A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies, or IPS, takes a deep dive into the battery of corporations they call the “Low Wage 20”: 20 firms that currently employ 6.7 million people across the United States. The names are familiar—Amazon, Starbucks, FedEx, Walmart, and Tyson Foods are habitual malefactors—but their sins are growing […]
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Source: Tom Williams / Getty There are people on social media who have expressed fears that, when President Donald Trump and his administration fired now-former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, he would only replace her with someone significantly worse. But truthfully, when Trump starts shaking things up in his administration, especially during this second term, he doesn’t tend […]
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Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Former Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin was sworn in as the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday. According to AP News, the Senate confirmed Mullin on Monday evening in a 54-45 vote that fell along party lines. President Donald Trump swore Mullin in at the White House […]
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Mullin is the father of six children, including two twin girls, whom he described as unimaginably “loving” even after they were spanked. “I can spank them and I’m still upset and they’ll come and crawl on my lap two minutes later and just hug on me,” he went on, before diving into a disturbing story […]
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Mullin is the father of six children, including two twin girls, whom he described as unimaginably “loving” even after they were spanked. “I can spank them and I’m still upset and they’ll come and crawl on my lap two minutes later and just hug on me,” he went on, before diving into a disturbing story […]
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But Iran’s foreign ministry quickly denied the news and claimed that there has been “no dialogue” between the two countries, with one top official adding that Trump “retreated after hearing that our targets would be all power plants in West Asia.” When questioned about Iran’s response later on Monday morning, Trump stuck to his story. […]
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But Iran’s foreign ministry quickly denied the news and claimed that there has been “no dialogue” between the two countries, with one top official adding that Trump “retreated after hearing that our targets would be all power plants in West Asia.” When questioned about Iran’s response later on Monday morning, Trump stuck to his story. […]
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Here’s what happened with Rep. Summer Lee and Chairman James Comer behind closed doors during the briefing with Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche, I’m told: Lee: “Mr. Chairman, there are no cameras here. You don’t have to perform. We were told this was a briefing.” Comer: “It’s a briefing!” Lee: “But she hasn’t offered any […]
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Here’s what happened with Rep. Summer Lee and Chairman James Comer behind closed doors during the briefing with Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche, I’m told: Lee: “Mr. Chairman, there are no cameras here. You don’t have to perform. We were told this was a briefing.” Comer: “It’s a briefing!” Lee: “But she hasn’t offered any […]
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Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty It would be nice if, just once, President Donald Trump would nominate someone who is qualified, intelligent, well-adjusted, and somewhat grounded in reality to serve in his Cabinet or anywhere else in his administration. Just once. Well, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), the man Trump tapped to replace Department of Homeland […]
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Now, not only are they being targeted, but DACA recipients applying to renew their status, required every two years, are experiencing long delays, causing their status and work permits to expire. In Chavez Velasco’s case, his status expired while in detention, after his renewal application was ignored. A DHS spokesperson told MS NOW that Chavez […]
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Now, not only are they being targeted, but DACA recipients applying to renew their status, required every two years, are experiencing long delays, causing their status and work permits to expire. In Chavez Velasco’s case, his status expired while in detention, after his renewal application was ignored. A DHS spokesperson told MS NOW that Chavez […]
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Fishback has repeatedly called his GOP rival, Representative Byron Daniels, a “slave.” Daniels is Black. Sabatini said that event was used to deactivate the group and replace it with more “vanilla” conservatives. Young Republicans across the country seem to have a racism and antisemitism problem. Earlier this month, a Republican group chat of Florida International […]
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Fishback has repeatedly called his GOP rival, Representative Byron Daniels, a “slave.” Daniels is Black. Sabatini said that event was used to deactivate the group and replace it with more “vanilla” conservatives. Young Republicans across the country seem to have a racism and antisemitism problem. Earlier this month, a Republican group chat of Florida International […]
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He then went on to attack Boasberg with similarly inflammatory language: The Courts treat Republicans, and me, so unfairly, always seeming to protect those who should not be protected. They are highly politicized. Cases don’t matter, the Judge does! As an example, how is this absolutely terrible Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell, not […]
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He then went on to attack Boasberg with similarly inflammatory language: The Courts treat Republicans, and me, so unfairly, always seeming to protect those who should not be protected. They are highly politicized. Cases don’t matter, the Judge does! As an example, how is this absolutely terrible Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell, not […]
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And that points to another thing that could be done to eliminate these outages: a more interconnected grid. This was one of the main factors in 2021 in Texas, Kurland noted. “Texas’s power grid, ERCOT, is primarily islanded from the rest of the United States, so there weren’t a lot of connections there to be […]
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Well, as Johnny Rotten said when Elvis kicked it (quite unfairly, in that case), “Good riddance to bad rubbish.” Outside of Stephen Miller, Noem is probably the purest fascist among Trump’s second-term frontline appointees. I say this because she understands spectacle, which is such a key element of the fascist worldview. The visual humiliation of […]
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Source: MANDEL NGAN,DREW ANGERER / Getty Welp, it happened — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will be DHS secretary no more, as President Donald Trump announced Thursday that she is to be replaced by a MAGA-friendly Oklahoma Republican, while Noem is busted down to some department Trump probably made up on the spot, […]
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“They were effective in your name recognition,” Kennedy said. “To me it puts the president in a terribly awkward spot.” This reportedly irked the president enough to question Noem’s future in the administration. The contract for the campaign, which was filmed at Mount Rushmore, went to a company only eight days old and run by […]
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“They were effective in your name recognition,” Kennedy said. “To me it puts the president in a terribly awkward spot.” This reportedly irked the president enough to question Noem’s future in the administration. The contract for the campaign, which was filmed at Mount Rushmore, went to a company only eight days old and run by […]
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“They were effective in your name recognition,” Kennedy said. “To me it puts the president in a terribly awkward spot.” This reportedly irked the president enough to question Noem’s future in the administration. The contract for the campaign, which was filmed at Mount Rushmore, went to a company only eight days old and run by […]
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Gender marker changes had been allowed on Kansas licenses since 2007 despite the efforts of Kansas Republicans. That changed with SB 244, which doesn’t just ban gender changes going forward, but invalidates any changes made in the past. And the bill doesn’t come with a grace period lasting months—it’s taking effect immediately upon publication in […]
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Gender marker changes had been allowed on Kansas licenses since 2007 despite the efforts of Kansas Republicans. That changed with SB 244, which doesn’t just ban gender changes going forward, but invalidates any changes made in the past. And the bill doesn’t come with a grace period lasting months—it’s taking effect immediately upon publication in […]
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