February 14, 2025 Elon Musk, Trump Corruption
Mother Jones reports: In late January, Trump announced details for the Dome. A land-based missile-interceptor system—like the one Israel has—would not be possible to build for a country the size of the United States. Instead, military commentators coalesced around another plan: build a cloud of “satellite missile interceptors” similar to former President Ronald Reagan’s ill-fated 1980s “Star Wars” proposal. In …
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February 14, 2025 Extremists, Trump Administration
The Washington Post reports: JD Vance made his vice-presidential debut on the global security stage Friday in a scolding speech here, pressing Europe’s centrist leaders to move over to accommodate the rising anti-migration, nationalist voices they have at times sought to block from power. Vance also met with a far-right German leader whom the country’s centrist parties have long sought …
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February 14, 2025 Homocons, Trump cultists
Politico reports: One of President Donald Trump’s top aides said Friday that if former Vice President Kamala Harris enters the race for California governor, he might too. “If Kamala Harris runs for governor, I believe that she has such baggage and hundreds of millions of dollars in educating the voters of how terrible she is, that it’s a new day …
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February 14, 2025 Covidiots, Trump Corruption
Breitbart reports: President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Friday halting federal funds for schools and universities that require students to be vaccinated against coronavirus before they can attend classes in person, Breitbart News has learned. According to a White House document provided to Breitbart News, the expected order also applies to education service agencies, state …
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February 14, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Variety reports: The Associated Press is still referring to the Gulf of Mexico by that name — despite President Trump’s decree that it now be called the Gulf of America — and now the White House said it will indefinitely bar the news organization from access to the Oval Office and Air Force One. “It is alarming that the Trump …
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February 14, 2025 Immigration, Trump Administration
Law & Crime reports: The Denver Public Schools district has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, challenging a new policy that it says gives Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents “virtually unchecked authority” to enforce immigration laws in “formerly protected areas,” including schools. The suit marks the first time a district has sued over ICE’s feared enforcement of students, …
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February 14, 2025 Crime, Religion
Houston’s ABC affiliate reports: Forty-two year-old Lance Hoffpauir was arrested right near his home, and he was accused of sending x-rated messages to an undercover officer, who he thought was an underage girl. “He was asking for pictures, sending a bunch of different things, and asking a bunch of different stuff we met the elements to charge him with online …
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February 14, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Politico reports: NASA astronauts, speaking from space, debunked President Donald Trump’s claims that they had been left behind. Sunita Williams said she and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore were not stranded on the International Space Station despite comments Trump made last month that they were “virtually abandoned” by former President Joe Biden and needed saving. “We don’t feel abandoned, we don’t …
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February 14, 2025 Elon Musk, Idiocracy
404 Media reports: The doge.gov website that was spun up to track Elon Musk’s cuts to the federal government is insecure and pulls from a database that can be edited by anyone, according to two separate people who found the vulnerability and shared it with 404 Media. One coder added at least two database entries that are visible on the …
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February 14, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump cultists
The New York Times reports: Mayor Eric Adams of New York faced increasingly loud calls to resign Friday, one day after a fuller picture of the arrangement that led to the U.S. Justice Department seeking to drop corruption charges against him began to emerge. And Mr. Adams himself appeared on “Fox and Friends” on Friday with President Trump’s border czar, …
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