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#10 Tesla Chair Denies Plans to Look for New CEO to Replace Musk - Abhirup Roy and Bipasha Dey for Reuters, Mario Nawfal/Elon Musk, Tesla, Call to Activism, Sawyer Merritt,
Tesla chair Robyn Denholm on Thursday denied a Wall Street Journal report that said board members had reached out to executive search firms to find a new replacement for CEO Elon Musk. The Journal had reported on Wednesday that Tesla's board members had reached out about a month ago to several executive search firms to find the company's new CEO, citing people familiar with the discussions. Denholm said on X that the report was "absolutely false" and said that the EV maker's board is "highly confident" in Musk's ability to "continue executing on the exciting growth plan ahead". Musk also said on X that the report was a "deliberately false article". Musk said last week he would cut back significantly on the time he devotes to the Trump administration and spend more time running Tesla...#9 Ukraine, US Sign Minerals Deal Sought by Trump - Reuters, Charlie Kirk, Amuse, Breanna Morello, drefanzor memes, and Fox News on X
Ukraine and the U.S. on Wednesday signed a deal heavily promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump that will give the United States preferential access to new Ukrainian minerals deals and fund investment in Ukraine's reconstruction.The two countries signed the accord in Washington after months of sometimes fraught negotiations, with uncertainty persisting until the last moment with word of an eleventh-hour snag.
#8 Rubio Reveals Obscure Biden Administration Office Kept ‘Disinformation’ Dossier on Trump Official - Emma Colton for Fox News, John R. Lott Jr., SaintJamesHartline, Rob Schneider, East Side Republican Club/Karl Mehta, and Spiral Bewilder on X
Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed during a Cabinet meeting that the Biden administration's State Department kept dossiers on Americans accused of serving as "vectors of disinformation," including a file on an unidentified Trump administration official. "We had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans," Rubio said during Wednesday's Cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump. "And, by the way, I'm not going to say who it is. I'll leave it up to them. There's at least one person at this table today who had a dossier in that building of social media posts to identify them as purveyors of disinformation. We have these dossiers. We are going to be turning those over to these individuals."
#7 A Bipartisan Measure to Undo Trump’s Global Tariffs Fails in the Senate - NBC News, John Cremeans, Eric Daugherty, The Calvin Coolidge Project, WSJ Politics, and Dr Russell McGregor on X
A bipartisan measure that sought to undo the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump imposed on most countries this month failed in the GOP-led Senate on Wednesday. The vote ended in a tie, 49-49, with three Republicans — Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — joining all Democrats present in support of the resolution, which was designed to terminate the national emergency Trump declared to implement his global tariffs. Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-KY, and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI, who voiced support for the measure, were absent for the vote. It needed a simple majority to pass...
#6 Harris Accuses Trump of Abandoning American Ideals in First Major Speech Since Leaving Office - David Wright and Eric Bradner for CNN, Steve Hilton, Bad Hombre, Michaela, Ben Garrison Cartoons, Shadow of Ezra, and New York Post on X
Former Vice President Kamala Harris rebuked President Donald Trump in her first major speech since leaving office, accusing her former rival of setting off the “greatest man-made economic crisis” in modern history through his across-the-board tariffs, and warning that his conflicts with the courts were moving the nation toward a constitutional crisis. Harris spoke Wednesday evening at the Emerge Gala in San Francisco, benefitting an organization that supports women interested in entering politics. The 2024 Democratic presidential nominee marked the first 100 days of the second Trump administration during her address, saying that “instead of an administration working to advance America’s highest ideals, we are witnessing the wholesale abandonment of those ideals.”
#5 Republicans Hit Early Snags as They Start Crafting a Massive Bill for Trump’s Agenda - Scott Wong and Melanie Zanona for NBC News, Peter B. Wylie, Chad Pergram, BDCal, MJTruthUltra, and EWTN News Nightly on X
Republicans are already hitting some snags as they begin the work of crafting a bill for President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy agenda. And they haven’t even made some of their hardest decisions yet. Fresh off a two-week recess, House committees have begun marking up their respective pieces of the package, which aims to extend Trump's 2017 tax cuts, boost funding for immigration enforcement and the military, and increase the debt ceiling. In their hunt for steep savings to pay for it all, Republicans are starting with some of the lowest-hanging fruit when it comes to spending cuts. But that process has already sparked some skirmishes among Republican lawmakers, offering a preview of the bigger intraparty fights, such as whether to slash funding for anti-poverty programs like Medicaid, that are still to come...
#4 DOGE, Treasury Discover $334M in Improper Payment Requests Due to Foul Codes - WFIN, Doge Tracker/Dept of Government Efficiency (community note), Amuse, Medeea Greere, News, and INFOWARS on X
The U.S. Treasury Department and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) discovered that hundreds of millions of dollars in improper payment requests were identified after going live with its first automated payment system last week. In fact, the system found $334 million in improper payment requests that were flagged because of missing budget codes, invalid budget codes, and budget codes without authorization. DOGE, which billionaire Elon Musk leads, announced the discovery in a post on X. In the post, DOGE said an example of an invalid budget code was if the payment was not linked to the budget. It also provided an example of a budget code without authorization, saying the budget had already been fully spent...
#3 RFK Jr. Accuses Biden-Era HHS of Role in Child Trafficking, Says Trump Team Now Locating 300,000 Missing Minors - Shore News Network, Real America's Voice, J.J. Carrell, The Blaze/Libs of TikTok, MJTruthUltra, and Caryn Foxx/Alex Jones on X
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday accused the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) of acting as a “collaborator” in child trafficking under the Biden administration, calling it the “principal vector” for exploitation of unaccompanied migrant children. In a public statement, Kennedy alleged that HHS—through its Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which handles unaccompanied minors at the border—enabled trafficking “for sex and for slavery” during President Biden’s term. He added that the current administration under former President Donald Trump, including Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary Kennedy himself, has launched efforts to reverse the damage...
#2 Florida Passes Fluoride in Water Ban; Bill Heads to Gov. Ron DeSantis to Sign - Jim Turner for Tallahassee Democrat, Eric Daugherty, Justin Robert, Florida's Voice (community note), Mayor Daniella Cava, Berkey Water Filters, and WayneTech SPFX on X
On Tuesday, the Florida House gave final approval to a bill that would prevent local governments from adding fluoride to water supplies and take aim at labeling plant-based products such as milk, meat, and eggs. The Republican-controlled House voted 88-27 to pass the bill (SB 700), which also includes a series of other issues related to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The Senate passed the bill on April 16, which means it is now ready to go to Gov. Ron DeSantis. The bill came amid debates in cities and counties across the state about ending the decades-old practice of adding fluoride to public water supplies to improve dental health. Rep. Danny Alvarez, a Hillsborough County Republican who helped sponsor the bill in the House, said government agencies should not decide whether to put drugs and chemicals in people’s bodies...
#1 This Judge Just Slapped a Major Court Order on Border Patrol - Jeff Charles for Townhall, Stephen Miller/Eric Daugherty, Libs of TikTok, End Wokeness, Daily Caller, and Futurist on X
A federal judge in California on Monday issued an order prohibiting Border Patrol from arresting illegal immigrants without a warrant or a reason to believe a suspect might flee before officers can obtain a warrant. NBC Los Angeles reported that agents cannot detain individuals unless they have reasonable suspicion. They also cannot deport them using “voluntary departure” without informing them of their rights before they agree to leave. Judge Thurston argued on Monday that agents “can’t walk up to people with brown skin and say, ‘Give me your papers.’”
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