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  • Trump’s Christmas Message Is One Of Chaos, Turbulence And Retaliation

    Letting no holiday opportunity go without stirring up chaos, turbulence and retaliation, by mid-morning on Christmas Day, President-elect Trump posted a series of insensitive, brazen and mean spirited “Merry Christmas” messages on his Truth Social platform.

    These posts for both national and international issues were followed, predictably, by over two dozen re-posts of articles or other social media posts forecasting his political agenda on topics including troubled Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth and his designation of Greenland and the Panama Canal as U.S. national security necessities, tariffs on Mexico and Canada, and reinstatement of the federal death penalty that Biden had suspended.

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  • From Big Pharma to Wall Street, Corporate Giants Bankroll Trump’s Inauguration

    Some of the largest, most powerful companies in the United States are racing to finance President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund as they attempt to court favor with the incoming administration, which has promised a further reduction of the corporate tax rate. The Wall Street Journal earlier this week identified “at least 11 companies and trade associations that are backing the…

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  • With Trump’s Return, Combating Corporate News Disinfo Is More Urgent Than Ever

    Every year, Project Censored publishes its State of the Free Press, which takes the pulse of the media and shares the 25 most important but underreported stories of the past year. In State of the Free Press 2025 (The Censored Press & Seven Stories Press, December 3, 2024, paperback), editors Mickey Huff, Shealeigh Voitl and Andy Lee Roth look back on a year in which significant news stories lost…

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  • What Hurricane Helene Relief Taught Me About Preparing for Trump’s Second Term

    The autumn sun was sinking low behind the Blue Ridge Mountains as we pulled into Swannanoa. It was Thanksgiving Day, and two months since Hurricane Helene ransacked the Southeast. The small town, like so many communities across western North Carolina, was still a scene of utter devastation. Heaping piles of debris dotted the roadside, and neighborhoods of collapsed homes sat empty in the cold dusk…

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  • Trump Condemns Biden’s Commutations, Vows to “Vigorous Pursue Death Penalty”

    Republican U.S. President-elect Donald Trump vowed Tuesday that his administration will “vigorously” use capital punishment as part of his “make America safe again” agenda, despite copious evidence that the death penalty does not deter crime, is racially biased, and results in wrongful executions. Responding to Democratic President Joe Biden’s Monday commutation of 37 federal death sentences…

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  • How Fascism Came

    President-elect Donald Trump does not herald the advent of fascism. He heralds the collapse of the veneer that masked the corruption within the ruling class and their pretense of democracy. He is the symptom, not the disease. The loss of basic democratic norms began long before Trump, which paved the road to an American totalitarianism. Deindustrialization, deregulation, austerity, unchecked predatory corporations, including the health-care industry, wholesale surveillance of every American, social inequality, an electoral system that is plagued by legalized bribery, endless and futile wars, the largest prison population in the world, but most of all feelings of betrayal, stagnation and despair, are a toxic brew that culminate in an inchoate hatred of the ruling class and the institutions they have deformed to exclusively serve the rich and the powerful.

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  • Trump’s Debt Ceiling Power Play Is a Prelude to the Congressional Chaos to Come

    With hours left before the U.S. government was slated to run out of money last week, Elon Musk and Donald Trump took to social media to strong-arm the House GOP into abandoning a bipartisan deal to keep the government open. Musk — who has taken to behaving like an unelected potentate — aimed a barrage of postings at GOP Congress members who were thinking of voting for the short-term spending…

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  • Trump’s HUD Secretary Pick Has a History of Fighting Housing Assistance

    As Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Scott Turner may soon oversee the nation’s efforts to build affordable apartments, protect poor tenants and aid the homeless. As a lawmaker in the Texas House of Representatives, Turner voted against those very initiatives. Turner supported a bill ensuring landlords could refuse apartments to applicants…

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  • Eric Adams And Daniel Penny Make Black People The Face Of Crime

    Millions of people in the United States are de facto deputies who can be asked at a moment’s notice to carry out what is considered the most important job in the nation, keeping Black people under physical control. The most recent case brought to public attention was that of Daniel Penny, a white man who put an emotionally disturbed Black man, Jordan Neely, in a chokehold on a New York City subway. Neely died after the assault and Penny was recently acquitted of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.

    What followed was a predictable and righteous reaction of outrage at the obvious racist injustice.

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  • Netanyahu Tapped a Far Right Settler to Be the Next Israeli Ambassador to the US

    Last month, immediately following the U.S. elections, Benjamin Netanyahu made a new appointment to the role of Israel’s ambassador to the U.S.: Yechiel Leiter. The move was not required, Michael Herzog’s term, the current ambassador, was not over for another year. The move was clearly made to dovetail with President-elect Trump entering office. The name Yechiel Leiter is not very…

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  • Elon Musk’s Threat to Primary Democrats Spurs New Urgency to Ban Super PACs

    Trump-backer and richest person alive Elon Musk’s role in almost forcing a government shutdown this week has revived calls for campaign finance reform, both nationally and within the Democratic Party. As part of his campaign against a bipartisan continuing resolution (CR) that would have funded the government through March 14, Musk said that Republicans who voted for the bill should lose…

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  • 2024 Saw Organized Labor Score Gains, But Challenges Loom on the Horizon

    Union workers broke open the cookie jar in 2024, after years of stagnant wages and rising prices. With strikes and the threat of strikes, workers did more than forestall concessions: They gained ground. Union workers in the private sector saw 6 percent real wage rises for the year. Just the fear that workers would organize drove up wages at non-union employers like Delta Airlines, Amazon…

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  • Trump’s Appointee for Social Security Raises Fears of Austerity and Cuts

    Earlier this month, in a post on Truth Social, Donald Trump announced his incoming administration’s nomination to head the Social Security Administration (SSA). Should he be confirmed in the Senate, the SSA’s next commissioner will be the wealthy corporate CEO, Trump and Ron DeSantis donor and Wall Street “fixer,” Frank Bisignano. Bisignano is currently the CEO of Fiserv Inc.

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  • Congress Averts Government Shutdown After Trump and Musk’s Effort to Sink Deal

    The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill 366-34 on Friday night to continuing funding the government, averting the shutdown that loomed after Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump sank a bipartisan spending agreement earlier in the week. The Senate then approved the continuing resolution 85-11 early Saturday, which will keep the government funded at current levels through March 14.

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  • Affordable Care Act Sign-Ups Lag Following Trump’s Election

    New enrollments under the Affordable Care Act are on pace to trail last year’s record numbers by as many as a million as the outgoing Biden administration confronts upheavals in the program. Donald Trump’s election to a second term has cast uncertainty around the future of the health law. In addition, the Biden administration implemented cumbersome policies to reduce fraudulent enrollment and…

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  • Musk Endorses Neo-Nazi German Party Hours After Sanders Calls Him Authoritarian

    Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has called out Republicans for acquiescing to billionaire Elon Musk’s demands to thwart a bipartisan spending bill that was needed to fend off a government shutdown this weekend. In his comments, Sanders derided Musk — who is co-leading president-elect Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency — as an authoritarian oligarchic.

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  • Government Shutdown Looms After Elon Musk Sinks Bipartisan Budget Deal

    Congressional Democrats on Friday continued to target billionaire Elon Musk and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump for forcing a last-minute scramble to prevent a government shutdown shortly before the winter holidays. “I’m ready to stay here through Christmas because we’re not going to let Elon Musk run the government,” Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-Wash.

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  • Appalachian Communities Are Ready to Resist Trump’s Environmental Racism

    The 2024 elections left the country in emotional turmoil, with deep uncertainty about the future — particularly regarding environmental justice. As Appalachian women and environmental leaders, we understand the weight of this moment, but maintain a steadfast belief in our communities’ resilience and the transformative power of collective action to drive change. This moment of fear and anxiety…

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  • Oklahoma’s Education Head Seeks to Impose Rule Targeting Undocumented Students

    Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters has proposed several rules for public schools that would promote a nationalist agenda, including one that would target students with undocumented immigration status, potentially violating their constitutional rights. The proposed state Education Department rule would force schools to ask students for proof of U.S.

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  • Republicans Consider Making Elon Musk Speaker of the House

    Several Republican lawmakers in Congress are calling on billionaire Elon Musk, president-elect Donald Trump’s pick to co-lead a purported commission on government efficiency, to replace current Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. Support for Johnson has shifted considerably this week as he tried to pass a continuing resolution bill to fund the government into spring. That measure failed when…

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  • President Elon? GOP Follows Billionaire Musk’s Call to Block Debt Ceiling Bill

    At the behest of billionaire Elon Musk and president-elect Donald Trump, Republicans scrapped a bipartisan agreement to keep the government funded for the next three months on Wednesday, just two days ahead of a deadline for avoiding a shutdown. Knowing he had to secure some votes from Democrats in the near-evenly split House of Representatives, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana)…

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  • Musk Slammed Trump’s Treasury Pick. But Is Scott Bessent Really That Moderate?

    Donald Trump is a master of populist demagoguery. He knows exactly when to turn up the volume on his most controversial ideas, and he knows when to dial down again and present an image of “business-as-usual.” In throwing red meat to his base — through committing to mass deportations, promising to eliminate huge swathes of the federal government, and handing the Justice Department over to…

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  • 2025: AI will continue to grow, but faces big challenges along the way

    In 2024, artificial intelligence (AI) continued taking large and surprising steps forward. People started conversing with AI “resurrections” of the dead, using AI toothbrushes and confessing to an AI-powered Jesus. Meanwhile, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, was valued at US$150 billion and claimed it was on the way to developing an advanced AI system more…

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  • Biden Admin Confirms Risks of Liquefied Natural Gas Exports But Won’t Block Them

    Approving more liquefied natural gas exports would raise domestic energy prices, increase the pollution burden placed on local communities, and exacerbate the climate crisis, the Biden administration concluded in a long-awaited report released Tuesday. However, the Department of Energy (DOE) stopped short of denying any pending or future approvals, passing the buck to the administration of…

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  • House Ethics Committee Votes to Release Matt Gaetz Ethics Report

    On Wednesday, the House Ethics Committee announced that it will release its inquiry into former Republican congressman Matt Gaetz after previously deadlocking on whether or not the report should be made public. The report will be released to the public before the end of the current congressional session, after all other business is completed. That means it could be released as soon as the…

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  • Trump steps up actions against press with Des Moines Register lawsuit

    Washington, D.C., December 18, 2024–The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns President-elect Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Des Moines Register and Gannett, which was filed on Monday, for publishing a poll that showed him trailing Vice President Kamala Harris in the run-up to the November presidential election. 

    The lawsuit, which also includes pollster J. Ann Selzer and her polling firm, alleges that the poll amounted to “brazen election interference.”

    “The lawsuit against the Des Moines Register and Gannett is the latest in a series of legal attacks that President-elect Donald Trump has filed against media organizations,” said CPJ U.S., Canada, and Caribbean Program Coordinator Katherine Jacobsen. “Using the courts to go after political enemies and silence what he perceives as unflattering narratives is concerning behavior from the president-elect. Journalists and news organizations must be free to do their jobs and cover the news without constant fear of legal retaliation from those they are covering.”

    Trump has repeatedly stated that he intends to use the courts to go after those who he believes have wronged him, including journalists and media outlets. ABC News last week agreed to pay a $15 million settlement in a defamation suit Trump filed against the network, along with an additional $1 million in legal fees.

    The president-elect has previously filed suit against major news outlets in retaliation for coverage he views as unfair. In October, Trump filed suit in a Texas court against CBS over an interview the network aired with then-Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. He has also sued the Pulitzer Board in relation to a prize it issued for reporting on the 2016 election.

    CPJ has detailed what’s at stake with Trump’s litigious approach to silencing journalists and outlets whose coverage he does not like in its recent U.S. election report.


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  • Trump Sues Iowa Newspaper Over Poll Published Days Before 2024 Election

    President-elect Donald Trump is suing a well-respected pollster and the newspaper that has published her polls, alleging that a survey she conducted during the 2024 presidential election amounted to “interference” in the race. The lawsuit, filed on Monday night, targets pollster Ann Selzer, The Des Moines Register (where her poll has been published for years) and the paper’s parent company…

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  • NJ Activists Brace to Fight Trump Immigration Agenda After Setbacks Under Biden

    One month after Donald Trump was reelected president following a campaign where he promised mass deportations, The Guardian published an investigation revealing how outgoing President Joe Biden is laying the groundwork for potential expansion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity. The report shows that during Biden’s final year in office, ICE has been working to extend contracts…

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  • NJ Activists Brace to Fight Trump Immigration Agenda After Setbacks Under Biden

    One month after Donald Trump was reelected president following a campaign where he promised mass deportations, The Guardian published an investigation revealing how outgoing President Joe Biden is laying the groundwork for potential expansion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity. The report shows that during Biden’s final year in office, ICE has been working to extend contracts…

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  • Trump’s Picks for Top Federal Health Agencies Look Like “Team of Opponents”

    Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s candidates for federal health agencies have promoted policies and goals that put them at odds with one another or with Trump’s choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., setting the stage for internal friction over public health initiatives. The picks hold different views on matters such as limits on abortion…

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