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Available reporting is conflicted about whether Walmart permanently closed specific stores in 2025: several outlets and aggregators published lists naming 11 stores across states such as California, G...
Major tech companies and prominent tech figures have publicly engaged with or financially supported Donald Trump’s 2025 presidency through inauguration donations, meetings at Mar‑a‑Lago, and participa...
Social media claims listing “major retailers that donated to Trump” have repeatedly mischaracterized individual employee or affiliated donors as corporate gifts; federal law generally bars corporation...
Walmart’s 2025 store-closure picture is fragmented: one specific shutdown — the Coon Rapids, Minn. supercenter on Aug. 29, 2025 — is reported and attributed by Walmart to poor financial performance an...
Disney+ lost about 700,000 subscribers in the first quarter of fiscal 2025 (the three months ending December 2024), a decline reported in Disney’s Q1 2025 earnings coverage in early February 2025 (rep...
Reporting on Walmart store closures for 2025 is inconsistent: multiple outlets published lists saying roughly 10–11 U.S. Walmarts would close in 2025 across about six states (with frequent mentions of...
Walmart says it has “no current plans to close any stores in 2025,” a spokesperson told Fast Company, which directly contradicts multiple media lists that circulated naming as many as 11 Walmart locat...
Walmart confirmed a small number of permanent U.S. store shutdowns in 2025 as part of a “store performance” or “footprint optimization” review, with reporting citing closures in states including Minne...
Walmart confirmed a small wave of permanent store shutdowns tied to underperformance and local market dynamics that, across multiple reports, were concentrated most heavily in California in 2025, with...
Trump-branded merchandise is a multimillion-dollar revenue stream that has helped funnel at least millions directly to Trump and his businesses—Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington rep...
Campaigns and grassroots groups in 2025 organized boycotts aimed at large retailers and some grocery-related brands they said were aligned with or enabling President Donald Trump; organizers repeatedl...
Estimates in the reporting provided stress that individuals contribute meaningful but limited shares of emissions compared with large industrial actors: many pieces argue that systemic sources—industr...
Yes — multiple, well-documented instances show AI-generated deepfake videos being used to advertise health supplements, often impersonating real doctors and academics to promote unproven or fraudulent...
The question of whether “gold plating” the White House is a legitimate use of taxpayer funds is contested in current reporting: critics point to a multi‑hundred‑million renovation and gold fixtures ad...
Major platforms hosted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recruitment ads across streaming and social channels throughout 2025 as part of a wide federal hiring push; several outlets report...
#GrabYourWallet began in October 2016 as a Twitter-driven boycott list targeting retailers tied to the Trump family and quickly shifted from hashtag activism to sustained consumer pressure and a publi...
Yes — companies tied to Donald Trump Jr. were among entities that applied for or received Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds during the COVID pandemic: reporting identifies a hydroponic lettuce v...
Conservative feuds between high-profile influencers and institutions usually end in one of four outcomes—rebranding and return, public rupture and mutual weakening, institutional co-option, or legal/f...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security launched a large, multimillion-dollar campaign in 2025 to encourage "self-deportation," with officials budgeting roughly $200 million for the core campaign and...
Reporting shows President Trump has overseen extensive White House work — gilding the Oval Office, repaving the Rose Garden, demolishing the East Wing for a proposed $250–$300 million ballroom, and hi...