as if to really emphasize the fact that he is a total degenerate, donald trump went to a fundraiser for rich donors and joked about the man who was killed in the attempt on his life
The 12-minute tape, reportedly from a dinner with donors in August, also features Trump launching into an expletive-laden rant against undocumented migrants.
The whole "judges keep politics out of their work" thing has always been silly, but Neil Gorsuch doing book tour events with Megyn Kelly and Ben Shapiro might be the strongest evidence yet that the justices aren't even pretending to take it seriously
Most Americans disapprove of the Court's lurch to the right. But the justices who control the Court are not listening to most Americans.
"In a previous era, Jack Smithâs newly unsealed brief would generate Watergate-level coverage. These days, though, the new details about Trump's frantic efforts to steal the election had already rolled off the top of the NYT and Washington Post homepages by Thursday morning."
In a sane world it would be Watergate-level news.
All of this damage and division because Johnson wanted to get one over his old rival from his school days. Elites, eh.
From Republican election officials begging Trump to stop lying about election results, to Republicans begging Trump/Vance to stop lying about Haitian immigrants, to NC Republicans begging for conspiracy theories to stop about Helene recovery... I'm sensing a bit of a pattern.
A Republican state senator in North Carolina is pleading for an end to right-wing conspiracy theories about Hurricane Helene recovery efforts
State Sen. Kevin Corbin calls out âconspiracy theory junkâ about unburied bodies and FEMA stealing money.
It is understood the Irish Government has informed Israeli officials that Unifil troop movements are a matter for the UN and its force commander on the ground. Unifil has told Israel it will not be removing the troops.
Request rejected on day when 24 Irish citizens managed to leave country with Dutch and Canadian assistance
The former Israeli ambassador to the US has accused Benjamin Netanyahu of being "chiefly responsible" for the 7 October attacks, alleging he strengthened Hamas by funnelling money to them through Qatar. news.sky.com/story/israel...
Roads in southern Lebanon are deserted as Lebanese authorities say more than a million people have fled Israeli strikes. Meanwhile, the US has reportedly launched airstrikes against the Houthis in Yem...
Pretty cool how both Facebook and Twitter have become absolute cesspools for disaster response updates and news in the space of two years. Twitter especially used to be a key resource. Now they largely serve to spread lies that will get aid workers killed.
An observation: in European countries with PR youâve seen the growth of far right parties; but in anglophone countries with (versions of) FPTP (eg UK, US, Canada) youâve seen the mainstream right wing parties taken over by the far right, and take power, which I think is worse.
Love that we get to find out in a month whether liberal society can survive when social media is overwhelmingly controlled by right wing billionaires.