Ever notice how the media likes to introduce billionaires as if their wealth alone makes them fascinating? You’ll rarely hear about their actual credentials (or lack thereof). It’s as if hoarding obscene amounts of money is a job title. And yet, these billionaires don’t just sit on their mountains of cash; they actively use their … Read more
Over the last three days the Musk/Trump/Vance Administration has taken potentially illegal steps to dismantle and eliminate USAID, the United States Agency for Foreign Development, the leading source for foreign aid to countries that help save lives, deliver food and basic necessities, develop local regions, disaster relief, and serve as a beacon for American interests … Read more
Let’s cut to the chase: Elon Musk is no longer just a billionaire meddling in politics. He is running the show. For all the noise about Donald Trump’s return to power, it’s clear who’s actually calling the shots. “President” Musk has embedded himself so deeply into the federal government that even Trump’s own people are reportedly frustrated … Read more
Every day, another outrage. The golfer-in-chief and his minions have been flooding the zone with outrageous announcements, many of which are shot down quickly by the courts or by the court of public opinion. But not all. Some of them are already having negative effects, some of them deadly. I won’t hypothesize about cause and … Read more
The aspiring American Duce and his band of incompetent and insensitive MAGA White Nationalist-Ultra Conservative-Neo Fascists are at it again. This time with the issuing of an extremely vague Executive Order with about 24 hours’ notice that threatens to cut off federal funding to a wide array of Congressionally approved, and Biden/Harris signed, government, intergovernmental, … Read more