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Elon Musk pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party: the essay expands on his post on his social media platform, X, on which he last week claimed that "only the AfD can save Germany". — 28 December 2024 (LINK)
— Translated, Musk's piece said: "The portrayal of the AfD as rightwing extremist is clearly false, considering that Alice Weidel, the party's leader, has a same-sex partner from Sri Lanka! Does that sound like Hitler to you? Please!"
— The AfD has a strong anti-immigration stance and, like incoming president Donald Trump in relation to the US, is calling for mass deportations from Germany. Earlier in December, Musk not only posted in favor of AfD but the party's hard line on immigration appeared to resonate with the incoming US vice-president, JD Vance.
Fox News: Musk and Ramaswamy ignite MAGA war over skilled immigration and American 'mediocrity': The wealthy businessmen now find themselves butting heads with Trump's most ardent base. — 27 December 2024 (LINK)
Washington Metropolitan police officer is convicted of lying about leaking confidential information to Proud Boys leader. — 23 December 2024 (LINK)
— U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson convicted former Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Shane Lamond of obstructing justice and making false statements after a trial without a jury. Sentencing was scheduled for April 3 after Lamond's conviction on all four counts.
Trump transition recommends scrapping car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk's Tesla. — 13 December 2024 (LINK)
— Tesla has reported most of the crashes — more than 1,500 — to federal safety regulators under the programme. Tesla has been targeted in National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) investigations, including three stemming from the data.
Amazon is the latest Big Tech company after Zuckerberg's Meta to donate $1mn to Trump inauguration fund. — 13 December 2024 (LINK)
Trump nominates Florida attorney Dan Newlin as ambassador to Colombia. — 12 December 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 13 media reports (LINK)
— Newlin donated more than $1.2 million to political action committees that supported Trump's candidacy for president
Time undercuts Trump interview with 2,300-word fact check: The magazine took aim at its honoree's statements about immigration, vaccines, and gender transition. — 12 December 2024 (LINK)
'Trump's gonna pardon me anyways,' January 6 rioter scoffs as he's led from court to prison. — 6 December 2024 (LINK)
Speaker Johnson open to supporting recess appointment for Trump nominees without Senate confirmation if needed. — 18 November 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 15 media reports (LINK)
Trump taps Brendan Carr, an Elon Musk-backed critic of big tech, for chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. — 18 November 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 166 media reports (LINK)
Robert Kennedy Jr. calls Bitcoin the 'currency of freedom,' backs Trump's Treasury Secretary pick as best for crypto. — 17 November 2024 (LINK)
The Onion's acquisition of Alex Jones's InfoWars faces a legal review. — 16 November 2024 (LINK)
— The winning bid was backed by families of Sandy Hook victims, who agreed to reduce their recovery claims to boost the offer's appeal. Concerns have arisen about the auction's transparency due to secret bid submissions. Pending approval, The Onion plans to relaunch InfoWars in 2025 as a satirical platform mocking far-right culture.
Scientific American editor resigns after disparaging comments about Trump supporters went viral. — 15 November 2024 (LINK)
Rudy Giuliani makes a down payment on $148M judgment. He turns over his car but wants to keep DiMaggio jersey. — 15 November 2024 (LINK)
Elon Musk's X sues California over AI law targeting deepfakes, deceptive election content — claims it violates First Amendment free speech protections. — 15 November 2024 (LINK)
RFK Jr. says a Trump White House would immediately push to remove fluoride from water. — 2 November 2024 (LINK)
Heather Cox Richardson: Republicans HAVE stated they will abolish Obamacare despite denials. — 31 October 2024 (LINK)
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin endorses Trump for president — 30 October 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 31 media reports (LINK)
"Bob's Burgers" actor sentenced for role in 6 January U.S. Capitol riot. — 29 October 2024 (LINK)
— U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols also sentenced Johnston to 24 months of supervised release and ordered that he pay $2,000 in restitution. The Washington Post reports that Johnston took responsibility for his actions and was remorseful and that Defense attorney Stanley Woodward prosecutors said prosecutors had "overstated" Johnston's actions on Jan. 6, 2021, due to the "blacklisted" actor's "notoriety."
Elon Musk fires back after Biden alleges Tesla CEO violated student visa norms, says he was allowed to work.— 27 October 2024 (LINK)
— Musk said, "I was on a J-1 visa that converted to an HI-B. They are aware of this, as they have all my documentation. Their desperation is a result of losing the election." (LINK)
— Musk dropped out of Stanford University to work on his debut company, Zip2, which sold for about $300m four years later.Legal experts said foreign students cannot drop out of school to build a company even if they are not getting paid. (LINK)
Daily Beast: — His brother also lied to border agents. (LINK)
Heather Cox Richardson: The Madison Square Garden rallies of 1929 and 2024 — 27 October 2024 (LINK)
— The day before Trump had replaced his signature blue suit and red tie with the black and gold of the neofascist Proud Boys. That extremist group was central to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and has been rebuilding to support Trump again in 2024. The New York Times has tended to downplay Trump's outrageous statements, but on Saturday it ran a round-up of Trump's threats in the center of the front page, above the fold.
Elon Musk raises payment offer to $100 for voters who sign petition supporting 'free speech & right to bear arms' — 18 October 2024 (LINK)
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Heather Cox Richardson: Authoritarianism 101 — 13 October 2024 (LINK)
Fox News's Cavuto: Trump hurricane 'misinformation' cannot be 'tolerated' — 10 October 2024 (LINK)
Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters sentenced to 9 years for voting data scheme — 3 October 2024 (LINK)
Leaked JD Vance dossier has been blocked on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook — 29 September 2024 (LINK)
— Meta's policies do "not allow content from hacked sources or content leaked as part of a foreign government operation to influence US elections," said a spokesperson.
CNN: Fact check: To attack Harris, Trump falsely describes new stats on immigrants and homicide — 29 September 2024 (LINK)
— Trump falsely claimed Friday and Saturday that the statistics are specifically about criminal offenders who entered the US during the Biden-Harris administration; in reality, the figures are about offenders who entered the US over multiple decades, including during the Trump administration. And Trump falsely claimed that the statistics are specifically about people who are now living freely in the US; the figures actually include people who are currently in jails and prisons serving criminal sentences.
FoxNews: Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants with sexual assault, murder convictions in US: ICE data — (LINK)
Newsweek: ICE releases damning border report amid Kamala Harris visit — (LINK)
— ICE deputy director Patrick Lechleitner said that 425,431 convicted criminals were in this category, as well as 222,141 with pending criminal charges. Alex Nowrasteh, of the Cato Institute public policy think tank added that the ICE report on illegal criminal convictions covers decades and not just the last few years.
FoxNews: UN's 'Pact for the Future' full of empty promises, will be 'cudgel' to attack the United States, expert warns — 21 September 2024 (LINK)
Key moments from the Trump-Harris presidential debate — 10 September 2024 (LINK)
Fact-checking Kamala Harris and Donald Trump's 1st presidential debate — 10 September 2024 (LINK)
— Some examples:
— Trump suggested that the July 13 assassination attempt may have been because of Harris. FACT-CHECK: False.
— Harris said, 'The former president said climate change is a hoax'. FACT-CHECK: True.
— HARRIS CLAIM: If elected, Trump would be immune from criminal prosecution. FACT-CHECK: Partly true.
— Harris said, 'If Donald Trump were to be reelected, he will sign a national abortion ban.' FACT-CHECK: False.
AP: a look at false and misleading claims made during Trump and Harris' debate — 10 September 2024 (LINK)
Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris after fake AI endorsing Trump — 10 September 2024 (LINK)
— signed Childless Cat Lady — an ironic response to Trump running mate JD Vance's infamous, degrading comments about "childless cat ladies".
Heather Cox Richardson: the debate and before — 10 September 2024 (LINK)
Fact check: Trump and Vance keep falsely describing how tariffs work — 9 September 2024 (LINK)
— Trump has falsely, and repeatedly, claimed that China — not US importers — pay the tariff. A tariff is a tax that is paid by US businesses — not other countries — when a foreign-made good arrives at the American border. One of the intended goals of a tariff is to raise prices on foreign-made goods, and study after study show that the duties do drive up costs for Americans.
— Trump has said that if elected, he would impose tariffs of up to 20% on every foreign import coming into the US, as well as another tariff upward of 60% on all Chinese imports. He also said he would impose a "100% tariff" on countries that shift away from using the US dollar. These duties would add to the tariffs he put on foreign steel and aluminum, washing machines, and many Chinese-made goods including baseball hats, luggage, bicycles, TVs and sneakers. President Joe Biden has left many of the Trump-era tariffs in place.
Ohio police have 'no credible reports' of Haitian immigrants harming pets, contradicting JD Vance's claim — 9 September 2024 (LINK)
'Hillbilly Elegy' director Ron Howard 'disappointed' by JD Vance — 10 September 2024 (LINK)
— Howard and the future Ohio senator "didn't talk a lot of politics when we were making the movie because I was interested in his upbringing and that survival tale. That's what we mostly focused on. However, based on the conversations that we had during that time, I just have to say I'm very surprised and disappointed by much of the rhetoric that I'm reading and hearing," Howard, 70, continued. "People do change, and I assume that's the case."
New York Post Editorial Board: Greta Thunberg goes full in on Jew-hate because left politics is all one big blob — 8 September 2024 (LINK)
Heather Cox Richardson: Russian malign activity and Trump, computer hackers, Ukraine — 5 September 2024 (LINK)
A former Virginia police officer who stormed the U.S. Capitol received a reduced prison sentence of six years, making him one of the first beneficiaries of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that limited the government's use of a federal obstruction law — 4 September 2024 (LINK)
NY Post: Off-script Kamala blows it in the swing states — 30 August 2024 (LINK)
Michael Sparks, a civil war-promoting Capitol rioter who was the first person to illegally enter the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021, was hit with a 53-month prison sentence after he told the court that he was "remorseful" that his attempt to block the certification of the 2020 election failed — 28 August 2024 (LINK)
Former NY Rep. George Santos pleads guilty to wire fraud, identity theft — 19 August 2024 (LINK)
Heather Cox Richardson: 'Weird' Republicanism — 16 August 2024 (LINK)
J.D. Vance shilled for a company that left workers hospitalized & hundreds jobless — 14 August 2024 (LINK)
Elon Musk said Donald Trump interview suffered a 'DDoS attack' — X / Twitter employees say he's lying: Trump and Musk are both misrepresenting viewership numbers for their interview on X too — 13 August 2024 (LINK)
— "Combined views of the conversation with @realDonaldTrump and subsequent discussion by other accounts now ~1 billion," Musk said on X, calculating the total of all post views or impressions about the Space chat. As of publishing time, the X Space between Trump and Musk has roughly 24 million views, which includes the live viewership numbers as well as replays. The post itself, however, claims 183 million views or impressions.
UAW files charges against Trump and Musk over strike remarks in X-Twitter interview — 13 August 2024 (LINK)
Former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters in Colorado has been convicted of tampering with 2020 voting machines in a scheme to transfer voting data to Trump allies — 13 August 2024 (LINK)
California man who attacked police at the US Capitol with flagpoles gets 20 years, one of longest Jan. 6 sentences — 9 August 2024 (LINK)
— He swung poles at officers defending a tunnel, struck an officer in the head with a metal crutch and attacked police with pepper spray and broken pieces of furniture, prosecutors said.
— David Nicholas Dempsey is a former construction worker and fast-food restaurant employee. Dempsey's violence was so extreme that he attacked a fellow rioter who was trying to disarm him, prosecutors wrote.
— Only former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio has received a longer sentence in the Jan. 6 attack. Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years for orchestrating a plot to stop the peaceful transfer of power from Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 presidential election.
— Before sentencing, Dempsey called his conduct "reprehensible" and apologized to the police officers whom he assaulted.
NYPost: Tim Walz's past DUI arrest for driving 96 mph in a 55 zone comes back to haunt VP pick — 6 August 2024 (LINK)
FoxNews: Soaring popularity of Vance's 'Hillbilly Elegy' rebuts narrative that Trump VP pick is floundering — 1 August 2024 (LINK)
Slate: The Hillbilly Elegy Movie Undercuts J.D. Vance's Whole Message — (LINK)
Biden rolls out plan to overhaul the Supreme Court: including term limits for justices and a more binding ethics code — 29 July 2024 (LINK)
— Biden is also calling for a constitutional amendment declaring that presidents do not have immunity from criminal prosecution for any crimes committed while in office, following the Supreme Court's July ruling granting Donald Trump immunity for "official acts" he committed as president.
After sharing fake AI video of Kamala Harris, Elon Musk tweets misleading post on Donald Trump — 29 July 2024 (LINK)
Harris raised $200 million in first week of White House campaign and signed up 170,000 volunteers — 29 July 2024 (LINK)
Olympics Opening Ceremony Artistic Director says controversial tableau was not inspired by 'The Last Supper': — 28 July 2024 (LINK)
— "There's Dionysus arriving on a table. Why is he there? First and foremost because he is the god of celebration in Greek mythology and the tableau is called 'Festivity'." "He is also the god of wine, which is also one of the jewels of France, and the father of Séquana, the goddess of the river Seine," Thomas Jolly continued. "The idea was to depict a big pagan celebration, linked to the gods of Olympus, and thus the Olympics." The colorful scene featured Nicky Doll and stars of Drag Race France.
NYPost: Olympics' Last Supper debacle was latest effort to denigrate Western culture — (LINK)
FoxNews: Potential U.S. VP Democrat candidate, Sen. Mark Kelly, started spy balloon company funded by China — 28 July 2024 (LINK)
— A company spokesperson said: "When new leadership arrived in 2019 and learned of that investment [by Tencent], they swiftly moved to ensure World View was protected from any and all involvement from representatives of Chinese investors."
— FoxNews: But the company's early connections with the Chinese capitalist could raise questions as Kelly is being considered as a candidate for vice president, especially after China floated a surveillance balloon over the U.S. in February 2023, which was ultimately shot down by a fighter jet off the coast of South Carolina.
JD Vance's Ohio hometown defied his expectations — 26 July 2024 (LINK)
— JD Vance questioned whether rural, white Americans, like those in his native Middletown, Ohio, had the drive to reverse their economic decline. But as Vance was writing, his hometown was in the thick of the grassroots revitalization he envisioned. He urged his struggling cohort to take more responsibility for its problems, stop looking to government or big companies for solutions, and work harder to improve its lot.
— In the southwestern Ohio city's downtown, a brewery, wine bar, art collective, and even an opera house surround intersections bridged by sleek brick crosswalks and walls brightened by murals. Rainbow flags, left over from last month's LGBTQ Pride celebrations, hang in several windows.
— It's part of a revitalization that, while far from complete, conflicts with the 2016 book's portrayal of a community that is a "hub of misery," and whose people react "to bad circumstances in the worst way possible".
Heather Cox Richardson: Trump vs Democrats on stopping Mexico's fentanyl cartels. Plus the "weirdos" — 26 July 2024 (LINK)
AP Fact Focus: A look at false claims around Kamala Harris and her campaign for the White House — 22 July 2024 (LINK)
'DEI,' 'Colored,' 'Jezebel': MAGA Attacks on Kamala Harris Are Getting Ugly — 22 July 2024 (LINK)
How a Kamala Harris candidacy could wreak havoc on the stock market: 'She's not stable' — 21 July 2024 (LINK)
Law enforcement spotted Trump shooter nearly 30 minutes before shots fired, NBC affiliate reports — 15 July 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 17 media reports — (LINK)
Special counsel Jack Smith to appeal Trump classified documents case dismissal by Judge Aileen Cannon — 15 July 2024 (LINK) — ground.news: 485 media reports — (LINK)
Evangelical billionaire Bill Hwang found guilty in multibillion-dollar stock fraud, racketeering trial — 12 July 2024 (LINK)
A few months after Elon Musk said he didn't want to "put a thumb on the scale monetarily" regarding the 2024 presidential election, the billionaire is doing just that via a contribution to the pro-Donald Trump America PAC, Bloomberg reported. — 12 July 2024 (LINK)
Trump claims not to know who is behind Project 2025. A CNN review found at least 140 people who worked for him are involved — 11 July 2024 (LINK)
Salon: The grift behind Project 2025: Leader John McEntee made an app to hustle cash from lonely MAGA men — 10 July 2024 (LINK)
Rudy Giuliani is disbarred in New York for spreading Donald Trump's 2020 election lies: The former New York City mayor had no "good faith basis" to believe lies about widespread voter fraud, the order said — NBC — 2 July 2024 (LINK)
U.S. Chief Justice Sotomayor offers terrifying list of things Trump could do as President after immunity ruling — thedailybeast — 1 July 2024 (LINK)
NY Post: Jill Biden's Vogue cover proves how painfully out of touch the president's family is — see_link — 1 July 2024 (LINK)
Fox: UN official called 'terror sympathizing antisemite' by Israeli ambassador as calls grow for her dismissal — foxnews — 30 June 2024 (LINK)
— Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, recently made news after criticizing the Jewish state for its successful June rescue of four hostages held by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip. Israel's outgoing ambassador to the U.N., Gilad Erdan, told Fox News Digital, "Francesca Albanese is the very definition of a terror sympathizing antisemite. Her role at the U.N. is dedicated toward one goal: the destruction of the State of Israel. I'm not surprised that the secretary-general, who is motivated by hatred for Israel, is not doing anything about her justification of terror against Israelis."
— Albanese's June 8 post on X said of the rescue mission, "This is 'humanitarian camouflage' at another level. Israel has used hostages to legitimise (sic) killing, injuring, maiming, starving and traumatising (sic) Palestinians in Gaza. And while intensifying violence against Palestinians in the rest of the occupied territory and Israel. Israel could have freed all hostages, alive and intact, 8 months ago when the first ceasfire (sic) and hostage exchange was put on the table. Yet, Israel refused in order to continue to destroy Gaza and the Palestinians as a people. This is genocidal intent turned into action. Crystal clear."
Can Biden come back from a bad debate the way Reagan did in 1984? — NPR — 29 June 2024 (LINK)
Fact check: Biden's horrific debate performance made worse by multiple lies and gaffes — nypost — 29 June 2024 (LINK)
SCOTUS overturns "Chevron" Deference, sparking massive transfer of power to courts: decision could lead to the erosion of federal regulations in health, environment, food safety, labor, and more — truthout.org — 28 June 2024 (LINK)
Supreme Court just ruled in favor of over 300 January 6 insurrectionists, and including Donald Trump — vox.com — 28 June 2024 (LINK)
— the Supreme Court ruled that a federal law, providing that anyone who "obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so" commits a very serious federal crime, does not actually apply to everyone who obstructs, influences, or impedes an official proceeding.
— Approximately 330 people who allegedly participated in that insurrection are charged with violating the statute at issue in Fischer v. United States, including Donald Trump. So Friday's decision could potentially undermine much of the Justice Department's ability to prosecute hundreds of people who attacked the US Capitol.
— According to Justice Roberts, January 6 defendants can only be charged under the statute if they created false evidence or otherwise impaired "the availability or integrity of other things used in an official proceeding beyond the 'record[s], document[s], or other object[s]' enumerated in (c)(1), such as witness testimony or intangible information."
— Let's stipulate that Roberts's interpretation of the statute is super confusing and that it does not comport with the way most English speakers would read this law. The oddest thing about Fischer is that there are actually some Supreme Court precedents that support Roberts's decision.
Trump would withdraw US from Paris climate treaty again, campaign says — politico — 28 June 2024 (LINK)
Trump Media hits 'milestone' as stock slides nearly 10%: additional shares that had been registered earlier this year declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission — newsweek — 19 June 2024 (LINK)
— The SEC's decision allows early investors in TMTG, which is majority owned by former President Donald Trump, to exercise public warrants they hold in the company, making just over 14 million shares issuable. According to the prospectus filed with the SEC, if all warrants are exercised for cash, TMTG could receive up to $247 million in proceeds.
New law requires all Louisiana public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments in "large, easily readable font", from kindergarten to state-funded universities — AP — 19 June 2024 (LINK)
FactChecking Trump's immigration-related claims in Phoenix and Las Vegas: several of his talking points are wrong or misleading — factcheck.org — 18 June 2024 (LINK)
- Trump falsely said that a proclamation by President Joe Biden to limit asylum eligibility "establishes an annual minimum of approximately 2 million illegal alien border crossers".
- He distorted how a mobile app for asylum appointments operated, saying it allows "free entry to be released into the United States at the push of a button." Applicants are screened, and appointments are limited.
- Trump offered wildly exaggerated border crossing statistics.
- He distorted reporting by the New York Times to misleadingly claim that "88,000" unaccompanied minors who came to the U.S. illegally and were processed by the Biden administration "are missing" and "many of those children are dead."
- Trump claimed that "more drugs are coming into our country right now than at any time in our history." Federal data for drug seizures by weight are trending down under Biden. As a proxy for drug smuggling, that data suggest that fewer drugs, not more, are coming into the country. Fentanyl seizures, however, have increased significantly under both Trump and Biden.
- Trump claimed that "300,000 people are dying a year" in the U.S. from drugs, and said the figure is "probably more than that." A federal agency reported that there were 107,941 drug overdose deaths in 2022, and a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researcher previously told us that any undercount "should be relatively small."
- He falsely claimed that "virtually 100% of the new jobs under Biden have also gone to illegal aliens." Since Biden became president in January 2021, employment of U.S.-born workers has increased more than employment of foreign-born workers, which includes those in the U.S. legally.
- Trump claimed that real, meaning inflation-adjusted, income and wages for the Black population are down 6% under Biden. But the most recent government data show real income is up for Black households, while real wages for full-time Black workers are down by less than what Trump said.
- The former president claimed that illegal immigration under Biden had created "flat-out economic warfare" on Black and Hispanic Americans by "taking the jobs" of those workers, and he said unions were "being absolutely slaughtered." Employment and union membership data show no evidence of that.
- Trump repeated his unsubstantiated talking point that "the entire world is emptying their prisons and jails, insane asylums, and mental institutions" and sending those people to the U.S. He has provided no evidence for that explosive claim, as we've written several times.
Judge rejects bankruptcy plan for Alex Jones' Infowars but allows him to liquidate his personal assets — CNN — 14 June 2024 (LINK)
Swiss right-wing leader calls Ukraine summit an 'embarrassment', reflecting the view that the talks are damaging for Switzerland's traditional neutrality. — Reuters ● — (LINK)
— Leading figures in the party have argued Switzerland should not have hosted this weekend's summit without Russia, and Nils Fiechter, chief of the SVP's youth wing, delivered a damning verdict on the talks to Russian broadcaster RT. "The conference will achieve nothing," Fiechter told RT on the eve of the talks, in comments picked up by Swiss media on Sunday. "The whole thing is an absolute farce and an embarrassment for our country."
Rex Huppke: How long will feckless Joe Biden ignore the grave threat of sharks and electric boats? — yahoo.com — 12 June 2024 (LINK)
— "Thank God for MY PRESIDENT, Donald J. Trump, the one presidential candidate with courage enough to confront the greatest twin threats of our time: sharks and electric boat batteries."
— . He's too busy being both dementia-addled AND the devious mastermind of a global crime family while also turning our country into a banana republic by allowing the justice system to use a 'jury' to find Trump 'guilty' of 'crimes'."
NYPost: The key moments when Dr. Anthony Fauci contradicted himself during heated COVID hearing — nypost.com — 3 June 2024 (LINK)
NYPost: Power of the Biden family undeniable as first son Hunter's federal gun trial begins — nypost — 4 June 2024 (LINK)
— "Hunter blames special counsel David Weiss for his predicament, even though the timid former US Attorney for Delaware spent five years slow rolling the criminal investigation of Hunter, allowing the statute of limitations to expire on the worst charges and turning a blind eye to obstruction from the DOJ. But once their sweetheart plea deal collapsed under the weight of IRS whistleblower revelations, Weiss chose to save his own skin and Merrick Garland followed suit by naming him special counsel.
— If anyone understands the power of the Bidens it is Weiss, which accounts for his nervous body language. Hand over his mouth, chin in his hand, hand patting his leg, whatever he did it screamed: "Get me out of here!" The power of the Biden family in that courtroom was at near full throttle.
— First Lady Dr. Jill, 73, was front row, hard to miss in a bright purple pantsuit, and gleaming blonde coiffure. She made a point of turning around and offering her face to the jury pool as they filed in to sit on the other side of the courtroom. She was flanked on either side by Hunter's elegantly dressed second wife Melissa Cohen, 38, and, for half the day, by Hunter's half-sister Ashley, 42, Jill's daughter.
— Next to the women were "Sugar Brother" Kevin Morris, the Hollywood attorney who has spent more than $6 million repaying Hunter' tax debts, buying his paintings and funding his lifestyle; Washington, DC, lawyer Peter Neal, the husband of Hunter's daughter Naomi; and Delaware attorney John T. Owens, the husband of Joe Biden's sister Val.
— All that was missing was the patriarch president, holed up five miles away in his lakeside spread in bucolic Greenville. And everywhere you looked there were Secret Service agents, a praetorian guard around the first family, their big black Chevy Suburbans blockading the courthouse amid the flashing lights of police cars, blocked-off roads and gigantic satellite trucks for the world's media."
Fox News: 'Strong possibility' Congress will recommend the DOJ arrest Fauci: James Comer: "Fauci got rich while we got sick" (video) — foxnews — 3 June 2024 (LINK)
Philippe Lazzarini in NY Times: "At least 192 UNRWA employees have been killed in Gaza. More than 170 UNRWA premises have been damaged or destroyed. UNRWA-run schools have been demolished. Israeli officials are not only threatening the work of our staff and mission, they are also delegitimizing UNRWA by effectively characterizing it as a terrorist organization.”
→→ "UNRWA Head Demonstrates Moral Bankruptcy in New York Times Op-Ed: How do children react when they are caught red-handed? They blame someone else and cry." — algemeiner.com — 30 May 2024 (LINK)
A New Jersey electrician who repeatedly attacked police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, siege at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in prison by a judge who called him "a menace to our society" — AP — 24 May 2024 (LINK)
Heather Cox Richardson: "The Republican Party is in the midst of a civil war" — substack — 24 May 2024 (LINK)
Bjorn Lomborg: Green activists don't care how many people will die from zero fossil fuel use — nypost — 23 May 2024 (LINK)
?NY vs Trump: Liar Michael Cohen can run but can't hide from the truth even though lying is in his DNA — foxnews — 15 May 2024 (LINK)
Heather Cox Richardson: Trump, taxes, immigrants and the cowboy myth — substack — 12 May 2024 (LINK)
'The Late, Great Hannibal Lecter!' 5 Wildest Moments from Trump's Bizarre Rally in New Jersey — mediaite — 11 May 2024 (LINK)
Every Trump 'prediction' about Biden was wrong — crooksandliars.com — 11 May 2024 (LINK)
Judge blocks Biden administration rule capping credit card late fees at $8 — CNN — 10 May 2024 (LINK)
Donald Trump says he'll revoke Biden's trans protections — www.advocate.com — 10 May 2024 (LINK)
Steve Bannon loses after federal appeals court upholds his conviction — boingboing.net — 10 May 2024 (LINK)
QAnon conspiracy theories are surging on Elon Musk's X — mashable — 10 May 2024 (LINK)
Fox News opinion: NY v Trump: How Stormy Daniels self-destructed under a devastating cross-examination: Stormy Daniels is only casually acquainted with the concept of truth. She massages it or offends it whenever it suits her — foxnews — 10 May 2024 (LINK)
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem falsely claims she met Kim Jong Un in dog-killing memoir — rollingstone — 3 May 2024 (LINK)
Ex-government employee charged with falsely accusing co-workers of joining Capitol riot — AP — 2 May 2024 (LINK)
Jan. 6 defendant who 'fed' officer to Trump mob is sentenced to 4 years in prison — nbcnews.com — 2 May 2024 (LINK)
Jan. 6 rioter who sought to 'incite violence' by Trump supporters sentenced to six years — NBC — 26 April 2024 (LINK)
Four California men who were associated with the "Three Percenter" militia group and convicted in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol attack were taken into custody Friday after a judge ordered them to serve sentences ranging from 21 to 33 months in federal prison, far below what the government had requested — NBC — 19 April 2024 (LINK)
Fox News peddles misleading report from nativist hate group on costs associated with immigration — mediamatters.org — 16 April 2024 (LINK)
— At no point did anyone at Fox acknowledge how much immigrants contribute to American society or how much immigration contributes to economic growth and prosperity.
Extreme Rightwinger 'J.D. Vance is dead wrong about Ukraine aid' — The Hill — 16 April 2024 (LINK)
NYPost→Jeff Bezos' ex-wife giving most of $640M donations to extreme left groups boosting migrant criminals, trans athletes — nypost.com — 23 March 2024 (LINK)
OpenTheBooks.com repeats misrepresentation that Biden's administration sent stimulus checks to dead people: it was Trump's — factcheck.org — 21 March 2024 (LINK)
Supreme Court green lights Texas law that allows state police to arrest migrants — ground.news: 223 media reports — 19 March 2024 (LINK)
Big Brother Biden wants AI to control what you read, say and think — nypost — 10 February 2024 (LINK)
Posts misrepresent Saudi Prince’s comment on investment in Kushner Fund: Trump's son-in-law not asked to return funds — factcheck.org — 9 February 2024 (LINK)
nypost→:Never mind UNRWA — end US funding for the pro-terror United Nations itself — nypost — 30 January 2024 (LINK)
nypost→: The UN is paying illegals using US taxpayer cash The UN, with the helping hands of 248 named non-governmental organizations, is indeed giving debit cards to illegal migrants — funded, in large part, by US taxpayers. — nypost — 23 January 2024 (LINK)
Supreme Court allows federal agents to cut razor wire Texas installed on US-Mexico border — ground.news: 178 media reports — 22 January 2024 (LINK)
heathercoxrichardson: Trump's mental condition, GOP attacks on banks and judicial system — substack — 20 January 2024 (LINK)
— Beyond confusing Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi, Trump's contention that the speaker of the House is responsible for US Capitol security is not accurate, as CNN previously fact-checked. — CNN — 21 January 2024 (LINK)
Biden 'afraid to talk about' record stock market because 'he hates rich people': Fox Business Network's Larry Kudlow finds a way to attack Biden while reporting on the Dow and S&P hitting record highs this Friday. — crooksandliars.com — 20 January 2024 (LINK)
— "Former President Trump has said the market is rallying because he’s going to be reelected president. Others believe the market is rallying because Joe Biden is going to be defeated."
Robert Reich: Jamie Dimon groveling before Trump from Davos exemplifies how fascism takes root — commondreams — 20 January 2024 (LINK)
— Dimon: "He was kind of right about NATO, kind of right on immigration. He grew the economy quite well. Tax reform worked. He was right about some of China. He wasn’t wrong about some of these critical issues." What?
Hunter Biden agrees to private Feb. 28 deposition with House Republicans after defying first subpoena to testify, committee says — ground.news: 178 media reports — 18 January 2024 (LINK)
Artificial Intelligence and the threat of misinformation in 2024 elections — cryptopolitan — 19 January 2024 (LINK)
— The 2016 U.S. Presidential election is a stark example of how AI-driven misinformation can impact electoral outcomes. During that election, fake stories favoring Donald Trump were shared over 30 million times on various social media platforms. This staggering number highlighted the potential influence of AI-generated misinformation on voter sentiment.
