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Pete Hegseth’s Carelessness and Dishonesty Mirror Hillary Clinton’s
In downplaying the gravity of revealing details about an imminent U.S. military operation to participants in a Signal group chat that included an accidentally invited journalist, President Donald Trump and his underlings have insisted the information was not classified. “You all know that’s a lie,” Rep. Joaquin Castro (D–Texas) told CIA Director John Ratcliffe and […]
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GameStop Stocks Fall After Announcing Convertible Bond Sale to Buy Bitcoin
GameStop, the video game retailer that became a meme stock sensation, is making waves again. This time, it’s all about Bitcoin. The company plans to raise $1.3 billion by issuing convertible bonds. The funds will be used to buy Bitcoin, a move that’s drawing both excitement and skepticism. Here’s a closer look at what this […]
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TokenFi Removes TOKEN Buy/Sell Tax After Unanimous DAO Vote
Miami, Florida, March 27th, 2025, Chainwire TokenFi has officially eliminated the 0.3% buy/sell tax on its native token, TOKEN, following a unanimous vote from the Floki DAO. “The Floki DAO proposal to remove the 0.3% buy/sell tax on $TOKEN received 100% support from the community,” the project team announced. “In line with the decision of […]
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Federal Judge Tosses Defamation Lawsuit Against NewsGuard
This week, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought against the U.S. government and an internet watchdog organization. NewsGuard was founded by Gordon Crovitz, a former editor of The Wall Street Journal, and Steven Brill, an attorney who started Court TV; they serve as co-CEOs. The company employs journalists to assess and rate the reliability […]
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North Carolina Is the Latest State To Try To Restrict Lab-Grown Meat
A handful of states around the nation have moved to ban or restrict the sale of lab-grown meat. Now a new measure in North Carolina aims to place onerous labeling requirements on cultivated meat products. House Bill 134 requires products containing lab-grown meat to “clearly disclose to a reasonable purchaser of meat food products that […]
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Phil Magness: The Problem With Trumponomics
What would a Mar-a-Lago accord look like? Just asking questions. Phil Magness is an economic historian with the Independent Institute who has deeply studied the history of tariffs and trade. We invited him on the show to talk about the “global economic reordering” described by Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the president’s escalating tariffs, the […]
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No, the U.S. Industrial Base Is Not Collapsing
If you believe the political rhetoric, you probably think America’s industrial base has been hollowed out, gutted, or “shipped overseas.” Across the ideological spectrum, people say U.S. manufacturing is in decline. They argue mostly about who’s to blame and how many tariffs we need to fix the problem. This widely told tale is wrong. For […]
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Pete Hegseth Says the Signal Chat Had ‘No Classified Information.’ How Is That Possible?
After it came to light this week that National Security Adviser Mike Waltz had added Jeffery Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, to a Signal group chat where members of President Donald Trump’s administration discussed upcoming air strikes on the Houthis, government officials issued a series of odd deflections. One of the strangest: […]
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Kristi Noem Uses El Salvador’s Nightmarish Megaprison To Create Content
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited one of the Western Hemisphere’s most brutal prisons yesterday for a typical reason: to create some social media content. Noem arrived yesterday at El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), a megaprison that human rights groups say is overcrowded and deadly, where no one ever leaves alive. Earlier […]
