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Economists agree: Trump’s ‘tariffs will be very bad for America and for the world’

Economists agree: Trump’s ‘tariffs will be very bad for America and for the world’

The Guardian reports: As Donald Trump threatens to slap steep tariffs on many countries, he is boasting that his taxes on imports will be a boon to the US economy, but most economists strongly disagree – many say Trump’s tariffs will increase inflation, slow economic growth, hurt US workers and result in American consumers footing the bill for his tariffs. “Virtually all economists think that the impact of the tariffs will be very bad for America and for the world,”…

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Local officials just prevented Trump from flooding part of California

Local officials just prevented Trump from flooding part of California

Politico reports: President Donald Trump declared victory on Friday in his long-running water war with California, boasting he sent billions of gallons south — but local officials say they narrowly prevented him from possibly flooding farms. ”Today, 1.6 billion gallons and, in 3 days, it will be 5.2 billion gallons. Everybody should be happy about this long fought Victory! I only wish they listened to me six years ago — There would have been no fire!” he said in a…

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What Amazonian lives tell us about heart health and longevity

What Amazonian lives tell us about heart health and longevity

Ben Daitz writes: The Horus Group, named after the Egyptian god of healing, is an international team of cardiologists, archaeologists and radiologists who have studied more than 200 mummies in Egypt, Peru, the Aleutian Islands and Italy with computer tomography (CT) scans and genetic analyses. They wanted to see if atherosclerosis, one of the leading causes of death in the world, is a disease of modernity, our high stress, cholesterol-laden lifestyle, or if it had been there all along. Are…

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Tulsi Gabbard’s cult connections are difficult to hide

Tulsi Gabbard’s cult connections are difficult to hide

The Wall Street Journal reports: To defend and burnish Tulsi Gabbard’s image as her political star was rising, her congressional campaign hired a public-affairs firm in 2017 that tried to suppress coverage of an alleged pyramid scheme connected to her Hindu sect, according to interviews, emails and Federal Election Commission records. Gabbard, a former House member who is now President Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, was raised in the Science of Identity Foundation, a sect tied to a…

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The FAA is facing a major crisis without a leader because Elon Musk pushed him out

The FAA is facing a major crisis without a leader because Elon Musk pushed him out

The Verge reports: The Federal Aviation Administration is facing its first major aviation disaster in 16 years without a leader because Elon Musk helped push him out. Michael Whitaker stepped down as FAA administrator on January 20th, the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, after clashing with Elon Musk, whose company SpaceX is regulated by the agency. Musk publicly called on Whitaker to resign after the FAA fined SpaceX for failing to get approval for launch changes. And now the power…

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Gallup: Trump is the most unpopular U.S. president in over 70 years

Gallup: Trump is the most unpopular U.S. president in over 70 years

Gallup reports: At 47%, President Donald Trump’s initial job approval rating for his second term is similar to the inaugural 45% reading during his first term, again placing him below all other elected presidents dating back to 1953. Trump remains the only elected president with sub-50% initial approval ratings, and his latest disapproval rating (48%) is three percentage points higher than in 2017, marking a new high for inaugural ratings. Trump’s current job approval rating, from Gallup’s Jan. 21-27 poll,…

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Trump and Musk are trying to purge veterans from the government

Trump and Musk are trying to purge veterans from the government

Michael Embrich writes: The mass purge of federal workers under Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) plan is more than just an attack on the government bureaucracy — it’s a direct assault on the veterans who make up nearly 30 percent of the federal workforce. In a decision that will be remembered as a betrayal of the veteran community and the broader federal workforce, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued an email Tuesday…

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Boycott Tesla, Polish minister urges in response to Musk’s support for neo-Nazis

Boycott Tesla, Polish minister urges in response to Musk’s support for neo-Nazis

Politico reports: Outrage over Elon Musk’s support of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and call for Germany to “move past” its Nazi history could start impacting his financial interests after Polish Tourism Minister Sławomir Nitras called for a Tesla boycott. “There is no justification for any reasonable Pole to continue purchasing Teslas. A serious and strong response is necessary, including a consumer boycott,” Nitras told Polish media. Musk is a key advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump and…

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Trump is serious about buying Greenland, Rubio says

Trump is serious about buying Greenland, Rubio says

Politico reports: Secretary of State Marco Rubio doubled down on President Donald Trump’s desire to buy Greenland, saying it would be vital to U.S. interests. “This is not a joke,” Rubio said on the “The Megyn Kelly Show” on SiriusXM Thursday, one of his first media appearances since being sworn in. “This is not about acquiring land for the purpose of acquiring land. This is in our national interest and it needs to be solved.” During the interview, Rubio downplayed…

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Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded

Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded

This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA By Timothy J McCoy, Smithsonian Institution and Sara Russell, Natural History Museum A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this meteorite, discovered by beaver trappers, fell over a lake. A layer of ice saved them…

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Employee groups, Democrats, experts warn feds not to risk accepting ‘deferred resignation’ offer

Employee groups, Democrats, experts warn feds not to risk accepting ‘deferred resignation’ offer

Government Executive reports: Following the haphazard rollout Tuesday of a plan the White House claimed offered “buyouts” to nearly the entire federal workforce but ultimately looked more like extended paid leave prior to leaving government, federal employee groups, Democratic lawmakers and good government experts are warning federal workers not to respond to the Trump administration’s “deferred resignation” email. According to the terms of the offer, if a federal employee decides to resign by Feb. 6, they can retain their current…

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Did Musk illegally install an email server at OPM?

Did Musk illegally install an email server at OPM?

Nextgov/FCW reports: The Office of Personnel Management’s recent mass verification email to all civilian federal employees is raising concerns that the Trump administration circumvented longstanding procurement and cybersecurity laws to install an email system used to communicate widely with employees across the government. On Friday, an email landing in employees’ inboxes from the address hr@opm.gov told recipients that it was a “test of a new distribution and response list” and asked them to reply “YES” to it. Many workers noted…

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The Musk-Miller-Trump administration seems to believe it has the power to change law on a whim

The Musk-Miller-Trump administration seems to believe it has the power to change law on a whim

A federal civil servant writes: The new Trump administration’s effort to both get a grip on and dismantle the federal workforce has also been a dystopian farce, climaxing Tuesday evening, after the Office of Personnel Management sent an email offering what the media has described as a “buyout” to all federal employees. This saga began shortly after Donald Trump took office, when someone asserting the authority of OPM began spamming federal workers with emails demanding a reply. In one breath,…

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USDA inspector general who served in five administrations, escorted out of her office after defying White House

USDA inspector general who served in five administrations, escorted out of her office after defying White House

Reuters reports: Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran of the department, had earlier told colleagues that she intended to stay after the White House terminated her Friday, saying that she didn’t believe the administration had followed proper protocols, the sources said. In an email…

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