As I've said before it is helpful to realize that the US isn't really a proper nation-state, but more like a heavily armed hedge-fund that a periodically rewrites its investment prospectus and rebalances an asset portfolio of markets, members, and money power.
SCOOP: The highest-ranking Treasury official is expected to depart soon after a clash w/ Elon Musk allies over their demands for access to a sensitive internal government payment system, sources say
Musk allies wanted access to the system responsible for disbursing trillions in fed payments annually as part of DOGE
Treasury career staff saw request as highly unusual
David A. Lebryk, viewed internally as consummate nonpolitical civil servant, expected to exit after joining Treasury in 1989. Last week, he was acting treasury secretary.
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this should be breaking news everywhere
Dr. Nimr Ikram (TX)
Dr. Omair Ilyas (CA)
Dr. Aslam Akhtar (CA)
Dr. Tarik Elmohd (FL)
Dr. Mohamed Kuziez (CO)
Dr. Sameer Ahmad (CA)
Dr. Omar Malas (OH)
Dr. Asad Khan (TX)
Dr. Shehzad Batliwala (TX)
Nurses: Nor Rizek (AZ) & Marie Zhang (OH)
New—Israel denying 11 American physicians & nurses from leaving Gaza. They're from Texas, Florida, Colorado, Ohio, Arizona.
Some have surgeries for Americans back in the US they may miss.
Source says Israel gave no reason for denial—nor for doctors supposed to *enter* yesterday.
Wrong question. The question to ask is “Why was he able to run?” not “Why did he win?”
A key reason he won is because voters stopped believing he was a threat since government officials didn’t treat him like one.
This alone should've been enough. But then he stole top secret documents, lied and hid them, and refused to give them back. Then a jury convicted him of sexual assault, and his business with years of fraud worth $500million. What kind of messed up country would reelect this man?
It’s been four days since Human Rights Watch released a 179-page report on Israel committing genocide in Gaza and I still can’t find a story from the New York Times, “the newspaper of record.”
But I got a push notification about Blake Lively and they have multiple articles.
The AfD's mission is to rehabilitate the image of the Nazi movement.
One leader's license plate is an open tribute to Hitler.
A top AfD official said about migrants, "We can always shoot them later...or gas them."
Another described Judaism as the "inner enemy" in Germany.
BREAKING: Elon Musk has said:
"I’m going to be funding moderate candidates in heavily Democrat districts, so that the country can get rid of those who don’t represent them."
The irony of saying ‘get rid of those who don’t represent them’ as you, the richest billionaire on earth, pledge to use your wealth to unseat them. This is what oligarchy looks like.
BREAKING: Elon Musk has said:
"I’m going to be funding moderate candidates in heavily Democrat districts, so that the country can get rid of those who don’t represent them."
The biggest changes vs. the last version are:
1.) Loosening restrictions on Elon Musk's investment in Chinese factories
2.) Eliminating reforms to pharmaceutical benefit managers like UnitedHealth.
Trump is auctioning off the presidency before he even takes the oath.
The GOP is giving China some major wins in this CR package. It looks like they stripped out the Chinese investment restrictions as well as funds going towards replacing Chinese telecom technology in the United States as well. Not good at all from a NatSec perspective
And there you have it. New bill removes funding for this bipartisan child cancer research program. $190 million -- a small drop comparatively -- is now gone. will need to be passed at some other point, if it can get passed at all.
Thanks to Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Republicans cut $190 million for pediatric cancer research from the funding bill.
Congrats to DOGE on their first victory.
The world’s richest man ordered a government shutdown to get more tax breaks for himself and his billionaire friends – paid for with your tax dollars. And House Republicans and Donald Trump just fell in line.
If Dems and other officials do not hold the perperators of past admin crimes accountable *and* tackle the structural issues that made the US vulnerable to mafia state rule, all the Biden admin will be is a brief interlude between aspiring autocracy and entrenched autocracy.
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