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Talk about a grilling on Raw Story. As “NBC Host Under Fire...” reports, singer/songwriter/activist/fact-finder Bill Madden makes bold to belie the networks’ misinfo-as-usual (this time, as hawked by Kristen Welker). Where she soft pedals the...
by Inspector Clueso
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on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 11:54 AM PDT
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The Nation has picked up a hit piece that I originally read on DKos. This is the latest in a long campaign of misinformation and court filings designed to stop people from switching away from fossil fuel vehicles to electric vehicles. First, understand...
by CorpFlunky
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on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 10:19 AM PDT
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I try to avoid watching the early afternoon shows on MSNBC because the line up includes Andrea Mitchell, Chris Jansing, and Katy Tur. But I was waiting for the 4 P.M. Deadline White House to see the latest on the Ronna McDaniel farce, and I did watch...
by Merlin196360
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on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 09:49 AM PDT
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I’m having trouble copying the image from my email. �It is a picture of an envelope and the sender’s name is printed as President Donald Trump. �You frigging idiot, you are not the president. �...
by flucies
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on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 06:59 AM PDT
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After all the pushback from, well, everyone, NBC has apparently been looking for the right crow recipe before serving up their “Ronna will be spending more time with her family” entree. This just in from Sky Palma through Raw Story. Leadership at NBC...
by randallt
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on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 11:26 AM PDT
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Six months ago, Mount Donald blew MAGA magma at “lamestream’ (i.e. non-Foxified) media in general, and especially at NBC and MSNBC. For no stated reason, the prolifically indicted Former Lout smeared them as “corrupted and dishonest” (as if he were a...
by Inspector Clueso
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on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 12:20 PM PDT
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WHY I COULD NEVER VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP By Don C. Reed Although raised in a Republican household, I could never vote for Donald Trump. This is for a variety of reasons, but today I want to touch on only one: I consider Trump an habitual liar, who will...
by diverdonreed
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on Fri Mar 22, 2024 at 10:19 AM PDT
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The Trump braggadocio fumbles keep coming and this one about who wants to be his VP, begs us to pick it up and run with it. From his recent Newsmax interview with Greg Kelly at about 1:35 mark on this link shown by Colbert last night. (Scroll down to...
by KKwriter
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on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 07:07 PM PDT
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Admin correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly described a longtime Trump associate as the former chairman of Economic Transformation Technologies. A previous version of the headline also presented an assumption about the $600K payment...
by Munchausen
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on Thu Mar 14, 2024 at 03:52 PM PDT
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[If you appreciate my writing you can join my Substack where i am several articles ahead, but it has a free tier. Subscribe now Thanks.] Reposted from MySubstack While in major consideration as a VP pick for Trump, fresh off of losing before the...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 09:28 AM PDT
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[If you appreciate my writing you can join my Substack where I am 5 articles ahead, but it does have a free tier. Subscribe now Thanks.] Reposted from My Substack Dealing from the bottom of the barrell, the GOP resorts to the rudest, bases, and most...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Thu Mar 14, 2024 at 10:01 AM PDT
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UPDATE: Monday, Mar 4, 2024 · 4:59:53 PM +00:00 · Dem A statement " diagnosis at a distance is always fraught" is a claim that the authors of "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" dispute because the least reliable source of information is the in person...
by Dem
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on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 08:06 AM PST
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[This piece is appearing in newspapers in the very red congressional district (VA-06) where I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012, running under the slogan “Truth. For a change.”] ********************** Abraham Lincoln said, “You can fool...
by AndySchmookler
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on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 08:14 AM PST
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There are many ways of describing how extraordinary today’s Republican Party is — all of them disturbing. One of those ways is that — virtually across the board — this party is in the business of selling lies.
by AndySchmookler
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on Thu Feb 22, 2024 at 11:58 AM PST
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There is an Associated press article relating that True The Vote was tasked by a Georgia Court with producing any evidence that there was ballot stuffing in Georgia in 2020. Associated Press article Not only was it propaganda, but that disinformation...
by ComputerGeek
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on Thu Feb 15, 2024 at 07:56 AM PST
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I haven’t seen this story here on Daily Kos yet so I thought I’d drop a little tidbit of information that came through my inbox via Jeff Tiedrich’s Substack. Turns out the border “crisis” that’s been hyped up by Fox News and the Republican Party is...
by CyberMindGrrl
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on Sun Feb 04, 2024 at 10:11 AM PST
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UPDATE: Tuesday, Jan 30, 2024 · 3:09:33 PM +00:00 · Dem For some time, I was an apologist for Attorney General Merrick Garland. However, after much thought, I simply could not get there anymore. Attorney General Garland appointed a special prosecutor...
by Dem
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on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 05:51 AM PST
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Nothing I’ve seen in some 60 years of trying to understand the human world has been so surprising, and so revelatory of strange dimensions of (collective) human psychology. For more about the problem of Brokenness in human civilization, please check...
by AndySchmookler
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on Sat Jan 27, 2024 at 07:04 AM PST
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Pardon the trope, but on 1/23 did anyone else notice the ocean, so to speak, calling the desert wet? Oy. In New Hampshire, the speciously ‘moderate’ Nikki Haley got womped by the now baldly fascistic former creep. She then duly conceded. If anyone in...
by Inspector Clueso
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on Thu Jan 25, 2024 at 12:22 PM PST
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The economy has in modern times been judged by one number more than any other and that’s the unemployment rate. There are a bunch of numbers that are also used in addition to the unemployment rate, but that’s the main one. Moving the goal posts on...
by Dem
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on Thu Jan 25, 2024 at 08:08 AM PST
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