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Before Elon Musk can exercise authoritarian power, he must purge the federal bureaucracy. But federal workers aren’t playing ball.

The US president’s idea to take over the territory and his claims Palestinians were keen to move were met with anger – and a determination to stay

A reality check from a top lawyer who knows Guantanamo.

The exodus from mainstream media

In my view, the Trump administration is moving this country very aggressively into an oligarchic form of society where extraordinary power rests in the hands of a small number of unelected multi-billionaires.

One tiny company has the bloated Facebook empire scrambling to respond.

China is shrugging off Trump's tariffs and economic threats.

The email sent to federal employees urging them to resign in exchange for uncertain benefits is clearly aimed at purging critical government employees and replacing them with loyalists and ideologues.

DEI is not a conspiracy to make white people feel bad about themselves; it’s a society-wide effort to combat past discrimination against everyone who is not a white, straight, able-bodied male. For Trump, that is the problem.

"People need hope and the best place to find it is in your coworkers"