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Elon Musk’s Attempt to Buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court Reaches a New Low

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Elon Musk has already spent more money—$20 million and counting—to flip the Wisconsin Supreme Court than any individual donor in the history of US judicial races.

His tactics go well beyond the usual campaign spending. First, he offered to pay voters $100 each for signing a petition from his America PAC opposing “activist judges.” Even the Musk and Trump-backed candidate, Brad Schimel, said he wouldn’t feel comfortable signing it. Then Musk said he’d awarded Scott Ainsworth, a mechanical engineer from Green Bay, $1 million for signing the petition.

“It’s clear what the intention is,” Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler said. “He’s trying to bribe voters. He’s trying to buy an election. This is totally out of line. This should not be how American democracy works.”

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“Spiraling Deeper and Deeper Into Danger”: RFK Jr. Forces Out Top Vaccine Official

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Robert F. Kennedy’s Jr. war on vaccines just landed another major blow as the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services successfully forced one of the nation’s top vaccine officials out of his position.

Dr. Peter Marks, who was given the choice by HHS officials to either be fired or step down as the director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, announced his resignation on Friday.

“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” Marks reportedly wrote in his letter of resignation. He added that leaving his position was a “weight lifted from me” as working in this environment “was spiraling deeper and deeper into danger.”

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North Carolina lawmakers hope to end Trump administration lawsuits

President Donald Trump has worked to advance his agenda at lightning speed, but courts have halted those efforts after an avalanche of challenges to his actions. North Carolina Republicans are eyeing a way to stop Democrats from adding to the onslaught.Democratic attorneys general have been one of the few forms of resistance to Trump’s various actions, spearheading many of the most prominent lawsuits against the executive branch. While Trump won North Carolina ...

Original author: Washington Examiner

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Rapper Young Scooter Dies at Age 39 on His Birthday Following Hospitalization

Young Scooter, the Atlanta rapper signed to Future and Waka Flocka Flame, has reportedly died on the same day as his birthday. He was 39. A 39-year-old man died after injuring his leg on a fence as he fled from police responding to a 911 call at a home on William Nye Drive on Friday, March 28, the Atlanta Police Department stated in a press conference. The man was transported to Grady Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. 

Original author: People

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Vance accuses Denmark of underinvesting in Greenland as Trump presses for US takeover of the island

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Friday that Denmark has “underinvested” in Greenland’s security and demanded that Denmark change its approach as President Donald Trump pushes to take over the Danish territory.The pointed remarks came as Vance visited U.S. troops on Pituffik Space Base on the mineral-rich, strategically critical island alongside his wife and other senior U.S. officials for a trip that was ultimately scaled back after an uproar among Greenlanders and...

Original author: Associated Press

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Vance scolds Denmark during Greenland trip

US Vice-President JD Vance has accused Denmark of leaving Greenland vulnerable to alleged incursions by China and Russia, as he asked its people to "cut a deal" with the US.Speaking during a visit to the Arctic island, Vance minimised recent threats by US President Donald Trump to take over the island by force.

Original author: BBC News

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Vance tells Greenlanders they'd be better off being part of the United States

Vice President Vance told the people of Greenland that they would be better off being part of the United States rather than Denmark in remarks during a visit to a U.S. military base in the Arctic territory on Friday.President Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in acquiring the territory, sparking a sharp reaction from Greenland and Denmark.

Original author: NPR (Online News)

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Vance Says Denmark Has ‘Underinvested’ in Greenland’s Security as Trump Eyes Island

Addressing American troops on his trip to Greenland on Friday, Vice President JD Vance accused Denmark of neglecting the small island’s people and infrastructure, highlighting the crucial role that the Arctic territory plays in international security.For months, President Donald Trump has vowed to take over Greenland to prevent it from falling into Russian or Chinese hands. The U.S. has taken interest in Greenland in part because of its mineral resources and the American military’s existing...

Original author: National Review (News)

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Crypto: The Currency of the (Uninhabitable) Future

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This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Once upon a time, not long ago, Elon Musk was worried sick about climate change. Stopping it became an overarching career mission, reflected in both his business decisions and everyday actions. He gave the electric vehicle industry a jolt after taking over Tesla Motors in 2004. He joined President Donald Trump’s first business advisory council in 2017, then resigned in protest when Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement. He directed Tesla to buy up $1 billion worth of Bitcoin in 2021 and accept the cryptocurrency in formal transactions, only to backtrack when he remembered that Bitcoin mining is, by design, a heavily energy-intensive process that requires masses of fossil fuel­–powered computer servers to run at all times. It was such a notorious moment in the crypto world that one speaker led “FUCK ELON” chants during that year’s Bitcoin conference.

What a remarkable thing, then, for Musk to embrace Trump more closely than ever as the reelected president decorates his administration with oil-industry shills and with crypto insiders, whose energy-intensive mining rigs and data centers make them something of a natural complement to the fossil fuel industry’s expansionist goals.

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Loud, boisterous rival protests of religious freedom among Catholics and satanists turn violent

The bullhorn-powered war of words between satanists and Catholics boiled over into brawling and a handful of arrests Friday during an extraordinary event at the Kansas Capitol that pushed boundaries of free speech and the separation of church and state.After about two hours of speeches, prayers and sign waving among hundreds of people mostly segregated by barricades staffed by law enforcement officers, Satanic Grotto president Michael Stewart, with supporters and reporters in tow, entering...

Original author: Kansas Reflector

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Leader of ‘Black Mass’ Arrested at Kansas Capitol After Punching Protester

The organizer of a “black mass” that took place outside the Kansas state Capitol on Friday amid heavy Catholic protest was arrested shortly afterward in the Capitol building after punching a protester in the face. A video from local news outlet WIBW shows Michael Stewart raising his arms and chanting in the Capitol rotunda, surrounded by a number of protesters urging him to stop. A young man later identified as Marcus Schroeder attempted to snatch what appeared to be papers...

Original author: Catholic News Agency

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Satanist leader arrested after physical clash inside Kansas Statehouse during Black Mass

A physical altercation inside the Kansas Statehouse Friday ended with Capitol Police arresting Satanic church leader Michael Stewart, capping off a morning of inflammatory religious demonstration. Stewart punched a man, Marcus Jeremiah Jared Schroeder, who repeatedly attempted to rip a booklet out of his hands while he called out to Satan from the Capitol’s first-floor rotunda. Both men were taken into custody and booked into the Shawnee County Jail, records show.A physical altercation...

Original author: The Kansas City Star

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Feds lost track of unaccompanied migrant children: DHS IG

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are unable to effectively monitor more than 600,000 children who illegally crossed the southern border unaccompanied by a guardian since 2019, according to a new report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General.The report said that hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children entered the country and were transferred from ICE to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of...

Original author: NewsNation

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Trump’s Secret Police Are Stalking More and More Students

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On Tuesday afternoon, a federal judge in New York’s Northern District heard opening arguments in the case of Momodou Taal v. Trump. Neither party was present in the courtroom—in large part because Trump’s Department of Homeland Security has been trying to find Taal for days, reportedly staking out his home and entering his university’s campus.

Taal, a British-Gambian doctoral student at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, sued the administration on February 15 to challenge Trump’s executive orders curtailing free speech and seeking to deport pro-Palestinian activists, which have been paired with a wave of attacks by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers—in some cases masked and hooded—on graduate and undergraduate students.

At 12:52 a.m. on Friday—within five days of Taal’s lawsuit—Taal’s lawyers received an email “inviting” their client to “surrender to ICE custody.” At 7:00 p.m. the following day, Trump’s lawyers filed a brief informing Taal that the State Department had already revoked his visa, without his knowledge, on March 14—the day before Taal filed his lawsuit. Days later, ICE agents arrived on Cornell’s campus attempting to find and seize him.

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Marco Rubio Is Quite Chuffed

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Amid intense outrage over the arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts student who was ambushed and detained by plainclothes federal immigration officers this week, Marco Rubio appeared gratified.

“We revoked her visa, it’s an F-1 visa, I believe,” the secretary of State told reporters at a press conference in Guyana on Thursday when asked about the arrest. “We revoked it and I’ll tell you why.”

“If you apply for a visa to enter the United States and be a student,” Rubio continued with increasing conviction, “and you tell us that the reason you are coming to the United States is not just because you want to write op-eds but because you want to participate in movements that are involved in doing things like vandalizing universities, harassing students, taking over buildings, creating a ruckus, we are not going to give you a visa.”

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RFK Jr. Moves to Close Administration For Community Living

The decision by RFK Jr.'s health department is only the latest Trump White House action to harm disabled people.Michael M. Santiago/Getty

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On Thursday, the federal Department of Health and Human Services moved, through a department-wide restructuring order, to eliminate the Administration for Community Living (ACL), a subsidiary established in 2012 to support disabled and aging people—part of a broader series of cuts that will see the firing of some 10,000 HHS staff. HHS’ press release on the restructuring claims that ACL’s responsibilities will be redesignated elsewhere within the department, which has yet to issue further details or clarify its plans. An unknown number of the administration’s workers will also be laid off.

Jill Jacobs, a Biden-era commissioner of ACL’s Administration on Disabilities, was shocked to hear the news. “It’s not something that’s been on anyone’s radar, not a conversation that anyone’s been having,” said Jacobs, who is now the executive director of the National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities.

“Where exactly are they going to go? Who is going to implement [it]? Is this the first step in cutting further programs?”

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Greenland’s Elections This Month Weren’t About Trump. They Were Mostly About Fish.

The Greenlandic trawler the BINGO III fishes for shrimp and prawns off Disko Island. Gordon Leggett/Wikimedia Commons

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This story was originally published on the author’s substack, Field Notes with Alexander C Kaufman, to which you can subscribe here.

Last week, Greenlanders trudged through snow and ice to cast ballots in their most closely watched parliamentary elections in modern history—possibly ever.

Just two months earlier, Donald Trump had returned to power, vowing to achieve what American presidents had tried and failed to do before: bring the world’s largest island under Washington’s direct control. Since World War II, the United States has boasted a large security presence in the autonomous Arctic territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. During a speech before Congress a week before the March 11 election, Trump repeated his offer for Greenlanders to join the United States but vowed to take the island “one way or the other.”

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“A Sicker America”: RFK Jr.’s HHS Will Lay Off 10,000 Staff

RFK Jr. at the California Libertarian Party Convention in 2024. Brian Cahn/Zuma

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s remaking of the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) entered a new phase on Thursday, when officials announced that the department’s workforce would shrink by another 10,000 staff to comply with President Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s orders to drastically shrink the federal government.

HHS announced that the “dramatic restructuring” of the agency will include cuts to offices including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Combined with HHS’s other efforts to reduce its workforce—the buyout offers it recently made to employees and its January “fork in the road email” that offered federal workers eight months’ pay to resign—the department’s overall workforce will go from 82,000 to 62,000 full-time employees, a reduction of nearly 25 percent. In a six-minute video posted to X detailing the plans, Kennedy acknowledged that the cuts will bring about “a painful period for HHS.”

The agency offered some details on the specific offices that will see cuts, including the NIH, which will lose about 1,200 employees; the FDA, which will lose about 3,500 employees, which HHS claims “will not affect drug, medical device, or food reviewers, nor will it impact inspectors”; the CMS, which will lose about 300 employees, which the agency says “will not impact Medicare and Medicaid services”; and the CDC, which will lose about 2,400.

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This is what it looks like when America loses it's Constitution

We have rites that we take for granted. Here is an example of what is happening all across the nation now that Trump is deporting 20 million immigrants. Just for some perspective, numbers blown out of proportion shows only 14 million illegal immigrants. Where do the other 6 come from? People that are legally here. Mahmoud Khalil arrest video Video ...

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Campaign Promises

Trump had an extremely unusual strategy during his (nearly 2 year) campaign for the 2024 presidential election. Amongst the chaos and what I remember as almost a complete saturation within our news with what Trump was saying and what was being done in response. However I have come up with something like campaign promises.   I think it wou...

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User File Sharing for Joomla

Summary This component and module combination will allow a site administrator to grant users the ability to store files on the server. These files can be kept private, they can be made public, or they can be password protected with the user being able to chose a passwords and share it to his friends along with a friendly URL. This is the first of m...

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Trump 2.0 Campaign Promises

Trump's 2024 Campaign Promises


Summary:
Here I have tallied all the Trump (Shit-Show 2.0*)  campaign promises. No particular order. Let's start with his own words and see where they end up shall we?

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Departure from Laws: Trump's new plan

The recent resignations at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the appointment of Kash Patel as FBI Director raise concerns about a potential departure from a law-based government.

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What the FBI is now all about (Servity to the King)

Based on the search results, there's been significant news regarding changes in FBI leadership. Here's a summary of what I found:
Significant Leadership Changes:There are reports of senior FBI officials being told to resign, retire, or face termination. These officials include those at the executive assistant director level and heads of FBI field offices.
These changes appear to be related to a shift in administration and associated policy changes.
Specifically there is reporting of the ousting of FBI executives, and internal reviews of personnel associated with the Jan. 6th investigations.

Key Points:The moves affect high-ranking officials, including those overseeing critical divisions like national security, cyber, and criminal investigations.
There are reports of field office leaders, such as those in Miami and Las Vegas, also receiving notice.
Former FBI director Christopher Wray has resigned.
There is reporting of agents who participated in investigations into former president Trump, taking steps to retire or leave the agency.
It's important to note that the situation is dynamic, and the full extent of the changes may continue to unfold.

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The changing of the Guard. Trump's DOJ

Based on the information I found, there have been several notable resignations within the Department of Justice (DOJ) recently, largely stemming from a controversy surrounding the case of New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Here's a breakdown:

Danielle Sassoon: 
The acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon, resigned after being directed to drop corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams.

DOJ Public Integrity Division:
Following the controversy, several high-ranking officials within the DOJ's public integrity section also resigned. This includes: 
The acting chief of the division.
Three deputy chiefs.
A deputy assistant attorney general in the criminal division who oversaw the section.

Kevin Driscoll and John Keller:
The acting heads of the Justice Department’s criminal and public integrity divisions, Kevin Driscoll and his deputy, John Keller, also recently resigned. 

Denise Cheung:
A top supervisor in the federal prosecutors' office in Washington, Denise Cheung, resigned following a dispute with her boss over a directive to scrutinize a government contract.

Key takeaways:
These resignations highlight a significant internal conflict within the DOJ regarding the handling of the Eric Adams case. 
The departures indicate a strong disagreement among DOJ officials regarding the decisions made by the department's leadership.
There are also reports of changes happening due to the change in presidential administrations.

It's important to keep in mind that these situations can evolve, and further developments may occur.

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