<p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> & <a href="/tags/elonmusk/" rel="tag">#ElonMusk</a>’s alliance dissolved into open acrimony on Thurs, as the 2 men hurled personal attacks at each other after the billionaire had unleashed broadsides against Trump’s signature domestic policy bill.</p><p>While meeting with Friedrich Merz, Germany’s new chancellor, in the Oval Office, Trump broke days of uncharacteristic silence & unloaded on Musk, who until last week was a top presidential adviser.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/05/us/trump-elon-musk/trump-elon-musk-attacks-policy-bill?smid=url-share" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/05/us/trump-elon-musk/trump-elon-musk-attacks-policy-bill?smid=url-share"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/0</span><span class="invisible">5/us/trump-elon-musk/trump-elon-musk-attacks-policy-bill?smid=url-share</span></a></p>
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<p>Trump administration must restore health articles scrubbed for transgender mentions, judge rules</p><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-administration-must-restore-health-articles-scrubbed-transgender-mentions-2025-05-23/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-administration-must-restore-health-articles-scrubbed-transgender-mentions-2025-05-23/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.reuters.com/business/healt</span><span class="invisible">hcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-administration-must-restore-health-articles-scrubbed-transgender-mentions-2025-05-23/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/trans/" rel="tag">#trans</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="/tags/erasure/" rel="tag">#erasure</a> <a href="/tags/discrimination/" rel="tag">#discrimination</a> <a href="/tags/censorship/" rel="tag">#censorship</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a></p>
<p>So <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a> and <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> are having a slapfight</p><p>there are more serious attacks going on right now, to our rights</p><p>that is what truly deserves our attention</p><p>but shiny objects are shiny</p><p>i am guilty of the attraction to the drama as well</p><p>i won't begrudge you your popcorn</p><p>just:</p><p>be aware that you can be distracted</p><p>there are quiet things going on right now that is the real game</p><p>don't lose attention to that as well as you enjoy the 🍿 🍿 🍿</p>
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<p>Trump And Dump: </p><p>A serious form of securities fraud where Trump uses the Presidency to artificially inflate the price of stocks, oil or cryptocurrency through false, misleading, or hyped statements. </p><p>Once investors buy in and the price rises, Trump and his insiders sell their shares at a high profit, causing the price to crash and leaving victims with significant losses.</p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/securities/" rel="tag">#Securities</a> <a href="/tags/fraud/" rel="tag">#fraud</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#economy</a> <a href="/tags/republicans/" rel="tag">#republicans</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#oil</a> <a href="/tags/iran/" rel="tag">#iran</a> <a href="/tags/middleeast/" rel="tag">#middleeast</a> <a href="/tags/insidertrading/" rel="tag">#insidertrading</a> <a href="/tags/epstein/" rel="tag">#epstein</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/worldnews/" rel="tag">#worldnews</a> <a href="/tags/maga/" rel="tag">#MAGA</a></p>
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<p>Well when you put it THAT way</p><p>Bloomberg:</p><p>Elon <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a>'s fight with Donald <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> cost him $34 billion today</p>
<p>Instead of monitoring the events in <a href="/tags/losangeles/" rel="tag">#losangeles</a> and <a href="/tags/chicago/" rel="tag">#chicago</a>, <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> went to the UFC event. </p><p>His core cult of white male Incels gave him a standing ovation. </p><p>Tomorrow,he'll be playing golf and kibitzing at Camp David. And probably showing up at LIV Golf in Virginia. So he can get on TV. </p><p>And he'll show up in LA next week to diss Democrats and minorities for the rebellion.</p><p>Quick photo-op so he can hog up the TV spotlight.</p>
<p>Keep ‘em coming </p><p>“Harvard University sued to stop the <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> administration from barring its international students’ entrance to the US, adding to a high-stakes legal battle between the government and the school.”</p><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-05/harvard-sues-over-trump-barring-its-foreign-students-us-entry" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-05/harvard-sues-over-trump-barring-its-foreign-students-us-entry"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bloomberg.com/news/article</span><span class="invisible">s/2025-06-05/harvard-sues-over-trump-barring-its-foreign-students-us-entry</span></a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> imposes <a href="/tags/sanctions/" rel="tag">#sanctions</a> on four <a href="/tags/icc/" rel="tag">#ICC</a> <a href="/tags/judges/" rel="tag">#judges</a> in unprecedented [outrageous] move</p><p>Trump's admin on Thursday imposed sanctions on four judges at the <a href="/tags/internationalcriminalcourt/" rel="tag">#InternationalCriminalCourt</a>, an unprecedented retaliation over the war tribunal's issuance of an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin <a href="/tags/netanyahu/" rel="tag">#Netanyahu</a> & a past decision to open a case into alleged <a href="/tags/warcrimes/" rel="tag">#WarCrimes</a> by <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> troops in <a href="/tags/afghanistan/" rel="tag">#Afghanistan</a>.</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/criminal/" rel="tag">#criminal</a> <a href="/tags/felon47/" rel="tag">#felon47</a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-imposes-sanctions-icc-judges-us-treasury-says-2025-06-05/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-imposes-sanctions-icc-judges-us-treasury-says-2025-06-05/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.reuters.com/world/us/trump</span><span class="invisible">-administration-imposes-sanctions-icc-judges-us-treasury-says-2025-06-05/</span></a></p>
<p>Analysis: Trump welcomes South African Afrikaners as refugees fleeing “white genocide."</p><p>Trump describes these white descendants of Dutch settler-colonisers as "victims of unjust racial discrimination".</p><p>South Africans are joking about this as the "Great Tsek", which refers to:</p><p>1. The "Great Trek" — the 1800s migration of Dutch settlers into South Africa's interior, &</p><p>2. The word "tsek" - roughly meaning "f*ck off.” </p><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/05/21/south-africa-trump-afriforum-white-refugees/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="theintercept.com/2025/05/21/south-africa-trump-afriforum-white-refugees/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/05/21/so</span><span class="invisible">uth-africa-trump-afriforum-white-refugees/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/southafrica/" rel="tag">#southafrica</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a> <a href="/tags/racism/" rel="tag">#racism</a> .</p>
<p><a href="/tags/giftarticle/" rel="tag">#GiftArticle</a></p><p>When Hillary Clinton was first lady, a furor erupted over reports that she had once made $100k from a $1k investment in cattle futures. Even though it had happened a dozen years before her husband became president, it became a scandal that lasted weeks & forced the White House to initiate a review.</p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/emoluments/" rel="tag">#emoluments</a> <a href="/tags/corruption/" rel="tag">#corruption</a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-money-plane-crypto.html?unlocked_article_code=1.J08.MV12.FMyyoC3z_EI_&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-money-plane-crypto.html?unlocked_article_code=1.J08.MV12.FMyyoC3z_EI_&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/</span><span class="invisible">politics/trump-money-plane-crypto.html?unlocked_article_code=1.J08.MV12.FMyyoC3z_EI_&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>
<p>Dear G-d:</p><p>When I said that I wondered what watching a dictatorship form would be like, I didn't mean it *this* way!</p><p><a href="/tags/dictatorship/" rel="tag">#dictatorship</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#uspolitics</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#USA</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/northcarolina/" rel="tag">#NorthCarolina</a>, you still happy that you voted for <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>?* </p><p>*I'm obviously not addressing those who didn't vote for him. But the state went for him in the election. I figured that was clear, but just in case.</p><p>Kyle Griffin: </p><p>Trump's FEMA has denied North Carolina's request for FEMA to honor a Biden-era commitment to pay for 100% of debris removal costs related to Hurricane Helene.</p>
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<p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> White House tries to assuage industry worries over loss of migrant workers amid <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> aggressive deportation campaign but no clear plan underway</p><p>« Undocumented immigrants account for 4% to 5% of the total US workforce and between 15% to 20% in industries like crop production, food processing, and construction, according to Goldman Sachs »</p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/03/politics/trump-migrant-farmworkers-deportations" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.cnn.com/2025/07/03/politics/trump-migrant-farmworkers-deportations"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cnn.com/2025/07/03/politic</span><span class="invisible">s/trump-migrant-farmworkers-deportations</span></a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/marketmanipulation/" rel="tag">#MarketManipulation</a> </p><p><a href="/tags/fraudster/" rel="tag">#Fraudster</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> said on Sunday that he would delay imposing a 50% <a href="/tags/tariff/" rel="tag">#tariff</a> on all imports from the <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#EU</a> until July 9 to allow more time for <a href="/tags/trade/" rel="tag">#trade</a> negotiations [or to make money by shorting the market].</p><p>In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that he had spoken to Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, about his recent <a href="/tags/threat/" rel="tag">#threat</a> to enact the <a href="/tags/tariffs/" rel="tag">#tariffs</a> on June 1 if a trade deal could not be reached in the next week.</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/securities/" rel="tag">#securities</a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-european-union-tariff.html?smid=url-share" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-european-union-tariff.html?smid=url-share"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/</span><span class="invisible">politics/trump-european-union-tariff.html?smid=url-share</span></a></p>
<p>Epstein </p><p><a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#USA</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a> <a href="/tags/cartoon/" rel="tag">#cartoon</a> <a href="/tags/karikatur/" rel="tag">#karikatur</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/kingcharles/" rel="tag">#KingCharles</a> III arrives in Ottawa on Monday to underscore <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#Canada</a>’s <a href="/tags/sovereignty/" rel="tag">#sovereignty</a> to <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>.</p><p>Trump’s repeated suggestion that the US <a href="/tags/annex/" rel="tag">#annex</a> its northern neighbor prompted Prime Minister <a href="/tags/markcarney/" rel="tag">#MarkCarney</a> to invite Charles to give the speech from the throne that will outline his government’s agenda for the new Parliament. The king is the head of state in Canada, which is a member of the British Commonwealth of former colonies.</p><p><a href="/tags/geopolitics/" rel="tag">#geopolitics</a> <a href="/tags/usexpansionism/" rel="tag">#USexpansionism</a> <br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/king-charles-canada-carney-trump-parliament-speech-cfb17691de077f3a3677fe377666ace7" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="apnews.com/article/king-charles-canada-carney-trump-parliament-speech-cfb17691de077f3a3677fe377666ace7"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/king-charle</span><span class="invisible">s-canada-carney-trump-parliament-speech-cfb17691de077f3a3677fe377666ace7</span></a></p>
<p>Today's "GOP" </p><p>Via Jen Bendery:</p><p>Republican senators freaked out when asked about <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>'s military parade costing $45 million.</p><p>Some hid in elevators.</p><p>Some stared off into space.</p><p>Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) snapped:<br>“I answered the question I wanted to answer!” </p><p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-senators-trump-military-parade-cost_n_6849b95de4b0cf5f0c9ad0ab" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-senators-trump-military-parade-cost_n_6849b95de4b0cf5f0c9ad0ab"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-sen</span><span class="invisible">ators-trump-military-parade-cost_n_6849b95de4b0cf5f0c9ad0ab</span></a></p>
<p>"Do you remember the Human Genome Project? I’m not sure the Trump administration wants you to."<br><a href="https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/nih-national-human-genome-project-institute-hgp-archives-trump-cuts/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/nih-national-human-genome-project-institute-hgp-archives-trump-cuts/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/ni</span><span class="invisible">h-national-human-genome-project-institute-hgp-archives-trump-cuts/</span></a><br>(<a href="/tags/paywalled/" rel="tag">#paywalled</a>) </p><p>"My job was to preserve and provide access to the records of the Human Genome Project [<a href="/tags/hgp/" rel="tag">#HGP</a>]...All of that work, like so much else at <a href="/tags/nih/" rel="tag">#NIH</a>, is currently being dismantled...The digital archival records my colleagues and I maintained are currently inaccessible. I worry that they might be gone altogether, either now or sometime in the future." </p><p><a href="/tags/defendresearch/" rel="tag">#DefendResearch</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/opendata/" rel="tag">#OpenData</a> <a href="/tags/preservation/" rel="tag">#Preservation</a> <a href="/tags/takedowns/" rel="tag">#Takedowns</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/trumpvresearch/" rel="tag">#TrumpVResearch</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a></p>
<p>"The Rule of Idiots"</p><p>"In the last days of all empires the idiots take over."</p><p>"The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanoff, Iranian & Soviet dynasties crumbled under the stupidity of their decadent rulers who absented themselves from reality, plundered their nations & retreated into echo chambers where fact & fiction were indistinguishable."</p><p><a href="https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-rule-of-idiots" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-rule-of-idiots"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">chrishedges.substack.com/p/the</span><span class="invisible">-rule-of-idiots</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/usempire/" rel="tag">#USEmpire</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/europol/" rel="tag">#EuroPol</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> .</p>
<p>As suspected... </p><p>"One unit-level message bluntly saying: "No fat soldiers."</p><p>Via Zachary Fryer-Biggs:</p><p>"Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>'s politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating."</p><p><a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/11/bragg-soldiers-who-cheered-trumps-political-attacks-while-uniform-were-checked-allegiance-appearance.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/11/bragg-soldiers-who-cheered-trumps-political-attacks-while-uniform-were-checked-allegiance-appearance.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.military.com/daily-news/20</span><span class="invisible">25/06/11/bragg-soldiers-who-cheered-trumps-political-attacks-while-uniform-were-checked-allegiance-appearance.html</span></a></p>
<p>MSNBC reports that ICE is getting ready to send tactical units to five sanctuary cities led by Democratic mayors. The cities on the list are Seattle, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, and Northern Virginia. <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/renewedresistance/" rel="tag">#RenewedResistance</a></p>
<p>Again…</p><p>“ <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> admin on Friday asked the <a href="/tags/scotus/" rel="tag">#SCOTUS</a> to pause a court order to reinstate Education Department employees who were fired in mass layoffs as part of his plan to dismantle the agency.”</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-education-layoffs-79a160b71db85aa060b11de58926a276" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-education-layoffs-79a160b71db85aa060b11de58926a276"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/supreme-cou</span><span class="invisible">rt-trump-education-layoffs-79a160b71db85aa060b11de58926a276</span></a></p>
<p>Earlier today, Trump posted about the ADP employment report, which shows private-sector job creation slowing dramatically since he took office. </p><p>Trump pathetically tried to blame Powell for not lowering interest rates, but Biden created more than twice as many jobs under higher rates:</p><p><a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#Economy</a> <a href="/tags/jobs/" rel="tag">#Jobs</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/recession/" rel="tag">#Recession</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a></p>
<p>Via Kyle Cheney:</p><p>🤦🏻♀️The <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> administration is moving to keep <a href="/tags/abregogarcia/" rel="tag">#AbregoGarcia</a> in pretrial detention, saying he's a danger to the community and that the evidence against him is "overwhelming." </p><p>His attorneys have yet to respond.</p><p>👉🏼UPDATE: The presiding judge in Abrego Garcia's case is Waverly Crenshaw, a 2016 Obama appointee confirmed 92-0 by the Senate. </p><p>Another fact about Crenshaw? He presided over the corruption case of state Sen. Brian Kelsey — who Trump pardoned in March.</p>
<p><a href="/tags/npr/" rel="tag">#NPR</a> & <a href="/tags/publicradio/" rel="tag">#PublicRadio</a> stations sue <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> over funding ban</p><p>NPR & 3 <a href="/tags/colorado/" rel="tag">#Colorado</a> public radio stations filed suit Tues in federal court against the admin over the <a href="/tags/executiveorder/" rel="tag">#ExecutiveOrder</a> purportedly barring the use of Congressionally appropriated funds for <a href="/tags/npr/" rel="tag">#NPR</a> & <a href="/tags/pbs/" rel="tag">#PBS</a>.</p><p>"It is not always obvious when the government has acted with a retaliatory purpose in violation of the <a href="/tags/firstamendment/" rel="tag">#FirstAmendment</a>. 'But this wolf comes as a wolf,'" states the <a href="/tags/legal/" rel="tag">#legal</a> brief….</p><p><a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#Congress</a> <a href="/tags/separationofpowers/" rel="tag">#SeparationOfPowers</a> <br><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-s1-5413094/npr-public-radio-lawsuit-trump-funding-ban" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-s1-5413094/npr-public-radio-lawsuit-trump-funding-ban"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-s1-5</span><span class="invisible">413094/npr-public-radio-lawsuit-trump-funding-ban</span></a></p>