In the aftermath of the collapsed Trump revolution, Fox News has fired at least 17 long-time staffers, including the editor who “correctly called Arizona for Joe Biden long before other networks in a move that infuriated Donald Trump and his supporters,” in what the U.K.-based tabloid Da[...]
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The rise of rightwing militias and what to do about them
It’s no accident that potentially violent rightwing militias have proliferated and become more aggressive during Trump’s time in office. He encouraged them. Before 2016 “these groups operated mainly on the political margins,” two political scientists wrote in a Foreign Affair[...]
Compilation of Capitol Riot Stories
Collected from The-Ave.US front page: Feeble Defender: Rush Limbaugh Praises Mob, Compares Riot To Lexington And Concord — story here Casualty List: Capitol Police Officer Dies From Riot Injuries — story here Four Rioters Died; Shot, Trampled, Heart Attack, Stroke — story here W[...]
Chuck Todd shreds Ron Johnson (video)
This lizard represents Wisconsin in the U.S. Senate. Watch him get shot down. From NBC’s Meet the Press, January 3, 2021. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Restaurant owner talks about Covid shutdowns (video)
In this 9½-minute video, a Michigan restaurant owner interrupts a live local TV news broadcast to air his grievances about that state’s indoor dining closure, and the reporter lets him talk. What he gets isn’t a mindless rant; instead, the man says, “I can’t do this alone[...]
Bet Trump wishes he could do this
“Hong Kong (CNN) — An independent Chinese journalist who reported from Wuhan at the height of the initial coronavirus outbreak has been jailed for four years …. “Zhang Zhan, 37, was found guilty of ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’ ….”[...]
WSJ doubles down on Jill Biden insult
Joseph Epstein, 83, is a man of letters. He was editor of Phi Beta Kappa’s magazine from 1975 to 1997, and a visiting lecturer at Northwestern University from 1974 to 2002. His own academic credentials consist of a B.A. from University of Chicago, although he actually studied at the University[...]
Some political donations are more productive than others
The Lincoln Project, Mother Jones says, “brought in $82 million this election cycle,” of which $24 million went to a co-founder’s firm. LP produced ads targeting anti-Trump Republicans, but Trump expanded his share of the Republican vote by six percent compared to 2016. Well, who k[...]
Laura Ingraham
“President Trump is not officially conceding, but most of the country is moving on. There was a perceptible shift in the right-wing winds on Monday both before and after the Trump administration formally signed off on President-elect Joe Biden’s victory,” CNN reported on Tuesday, N[...]
21 cowards
This article contains news and liberal commentary. “Carl Bernstein [photo] on Sunday revealed the names of 21 Republican Senators who he reported show ‘extreme contempt’ for Trump and behind closed doors despite most displaying public deference to the president,” Forbes and o[...]