Grifters Grifting

US pulls out of formal peace talks between Ukraine and Russia

Trump is cozy with putin. Vance is shooting his mouth off. Ukraine could no have gotten luckier with this turn of events…

The US government said it will no longer ‘fly around the world at the drop of a hat’ for meetings.

Trump’s show of support for Conor McGregor is making fertile ground for Ireland’s far right

Rapist racist endorses to racist rapist.

The fighter won’t be Irish president any time soon, but the Trumpocracy seems to think it can shift the country’s politics by endorsing him.

‘Despicable’: Trump Official Threatens Total Social Security Shutdown Over DOGE Ruling

“Rather than comply with a lawful court order, he wants to see millions of families, retirees, and disabled individuals go hungry, suffer, and potentially lose their homes all to curry favor with anti-worker billionaires.”

Defenders of the Social Security Administration on Friday blasted acting Commissioner Leland Dudek’s threat to shut down the agency in response to a federal judge cutting off the Department of Government Efficiency’s access to SSA data.

U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander wrote Thursday that “the DOGE team is essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA.” She issued a temporary restraining order targeting affiliates of the government-gutting entity created by Republican President Donald Trump and led by Big Tech CEO Elon Musk, the richest person on the planet.

Team finding kidnapped Ukrainian children scrapped by Doge

Funds to help find kidnapped children? Nah, cut it!

A taskforce which helped find hundreds of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia has been scrapped by Elon Musk’s Doge.

The Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL), which was based at Yale University is the latest organisation to fall victim to the tech billionaire’s evisceration of the federal budget.

It is estimated that more than 20,000 Ukrainian children have been kidnapped by the Russians since the 2022 invasion.

“Researchers at the Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) were notified recently that government funding for their work on the war in Ukraine has been discontinued,” a Yale spokesman said.

‘Ongoing destruction of evidence’: Trump admin shredding and burning ‘classified’ USAID docs with info that’s ‘essential’ for rehiring unlawfully fired workers, unions say

I am surprised they hadn’t been doing it all along…

The Trump administration is shredding and burning “classified” employee documents at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) with personnel info that would be “essential” to rehiring unlawfully fired federal workers, according to labor groups suing the president, should it be required as a result of their litigation.