The Senate has voted to confirm Pam Bondi to serve as attorney general, elevating a longtime defender of President Trump to lead the Justice Department and oversee the more than 100,000 who work for it and its component agencies — including the FBI. Bondi was confirmed Tuesday by a vote of 54 to 46. She enters the role …
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February 5, 2025 China, United States
The Associated Press reports: Americans are likely to pay more for products from popular Chinese e-commerce platforms like Shein and Temu as the U.S. Postal Service said it would stop accepting parcels from China and Hong Kong. The move was announced Tuesday, coming after the U.S. imposed an additional 10% tariff on Chinese goods and ended a customs exception that …
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February 4, 2025 JMG Community, Open Thread
Variety reports: Netflix is distancing itself from “Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofía Gascón in an effort to salvage the film’s Oscar prospects. And as the Spanish actress tries to defuse the blowback for her past social media posts, in which she shared offensive views that were seen as Islamophobic and racist, she’s doing it on her own, without the guidance …
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February 4, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The New York Post reports: President Trump proposed a US takeover of the Gaza Strip Tuesday — shortly after proposing removing “all” Palestinians living there. “The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a good job with it too,” Trump said at a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We’ll own it and be …
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