Posts by Kim Browne
Trump’s New Attack on Harvard Fails Immediately as Judge Blocks It
A federal judge blocked Donald Trump’s administration from revoking Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students. In a brief filing Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Allison Burroughs granted Harvard’s request for a temporary restraining order preventing the Department of Homeland Security from revoking the university’s Student Exchange Visa Program certification. Harvard had filed a lawsuit…
Read MoreElon Musk’s DOGE Is Breaking Rules to Install Grok in Government
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is letting his glitchy Grok AI chatbot sift through potentially sensitive government information, according to an exclusive report from Reuters Friday. One person familiar with the matter told Reuters that DOGE had begun using a customized version of Grok, a generative AI chatbot developed by xAI, which is owned…
Read MoreRepublican Congressman Seriously Claims Straws Are Only for Women
In a strange appeal to a right-wing conception of masculinity, Representative Tim Burchett proclaimed that he does not drink any liquid out of straws, because he is a masculine man and straws are for feminine women. “[Jesse] Watters says men should not drink out of straws in public, or at all,” a Fox News host…
Read MoreLindsey Graham Dumps Cold Water on Trump-Backed Budget Bill
While House Republicans celebrated passing the president’s “big, beautiful” spending bill by a one-vote margin Thursday, caucus members in the upper chamber remained unimpressed. Speaking with CNN’s Manu Raju later that day, South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham shot down some of the cuts as “not real,” arguing that the House had done next to nothing…
Read MoreTrump’s Week: Rob From the Poor, Give to the Rich, Steal Like Crazy
Let’s start with the sum and substance of the judges’ orders. Some 25,000 federal employees will be back at work Monday. One judge’s order covers the employees at the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs. The other covers those at Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing…
Read MoreEven Fox News Grilled Treasury Secretary on Budget Bill Math
The Trump administration doesn’t want you to trust independent analysis of their “big, beautiful” tax bill. The bill—now headed to the Senate—proposes cutting upward of $880 billion from Medicaid in order to make a multitrillion-dollar tax cut extension for multimillionaires and corporations more palatable to the American public. Trump’s bill is estimated to add somewhere…
Read MoreRFK Jr. Just Accidentally Discredited His Own Surgeon General
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. inadvertently destroyed his own nominee for surgeon general by giving a rare, good piece of medical advice. During an interview with CNN’s Kaitlin Collins Thursday, Kennedy was asked to explain a remark he’d made that people should not take his medical advice. “Absolutely. People should not be taking…
Read MoreHarvard Hits Back at Trump With Lawsuit Over International Student Ban
“The European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of taking advantage of the United States on TRADE, has been very difficult to deal with. Their powerful Trade Barriers, Vat Taxes, ridiculous Corporate Penalties, Non-Monetary Trade Barriers, Monetary Manipulations, unfair and unjustified lawsuits against Americans Companies, and more, have led to a Trade Deficit…
Read MoreIs Trump Trying to Set Energy Policy in Other Countries Now?
“The European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of taking advantage of the United States on TRADE, has been very difficult to deal with. Their powerful Trade Barriers, Vat Taxes, ridiculous Corporate Penalties, Non-Monetary Trade Barriers, Monetary Manipulations, unfair and unjustified lawsuits against Americans Companies, and more, have led to a Trade Deficit…
Read MoreOil slides nearly 2% as Trump recommends 50% EU tariff
Published Fri, May 23, 2025 · 09:35 PM [LONDON] Oil prices dropped by nearly 2 per cent on Friday (May 23) and were set for their first weekly decline in three weeks after US President Donald Trump recommended a 50 per cent tariff on the European Union. Brent Crude futures fell US$1.03, or 1.6 per…
Read MoreTrump Drops Another Tariffs Bombshell to Begin in a Matter of Days
“The European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of taking advantage of the United States on TRADE, has been very difficult to deal with. Their powerful Trade Barriers, Vat Taxes, ridiculous Corporate Penalties, Non-Monetary Trade Barriers, Monetary Manipulations, unfair and unjustified lawsuits against Americans Companies, and more, have led to a Trade Deficit…
Read MoreRBI’s record US$31.6 billion payout to bolster government finances
A bonanza from the central bank will help meet the government’s 4.4% fiscal deficit target for the current financial year Published Fri, May 23, 2025 · 08:21 PM [NEW DELHI] India’s central bank will give a record dividend to the government, shoring up finances to bolster growth in Asia’s third-largest economy. The Reserve Bank of…
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