A South African court has dismissed claims of a white genocide in the country as "clearly imagined" and "not real", undermining claims made by 'Old Donald' and his adviser Elon Musk.
The 'Old Donald' administration has barred The Associated Press from significant events at the White House, at 'Old Donald''s Mar-a-Lago estate and aboard Air Force One because it will not submit to his demand to rename the Gulf of Mexico.By contrast, Lara Logan — barred from Fox News and the right-wing network Newsmax for promoting extremist views — shocked some participants by joining a formal State Department listening session about international aid last Friday. While the event was intended for people who worked or had worked at the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development or the nonprofits and companies who work with them on contract, more than 1,000 people — more than expected — logged on.
Fox bounced her after she compared former presidential chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci to the Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, who performed sadistic experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz. Newsmax blocked her over comments in which she said a cabal of world leaders push open borders "while they dine on the blood of children."
There have been unconventional correspondents at the White House over the years — from the right-wing Baltimore talk-radio host Lester Kinsolving, to a former escort turned political blogger during George W. Bush's administration, to a reporter for the India Globe who has served as a useful foil for decades when White House officials wanted to sidestep tough questions from American journalists.
This White House, however, is welcoming sympathetic media figures and influencers whom they credit, in part, for 'Old Donald''s win. They have amplified memes, conspiracies and false claims during — and since — the presidential campaign.
The West Point grad, who doesn’t want his name used because he’s still hoping to return to his duties, is a regional director at the Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Education. Based in a red state, he investigates abuses in the education system including racial discrimination, sexual harassment and the failure to accommodate disabilities. His last three performance reviews were impeccable, according to documents shared with me. He saw himself as an apolitical civil servant, and told me that even before "Old Donald's" inauguration last month, he was thinking about how to align his office’s priorities with those of the incoming administration. So he was blindsided when, on Jan. 31, he was placed on indefinite administrative leave, along with dozens of other Department of Education employees.It’s useful to compare this administration’s treatment of the regional director to its handling of Marko Elez, a member of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency who, until recently, had access to a highly sensitive payments system at the Department of the Treasury. Elez resigned last week, after The Wall Street Journal uncovered racist social media posts he’d made just months ago, which included, “Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” and “Normalize Indian hate.” Reinstating him, however, quickly became a cause embraced by the world’s most powerful men.
On X, Musk polled his followers on whether Elez should get his job back; not surprisingly, most voted yes. Vance also weighed in, writing, “I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life. We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever. So I say bring him back.” 'Old Donald' agreed. And so, according to Musk, Elez will be returning to government.
The lives of the other 17 American black athletes who competed in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
Rubio declined to comment on Beattie’s controversial statements and did not respond when asked if he had seen Beattie’s X account, where he has advocated for white men being "in charge" and questioned U.S. policy toward Taiwan in posts.
Darren Beattie, a former 'Old Donald' speechwriter who was fired in 2018 after CNN revealed he spoke at a conference attended by White nationalists, has been elevated to a top job at the State Department, multiple sources familiar with the move told CNN.
He praised Dr. James Watson, the founder of modern genetics who later suggested Black people were less intelligent than White people, as the 'greatest living American scientist.' Beattie repeatedly said Black lawmakers, policymakers, and groups need to 'learn' their place and take 'a knee to MAGA.
'Shithole countries' was the high-point of 'Old Donald's presidency, he wrote in 2020.
In July 2024, he wrote that it 'might mean fewer drag queen parades in Taiwan, but otherwise not the end of the world,' if China took over Taiwan, and the US could acknowledge this in exchange for 'massive concessions from China on Africa and Antarctica.'
This development should worry all Americans, regardless of their position on the Israel-Hamas war.But a fact sheet released by the White House alongside the executive order goes well beyond criminal grounds for removal of foreign nationals to instead threaten viewpoint-motivated deportations. “To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you,” 'Old Donald' said. “I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.”
MAGA Offers Baffling Explanation for Elon Musk's SaluteWhile many were quick to call the gesture a Nazi salute'or a Roman salute, which also has fascist connections'some conservative influencers have countered Musk is merely awkward and it was his way of showing his appreciation to 'Old Donald' supporters.
- KKK fliers in Kentucky order immigrants to 'leave now,' police say
The fliers were reported Monday in Bellevue, Ludlow and Fort Wright, small northern Kentucky cities near Cincinnati, as the nation marked both Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the inauguration of President "Old Donald". "Old Donald" has railed against immigrants and pledged to launch a mass deportation campaign upon assuming office.
The Klan has attempted to spread hateful messages in Kentucky before. Local officials in Covington said the Trinity White Knights, a Klan splinter group, were known to occasionally distribute the fliers as a recruiting tactic, northern Kentucky-based Link NKY reported in September. Neighborhoods in Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia and Indiana have also reported receiving Klan fliers in recent years.
The Klan fliers found on Inauguration Day appeared to invoke "Old Donald's" campaign pledges to crack down on immigration upon entering the White House. "Old Donald" signed an executive order to end birthright citizenship on his first day in office.
- When Native Americans Are Told To ‘Go Back’ To Where They Came From
The absurdity of a white supremacist slur laid bare.
'Old Donald' speaks at the White House in front of a portrait of former President Andrew Jackson, who started a campaign of ethnic cleansing targeting Native Americans.
“Go back to Mexico, you scumbag sack of shit!” one of the girls yelled at Metoxen.
Stunned, Metoxen remembers saying something like, “What is your problem?” to which the girl, after a string of profanities, replied, “You heard me, go back to Mexico!”
“You go back to where you came from! I belong here!”
- To my Jewish, Irish, Asian and Italian friends
Your ancestors were lower than dirt when they arrived here.
Italians were referred to – openly – as a subhuman race of rats and criminals.
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- 2025’s H-1B costs revealed: Fees climb higher than ever for U.S. employers
- Elon Musk pledges "war" over H-1B visa program, calls opponents racists
The MAGA-DOGE civil war that erupted over the last 48 hours has now come to a tipping point, with "Old Donald's" new techno-libertarian coalition of billionaires taking full aim at his traditional base.'Old Donald', who has remained silent thus far on the schism, faces a quickly deepening conflict between his richest and most powerful advisors on one hand, and the people who swept him to office on the other.
Take a big step back and F--K YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend," Musk wrote.
In a separate post, he pledged to "fight to my last drop of blood" to keep America a meritocracy.
- They took the children
U.S. created Indian boarding schools to destroy cultures and seize landThe hidden legacy of Indian boarding schools in the United States Bone by bone, two archaeologists lifted the 130-year-old skeletal remains of a Native American girl from the shallow grave in a roadside cemetery. A hand bone, a rib, a chunk of vertebrae and, finally, her skull.
A year-long investigation by The Washington Post has documented that 3,104 students died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970, three times as many deaths as reported by the U.S. Interior Department earlier this year. The Post found that more than 800 of those students are buried in cemeteries at or near the schools they attended, underscoring how, in many cases, children’s bodies were never sent home to their families or tribes.
From 1819 to 1969, the U.S. government separated Native American children from their families to eradicate their cultures, assimilate them into White society and seize tribal land.
Today, there are 574 federally recognized tribes in the United States, and their cultures endure. In October, Native Americans received a long-sought official apology from the president for Indian boarding schools.
- The 'Chinese Exclusion Era' shows how "Old Donald's" mass deportation plan could unfold
Many supporters of "Old Donald's" mass deportation agenda say expelling unauthorized immigrants will help the US economy. But a look back at America's first major immigration crackdown suggests otherwise.