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🚨JASON CALACANIS: "How USAID got to the top of the DOGE list is that Trump decided to pause Foreign Aid for 90 days -- reasonable enough. A couple days later the White House said this USAID leadership was trying to circumvent this Executive Order. That alerted the DOGE team and Elon confirmed this on X. He said all DOGE did was check to see which... See more
Autism Capital đź§©x.comIn the end, Lee was never charged with spying, and he sued the federal government for unlawfully leaking his name to news organizations. Ultimately the government and several news organizations paid Lee a settlement:
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Timeline of Events
2011-2012:
The Obama administration targets the online poker industry, pressuring banks to cut off their services to poker companies.
2013:
- Operation Choke Point 1.0 begins. The Department of Justice (DOJ), in coordination with the Federal... See more
Apple Lampsx.comWow @jaketapper asks billionaire Reid Hoffman about his big $$ donations to Kamala Harris and then his public request to fire Lina Khan, the antitrust enforcer investigating his companies. Doesn’t go well for Hoffman. https://t.co/X9xPys3iIg
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USAID has been completely unaccountable for decades, run by bureaucrats with agendas who believed they answered to nobody.
Here are a few more of the ridiculous projects on which they spent YOUR money:
— $7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid “binary-gendered... See more
Democracy, Journalism, and Monopoly: How to Fund Independent News Media in the 21st Century
Analyzes America's media crisis caused by digital monopolies, detailing historic government regulation supporting free speech and advertising-funded journalism, and proposes updated competition policies to restore independent, democratic news markets.
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