What a strong democracy we're having

What a strong democracy we're having

It's getting tiring to keep saying this, but for posterity's sake I will: any previous administration would have been instantly sunk by this. Before January 20, 2017, this would have been the most stunning corruption scandal in the history of the American justice system. Now, it's...a Thursday.

FEMA yanks back $80 million that New York City meant to cover hotel costs for migrants Officials say the Federal Emergency Management Agency has yanked back more than $80 million from New York City.

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Trump to Curb Enforcement of Antibribery Law The president plans to sign an executive order that says the use of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has hurt American competitiveness.

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I love how the Republicans spent years telling us we can't unskew the Supreme Court because that would break down our institutions, and now that they're in power they're just ignoring the entire judiciary

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Federal Financial Watchdog Ordered to Cease Activity (Gift Article) In an email to staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency’s acting director ordered workers to cease “all supervision and examination activity.”

What a strong democracy we're having

What a strong democracy we're having

White House Says Musk Will Police His Own Conflicts of Interest The White House said Elon Musk, the billionaire leading President Donald Trump’s government cost-cutting efforts, will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal...

What a strong democracy we're having

What a strong democracy we're having

What a strong democracy we're having

Trump personally ordered firings of special counsel prosecutors Exclusive: move to purge those who worked for Jack Smith came from Trump, sources say, in show of unchecked power

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Elon Musk’s Blitz Shakes U.S. Government as He Sweeps Through Agencies (Gift Article) The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.

What a strong democracy we're having

What a strong democracy we're having

An entire US agency was abolished this weekend without congressional authorization.

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This piece contains a sentence you rarely see in most coverage of Trump/Musk's purported firings of career civil servants:

"None of the due process provisions that protect federal civil service employees appear to have been followed here."

Trump’s Victory Lap on Mexico Tariffs Is a Giant Farce Donald Trump is trying to claim he achieved a major victory with his threats to impose tariffs on Mexico. There’s just one glaring problem.

So Mexico is sending extra troops to the border, as it regularly has in the past, and Trump agreed to shoulder a heavier burden in stopping the flow of American semi-automatic weapons into Mexico. How exactly did Mexico fold to Trump here?

https://newrepublic.com/post/191067/trump-victory-lap-mexi…

What a strong democracy we're having

What a strong democracy we're having

What a strong democracy we're having

Kyrsten Sinema’s next gig: Working for crypto The former senator is joining an advisory council to one of the largest crypto exchanges, alongside a senior adviser to Trump.

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Trump says he is cutting off funding to South Africa over land ‘confiscations’ Government of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is ‘treating certain classes of people very badly’, Trump claims as he demands ‘full investigation’ of situation

The richest man in the world has taken over the US government and his first order of business is taking revenge for the fall of apartheid in South Africa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Opinion | Does Trump’s Cabinet Look Like a Meritocracy to You? Affirmative action for the MAGA movement isn’t an upgrade over D.E.I.

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Donald Trump to tap health industry executive for top White House budget job Appointment would deal a blow to Robert Kennedy’s hopes of overhauling the sector

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Opinion | President Trump, Crypto Billionaire His new family tokens, which have soared in value, are courting legal and political trouble.

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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

Donald Trump as late-period Maoism.

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Trump and Elon Musk Just Pulled Off Another Purge—and It’s a Scary One Did Musk’s alleged effort to access the government’s payment systems have Trump’s blessing? Or was he going rogue? Either scenario is bad, but one’s a little worse.

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