The Trump administration’s tariff regime has squeezed most Americans, causing new financial pressures as the cost of goods goes up, but at least one person seems to be making out pretty well from the situation: Elon Musk. According to a report from the Washington Post, Musk’s satellite internet company Starlink has attracted new interest from […]
Laura Loomer Flexes Her Influence to Take Down Trump’s Surgeon General Nominee
Somehow, Laura Loomer has more staying power with the Trump White House than she did when she literally handcuffed herself to Twitter’s doors. The far-right conspiracy theorist, fresh off of reportedly using her influence to force National Security Adviser Mike Waltz out of the administration, is trying to throw her weight around to oust Trump’s […]
Trump Torched Decades of Science in Just 100 Days—and the Fallout Is Global
Across seven decades and a dozen presidencies, America’s scientific prowess was arguably unmatched. At universities and federal agencies alike, researchers in the United States revolutionized weather forecasting, cured deadly diseases, and began monitoring greenhouse gas emissions. As far back as 1990, Congress directed this scientific might toward understanding climate change, after finding that human-induced global […]
US Government Registered Several Websites Potentially Linked to Trump Meme Coin
Donald Trump takes a lot of heat for taking down government webpages with essential information like LGBTQ health information and climate change-related data, but no one gives him credit for the webpages he puts up. 404 Media reports that the administration registered three websites with .gov domains that all appear to be potentially related to […]
Scientists Are Sounding the Alarm Over Trump’s ‘Emergency’ Forest Logging Order
The Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to open up swathes of the American wilderness to commercial logging are raising everything from eyebrows to serious concerns among scientists and current and former federal land managers. A month after President Trump signed two executive orders regarding the national security concerns of timber and lumber exports and expansion of […]
Apple’s Second-Biggest Supplier Says to Expect Empty Shelves Due to Trump Tariffs
So far, the impact of Donald Trump’s trade war with China has mostly only been felt in the markets. The worst is yet to come for consumers, according to Pegatron, a Taiwanese company that plays a key role in the supply chain of Apple and other electronics companies like Dell. An executive from the company, […]
Trump’s Tariffs Have Come for Kickstarter Prices, Too
It’s not just the Apples of the world that are trying to adjust as quickly as possible to the unpredictable tariff regime implemented by the Trump administration. Smaller creators, including those who crowdfund their projects, are also dealing with the burden of 145% tariffs on goods from China. To help offset those costs, Kickstarter has […]
How Your Showerhead and Fridge Became Political Statements
Efficiency standards for home appliances were once the conversational equivalent of beige — neutral, but aggressively uninteresting. But as political polarization has deepened, dishwashers, laundry machines, showerheads, and other household staples have begun to take on a new charge. With Republicans now in control of the White House and both houses of Congress, rules that […]
Trump DOJ Threatens Wikipedia’s Nonprofit Status Over Alleged ‘Propaganda’
Between scrubbing government websites of information about everything from vaccine efficacy to LGBT health matters and the ongoing war with higher education, the Trump administration seems to have a problem with freely available information that doesn’t align with its particular ideology. That war on knowledge appears to have extended to Wikipedia. Earlier this week, a […]
Zuckerberg Shutters Schools for Communities of Color as Trump Cracks Down on DEI
Back in 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his partner, pediatrician Priscilla Chan, opened The Primary School, a tuition-free private school opened with the explicit goal of helping low-income families and people of color to access education, healthcare, and social services. A decade later, they’ve apparently deemed that all those problems are solved now, as […]