Nation shocked to learn access to information can be monetized.
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DOGE, the federal government's 18-month experiment in not doing government, officially ceased to exist on July 4th — the same day GSA confirmed that the offices DOGE demanded workers return to are still three-quarters empty. No closing report was planned, which agency officials described as 'on brand.'
The federal government is now issuing commemorative passports featuring President Trump's image — but only in person, only in Washington, D.C., and only by appointment. For Americans who would prefer their travel documents not include the president's portrait, officials have devised an equally streamlined solution: request the bigger booklet.
When Congress created America250 in 2016 to plan the nation's semiquincentennial, it probably did not anticipate that a decade later a rival LLC would allegedly intercept its donor wire transfers. Freedom 250 calls the accusations a 'partisan smear'; the birthday cake remains uneaten by at least one of the parties involved.
The White House's longtime teleprompter operator has been suspended after federal regulators alleged he used advance knowledge of the president's prepared remarks to place winning bets on a prediction market — including hedging mid-speech when Trump went off-script. Investigators say he netted roughly $100,000 before the platform's algorithms noticed that someone, somewhere, always seemed to know.
DOGE, the federal government's 18-month experiment in not doing government, officially ceased to exist on July 4th — the same day GSA confirmed that the offices DOGE demanded workers return to are still three-quarters empty. No closing report was planned, which agency officials described as 'on brand.'
The federal government is now issuing commemorative passports featuring President Trump's image — but only in person, only in Washington, D.C., and only by appointment. For Americans who would prefer their travel documents not include the president's portrait, officials have devised an equally streamlined solution: request the bigger booklet.
When Congress created America250 in 2016 to plan the nation's semiquincentennial, it probably did not anticipate that a decade later a rival LLC would allegedly intercept its donor wire transfers. Freedom 250 calls the accusations a 'partisan smear'; the birthday cake remains uneaten by at least one of the parties involved.
America turns 250 this weekend, and the festivities are going great — if you ignore the 55-page congressional report alleging that donors who tried to fund the official bipartisan birthday commission were quietly handed the wrong bank account number. Two organizations with nearly identical names are now locked in a patriotic turf war over $100 million, a state fair on the National Mall, and the soul of the republic.