Posts by Kim Browne
Trump Says Putin Will Retaliate Soon After Call on Ukraine Attacks
The bill passed the House by a vote of 215–214, with two Republicans joining all Democrats in voting against it. Republicans plan to offset the expensive tax cut by slashing more than $800 billion from Medicaid. But Musk’s issue with Trump’s plan has little to do with slashing programs aimed at supporting and uplifting the…
Read MoreEducation Secretary Refuses to Answer One Simple Question on Holocaust
Education Secretary Linda McMahon wants the modern American canon to include alternative histories of some of the world’s most egregious tragedies. Speaking before the House Education and Workforce Committee Wednesday amid the White House’s efforts to dismantle her agency, McMahon claimed that the Trump administration’s treatment of Harvard University—which includes orders for the university to…
Read MoreTrump’s Tariffs Guy Admits There’s Zero Logic in Their Trade Talks
The Navy documents also list other ships that are being considered for renaming. They include USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta, USNS Lucy Stone, USNS Cesar Chavez, and USNS Medgar Evars. All of the eponymous figures are prominent people of color, women, and/or civil rights leaders from American…
Read MoreTrump’s FEMA Overhaul Is Creating Chaos Right Before Hurricane Season
The Navy documents also list other ships that are being considered for renaming. They include USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta, USNS Lucy Stone, USNS Cesar Chavez, and USNS Medgar Evars. All of the eponymous figures are prominent people of color, women, and/or civil rights leaders from American…
Read MoreSTMicro to cut 5,000 jobs in next 3 years, says CEO
[AMSTERDAM] STMicroelectronics expects 5,000 staff to leave the company in the next three years, including 2,800 job cuts announced earlier this year, its chief executive said on Wednesday (Jun 4). Around 2,000 employees will leave the Franco-Italian chipmaker due to attrition, bringing the total count with voluntary departures to 5,000, Jean-Marc Chery said at an…
Read MoreCBO Adds Fuel to Republican Budget Fight With Damning Deficit Forecast
The Congressional Budget Office’s most recent score of President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act is the worst one to date. The agency estimates the legislation would add $2.4 trillion to the national deficit over the next 10 years. Most of that deficit would happen “in the first four years when it has the most…
Read MoreDemocrat Sweeps to Stunning Victory in South Carolina Special Election
The Democratic candidate in a South Carolina special election swept to a landslide victory Tuesday night, becoming the youngest person elected to the state legislature in nearly a decade. Keishan Scott, 24, was elected to the state House to represent South Carolina’s 50th district, which encompasses Lee County and parts of Kershaw and Sumter counties.…
Read MoreRepublicans Rush to Suck Up to Elon Musk After New Budget Bill Threat
Congressional Republicans are stuck between a rock and a hard place as their former financier, Elon Musk, threatens to use his gargantuan fortune to unseat anyone who supports the president’s “big, beautiful bill.” Last month, Musk confessed in an interview with CBS that he believed Donald Trump’s spending package—which would add trillions to the national…
Read MoreTrump Officials Blocked Key Portion of Report Exposing Rising Deficit
Trump officials blocked the written analysis on an economic report because it predicted an increase in the farm goods trade deficit, a direct contradiction of his stated plans to reinvigorate domestic agriculture. According to Politico, the Trump administration delayed the report itself by five days before releasing it with numbers that were the same as…
Read MoreTrump Whines About How Hard It Is to Make a Trade Deal With China
The Navy documents also list other ships that are being considered for renaming. They include USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta, USNS Lucy Stone, USNS Cesar Chavez, and USNS Medgar Evars. All of the eponymous figures are prominent people of color, women, and/or civil rights leaders from American…
Read MoreTrump Eerily Silent as Musk Torches Budget Bill in Series of New Posts
The Navy documents also list other ships that are being considered for renaming. They include USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta, USNS Lucy Stone, USNS Cesar Chavez, and USNS Medgar Evars. All of the eponymous figures are prominent people of color, women, and/or civil rights leaders from American…
Read MoreOCBC partners Ant International to offer embedded finance to Indonesia SMEs
[SINGAPORE] OCBC has partnered digital payment, digitisation and financial technology provider Ant International to provide embedded financial services to small and medium-sized (SMEs) enterprises in Indonesia. The collaboration is set to benefit thousands of SMEs in Indonesia over the next few years, said OCBC and the Jack Ma-backed Ant Group spin-off in a statement on…
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