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October 4th, 2024 - 10:13 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

Trump rally crowd boos soldier over base name

Disrespecting our military personnel and veterans has been a Trump hallmark. That hasn’t changed and isn’t going to. At a townhall-style campaign event in North Carolina on Friday, October 4, 2024, Trump “chuckled” as his crowd booed an active-duty soldier. The soldier’[...]

October 4th, 2024 - 2:13 pm § in Politics, Republicans

GOP candidate claims America was a “bad guy” in WW2

Royce White’s specialty is basketball, not history, and it shows in his public comments. White (profile here) is a non-serious candidate in Minnesota’s 2024 U.S. Senate election. He’s a throwaway candidate, i.e. a placeholder on the ballot for a hopeless race shunned by career poli[...]

October 4th, 2024 - 12:15 am § in Donald Trump, Politics, Racism, Republicans

Arrest made in Springfield, Ohio, goose killing

Well, if they weren’t eating pet dogs and cats, then they’re killing ducks and geese. That was the charge leveled by Republicans against Springfield, Ohio’s Haitian immigrants, who are in the U.S. legally on work visas. A cat did go missing. It turned up alive in its owner’s [...]

October 3rd, 2024 - 11:31 pm § in America, Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

What’s wrong with Republican voters?

Trump’s attempts “to unravel American democracy” might not prevent his return to power. That’s because “while he horrifies many Americans, his conduct after the last election is not seen as disqualifying by millions of others,” CNN says (read article here). The articl[...]

October 3rd, 2024 - 9:26 pm § in Misc.

Mt. Adams more seismically active

Washington’s Mt. Adams, rising 12,281 feet above the Columbia River 30 miles away, is rumbling. Wikipedia says (here), “Seismic activity around Adams is very low and it is one of the quietest volcanoes in Oregon and Washington.” Not anymore. Mt. Adams typically records an earthqua[...]

October 3rd, 2024 - 8:36 pm § in Misc.

Ex-aides say Trump conditioned federal disaster aid on loyalty

Several times during his presidency, Trump refused to release federal disaster relief funds, until he was shown those areas had voted for him. That’s according to former Trump advisers, “if Trump wins the White House again, he will view disasters through a political lens that values pers[...]

October 3rd, 2024 - 7:42 pm § in America, Democrats, Politics, Republicans

Look, a reasonable Republican!

They’re rare these days, but they still exist. Christina Loren works for RSBN, a rightwing media company (details here). At a Trump rally in Saginaw, Michigan, she interviewed a flag shop owner. She told the man, who was wearing a Trump hat, he’s “selling something that we can all[...]

October 3rd, 2024 - 7:08 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics, Republicans

Prominent Nevada MAGA politician convicted of stealing charity funds

Michele Fiore (photo, left; profile here), 54, a former Nevada state representative and failed candidate for state treasurer, was convicted on federal wire fraud charges on October 3, 2024, and could spend years in prison (read story here). Fiore, a controversial figure in Nevada politics, got in tr[...]

October 3rd, 2024 - 6:07 pm § in Law and Courts

Jury convicts cops in black man’s beating death

Tyre Nichols (photo, left), 29, was beaten to death by 5 police officers (photo at bottom) on January 7, 2023 (details here). All the cops involved, like Nichols, were black; this wasn’t a white-on-black incident, but it is a case of police brutality and misconduct. On October 3, 2024, a jury [...]

October 3rd, 2024 - 2:10 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics, Republicans

Rogue county clerk gets 9 years

Tina Peters (photo, left), a Colorado county clerk who fought the law and lost, has been sentenced to 9 years in prison. Peters, formerly the elected Mesa County clerk, is a vocal Trump supporter and outspoken promoter of false election conspiracy theories. She was indicted for official misconduct a[...]