February 11, 2025

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Spicer attacks Nordstrom for discontinuing Ivanka Trump merchandise, calls decision ‘unacceptable’

Aaron Rupar05 mins

Nordstrom says the decision was made because Ivanka-branded products aren’t selling. During his Wednesday press conference, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer characterized Nordstrom’s decision to discontinue sales of Ivanka Trump-branded products as “an attack” that is “not acceptable.” Nordstrom says the decision was strictly business, but Spicer made clear he interprets the move as unfairly targeting…

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Steve Bannon’s Fever Dream of an American Gulag

Jeff Stein017 mins

UPDATED | Imagine: Miles upon miles of new concrete jails stretching across the scrub-brush horizons of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California, with millions of people incarcerated in orange jumpsuits and awaiting deportation. Such is the fevered vision of a little-noticed segment of President Donald Trump’s sulfurous executive order on border security and immigration enforcement…

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Dozens of high-profile Bay Area companies including Twitter, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Airbnb file legal brief opposing Trump’s travel ban – San Francisco Business Times

Luke Stangel04 mins

Nearly 100 companies, mostly based in the Bay Area, filed a legal brief challenging President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban on Sunday, arguing that it hurts business and violates the Constitution. “The tremendous impact of immigrants on America — and on American business — is not happenstance,” the companies wrote in the brief, filed in the U.S….

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The Senate Voted To Stop Elizabeth Warren From Speaking During A Debate Over Jeff Sessions’ Nomination – BuzzFeed News

Tarini Parti05 mins

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell voted Tuesday evening to keep liberal firebrand Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren from continuing to speak out against fellow Sen. Jeff Sessions’ nomination to be attorney general. The vote, 49–43, came after McConnell interrupted Warren as she read a letter that Coretta Scott King, the widow…

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Army Corps Of Engineers Tells Court It Plans To Grant Easement For Dakota Access Pipeline – BuzzFeed News

Salvador Hernandez08 mins

The US Army Corps of Engineers told a federal court on Tuesday that it intends to grant an easement for the Dakota Access pipeline, clearing the way for a controversial project that was slowed down with court challenges and protests. The notice comes just days after President Trump signed an executive order to continue construction…

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House panel votes to close Election Assistance Commission

Deborah Barfield Berry09 mins

Voters line up to cast their ballots at Robious Elementary School in Richmond, Va. on Nov. 8, 2016.(Photo: Shelpy Lum, AP) cxenseparse_start WASHINGTON — While President Trump is promising to launch an investigation into his belief that millions of illegal ballots were cast in 2016, the Republican-led House Administration Committee voted Tuesday to shut down the federal agency…

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Warren violates arcane rule, sparking Senate dustup

AP03 mins

Warren violates arcane rule, sparking Senate dustup WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren has earned a rare rebuke by the Senate for quoting Coretta Scott King on the Senate floor. The Massachusetts Democrat ran afoul of the chamber’s arcane rules by reading a three-decade-old letter from Dr. Martin Luther King’s widow that dated to Sen….

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