March 12, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Politico reports: President Donald Trump on Wednesday called Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer a “Palestinian” as he defended the GOP’s government spending bill and his policies on corporate taxes and rising grocery prices. “Schumer is a Palestinian, as far as I’m concerned,” Trump said in response to a question about the U.S. corporate tax rate during an Oval office meeting …
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March 12, 2025 Crime, Elon Musk
Futurism reports: As CEO Elon Musk ravages the federal government with chainsaws and fascist salutes, the wheels are coming off for Tesla — literally. New local reporting by League City, Texas’ KPRC-TV has uncovered an unusual heist in which thieves pilfered 44 tires from 11 unsold Teslas sitting in an Amazon warehouse parking lot. The daring — and frankly kind …
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March 12, 2025 Infighting Is Funny, Trump cultists
“What is the goal of all of this? Seriously, I don’t understand. What is the goal? I want President Trump to succeed. If President Trump is to succeed, we need a thriving economy. Declaring a trade war on Canada under the terms of the USMCA, which he himself negotiated in Trump term one, is not going to be a productive …
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March 12, 2025 Environment, Trump Administration
Reuters reports: The Trump administration announced a wave of regulatory rollbacks on Wednesday that included a repeal of emissions limits on power plants, reduced protections for waterways and a rollback of tailpipe pollution curbs in an effort to deliver on President Donald Trump’s energy dominance agenda. The Environmental Protection Agency is moving to unwind 31 Biden-era regulations intended to boost …
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March 12, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Reuters reports: The USDA has suspended funding for research and programs at the University of Maine, the school said on Tuesday, after President Donald Trump clashed with Governor Janet Mills over the state’s refusal to ban transgender athletes from girls’ sports. In an email received by the University of Maine, the USDA’s chief financial officer ordered all payments paused while …
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March 12, 2025 Racism, Republicans
“Rep. Houla-whatever. Houlahan, houla-ha, she has decided that she was getting far too many attacks from her base for voting against the censure of Rep. Al Green and decided to attack me for referencing his cane as a pimp cane. “And Grant, I stand by it. I have never seen Al Green actually use his cane as a support to …
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March 12, 2025 Christianists, Extremists
The Texas Tribune reports: Rafael Cruz, the right-wing pastor and father of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, told a Texas Senate committee on Tuesday that public schools must be required to teach anti-communist lessons in order to reaffirm what he said is America’s true, Christian heritage. “Communism needs to undermine the construct of god because government must become your god,” he …
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March 12, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
“We have a lot of other things we work on together. We defend North America through NORAD and the airspace of our continent together, not to mention the issues of Ukraine and other commonalities. “So we’re going to be focused in the G7 on all of those things. That’s what the meeting is about. It is not a meeting about …
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March 12, 2025 Trump cultists, Trump Lies
“Trump did not run in 2024 on making the market reach record highs immediately again. [This is a lie.] That’s not what he ran on. He ran on tariffs. He ran on bringing back American industry. He ran on necessarily raising the cost of certain goods, imported goods to help rebuild the American industrial base. [Also a lie.] He ran …
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March 12, 2025 Elon Musk, Trump Administration
The Washington Post reports: Under pressure from the U.S. DOGE Service team to root out alleged fraud, the Social Security Administration is considering dramatically curtailing the phone services that 73 million retired and disabled Americans rely on to apply for and access their earned government benefits. Social Security leadership is now considering a proposal to end telephone service for claims …
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