Leaked Proposal Shows Trump Administration Planning to Kill Crucial Protections for Threatened Animals
The wolverine is a species currently proposed for listing as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. CREATISTA/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Trump’s Department of the Interior is seeking to “revise” key, 40-year-old regulations which currently protect more than 300 threatened plant and animal species listed under the 1973 Endangered…
Key Senate Republicans Are Finally Admitting Trump Might Fire Mueller
Mark Murrmann/Zumapress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he plans to schedule a vote on legislation to protect special counsel Robert Mueller from being fired by President Trump. The legislation, titled the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act, was…
Check Out This Epic Safeway Rant
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Erick Erickson caught up with a friend in Congress recently while he was visiting Washington DC. This guy supports Donald Trump in public, but in private he’s—oh, what’s the right word? Disillusioned? Despondent? Boiling over with rage? Anyway, he told Erickson he needed to vent…
Bitcoin Has Dropped 64% In the Past Four Months
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No, Mark Zuckerberg Will Not Change Facebook’s Privacy Defaults
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. So far, Mark Zuckerberg has skated through his congressional testimony without so much as a bruised pinkie. Yesterday produced a grand total of one good round of questions from Sen. Lindsey Graham about whether Facebook is a monopoly, and today…
Mark Zuckerberg Does Not Like Personal Privacy
Stephen Lam/Reuters via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As Mark Zuckerberg wriggles his way past a Senate committee that’s pretty clearly overmatched in the IQ department, it’s important to remember why Facebook has such big privacy problems. It’s because Mark Zuckerberg wants it that way. Here he is in…