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AlterNet Crooks and Liars Daily Kos (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, June 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM EDT Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) continues to draw scathing criticism from countless Democrats -- as well as from some Never Trump conservatives, including MSNBC's Joe Scarborough -- for comments making light of the effects that the draconian Medicaid cuts proposed in President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" will have if it passes in the U.S. Senate. When a voter at a town hall in Iowa warned that "people will die" if they lose access to health insurance, Ernst replied, in a flip way, "Well, we are all going to die." Subsequently, she made a video in what appeared to be a cemetery in which she doubled down, mocked her critics' concerns, and said, "I made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium understood that, yes, we are all going to perish from this earth". I'm really, really glad that I did not have to bring up the subject of the tooth fairy as well. For those that would like to see eternal and everlasting life, I'd encourage you to embrace my lord and savior, Jesus Christ." June 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM EDT In late January, just hours after the deadliest U.S. aviation disaster in more than 20 years""and as families and the nation were still grieving""President Donald Trump, without evidence, blamed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) for the crash that killed 67 people near Washington's Reagan National Airport. "Trump blamed former President Joe Biden's administration for encouraging the Federal Aviation Administration to recruit workers 'who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative,'" the Associated Press reported. "He added that the program allowed for the hiring of people with hearing and vision issues as well as paralysis, epilepsy and 'dwarfism.'" June 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM EDT President Donald Trump has never met Todd Chrisley, the reality TV star that he pardoned on May 27, 2025, along with Chrisley's wife, Julie. But the pair have much in common. June 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM EDT U.S. President Donald Trump, on Wednesday, June 4, announced a new travel ban affecting 12 different countries. Effective June 9, citizens of Iran, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Somalia, Haiti, Chad, Sudan, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, and Yemen will not be allowed to enter the United States. And citizens of seven other countries -- Venezuela, Cuba, Sierra Leone, June 5, 2025 at 6:08 AM EDT During the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong pushed for the closure of Chinese universities, seeing higher education as little more than a breeding ground for counterrevolutionary bourgeois intellectuals. After closing for a period, China's universities reopened on a limited basis from 1970, with selection criteria based on class background, revolutionary devotion and connections to the communist party. It was not until 1977 that the national university entrance exam ( gaokao ) was reinstated and a merit system put back in place. This period had been China's "Mao moment" in higher education, but Mao's historic mistake appears to be repeating itself in the US today. June 5, 2025 at 5:34 AM EDT ST. LOUIS -- Violent crime was already trending down from a covid-era spike when President Donald Trump presented a picture of unbridled crime in America on the campaign trail in 2024. Now his administration has eliminated about $500 million in grants to organizations that buttress public safety, including many working to prevent gun violence. In Oakland, California, a hospital-based program to prevent retaliatory gun violence lost a $2 million grant just as the traditionally turbulent summer months approach. Another $2 million award was pulled from a Detroit program that offers social services and job skills to young people in violent neighborhoods. And in St. Louis, a clinic treating the physical and emotional injuries of gunshot victims also lost a $2 million award. June 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM EDT The first time Biddeford resident Anthony Burgess could vote in 2014, he cast his ballot for Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins. A registered Democrat, he wanted to contribute to the Pine Tree State's reputation as independent, he said, and he thought Collins embodied that. But he never voted for her again. Several Mainers who regularly gather to protest the senior senator in the York County town similarly said that at some point during Collins' decades-long career, they too voted for her. For most, their view of her shifted during Donald Trump's first presidency and has solidified during his second. June 5, 2025 at 5:03 AM EDT When it comes to non-Americans, Trump and his regime are clear: Foreigners -- especially if they're Chinese -- are no longer wanted here. Nor are their products. Nor are we prepared to sell them our advanced technologies. But foreign bribes ? Hell, they're welcome at the highest levels, even if they result in some critical technologies reaching China. June 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM EDT Despite rising child labor violations and new Senate demands to investigate the nation's largest meat processor, the U.S. Department of Labor remains silent on whether it has the staff to conduct future probes amidst a major reduction in its workforce. At a May 22 congressional hearing, newly appointed Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said 2,700 department employees have taken a deferred resignation program offered to nearly all federal employees as a part of Trump administration-led staff reductions. However, she said enforcement staff with the Wage and Hour Division, who are responsible for investigating child labor, are exempt from the program. June 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM EDT President Donald Trump issued a proclamation Wednesday banning the entry of foreign nationals from 12 countries citing national security concerns. The countries on the travel ban list include Afghanistan, Myanmar (Burma), Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. June 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM EDT Tech magnate Elon Musk's ongoing fusillade against President Donald Trump's first major domestic policy legislation is now giving Republicans "political cover" to oppose it for various reasons. That's according to conservative journalist Jonah Goldberg of The Dispatch, who blamed Musk's tirade for the growing trickle of Republican senators speaking out against it. In a Wednesday interview with CNN host Anderson Cooper, Goldberg said that while he thinks some version of the bill may eventually pass in a Republican-controlled Congress, the South African centibillionaire's opposition may actually end up dividing the MAGA coalition itself in the long run. June 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM EDT UnitedHealthcare has filed a defamation lawsuit against The Guardian following a May 21 story alleging that the company secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers, potentially compromising resident health, Semafor reported Wednesday. The report claimed that UnitedHealthcare's actions were part of cost-cutting measures that saved the company millions but at times risked residents' health. UnitedHealthcare reportedly alleged in the lawsuit that The Guardian intentionally disseminated false information and sought to exploit media attention surrounding the murder of its former CEO, Brian Thompson, in New York City in December. READ MORE: 'Not the right fit for the job': Trump education chief slammed for 'unbelievable' hearing |
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