Last week, the US Department of Agriculture proposed a strikingly cruel policy, even for this administration: speeding up the kill lines at America’s chicken, turkey, and pig slaughterhouses. The plan will make one of the country’s most dangerous jobs — working in a meat processing plant — even more unsafe, labor advocates argue. Under the Read More…
President Trump has imposed the highest tariffs since the Great Depression. About half those import taxes are being challenged this week at the U.S. Supreme Court as unconstitutional. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images North America The tariffs at the heart of this week’s Supreme Court case are raising tens of billions of dollars for the federal government. Read More…
Under penalty of perjury, a witness told the FBI back in 2016 that they had “personally witnessed” President Donald Trump threaten to “disappear” a girl and have her entire family killed, according to a document released by the Justice Department on Friday. Released as part of the DOJ’s publication of around 3.5 million files on Jeffrey Epstein, the FBI tip Read More…
Uline warehouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Photograph: Wirestock, Inc./Alamy© Photograph: Wirestock, Inc./Alamy When Laura Wittmann decided this week to submit her resignation from Uline, the giant office supply company owned by two of the biggest donors to Donald Trump’s 2024 election and other Maga Republicans, she did not hold back. “As America descends rapidly into fascism,” Wittmann Read More…
NASA Forced to Shut Down Largest Library, Throw Invaluable Materials in Trash NASA’s budget is still an unfathomable mess. The government shutdown late last year once again delayed proceedings to determine the space agency’s future — but if it were up to the Trump administration, NASA’s science budget would be slashed in half, an “extinction-level” inflection Read More…
Donald Trump has been trying to stall the release of the Epstein files because of the bombshell revelation the documents are hiding, according to Watergate lawyer Nick Ackerman. Ackerman, who has often commented on Trump’s legal matters, on Sunday flagged “a key email from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate,” in addition to “statements by Trump ally House Speaker Mike Johnson,” which together Read More…
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