April 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM EDT
Trump Admin To Garnish Wages For Student Loan Repayments

Say goodbye to the pause put in place by the Biden administration on student debt collection. Student Loan Update: Trump Gives New Deadline for Garnishing Wages:

April 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM EDT
O'Donnell Calls Out Trump's 'Economic Policy Dementia'

It's about time somebody brought this up. Grandpa Syphilis is ruining the economy, the stock market, and all of our constitutional rights. LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: There was a time when a Secretary of Defense getting caught leaking sensitive information could have, among other things, rocked the stock market and sent it into a downward spiral.

April 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM EDT
Judge Orders Trump Administration To Turn Voice Of America Back On

Here's some good news: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore all jobs and funding for the Voice of America and other US-backed news outlets, ruling that efforts to dismantle it violated the law and Constitution. Via the BBC: Over 1,300 VOA employees, including about 1,000 journalists, were placed on leave following President Donald Trump's order. The White House has accused the broadcaster of being "anti-Trump" and "radical".

April 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM EDT
Trump 'Brings Back Religion' By Golfing On Easter

President Donald Trump spent Easter Sunday hitting the links at his Virginia golf course, writing angry social media posts, and hanging out with his co-president, the recently born again Christian billionaire Elon Musk. But on Monday he was bragging about how he single-handedly brought religion back to America.

April 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM EDT
Woman Dragged From GOP Town Hall Seeks $5 Million In Damages

In the disturbing footage, Idaho woman Teresa Borrenpohl is seen at a town hall hosted by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee in February being dragged from her seat by private security guards who did not identify themselves, and Sheriff Robert Norris tugged hard on the woman's arm. Now he's under scrutiny since he receives $150,000 a year in disability payments from Los Angeles County. In 2014, Norris retired as a lieutenant in the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, having sustained shoulder and other physical injuries. DOGE should look into that.

April 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM EDT
Fox Host Perplexed As RFK Jr Rants About Teen Sperm Counts

The HHS under the Trump administration and RFK Jr are gutting medical research, testing, vaccines, and other vital services, yet RFK Jr ranted about teenage sperm counts on Fox News. As usual Kennedy uses any unverified information to make wild claims about the state of health.

April 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM EDT
Trump Forced To Say He Wouldn't Fire Fed Chair Powell

With the stock markets crashing on Monday, Trump reversed course and claimed he never would've fired Jerome Powell from the Fed after days of berating and blaming him for the markets collapse. Wall Street has been plummeting since Trump rolled out his lamebrain tariff ideas. but he wasn't finished throwing them further into chaos after his idiotic move of attacking the Fed chair.

April 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM EDT
Sarah Palin Is A Libel Loser - Again

Sarah Palin's libel loss was her second attempt to claim she had been damaged by a 2017 New York Times editorial that was amended less than 14 hours after it was published. "During the trial, Ms. Palin told the jury that the editorial 'kicked the oomph' right out of her, damaging her reputation," The Times reported. "She said it had ignited another round of criticism of her years after the map was first distributed." Poor widdle snowflake.

April 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM EDT
60 Minutes Producer Quits Over Massive CBS Suck-up To Trump

Well, here is the logical result of decades of media consolidation, where corporate greed slams into journalistic independence. CBS News entered a new period of turmoil yesterday after the executive producer of "60 Minutes," Bill Owens, said that he would resign from the long-running Sunday news program, citing encroachments on his journalistic independence. Via the New York Times: In an extraordinary declaration, Mr. Owens -- only the third person to run the program in its 57-year history -- told his staff in a memo that "over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for '60 Minutes,' right for the audience."

April 23, 2025 at 7:24 AM EDT
Kennedy's Program To Dig Into Private Data Of Autistic People

Bob Kennedy announced he will be using private medical records to create a registry of people with autism in the United States. Seems like the surveillance state is here! Is this legal? Via The New Republic: The National Institutes of Health is helping to collect private medical records from government and commercial databases to give to the secretary of health and human services, NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said Monday. The records include prescription records from pharmacies, lab testing, and genomics records from the Department of Veterans Affairs and Indian Health Service, private insurance claims, and data from smartwatches and fitness trackers.

April 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM EDT
The DEI Hire

Open thread below...

April 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM EDT
The Greatest News Interview In Television History

Twin sisters Bridgette and Paula Powers have told how their mother and a man raced to help when a carjacked SUV rolled on Steve Irwin Way on the Sunshine Coast, only to find the gun-wielding car thief emerging from the wreck. Source: Today.com (Australia)