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GM Completes Cruise Acquisition, Cuts 1,000 Jobs

General Motors finalized the acquisition of its Cruise subsidiary and laid off half of the self-driving vehicle firm’s workforce, or about 1,000 jobs. The move comes about two months after GM revealed it would stop funding Cruise’s robotaxi development, citing the resources required to scale a competitive robotaxi market.

Reassigned to Super Cruise Development

The Detroit Free Press reported that the job cuts impacted various administrative positions, though a GM spokesperson did not provide further details. The company plans to retain approximately 80% of the technical and engineering teams and reassign the remaining employees to work on the Super Cruise-assisted driving system and related technologies.

Enabling Hands-Free Driving

The Super Cruise platform, available in 20 vehicle models, enables hands-free driving on 750,000 miles of North American roads, according to GM. The automaker said it hopes to expand the technology to urban surface streets as it develops personal autonomous vehicles.

Never Made Money

GM has invested $10 billion in Cruise since 2016 and recently estimated it would reach $50 billion in annual revenue by 2030. However, the aftermath of a 2023 accident involving a Cruise vehicle and a pedestrian led to slower growth. The Free Press reported that the startup never turned a profit and ultimately cost GM nearly $2 billion per year to operate.

The DIE Scam: How America’s Corporations and Universities Were Duped by the Biggest Con of the Century

By Willow Tohi, Natural News • Mar. 5, 2025

• The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) movement emerged in the aftermath of the 2020 George Floyd protests, initially as a well-intentioned effort to address systemic inequalities. However, it quickly transformed into a bureaucratic initiative aimed at embedding social justice programs into the fabric of universities and corporations.
• George Floyd was a LIFE-LOMG CRIMINAL.
• Fueled by psychological manipulation, ideological extremism and the threat of violence, DEI programs spread across institutions. This led to the creation of a bloated bureaucracy that enforced ideological conformity and promoted divisive rhetoric, often pitting individuals against each other based on identity markers.
• By 2024, the flaws in DEI became evident, with major corporations like Ford, Walmart and John Deere rolling back their DEI commitments due to legal and political pressures. A growing number of employees and students criticized DEI for fostering division and mediocrity, leading to a widespread backlash against the movement.
• As DEI retreats, proponents are rebranding their ideology with terms like “inclusive excellence” and “belonging.” However, critics argue that the underlying ideology remains unchanged, and the movement’s advocates are likely to adapt and continue promoting their agenda under new labels.
• The collapse of DEI has prompted a shift towards merit-driven frameworks that emphasize objective criteria and measurable outcomes. This includes structured hiring practices, transparent promotion policies and collaborative decision-making processes, which are seen as more effective and less divisive than the top-down mandates of DEI.

)—The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) movement, once heralded as a moral and business imperative, has been exposed as one of the most elaborate cons of the 21st century. What began as a well-intentioned effort to address systemic inequalities quickly devolved into a bureaucratic hustle, enriching thousands of ideological hustlers while sowing division and mediocrity across academia and corporate America. Now, as DEI collapses under the weight of its own contradictions, it’s time to reflect on how this con took root—and why its demise is a victory for common sense and meritocracy.

The rise of the DEI con

The DEI movement gained traction in the wake of the 2020 George Floyd protests, which sparked a national conversation about race and inequality. But as Stanley K. Ridgley, author of DEI Exposed: How the Biggest Con of the Century Almost Toppled Higher Education, explains, DEI was never about genuine diversity or inclusion. Instead, it was a “bureaucratic initiative designed to anchor a new raft of social justice programs as an inescapable presence on the campus.”

Ridgley recounts how DEI metastasized across universities and corporations, fueled by a combination of psychological manipulation, ideological extremism and the threat of violence. “It was violence and the threat of violence that opened the door for this effervescence of DEI,” he writes. College administrations, fearing the chaos of 2020’s summer riots, capitulated to the demands of activists, allowing DEI to embed itself deeply into institutional structures.

The lunacy of “apparatchiks and supernumeraries” who peddled racialist pseudoscience and enforced ideological conformity. DEI training sessions became notorious for their divisive rhetoric, pitting employees and students against one another based on race, gender and other identity markers. As Ridgley bluntly puts it, “It was weird and alien and hateful at its core.”

The backlash begins

By 2024, the cracks in the DEI façade were impossible to ignore. Major corporations like Ford, Walmart and John Deere began rolling back their DEI commitments, citing mounting legal and political pressures. A Fox News poll conducted in early 2025 found that 45% of voters believed it was “extremely” or “very” important for President Donald Trump to focus on ending DEI programs.

The backlash wasn’t just political—it was personal. Employees and students who had long endured the mediocrity and divisiveness of DEI initiatives finally began speaking out. Psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert, who has seen the harmful effects of DEI in his practice, told Fox Business, “The trend over the last few years has been to make DEI programs into political commissars, to go after people who have different viewpoints, and they end up, in many ways, sowing more division in the institution that they’re supposed to help.”

Even DEI advocates like Naomi Wheeless acknowledged the role of political pressure in the movement’s decline. “It is that [Trump] is a president with a well-documented history of vindictiveness,” she said. “He creates a sense of fear and the feeling that whether we want to or not, we better fall in line.”

The con story lives on

As DEI retreats, its proponents are already scrambling to rebrand. Terms like “inclusive excellence” and “belonging” are emerging as replacements for the now-toxic DEI acronym. But as Ridgley warns, the underlying ideology remains the same. “The Con Story will morph and adapt,” he writes. “Buzzwords will change, new slogans will be coined, but the underlying ideology will remain the same as it always has.”

This isn’t the first time America has fallen for a con story. From the pseudoscience of Karl Marx to the utopian promises of radical activists, history is littered with examples of ideologies that duped the credulous. Ridgley draws a chilling parallel between the DEI movement and the case of Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old who murdered a man in New York City in 2024, driven by extremist ideology. “Persons who cheer the killer Luigi Mangione for his assassination of Brian Thompson also fully support DEI’s personnel, programs, policies and enforcement mechanisms on the college campuses,” Ridgley asserts.

A return to meritocracy

The collapse of DEI is a reminder that meritocracy and fairness are not just ideals—they are essential to a functioning society. As corporations and universities abandon DEI, many are turning to evidence-based, merit-driven frameworks that emphasize objective criteria and measurable outcomes. Structured hiring practices, transparent promotion policies and collaborative decision-making processes are proving to be more effective—and less divisive—than the top-down mandates of DEI.

The death of DEI is a victory for common sense, but the fight is far from over. As Ridgley warns, the con artists behind DEI will not go quietly. They will rebrand, relabel and repackage their ideology in an attempt to deceive a new generation of marks. But for now, America can breathe a sigh of relief that one of the biggest cons of the century has finally been exposed.

The lesson is clear: Ideological extremism and bureaucratic bloat have no place in our institutions. It’s time to return to the principles that made America great—individual merit, equal opportunity and the pursuit of excellence. DEI may be over, but the work of rebuilding trust and integrity in our ins

President Donald Trump is proving once again why he’s the king of slashing government waste and draining the swamp.

In a blockbuster report from Bloomberg, the Trump administration has unveiled plans to unload a massive portfolio of 443 federal properties across 47 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico—properties bloated with bureaucracy, including the headquarters of the DOJ, FBI, and even the General Services Administration (GSA) itself.

The General Services Administration (GSA) disclosed a list of 443 “non-core” assets, encompassing a mix of prime commercial spaces that currently serve as regional hubs for various federal agencies.

“We are identifying buildings and facilities that are not core to government operations, or non-core properties for disposal. Selling ensures that taxpayer dollars are no longer spent on vacant or underutilized federal spaces,” GSA wrote on its website.

“Disposing of these assets helps eliminate costly maintenance and allows us to reinvest in high-quality work environments that support agency missions.”

These properties span nearly 80 million rentable square feet—equivalent to twelve Pentagons. The potential sale of these assets could lead to more than $430 million in annual savings on operating costs, aligning with President Trump’s commitment to trim government expenditure.

Among the high-profile properties listed are the headquarters of several major departments such as Justice, Agriculture, and Veterans Affairs, primarily located in the Washington, D.C. area. Also, the Nancy building in San Francisco and the Dick Cheney Federal Building in Wyoming. The GSA even suggested selling its own headquarters as part of this plan.

Below is the list of buildings in Washington, D.C.:

DOGE Is in the Constitution

By Ted Noel

On January 30, Pocahontas shouted into a microphone that “There is nothing in the Constitution that says ordinary citizens have a right to see what we spend our tax dollars on.” Aside from the frightening implications of such a statement, Senator Warren is so far off base that she’s not even on the field. As an attorney, she should know better.

Article I, § 9, Clause 7 of the Constitution says:

No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.

Questioning Grok AI yields an answer that the highest broad brush level of disclosure, limited to gross receipts and Department level funding, satisfies this provision. This may have been adequate at the Founding, but with the proliferation of departments, bureaus, and agencies, it is no longer a “Statement [of]… Expenditures of all public Money.” A proper description of the present state of affairs is, frankly, NSFW.

Enter DOGE.

Using computerized tools that operate many multiples of the speed of any human, DOGE has been able to create forensic maps of where all the money has gone. In short, it’s an automated method of observing Sutton’s Law: Follow the Money.

Like most working stiffs, I thought USAID was a way that “aid” money got to foreign governments and organizations. Boy was I wrong! Yes, the “AID” part was “Agency for International Development,” but that didn’t seem to make much difference. Big Balls Coristine and his band of merry men let the cat out of the bag. Large chunks of that money were being laundered into the pockets of Democrat organizations and operatives.

Politico has been widely reported to be a prime recipient of federal dollars. While the details are unclear, the $8.2 million in cancelled government subscriptions is a not-inconsequential hit to its $100 million total budget. Other left wing entities such as ActBlue, the Tides Foundation, and various Soros affiliates are also implicated in misappropriated funds.

Detailed amounts for specific beneficiaries aren’t known yet, since DOGE hasn’t published its reports. Multiple lawsuits are throwing mud in the gears. But the screaming by leftists cannot be ignored. They are being exposed. There can be no doubt that government corruption has financed many things that will almost certainly result in personal address changes and loss of WiFi privileges. But more important is the fact that, when all is said and done, a major portion of the federal fisc isn’t being spent on those things that the Constitution allows.

One has to wonder, with all this money sloshing around the pool, just how much of it has ended up in the play pens of various Democrat legislators? How is it that Chuckie Schumer has become a multimillionaire on a salary of a couple hundred grand? Or how did our favorite New York bartender get to be worth millions? It couldn’t be her economics degree or a trade in cattle futures, could it?

The real problem here is the word “expenditures.” When Congress appropriates a few paltry billions for USAID, it hasn’t spent a dime. It has authorized the president to spend through USAID. The money that USAID sends out are its expenditures, and those are the largest part of what was appropriated. Keeping the lights on and paying the help are small potatoes. The federal government hasn’t told us very much about where it is actually sending the money. For example, when we ship rockets and bombs to Ukraine, that’s not technically an expenditure. They are pulled from stockpiles and loaded on ships. The actual expenditure is to Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon, or some other defense contractor. And that information is buried under multiple layers of paper.

The Constitution obligates the Feds to tell us where the money went. Those expenditures have been concealed from us for decades. It is very likely that most of the last century has been devoted to creating these money laundering networks with the goal of financing every “election” campaign with taxpayer money. In close races, it probably paid for stuffing ballot boxes (see “2,000 Mules”). It definitely paid for propaganda via outlets such as Politico and the Huffington Post. Big Tech got richer from toeing the Left’s line. And Democrat campaigns harvested this laundered money through ActBlue, where retirees on small fixed incomes “gave” massive amounts via thousands of tiny donations. When contacted, the “donors” pointed out that not only did they not give the money, they didn’t have it to give. There’s a short word that describes this: fraud.

Senator Warren isn’t just wrong on the Constitution. She has taken a position completely opposed to the exact requirement spelled out in it. We have every right to know what our government spends our money on. Because no agency of the Executive Branch willingly gives up its ledger, DOGE is the essential crowbar to break open the stone wall. Thus we may properly understand that DOGE is the reporting agency envisioned by Article I, § 9, Clause 7.

Further affiant sayeth naught.

 Courageous Stand Against EU Hypocrisy

Latinopoulou spoke bluntly, calling out the arrogance of European leftists who now attempt to shift blame onto conservatives.

“You, the destroyers of Europe, have the audacity to point the finger at us and claim that we conservatives are a threat to Europe?” she said.

The Thatcher Quote That Left Parliament Silent

At a striking moment in her speech, she quoted Margaret Thatcher: “The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” The brutal truth hung in the air.

Then, she laid out her demands:

• Cut taxes
• Increase competitiveness
• Bring back plastic straws
• Stop attacking brown coal
• Invest in industry
• Most importantly, admit that socialist policies have failed

A Rallying Cry for Europe’s Future

Latinopoulou’s speech has gone viral, striking a chord with Europeans tired of bureaucratic overreach and economic destruction. Her defiance signals a growing conservative pushback against the EU’s failing socialist agenda.

The European Parliament may not like what she said, but the message was clear: the left has run Europe into the ground, and it’s time for a course correction.

A cursory review of Social Security records by Musk’s department has revealed that the social security safety net program is paying benefits to 150-year-olds. The businessman noted that many of those entries listed for Social Security recipients had no identifying information.

“This might be the biggest fraud in history,” Musk stated, according to a report by RT.  

In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, the United States-based billionaire noted that “there are far more ‘eligible’ social security numbers than there are citizens in the USA.” Musk also shared a post by an X user suggesting that 394,943,364 people are currently receiving social security payments. That is more than the total U.S. population, which amounts to 334 million.

Gov’t Data: Reuters Collected More Than $1B From Taxpayers in 15 Years

The Associated Press (AP), The New York Times, and other far-left, mainstream media outlets have collected millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars from multiple government agencies.

But a search of USASpending.gov reveals that Reuters News & Media has collected more than $1 billion through the years.

Yet another contract to Thomson Reuters Special Services, an affiliate under the Thomson empire, is also under scrutiny. It came from the Defense Department (DoD) to combat cyberattacks, although the wording of the contract led Elon Musk, chieftain of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), to mischaracterize it on X.

Reuters Gets Rich on Taxpayers’ Dime

The federal government’s out-of-control spending has been the focus of DOGE since President Donald Trump created it by executive order on Inauguration Day.

Since Trump took office, more and more evidence of waste, fraud, and abuse has surfaced on social media, much of it from USAspending.gov. Although the scandalous data have always been available, only when Musk began looking into spending did the material go viral.

As The New American reported last week, AP and the Times have raked in millions of taxpayer dollars, as has the hate-Trump Politico. The total for the three is upwards of $100 million.

But Reuters has been an especially favored beneficiary of taxpayer money. Of course, 99 percent of taxpayers knew it.

The spending website shows that Reuters News & Media Inc. has pocketed $1.2 billion since 2008 from numerous agencies, including the departments of Justice, Treasury, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services.

It also pulled in big bucks from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Another Reuters affiliate, Thomson Reuters Special Services LLC, has snared $120 million since 2010.

Musk’s DoD Post

Also going viral thanks to Musk is the Thomson Reuters Special Services contract with the Department of Defense.

Musk retweeted a post about the contract that claimed DoD had paid Reuters — meaning the media outlet — for “social engineering” and “large scale social deception.”

“I can’t believe how good this timeline is!” Topher Field wrote:

Follow this chain of events:

1. Reuters writes hit piece against DOGE.

2. Musk tweets, ‘I wonder what Reuters are being paid?

3. DOGE uncovers Department of Defence contract paying Reuters for ‘Large Scale Social Deception.

It’s crazy that this is happening.

It’s INSANE that it’s playing out in the public square!