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Published: January 9, 2025 14:47

"Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday that his budget-cutting effort on behalf of President-elect Donald Trump would most likely not find $2 trillion in savings, backtracking on a goal he set earlier as co-head of a new advisory body, the Department…

Published: January 9, 2025 14:36

Zuckerberg has embraced the right-wing substantively ($1 million to Trump inauguration; Dana White added to board), symbolically (moving content moderation teams to Texas), and rhetorically. In a new post on Threads, he says that people may leave Meta…

Published: January 9, 2025 14:02

I don't know if the LA fire department is properly funded or not but the claim that the city cut its budget last year — which is circulating widely on the right — is false. As Politico notes, the budget actually INCREASED by $50 million. A portion of the…

Published: January 9, 2025 00:01

Alito says that when he talked on the phone with Trump yesterday, they only discussed his former law clerk's suitability for a low-level legal position in his administration which is totally believable because Trump is well-known for staying on topic and…

Published: January 8, 2025 23:40

"Justice Samuel Alito spoke to President-elect Donald Trump by phone Tuesday to recommend one of his former law clerks for a job in the new administration." SCOTUS is currently considering Trump's emergency petition to block his sentencing in the New York…

Published: January 8, 2025 18:27

Mexican President "Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday hit back at US president-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico, suggesting US territory that was previously part of Mexico should be called 'Mexican America." https://on.ft.com/3WdCsdR

Published: January 8, 2025 16:07

1. Zuckerberg announced he was getting rid of Meta's fact-checking program, one of several moves designed to curry favor with Trump Fact-checking itself is important but Meta's program was very bad. It was always just a PR operation. When it stopped…

Published: January 8, 2025 15:49

"About thirty minutes before the town hall was due to start, a senior aide started getting text messages from a person on the inside at Fox... They were images of all the questions Trump would be asked and the planned follow-ups, down to the exact…

Published: January 7, 2025 23:47

"The Saudi-backed LIV Golf league announced Tuesday that it would return to the Trump family’s Doral resort in April, the clearest sign yet that Trump family business deals using Saudi government financing will continue into the new presidency."…

Published: January 7, 2025 15:12

1. Hundreds of companies who pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 4 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox General…

Published: January 7, 2025 01:29

"'Melania is glad to have a babysitter for Donald, and she will find some kind of project to team up with him herself if he stays around,' a Palm Beach source tells PEOPLE, noting that the former first lady makes the best of things she can't control."…

Published: January 6, 2025 22:40

Zuckerberg continues to do everything and anything possible to ingratiate himself with Trump. Today he named Dana White, the president of the UFC, to Meta's board. White is one of Trump's closest allies and introduced Trump and the Republican National…

Published: January 6, 2025 14:15

1. You hear a lot of HYPE about AI but here is REALITY: In 2023, AI deployed by corporate landlords cost renters $3.6 BILLION In Atlanta, renters paid an average of $181 extra PER MONTH due to AI https://popular.info/p/ai-costs-american-renters-over-36

Published: January 4, 2025 14:26

So a Washington Post editor told the NYT that this cartoon was spiked because the paper had just published a column on the same topic. Not that it really matters, but does anyone know what column he's referring to? I've searched and haven't found anything.…

Published: January 3, 2025 23:12

Remember the concept of “fuck you” money? Meaning if you have enough you don’t have to worry about pleasing anyone? Today, the wealthiest people in the world still feel the need to prostrate themselves to Trump Because, for them, no amount of money is…