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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 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM EDT Conservatives in America control every lever of the federal government's power, but they remain infuriated that they do not control the levers of culture and entertainment. Surely that cannot be because the type of entertainment they push is garbage no one wants to watch. No, it must be because the right studio, backed by the right multimillionaires, hasn't come along. Enter Founders Films""ugh. Backed by high-level employees of Vice President JD Vance benefactor Peter Thiel's Palantir Technologies, surely this will be the way that conservatives crack the entertainment market. July 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM EDT An initiative to fill in historical gaps from the Muir Woods National Monument disappeared under pressure from the Trump administration. By Jessica Kutz or The 19th July 23, 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 July 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM EDT Don't look now, but Ghislaine Maxwell's time in federal prison for aiding and abetting accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein could be cut short. In an effort to distract from the fact that President Donald Trump is refusing to release all of the files the government possesses about Epstein, Attorney General Pam Bondi directed the Department of Justice to speak with his known accomplice Maxwell to see if she has any information that implicates third parties, as Epstein died by suicide while in custody before going to trial. July 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM EDT Don't look now, but Ghislaine Maxwell's time in federal prison for aiding and abetting accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein could be cut short. In an effort to distract from the fact that President Donald Trump is refusing to release all of the files the government possesses about Epstein, Attorney General Pam Bondi directed the Department of Justice to speak with his known accomplice Maxwell to see if she has any information that implicates third parties, as Epstein died by suicide while in custody before going to trial. July 22, 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. ICE is paying retirees big bucks to come back and terrorize immigrants July 22, 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. ICE is paying retirees big bucks to come back and terrorize immigrants July 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM EDT A bipartisan group of lawmakers is reportedly demanding answers from right-wing billionaire Elon Musk after his AI chatbot, Grok, repeatedly parroted antisemitic hate speech on X, his social media site. Led by Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada and Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, the lawmakers slammed Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, for failing to prevent Grok from spitting out hate speech, including Holocaust denial, praise for Adolf Hitler, and use of the antisemitic meme "every damn time," according to a copy of the letter obtained by Axios. July 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM EDT GOP Rep. Jason Smith of Missouri appeared on CNN with Kasie Hunt Tuesday, and it was certainly something to behold. When asked if he would consider using his position as House Ways and Means Committee chair to investigate Jeffrey Epstein, Smith pretended like the very idea was absurd. July 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM EDT GOP Rep. Jason Smith of Missouri appeared on CNN with Kasie Hunt Tuesday, and it was certainly something to behold. When asked if he would consider using his position as House Ways and Means Committee chair to investigate Jeffrey Epstein, Smith pretended like the very idea was absurd. July 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM EDT It's a tale as old as January 2025: GOP lawmakers believe their primary job is to assist President Donald Trump in doing whatever he wants""even if "whatever he wants" means "turn Congress into a relic with no power." Their latest move is to join with the White House in attacking the Government Accountability Office. The Trump administration would very much like to stop the GAO from investigating any Trump spending actions or determining whether those actions violate the law, despite that being the GAO's actual job. The White House found a friend in House Republicans, who have eagerly proposed cutting the GAO's budget by half to make sure it can't do its work. |
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