YouTuber James Charles Sparks Backlash For Berating Former Spirit Airlines Worker Who Sent Him GoFundMe Link After Losing Her Job
What a rude way to respond.
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Hi Friends,

The lack of concern this administration has for the devastating impact of its policies on everyday Americans is something we're used to by now.

But Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy's latest advice for Americans to "take a road trip" as gas prices soar in the wake of Trump's war in Iran is next level tone-deafness.

It would be funny if it weren't so sad.

~ George Takei

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Last summer, Donald Trump set off the 2025-2026 redistricting wars when he demanded that Texas Governor Greg Abbott call a special session to redraw Texas’s congressional lines. As Trump told reporters openly at the time, “We are entitled to five more seats.”

But he was not content to stop there. Trump also called on other red states to do the same, and North Carolina and Missouri quickly followed.

There was one outlier state that was aggressively targeted by Trump, however, that ultimately refused to comply: Indiana.

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