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10/10/2024

Here’s what has made Hurricane Milton so fierce and unusual

With its mighty strength and its dangerous path, Hurricane Milton has powered into a very rare threat that is flirting with experts’ worst fears.

10/10/2024

Trump used clips from Full Metal Jacket at a Pennsylvania rally to criticize the current U.S. military, focusing on the harsh commands of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. However, he left out the character’s grim fate: being killed by a recruit he tormented.

The Vietnam-era film showed the U.S. military in its glory days, Trump tried to claim, ignoring the bigger picture.

10/10/2024

Fewer than a third of the Republican’s campaign contributions have come from donors who gave less than $200 — down from nearly half of all donations in his 2020 race, The dip has forced Trump to rely more on wealthy donors and groups backed by them, a shift that cuts into the populist message that first propelled him to the White House. The decline in donations could not come at a worse time for Trump. Democrats have raised massive sums from small-dollar donors this cycle.

Donald Trump’s contributions from small-dollar donors have plummeted since his last White House campaign, presenting the former president with a financial challenge as he tries to keep pace with the Democrats’ fundraising machine.

10/10/2024

“The wind, the wind, it sounds so wonderful. The wind, the wind, the wind is, the wind is bullsh—t, I’ll yell you,” he said. The crowed roared.

The former president launched into a strange word salad about windmills during a speech in Pennsylvania.

10/10/2024

The latest threat to our right to speak freely comes all the way from the 1790s. This was when Congress, controlled by one party, passed a law making it easier to imprison political opponents. If rules from the 1790s were enforced today, citizens could be jailed for criticizing politicians, public figures could freely use defamation law to punish critics and schoolchildren would have few if any free speech rights.

The latest threat to our right to speak freely comes all the way from the 1700s.

10/10/2024

Judge Scolds ‘Privileged’ MAGA Election Official During Searing Sentencing

“You’re a charlatan who used and is still using your prior position in office to peddle a snake oil that’s been proven to be junk time and time again,” the judge told Tina Peters.

10/10/2024

Russia is responsible for 80% of all the foreign influence operations in the world, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said at a conference in Prague on Oct. 9.

"This is four times more than the rest of the world combined," Lipavsky said.

"Russia is currently responsible for 80% of influence operations in the world. This is four times more than the rest of the world combined," Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said at a conference in Prague on Oct. 9.

21/09/2024

J.D. Vance escalated his attacks on immigrants, claiming that even those here legally are in fact “illegal” and subject to deportation.

J.D. Vance says he doesn’t care if you’re an immigrant here legally. You’ll still be deported.

21/09/2024

ProPublica found at least two women in Georgia who died after being unable to get either a legal abortion or timely medical care. Committees examining pregnancy-related deaths concluded that both were preventable.

We’re learning more about the effects of abortion restrictions enacted after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade. ProPublica found at least two women in Georgia who died after being unable to get either a legal abortion or timely medical care. Committees examining pregnancy-related deaths co...

21/09/2024

MAGA pundit Miranda Devine dismissed the deadly January 6 Capitol riot as “really just an inconvenience” that lasted a “few hours” — accusing commentators and Democrats of overblowing the event as one of “the worst terrorist attacks since Pearl Harbor, worse than 9/11.”

Devine dismissed the January 6 Capitol riot as “really just an inconvenience” that lasted a “few hours” accusing commentators and Democrats of overblowing the event.

20/09/2024

Their community is reeling — confused, frustrated, hurt — from false accusations that they are eating their neighbor’s cats and dogs. The now viral and highly politicized rumors are being fueled by former President Donald Trump, his running mate JD Vance and others, and violent threats against the community are upending daily life in their city.

Their community is reeling from false accusations that they are eating their neighbor’s cats and dogs. The rumors are being fueled by former President Donald Trump, his running mate JD Vance and others.

20/09/2024

Speaking during a Flint, Michigan town hall on Tuesday, "Nuclear power — when I hear these people talking about global warming — that's the global warming that people have to worry about. Not that the ocean's gonna rise in 400 years an eighth of an inch."

Trump continued, "And you'll have more seafront property, right, if that happens. I said is that good or bad? I said isn't that a good thing? If I have a little property on the ocean, I have a little bit more property, I have a little bit more ocean."

Former President Donald Trump said that global warming is "a good thing" because it will give Michigan residents more seafront property. Speaking during a Flint, Michigan town hall on Tuesday, "Nuclear power — when I hear these people talking about global warming — that's the global warming that...

20/09/2024

be clear: What JD Vance, the Trump campaign and Republicans are mewling and demanding right now is that Democrats refrain from running against their wannabe dictator, refrain from highlighting his record, his statements, refrain from reminding the American people who he is and the danger he represents to the very existence of this nation.

Go sit on a couch and cry about it.

20/09/2024

The poll marks the first instance since July 17, 2021, that Harris' favorability and unfavorability ratings have been neck-and-neck.

20/09/2024

Russia was behind a viral video that falsely claimed Kamala Harris was involved in a hit-and-run

One Russian-produced video received more than 7 million views on X and claimed Harris had left a girl paralyzed

20/09/2024

More than 100 ex-national security officials who served in GOP presidential administrations have written a letter endorsing Harris over GOP nominee Donald Trump.

In the letter, they say that although that they might "disagree with Kamala Harris" on various issues, Trump has showed "dangerous qualities" — including an "unusual affinity" for authoritarian figures like Russian President Vladimir Putin — and is "unfit to serve." The letter also mentioned the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol Building.

Like Joe Biden four years ago, 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is being supported by a wide range of political voices.Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), both of whom identify as "democratic socialists," have endorsed Harris. But the vic...