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The ranks of servile sycophants swimming around Donald Trump like the symbiotic fish species that leech off of whales is peculiar phenomenon that generally leads to repudiation and rejection. Trump notoriously demands unflinching loyalty from his...
by News Corpse
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on Sun Apr 21, 2024 at 04:46 PM PDT
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“We were filming in a safe place, I was wearing my flak jacket and my helmet — even the car I was in had a ‘PRESS’ and ‘TV’ sign marked on it. It was clear that I was a civilian and a journalist. We were targeted,” he told CNN. Those are the words of...
by Munchausen
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 10:04 PM PDT
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VIA a Daily Report from Air & Space Forces Magazine , there’s lots of action in the Pacific.
Oren Liebermann of CNN reports on what it’s like flying a mission in a B-52.
Exclusive: On board a B-
by xaxnar
26 comments
on Sat Apr 13, 2024 at 07:49 AM PDT
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Timothy Snyder has an urgent message: An Appeal to Congress Please read, share, and act Friends, I just took part in a team effort to get a message across to Congress. If we do not help Ukraine now, we lose all the things that Ukrainians have won for...
by xaxnar
76 comments
on Thu Apr 11, 2024 at 08:46 AM PDT
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Donald Trump started Monday by staking his official incoherent position on abortion in a too-many-minutes-long speech packed with lies. Like ending Roe v. Wade was something that “all legal ...
by Walter Einenkel
72 comments
on Mon Apr 08, 2024 at 01:43 PM PDT
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— — As explained earlier in an another MeidasTouch video, Trump’s unconventional Bond supplier has some problems. Primary among them being the lack of credible balance-sheet evidence, proving that Knight Specialty is “good for” the $175M IOU posted. NY...
by jamess
163 comments
on Fri Apr 05, 2024 at 08:30 PM PDT
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Wallace confessed to driving his staff crazy with ‘shtick’, as he promotes an interview with Larry David including discussing Seinfeld stuff. Chris Wallace asked, "so how much has the whole 2020 election and everything that has flowed from it pissed...
by annieli
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on Fri Mar 29, 2024 at 12:36 PM PDT
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UPDATE: UPDATE: Crooks and Liars is reporting that NBC executives are having an emergency meeting today to discuss the Ronna McDaniel hiring. Here are some X/Twitter comments on Carrie Budoff Brown: CNN seems to be enjoying the blowback from staffers...
by Merlin196360
243 comments
on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 07:47 AM PDT
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The comments that Donald Trump posts on his dreadfully failing Truth Social scam are predominantly vicious attacks on his political foes and delusional exaltations of himself. It's basically an online journal of a malignant narcissist compulsively...
by News Corpse
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 02:17 PM PDT
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Trump is complaining no one will give him a bond to cover his fines while he appeals the court decision against him for business fraud. The deadline is approaching where he either has to come up with something — or New York State will come in and seize...
by xaxnar
98 comments
on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 01:50 PM PDT
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Actually, I saw this on Digby’s Hullabaloo, who got it from Raw Story about a CNN report that Trump in full “panic mode” about his failure to secure a bond in the NY state fraud case. It does answer one very important question: Why didn’t Chubb bail...
by Merlin196360
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on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 08:29 AM PDT
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The NY Times has noticed the Right is winning the disinformation wars - and what they omit says why. The Headline at the Paper of Record is explicit: How Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation Their claims of censorship have successfully stymied the effort to filter election lies online. It’s a good read up to a point. The right wing...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 08:34 AM PDT
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I know most on Daily Kos�are going to quibble with me that there are actually different factions in the House GOP, but there are two major factions:� MAGA and the cowards who bow to the MAGA.� And ...
by Merlin196360
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on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Fourteen months ago Republicans assumed a razor-thin majority in the House of Representatives. What they have done with it since then is a masterclass in incompetence, failure, and humiliation. They have chosen to conduct the business of government in...
by News Corpse
35 comments
on Sat Mar 16, 2024 at 01:27 PM PDT
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There’s a diary up about an NPR profile of an undecided voter, who “claims [that] the most important issues to her are her retirement, her son’s safety in the military, and reproductive freedom” but “she still can’t decide between Donald Trump and Joe...
by GrafZeppelin127
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on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 12:13 PM PST
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When President Biden gives his State of the Union Address Thursday night, you can bet the press will be hanging on every word, looking for anything that will bolster the narrative that he is losing it, that age is catching up with him, the there is...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Mar 07, 2024 at 08:25 AM PST
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Often, writers at Daily Kos are left fuming about instances in which large media outlets seemingly skew the facts to preserve their sacred devotion to holding Democrats to an infinitely higher ...
by Mark Sumner
265 comments
on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 11:33 AM PST
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Republican Rep. Tim Burchett spoke with CNN’s Boris Sanchez on Wednesday in an attempt to defend�the House GOP’s bogus “investigations” into President Joe Biden and his family. Unfortunately ...
by Walter Einenkel
119 comments
on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 09:00 AM PST
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A new book on America’s first ladies has some delicious dish on Melania Trump’s time in the public eye, where�she squatted like a painful stye for four forgettable years.
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
90 comments
on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 02:15 PM PST
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I’ve been subscribing to Talking Points Memo for some time now, but lately I’ve really begun to appreciate the work Josh Marshall and his crew are doing. It’s even more valuable as the mainstream media increasingly fails to do its job and pushes faulty...
by xaxnar
62 comments
on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 12:40 PM PST
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