America used to have the best medical research system in the world. Elon Musk and RFK Jr. are ripping it to shreds.
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Posted inLaw and Justice
Federal Judge Halts CFPB Purge Again
DOGE was apparently part of the effort to hobble the agency, along with Clarence Thomas pal Mark Paoletta. For the moment, the firing of 1,483 workers is on hold.
Posted inLaw and Justice
CFPB Slashed to the Bone, Threatening Financial Markets
The agency fired 1,500 workers on Thursday, which violates a court order and threatens a meltdown of mortgage markets and more.
Posted inPolitics
Trump’s Orwellian Assault on Black History
How do you clean up the Black experience in America to gloss over the history of slavery and Jim Crow?
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Republican Budget Plan: Snatch Food From the Mouths of Hungry Children
SNAP cuts are ‘going to have a massive shock wave across the country, and everybody will feel it.’
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Trump Opens the Door to More Medicare Advantage Fraud
Private insurance companies just got a massive boost to their payments through the program, while DOGE fires the people responsible for oversight.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Mad King Trump’s War on the Troops
The administration is vindictively hacking away at veterans’ benefits.
Posted inPolitics
No Personnel Is Policy
The Trump administration is accomplishing through layoffs what it couldn’t accomplish through Congress.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Rule by Contractor
DOGE is not about waste and efficiency—it’s about privatization.
Posted inWorking in America
Trump Quietly Decimates a Pivotal Labor Relations Agency
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service has been destroyed. It provided free collective-bargaining mediation and saved hundreds of millions of dollars in labor costs.
