Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Tag: White House

For-profit presidency: New Yorker Mag reveals Trump family’s frenzy to cash...

According to Kirkpatrick, Donald Trump and his immediate family have made $3.4 billion from his time in the White House, including more than $2.3 billion from various cryptocurrency ventures alone.

A new Trump plan gives DHS and the White House greater...

Could the new plans shift key decisions to a network of task forces jointly led by the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations, the primary investigative arm of DHS?

White House orders Social Security shutdowns and service cuts as Trump...

Millions of beneficiaries face office closures and phone service cuts as Trump’s Social Security pick, Frank Bisignano, refuses to commit to reversing policies.

Whitehouse report reveals Trump White House manipulated FBI Kavanaugh investigation, ignored...

According to the report, the FBI was directed by the White House to conduct only a small number of interviews, focusing on a limited group of witnesses.

Biden administration’s ‘Time Is Money’ initiative: A comprehensive crackdown on corporate...

This initiative is part of a broader effort by the administration to hold corporations accountable and protect consumers from unfair business practices.

White House says GOP bill would force ‘one of the biggest...

"House Republicans are trying to slash lifelines for middle-class families on behalf of rich special interests," said a White House spokesperson.

‘Democracy is not out of the woods yet’: Trump announces 2024...

"To protect our democracy and our freedoms, we must make sure he never sets foot in the Oval Office again."

US bans Russian oil but activists want broader break with fossil...

Phasing out the consumption of fossil fuels is seen as critical in both the fight against the climate crisis and the violence of petrostates.

Indigenous-led action outside White House urges Biden to ‘protect people, not...

Protesters are calling on the president and Congress to "prioritize climate justice, racial justice, Indigenous rights, housing justice, and transit justice in the infrastructure discussions."

Enough of the T***p! End the White House Trumpery!

Let’s all make ‘trump’ a dirty word and restore the Old English term ‘trumpery’ to modern vernacular.

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A community hospital emergency entrance in Hillsboro, Oregon. Photo: M.O. Stevens / CC BY-SA 3.0

Nearly half of US hospitals no longer deliver babies, new report finds

Rural hospitals keep losing the fight over leaner Medicaid budgets, and a separate analysis finds reaching the nearest labor and delivery unit already takes an hour or more in fourteen states.
The U.S. Capitol. Photo: FEMA/Bill Koplitz (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

F is for Failure and Fascism

On leadership, character, climate, prices, trade, alliances, militarism, health, civil/voting rights, even law and order.
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Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam

The Pentagon puts the war's cost at 33.4 billion dollars, independent estimates put it at more than three times that, with strikes across roughly twenty Middle East bases.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Photo: NOAA, public domain

Kennedy Center board warns of bankruptcy unless Trump’s name returns to building

A 57-page draft resolution ties the center's fundraising future to ten proposed inscriptions honoring the president, as a federal judge who already ruled the board overstepped weighs a related case.
Farmworkers harvest sweet potatoes. Photo: USDA, public domain

Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful

The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.