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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, May 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM EDT Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut was not buying what Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was selling during his appearance at Wednesday's House Appropriations Committee hearing, calling "B.S." on his claim that he wants to "rescale our biomedical research budget." "Excuse me, but that's BS. You are not rescaling [National Institutes of Health] research." DeLauro said, zeroing in on the massive cuts Kennedy and the Trump administration have proposed to the world's largest public funder of biomedical research. May 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM EDT Democrats pulled out an upset win in the race for Omaha mayor on Tuesday, ousting the three-term Republican incumbent in a race that ultimately wasn't close. Democrat John Ewing defeated Mayor Jean Stothert 56% to 44%, according to unofficial results, giving Democrats the mayorship of Nebraska's largest city for the first time in 12 years. Stothert's decisive loss is a significant change from the mayoral election four years ago, when she took 64% of the vote. May 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT The most recent victim of the Trump administration's slash-and-burn attack on the federal government is the shuttering of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters program. No longer will Americans suffer the tyranny of knowing how much extreme weather is costing them, because climate is woke. And it's not just the effects of climate change that the administration is trying to memory-hole. Think of it as part of an overall plan to starve the public of knowledge so that they can't find out just how much things are going sideways under President Donald Trump. May 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM EDT Interior Secretary Doug Burgum appears to be cutting corners to establish a uranium mining site in San Juan County, Utah. Burgum plans to finish an environmental assessment of the Velvet-Wood mine project""a process that typically takes about a year""in just 14 days. His press team said on Tuesday that the fast-track was "cutting needless delays." And for him, it seems to be a big success. May 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM EDT President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States will lift sanctions on Syria "to give them a chance at greatness"""a stunning reversal of decades of U.S. foreign policy, made at the request of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The move comes ahead of Trump's meeting with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former rebel leader who took power after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. According to the White House, the two leaders will meet on Wednesday in Saudi Arabia. May 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM EDT To support this work and receive my weekly newsletter with background on each cartoon, please consider joining the Sorensen Subscription Service! Also on Patreon. Follow me on Bluesky or Mastodon May 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM EDT While President Donald Trump's current trip to the Middle East has certainly been profitable for him, what with the promised free plane and all, it's not just Trump who is benefiting. Though he may be the only person who will patronize the mobile McDonald's the Saudis built for his four-day visit, his family and Big Tech pals are all getting new opportunities to line their pockets. Billionaire Elon Musk is in a unique position to profit from the administration's total disregard of conflicts of interest. Helming the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has allowed him to stack cash by steering billions of taxpayer dollars toward his private companies. May 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM EDT While President Donald Trump's current trip to the Middle East has certainly been profitable for him, what with the promised free plane and all, it's not just Trump who is benefiting. Though he may be the only person who will patronize the mobile McDonald's the Saudis built for his four-day visit, his family and Big Tech pals are all getting new opportunities to line their pockets. Billionaire Elon Musk is in a unique position to profit from the administration's total disregard of conflicts of interest. Helming the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has allowed him to stack cash by steering billions of taxpayer dollars toward his private companies. May 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM EDT A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Trump's exception to refugee ban seems about white May 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM EDT A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Trump's exception to refugee ban seems about white May 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM EDT www.patreon.com/keefknight Related | How red states are the biggest victims of Trump's cuts May 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM EDT Donald Trump will likely claim another pointless victory months after he called out Major League Baseball. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said on Tuesday that he will remove controversial late baseball star Pete Rose, among others, from the league's list of players who are ineligible for the Hall of Fame. |
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