news2shortsCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom has responded to claims that he secretly helped fund a nearly $100,000 bronze bust of himself that sits inside San Francisco City Hall, calling them “categorically false.” “To imply the Governor personally funded or proposed this effort is categorically false,” a spokesperson for Newsom said in a statement to Fox News … Read more
I’ve always believed the people are powerful. Now we know the world’s richest man does too On Saturday morning, I woke up to a nightmare of notifications. On Sunday, it got worse. Elon Musk had tweeted and amplified inflammatory lies about me and Tesla Takedown, a growing national grassroots movement peacefully protesting at Tesla showrooms … Read more
Vladimir Putin views his country’s cultural sphere like any other sector: a subordinate dominion, which should submit to the state’s needs and interests. What’s been lost?
The defense secretary has empowered his lawyer Tim Parlatore to remake the judge advocate general’s corps The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is expected in the coming weeks to start a sweeping overhaul of the judge advocate general’s corps as part of an effort to make the US military less restricted by the laws of … Read more
The Trump Administration has cut two thousand workers, making it harder for the service to fight wildfires and repair storm damage across the country.
Put up pictures of lemurs, penguins and wolves, and introduce tomorrow’s environmentalists to the amazing nature in our world Has it ever struck you as interesting the amount of dinosaur products that are marketed to boys and unicorn products to girls? I recently visited the wonderful Horniman Museum in south London, only to discover that … Read more
The recent cancelation of $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University by the Trump administration’s Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism was seen as a major wake-up call to the country’s universities. In its press release, the task force announced that the “decisive action” is “a notice to every school and university … Read more
A California board voted unanimously to allocate millions of dollars for services aimed at protecting illegal immigrants and refugees in the community. The Alameda County Board of Supervisors in Oakland decided at Tuesday’s regular meeting to set aside around $2.2 million for communities in their area in response to President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal … Read more
The government’s move to abolish diversity, equity and inclusion policies is a naked attempt to appeal to prejudice – but it may well backfire Almost a decade ago, I started a business called Rent-A-Minority, which enabled companies to hire a minority ethnic person whenever they needed an injection of diversity to boost their image. I … Read more
Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider harmful effects of pollution; justice department demands shelter release names of migrants – key US politics stories from Wednesday at a glance Donald Trump has previously called the climate crisis a “hoax” and dismissed those concerned by its worsening impacts as “climate lunatics”, but now the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) … Read more
