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Trump: Iran asked me to be Supreme Leader, but I said no thanks

Trump’s “Iran asked me to be Supreme Leader” joke at an NRCC fundraiser uses a real, deadly leadership crisis in Iran to normalize assassination-as-policy and blur what’s confirmed about the war and succession.

Mar 26, 2026

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‘Men need to be perp-walked’ after Epstein files release, Massie tells BBC

A GOP lawmaker says the Epstein document releases are still falling short—because redactions and withheld material may be blocking accountability and survivor-centered justice.

Mar 25, 2026

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Trump fires Kristi Noem as Homeland Security Secretary

A Cabinet secretary was forced out amid contracting and oversight scrutiny, signaling that executive control—not transparent accountability—can dictate leadership of the agency driving mass detention and deportation.

Mar 5, 2026

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The Trump gold coin is not normal : Consider This from NPR

A federal design panel OK’d a Trump portrait for a commemorative gold coin, but the key question is whether Treasury can legally bypass long-standing limits meant to keep living politicians off U.S. money.

Mar 23, 2026

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White House Confronted Over Huge Bets Made Minutes Before Trump’s Big War Move

A $580 million burst of oil-futures selling minutes before Trump’s Iran “talks” post raises a basic public-interest question: did anyone trade on advance knowledge of a market-moving national security decision?

Mar 24, 2026

Jensen Huang set to receive $4 million bonus from Nvidia, 0.002% of his $164 billion net worth — a small incentive for one of the richest people on earth

Nvidia’s filing underscores how executive control and shareholder wealth can dwarf performance-linked cash incentives without implicating any public accountability mechanism.

Economy

Mar 8, 2026

Sources

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/jensen-huang-set-to-receive-usd4-million-bonus-from-nvidia-0-002-percent-of-his-usd164-billion-net-worth-a-small-incentive-for-one-of-the-richest-people-on-earth

Summary

Nvidia disclosed a $4 million cash bonus for CEO Jensen Huang if the company meets specific financial targets by January 31, 2027. The filing reflects a compensation structure dominated by stock awards, with a comparatively small cash incentive tied to performance benchmarks. In practical terms, the payout would likely net roughly $2–$2.5 million after taxes while leaving Huang’s ownership stake unchanged.

Reality Check

Private corporate compensation decisions like this sit outside democratic checks, but they still shape the economic power that can press on public life without public consent. When wealth is primarily driven by equity rather than transparent, salary-like pay, accountability shifts away from civic oversight and toward market dynamics and internal governance. Our institutions weaken when concentrated private power grows faster than the public’s ability to understand, scrutinize, or counterbalance it.

Detail

Regulatory filings state that Nvidia set aside a $4 million cash bonus for CEO Jensen Huang, contingent on the company meeting specified financial targets by January 31, 2027. The filing appears alongside reporting that Huang’s 2025 compensation totaled $49.9 million, with about $39.8 million of that value attributed to stock awards.

The bonus is structured as cash rather than equity, meaning it does not alter Huang’s share ownership and would be subject to federal and state income taxes. The text estimates the post-tax amount at roughly $2–$2.5 million. It also notes that Huang owns about 3.5% of Nvidia and previously sold 6 million shares in June of the prior year under a plan announced about three months earlier, with the sale estimated at roughly $925 million.

The filing did not indicate an increase to Huang’s base pay for the current year.

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Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings

By ordering GSA to kill 8,000 federal EV charging ports as “not mission-critical,” the administration uses administrative control to dismantle operational infrastructure without public justification.

Executive

Feb 21, 2025

Sources

https://electrek.co/2025/02/21/trump-to-shut-down-all-8000-ev-charging-ports-at-federal-govt-buildings/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fu.s.politics

Summary

The Trump administration is directing the General Services Administration to take roughly 8,000 EV charging ports at federal government buildings out of service. GSA is moving to cancel the network contracts that keep the chargers operational after being told the stations are “not mission-critical.” Federal agencies, government-owned vehicles, and federal employees with personal EVs will lose access to workplace charging once breakers are turned off and stations go dark.

Reality Check

Stripping operational access to federal infrastructure by directive and contract cancellation normalizes governance by abrupt internal order, leaving our public services vulnerable to ideological whiplash instead of accountable administration. Based on the facts provided—an internal instruction to cancel network contracts and shut chargers “off at the breaker”—this looks more like an abuse-of-office and process problem than a clean fit for federal criminal statutes. Even if not criminal on these facts, it undermines core norms of evidence-based stewardship by turning routine facility management into a political lever that can be pulled against workers and agencies with no transparent rationale.

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Detail

The Trump administration is shutting down EV chargers at federal government buildings and is expected to offload electric vehicles recently purchased by the General Services Administration (GSA).

GSA manages federal government-owned buildings and operates the buildings’ EV chargers. The charging infrastructure includes about 8,000 charging ports used by federally owned EVs and by federal employees charging personal EVs.

An internal announcement is expected next week. Reporting cites an email sent by GSA to regional offices stating that GSA “received direction” that all GSA-owned charging stations are “not mission-critical.”

GSA is working on the timing of canceling existing network contracts that keep the chargers operational. After contracts are canceled, stations will be taken out of service and “turned off at the breaker,” with other chargers beginning to be turned off starting next week. The email states that neither government-owned nor privately owned vehicles will be able to charge once stations are out of service.

Colorado Public Radio reported seeing the email sent to the Denver Federal Center, which has 22 EV charging stations across 11 locations.