February 3, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Washington Post reports: President Donald Trump on Monday appointed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a powerful watchdog agency whose oversight and enforcement actions Bessent immediately halted in a move that delighted big banks and enraged public-interest groups. In an email to agency staff, Bessent ordered the bureau to cease all …
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February 3, 2025 Elon Musk, Trump Corruption
The Associated Press reports: Elon Musk is working for President Donald Trump as a “special government employee,” according to a White House official, solidifying his controversial role in the administration but sidestepping some disclosure rules that are typical of federal workers. The official, speaking Monday on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters, said that Musk has a government …
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February 3, 2025 Fox News, State Television
Axios reports: Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier will sit down with President Trump for a pre-taped interview at Mar-a-Lago that will air during the network’s Super Bowl LIX pregame show, Fox News confirmed to Axios. The four biggest U.S. broadcasters — Fox, NBC, CBS and ABC — air the Super Bowl on a rotating schedule. Trump’s first Super …
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February 3, 2025 Extremists, Trump cultists
“Here comes the Mexican president. Now a reminder that the Mexican president, fresh off of her being triggered by the Gulf of America name change. ALX, do we have that clip? I really wanna play that one because that was really, really fun. If we can load that up, please. “So she’s fresh off of a hysterical menopausal meltdown over …
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February 3, 2025 Racism, Republicans
Mediaite reports: Trump’s State Department is hiring first-term Trump speechwriter Darren Beattie to a top job just 15 weeks after he submitted that “competent white men must be in charge” in one of many controversial, resurfaced tweets. Semafor broke the news on Sunday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio will appoint Beattie as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy at …
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February 3, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Reuters reports: President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ordering the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments to create a sovereign wealth fund and said it may purchase TikTok. “We’re going to stand this thing up within the next 12 months. We’re going to monetize the asset side of the U.S. balance sheet for the American people,” he told …
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February 3, 2025 Christianists, Hate Groups
Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: NBC’s program Deal or No Deal Island is a spin-off of the Deal or No Deal game show. This new TV-PG-rated show takes place in an island setting rather than a network studio. But that is not the only change the network has made to its game show programming. During the episode …
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February 3, 2025 Elon Musk, Trump cultists
CNN reports: Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday that he is acting administrator the US Agency for International Development after Elon Musk, the world’s richest man charged with overhauling the federal government, said President Donald Trump had signed off on shutting the agency down. In Washington, USAID’s headquarters was closed for the day, with employees told in an email …
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February 3, 2025 Elon Musk, Extremists
Politico reports: The new House subcommittee designed to complement the work of Elon Musk has named its first target: the nonprofit news media. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s “Delivering on Government Efficiency” Subcommittee — or DOGE, mimicking its Musk-run analogue, the Department of Government Efficiency — is asking the leaders of PBS and NPR to testify next month. …
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February 3, 2025 Democrats, Politics
The Wall Street Journal reports: Sen. Brian Schatz (D., Hawaii) said he would place a “blanket hold” on all of President Trump’s State Department nominees until the administration’s attack on the leading U.S. foreign-assistance agency ends, a move that threatens to stall Trump’s ability to get his foreign-policy team in place. Schatz said he would block any of Trump’s diplomatic …
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