FedEx Exec soon to be Postmaster General

 

Donald Trump and his billionaire allies like Elon Musk want to break up and sell off the Postal Service, one of America’s most trusted public institutions, to the highest bidder. Wall Street is already licking its lips. They don’t care that veterans won’t get medications on time. That seniors will pay more just to get mail and packages. Or that the most rural areas including hundreds of Indigenous communities will be left behind, without access to affordable postal services. Wall Street sees profit margins. We see people. And we refuse to let them win. FedEx and UPS already slap surcharges on 62% of ZIP codes. And if the USPS is privatized, these hidden fees will skyrocket, with working-class families, rural communities, and small towns left paying the price. Now, the USPS Board of Governors has installed Donald Trump’s pick as the next Postmaster General: FedEx’s David Steiner. That’s right, Steiner currently serves on the FedEx board, holds 34,438 shares of FedEx common stock, currently worth $7.4 million, and owns FedEx stock options worth millions more. Now, he’s set to hold the top position at the United States Postal Service where he can sabotage from within and fast-track Trump’s privatization plans. We must stop him. Contribute whatever you can – $5, $25, $2500 – whatever you can afford and rush the resources we need to protect the post office now. RUSH A DONATION >> This is terrible news, but this fight isn’t over. Not even close. Thanks to public outcry and our relentless coalition organizing, Trump’s original privatization plan was an executive order to fire the Postal Board and move the agency under the control of the Commerce Department and we stopped it dead in its tracks. Now, we’ve delivered over 300,000 letters to Congress demanding they pass H.Res.70 and S.Res.147 to block privatization. With over 200 co-sponsors, we have bipartisan support from Republicans representing dark red districts to Democrats in dark blue ones and everywhere in between. The only way to kill Trump’s privatization plan for good is to keep applying pressure. Rush a donation to help us crush Trump’s privatization plan and keep the Postal Service public, protected, and powerful for every ZIP code in America now. We will succeed, but only if we don’t give up. Thank you for being a critical part of this team. - Annie and the Save the Post Office Coalition Team P.S. For more information, please see my message from yesterday below. --- Original Message --- Thanks to reporting by The Washington Post, we found out with almost no time to mobilize that the USPS Board of Governors was considering installing FedEx official David Steiner as the next Postmaster General. Our nationwide network immediately took action, sending an incredible 22,277 direct messages to the postal board in less than 24 hours. Thank you. Unfortunately, we still have to deal with the reality of a FedEx guy running USPS: According to the most recent FedEx proxy statement, Steiner holds 34,438 shares of FedEx common stock, currently worth $7.4 million. He also owns FedEx stock options worth millions more. Put another way: he has a monetary interest in slowing or destroying the Postal Service. We can’t sugarcoat it. This is worse than when Trump installed DeJoy, much worse. DeJoy was a disaster, but at least he wasn’t on the board of a company that would actively profit from USPS’s destruction. Installing Steiner opens the door for corporate sabotage from within, handing control of one of our most beloved public institutions over to someone whose financial interests are directly opposed to the USPS’s success. This is a disaster, but we can’t give up. Instead, we must redouble our efforts and fight to win. We often stopped the worst impacts of Louis DeJoy’s failed leadership, we can – and will – do it again. But we need your support in this fight. Please rush a contribution now. If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your secure donation will go through immediately: Chip in $25 now   Chip in $75 now Chip in $150 now   Chip in $300 now Chip in $500 now   other amount This fight isn’t over. We will not let the Trump administration, FedEx, or the postal board of governors privatize the post office. Not now. Not ever. Rush a contribution to fund our work leading the Save the Post Office Coalition and together we’ll stop Trump’s privatization plan now. - Annie Annie Norman (she/her) Campaign Director Save the Post Office Coalition Americans for Financial Reform Support This Campaign Paid for by Americans for Financial Reform

Trump’s new tax-payer funded right-wing propaganda website

 

Last week, the Trump White House quietly launched a government funded propaganda site called the White House Wire. 

The site is a blatant rip off of the Drudge Report, linking to right-wing misinformation from Breitbart, Fox, and Trump’s own social media posts:

The site is being hosted on WhiteHouse.gov. And it’s being funded by your tax dollars.

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More than just another shameless act of self-promotion, Trump’s new propaganda website is a textbook authoritarian move.

Designed to mimic the Drudge Report, the White House Wire only features far right outlets that praise Trump. And it was built with public dollars—all while Trump and Musk slash Social Security, gut air traffic safety, and defund scientific and medical research.

The site is just the latest in the broader effort to replace an independent press with a state-aligned media ecosystem.

The Department of Justice recently revoked long-standing protections that shielded journalists from being forced to reveal their sources—raising the threat of prosecution for reporting Trump doesn’t like.

Legacy media like CBS News and the Washington Post are being squeezed into compliance by outright extortion. 

Trump also banned the Associated Press from Air Force One and the Oval Office after the AP refused to rename the “Gulf of Mexico” the “Gulf of America” in its reporting.

More than 1,300 journalists at Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, and other federally funded outlets were furloughed after the administration revoked their budgets—until a federal court ordered the funds restored.

And now Trump is calling for investigations into pollsters and journalists who published unfavorable approval ratings.

We could go on and on, but the White House Wire isn’t just more Trump BS and bluster, it’s the tip of the spear for the war on the free press. 

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Trump suggests Americans spend more to get less, and says his birthday parade will cost “peanuts compared to the value of doing it.”

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Trump is crashing our economy and telling working families to ration toys for their kids, but it’s totally cool to spend HUGE sums of OUR money on 6,600 marching troops, tanks in the street, and fighter jets to stroke his ego. Sounds like banana republic BS, right?

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No Chinese Ships Are Coming to the West Coast as Supply Chain Crisis Fears Rise

Aaron Parnas May 10

In a development not seen since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, West Coast port officials reported Friday that no cargo vessels had departed from China bound for the two major ports in Southern California—Los Angeles and Long Beach—over the previous 12 hours, according to CNN. Based on port authorities, this sudden drop to zero shipments marks a jarring disruption in U.S.-China trade that could have lasting economic consequences.

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Just six days earlier, 41 ships had been scheduled to leave China for the San Pedro Bay port complex. On Friday morning, that number was zero.

The drop coincides with the latest round of tariffs imposed by Donald Trump in April, which targeted a wide range of Chinese imports. These tariffs, part of the administration’s escalating trade war with Beijing, have raised the cost of doing business with China significantly—enough to halt shipments across the Pacific and stir alarm in America’s busiest ports.

“That’s cause for alarm,” said Mario Cordero, CEO of the Port of Long Beach. “We are now seeing numbers in excess of what we witnessed in the pandemic” when it comes to vessel cancellations and volume drops.

The fallout has been swift and severe. The Port of Long Beach reports a 35–40% decline in cargo volume compared to normal operations. The Port of Los Angeles is also seeing a 31% drop in cargo this week. The slowdown isn’t isolated to California—New York and New Jersey ports are bracing for a decline, and the Port of Seattle reported zero container ships in dock on Wednesday.

This shipping standstill is already impacting U.S. retailers and consumers. Prices on everyday items are climbing as companies pass higher import costs on to customers. An analysis from the Telsey Advisory Group revealed steep price hikes on a variety of consumer goods since Trump’s tariff policy took effect on April 2.

Between April 16 and April 30:

• A Target-exclusive Barbie doll jumped from $10.49 to $14.99, a 43% increase.

• A Whirlpool washing machine at Lowe’s rose by nearly $82 to $599.

• Girl’s Cat & Jack leggings at Target increased by 33%, from $4.50 to $6.

• A Dewalt power drill at Tractor Supply went from $159 to $179—though it was later discounted to $99 in a promotional sale.

The broader implication is clear: with shipping routes disrupted and costs rising, American households may feel the pinch well beyond the ports.

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🚨 The Trump-Crypto Alliance: What’s at Stake — Join Us Monday Night 🚨      RSVP   Donald Trump and his inner circle aren’t just playing the crypto game — they’re rigging it to enrich themselves, rewrite the rules, and give tech oligarchs unchecked power over our democracy. The so-called GENIUS Act is their latest power play — a bill designed to funnel unregulated crypto cash into campaigns and super PACs while rewarding Trump's own financial backers and family-run crypto ventures. That’s why Our Revolution is holding an urgent LIVE online event on Monday, May 12 at 8:30PM ET / 5:30PM PT to expose the truth behind this bill and how we stop it. Tune in to hear from Senator Jeff Merkley and other special guests and experts to learn more about crypto corruption and ways to take action! We will break down: How Trump and his crypto allies are hijacking our democracy Why the GENIUS Act is a gift to billionaires and a threat to free elections What YOU can do to stop the crypto-corporate takeover of our government 💥 Crypto speculators poured over $200 million into the 2024 election cycle. Now they want payback. Let’s make sure they don’t get it. 👉 RSVP NOW for the Town Hall When we organize, we win. Our Revolution

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Traitor of the Week: A Final Six-Pack of Quislings! TBR Sunday Read May 11 Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945), who headed Norway’s government and collaborated with the Nazis during his nation’s occupation. Shown here at his trial in Oslo, he was convicted and executed. (Fox Photos/Getty Images) Welcome to the final installment of Traitor of the Week—and we’re going out with a bang, nominating six traitors in one fell swoop! In this series I profile the most egregious enablers of the fascist regime presently vandalizing the US—and ask you, the reader, to choose the worst. An inspiration for this series is Vidkun Quisling, the Nazi collaborator in Norway whose villainy was so epic that his last name has become a synonym for traitor. With apologies to Norwegians, I think the word “quisling” is ripe for an update, since the US currently has an embarrassment of traitors worthy of such enshrinement. Each week, I highlight those who, for personal gain, are aiding and abetting the criminal cabal operating out of the White House. Next week, I’ll ask TBR readers to consider all of the nominees, and the voting will begin for America’s Top Traitor. But first, let’s consider this week’s six-pack of quislings:... Subscribe to The Borowitz Report to unlock the rest.