The Trump administration is accomplishing through layoffs what it couldn’t accomplish through Congress.
Elon Musk
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Rule by Contractor
DOGE is not about waste and efficiency—it’s about privatization.
Posted inWorking in America
Trump Stomps Workers
Stripping bargaining rights from most federal employees is one more way he’s converting a constitutional government into a monarch’s court.
Posted inWorking in America
Global Working Conditions Matter for American Workers
The Trump administration has cut programs that help prevent forced labor and child labor. This will suppress wages everywhere, including the U.S.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Trump Scrambles to Pardon Corporate Criminals He Once Prosecuted
First the gutted CFPB pronounced ‘Whites Only’ marketing legal again. Now Boeing wants to renege on the sweetheart deal of the century.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Norway’s State Investment Fund Should Dump Tesla
Its vast sovereign wealth fund owns nearly 36 million Tesla shares. Better get out while the getting is good.
Posted inTAP
Bezos Attacks Toddler Safety
Today on TAP: Amazon sues to abolish the one federal agency empowered to identify and recall highly flammable little-kid PJs.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Trump’s Fox in the Social Security Henhouse
His nominee to head the SSA backs technology over people, and DOGE over seniors’ needs.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Paul, Weiss Appeased Trump. More Attacks on BigLaw Will Follow.
Fascists respond to capitulation with more aggression. Elon Musk has already started targeting firms himself.