MAGA Republican Pledges “End of Democracy” to Rabid Cheers at CPAC

Posobiec, who helped popularize the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory, appeared at CPAC’s opening day on Wednesday. He spoke during a panel moderated by former White House adviser and white supremacist Steve Bannon. “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely,” Posobiec said as the event began. “We didn’t get all the …

Trump borrows from the language of Hitler for anti-immigration speech in New Hampshire

Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination for president in next year’s election, said that immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country.” He pledged to toughen immigration laws, including by reinstating a travel ban from “terror-plagued countries” and requiring “strong ideological screening” for immigrants in the country without authorization. “They’re poisoning the blood of …

Trump’s extreme rhetoric conjures the prospect of a presidency like no other

He believes his authority would be absolute. He wants vengeance against his political enemies. He’d pose the greatest challenge to the rule of law and the Constitution in modern times, seek to crush press freedoms and gut the machinery of government. None of this is speculation. Trump is saying and showing exactly what he would …

Mike Johnson [R], theocrat: the House speaker and a plot against America

Setting aside all of these wildly extreme, religiously motivated policy preferences, there is a more insidious threat to America in Johnson’s embrace of scriptural originalism: his belief that subjective interpretation of the Bible provides the master plan for governance. Religious truth is neither rational nor susceptible to reasoned debate. For Johnson, who sees a Manichean …

Misinformation obscures standards guiding gender-affirming care for trans youth

Before any medical or surgical interventions, kids must first be diagnosed with gender dysphoria, which, for prepubescent youth, involves experiencing significant distress for at least six months from at least six of a set of causes, including a strong desire to be of the other gender and a strong dislike of one’s sexual anatomy. Youth who …

Why Fox News Lied to Its Viewers

The network’s hosts and leaders knew that Trump had lost the election, but feared the consequences of telling their audience the truth. Fox News lies to its viewers. Its most prominent personalities, among the most influential in the industry, tell their viewers things they know not to be true. This is not accusation, allegation, or …

Trump’s Call for ‘Termination’ of Constitution Draws Rebukes

Inaccurately describing the contents of a just-released report about Twitter’s moderation decisions during the 2020 campaign, Mr. Trump again demanded that the 2020 election be overturned or rerun, for the first time explicitly calling to set aside the supreme law of the land. [...] The explicit suggestion of suspending the Constitution was astonishing even by …

Price controls ARE “communist,” you brain-dead dolts.

Blaming Biden for gas prices while calling him communist makes you an ignorant hypocrite. Controlling commodity prices is what they did in the Soviet Union, which means if you want Biden controlling gas prices, you want a Soviet-style command economy, not capitalism. And let's remember Democrats are the ones who've been warning everyone - FOR …

The Red State Murder Problem

But there is a large piece of the homicide story that is missing and calls into question the veracity of the right-wing obsession over homicides in Democratic cities: murder rates are far higher in Trump-voting red states than Biden-voting blue states. And sometimes, murder rates are highest in cities with Republican mayors. For example, Jacksonville, …

Rights group says Israeli strike on Gaza building that killed 106 in October is an ‘apparent war crime’

A Human Rights Watch investigation published Thursday said an Israeli attack on a Gaza building in October had no apparent militant target, but killed 106 civilians, including 54 children, making it an “apparent war crime.” [...] Israel says it tries to avoid harming civilians and blames their deaths on Hamas because the militants operate in …

Jon Stewart Deconstructs Trump’s “Victimless” $450 Million Fraud

Jon Stewart examines Donald Trump's deadline to come up with the $454 million bond in his civil fraud case, and deconstructs investment talking heads like Kevin O'Leary calling Trump's actions a "victimless crime." #DailyShow #JonStewart #Trump https://youtu.be/EDMinX6t1Zk?feature=shared https://youtu.be/EDMinX6t1Zk?feature=shared -The Daily Show; 3/25/2024

‘It’ll be bedlam’: how Trump is creating conditions for a post-election eruption

“Regardless of whether Donald Trump wins or loses, there’s going to be violence,” said Michael Fanone, a retired police officer who was seriously injured by pro-Trump rioters at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. “If Donald Trump loses, he’s not going to concede and he’s going to inspire people to commit acts of violence, …

As Gaza is destroyed, Israel is killing dozens of children in the West Bank

While the world’s attention is on Gaza, life for Palestinians in the West Bank is also growing increasingly precarious. There has been a surge in settler violence and a spike in unlawful lethal force from Israeli forces. More than 400 Palestinians from East Jerusalem and the West Bank have been killed by Israeli fire since …

How rightwing groups used junk science to get an abortion case before the US supreme court

Anti-abortion researchers ‘exaggerate’ and ‘obfuscate’ in their scientific papers – but by the time they’re published, it’s too late https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/23/anti-abortion-junk-science-supreme-court -The Guardian; 3/23/2024

‘Justification of dictatorship’: outcry as Milei rewrites Argentina’s history

Thousands of protesters will take to the streets on Sunday to mark the Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice in Argentina, a holiday commemorating the 30,000 victims of the dictatorship, called “desaparecidos”. The date usually sees Argentina’s largest demonstrations of the year, with millions of citizens flooding the country’s streets to declare: “Nunca más” …

Student Loans: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

With over 43 million Americans paying off student loans, John Oliver discusses how so many people have come to take on student loan debt, why it’s so hard to pay off, and what we can do about it, mama. https://youtu.be/zN2_0WC7UfU?feature=shared https://youtu.be/zN2_0WC7UfU?feature=shared -Last Week Tonight; 3/21/2024

Putin bromance has US intelligence officials fearing second Trump term

Trump praised the Russian president as a “genius” and “pretty savvy” when Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, and has boasted he would end the war in a “day”, sparking critics’ fears that if he’s elected again Trump would help Russia achieve a favorable peace deal by cutting off aid to Kyiv. Trump also recently …

Trump calls for Liz Cheney [R] to be jailed for investigating him over Capitol attack

Donald Trump has renewed calls for Liz Cheney – his most prominent Republican critic – to be jailed for her role in investigating his actions during the January 6 Capitol attack launched by his supporters in 2021, a move that is bound to raise further fears that the former president could persecute his political opponents if …

Father of Laken Riley decries politicization of daughter’s murder

The father of Laken Riley, whom authorities suspect was murdered by an undocumented migrant in February, has objected to how he says his daughter’s death is “being used politically” ahead of the upcoming presidential and congressional elections. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/laken-riley-father-statement -The Guardian; 3/18/2024