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Trump says 'nothing will stop me' at rally to celebrate 100 days in office (LINK) — 29 April 2025.
— The 45th and 47th president falsely accused the previous administration of engineering massive border invasion and allowing gangs, cartels and terrorists to infiltrate communities. "Democrats have vowed mass invasion and mass migration," he said. "We are delivering mass deportation."
FULL TRANSCRIPT: Trump's exclusive 100 days broadcast interview with ABC News (LINK).
10 key numbers that sum up Trump's first 100 days (LINK) — 29 April 2025.
- Executive orders: 142. Trump issued his 100th order in late March, surpassing Roosevelt's record of 99 in 100 days./li>
- Biden orders reversed: over 100.
- Bills signed into law: 5. He broke George W. Bush's record low of seven in 2001
- Lawsuits: Over 200.
- Approval rating: 42%.
- Pardons: 39, plus hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants.
- Federal layoffs: Tens of thousands.
- Immigration: 7,180 March border crossings.
- Tariffs: average effective rate of 28%.
- Inflation: 2.4% in March.
The US government has a new policy for terminating international students' legal status (LINK) — 29 April 2025.
— In a court filing Monday, it shared the new policy: a document issued over the weekend with guidance on a range of reasons students' status can be canceled, including the revocation of the visas they used to enter the U.S.
FoxNews: DOGE, Treasury discover $334M in improper payment requests due to foul codes (LINK) — 29 April 2025.
FoxNews: DOGE terminates billions in contracts, including $361K for 'gender non-conforming, non-binary' BIPOC farmers (LINK) — 29 April 2025.
Amazon squashes reports that it'll display tariff costs after the White House called it a 'hostile' act (LINK) — 29 April 2025.
— The White House criticized Amazon's reported plan to show how much tariffs are raising prices. The move would be "a hostile and political act," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. But a spokesman said it "was never under consideration" for Amazon's main website.
DOGE pillages another federal agency in the dead of night: Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum just handed over the reins to DOGE staffer Tyler Hassen. (LINK) — 25 April 2025.
— Daily Kos: Hassen, who had a long career as an oil executive, is now able to issue policy directives, make funding decisions, and transfer funds. He's also in charge of the "consolidation" of technology, communications, financial management, contracting, and human resources—thinly veiled code for "trash the divisions and fire everyone". Hassan is also reviewing every grant over $50,000 with fellow DOGE denizen Matt Luby, who requested access to the department's grant system.
— "Hassen was never confirmed by the Senate, but now he's in charge of a federal agency while still working for DOGE, which isn't an official government entity. It's the very definition of an unelected, unaccountable bureaucrat."
U.S. Defense Secretary Hegseth's chief of staff is ousted at the Pentagon, the fourth top official to be fired or reassigned in the last week amid political turmoil at the Pentagon (LINK) — 25 April 2025.
— Joe Kasper, who worked in the first Trump administration, had previously been chief of staff to Rep. Duncan Hunter, Jr. Hunter had been convicted of misusing campaign funds and was later pardoned by Trump.
Rubio eliminates office that oversees climate talks: The Office of Global Change was notified Thursday that it would be shuttered. (LINK) — 24 April 2025.
Defense chief Pete Hegseth reportedly had unsecured office internet line set up to bypass official security protocols to connect to Signal on personal computer (LINK) — 24 April 2025.
Sarah Palin loses her defamation retrial against The New York Times (LINK) — 22 April 2025 .
— Palin first filed her lawsuit against the Times and former editor James Bennet in June 2017 after the paper ran an editorial alleging Palin had engaged in "political incitement" ahead of the 2011 shooting of Gabby Giffords. According to Palin's lawsuit, the editorial incorrectly claimed an advertisement run by the former governor's political action committee placed "Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized cross hairs." The Times released a correction less than 24 hours later, clarifying that "no such link was established" but noting that the error did not "undercut or weaken the argument of the piece".
MEIDAS+: President's 90-day Report Card: Trump's 93 campaign promises (LINK) — 21 April 2025.
Pete Hegseth shared Yemen attack details in second Signal chat: US defense secretary texted strike information to his family in group chat he created, sources tell the New York Times (LINK) — 20 April 2025.
After brief face-to-face with U.S. Vice-President Vance, Pope's Easter address denounces 'contempt' for migrants (LINK) — 20 April 2025.
Pope Francis skipped the Vatican's official meeting with Vice President JD Vance, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement (LINK) — 19 April 2025.
Axed U.S. vaccine chief accuses RFK Jr. of crackpot "data" demands — 4 April 2025 (LINK)
— Kennedy hired discredited anti-vaxxer David Geier as a senior data analyst so he can study the "link" between vaccines and autism, a link that has already been widely and thoroughly debunked by numerous other studies.
Fox News: Here's what happened during Trump's ninth week in office — 22 March 2025 (LINK)
4 reasons why Tesla's 53% stock crash is accelerating — 18 March 2025 (LINK)
White House to pull anti-vaccine CDC director nomination, sources. — 13 March 2025 (LINK)
Elon Musk's X hit by waves of outages in what he claims is 'a massive cyberattack' from Ukraine — 10 March 2025 (LINK)
— Musk has a history of attributing technical snafus to cyberattacks. When his conversation with Donald Trump on X started 42 minutes late in August 2024, he said there was a "probability" of an attack.
X outage linked to Dark Storm hacker group — (LINK)
— "How are you Elon Musk? I hope you like our visit," a message on the Dark Storm Team Telegram channel reads.
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim cancelled $22 billion in Starlink orders on 23 January when Elon Musk insinuated in January that Slim was significantly involved with drug cartels in Mexico. — 10 March 2025 (LINK)
RFK Jr. is hawking fake treatments for measles outbreaks: vitamin C, cod liver oil, and the inhaled steroid budesonide. — 10 March 2025 (LINK)
DOGE staffers reportedly draw hefty salaries funded by taxpayers while Elon Musk pushes for 'wasteful' spending cuts. — 7 March 2025 (LINK)
Trump admits Musk is head of DOGE: During his address before Congress Tuesday, Donald Trump lauded Elon Musk as the head of DOGE, contradicting previous White House claims. — 6 March 2025 (LINK)
Elon Musk tells Republican lawmakers he's not to blame for federal firings: those decisions are left to the various federal agencies. — 6 March 2025 (LINK)
— "Elon doesn't fire people," said Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., after a dinner-time pizza meeting with Musk in the basement of the Capitol. "He doesn't have hiring and firing authority," added Hudson, who leads the House Republicans' campaign arm. "The president's empowered him to go uncover this information, that's it."
Right Side Broadcasting Network, the White House's favoured outlet of reporter Brian Glenn (the one who scolded Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit and is Marjorie Taylor-Greene's manfriend), took payments of $192K for covering Trump. — 6 March 2025 (LINK)
— Glenn acknowledged the payments in a brief interview, describing them as "production" costs.
Right-wing influencer Andrew Tate and brother leave Romania on jet headed for Florida, lawyer says. — 27 February 2025 (LINK)
— The Tate brothers, who are dual US and UK nationals, had been banned from leaving Romania after being arrested in 2022 and charged with rape, human trafficking, money laundering and starting an organized crime group. They have denied all wrongdoing.
Elon Musk has received $38 billion in aid from the federal government. Now he's slashing that help for others. — 26 February 2025 (LINK)
Musk has lost more than $100B since December as Tesla gives up trillion-dollar company status amid sell-off. — 25 February 2025 (LINK)
Elon Musk is flagrantly gutting an agency in charge of regulating Tesla. — 21 February 2025 (LINK)
Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio arrested near U.S. Capitol on charge that he assaulted a woman protesting a gathering attended by Tarrio and others who received presidential pardons for crimes stemming from the 6 Jan 2021 riot in the nation's capital. — 21 February 2025 (LINK)
— Tarrio, of Miami, was serving a 22-year sentence — the longest among hundreds of Capitol riot cases — when President Trump granted clemency last month to all 1,500-plus people charged in the Jan. 6 attack. A jury convicted Tarrio and three of his lieutenants of seditious conspiracy for a violent plot to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power from Mr. Trump to then-President Joe Biden after the 2020 election.
Danish ex-astronaut accuses Elon Musk over 'lie' about stranded astronauts. Musk replies with slur. — 21 February 2025 (LINK)
Mass firings of federal workers begin as Trump and Musk purge U.S. government. — 13 February 2025 (LINK)
Elon Musk slammed after Tesla's name disappears from State Dept. doc for $400 million contract. — 12 February 2025 (LINK)
— a U.S. State Department procurement document was edited to remove Tesla's name. This followed media reports of a $400 million contract for Tesla. The document was timestamped December 23, 2024. According to Bloomberg News reporter Dana Hull, the document now lists a "generic designation" of "armored electric vehicles".
Musk demands judge who blocked DOGE at Treasury be impeached. — 9 February 2025 (LINK)
Federal judge blocks Elon Musk's DOGE from accessing sensitive US Treasury Department material. — 8 February 2025 (LINK)
Elon Musk rehires racist DOGE staffer after Vance, Trump call for reinstatement. — 8 February 2025 (LINK)
Elon Musk's 19-year-old DOGE intern had been fired for leaking company secrets to competitors. — 8 February 2025 (LINK)
By 226-188 U.S. House of Representatives passes bill blocking future presidents from banning oil drilling without Congress' approval. — 7 February 2025 (LINK) — ground.news: 10 media reports (LINK)
Trump's pick to lead the FBI,Kash Patel,'s financial ties to Chinese fast-fashion brand Shein, a company accused of using forced labour, raise alarms. — 7 February 2025 (LINK)
Staffer at Musk's DOGE resigns after racist social media posts exposed. — 6 February 2025 (LINK)
Some federal health websites restored, others still down, after data purge. — 6 February 2025 (LINK)
— Some of the pages on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention website that went offline last week have since reappeared.
Musk associates sought to use critical Treasury payment system to shut down USAID spending, emails show. — 6 February 2025 (LINK)
— The ask was so out of line with how Treasury normally operates, it prompted a skeptical reply from David Lebryk, then serving as acting Treasury secretary, who said he did not believe "we have the legal authority to stop an authorized payment certified by an agency," according to a source familiar with the exchange. Lebryk suggested a "legally less risky approach" would be for the State Department, which oversees USAID, to rescind the payments itself and examine whether they complied with President Donald Trump's Inauguration Day executive order freezing foreign development aid.
Elon Musk's team accesses Medicare, Medicaid records. — 5 February 2025 (LINK)
— "Yeah, this is where the big money fraud is happening," Musk wrote on X Wednesday, referring to DOGE going into Medicare systems.
19 State AGs warn retail giant Costco for doubling down on 'discriminatory' DEI. — 27 January 2025 (LINK)
Eurasia Review: Biden's sordid legacy: ravaged rights and liberties — OpEd. — 17 January 2025 (LINK)
Eurasia Review: Joe Biden's terrible legacy — OpEd. — 17 January 2025 (LINK)
Fox News: Liz Peek: Biden keeps smearing lipstick on his pig of a presidency: keeps hammering Americans with an absurdly flattering and utterly bogus take on his own accomplishments. — 16 January 2025 (LINK)
National Review: The Biden Era wheezes its way to a fittingly deluded end. — 15 January 2025 (LINK)
Fluoride-IQ study fuels debate over US water fluoridation. — 10 January 2025 (LINK) — ground.news: 107 media reports (LINK)
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has put the decades-old debate over water fluoridation back on the table. A meta-analysis of studies found that a 1 part per million increase in fluoride in urine is linked to a 1.63 drop in IQ score, with consistent evidence showing that higher fluoride exposure is associated with diminished IQ in children. Nine-year research review concludes that higher fluoride levels result in lower IQ scores, with a 5-point decrease in a population's IQ nearly doubling the number of people classified as intellectually disabled.
— About 63 percent of Americans have fluoridated water. Professor of Preventive and Community Dentistry, Dr. Steven Levy "questions the study's conclusions, noting all human studies in the review are from outside the US with a high risk of bias, and emphasizes there is no evidence of adverse effects at lower fluoride levels used in community water fluoridation systems."(LINK)
— The World Health Organization suggests a guideline of 1.5 mg/L. In the U.S., water and beverages comprise about 75% of fluoride intake, with fluoridated water contributing between 40% and 70%. Fluoride also comes from other sources, such as dental products, food, and industrial emissions. Notably, 52 of the 74 studies included were rated as high risk of bias. No studies included U.S. populations, limiting direct applicability to U.S. public health recommendations. — (LINK)
— Fluoride strengthens teeth and reduces cavities by replacing minerals lost during normal wear and tear. According to the U.S. Public Health Service, since being added to public drinking water in the 1960s, it's reduced the average number of cavities by 44% in adults and 58% in adolescents. — (LINK)
Fox Corp loses bid to be removed from voting systems provider Smartmatic's $2bn lawsuit against Fox News for knowingly aired false information about its software to boost ratings. — 10 January 2025 (LINK)
Federal judge holds Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court for repeating false claims about election workers. — 10 January 2025 (LINK)
— The ex-New York City mayor owes the two election workers $148 million.
Meta disbands diversity team and says DEI has become 'charged': Reports. — 10 January 2025 (LINK) — ground.news: 221 media reports (LINK)
U.S. House of Congress passes sanctions bill against International Criminal Court officials in response to Netanyahu warrant. — 9 January 2025 (LINK) — ground.news: 86 media reports (LINK)
Blackrock departs net zero initiative, joining other firms in mass exodus from net zero groups. — 9 January 2025 (LINK)
— "A historic win for consumers and a decent start for BlackRock rolling back its destructive influence on America's economy. Now, BlackRock must work to fully repair the damage it has caused by ending the harmful incentives it put in place for executives via ESG, beyond net zero targets, including racial and sex-based discrimination in hiring and promotion," Will Hild, executive director of Consumers' Research, a conservative consumer advocacy group, said in a statement.
— wikipedia: "Consumers' Research is a American conservative 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Established in 1929, it was a founding organization in the consumer protection movement. It turned to the right after its sale in 1981 to a conservative publisher." (LINK)
Fox News: Alaska sues Biden administration for 'irrational' restrictions on Trump-era oil and gas drilling mandate. — 8 January 2025 (LINK)
Ex-FBI informant who fabricated bribery story about Biden and his son Hunter to influence 2020 election gets 6 years in prison. — 8 January 2025 (LINK)
Judges decide Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was just confused when he didn't report all that gifted money. — 8 January 2025 (LINK)
GOP-led immigration legislation passes House in first bill of new Congress, but faces uncertain future in Senate: bill would require the detention of undocumented migrants charged with theft or burglary. — 7 January 2025 (LINK)
— A critical mass of Democrats would have to join with Republicans to clear the 60-vote threshold required to advance most legislation in the Senate, a major constraint on the chamber's new GOP majority and President-elect Donald Trump's incoming agenda. It would need eight Democrats to vote with Republicans.
