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  • The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement

    05/18/2025 9:45:50 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 15 replies
    The New York Times ^ | May 18, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET | Katie J.M. Baker
    Even before President Trump was re-elected, the Heritage Foundation, best known for Project 2025, set out to destroy pro-Palestinian activism in the United States.In late April, the Heritage Foundation dispatched a team to Israel to meet with power players in Israeli politics, including the country’s foreign and defense secretaries and the U.S. ambassador, Mike Huckabee.The conservative Washington-based think tank is best known for spearheading Project 2025, a proposed blueprint for President Trump’s second term that called for reshaping the federal government and an extreme expansion of presidential power.Now the Heritage contingent was in Israel, in part, to discuss another contentious...
  • ‘Whom Shall I Fear?’ In South Texas, Two Bakers Face Trump’s Immigration Wrath.

    05/17/2025 4:53:56 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 59 replies
    The New York Times ^ | May 17, 2025Updated 2:01 p.m. ET | Edgar Sandoval
    A raid on Abby’s Bakery in Los Fresnos heralded the crackdown to come. Ahead of the owners’ trial for “harboring” undocumented workers, the community is seeing the impact of the president’s policies.Most mornings, Leonardo Baez, a father of seven, wakes up hours before sunrise to mix bread dough in the border city of Los Fresnos, Texas. Punishing and laborious work, yes, but owning a beloved bakery has been a lifelong dream of his, he said.It is now in jeopardy.In February, federal agents swooped down on his shop, Abby’s Bakery, detained workers they said were in the country illegally and pressed...
  • EU Commission Loses on All Counts in Pfizergate Legal Case

    05/14/2025 11:05:18 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 1 replies
    Euronews ^ | 14/05/2025 | Marta Iraola Iribarren & Gerardo Fortuna
    The EU’s top court annulled the Commission’s decision to deny the newspaper New York Times access to messages exchanged between President Ursula von der Leyen and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, finding that the EU executive failed to plausibly explain why it does not possess the texts. After a long tug-of-war between the European Commission and The New York Times over transparency surrounding the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine contracts, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) today ruled that the Commission “has not given a plausible explanation to justify the non-possession of the requested documents.” According to the Court, the Commission cannot simply...
  • The Danger for India and Pakistan Has Not Gone Away

    05/11/2025 3:16:04 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 6 replies
    The New York Times ^ | May 11, 2025 | Updated 4:38 a.m. ET | Mujib Mashal
    India and Pakistan have seemingly pulled back from the brink again. But so much was new about the nuclear-armed enemies’ chaotic four-day clash, and so many of the underlying accelerants remain volatile, that there’s little to suggest that the truce represents any return to old patterns of restraint. A new generation of military technology fueled a dizzying aerial escalation. Waves of airstrikes and antiaircraft volleys with modern weapons set the stage. Soon they were joined by weaponized drones en masse for the first time along the old Line of Control in Kashmir — hundreds of them in the sky, probing...
  • DOGE’s Zombie Contracts: They Were Killed but Have Come Back to Life

    05/09/2025 4:17:12 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 17 replies
    The New York Times ^ | May 9, 2025, 9:31 a.m. ET | David A. Fahrenthold and Jeremy Singer-Vine
    At least 44 of the government contracts canceled on the orders of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting initiative have been resurrected by federal agencies, wiping out more than $220 million of his group’s purported savings, according to a New York Times analysis of federal spending data. But Mr. Musk’s group continues to list 43 of those contracts as “terminations” on its website, which it calls the “Wall of Receipts.” The group even added some of them days or weeks after they had been resurrected. The result was another in a series of data errors on the website that made the group seem...
  • Oil Prices Are Falling. Here’s Where That Could Spell Trouble.

    05/05/2025 11:22:54 AM PDT · by Miami Rebel · 92 replies
    New York Times ^ | May 3, 2025 | Neil MacFarquhar
    Oil producing countries are bracing for a bumpy ride this year, with a precipitous drop in prices to the lowest levels in four years seen as the initial, alarming sign of looming turmoil. A price drop benefits any country seeking to cut its fuel bill. But in oil producing nations, lower prices can feed economic troubles, and sometimes political unrest, as governments slash spending. Analysts who had already been predicting lower oil prices because of softening demand amid increased global production said the possibility of a tariff trade war and the overall climate of uncertainty could well deepen producers’ woes....
  • NYT Omits Immigration Status Of Suspect In Subway Corpse Rape Case, Sparking Outrage Over Selective Reporting

    05/05/2025 7:41:21 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 22 replies
    Daily Caller via AOL ^ | 5/4/25 | Melanie Wilcox
    The New York Times published a 400-word report last week about the rape of a corpse aboard a New York City subway train — but nowhere in the article did the paper mention that the suspect, Felix Rojas, is an illegal alien. Rojas, 44, was arrested for first-degree rape after police say he violated the body of a dead man on an R train in Manhattan on April 9. Surveillance footage reportedly captured Rojas entering the nearly empty train at the Whitehall Street–South Ferry station, rummaging through the pockets of a deceased man and then sexually assaulting the corpse before...
  • Republicans Wrestle With Trump’s Demands for Tax Cuts

    05/02/2025 6:26:38 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 15 replies
    The New York Times ^ | May 2, 2025, 11:16 a.m. ET | Andrew Duehren
    House Republicans are planning to include several of President Trump’s campaign promises in the first draft of the bill, which they hope to release soon.It was easy to miss, but last weekend President Trump floated a fundamental rewrite of the American tax code. In a social media post, and again in remarks to reporters, Mr. Trump suggested the United States could stop taxing income under $200,000 and instead rely on revenue from his extensive tariffs. “It’ll take a little while before we do that, but we’re going to be cutting taxes, and it’s possible we’ll do a complete tax cut,”...
  • New York Times, Democratic Party Seek to Smother the Struggle Against Trump

    05/02/2025 3:02:26 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 28 replies
    World Socialist Web Site ^ | 5/2 | Patrick Martin
    Just over 100 days into the Trump administration, there is mounting anger over the government’s assault on immigrants, its sweeping attacks on workers and social programs and its efforts to establish a right-wing dictatorship in the United States. Trump’s poll numbers are falling sharply, and recent weeks have seen demonstrations involving millions of people in cities throughout the United States. The response of the Democratic Party is to smother this opposition and prevent it from challenging the domination of the corporate-financial oligarchy and the two-party system, through which the ruling class carries out its policies of imperialist war and social...
  • NYC public schools spark outrage for sending newsletter to teachers accusing Israel of ‘genocide in Gaza’

    05/01/2025 6:35:39 AM PDT · by thegagline · 23 replies
    The New York Post ^ | 05/01/2025 | Carl Campanile
    Department of Education newsletter claiming Israel is committing “genocide in Gaza” was sent out to hundreds of teachers — prompting fuming Jewish educators to call it out as another example of ingrained antisemitism in the city’s public school system. The 14-page “Teacher Career Pathways” spring 2025 newsletter — which sports the logos of the city DOE and the United Federation of Teachers union — went out over the last week to “master teachers” across the system’s 1,800 schools. “The genocide in Gaza, among other global injustices, emphasized the urgent need for student voices to be centered and heard,” it said....
  • History for Dollars (Humanities)

    06/08/2010 8:25:03 AM PDT · by C19fan · 7 replies · 35+ views
    New York Times ^ | June 7, 2010 | David Brooks
    When the going gets tough, the tough take accounting. When the job market worsens, many students figure they can’t indulge in an English or a history major. They have to study something that will lead directly to a job. So it is almost inevitable that over the next few years, as labor markets struggle, the humanities will continue their long slide. There already has been a nearly 50 percent drop in the portion of liberal arts majors over the past generation, and that trend is bound to accelerate. Once the stars of university life, humanities now play bit roles when...
  • Larry David Mocks Trump as Hitler in the NY Times Now, But the Paper Fawned Over Adolf in ’33

    04/26/2025 4:17:25 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 24 replies
    Front Page Magazine ^ | April 25, 2025 | Robert Spencer
    The dopiest, sleaziest, most tone-deaf Times article since their fawning puff piece on the actual Hitler.“Imagine my surprise,” writes left-of-Stalin-himself “comedian” Larry David in a New York Times op-ed Monday, “when in the spring of 1939 a letter arrived at my house inviting me to dinner at the Old Chancellery with the world’s most reviled man, Adolf Hitler.”Although Larry has looked about 105 years old for the last couple of decades and could be even older, he wasn’t actually reporting on something that happened to him. He was mocking and indirectly excoriating his fellow leftist Bill Maher for meeting Trump...
  • Sarah Palin Loses Defamation Suit Retrial Against the New York Times

    04/23/2025 7:09:21 AM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 18 replies
    Breitbart ^ | April 23, 2025 | Paul Bois
    Former Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has lost her defamation suit retrial against the New York Times. The federal jury ruled after just two hours of deliberation on Tuesday that the New York Times was not guilty of libel when it falsely linked her to a 2011 mass shooting in an editorial it published in 2017. Per Axios: Throughout this trial and the original 2022 trial, the Times asserted that the inaccurate link made in the editorial was a mistake. It issued a formal correction of the piece, titled “America’s Lethal Politics,” two days after it was originally published on...
  • Larry David’s ‘My Dinner with Adolf’ essay skewers Bill Maher’s meeting with Trump

    04/21/2025 2:09:20 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 23 replies
    Jewish Telegraphic Agency ^ | April 21, 2025 | Andrew Silow-Carroll
    The Jewish comedian has long made Nazi references in his satire.Add Larry David to the list of celebrities who were put off by comedian Bill Maher’s friendly sitdown with President Trump. In a New York Times opinion piece, “My Dinner with Adolf,” the Jewish creator of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” imagines a get-to-know-you meeting “at the Old Chancellery with the world’s most reviled man, Adolf Hitler.” The narrator ends up being charmed by the Nazi leader. “I thought that if only the world could see this side of him, people might have a completely different opinion,” he gushes. The essay doesn’t...
  • Report: White House Looking for a New Secretary of Defense (White House Denies It)

    04/21/2025 1:17:17 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 77 replies
    Hot Air ^ | April 21, 2025 | John Sexton
    I would not be surprised to see a denial of this report, probably before I'm done writing about it. NPR is reporting that, according to an anonymous US official, the White House is now looking for a new Secretary of Defense to replace Pete Hegseth. The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly... This comes as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth continues to find himself mired in controversy. NPR has also confirmed with the same official that Hegseth shared details ahead of...
  • Hunter Biden Whistleblower Replaced As Acting IRS Commissioner Just Days Into Job

    04/20/2025 7:35:35 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 11 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | April 20, 2025 | Staff
    The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was replaced Friday, only three days after assuming the role, as his appointment triggered a power struggle between Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Elon Musk of the Department of Government Efficiency, the New York Times reported. Gary Shapley was replaced after Bessent complained to President Donald Trump that Musk circumvented Bessent’s office to secure the position for Shapley, the NYT reported. The outlet cited people who said they were familiar with the situation. Shapley was a longstanding IRS agent who accused the Biden administration’s Department of Justice of dragging out its...
  • Ex-NY Times editor breaks down in tears, apologizes to Sarah Palin at defamation trial — but former Alaska gov wasn’t buying it

    04/18/2025 3:13:41 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 35 replies
    New York Post ^ | April 18, 2025 | Ariel Zilber
    A former opinion page editor of the New York Times broke down in tears and apologized to Sarah Palin while testifying in court over a 2017 editorial that she says was defamatory. James Bennet testified on Thursday that he “blew it” when he falsely claimed in the editorial that the former Alaska governor’s political action committee had contributed to an atmosphere of violence in the weeks and months leading up to the 2011 assassination attempt on then-Congresswoman Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.). The Times has acknowledged the editorial was inaccurate but said it quickly corrected the “honest mistake.” Bennet got choked up...
  • If NY Times is right and Trump refused Israel's request to attack Iran, he deserves a ton of credit for that.

    04/17/2025 5:45:16 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 33 replies
    Cenk Uygur on X ^ | April 17, 2025 | Cenk Uygur
    Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur If @nytimes is right and Trump refused Israel's request to attack Iran, he deserves a ton of credit for that. Times reporting @TulsiGabbard made the argument against the strike - huge credit for that. @JDVance also spoke against. Not a lot of good news lately, but this is great. 4:24 PM · Apr 17, 2025
  • I Have Never Been More Afraid for My Country’s Future

    04/15/2025 6:37:01 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 110 replies
    The New York Times ^ | April 15, 2025, 6:16 p.m. ET | Thomas L. Friedman
    So much crazy happens with the Trump administration every day that some downright weird but incredibly telling stuff gets lost in the noise. A recent example was the scene on April 8 at the White House where, in the middle of his raging trade war, our president decided it was the perfect time to sign an executive order to bolster coal mining. “We’re bringing back an industry that was abandoned,” said President Trump, surrounded by coal miners in hard hats, members of a work force that has declined to about 40,000 from 70,000 over the last decade, according to Reuters....
  • NY Times Opinion Editor: Israel A 'Hegemon' Like Roman Empire, Soviet Union, USA!

    04/14/2025 12:49:11 PM PDT · by governsleastgovernsbest · 18 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    Daniel Wakin, the New York Times Deputy International Editor of Opinion, had an "Opinion Today" item in the paper's April 14th edition promoting a guest essay on the Op-Ed page entitled, "The U.S. Must Now Reckon With a Hegemon in the Mideast: Israel." The beginning of Wakin's item [emphasis added] reads: "Ancient Rome in the Mediterranean. The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe. The United States in the Western Hemisphere, for that matter. History is rife with nations and empires seeking to become dominant in a region or larger swath of the world. It is called hegemony. Aaron David Miller and...