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Data show Tesla sales declined sharply in Europe New data out this week shows a sharp decline in Tesla sales in Europe. The company is facing multiple headwinds — including consumer pushback to CEO Elon Musk's political pivot to the right.

New data out this week shows a sharp decline in Tesla sales in Europe. The company is facing multiple headwinds — including consumer pushback to CEO Elon Musk's political pivot to the right.

Elon Musk, apartheid, and America's new boycott movement If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.

"In the 80s, the American public had a much more rudimentary understanding of colonialism’s dependence on racism than it does today. But even kids in high school knew that apartheid was wrong, and famine was wrong."

UPDATE on town hall chaos: Woman who was dragged out speaks, police chief condemns security, name of security firm confirmed A legislative town hall organized by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee devolved into chaos Saturday when unidentified, plainclothes security personnel dragged a Post Falls woman from th...

Republicans hired private security at town hall meeting.

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We Might Have to “Shut Down the Country” Anthony Romero, the A.C.L.U.’s executive director, talks about what he thinks could happen if the Trump Administration defies the authority of the courts.

What happens if the courts can't stop the Trump Administration? “Then we’ve got to take to the streets in a different way,” Anthony Romero, the executive director of the A.C.L.U., tells David Remnick. “We've got to shut down this country.”

“When Elon Musk went on stage and took the chainsaw…I think that was the moment Elon Musk actually became president. Honestly, I just want to say this season of America sucks.” @jasonselvig.bsky.social reacts to Musk at CPAC.

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As the U.S. Exits Foreign Aid, Who Will Fill the Gap? (Gift Article) China could reap the soft-power advantage, but like Western governments, the country is cutting back on aid. Philanthropies say they cannot replace the United States.

As the U.S. abandons foreign aid, an urgent conversation is starting among governments, philanthropists, and global health and development organizations.

It is centered on one crucial question: Who will fill this gap?
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Covering Up the Present in a Ghost Forest Artist Serena Chang helps us see that in the act of remembering we’re often uncovering more than our own past.

The idea of covering, or even uncovering, differences is at the heart of Serena Chang’s exhibition at Island Gallery, exploring her father’s memories of working in a pantyhose factory in Taiwan.

World's richest man wants poorest people cut off from crucial US aid The US used to spend more on international development than any other nation, but with Donald Trump and Elon Musk freezing USAID funding, people on the other side of the world are already dealing with...

Another example of Trump/Musk policy killing people around the world.

In the Thai-Myanmar border migrant camp Umpiem Mai, home to more than 10,000 displaced people, staff departure triggered by USAID cuts, forced sick patients to return home and multiple patients, relying on oxygen support, died.

Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Gift Article) Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.

I hated having to write this, but I'm grateful to the many people who risked their ability to do critically important work they love, by talking to me. (And I will continue to cover it, so if you want to talk to me, DM for my Signal.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Gift Article) Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.

#GlobalHealth Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid. Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for #tuberculosis, #malaria, #HIV and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work, by @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h... via @nytimes.com

Wrecking ball: Trump’s war on ‘woke’ marks US society’s plunge into ‘dark times’ President’s ‘culture war’ crusade targets DEI and LGBTQ+ rights in bid to spread rightwing agenda, experts say

"A second Trump term is working to turn America back into pre-civil rights America during the Jim Crow era. That’s what we’re seeing with a lot of these policies," says Chris Scott, a Democratic strategist.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons nyer.cm/gtdyMxm

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A cartoon by Edward Steed. #NewYorkerCartoons

See all the cartoons from this week’s issue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/9A8yio