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Flu sickens scores of troops at Air Force base in Texas after Pentagon ends vaccine requirement

In the wake of the outbreak, the Air Force requested an exemption to Hegseth’s policy that allowed them to mandate flu vaccines at the base, according to a second person familiar with the details of the response.

The base has since started vaccinating people

This is much more Ouroboros than leopards, but no such community....

Flu sickens scores of troops at Air Force base in Texas after Pentagon ends vaccine requirementhttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/flu-sickens-scores-troops-air-force-base-texas-pentagon-ends-vaccine-r-rcna350854Open linkView original on lemmy.ca

Positive spin: 'I was dumb as a rock': Hardcore MAGA couple ditches Trump after getting 'kick in teeth'

“We voted for Trump, not realizing that he was going to slam as hard as he did, but it was on day one when he sat down, right after inauguration, and started signing those executive orders and just trashed us federal employees, it was a kick in the teeth,” Ron said.

“That point was the beginning of my turning away from MAGA.”

“If people would just listen and research and do something other than just listen to Fox News, we may all be better off, but it's going to take an open mind and an ability to say, ‘I made a mistake,’ because once you say you made a mistake, you can turn the ship around,” said Chrissey Kelley, 50, a stay-at-home mom.

Positive spin: 'I was dumb as a rock': Hardcore MAGA couple ditches Trump after getting 'kick in teeth'https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/2676961714/Open linkView original on sh.itjust.works

Texas Republicans have a data center problem

“I’ve always been committed,” said Schroeder, 62, of her allegiance to the GOP. That is, until she learned about a massive data center, part of OpenAI’s $500 billion Stargate project, going up south of her property.

The project has been championed by her party’s standard-bearers, President Donald Trump and Gov. Greg Abbott. But the more Schroeder learned about data centers popping up across the state, the more she became convinced her party was corrupted by industry lobbyists, seemingly brushing off what she saw as an existential threat to rural Texans like her.

So in late March, at a GOP precinct meeting in Falls County, Schroeder suggested they propose a data center ban at the upcoming state Republican convention, which sets the party’s priorities.

“They started screaming and yelling, and you would have thought I started World War III,” Schroeder said. “They said, ‘We won’t accept that, Rena. You’re gonna have to revise it to regulations.’”

Texas Republicans have a data center problemhttps://www.texastribune.org/2026/05/07/texas-republicans-data-centers-rural/Open linkView original on sh.itjust.works

Billionaire backer sues Trump family's crypto firm over alleged extortion

Sun is an ardent supporter of Trump and his stance on cryptocurrencies, but accused "certain individuals" associated with World Liberty of acting against the president's values.

"They wrongfully froze all of my tokens, stripped me of my right to vote on governance proposals, and have threatened to permanently destroy my tokens by 'burning' them - all without any proper justification," he said in a social media post announcing the lawsuit.

Billionaire backer sues Trump family's crypto firm over alleged extortionhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8x7kxjgq9xoOpen linkView original on sh.itjust.works

The Save America PAC is $500,000 in the red according to federal filings — and owes three times as much to the president’s many, many lawyers.

President Donald Trump’s army of lawyers may be the largest of any Oval Office occupant in history. Aside from the attorneys who work for the office of the president, he has retained a veritable phalanx of personal attorneys over the years to represent him in court. That kind of legal firepower doesn’t come cheap. But according to recent Federal Election Commission filings, the funding stream Trump has been using to pay out millions to law firms is running very, very low on cash.

The Save America PAC is $500,000 in the red according to federal filings — and owes three times as much to the president’s many, many lawyers.https://www.ms.now/opinion/trumps-legal-fees-donations-fecOpen linkView original on sh.itjust.works

West Virginians voted overwhelmingly for Trump on promise to cut electric costs in half. Bills in energy-rich West Virginia now top mortgages

Every month, Rebecca Michalski takes a deep breath before opening her electric bill. She lives on a fixed income, and heating her small house this winter has been staggering: Her February charge was $940.08 — more than her check.

West Virginians voted overwhelmingly for Trump on promise to cut electric costs in half. Bills in energy-rich West Virginia now top mortgageshttps://apnews.com/article/electricity-utility-bills-west-virginia-trump-coal-38ad648f99a42eb2c73d7affaddadbcbOpen linkView original on lemmy.ca

‘Visibly upset and struggling’: Acting ICE head hospitalized twice over stress, officials say

Acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Todd Lyons has been hospitalized at least twice for stress-related issues as he has carried out President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration agenda — strain that has caused him to struggle to make key decisions for the agency, according to two current and two former administration officials.

The hospitalizations took place over the last seven months. In one incident in December, Lyons’ security detail drove him to a hospital in Washington and he was admitted overnight, according to one former and two current administration officials. During an episode in September, the three people said Lyons was hospitalized for at least one night.

In a separate incident in Los Angeles over the summer, Lyons became so distressed when ICE agents couldn’t locate a migrant on their target list after a ride along with top administration officials that one of his bodyguards took a portable defibrillator from a nearby government office to Lyons in case he needed medical intervention, according to one current and one former official.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/27/todd-lyons-ice-stress-hospital-00848458Open linkView original on sh.itjust.works

Ford shutsdown $5.8bn factory months after opening as 1,600 workers lose jobs

“Those are 1,600 Kentuckians that lost their jobs solely because of Donald Trump pushing that big, ugly bill, eliminating the credits that had people interested and excited to buy EVs,” he told the New York Times.

“I bet many, if not most, of them voted for him, and he basically fired them.”

Hardin County, where Glendale is, overwhelmingly supported Trump in 2024 with the Republican getting 64% of the vote.

https://www.the-sun.com/motors/15943615/ford-shutsdown-electric-vehicle-battery-factory-trump-kentucky/Open linkView original on lemmy.ca