At the end of his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday evening, MAGA activist Steve Bannon shouted “Fight! Fight! Fight!” and straightened his right arm swiftly, holding it at an elevated, roughly 45-degree angle, and then quickly […]
Steve Bannon’s CPAC gesture resembled a Nazi salute. He knew what he was doing. Read More »
Fox News host John Robert issued a striking defense of Elon Musk’s invasive and maddeningly opaque DOGE operations across the federal government on Tuesday. “If you’re gonna trust anybody with rooting out waste, fraud and abuse, wouldn’t you want it
Elon Musk isn’t too rich to be corrupt with DOGE. Just the opposite. Read More »
Elon Musk’s destructive DOGE operation is turning its sight to the Internal Revenue Service, and things are already looking dicey. There are reports that sensitive taxpayer information could be misused, and that potential cuts to the IRS’s workforce could cause
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Days into the new Trump administration, the Office of Personnel Management sent millions of federal employees an email demanding that they either accept a set of sweeping changes to the workplace or resign. A senior administration official told NBC News
Trump’s mass firing of federal workers is the next phase of his government purge Read More »
Observing the Democrats in 2024 felt like a bad dream — and not just because the party failed to keep a corrupt right-wing demagogue from returning to the White House. It’s because the party seemed to have no clue about
How Biden and Harris showcased the Democrats’ decades-long identity crisis Read More »
As far as federal agencies go, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development doesn’t get a ton of attention in the news. It makes sense then that Donald Trump’s pick to head it, former Trump administration official and former
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American cinema is mired in intellectual property hell. The percentage of movies that are franchise entries, remakes, sequels or spin-offs has surged in recent decades. We are trudging through a muck of constantly recycled nostalgia and sameness, with film studios
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Perfumes. Watches. Digital trading cards. Sneakers. Guitars. President-elect Donald Trump’s tasteless merchandise roll-outs are relentless — and show no signs of slowing as he prepares to begin a second term. Trump has long cashed in on his celebrity name with
Trump’s merchandise business operations are unacceptably opaque Read More »
President-elect Donald Trump is firing off warning shots as he prepares to enact a protectionist trade agenda ahead of his second term in office. On Wednesday, one of those shots whizzed by Canada’s ear. “No one can answer why we
Trump’s post about how we ‘subsidize’ Canada is nonsense Read More »
In theory, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., should be feeling good about the future. On Election Day his party won the White House and the Senate and held on to the House, setting the Republican Party up for unified action
Mike Johnson’s speakership is in trouble, thanks to Elon Musk Read More »
