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SpaceX is poised to go public and test the latest version of its massive Starship rocket amidst criticism about its environmental impact

Ilene — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:53:58 +0000

SpaceX is poised to go public and test the latest version of its massive Starship rocket amidst criticism about its environmental impact By Scott Solomon, Rice University SpaceX is proceeding with two major milestones with consequences that could be, at a minimum, global. The company, owned by Elon Musk and valued at upwards of […]

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Where will money for the ‘Anti‑Weaponization Fund’ come from? This man has been warning of Judgment Fund abuse for years

Ilene — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:27:51 +0000

Where will money for the ‘Anti‑Weaponization Fund’ come from? This man has been warning of Judgment Fund abuse for years By Paul Figley, American University The creation of an “Anti-Weaponization Fund” at the Department of Justice may have shocked a lot of people, but not Paul Figley, a legal scholar and former DOJ staffer […]

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Trump Just Took Us Somewhere the Country Has Never Been Before

Ilene — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:37:02 +0000

Trump Just Took Us Somewhere the Country Has Never Been Before By Noah Shachtman, NY Times President Trump has been thinking a lot about his place in history. That’s one of the reasons, according to recent reporting by The Atlantic and The Times, that he’s paying so little attention to his plummeting popularity and so much attention to remodeling Washington in […]

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Trump’s Endgame Is Surrender

Ilene — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:25:45 +0000

Trump’s Endgame Is Surrender He seems to hope to slip away without Americans noticing the magnitude of this defeat. By Robert Kagan, The Atlantic The outlines of President Trump’s endgame in the Iran war are now emerging. In a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, Trump reportedly explained that the United States was negotiating […]

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There Has Never Been an Example of Presidential Corruption Like This

Ilene — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:21:35 +0000

There Has Never Been an Example of Presidential Corruption Like This By The Editorial Board, NY Times Has there ever been an episode of presidential corruption so blatant and threatening to constitutional order? Certainly not in modern times. President Trump’s Justice Department is using taxpayer money to create a $1.8 billion political slush fund. Ostensibly set […]

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How I Choose Which Cloudflare Employees to Replace With AI

Ilene — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:07:59 +0000

How I Choose Which Cloudflare Employees to Replace With AI The company has less need for middle managers, operations jobs and other ‘measuring’ positions. By Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, WSJ Two weeks ago I laid off more than 20% of my workforce. I didn’t do it because Cloudflare is struggling. We posted record revenue growth, […]

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How the U.S.‑Israel war against Iran is exposing the limits of the petrodollar system

Ilene — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:14:14 +0000

How the U.S.‑Israel war against Iran is exposing the limits of the petrodollar system By Elliot Goodell Ugalde, Queen’s University, Ontario and Natalie Braun, York University, Canada For the first time since the Second World War, excluding the COVID-19 pandemic, public debt in the United States has surpassed the entire economy’s GDP. As of […]

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When a president settles his own lawsuit to create a fund for allies, fundamental questions about justice arise

Ilene — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:34:39 +0000

When a president settles his own lawsuit to create a fund for allies, fundamental questions about justice arise By Austin Sarat, Amherst College Thomas Hobbes took a very dim view of rebels and insurrectionists. He believed that insurrectionists relinquish their status as citizens the moment they seek to overthrow the government and should never […]

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Trump’s $1.8 Billion Slush Fund Is Worse Than Stealing

Ilene — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:14:48 +0000

Trump’s $1.8 Billion Slush Fund Is Worse Than Stealing Recasting the January 6 insurrection as the work of heroic patriots remains the president’s highest priority. By Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic Among the very first things Donald Trump did upon assuming the powers of the presidency for the second time was commute the sentences of, and grant […]

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Trump’s Deportations Are Costing Americans Jobs, Study Finds

Ilene — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:49:19 +0000

Trump’s Deportations Are Costing Americans Jobs, Study Finds According to a new study, construction was impacted more than any other industry studied, with American-born workers losing more jobs than immigrants as a result of the deportations. By Ronda Kaysen, NY Times The Trump administration has long claimed that mass deportations would deliver more jobs and higher […]

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