News Flanks

11/05/2023

11/07/2022

Wisconsin Supreme Court gets rid of most ballot drop boxes and implies Trump won
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/07/wisconsin-supreme-court-ballot-drop-boxes-voting-biden.html

In an inflammatory decision, the far-right justices declared that illegal votes “polluted” the election.

09/07/2022

Stunning crazy...
https://www.insider.com/extremists-praise-uvalde-texas-school-shooting-encourage-attacks-homeland-security-2022-6

In a new terrorism bulletin, Homeland Security officials warned that the "proliferation" of misinformation could lead to increasing violence.

22/06/2022

The January 6th Select Committee is not just rehashing old news...
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-racketeering-rico/

08/11/2021

The mainstream media is getting nasty.

27/09/2021

Trump still denies that he lost.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1441923264163500032

“Trump claims that the Arizona "audit," which affirmed Biden's victory in the state, actually concluded that he won. Shameless lying and his fans eat it up. https://t.co/eNolgdCCVA”

30/10/2020

https://twitter.com/bandsharrison/status/1322284793887891458

“An informal poll! WILL TRUMP WIN RE-ELECTION? TRUMP WILL WIN -- Click this link if you think he will win: https://t.co/3JmpijRMQT TRUMP WILL LOSE -- Click this link if you think he will lose: https://t.co/uHxQAHSK5M”

24/10/2020

Things are getting really nasty.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/23/us/debate-trump-biden?fbclid=IwAR0IEZFnanXveE53agtBMOedkA3Ktm-WcQKXiY4BDjQwcFqFL8JtIndiH7Q -ivanka-trump-jared-kushner

09/04/2020

The CNN -Trump battle continues:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/09/media/pence-office-tv-bookings-coronavirus/index.html

Vice President Mike Pence's office has declined to allow the nation's top health officials to appear on CNN in recent days and discuss the coronavirus pandemic killing thousands of Americans, in an attempt to pressure the network into carrying the White House's lengthy daily briefings in full.

13/02/2020

Based on data from the Fed, it appears the 1% has done quite well since the Great Recession:

04/02/2020

Perhaps The Donald isn't as popular as he thinks...
https://youtu.be/DjGW_ysfuvg

07/12/2019

Will President Trump be cleared in the Senate?
https://www.ozy.com/presidential-daily-brief/pdb-253042/throwing-down-253808/

23/10/2019

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/21/politics/fact-check-trump-cabinet-meeting-20-false/index.html

President Donald Trump delivered a blistering and rambling monologue to the journalists he allowed into his Cabinet meeting for more than 70 minutes on Monday. His press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, later tweeted, "I hope we see honest reporting from today's mtg."

17/10/2019

So much for affirmative action. The Ivy league should perhaps be re-named the Snowy White League. I guess lots of students should just apply to the "Public Ivies" and cut their loses.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/judge-determines-harvard-s-race-conscious-admissions-policy-is-constitutional-11569958184

A federal judge has determined that Harvard’s policy doesn’t intentionally discriminate against Asian-American applicants, a victory for the university that is expected to be appealed as high as the Supreme Court.

09/09/2019

There's lying, and then there's Trump-style lying:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/12/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/

The president has topped 12,000 in our database of false and misleading claims, adding about 20 a day in the past two months.

10/08/2019

Effects of the China traffics so far:

09/07/2019

Is Trump a legitimate POTUS?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/jimmy-carter-says-trump-didn-t-win-election-because-russia-n1024571

Former President Jimmy Carter suggested that Trump is an illegitimate president who only won the 2016 election because of Russia's election meddling.

17/06/2019

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-that-the-Trump-administration-was-involved-in-the-tanker-attacks-in-the-Middle-East-Is-a-manufactured-war-with-Iran-imminent

Answer (1 of 7): It is amazing that people seem so ready to presume the president of the United States would intentionally order criminal acts in order to incite a war with Iran. Do people actually believe that such orders (illegal orders) by the president would not be leaked to the media? The ...

29/04/2019

Projections for interest on the debt:

12/03/2019

2018 federal budget deficit is in...

12/03/2019

2018 GDP growth is in...

28/01/2019

So true. Plus Facebook, Twitter, etc. are getting all the media advertising $$.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/28/tech-monopolies-are-killing-journalism-ocasio-cortez-says.html

Ocasio-Cortez's comments were a reaction to recent layoffs at BuzzFeed and Huffpost.

13/12/2018

Finally, Mexico is paying for the wall.