Four Lawsuits Targeting DOGE Filed Immediately After Trump Swearing In Demand Compliance with FACA, Other Laws
DOGE is dodgy! Who’d have thunk it? Four fast-off-the-block filings seek to bring it to heel.
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How Trump 2.0 Could Herald a New Age of Authoritarian Capitalism
To discuss: “Trump’s weaponisation of US power poses a threat to peace, prosperity and the planet.”
Read more...Polish Foreign Minister Worries that Musk Will Successfully Undermine Ruling Liberal Party in Upcoming Elections; Is Another Romania-Style Election Nullification Possible?
Will Musk’s taste for a US favorite, regime change, include 2025 Polish elections? If so, will the answer be Romania-style extreme measures?
Read more...DOGE: Nations Aren’t Corporations and ‘Efficiency’ Means Austerity
Why DOGE, if implemented on the scale intended, will be a train wreck for the great majority of Americans.
Read more...Political Distrust and the Populist Alt-View Trap
More handwringing about populist political figures, and what can be done to counter their messaging successes.
Read more...Access to PPE, a Critical Tool in Fighting Bird Flu, Is Mixed Across Dairy-Producing States, Records Show
States with confirmed dairy cattle bird flu cases have drastically different personal protective equipment responses, and most are failing.
Read more...Dems Rip Musk-Ramaswamy Plan for Spending Cuts as Illegal ‘Power Grab’
Yves here. I’ve been waiting for legal arguments against the planned wholesale Federal budget whackage under the Trump DOGE initiative to start. Admittedly its leaders Musk and Ramaswamy had not given much insight into how they intended to achieve their ambitious aims. The little I have seen suggests that they effectively intend to override regulations….which […]
Read more...Trump Nominates Corporate Lobbyist and Foreclosure Fraudsters Defender Pam Bondi as Attorney General
Pam Bondi has a terrible record as far as going after corporate misconduct is concerned, which explains Senate enthusiasm for her.
Read more...International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrants for Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Former Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant
After a long delay, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants against the open genociders Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.
Read more...Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State
With Trump nominations like Matt Gaetz, RFK, Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard attracting lots of ire, Mario Rubio is being treated as sound. That’s a mistake.
Read more...Wall Street Banks Accused of Trying to Sabotage Key Consumer Protection Rule
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants banks to send data of ex-customers to a new bank. Banks are howling. They may have a point.
Read more...A New Age of Presidential Unilaterism?
A historical look at Presidential power grabs, um, authority expansion, with an eye to what that means under Trump 2.0.
Read more...How Corporate Vehicles Conceal Crime and Chicanery
Financial vehicles designed to conceal wealth and questionable activity fuel corruption and crime while allowing perps evade accountability
Read more...The $10 Million Eric Adams Is Charged With Stealing Speaks to a Vaster Plot
The Eric Adams indictment involves the abuse of small donations to obtain illegal matches and may go well beyond Turkiye donors
Read more...An American Coup?
Did the US armed services refuse to execute an order by Biden, which would amount to a coup, or is the story more complex?
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