Thursday, August 13, 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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The west front of the U.S. Capitol. The Protected Time Off Act, pending in Congress, would guarantee full-time workers two weeks of paid annual leave. Photo: Architect of the Capitol (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none

Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.

Trumping the future

Okay, I’ll admit it. Sometimes I can’t take the bad news. It’s too much. It’s so extra, as the kids like to...

Legal battle looms as Louisiana mandates Ten Commandments in classrooms

Republican Governor Jeff Landry signed House Bill 71 into law, mandating that the Ten Commandments be displayed in "large, easily readable font" in public classrooms by the start of 2025.

The dark side of ecotourism: When green travel exploits people and the planet

As luxury eco-retreats and voluntourism surge, experts warn that without systemic reform, the industry may be doing more harm than good.

Gorsuch shouldn’t be confirmed until we know the person who picked him is cleared...

Neil Gorsuch shouldn’t be confirmed until Trump comes clean.