Posts by Kim Browne
Hyundai says battery plant delayed after immigration raid
Efforts to repatriate workers are moving forward and the chartered plane bringing them back is expected to depart the US on Thursday and arrive in Korea on Friday [DETROIT] Construction on a Hyundai Motor-LG battery plant in Georgia that was raided by US immigration authorities is being delayed as the companies face labour shortages. The…
Read MoreAOC Shreds Republicans for Trying to Spin Kirk’s Death
The president also announced disaster aid to Kansas, Wisconsin, and South Dakota. In each post, he was sure to note that the funds were going to states in which he’s had electoral successes in the past. In North Carolina, for example, he wrote, “I WON BIG all six times” (six, that is, because he included…
Read MoreMAGA Is Already Blaming Trans People for Charlie Kirk’s Death
The president also announced disaster aid to Kansas, Wisconsin, and South Dakota. In each post, he was sure to note that the funds were going to states in which he’s had electoral successes in the past. In North Carolina, for example, he wrote, “I WON BIG all six times” (six, that is, because he included…
Read MoreThe U.S. Government Is Spending Way More Than It’s Making
The federal government ran a $345 billion deficit for the month of August, according to a monthly report from the U.S. Treasury Thursday. The figure exceeded expectations, as economists had forecast a shortfall of about $300 billion, according to CNBC. In reality, the government spent $689 billion while taking in $344 billion, including $30 billion…
Read MoreSouth Korea Warns U.S. As Fallout From Massive Hyundai Raid Continues
But Lutnick’s perpetual growth promises have historically not panned out. Americans still weren’t feeling the boon of Trump’s plan by August, when the unemployment rate was 4.3 percent, up by more than 3 percent from the previous year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Applications for unemployment benefits jumped to 263,000 last week alone,…
Read MoreOracle retreats after record run towards US$1 trillion club on AI cloud boom
[NEW YORK] Oracle shares retreated on Thursday (Sep 11) after a record AI-driven surge in the previous session that brought the company closer to the trillion-dollar mark and put co-founder Larry Ellison within striking distance of the world’s richest person title. The enterprise software maker’s remarkable rise, fuelled by a wave of multi-billion-dollar cloud deals,…
Read MoreTranscript: Nancy Mace Explodes in Fury after Dem’s Takedown Hits Home
Sargent: Well, I want to get at the cruelty dimension of this, because I think it’s really important. I want to point out that unless you had prompted that reaction from Mace, her long diatribe on the floor would have passed entirely unnoticed, at least outside of right-wing precincts, right? Mainstream media barely registers it…
Read MoreNancy Mace Erupts in Fury on House Floor after Dem’s Speech Hits Home
GOP Congresswoman Nancy Mace lost her temper on the House floor on Wednesday. It all started when Mace unleashed a long, vile tirade about transgender Americans. After that, Congresswoman Sara Jacobs, a Democrat, offered some cutting criticism of the absurdity of GOP anti-trans rhetoric. That prompted Mace to fly into a fury and start shouting.…
Read MoreTranscript: Why Democratic Leadership Is Clueless About Politics
Litman: They’re going to have to go through a full rebranding exercise the way the Democrats had to do after Obama and we saw how that works. It doesn’t go that well when you don’t have the unifying figure who can bring together unique parts of the coalition you need. Bacon: I see. Litman: I’m…
Read MoreGucci owner Kering gets more time to buy the rest of Valentino
[PARIS] Kering is getting more time to exercise an option to buy the rest of the fashion house Valentino, as the French group focuses on reducing its debt levels. Kering will now have until 2029 to purchase the 70 per cent stake in Valentino owned by Qatar’s Mayhoola, a year later than initially agreed, according…
Read More“Ridiculous!”: Nancy Mace Completely Flips Out in Congress
On Wednesday, a Democratic representative brought up multiple ways in which her congressional colleagues received the “gender-affirming care” they wanted to ban. It made MAGA Representative Nancy Mace so upset she started screaming. Democrats and Republicans were arguing in Congress about amendments to the annual defense bill. Mace had added multiple anti-transgender amendments, including one…
Read MoreThe Far Right Is Already Blaming the Left For Charlie Kirk’s Shooting
Some notable House Republicans have already joined hands with dozens of their Democratic counterparts in a bipartisan effort to make the Epstein case files publicly available. Introduced by Republican Representative Thomas Massie, who has a habit of actually standing up to Trump, the bill aims to “make publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format…
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