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At first glance, it seems like Silicon Valley executives have the perfect life, what with the unimaginable wealth and power and such. But what if they’re sad they don’t get to put on big boy pants and pretend they’re warfighters? What then, America? Thankfully the Army has invented a way to give tech execs participation trophies—surely that is the best and most noble use of our armed forces. A new Army initiative titled “Detachment 201: The Army’s Executive Innovation Corps” promises to “fuse cutting-edge tech expertise with military innovation.” Will they do that by tapping 18F, the federal agency dedicated… [...]
President Donald Trump’s self-appointed task force to protect religious liberty and eradicate “anti-Christian bias” met for the first time this week to yap over the lack of morality and Christianity in modern-day U.S. culture. And where else would they meet but at the Museum of the Bible, in Washington, D.C. But it was Attorney General Pam Bondi who kicked off the two-hour meeting of the Religious Liberty Commission with baseless claims that Christians had “come under attack.” Dr. Phil McGraw is among the luminaries named to Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission. “The federal government became complicit in sheltering these threats,… [...]
The Trump administration is trying to make a change to federal regulations that would bar thousands of U.S. girls from school sports. The change would be to a provision in Title IX, the 1972 landmark federal civil rights law, that bans sex discrimination in schools receiving federal funding and requires those schools to provide athletic opportunities for the “underrepresented sex.” Currently, that means that in schools where there is only a boys’ team for certain sports, girls are allowed to try out for the team. For instance, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations, there were more… [...]
A barrage of public polling released over the last several days shows that President Donald Trump's standing is in free fall, as Americans turn away from his dictatorial actions, his cruelty toward immigrants, his domestic agenda of slashing the social safety net to fund tax cuts for the rich, and his economic destruction. According to The New York Times polling average, just 44% of Americans approve of the way Trump is handling his job—a number that's fallen since Trump deployed the military in Los Angeles, ramped up deportations against undocumented immigrants who have lived and worked in the United States… [...]