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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, July 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM EDT At least half a dozen red states have stripped away some child labor protections, allowing children to work longer hours, or in hazardous jobs, or without parental approval, or without rest breaks. Now, one Fox News host wants children to replace undocumented immigrants who perform often grueling farm work. Indiana, for example, has eliminated child work permits and is allowing 16 and 17-year olds to perform adult work with no permits""although minors, per federal law, are not permitted to do hazardous work. No break or lunch period is required, "regardless of the number of hours worked in a day," the Indiana Department of Labor states. July 28, 2025 at 10:20 AM EDT The MAGA movement continues to experience a great deal of infighting over President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. Trump is urging MAGA Republicans to move on from Epstein, even accusing those who are demanding the release of the alleged Epstein files of being "duped by Democrats." But in MAGA World, the controversy isn't going away. July 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM EDT President Donald Trump has filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal in response to an article reporting that he sent a "bawdy" letter to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday. The article never accused Trump of being involved in any of Epstein's sex crimes, and many legal experts consider the lawsuit frivolous and devoid of merit -- including MSNBC's Lisa Rubin and law professor/former U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutor Kimberly Wehle. But during a July 20 appearance on MSNBC, Michael Cohen, Trump's formerly personal attorney and fixer, predicted that the WSJ and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, will cave in and agree to pay a settlement regardless of how flawed Trump's lawsuit is. July 28, 2025 at 6:13 AM EDT The Trump administration's contempt for the law and for the people of New Jersey is on full display yet again in the new fight over control of the U.S. Attorney's Office. With its push to keep a Trump loyalist as our state's chief federal prosecutor, the White House is not only ignoring the law, but also tarnishing the reputation of judges appointed by both Republican and Democratic presidents and sowing chaos in a state that's already seeing enough chaos these days, thank you very much. July 28, 2025 at 5:53 AM EDT When the walls start closing in, Donald Trump doesn't lawyer up: he doubles down. With Jeffrey Epstein's ghost rattling through the headlines and the threat of explosive disclosures looming, Team Trump has rolled out its most cynical, racially-charged distraction yet: accuse Barack Obama of treason. It's not about justice. It's not about truth. It's a deliberate psyop meant to hijack the news cycle, enrage the MAGA base, and erase Epstein's name from every chyron in America. July 28, 2025 at 5:48 AM EDT In an article for the Guardian published Sunday, anthropologist Arjun Appadurai argued that the key to understanding President Donald Trump is seeing that his entrepreneurial identity is not rooted in innovation or management, but in adversarial dealmaking that serves his narcissistic brand and his unquenchable greed. Appadurai argued that Trump's entire career illustrated a form of entrepreneurship where every deal began with his needs and served his wants -- a relentless pursuit of the next monetary gain, even after achieving every material benchmark of satisfaction. While this might appear typical among the wealthy, Appadurai explained that Trump was distinct because his dealmaking was performative and adversarial, rather than strategic or market"'oriented. July 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM EDT In an article for the Guardian published Sunday, anthropologist Arjun Appadurai argued that the key to understanding President Donald Trump is seeing that his entrepreneurial identity is not rooted in innovation or management, but in adversarial dealmaking that serves his narcissistic brand and his unquenchable greed. Appadurai argued that Trump's entire career illustrated a form of entrepreneurship where every deal began with his needs and served his wants -- a relentless pursuit of the next monetary gain, even after achieving every material benchmark of satisfaction. While this might appear typical among the wealthy, Appadurai explained that Trump was distinct because his dealmaking was performative and adversarial, rather than strategic or market"'oriented. July 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM EDT Fareed Zakaria, CNN's veteran foreign affairs analyst and host of Fareed Zakaria GPS, warned in his article published Sunday that President Donald Trump now confronts a political conundrum of his own making: the conspiracy theories he popularized and profited from have become demands he must now satisfy. According to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll cited by Zakaria, 69% of Americans, including 62% of Republicans, believe the government is hiding Epstein's alleged client list. July 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM EDT During a heated exchange on CNN's State of the Union , Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R"'OK) pushed a false claim that the Obama administration was responsible for a "sweetheart" plea deal with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in 2009. Mullin insisted, "there was a plea deal that was struck in 2009, " way before [President Donald] Trump was even considering to be in office " 2009, there was a sweetheart plea deal that was made underneath the Obama administration with Epstein," and added, "And that sweetheart has not been exposed." July 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM EDT Political commentator and former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin sharply criticized President Donald Trump Sunday, calling the drawn"'out fallout over the Epstein case "pure malpractice" and lamenting the president's inability to stay on message. "This did not need to be a weeks-long story that's now permeated pop culture and beyond. Just politics," Farah Griffin, who served as a White House communications director in 2020 during Trump's first presidency, told Jake Tapper during an appearance on CNN Sunday morning. July 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM EDT President Donald Trump has loudly criticized the roughly $2.5 billion renovation of the Federal Reserve headquarters. Yet, when it comes to another costly Washington project -- refurbishing a "free" Air Force One jet gifted by Qatar -- talk around the White House goes silent, the New York Times noted in a report Sunday. Air Force officials appear to have disguised the cost of revamping the Qatar"'donated jet by embedding it within the over"'budget Sentinel nuclear missile modernization program, per the report. A recently revealed $934 million reallocation from the Pentagon's beleaguered Sentinel ICBM modernization program has alarmed lawmakers, even as officials insist the missile project remains fully funded. July 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM EDT While several high"'profile figures on the far right have publicly criticized the Trump administration over its handling of the documents related to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, many grassroots MAGA voters appear undeterred by the scandal. Media personalities such as Tucker Carlson and activist Laura Loomer -- alongside tech billionaire Elon Musk and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) -- have slammed what they see as the administration's mishandling of Epstein-related documents. |
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