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What Elon Musk got wrong about why federal retirement is still managed out of a limestone mine. — 22 February 2025 (LINK)

A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump's bid to deprive federal funding from programmes that incorporate "diversity, equity and inclusion" initiatives. U.S. District Judge Adam Abelson ruled that Trump's policy likely violates the First Amendment because it penalizes private organizations based on their viewpoints. — 21 February 2025 (LINK)

— And the judge said the policy is written so vaguely that it chills the free speech of federal contractors concerned they will be punished if they don't eliminate programmes meant to encourage a diverse workforce.

— Abelson, a Baltimore-based appointee of former President Joe Biden, said longstanding court precedent bars the federal government from "leveraging its funding to restrict federal contractors and grantees from otherwise exercising their First Amendment rights."

A Trump-appointed judge greenlighted the administration's plans to place thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employees on administrative leave and recall many from field offices around the world. — 21 February 2025 (LINK)

FoxNews: Judge grants 19 AGs preliminary injunction against DOGE access to Treasury payment system. — 22 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.

Trump administration fires top US general and Navy chief in unprecedented purge of military leadership. — 21 February 2025 (LINK)

Trump plans to impose 25 percent tariffs on automobile and semiconductor imports on 2 April. — 19 February 2025 (LINK)

CNN: Trump delivers another blow to Ukraine with claim it started war and offers a new boost to Putin. — 19 February 2025 (LINK)

BBC: Fact-checking Trump claims about war in Ukraine. — (LINK)

— Ukraine didn't start the war. Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, having annexed Crimea in 2014.

— Russia also backed proxy forces who seized areas of eastern Ukraine, and it accused the new government in Kyiv of discrimination and genocide against Russian speakers. The International Court of Justice has rejected Moscow's claims.

U.K. Daily Mail: DOGE cuts U.S. government's 'pricey' media subscriptions after discovering shocking $8million bill to left-leaning sites: cuts The Economist, The New York Times, Politico, Bloomberg News, The Associated Press and Reuters. — 19 February 2025 (LINK)

Trump freezes immigration benefits for Ukrainians who fled to US and sponsored migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. — 19 February 2025 (LINK)

Elon Musk is not a DOGE employee and has no decision-making authority, White House filing reveals. — 18 February 2025 (LINK)

— Trump loyalist Peter Navarro, senior counselor to the president for trade and manufacturing, is meanwhile becoming an increasingly influential figure within the administration and guiding much of Trump's policies on trade, which are threatening rifts with America's allies, according to a new report.

DOGE reportedly fired the FDA employees who were reviewing clinical trials for Elon Musk’s Neuralink. — 18 February 2025 (LINK)

FDA staff were reviewing Elon Musk's brain implant company. DOGE just fired them: At least 20 staffers reviewing Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant company, were fired in an ongoing DOGE purge of federal workers. — 17 February 2025 (LINK)

Trump Media says it lost more than $400 million last year while revenue dropped 12%. — 17 February 2025 (LINK)

X is blocking links to Signal, a secure messaging platform used by federal workers. — 17 February 2025 (LINK)

Tesla was hit by a wave of protests over Musk, sales are crashing, insiders are waking up. — 17 February 2025 (LINK)

Trump's plan for Gaza: 'Ethnic cleansing is not acceptable,' UN chief Guterres says. — 16 February 2025 (LINK)

Appeals court rejects Trump in showdown over firing of ethics watchdog. — 15 February 2025 (LINK)

Elon Musk's DOGE asks for access to IRS taxpayer data, sources say. — 16 February 2025 (LINK)

Trump's new passport rules could impact cruisers, cruise lines. — 16 February 2025 (LINK)

— The new Executive Order only allows people to pick the gender they were assigned at birth. Previously, Americans traveling abroad who have a passport had the option of selecting "male," "female," or "X". That choice would be eliminated should an Executive Order issued by President Donald Trump clear the many legal challenges it's likely to face including a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Hundreds of LGBTQ+ New Yorkers and their allies gathered outside the Stonewall Inn to manifest physically what the Trump administration has sought to erase in government records: that transgender and queer people have demonstrated, protested, and occasionally fought in the streets throughout American history for their civil and human rights. — 14 February 2025 (LINK)

Sources: RFK Jr. verbally rescinds Tribal Indian Health Service layoffs hours after the workers were told by phone that they were losing their jobs. — 16 February 2025 (LINK)

Zelenskyy calls for 'armed forces of Europe' as EU leaders bristle at new US policies on Ukraine. — 15 February 2025 (LINK)

US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days before. — 15 February 2025 (LINK)

— An email obtained by NBC said the letters for some NNSA employees "are being rescinded, but we do not have a good way to get in touch with those personnel".

Justice Department fires 20 immigration judges from backlogged courts amid major government cuts. — 15 February 2025 (LINK)

Nearly 10,000 fired as Trump and Musk step up government purge. — 14 February 2025 (LINK)

DHS cuts at least 405 employees from workforce: The bulk of the cuts at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. — 14 February 2025 (LINK)

US judge extends order to block DOGE from Treasury Department data. — 14 February 2025 (LINK)

US Vice President JD Vance meets German far-right leader Alice Weidel, the co-leader and candidate for chancellor of the far-right and anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party, as he criticizes ‘firewalls’ in Europe. — 14 February 2025 (LINK)

Council on Foreign Relations: Southeast Asia: Trump's commitment to tariffs and unwillingness to foster trade stability in Asia might lead Asian countries, as well as Australia, New Zealand, and many developing regions, to increasingly rely on Chinese goods and technology — well beyond auto manufacturing. — 14 February 2025 (LINK)

Donald Trump makes major nuclear weapons announcement: said during an Oval Office press conference that his administration will discuss denuclearization with Russia and China. — 13 February 2025 (LINK)

— "President Putin and I agreed that we were going to do it in a very big way. There's no reason for us to be building brand-new nuclear weapons. We already have so many, you could destroy the world 50 times over, 100 times over. And here we are building new nuclear weapons. And they're building new nuclear weapons. And China's trying to catch up," he said.

U.S. deports nearly 119 Asian migrants of different nationalities to Panama: people from Afghanistan, China, India and elsewhere. In total the U.S. will send Panama 360 people on three flights. — 13 February 2025 (LINK)

Musk misleads on FEMA's migrant-related payments to New York City. — 13 February 2025 (LINK)

— This week, New York City officials said the city had received two payments from the federal government as reimbursement for expenses the city incurred while providing services to migrants who arrived in New York, including $19 million for hotel expenses. But Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency, claimed, without evidence, that $59 million "meant for American disaster relief" was sent to "luxury hotels."

Encyclopaedia Britannica tells Trump to take a hike over Gulf of America. — 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".

Almost $500 million in food is at risk of spoilage after USAID pause, report says. — 11 February 2025 (LINK)

USAID inspector general fired day after report critical of impacts of Trump administration's dismantling of the agency. — 11 February 2025 (LINK)

Judge leaves intact a ban on DOGE access to Treasury records pending a hearing Friday. — 11 February 2025 (LINK)

Marc Fogel, American detained in Russia, freed after visit by Trump envoy. — 11 February 2025 (LINK)

CDC, other health agencies ordered to restore web pages removed under Trump directive. — 11 February 2025 (LINK)

Robert Reich: Trump's biggest corruption yet: Last weekend, the Trump-Musk regime shuttered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The federal government is no longer protecting consumers of financial products. Trump-Musk ordered all work to stop at the CFPB. Its X account was deleted and its homepage unplugged. CFPB employees who went to the building Sunday to retrieve things they needed to work remotely were turned away by security. — 11 February 2025 (LINK)

— The CFPB had proposed that "everything apps" for financial transactions be supervised the same way banks are supervised. Well, scratch that now. No supervision. And no insurance by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Brace yourselves for fraud and bank runs. Musk, Zuckerberg, and Andreessen — all Trump backers and lapdogs — had claimed that the CFPB was trying to "debank" or remove them and other Trumpers from the banking system. In fact, the CFPB proposed the first-ever rule to block debanking.

Google officially updates name of 'Gulf of America'. Users in Mexico will still see the name "Gulf of Mexico," and users elsewhere in the world will see both names, written as "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)." — 10 February 2025 (LINK)

Hamas suspends hostage releases after Trump statement, alleging ceasefire violations — Israel says military now on 'highest alert'. — 10 February 2025 (LINK)

Trump says Palestinians would not have a right to return to Gaza under his redevelopment plan. — 10 February 2025 (LINK)

— Afterward, some Trump aides sought to soften or clarify aspects of the plan. Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said Trump was proposing only a temporary relocation of Palestinians while Gaza was being rebuilt. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was traveling in Latin America when Trump revealed his idea, suggested the resettlements from Gaza would be only on an interim basis.

— Yet Trump himself, in comments afterward, did anything but retreat. He told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday that he viewed the war-torn region as a "big real estate site". "I think that it's a big mistake to allow people — the Palestinians, or the people living in Gaza — to go back yet another time, and we don't want Hamas going back. And think of it as a big real estate site, and the United States is going to own it and we'll slowly — very slowly, we're in no rush — develop it. We're going to bring stability to the Middle East soon," Trump told reporters as he traveled to the Super Bowl.

— He added during his interview on Fox — taped on Saturday but aired Monday morning — that it would take years before anyone could consider living in Gaza given the destruction of the war.

Judge directs Trump administration to comply with order to unfreeze federal grants. — 10 February 2025 (LINK)

FEMA says it's halting payments for migrant housing in New York after Musk blasts money for hotels. — 10 February 2025 (LINK)

— Musk, who as head of the Department of Government Efficiency has consolidated control over much of the federal government and is working to cut costs and shrink the workforce, posted on X that his team "just discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants." He said the money is intended for disaster relief and would be clawed back.

— Musk gave no evidence to support his claim, and information from the city of New York indicated that money it's received to care for migrants was appropriated by Congress and allocated to the city last year by FEMA.

$2 billion gone: Trump meme coin leaves investors scratching their heads. — 10 February 2025 (LINK)

— The so-called "Official Trump" coin, which once shot up to $75 per token, is currently only worth $16.00. According to grapevines, US President Donald Trump and his friends got away with a fortune, while regular traders suffered a severe blow. Data shows that over 813,000 wallets — likely retail traders and Trump supporters — either sold at a loss or are still holding coins that have lost most of their value.

Trump imposes 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum — those expected to be hit hardest by the duties include Canada and Mexico, Germany and Asian exporters. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the biggest winner of the trade tariffs is likely to be the U.S. — 10 February 2025 (LINK)

Judge blocks Trump administration from cutting research funding after 22 states sue. The National Institutes of Health said it would limit indirect funding for research projects to 15%, dramatically slashing how much funding the federal government would provide to research agencies. — 10 February 2025 (LINK)

Trump signs order pausing enforcement of 1977 foreign bribery ban. — 10 February 2025 (LINK)

Justice Department orders charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams dismissed. The mayor was charged with bribery, fraud and other counts. Legal experts questioned the Trump administration's justification for the move, and one law enforcement official called the order "transparent corruption". — 10 February 2025 (LINK)

Court grants request to block detained Venezuelan immigrants from being sent to Guantanamo. — 9 February 2025 (LINK)

UN investigator: Trump's Gaza Plan amounts to illegal 'ethnic cleansing'. — 9 February 2025 (LINK)

— "Forcible displacement of an occupied group is an international crime," said Navi Pillay, chair of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

'Disgraceful Manipulation': Fox accused of covering up loud boos for Donald Trump at the Super Bowl with fake crowd cheers. — 9 February 2025 (LINK)

In pre-Superbowl Interview Donald Trump makes it official on wanting to annex Great North. — 9 February 2025 (LINK)

— Canada "would be much better off being a 51st state". "We lose $200 billion a year with Canada, and I'm not going to let that happen," Trump said. "It's too much. Why are we paying $200 billion a year, essentially in subsidy to Canada? Now, if they are a 51st state, I don't mind doing it."

Fact-check: President Donald Trump's Super Bowl LIX interview with Fox's Bret Baier. — (LINK)

The US State Department says humanitarian assistance can continue. Foreign aid workers say that's not happening. — 8 February 2025 (LINK)

Federal judge blocks Elon Musk's DOGE from accessing sensitive US Treasury material. — 8 February 2025 (LINK)

Trump ends legal battle over Twitter ban. — 8 February 2025 (LINK)

— Trump sued the social media platform for banning him in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, when Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. While a federal judge dismissed the suit in 2022, the then-former president’s lawyers continued to appeal.Soon after the judge’s ruling, Elon Musk (who has become a key Trump ally) acquired Twitter (now known as X), and reinstated Trump’s account. Facebook and other platforms subsequently reinstated Trump, as well — although he still does most of his social media posting on Truth Social, which is owned by Trump Media & Technology Group.

— Soon after the judge’s ruling, Elon Musk (who has become a key Trump ally) acquired Twitter (now known as X), and reinstated Trump’s account. Facebook and other platforms subsequently reinstated Trump, as well — although he still does most of his social media posting on Truth Social, which is owned by Trump Media & Technology Group.

Trump administration orders consumer protection agency to stop work, closes building. — 8 February 2025 (LINK)

Futurism: "Afraid to cut anything from the military budget, Elon is now sending a DOGE boy to make cuts at Veterans Affairs." — 8 February 2025 (LINK)

Judge blocks Trump from placing thousands of USAID workers on leave and giving them 30-day deadline. — 7 February 2025 (LINK)

— U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, also agreed to block an order that would have given the thousands of overseas USAID workers the administration wanted to place on abrupt administrative leave just 30 days to move families and households back to the U.S. on government expense. Both moves would have exposed the U.S. workers and their spouses and children to unwarranted risk and expense, the judge said.

ICC prosecutor who oversaw arrest order for Putin over Ukrainian children deportation included in Trump's nonpublic sanction list, Reuters reports. — 7 February 2025 (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)

Trump pauses tariffs on millions of low-value packages from China, apparently to give federal agencies time to sort out how to process millions of such shipments that have come through the U.S. border every day without paying taxes. — 7 February 2025 (LINK)

Trump says he'll pursue 'reciprocal' tariffs in latest bid to decrease US trade deficit. — 7 February 2025 (LINK)

ICC prosecutor who oversaw arrest order for Putin over Ukrainian children deportation included in Trump's nonpublic sanction list, Reuters reports. — 7 February 2025 (LINK)

Virtually everybody who's ever bought Trump's meme coin has lost money on it: "I don't know much about it other than I launched it." — 7 February 2025 (LINK)

— Soon after Trump launched his memecoin days before his second inauguration, its value plummeted from its all-time high of $78 as hyped-up crypto bros raced to cash out. It currently sits at a pathetic $17 per token — a shell of a grift that once saw nearly $72 billion worth of market cap at its peak.

Trump says he is revoking Biden's security clearance and access to daily intelligence briefings, after his predecessor did the same to him four years ago. — 7 February 2025 (LINK)

Donald Trump says he's firing Kennedy Center board members, naming himself chairman. — 7 February 2025 (LINK)

White House: Imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court. — 6 February 2025 (LINK)

— The "International Criminal Court (ICC), as established by the Rome Statute, has engaged in illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel."

— "The ICC has, without a legitimate basis, asserted jurisdiction over and opened preliminary investigations concerning personnel of the United States and certain of its allies, including Israel, and has further abused its power by issuing baseless arrest warrants targeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant. The ICC has no jurisdiction over the United States or Israel, as neither country is party to the Rome Statute or a member of the ICC. Neither country has ever recognized the ICC’s jurisdiction, and both nations are thriving democracies with militaries that strictly adhere to the laws of war."

Trump Calls for '60 Minutes' and CBS to be 'terminated'. — 6 February 2025 (LINK)

— "CBS and 60 Minutes defrauded the public by doing something which has never, to this extent, been seen before," Trump fumed Thursday. "They 100% removed Kamala's horrible election changing answers to questions, and replaced them with completely different, and far better, answers, taken from another part of the interview."

— Transcripts released by CBS Wednesday discredited his claim, showing the network's flagship newsmagazine made routine edits to the Harris interview for time and clarity.

President Donald Trump's social media company, Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), announced it has initiated a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) . — 6 February 2025 (LINK)

NY Post: Uncut '60 Minutes' Kamala Harris interview reveals 'word salad' responses were heavily edited by CBS — snipped Israel answer to just 20 words. — (LINK)

Fury in India over U.S. allegedly flying 100 deportees halfway around the world in handcuffs and leg chains. — 6 February 2025 (LINK)

Staffer at Musk's DOGE resigns after racist social media posts exposed. — 6 February 2025 (LINK)

Trump's ICE frees hundreds of immigrants under "catch and release", partly because of limited detention space in U.S. immigration facilities. — 6 February 2025 (LINK)

— During his campaign Trump repeatedly criticized the Biden administration's use of "catch and release," and last month he set plans to end the practice.

Trump orders key government agency to cancel all media contracts:"Pull all contracts for Politico, BBC, E&E (Politico sub) and Bloomberg. Pull all media contracts for just GSA — cancel every single media contract today for GSA only." . — 6 February 2025 (LINK)

Trump restates plan for US takeover of Gaza, with Palestinians 'resettled in the region': Writing on social media, Trump says Gaza "would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting". — 5 February 2025 (LINK)

At WTO China challenges Trump tariffs as 'discriminatory'. — 5 February 2025 (LINK)

— China has accused the US of making "unfounded and false allegations" about its role in the fentanyl trade to justify tariffs on Chinese products. Trump raised border taxes on Chinese goods by 10%, a measure he said was intended to address an influx of illegal drugs.

— Sheertex, a Canadian tights-maker, on Wednesday announced that it was putting 40% of its nearly 350 workers on temporary layoff, citing the tariff questions.

— The value of goods brought into the US jumped 4% from November to $293.1bn, the highest since records began in 1992, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday. The rise also contributed to the widest trade deficit, or gap, between exports and imports in nearly two years.

Trump's press secretary won't rule out US troops in Gaza after president said the U.S. would "take over" Gaza and "own" the territory. — 5 February 2025 (LINK)

Trump said the U.S. would "level the site" and create "an economic development.". — (LINK)

Top Justice Department official accuses FBI leadership of 'insubordination' over January 6 inquiry: The acting deputy attorney general accused FBI leadership of “insubordination” by refusing to identify a “core team” of bureau employees who worked on January 6 investigations, while trying to assure that rank-and-file agents who “simply followed orders” will not be fired unless they “acted with corrupt or partisan intent,” according to a copy of a memo obtained by CNN.. — 5 February 2025 (LINK)

Trump signs order withdrawing US from several UN bodies, including its Human Rights Council (UNHRC), and setting up a broader review of US funding for the multilateral organization. — 4 February 2025 (LINK)

— The executive order said it withdrew Washington from UNHRC and the main UN relief agency for Palestinians (UNRWA), and would review involvement in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The moves were made in protest against what White House staff secretary Will Scharf described as "anti-American bias" at the UN agencies. Each of the withdrawals has been a repeat of the Republican billionaire's first term in office, which ended in 2021.

Trump sends first migrant detainees to Guantanamo Bay. — 4 February 2025 (LINK)

— A brief statement from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the detainees were part of the Tren de Aragua — a gang that originated in Venezuela's prisons. Ten detainees were flown from the Fort Bliss Army base near the Texas border to the US Navy base in Cuba on Tuesday afternoon, the BBC's US partner CBS News reported, citing multiple US officials. Last week, Trump ordered that an existing migrant detention facility at the base be expanded to hold some 30,000 people. He said that would double the US capacity to hold undocumented migrants.

EPA spending freeze continues despite court orders: Two judges have ordered the administration to lift the freeze. But nonprofits and states still can’t get money for contracts backed by the Inflation Reduction Act. — 4 February 2025 (LINK)

China imposes up to 15% tariffs on select U.S. imports in response to Trump's tariffs. — 4 February 2025 (LINK) — ground.news: 452 media reports (LINK)

— China imposed tariffs on a range of products, including liquefied natural gas, coal, farm machinery and other imports from the United States. Peking slapped an additional 10 percent tariff on crude oil, agricultural equipment, larger cars and pickup trucks, as well as an additional 15 percent tariff on coal and natural gas. China slapped an additional 10 percent tariff on crude oil, agricultural equipment, larger cars and pickup trucks, as well as an additional 15 percent tariff on coal and natural gas. It also announced new restrictions on exports of tungsten, tellurium, molybdenum, and other metals used in cutting-edge technology products, citing "national security and interests." The government also put PVH — the American retailer that owns the Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger brands — on its "unreliable entities" list — (LINK)

— China has revived antitrust investigations into Google and Nvidia, while considering a new probe against Intel.

Nothing normal about this Consumer Financial Protection Bureau takeover: all work at the agency has been shut down indefinitely. — 4 February 2025 (LINK)

Cruise industry braces for hit from Trump's Canada trade war. Royal Caribbean, Norwegian Cruise Line, and Carnival Cruise Lines stand to be hit the hardest. — 4 February 2025 (LINK)

New Republic: Child psychologist Jean Piaget explains Trump's wild tariff feints better than any economist. — 4 February 2025 (LINK)

— From the ages of 2 to 7, Piaget explained, a child is unable to identify cause and effect logically and instead engages in transductive reasoning. A child might believe, for instance, that his taking a nap causes it to be afternoon, when in fact it being afternoon is what causes his parent to put him down for a nap. Most of us grow out of the transductive phase. Trump did not, making it difficult to distinguish his lies from his delusions.

Here's every product Trump just made more expensive. — 3 February 2025 (LINK)

Federal judge issues restraining order blocking federal spending freeze. — 3 February 2025 (LINK)

Barron's: Trump Tariffs cause stock market chaos. Why Wall Street didn't act on warnings and 5 other things to know. — 3 February 2025 (LINK)

Senate confirms fossil fuel executive Chris Wright as energy secretary. — 3 February 2025 (LINK)

Ontario cancels, then restores, $68 million Starlink contract after protesting US tariffs. — 3 February 2025 (LINK)

Musk says Trump has "agreed" to shut USAID down. — 3 February 2025 (LINK)

— The president told reporters earlier Sunday that USAID was "run by radical lunatics, and we're getting them out, and then we'll make a decision" on its future.

HuffPost: 'Let them eat cake' moment: Trump's big 'pain' confession leaves critics horrified: the president had insisted his tariffs wouldn't raise prices. Now he's admitting otherwise. — 2 February 2025 (LINK)

Trump warns 'We're Gonna Take' Panama Canal back or 'Something Very Powerful is Going to Happen'. — 2 February 2025 (LINK)

Trump calls on Canada to become '51st state', threatens South Africa funding. — 2 February 2025 (LINK)

Trump hits out at Murdoch's mouthpiece WSJ for calling tariffs 'dumbest trade war'. — 2 February 2025 (LINK)

The Hill: Trump exacts revenge on former allies who criticized him. — 2 February 2025 (LINK)

Education Department employees placed on paid leave as part of Trump administration’s DEI purge. — 2 February 2025 (LINK)

LGBTQ Nation: In the Trump administration, cruelty is the point: blind loyalty is the only path to mercy. — 2 February 2025 (LINK)

Confusion over federal funding freeze prompts public health concerns. — 2 February 2025 (LINK)

Female pilot in crash Trump blamed on DEI was top 20% Army cadet. — 2 February 2025 (LINK)

Elon Musk seizes computer system, locks out senior government officials: the latest in Musk's DOGE takeover sees the Tesla CEO in charge of the computer system managing government personnel. — 2 February 2025 (LINK)

Trump's trade war among allies triggers retaliation from Canada and Mexico. — 2 February 2025 (LINK)

— Canada initially ordered tariffs of 25% on American imports starting Feb. 4, including beverages, cosmetics and paper products worth $20 billion. A second list of goods was to be released soon, including passenger vehicles, trucks, steel and aluminum products, certain fruits and vegetables, beef, pork, dairy products and more. Those goods were estimated to be worth $85 billion. Mexico has so far said only that it will impose retaliatory tariffs, without mentioning any rate or products.

Trump's Gitmo Detention Center would be bigger than history's worst concentration camps. — 2 February 2025 (LINK)

Robert Reich: Don't just focus on the Trump acts we find most outrageous: keep your eye on the big picture: the aim is to concentrate ever more power in Trump's hands, so he can concentrate ever more wealth in the oligarchy's control. — 2 February 2025 (LINK)

President Donald Trump announced in a social media post that he has ordered "precision military air strikes," on members of the ISIS terrorist organization. — 1 February 2025 (LINK)

Trump in January 2025

Trump December 2024

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