Rightwing provocateur Alex Jones owes a $1.4 billion judgment to Sandy Hook families which he can’t pay. But he can pay something; after all, he made millions by selling supplements on his podcast show. To help satisfy that judgment, his assets are being sold off in bankruptcy court. One of th[...]
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Daily Mail lies about Musk voter giveaway case
You expect tabloid journalism from a tabloid paper, but this Daily Mail headline … “Elon Musk wins court case against Democrats over $1million daily handouts to voters” … is an outright lie. The story itself clarifies that … “Judge Angelo Foglietta moved the case [...]
Governors don’t get to decide which political advertising is “false”
It’s now clear it was Gov. Ron DeSantis who ordered Florida TV stations to stop airing ads for an abortion-rights initiative. The cease-and-desist letter to TV stations was signed by the state health department’s top lawyer, who has since resigned and now says he was coerced to sign the [...]
George Floyd protests weren’t riots and didn’t kill 15,000 black men
A Republican liar claims “the post-George Floyd riots resulted in excess of over 15,000 black male deaths in this country.” It’s not remotely true. Ryan Gidursky, a rightwing activist (see his website here), made that assertion on a CNN talk show on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 (read stor[...]
October 11th, 2024 - 1:17 am § in America, Biden, Democrats, Donald Trump, Economics, Foreign Affairs, Israel/Palestine, Jews, News Media, Politics, Racism, Republicans
How the Middle East could cost Harris the election
Grossly simplified, the Middle East conflict boils down to two peoples living in the same space. As you know, the latest stage of the conflict began Oct. 7, 2023, when Palestinian terrorists from Gaza invaded Israel, massacred over 1,100 people, and took about 250 hostages. Israel responded with a m[...]
How rightwing tabloid media misleads and misinforms
If a free press is the cornerstone of democracy, you’d never know it from studying American history. The media in this country has always been partisan, often sensationalized, and shapes public opinion in irresponsible ways. It was even worse in the earliest days of the American republic. But [...]
J. D. Vance is lying about Haitians
J. D. Vance, Trump’s 2024 running mate, is asserting he has a right to “tell stories” about Haitian immigrants. He’s carrying out his party’s campaign strategy, which is what veep candidates typically do. Republicans have made immigrant-bashing a centerpiece of their 20[...]
Will Stephen Miller be America’s Heydrich?
Stephen Miller (bio here), an immigration hardliner, likely would become immigration czar in a second Trump administration. Trump has promised “the largest mass deportation campaign in US history,” Mother Jones says (read article here); and last weekend, in a Truth Social post (view it [...]
I don’t care that Republicans don’t trust our elections
“A fed-up CNN anchor Anderson Cooper cut off” ex-Rep. Scott Taylor (R-VA) for defending Trump’s assertion that a fifth of Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballots were “fraudulent” in 2020. This is a fable. Mail-in ballots are verified just like polling place ballots. The[...]
Fox host suggests generals would rape Harris in Situation Room
Fox host Jesse Watters “faced calls to resign after stating Harris would be ‘paralyzed’ by generals who ‘would have their way’ with her in the White House Situation Room,” Daily Mail reported on Tuesday, August 28, 2024 (read story here). You can hear Watters, wh[...]