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COVID-censured doctor says Liberals targeted him because he made government look bad– www.lifesitenews.com

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A Canadian doctor critical of virus lockdowns revealed a former top Liberal cabinet Minister implied to him he was censured by his medical regulator because he had the boldness to criticize the COVID mandates imposed under the federal government of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Newly elected Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) MP Dr. Matt Strauss revealed the reasons he was targeted by his medical regulator in his first speech in Parliament on June 3.

“At Queen’s University where I taught, Jane Philpott herself, one of the only two cabinet ministers to speak truth to Justin Trudeau’s power, informed me in her dean’s office that ‘the reason the administration had to harass me was that I criticized the government,’” he said to all MPs in the House of Commons.

Strauss affirmed that Philpott’s words were a “direct quote” to him, adding, “Of course, Prime Minister Trudeau and his commissars were immune from all of this.”

“They gave luxurious contracts to their friends in academia to promote their misinformation and gave hundreds of millions of dollars to mainstream media to promote government narratives,” he noted, adding, “These three institutions – government, media and academia – have important roles in society to regulate each other.”

Elon Musk’s feud with Trump puts $22B SpaceX contracts at risk; what it means for US space future |– timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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Elon Musk’s escalating feud with President Donald Trump has put SpaceX’s massive $22 billion in government contracts on the line, raising concerns about the future of America’s space program. SpaceX, a key player in NASA and Pentagon missions, faces potential funding cuts amid political tensions, threatening crucial projects like lunar exploration and national security launches. This conflict highlights the risks of heavy reliance on a single private company for space access. After Elon Musk tweeted regarding the decommissioning of SpaceX within a few hours, Musk re-tweeted by saying “Ok. Good Advice…”. However, according to Bloomberg, it remains unclear. But if the dispute unfolds, the US space industry may face delays, higher costs, and increased geopolitical vulnerability, putting America’s leadership in space at stake.

Elon Musks says SpaceX could begin ‘decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft’ after Trump threat to cancel contracts– www.space.com

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Elon Musk is no longer seeing eye-to-eye with his former bestie in the White House.

The SpaceX founder and CEO recently wrapped up his 130-day appointment as a “special government employee,” during which he led the cost- and regulation-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Musk and President Donald Trump seemingly parted on a positive note, sharing kind words about each other during an Oval Office press conference on May 30. “Today, it’s about a man named Elon,” Trump said to reporters last week, calling Musk “one of the greatest business leaders and innovators the world has ever produced.”

Harvard Law Review Digs Itself Into Deeper Hole Amid Fight With Feds. Plus, Who’s Behind the New Columbia Encampment Doc?– freebeacon.com

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From bad to worse: The Harvard Law Review is facing multiple federal probes over reports, published in the Free Beacon, of racial discrimination at the journal. Its conduct in the face of those probes has only added to the furor.

The Review, our Aaron Sibarium reports, “retaliated against a student editor for allegedly leaking documents … and demanded, as part of the journal’s disciplinary process, that he request their destruction.” Those actions came as the journal “was under a document retention order” from the feds. As a result, they “verged on witness intimidation and could get the law review in even deeper trouble with the government,” attorneys told Sibarium.

“What do they call it when a criminal tries to intimidate the witness?” said Jason Torchinsky, a former official in the Justice Department’s civil rights division. “If you know someone is a witness in a federal investigation, and you try to intimidate them into stopping cooperation with the government, that in itself is its own offense.”

Band-aid over a bullet hole: Racial discrimination isn’t the only problem plaguing Harvard. There’s also the issue of pervasive anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias on its campus—something the school pledged to combat in part by hiring a Professor in Residence in Modern Jewish Studies at its Divinity School. That professor, Harvard announced on Wednesday, is self-proclaimed “counter-Zionist” Shaul Magid.

For Magid, Zionism is “unjust” and can be “set aside” along with “Manifest Destiny, colonialism, and any number of other chauvinistic and ethnocentric ideologies of the past.”

Magid’s appointment did not land well with Rabbi David Wolpe, who spent a year as a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Divinity School. Magid’s views are “very fringe” and don’t “represent anything like the mainstream view of the American Jewish community,” Wolpe told us. “He is not an answer to the problem that Harvard has with their Jewish students or with the exclusion of mainstream views.”

Big Oil Wins in Trump-GOP Megabill– readsludge.com

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After pouring millions into GOP super PACs, the fossil fuel industry is cashing in with the One Big Beautiful Bill, a sweeping budget reconciliation package loaded with giveaways for oil and gas companies. The House and Senate versions of the bill are nearly identical on energy matters, delivering a wish list of tax breaks, drilling incentives, and regulatory rollbacks. Now, the American Petroleum Institute (API), representing hundreds of oil and gas companies, is lobbying the Senate to add even more industry-friendly perks.

The energy portion of the House-passed bill and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s bills both prioritize the fossil fuel industry’s profits over the environment. Both would delay the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) fee on oil and gas companies’ excess methane pollution by 10 years, shielding companies from accountability for a potent greenhouse gas that is responsible for up to 30% of global warming. They would both create an opt-in fee program allowing companies to pay to expedite the environmental review process for approving new fossil fuel infrastructure like pipelines, and limiting communities’ abilities to weigh in against polluting projects. They mandate the Interior Department to immediately begin quarterly lease sales for onshore and offshore drilling. The bills also roll back the EPA’s new vehicle emissions standards, undoing the Biden administration’s rules designed to boost electric vehicle adoption and curb transportation emissions, the largest U.S. greenhouse gas source.

The House bill contains a few industry bonuses that don’t appear in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee draft, but may still emerge as the full Senate bill is cobbled together from all the different committees. The House bill calls for lowering royalty rates for drilling on public lands from 16.67% to 12.5%, letting oil companies profit off the public’s resources at a discount while reducing taxpayer returns. It would also create a new “de-risking compensation program” that allows oil companies to get paid by taxpayers if the federal government takes any actions delaying their projects or making them less viable.

Musk threatens to paralyze US space program — RT World News– www.rt.com

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The SpaceX CEO said he would decommission the only US spacecraft certified to fly American astronauts, before changing his mind hours later

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has claimed that his company “will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately,” after President Donald Trump threatened to terminate all US government subsidies and contracts with Musk’s firms.

Trump and Musk engaged in a dramatic exchange on social media on Thursday over the US president’s “Big and Beautiful” federal tax and spending bill, which the former White House government efficiency czar had blasted as a “pork-filled, disgusting abomination” that would push the US into “debt slavery.”

“The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts,” Trump stated on Truth Social, arguing that the only reason the Tesla CEO “went CRAZY” about the legislation was because it would cut tax credits for purchasers of his electric vehicles.

“In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately,” Musk responded in a post on X just minutes later.

Trump and Musk’s public attacks on each other add to questions about DOGE’s accomplishments, future– www.politifact.com

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President Donald Trump and adviser Elon Musk celebrated their efforts to slash federal spending before Musk stepped away from his White House work. Musk wore a black DOGE hat over a bruised right eye that he blamed on his young son’s punch. That was May 30 in the Oval Office. Days later, the two billionaires were punching at each other on social media platforms they own.

Their fight began over federal tax and spending legislation, with Musk calling a Trump-backed bill “a disgusting abomination” and Trump saying he was “very disappointed” with Musk. Soon, Musk claimed credit for Trump and Republicans winning in 2024 and Trump threatened to cut off Musk companies’ federal contracts.

The public display of animosity called into question the fate of months of Department of Government Efficiency work. 

Under Musk’s oversight and with Trump’s approval, DOGE axed billions of dollars in grants for state health departments and scientific research. It gutted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency created in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to protect consumers. It all but shuttered the U.S. Agency for International Development, the decades-old department that provides food and health care to people in other countries.

Still, as Musk ended his work with DOGE, it was clear that the group’s cost cutting achievements fell short of Musk’s goals. A week before Trump won his second term, Musk said he expected to cut “at least $2 trillion,” without identifying a timeframe for doing it. He later lowered that to $1 trillion.

Capitol agenda: GOP leaders rush into Elon Musk damage control– www.politico.com

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Hill GOP leaders are in full-on damage control as they scramble to save their megabill — and themselves — from the blast radius of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s breakup.

But Musk doesn’t seem interested in sparing any part of the GOP trifecta from his wrath on his way out of Washington. The president’s new enemy attacked both Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Thursday over the cost of the party’s sweeping domestic policy package. Thune brushed it aside.

Johnson, however, is mounting a multi-front rebuttal as he aims to keep Musk from hurting the megabill’s prospects. He’s questioning the tech mogul’s motives for opposing the bill and challenging his claims about its impact on the deficit. Johnson already had to reassure hard-liners concerned about the bill’s spending in order to squeeze the bill through the House last month.

“I’m the same guy that’s always been a deficit hawk, and now I’m the speaker of the House, and I’m working on a multi-step plan to reverse the fiscal insanity that has haunted our country,” Johnson told reporters Thursday. “We have to get the big, beautiful bill done.”

‘Massive crack in the MAGA coalition’: The Trump-Musk feud threatens the GOP’s future– www.politico.com

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Elon Musk just launched a war against the GOP. Now the party’s hopes of holding onto power are at stake.

Musk has gone from helping Republicans take total control of Washington — spending nearly $300 million to become the single biggest known donor last year — to attacking the highest-ranking leaders of the party and daring the rank and file to cross him.

“Trump has 3.5 years left as President, but I will be around for 40+ years,” Musk said on X.

The post was an unambiguous warning from the world’s richest man, who has the power to single-handedly reshape elections with his wealth. It was not long ago that Republicans hoped Musk could pour cash into their efforts to help maintain control of Washington. Instead, he’s becoming their public adversary.

Musk spent Thursday online attacking President Donald Trump over Republicans’ massive tax-and-spending bill, which Musk says does not cut enough government spending.

He’d already threatened to challenge Republicans who support the megabill; on Thursday, he blasted House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, took credit for Republicans winning trifecta control in November, and floated the idea of launching a third party.

“This is a massive crack in the MAGA coalition,” said Matthew Bartlett, a Republican strategist and a former Trump administration appointee. “This town is historically built on Republican versus Democrat, and this seems to be crazy versus crazy. It is asymmetric and it seems, for the first time, President Trump seems to be out-crazied.” 

“Please noooooo”: Ye implores Trump, Musk to reconcile– www.salon.com

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Ye is hoping to prevent the unraveling of Tesla CEO Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s relationship.

The controversial rapper formerly known as Kanye West waded into the white-hot feud between POTUS and the one-time head of DOGE, encouraging them to call a truce in a post to X.

“Broooos please noooooo,” he wrote. “We love you both so much.”

Musk and Trump’s tiff began last week, when the former Trump adviser told CBS News last week that he was “disappointed” with Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” Musk continued to whale on this week, calling the bill a “disgusting abomination and encouraging voters to oust any Republicans who supported it.

The spat got worse on Thursday after Trump made his first public comments on Musk’s critiques, saying he was “very disappointed in Elon.” In a post to Truth Social, Trump speculated about the end of his relationship with the billionaire, saying that Musk “just went CRAZY!” The president then threatened to terminate Musk’s contracts with the federal government.

“The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts,” he wrote.

The White House Is Looking At Reviving Biden’s Investigations Into Elon Musk– www.politicususa.com

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The Trump/Musk situation is being described as escalating, and White House aides are considering potentially reviving the investigations into Musk that the Biden administration initiated.

Rolling Stone reported:

This week, two Trump administration officials tell Rolling Stone that the government may not be above revamping investigations into Musk’s business empires — probes that carried over from the Biden era and ones that Musk was extremely adamant he wanted to see a second Trump administration crush, if the Tesla billionaire helped elect Trump.

“THIS ADMINISTRATION COULD ALWAYS START THE INVESTIGATIONS AGAIN,” one senior Trump appointee messaged in all-caps.

A source with knowledge of the matter says that Trump White House staff have already begun the process of making phone calls and sending messages to prominent allies of both Trump and Musk, saying they need to pick sides and that, basically, it’s the easiest choice they’ll ever make in their lives.

Musk basically annoyed and ticked off a lot of people around Trump in the White House, and now that the split has come, those people are looking for revenge on Elon Musk.

Trump Not Speaking to Musk, Says ‘Poor Guy Has a Problem;’ ‘Wishes Him Well’ › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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President Trump told CNN Friday morning that he “is not thinking about” billionaire Elon Musk after their shocking public spat yesterday, and does not plan to speak to him anytime soon.

Trump reportedly told CNN political correspondent Dana Bash, “I’m not even thinking about Elon. He’s got a problem. The poor guy’s got a problem.”

According to Bash, Trump said he had no immediate plans to talk with Musk, but that he “wishes him well.”

Fox News also reported Friday morning that Trump “does not intend” to speak with Musk today.

The freezeout comes after a very public clash between the two titans the day before caused their extraordinary alliance to flameout in spectacular fashion.

Massachusetts Dem city councilor charged with assault, interfering with police after obstructing ICE operation | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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Haxhiaj has been charged with one count of assault and battery on a police officer and one count of interfering with police

Worcester, Massachusetts City Councilor Etel Haxhiaj has been charged with assault and battery on an officer as well as interfering with police following a May 8 ICE operation in the city that saw the District 5 city councilor captured on camera attacking authorities as they carried out an arrest. ; ;

Per the Telegram & Gazette, court records released on June 4 found that the police department had sought three charges against Haxhiaj, however, at a closed-door hearing on June 4, an assistant clerk-magistrate found probable cause to issue two of the charges. ; ;

Haxhiaj has been charged with one count of assault and battery on a police officer and one count of interfering with police. Police had sought two counts of assault and battery on an officer. She is set to be arraigned on July 23. ; ;

Haxhiaj wrote in a statement regarding the charges, “Our community continues to be shocked and devastated by the events on Eureka Street as our country staggers from political upheaval. It is frustrating to now be targeted by this criminal prosecution as well. I am a mother, an immigrant and elected leader who attempted, along with other Worcester residents, to protect a traumatized young person, two mothers and an infant. I did the humane thing to do in this situation, nothing more, nothing less.”

WHOA! Steve Bannon UNLOADS on Elon Musk: “President Trump empowered him more than anyone’s ever been empowered, and people like me said you’re making a mistake—This is a bad guy—He’s going to turn on us” [VIDEO] | The Gateway Pundit– www.thegatewaypundit.com

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When it comes to sharing his opinions on pretty much any topic, Steve Bannon has never been shy, and today, in defense of his good friend, Donald J. Trump, Bannon eviscerated the world’s wealthiest man, calling him ‘incompetent,” and suggesting Musk had no business receiving the kind of trust or praise Trump bestowed upon him.

Elon Musk and Donald Trump in the Oval Office with Elon’s son X. Credit: The White House

Today, while speaking with two of his co-hosts, former US Congressman Dave Brat and social media personality Jack Posbiec, Steve Bannon appeared to have had enough of the very public feud between Elon Musk and President Trump and mercilessly unloaded on Musk.

“Elon Musk is working for himself,” Bannon told his co-hosts. The outspoken War Room icon explained, “President Trump empowered him more than anyone’s ever been empowered in this government! He [President Trump] had his back. Promoted this guy. And when people like me, who said, ‘You’re making a mistake! This is a bad guy! He’s gonna turn on you! He’s not with us. He’s also totally incompetent!’ And when President Trump said, ‘Hey, give this guy a shot!’ and I trust President Trump‘s judgment,” Bannon said and explained how he backed off “a little.” Bannon explained to his audience that as soon as Elon didn’t think he was running things or didn’t “get the adoration,” he “turned” on President Trump. But according to Bannon, Musk didn’t just turn on President Trump, “He [Musk] turned on the country—on the American people—and President Trump has had enough of it!”

Bannon, arguably one of the most important figures in the conservative culture, wasn’t finished sharing his disdain for Musk’s childish behavior because Trump’s “One Big Beautiful” bill wasn’t written the way Musk thought it should be written. He began to attack Trump on social media. Bannon suggested that Musk could have spoken with some of the top Republicans, with whom he has relationships, but instead, he began “tweeting the most vicious stuff you could tweet!” In Elon Musk’s attempt to score points in his social media war with President Trump, he tried to group him in “with those pedophiles on the [Epstein’s] island!” And then, Bannon really unloaded, saying, “He called for the president to be impeached and JD Vance to take his role!” Bannon continued, “As hard as we’ve worked in all the years! Some punk is gonna sit there and go, he should be impeached!?”

Jake Paul Criticizes ‘Alpha Male Ego’ Republican Party, Calls For Trump And Musk To Squash Their Beef– dailycaller.com

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Jake Paul ain’t wrong … this beef is nonsensical.

A cultural icon in terms of social media fame and combat sports, Jake Paul took to Twitter recently to speak about what the entire United States of America (and the globe at that) is talking about, and that’s the current beef going on between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk. (RELATED: Stephen A. Smith Flirts With Elon Musk Idea As He’s Clearly Taking Advantage Of Beef With Trump)

“One of the problems with the Republican Party is on display today (as a current Republican). We unfortunately have these Alpha male egos and leaders who aren’t mature enough sometimes. They’re 50+ years old and diss-tweeting each other. Elon and Trump are great but they need to work together and not make America look bad,” tweeted Paul.

Prior to the 2024 presidential election, Paul was a huge supporter of Trump and consistently called out the Democrats over several issues, including the nation’s problems with illegal aliens and crime waves.

NEW: Elon Musk Agrees He Should Make Peace With President Trump– wltreport.com

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The friendship between President Trump and Elon Musk has ended.

However, the biggest question is, can it be repaired?

On Thursday night, Musk signaled there may be a window for a peace treaty between the two.

Musk signaled possible peace between the two after the CEO of Pershing Square, Bill Ackman, posted on X, “should make peace for the benefit of our great country. We are much stronger together than apart.”

Musk then replied that he agreed.

Take a look:

Another user on X wrote to Elon, “You are both better than this. Cool off and take a step back for a couple of days.”

Musk responded, “Good advice.”

Top Lawyer Shuts Down Elon Musk’s Explosive Claim About Trump and Epstein– townhall.com

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Jeffrey Epstein’s defense attorney has blown a massive hole in entrepreneur Elon Musk’s claims about President Donald Trump’s connection to the deceased sexual predator.

Trump and Musk got into a high-profile cyber feud on Thursday that dominated the X platform. During the verbal donnybrook between the two men, things took an ugly turn when Musk claimed Trump “is in the Epstein files” and “that is the real reason they have not been made public.”

Time to drop the really big bomb:@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.

Have a nice day, DJT!

Musk provided no evidence to substantiate his claims, nor did he explain how he supposedly obtained this information. Nevertheless, his comment sparked debate and speculation about the issue since many have been waiting for the release of the Epstein Files since the president took office.

David Schoen, in a post on X, noted that he was “hired to lead Jeffrey Epstein’s defense as his criminal lawyer 9 days before he died.” The predator solicited Schoen’s advice for months before his death.

“I can say authoritatively, unequivocally, and definitively that he had no information to hurt President Trump,” Schoen wrote. “I specifically asked him!”

Harvard Hires ‘Counter-Zionist’ Professor in Effort To Fight ‘Anti-Israeli Bias’ in Classrooms– freebeacon.com

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Harvard Divinity School (HDS) appointed Shaul Magid, a leftist Jewish philosopher who describes himself as a “counter-Zionist,” to a new position the university says it created as a way to combat “anti-Israeli bias.”

Magid, who has described the Jewish state as “illiberal” and “chauvinist,” will be the university’s inaugural Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in Residence. Harvard says the new position is part of its effort to stem the tide of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel ideology in its classrooms after its anti-Semitism task force found that “politicized instruction” in four of its schools “mainstreamed and normalized what many Jewish and Israeli students experience as antisemitism.”

The report’s authors said Jewish students were unable to “engage fully in academic and co-curricular life at Harvard” due to attacks from anti-Israel peers. They also warned about the “ease with which ‘anti-Zionism’ slips into what is effectively antisemitism,” citing an anti-Semitic cartoon students and faculty shared on social media.

The “politicized instruction” at the Divinity School, the report noted, includes subjecting Jewish students to “the embrace of a pedagogy of ‘de-zionization’” in which professors “attribute to Jews two great sins: first, in the Levant, the establishment of the State of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba; and second, in the United States, participation in White supremacy.”