Posts by Kim Browne
Hegseth Reshapes Hundreds of Immigration Courts in One Fell Swoop
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is replacing immigration judges with hundreds of military lawyers, following the Trump administration’s months-long purge of immigration courts. Hegseth approved more than 600 military lawyers from the Department of Defense to serve as temporary immigration judges, nearly doubling the ranks of jurists overseeing the president’s massive deportation efforts, the Associated Press…
Read MoreTrump Admin Vows to Defy Judge’s Ruling on Military Crackdown
Prior to his decision to leave, Shroyer said, “Alex had been coming into my show [War Room], and talking about how I’m negative and calling me a pessimist, and all this other stuff, which is fine.” Shroyer said. “He says I’m too negative, he says I’m a pessimist, whatever, I’m too anti-Trump.” Shroyer decided to…
Read MoreTranscript: Trump Threat to Occupy Cities Gets Scarier in Vile Fox Hit
Foser: It’s a fundamentally dishonest charade here. One of the things that we’re seeing is that the very same people who two and three months ago were writing pieces saying Democrats shouldn’t fall into the trap by opposing Donald Trump on immigration, he’s super popular on immigration.… Well, what actually happened was Trump’s approval on…
Read MoreI Miss the “Adults in the Room” From Trump’s First Term
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the conspiracy theorist who now leads the Department of Health and Human Services, may have irreparably harmed the nation’s ability to develop new treatments, track diseases, and fight pandemics. Last week, he pushed out the head of the CDC after she moved to accept vaccine guidelines issued by a panel of…
Read MoreMetaOptics eyes S$6 million in gross proceeds from IPO, to trade on SGX Catalist on Sep 9
[SINGAPORE] Home-grown semiconductor optics startup MetaOptics intends to raise some S$6 million in gross proceeds from its initial public offering (IPO), as it issues 30 million placement shares at S$0.20 apiece. The company said on Monday (Sep 1) that trading of its shares is expected to begin on the Catalist board of the Singapore Exchange…
Read MoreA Labor Day Lesson Plan: Teach High-Schoolers About Workplace Rights
And a word for teachers, who might fret about adding one more topic to an already-packed curriculum: This content is perfectly suited for the end of the school year. Even antsy seniors will perk up when the subject is managers stealing their tips. To be sure, a proposal to teach students about employment laws may…
Read MoreHappy Labor Day. Donald Trump and Elon Musk Are Screwing Workers.
If our notional employer still feels wronged after the NLRB board rules against him, he or she can file an appeal in federal court. I half expected the Fifth Circuit judges to further complain that the president can’t fire federal judges (only Congress can remove them through impeachment), but they stopped short of condemning an…
Read MoreThe One Area Where Democrats Should Follow Trump’s Lead
Nowhere is the case for public ownership clearer than in the defense sector. Lutnick—like Trump, a broken clock—was right when he said that companies like Lockheed Martin already function as quasi-public entities, deriving nearly all their revenue from government contracts. They are, in effect, state enterprises run for private profit. The same logic applies, more…
Read MoreD2C Brands Must Master Meta and Google to Succeed
When new direct-to-consumer brands ask me about paid advertising strategies, I often see them searching for some secret channel or hidden opportunity that will magically drive their growth. The reality is much simpler—and perhaps less exciting. Despite all the hype around emerging platforms, the two most effective digital advertising channels remain the same as they’ve…
Read MoreJB Pritzker Just Set Himself Apart From All Other Democrats
Or … almost? As it turns out, Democrats are planning to take on the GOP—in a few weeks, anyway. “House Democrats are plotting to turn the August recess into the opening salvo of the midterms, including through town halls and organizing programs,” reports Politico, as the party is experiencing “renewed bravado after months in the…
Read MoreTrump Is Totally Ignoring the Working Class That Voted For Him
President Trump’s policies, particularly tariffs, are driving up the cost of school supplies and other goods that average Americans use regularly, according to Julie Margetta Morgan, president of the Century Foundation. And by rolling back populist policies adopted by Joe Biden and passing plutocratic economic legislation, Trump will do even more damage to the pocketbooks…
Read MoreTrump’s Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon
This week, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker offered an extraordinary viral response to President Trump’s vow to dispatch troops into Chicago. Critically, Pritzker cast Trump as a malignant, active threat to his Illinois constituents—he called them “my people”—and vowed to use every ounce of his power to protect them from harm by the President of the…
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