February 4, 2025 Immigration, Trump Corruption
NewsNation reports: The Trump administration on Tuesday began flying immigrants who entered the country illegally to Guantanamo Bay amid plans to use the facility in Cuba to house thousands of migrants. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that the first flights from the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay carrying “illegal migrants” were underway. “President Trump is not messing around, and …
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February 4, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Washington Post reports: The assistant commissioner of a division of the General Services Administration told staff early this week that layoffs across the federal government are “likely” after the deferred resignation offer expires Thursday, according to an email obtained by The Washington Post — the sharpest move yet toward forcibly removing many of the 2.3 million civilian federal employees. …
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February 4, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
The Daily Beast reports: A MAGA senator said he liked “omelets better than sex” when coming to Elon Musk’s defense for shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Louisiana Senator John Kennedy had a bizarre rant on Fox News when he compared the breakfast food to Musk putting USAID on the chopping block. “I like omelets better than …
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February 4, 2025 Elon Musk, Trump Corruption
Talking Points Memo reports: Overnight, Wired reported that, contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at the Treasury Department are limited to “read only” access to department payment systems, this is not true. A 25-year-old DOGE operative named Marko Elez in fact has admin privileges on these critical systems, which directly control and pay out roughly 95% of payments made …
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February 4, 2025 Business, News
CNN Business reports: The soaring price of eggs has forced Waffle House to add a temporary surcharge on customers’ orders. The Georgia-based chain is adding a 50-cent charge per egg because of the “nationwide rise in cost of eggs,” according to signs posted at its restaurants. An aggressive strain of avian flu is hurting supply and causing prices to rise …
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February 4, 2025 Immigration, Trump cultists
The Associated Press reports: Immigration advocacy groups on Monday sued the Trump administration over its ban on asylum access at the southern border, saying the sweeping restrictions illegally put people who are fleeing war and persecution in harm’s way. The decision outlined in one of President Donald Trump’s immigration-related executive orders is “as unlawful as it is unprecedented,” the groups …
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February 4, 2025 Elon Musk, Racism
The Daily Beast reports: Elon Musk has appeared to endorse a message about race-based emigration from his native South Africa, after President Donald Trump threatened the country over new land expropriation laws. Trump railed against the new law, calling it a “human rights VIOLATION” and threatening to cut funding to the country in response. Musk quoted an X message by …
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February 4, 2025 Extremists, Trump cultists
The New York Times reports: The Proud Boys no longer have control over their own name. Under a ruling by a Washington judge on Monday, the infamous far-right group was stripped of control over the trademark “Proud Boys” and was barred from selling any merchandise with either its name or its symbols without the consent of a Black church in …
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February 4, 2025 Covidiots, Crackpots
The Washington Post reports: A Senate panel voted Tuesday to narrowly advance the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to oversee the nation’s health agencies. Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine activist seeking to run the Department of Health and Human Services, has been the focus of an intense lobbying campaign, with public health leaders calling him a …
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February 4, 2025 Politics, Republicans
CBS News reports: The Senate Finance Committee is considering Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination on Tuesday, with a key vote on whether to advance his confirmation to lead the Department of Health and Human Services after a pair of fiery hearings last week. Kennedy appeared Wednesday before the finance committee for a confirmation hearing, before testifying to the Senate Committee …
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