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  • Mexican authorities accuse Adidas of cultural appropriation in their sandal design

    08/10/2025 10:05:16 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 40 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 12:28 PM CDT, August 9, 2025 | FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ
    MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities are accusing sportswear company Adidas of plagiarizing artisans in southern Mexico, alleging that a new sandal design is strikingly similar to the traditional Indigenous footwear known as huaraches.The controversy has fueled accusations of cultural appropriation by the footwear brand, with authorities saying this is not the first time traditional Mexican handicrafts have been copied. Citing these concerns, local authorities have asked Adidas to withdraw the shoe model.Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Friday that Adidas was already in talks with authorities in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca to provide “compensation for the people...
  • Experts Raise Concerns Over Trump’s White House Ballroom Renovation Plans

    08/03/2025 12:19:55 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 179 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Aug. 3, 2025, 5:59 a.m. ET | Ashley Ahn
    President Trump plans to build a $200 million ballroom off the East Wing “long before” the end of his term in 2029.Experts on historic preservation are raising concerns over the feasibility of President Trump’s plans to complete large-scale renovations to the White House by the end of his term, and whether the project can be done while respecting the historic nature of the building.Mr. Trump unveiled plans on Thursday to construct a $200 million, 90,000-square-foot state ballroom off the East Wing to be completed “long before” the end of his term in 2029. The project would be one of the...
  • New Reports on Russian Interference Don’t Show What Trump Says They Do

    07/25/2025 6:34:39 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 33 replies
    The New York Times ^ | July 25, 2025 Updated 5:21 p.m. ET | Charlie Savage
    The administration’s claims are overblown, but newly declassified information provides some messy details about a January 2017 intelligence assessment of Moscow’s election interference.The Trump administration in recent weeks has released a series of reports intended to undermine the conclusion reached by intelligence agencies before President Trump’s first term that Russia had favored his candidacy in 2016 and sought to improve his chances of winning.That assessment, an unclassified version of which was made public in January 2017, has long infuriated Mr. Trump. In disclosing the reports, he and his team are proclaiming that President Barack Obama and his team torqued the...
  • Attorney General Told Trump His Name Appeared in Epstein Files

    07/24/2025 1:08:14 AM PDT · by Cronos · 56 replies
    New york times ^ | 21st July 2025 | Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush
    Attorney General Pam Bondi informed President Trump in the spring that his name appeared in the Jeffrey Epstein files, according to three people with knowledge of the exchange. The disclosure came as part of a broader briefing on the re-examination of the case against Mr. Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, by F.B.I. agents and prosecutors. It was made by Ms. Bondi during a meeting that also included the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, and covered a variety of topics. Ms. Bondi frequently meets with Mr. Trump to brief him on various matters, officials...
  • Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein

    07/19/2025 12:01:57 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 42 replies
    The New York Times ^ | July 19, 2025 | Alan Feuer, Matthew Goldstein
    This week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Mr. Trump gave Mr. Epstein a note for his 50th birthday in 2003 that included a sketch of a naked woman and a cryptic reference to a “secret” the two men shared.In the swirl of money and sun-tanned women that was their Palm Beach-and-Manhattan set, Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein spent nearly 15 years mingling side-by-side as public friends. There were lavish dinners with boldface names at Mr. Epstein’s mansion on the Upper East Side and raucous parties with cheerleaders and models at Mr. Trump’s private club and residence at Mar-a-Lago....
  • New York Times admits migrant 'conspiracy theory' it scolded Donald Trump for is TRUE

    07/11/2025 8:17:10 AM PDT · by Morgana · 14 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | July 11, 2025 | Will Potter
    Donald Trump has been vindicated after The New York Times accused him of pushing a false conspiracy theory about a migrant gang taking over a Colorado apartment building... only for the paper to now admit those same claims were true. One article published last September scolded Trump for his 'false' claims that Aurora was overrun with Tren de Aragua goons. But a recent investigation published by the esteemed paper now concedes the Denver suburb is indeed a hotspot for the Venezuelan gangsters. The controversy took on national prominence during the presidential election as Donald Trump often cited it during rallies...
  • FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino Drops a Truth Bomb Destroying the New York Times

    07/05/2025 9:21:01 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 26 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 07/05/2025 | Matt Margolis
    On Saturday, the New York Times editorial board published an article claiming that Trump’s “politicized FBI” has “made Americans less safe.” That’s rich. I’m old enough to remember when the Obama administration and the Biden administration actually did weaponize the FBI against Donald Trump. And I’m pretty sure everyone on the NYT editorial board is, too. FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino wrote a scathing response to the article, calling it “precisely why hard-working Americans simply do not trust the media.” Bongino’s tweet, which quickly gained traction online, took direct aim at what he described as a “poorly thought out hit...
  • Trump’s Politicized F.B.I. Has Made Americans Less Safe

    07/05/2025 12:06:45 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 114 replies
    The New York Times ^ | July 5, 2025, 7:00 a.m. ET | The Editorial Board
    Only 11 days after President Trump was inaugurated for a second term, his administration began a purge of the F.B.I. that now threatens some of the bureau’s most important missions. His appointees ousted eight of its most experienced managers, including the division heads overseeing national security, cybersecurity and criminal investigations. Several had worked on prosecutions of Jan. 6 rioters or had assisted in the various investigations of Mr. Trump, and Emil Bove, then the acting deputy attorney general, said they could not be trusted to carry out the president’s agenda.That was just the beginning. Over the past five months, many...
  • Trump’s Focus on Punishing Drug Dealers May Hurt Drug Users Trying to Quit

    05/14/2025 7:23:35 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 53 replies
    The New York Times ^ | May 13, 2025, 3:28 p.m. ET | Jan Hoffman
    President Trump has long railed against drug traffickers. He has said they should be given the death penalty “for their heinous acts.” On the first day of his second term, he signed an executive order listing cartels as “terrorist organizations.”But many public health and addiction experts fear that his budget proposals and other actions effectively punish people who use drugs and struggle with addiction.The Trump administration has vowed to reduce overdose deaths, one of the country’s deadliest public health crises, by emphasizing law enforcement, border patrols and tariffs against China and Mexico to keep out fentanyl and other dangerous drugs....
  • NY Times editorial says Trump’s victory is a ‘grave threat’ to republic

    11/06/2024 11:15:31 AM PST · by knighthawk · 85 replies
    NY Post ^ | November 6 2024 | David Rutz, Fox News
    The New York Times editorial board was despondent over President-elect Donald Trump’s decisive victory, declaring his return to power was a “grave threat” to the republic. “American voters have made the choice to return Donald Trump to the White House, setting the nation on a precarious course that no one can fully foresee,” the board wrote on Wednesday, later adding, “Mr. Trump’s election poses a grave threat to [the] republic, but he will not determine the long-term fate of American democracy. That outcome remains in the hands of the American people.” Trump capped a stunning political comeback from his defeat...