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Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s Online Reactionary at DOJ

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s Online Reactionary at DOJ

Paul Ingrassia, an online reactionary, is in place at the DOJ. Pete Kiehart / The Washington Post / Getty February 8, 2025, 6 AM ET Paul Ingrassia is just your average right-wing edgelord with a law degree and a high-level position at the Justice Department. In the past several years, on X, he has likened Andrew Tate, the misogynist influencer, to the “ancient ideal of excellence”; he has written a Substack post titled “Free Nick Fuentes” in support of reinstating the white nationalist’s X account (when it was still banned); and he has called Nikki Haley, Donald Trump’s former United Nations ambassador who ran against Trump in the Republican primary, an “insufferable bitch” who might be an “anchor baby” too. On Inauguration Day, Ingrassia was sworn in as the new White House liaison for the DOJ. In his new job, Ingrassia—who did not respond to a request for comment—is responsible for managing other White House appointments within the DOJ, and for identifying and recommending people to potentially be hired or promoted within the agency, according …

Four examples of Trump’s neverending support for Israel | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Four examples of Trump’s neverending support for Israel | Israel-Palestine conflict News

The return of US President Donald Trump has been hailed by parts of the Israeli public who see his second term as a return of uncritical support of Israel. Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, supported Israel in its war on Gaza, as well as its invasion of Lebanon, but his administration’s occasional misgivings about Israel’s genocide in Gaza, which is now thought to have killed close to 62,000 people, made parts of the Israeli public unhappy. Trump’s involvement in a ceasefire that led to the release of some Israeli captives from Gaza and his enthusiastic suggestions of ethnically cleansing Gaza have raised Israeli hopes that his second term will be as pro-Israeli as his first. Here’s how he has helped prop Israel up. Diplomacy Trump’s diplomatic moves and appointments reflect his unwavering support for Israel. He wants the US ambassador to Israel to be Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who opposes the two-state solution that would give Palestine a state and has even questioned whether “such a thing as a Palestinian exists”. Trump’s previous ambassador to Israel …

Trump’s Tariffs Poised to Wreck Nuclear Power

Trump’s Tariffs Poised to Wreck Nuclear Power

This really is the dumbest trade war ever. Enemy Mine If Donald Trump makes good on his campaign promise to impose tariffs on Canadian energy imports — now pushed back a month, but still a looming threat — it stands to devastate the nuclear energy market. As Reuters reports, the Canadian mining companies that supplied more than a quarter of the United States’ uranium needs in 2023 — which fuels our nuclear energy plants and, to a lesser extent, our scientific research and industrial manufacturing — are already feeling the brunt of Trump’s tariff threats. Though the president included a “carve-out” for Canadian oil, uranium, coal, electricity, and natural gas, those important exports would still be taxed an additional 10 percent. Look no further than the markets; stocks for Cameco, one of Canada’s largest uranium miners, slumped even further today after plunging 13 percent in the wake of DeepSeek’s insistence that the mineral won’t be that necessary for powering its AI centers. While larger miners like Cameco would likely be able to weather this storm, experts are …

The Price America Will Pay for Trump’s Tariffs

The Price America Will Pay for Trump’s Tariffs

To understand the harm Donald Trump has done with his tariffs on Canada and Mexico, here are four things you need to know: First, every tax on imports is also a tax on exports. The most popular beer in America is Modelo Especial, brewed in Mexico. Impose a 25 percent tariff on Modelo and sales will slide. So, too, will exports of the American barley that goes into Mexican beer. Mexico buys three-quarters of U.S. barley exports, almost all for brewing. Trump surrogates may promise you that by driving Mexican beer off of grocery shelves, Trump’s tariffs will increase sales of U.S. barley to U.S. brewers. That promise may even be substantially true. But that offer has fine print that barley growers will notice. Barley growers don’t care only about how much barley they sell. They care about the price at which they sell it. A tariff raises the price of both every imported good and every good that competes with imports. If the price of Modelo is pushed up, the price of American-brewed beer …

Trump’s First Test in Office

Trump’s First Test in Office

Panelists joined to discuss the worst aviation disaster in almost a quarter century. Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic February 1, 2025, 9:40 AM ET Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings, watch full episodes here, or listen to the weekly podcast here. The worst aviation disaster in almost a quarter century is one of the first tests of Donald Trump’s second administration. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss how the president responded to the crisis. Following the aviation crash over the Potomac this week, Trump moved to blame diversity in the Federal Aviation Administration’s hiring process for the crash. These comments are a continuation of Trump’s behavior throughout his first term and both of his campaigns—but how his response will affect him politically remains to be seen, Mark Leibovich said last night. Trump is working in “a consequence-free environment,” Leibovich continued. “Ultimately, Donald Trump will do what he …

Escobar: Dancing To Trump’s Disco Inferno

Escobar: Dancing To Trump’s Disco Inferno

Authored by Pepe Escobar, In the late 1970s Donald Trump, in his early thirties, cocky as ever and recently married to Ivana in 1977, could be seen on and off hitting the electric New York City night life especially at glamour/hard partying disco dive Studio 54. A certified dancefloor killer at Studio 54 was Disco Inferno by The Trammps, mixed by dance wizard Tom Moulton, released in 1976, two years before perennial Trump favorite YMCA – now resuscitated to global furor as the soundtrack to Trump 2.0 dance moves. For all practical purposes, Trump is now the DJ turning the whole planet into a Disco Inferno (“folks are screaming, out of control”), as everything is “so entertaining when the boogie started to explode”. And the Trump “boogie” serially exploding is no less than the non-stop amplified sound of theater, bombast and uncontrolled chaos. The spectacle of Trump’s sound and fury – a torrent of executive orders, photo ops, carefully scripted illusionist tricks, breathless headlines – signifying…something veils the same old imperial mindset, now blasting out in the open …

Thousands of datasets from Data.gov have disappeared since Trump’s inauguration. What’s going on?

Thousands of datasets from Data.gov have disappeared since Trump’s inauguration. What’s going on?

Since President Trump was sworn into office, almost three thousand datasets have disappeared from Data.gov, the U.S. government’s repository of open data. According to 404 Media, online archivist communities discovered since Trump took office on Jan. 21, the number of datasets on Data.gov has decreased to 305,564 from 307,854 datasets. Screenshots of Data.gov’s homepage archived in the Wayback Machine show the number of datasets one day before (Jan. 20) and nine days after (Jan. 30) the Trump administration began. The outlet spoke with digital archivists who are working to identify what was deleted and why. But the answer is more complex than straight up propagandist data scrubbing. “While some of the deletions are surely malicious information scrubbing, some are likely routine artifacts of an administration change, and they are working to determine which is which,” said the investigation. Mashable Light Speed SEE ALSO: Office of Gun Violence Prevention website goes dark under Trump The reason for why datasets have disappeared could be link rot, i.e. links that no longer work because the URL has been …

Your guide to Trump’s Europe envoys – POLITICO

Your guide to Trump’s Europe envoys – POLITICO

Diplomatic credentials? Optional. Deep pockets and loyalty to Trump? Essential. As Donald Trump rolls out his picks for U.S. ambassador posts in Europe — think fast-food executives, Broadway producers, billionaire donors and family insiders — one thing is clear: this isn’t traditional statecraft. Take Andrew Puzder, the former fast-food CEO and future U.S. ambassador to the EU (pending Senate confirmation). Like many of Trump’s nominees, he has no diplomatic experience but only strong political and business ties. Of course, Trump isn’t the first president to favor political appointees over career diplomats — Democrats do it too. But is this just business as usual, or does Trump’s selection signal a deeper shift in U.S. foreign policy? Host Sarah Wheaton is joined by Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO; Suzanne Lynch, author of POLITICO’s Global Playbook; and POLITICO’s labor reporter based in Washington, D.C., Nick Niedzwiadek, to break it all down. Will economic interests take precedence over diplomacy? Will these new ambassadors help maintain transatlantic ties — or, as Daalder puts it, will they be forces …

What Trump’s nominees revealed – The Atlantic

What Trump’s nominees revealed – The Atlantic

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Americans keeping close track of political news may have been toggling their screens today between Senate confirmation hearings: the second day of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s for secretary of Health and Human Services, and the first for Tulsi Gabbard’s for director of national intelligence and Kash Patel’s for FBI director. But each of those three hearings deserves the public’s full attention: Donald Trump’s nominees offered new glimpses into their approaches to policy, truth, and loyalty to the president. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Day Two Ahead of Kennedy’s first day of hearings, our colleague Nicholas Florko noted that the HHS nominee is no stranger to conspiracist statements: “RFK Jr. has insinuated that an attempt to assassinate members of Congress via anthrax-laced mail in 2001 may have been a ‘false flag’ attack orchestrated by ‘someone in our government’ to gin up …