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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Despite the lack of televised coverage of Donald Trump in court, the trial of the century — or do I mean of the month, week, day,...
by TomDispatch
on Tue May 07, 2024 at 07:14 AM PDT
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Pure corruption.
by Hilmbrown
on Wed May 01, 2024 at 06:41 AM PDT
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First from Business Insider Monday: Yang Xiaoming, 62, was booted on April 23 from the National People's Congress "due to serious discipline and law violations," state media reported this weekend. The phrase typically means a person is under...
by Irontortoise
on Tue Apr 30, 2024 at 02:57 AM PDT
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Really? I will post at least another 10-15 additional editorial cartoons in the comments section and possibly some as manual updates to the diary. Thanks for supporting this diary. In case you missed any of them, here are my recent diaries in this...
by JekyllnHyde
on Mon Apr 29, 2024 at 07:01 PM PDT
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I don’t watch horror movies – they’re just too scary for me. Unfortunately, it’s hard to avoid former president/insurrectionist/sexual assaulter/tax fraudster Donald Trump’s foray into the legal system, what with his four criminal indictments and all....
by RickElia
on Sun Apr 28, 2024 at 05:33 AM PDT
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To sum it all up, Trump borrowed his way into apparent wealth. 1929 seems eerily familiar. From 1928 thru 1929, USA’s Gross National Product hovered around $104 Billion U.S. Dollars. By 1931, it had fallen to less than $60 Billion, a decline of over...
by agnostic
on Fri Apr 26, 2024 at 10:22 AM PDT
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I consumed all of the public information available and much of the analysis for the Presidential Immunity case before the Supreme Court that was argued yesterday. For those that track the SCOTUS analysis offered by the knowledgeable Dalia Lithwick and...
by Americans for a Republican Irrelevancy
on Fri Apr 26, 2024 at 06:52 AM PDT
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If you follow politics, sports, Hollywood or the arts, you’ve no doubt heard the insult “sellout” thrown around to describe someone perceived to have betrayed a core principle or shared value in their pursuit of personal gain. The term has recently...
by iafflerbach
on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 12:56 PM PDT
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Russian vice defense minister detained on corruption charges; Russia to attack (new) (western) stockpiles After the senate came also to grips with Ukraine funding Russia is eager to combat those (new) stacks of supplies to prevent the supplies from...
by ccoaler1
on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 10:03 PM PDT
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A House Oversight Committee hearing �into China’s “political warfare” against the United States went off the rails Wednesday when Republican Rep. James Comer interrupted Democratic Rep. Jamie ...
by Walter Einenkel
on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 06:30 AM PDT
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First saw this from the BBC yesterday, with a follow-up on Rawstory today. It seems Truong My Lan, who founded the real estate development company Vạn Thịnh Phát Group, and then gained illegal control of the Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB) through a...
by Irontortoise
on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 06:20 PM PDT
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When I heard the report on the news today, it felt like Deja vu all over again April 10, 2024. "House Speaker Mike Johnson will travel to Mar-a-Lago Friday for remarks on “election integrity” with former President Donald Trump, two sources directly...
by greenchiledem
on Thu Apr 11, 2024 at 06:00 AM PDT
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Republicans are desperate to get out the vote this November any way they can—and that includes voting by mail. “We’ve got to get every one of our voters to vote, no matter the method,” Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley told the...
by Walter Einenkel
on Tue Apr 02, 2024 at 02:23 PM PDT
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Like many kossacks, I’ve been watching the stock market gyrations around Trump’s (anti-)social media concern, Truth Social, and I think there’s an angle that everyone’s missed so far. Truth Social was, from the very beginning, intended as a conduit for...
by Horst deWurmer
on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 03:31 PM PDT
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Many of you may have seen the 25% drop in Trump Media today (still over $6 Billion market cap) but the CNBC story here also covers something that comes as no surprise. TMTG also disclosed to regulators that the company had identified “material...
by tjlord
on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 10:33 AM PDT
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If Donald Trump knows how to do anything, it’s destroy a business. And while the Republican National Committee might not be a “business” in the conventional sense, Trump and his family are ...
by Hunter
on Fri Mar 29, 2024 at 03:30 PM PDT
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It was just now my privilege to read: “Donald Trump is richer than he's ever been after social media merger: Forbes” by Travis Gettys (March 27, 2024 10:12AM ET). I’m gonna’ make this short and sweet. The merger between Media & Technology Group Corp....
by Obiwan711
on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 07:35 AM PDT
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Well, she's out. Just a day after NBC and MSNBC hosts publicly blasted the company's hiring of Donald Trump-allied former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel, the network's executives reversed course. NBCUniversal News Group Chairman...
by Hunter
on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 03:57 PM PDT
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Last week we examined the most likely scenarios for what might happen when Donald Trump's Monday deadline for coming up with an appeal bond for his $454 million civil fraud judgment came and went. ...
by Hunter
on Mon Mar 25, 2024 at 12:03 PM PDT
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www.rawstory.com/… Hey, Mar-A-Lago revisited!?(landing zone for all the nasty thoughts about possible terrorism connections, Jewish space lasers — MTG — and so on)... The dumpster zone of top secret data. … …. Then again, it is not necessarily about...
by ca cokz
on Mon Mar 25, 2024 at 06:00 AM PDT
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