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  1. Howard Stern’s ex-assistant exposes ‘immense pressure’ and ‘questionable business operations’ in lawsuit

    Howard Stern’s former employee detailed the disc jockey’s allegedly “questionable business operations” as well as the “immense pressure”…
    #UnitedStates #US #USA #america #BethStern #business #celebritylawsuits #celebritynews #exclusive #howard-stern #unitedstatesofamerica
    europesays.com/2903150/

  2. Nicolle Wallace blasts Howard Lutnick’s Epstein explanation 

    misryoum.com/us/trending-now/n

    ‘Very poorly done cover up’: Bombshell report on how DOJ withheld Trump related Epstein Files 05:34 ‘Just doesn’t hold up’: DOJ reportedly withheld missing Epstein Files related to Donald Trump 12:04 Trump demands Netflix fire Susan Rice as he...

    #Nicolle #Wallace #blasts #Howard #Lutnicks #Epstein #explanation #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  3. @mojo @HardBeingGreen @Devorppa
    #Hawke and #Keating were far too #neoliberal for my liking. They laid the foundations upon which #Howard built. Much of what's worst about Australia today can be traced to John Howard, but he would not have been so effective without what came before.
    #AusPol

  4. @mojo @HardBeingGreen @Devorppa
    #Hawke and #Keating were far too #neoliberal for my liking. They laid the foundations upon which #Howard built. Much of what's worst about Australia today can be traced to John Howard, but he would not have been so effective without what came before.
    #AusPol

  5. @mojo @HardBeingGreen @Devorppa
    #Hawke and #Keating were far too #neoliberal for my liking. They laid the foundations upon which #Howard built. Much of what's worst about Australia today can be traced to John Howard, but he would not have been so effective without what came before.
    #AusPol

  6. @mojo @HardBeingGreen @Devorppa
    #Hawke and #Keating were far too #neoliberal for my liking. They laid the foundations upon which #Howard built. Much of what's worst about Australia today can be traced to John Howard, but he would not have been so effective without what came before.
    #AusPol

  7. Donald Trump repeatedly told America he had “nothing to do” with #Project2025.
    But now, he’s welcoming its architect into his Cabinet with open arms.

    #Russ #Vought, who was deeply involved in the creation of Project 2025 and wrote an entire chapter in the right-wing playbook,
    is being strongly considered for an #upcoming Cabinet position, according to several sources who spoke with ABC News.

    Vought has already begun the vetting process and has been seen at Mar-a-Lago meeting with Trump’s team.

    Vought—a former lobbyist, self-described #Christian #nationalist, and director of the Office of Management and Budget in Trump’s first term
    —authored a chapter in the 922-page MAGA extremist master plan titled
    “Executive Office of the President” for Project 2025’s
    “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise” section.
    The chapter serves as
    “a comprehensive policy guide for the next conservative U.S. president.”

    Vought isn’t the only Project 2025 alum being floated for a crucial role in the Trump Cabinet.
    #Gene #Hamilton, who wrote a chapter about how the Justice Department needed a
    “top to bottom overhaul” because it is
    “captured by an unaccountable bureaucratic managerial class and radical Left ideologues who have embedded themselves throughout its offices and components,”
    has been seriously floated for an important legal team position.

    Trump has also nominated Project 2025 contributor and free-speech “warrior” #Brendan #Carr to serve as Federal Communications Commission chair.

    On the campaign trail, Trump had tried to distance himself from Project 2025, 💥particularly after it became a focus point for Democrats.
    “This was a group of people that got together, they came up with some ideas, I guess some good, some bad, but it makes no difference.
    I have nothing to do [with it],” Trump stated during his nationally televised debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.
    His loyal transition team co-chair #Howard #Lutnick described the project as an “absolute zero” and “radioactive.”
    And yet here we are,
    with Vought, Carr, and Hamilton cozying back up to the president-elect,
    who was surely lying to America throughout his campaign.
    🔥The skeleton plan for the far-right takeover is coming alive.
    newrepublic.com/post/188580/tr

  8. After Flurry of Cabinet Picks, Trump Rethinks Candidates for Treasury Secretary

    Donald Trump is expected to invite the contenders for the role, including Kevin Warsh and Marc Rowan, to Mar-a-Lago this week

    Trump is eyeing a new candidate for Treasury Secretary amid internal debate over who should have the role:
    the former Federal Reserve governor #Kevin #Warsh.

    Trump is also considering the Wall Street billionaire #Marc #Rowan.

    He had been expected to pick either #Howard #Lutnick, the chief executive of the Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald,
    or #Scott #Bessent, the founder of the investment firm Key Square Capital Management and a former money manager for George Soros.

    And he had been seen as likely to make the selection late last week.

    But he has been having second thoughts about the top two candidates, and has slowed down his selection process.

    He is expected to invite the contenders to interview with him this week at Mar-a-Lago.

    Mr. Lutnick, who has been running Mr. Trump’s transition operation, has gotten on Mr. Trump’s nerves lately.
    Mr. Trump has privately expressed frustration that Mr. Lutnick has been hanging around him too much and that he has been manipulating the transition process for his own ends.

    A person familiar with the process, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described the battle between Mr. Lutnick and Mr. Bessent as a "knife fight", with Mr. Lutnick as the primary aggressor.
    nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/poli

  9. After Flurry of Cabinet Picks, Trump Rethinks Candidates for Treasury Secretary

    Donald Trump is expected to invite the contenders for the role, including Kevin Warsh and Marc Rowan, to Mar-a-Lago this week

    Trump is eyeing a new candidate for Treasury Secretary amid internal debate over who should have the role:
    the former Federal Reserve governor #Kevin #Warsh.

    Trump is also considering the Wall Street billionaire #Marc #Rowan.

    He had been expected to pick either #Howard #Lutnick, the chief executive of the Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald,
    or #Scott #Bessent, the founder of the investment firm Key Square Capital Management and a former money manager for George Soros.

    And he had been seen as likely to make the selection late last week.

    But he has been having second thoughts about the top two candidates, and has slowed down his selection process.

    He is expected to invite the contenders to interview with him this week at Mar-a-Lago.

    Mr. Lutnick, who has been running Mr. Trump’s transition operation, has gotten on Mr. Trump’s nerves lately.
    Mr. Trump has privately expressed frustration that Mr. Lutnick has been hanging around him too much and that he has been manipulating the transition process for his own ends.

    A person familiar with the process, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described the battle between Mr. Lutnick and Mr. Bessent as a "knife fight", with Mr. Lutnick as the primary aggressor.
    nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/poli

  10. The two finalists to become Trump’s Treasury Secretary
    — the person will have a major hand in cutting taxes for the wealthy and raising tariffs so everyone pays more
    — are #Howard #Lutnick, who’s CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and Trump’s co-transition chair,

    and #Steven #Bessent, the founder of the investment firm Key Square Capital Management.

    Lutnick had been in the lead but a few days ago, according to the The Wall Street Journal, he heard from Trump’s allies that he might not get the nod.

    So Lutnick turned for help to #Elon #Musk, who now calls himself Trump’s “First Buddy.”

    Bessent’s supporters also reached out to Musk to endorse Bessent, which tells you alot about the palace intrigue going on now in Mar-a-Lago, and how much power Musk is now wielding.

    Yesterday, Musk, posted on his X that Lutnick would be a better choice for treasury secretary than Bessent:
    “My view fwiw is that Bessent is a business-as-usual choice, whereas @howardlutnick will actually enact change. Business-as-usual is driving America bankrupt, so we need change one way or another.”

    Musk’s and Trump’s criterion for filling high-level positions
    (besides unbridled fealty to Trump):

    ⚠️The picks don’t need to know anything or share any large vision of the public good.
    They just have to be bomb-throwers who’ll shake things up.

    The worst that can be said of any candidate is he’ll govern as usual.

    🔥Trump is well on his way to “crush the system,” as he promised
    — which most Americans appear to want because the “as usual” system has for decades been rewarding big-money donors, monopolists, CEOs living off government contracts (like Musk)
    and fat-cat denizens of Wall Street (like Lutnick and Bessent)
    — all of whom have been siphoning off most economic gains for themselves.

    🆘 But if the new system that Trump installs
    (with or without Musk’s help)
    siphons off even more of the gains for those at the top, while destroying what’s left of our democracy,
    most Americans will find themselves even worse off and more resentful.
    robertreich.substack.com/p/tru