March 6, 2025 Fox News, Trump Administration
LARRY KUDLOW: “You know, Brooke, the other part of this, and I appreciate what you’re trying to do on the egg story. It’s a hard story. You inherited that story.” USDA SEC. BROOKE ROLLINS: “That’s right.” KUDLOW: “Some very, very smart people are telling me that the jobs number that’s coming at the February jobs number that’s coming out Friday …
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March 6, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
NBC News reports: The Republican-controlled House on Thursday voted to censure Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, for disrupting President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday. The vote was 224-198, with 10 Democrats joining all Republicans in voting in favor of the censure resolution. Green voted present. As the vote proceeded, Green sat by himself along the center aisle. Following the …
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March 6, 2025 Canada, United States
NPR reports: The Trump administration’s recent attacks on its northern neighbor have been met with confusion, frustration and anger by many Canadians, some of whom are now abandoning their trips south and boycotting travel to the U.S. in protest. Tourism industry leaders say that could pose a major threat to the U.S. travel sector, which relies heavily on Canadian visitors. …
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March 6, 2025 Christianists, Republicans
“I am grateful to move HJR0051 forward with a positive recommendation to the State and Local Committee. I believe it is important to seek Almighty God’s hand of blessing in our state. As our Founders sought His help, I think it is important to seek His help today. If we are to pass on a free and prosperous state to …
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March 6, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump cultists
The Washington Post reports: Interim D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin demanded that the dean of Georgetown Law School end all diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at the school, asserting in a letter that his office will not consider hiring anyone affiliated with a university that utilizes DEI. The warning was delivered in a letter dated Feb. 17 to William M. …
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March 6, 2025 Elon Musk, Republicans
NOTUS reports: Lawmakers are scrambling to avoid a government shutdown, as members of both parties say they don’t want funding to lapse next week. But one person might not mind if Congress misses the deadline: Elon Musk. “Sounds great,” he wrote last week on X of a potential shutdown. Musk has already demonstrated his ability to derail Republican leaders’ plans …
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March 6, 2025 LGBT News, Republicans
Austin’s NRP affiliate reports: A student LGBTQ+ organization is suing Texas A&M University over its newly adopted policy banning drag performances on its public campuses. The federal lawsuit was filed Tuesday on behalf of the Queer Empowerment Council, a coalition of student groups at Texas A&M University-College Station. The lawsuit aims to block the university from enforcing the policy, which the …
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March 6, 2025 Employment, Trump Administration
CNBC reports: President Donald Trump’s efforts to pare down the federal government workforce left a mark on the labor market in February, with announced job cuts at their highest level in nearly five years, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported Thursday. The firm reported that U.S. employers announced 172,017 layoffs for the month, up 245% from January and the …
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March 6, 2025 Activism, Elon Musk
Auto site Jalopnik reports: Apparently a national Cybertruck Club volunteered to run their trucks in a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade—technically a Lundi Gras as it happened on Monday night—as a way to transport parade marshals along the route. Reddit user jobles95 posted about his experience, claiming he was marshal from inside one of the trucks, saying, “I couldn’t believe …
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March 6, 2025 Ukraine, United States
Reuters reports: President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter said, potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation. The move, expected as soon as April, would be a stunning reversal of the welcome Ukrainians received under …
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