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July 5, 2025
Food truck companies face backlash for catering 'Alligator Alcatraz'
Friday 04 July 2025 16:21 EDT Several food truck companies have been hit with major backlash online after they were filmed entering Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center. The four companies issued statements after customers threatened to boycott them for doing catering business at the controversial prison in the Everglades. President Donald Trump toured the migrant detention facility earlier this week, which was built in just eight days on a disused air strip as he looks to ramp ...
Go to discussionNew York Times Responds After Zohran Mamdani Story Stirs Liberal Backlash
Published Jul 04, 2025 at 9:27 PM EDT | Updated Jul 04, 2025 at 11:46 PM EDT Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust at The New York Times, posted a lengthy thread on X, formerly Twitter, explaining the newspaper's controversial story on mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's 2009 application to Columbia University. On Thursday, the Times published a report citing hacked Columbia documents that revealed the New York Democratic mayoral nominee identified as "Black or ...
Go to discussionTexas Officials Blame Agency Gutted by Trump for Results of Deadly Storm
Experts warned for months about cuts to NWS and NOAA Ron Filipkowski Jul 05, 2025 As the best and the brightest were being fired at the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by senseless and draconian ‘DOGE’ cuts earlier this year under Trump, with no reason given except for the need to cut a paltry amount of the government’s budget, experts warned repeatedly that the cuts would have deadly consequences during the storm season. And they have. .. ...
Go to discussionNC governor vetoes anti-DEI, transgender rights bills
07/04/25 6:27 PM ET North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein (D) on Thursday vetoed three bills targeting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives within the state government, as well as a measure that takes aim at transgender rights. With the anti-DEI bills — Senate Bill 227, Senate Bill 558 and House Bill 171 — the GOP-led state legislature sought to eliminate what it called “discriminatory practices” in public education with threats to cut funding and to prevent local and state government ...
Go to discussion'Liens on their property': Dem reveals blue states' secret weapon against Trump
July 4, 2025 8:51PM ET President Donald Trump's administration withholding federal money Congress appropriated to blue states can present a unique opportunity for Democratic-controlled state governments, according to two Democratic state legislators from blue states. In a Friday segment on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House," Maryland House of Delegates Majority Leader David Moon (D) told host Alicia Menendez that two bills he's introduced would enable his state to begin withholding sta ...
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