“You get a real ‘a-ha’ moment when you see that the White House switchboard was connected to a rioter’s phone when [the riot] happening It’s a big, huge ‘a-ha’ moment,” Riggleman told 60 Minutes correspondent Brian Whittaker. According to Riggleman, the call was unlikely to be an “accident.” But, he admitted, during his time as…
Everyday Animals: The GOP now supports crowd-sourcing the next destination for ‘ship’ immigrants If you thought the immigration stunts of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott couldn’t be more brutal, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has proven otherwise. In an email blast, the committee, which is chaired by Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL)…
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He ends the introduction with an apt warning: “Simply put, they are one of the most dangerous and influential extremist groups in America, growing at a time when federal law enforcement agencies are increasingly targeting the far-right. Consider extremism as one of the country’s major threats.” Campbell, who has covered the Proud Boys as a…
Meet Task Force Butler, the brainchild of Christopher Goldsmith, an Iraq War veteran and longtime advocate for veterans’ rights. The group is named after Marine General Smedley Butler of the 1920s, and quotes his motto: “My interest, my one hobby, is to preserve democracy. If you have these 500,000 soldiers the stench of fascism.” If…
Guest post by Leo HohmannThe story I’m about to share isn’t terribly shocking, at least not to those of us who are awake, but I find the timing a bit ominous, along with the source. This comes from a mainstream corporate media outlet, NBC NewsAnd it tells us that the modern military machine owned by…
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x Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers tells Bloomberg: “I’m very sorry to say this, but I think the UK is behaving like an emerging market turning itself into a sinking market.” pic.twitter.com/PtvLsg9iom — Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) September 23, 2022 x I have been following the UK budget for 20 years.I have often deeply disagreed…
Late night snark “It’s the first day of fall, it was a beautiful day in Southern California, only made more beautiful by the hammer of justice on our pumpkin spice ex-president.” – Jimmy Kimmel “New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a 200-page civil fraud lawsuit against former President Trump, several of his children and…
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People are excited about the referendum in St. Petersburg… September 23, 2022. Make no mistake about it, that Vladimir Putin had to go on television in Russia and announce any kind of mobilization is a colossal admission of failure. Putin launched an illegal, unprovoked attack on Ukraine with the realistic expectation that he would tour…
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Vladimir Putin had hoped for an easing of the Western propaganda campaign in the wake of his speech this week announcing that Russia was ready to accept four Ukrainian oblasts into Russia as new republics and a partial military mobilization. Ready to give orders, he is very disappointed today. There has been a flood of…
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Pointer: Here’s how 2 local reporters in battleground states are handling the midterms ‘I want to call things lies when they are lies.’ During his career, [Greg] Bluestein has seen Georgia politics turn into a national story. He was on the ground Two years ago When much of the country zeroed in on the state…
