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Donald Trump’s AutomatonsIn George Orwell’s 1984, at the climax of Hate Week, Oceania is suddenly no longer at war with Eurasia, but instead is at war with Eastasia, and always has been. The pivot comes with no explanation or even announcement. During a public harangue, a Party orator is handed a scrap of paper and redirects his vitriol “mid-sentence, not only without a pause, but without even breaking the syntax.”Republican politicians in Donald Trump’s Inner Party faced a similar verbal challenge when the president changed sides in Russia’s war against Ukraine. One morning in late February, Republicans in Washington greeted Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky as a hero for continuing to resist Russian aggression. By afternoon, following Zelensky’s meeting in the Oval Office with Trump and Vice President J. D. Vance, the Ukrainian leader was an ungrateful, troublesome, and badly dressed warmonger who, if he hadn’t actually started the conflict with…

Musk slams Le Pen ruling, says it will ‘backfire’ like Trump’s as some on global r…JERUSALEM — The stunning court conviction of popular right-wing politician Marine Le Pen on Monday for embezzlement sparked outrage from President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency head, Elon Musk, who compared her fate to Trump’s legal troubles.Musk said after the verdict that, “This will backfire, like the legal attacks against President Trump.” Musk pinned the blame on the left for the conviction of Le Pen. He wrote on X, “When the radical left can’t win via democratic vote, they abuse the legal system to jail their opponents. This is their standard playbook throughout the world.”The conviction of Le Pen, which bans her from running for office for five years, comes amid legal prosecutions of other right-wing politicians, ranging from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Romania’s Călin Georgescu to former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.TRUMP’S VICTORY…

RFK Jr.’s Old Environmental Group Is Extremely Unhappy With Trump’s EPAThis story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump’s push to repurpose the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) amid funding cuts and staffing losses poses a huge threat to water safety and environmental advances in one of the big environmental success stories in the US in recent decades: the clean-up of the Hudson River. Once a byword for environmental degradation, the Hudson River is now recovering, in part due to the work of Riverkeeper, a non-profit environmental organization that established a model of legal activism for water protection and inspired more than 300 programs globally. It is also where Robert F Kennedy Jr cut his teeth as an environmental lawyer, before becoming a senior member of Trump’s right-wing cabinet. The political threat to America’s environment generally and more specifically the work of…

Trump to consider final proposal for TikTok as deadline loomsPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday will consider a final proposal for TikTok, as the April 5 deadline approaches, Fox News has learned. A meeting in the Oval Office will involve Vice President JD Vance, commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, national security advisor Mike Waltz, and director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.The administration is reportedly finalizing plans for potential investors that could include Blackstone and Oracle, as well as a long list of other investors that will likely involve blue-chip private equity firms, venture capital firms, and major investors in the technology industry, as first reported by CBS News.SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS LOOMING TIKTOK BANShortly after taking office, Trump signed an executive order giving ByteDance an April 5 deadline to divest TikTok to an American buyer, or shut down the platform.The president assured reporters there would be a deal by Saturday, noting there is a…

Trump Officials Are Keeping Ties to His Social Media CompanyFor Donald Trump, TruthSocial, his unsuccessful and money-losing Twitter competitor, has mainly been a place to retreat to when banned from the former, and a megaphone to trumpet his many opinions on his enemies, golf, and the music of Paul Anka. But the company that owns TruthSocial, Trump Media & Technology Group, has also been a way for the president to draw his political allies closer, through payments, board seats, and generous stock rewards. While the publicly-traded TMTG is unlikely to ever become a real success outside the Trump universe, it provides a window into his transactional second presidency and its unprecedented mingling of his corporate and political fiefdoms. “The road to influence in the United States runs through Trump Media.” Three people who have held shares or served on the board of TMTG have been appointed to high-profile positions in…

Why Trump Won’t ‘Produce a Scalp’ After the Signal DebacleIn the telling of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, he was only executing his duties when he shared plans about a forthcoming attack on Yemen in an unclassified group chat on the Signal messaging app. “My job,” he told reporters during a swing through Hawaii, “is to provide updates in real time.”The implication: Nothing to see here.The reaction inside the Pentagon to Hegseth’s communications—disclosed this week by The Atlantic after the editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was inadvertently added to the chat—told a different story, as security specialists raced to reiterate rules about the proper channels for classified information.“Incidents like this make my job significantly harder,” a Department of Defense operations security, or OPSEC, official told us this week, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity. “When senior leadership disregards OPSEC and security protocols without consequences, it undermines…