June 7, 2025 Republicans, Scandal
Flagler Live reports: The Department of Children and Families (DCF) has sent a cease and desist letter to an Orlando Sentinel reporter who has been digging into the Hope Florida scandal. Jeffrey Schweers, the Sentinel’s Tallahassee bureau reporter, has broken some scoops regarding the embattled charity backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and First Lady Casey DeSantis. Schweers recently wrote about …
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June 7, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
Fox News reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson told Fox News on Friday that Democrats pushing for ICE agents to unmask themselves are the same “people who mandated mask wearing for years in America” during the coronavirus pandemic. Johnson was asked by Fox News for his reaction as “some Democrats, including [House Minority] Leader [Hakeem] Jeffries, have suggested that the ICE …
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June 7, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
Via press release from Georgia Democrats: Rep. Mike Collins — who is reportedly weighing a run for U.S. Senate — said he wants to make it “more advantageous” for people to “get off of Medicaid, get off of Social Security,” in an interview on XTRA 106.3 yesterday. This comes after Collins voted for the GOP budget bill that could leave …
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June 6, 2025 JMG Community, Open Thread
Billboard Magazine reports: How does a song become a gay anthem? Like the LGBTQ+ community itself, our soundtrack is vast and diverse. We have recorded our history and contribution to the culture through music, and with this list we acknowledge and remember the forerunners that have made possible the positive changes we’ve seen over the decades. These songs are a …
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June 6, 2025 Christianists, Hate Groups
The Naples Daily News reports: Just hours before Naples Pride was set to go with an outdoors drag show performance in the city’s Cambier Park, a federal court ruled against Pride’s plan, forcing it to move the performance indoors. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta on June 6 granted the city of Naples’ motion to …
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June 6, 2025 Travel, Trump Administration
Flying Magazine reports: President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order instructing the FAA to repeal its ban on supersonic flight over U.S. land. “America once led the world in supersonic aviation, but decades of stifling regulations grounded progress,” the order read. “This order removes regulatory barriers so that U.S. companies can dominate supersonic flight once again.” Under current …
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June 6, 2025 Climate Change, Trump Administration
The Associated Press reports: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Biden-era fuel economy standards for gas-powered cars and trucks were illegal and moved to reverse them. Combined with Senate language in the pending budget bill to eliminate penalties for exceeding standards regulating how far vehicles must travel on a gallon of fuel, automakers could come under less pressure from regulators to …
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June 6, 2025 Canada, Immigration
CTV News reports: New legislation introduced today would extend citizenship by descent rules beyond the first generation. Bill C-3, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act, would automatically give citizenship to anyone who would be a citizen today if not for the first-generation limit. Under the current rules, a Canadian citizen born outside Canada cannot pass their citizenship to their …
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June 6, 2025 Elon Musk, Infighting Is Funny
“The president treated him almost like a son. He invited his family to Christmas dinner. He let him sleep over. He let him walk in and out of meetings. The president went to the max informality to welcome this guy. You’re going to tell me we should allow some fucking punk to sit there and say he should be impeached …
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June 6, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
The Associated Press reports: The Pentagon’s watchdog is looking into whether any of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s aides were asked to delete Signal messages that may have shared sensitive military information with a reporter, according to two people familiar with the investigation and documents reviewed by The Associated Press. The inspector general’s request focuses on how information about the March 15 …
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