On Wednesday night Donald Trump posted a comment on his floundering Twitter ripoff, Truth Social, teasing a “MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT” coming on Thursday. The post declared that “America needs a superhero,” and included a picture of him as a Bizarro World cartoon crusader. Click here to Tweet this article Trump's fantasies...
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Beetle-Juice Three Times. Thank Jeebus that cheesehead is not banned from primary and secondary schools in Wisconsin. Because nothing says “Freedom” and “Liberty” like being the language police. If you talk about “spirit murdering” and “action civics” they might even exist. Better to be “un-woke”, because you might develop an “unconscious-bias”. Darn...
One incident occurred just hours ago as a flight gets diverted to OKC because a passenger wanted to step outside. Yet another #hijack attempt aboard a plane? The plane was diverted to OKC. Unknown which airline but checking. pic.twitter.com/4kPeYkmmxC — Stanley Roberts (@StanleyRoberts) June 12, 2021 An earlier flight wound...
Oklahoma’s right-wing politicians would like to erase history because that’s what they do, whether it’s the omission of facts or rewriting them to favor those in power. Historical guilt and its associated media effects cooties can’t be part of public school curricula. H.B. 1775 implies that the past prior to 1776...
From The Daily Beast: Josh Mandel—the far-right, former Ohio state representative now running for Senate—has recently joined the chorus of conservatives railing against Big Tech. But before he turned against Silicon Valley, Mandel was a Facebook stock investor who made tens of thousands of dollars. And even after he turned...
Old Pharaoh Trump’s going to spew more nonsense this weekend, including the Big Lie. Trump will make his first public major public appearance to grift for the next pyramid scheme. CPAC 2021 is set for Feb. 25-28 in Orlando, Florida, where the lineup of far-right speakers will include former President Donald Trump as well...
Every time someone objects to the right-wing nonsense, they respond by whining we’re trying to censor them. Marjorie Taylor Greene of QAnon asshole fame even likes to wear a mask that says “CENSORED” on it. (Well, she doesn’t like to wear a mask, so that’s just more of her norrishkeit....
I’m not sure what happened to Rudy Giuliani. I never liked him all that much to begin with, but once upon a time he seemed marginally sane. I don’t know if someone fed him after midnight or if the Furby chip in his head is overdue for replacement or what, but...
The Washington Post is my go-to online news source — unless you count Daily Kos, of course, at which I loiter like a teenager contemplating his 11th Mountain Dew Baja Blast refill on a Saturday afternoon at Burger King. I prefer The Post because it appears to irritate Donald Trump even more than The New...
I belonged to a Veteran group on Facebook. The administrator came on and said because of “Big Tech” conspiring against conservatives, he would move to an alt-site like Gab or Parlor. He talked all about the First Amendment and the hate he feels coming towards Republicans. Once again, Fox and...
Desperate Trumpists might be a bit late to obstruct the polls, assuming that law enforcement actually does their constitutional duty. “…the most effective modern disinformation is defined by what scholars call “censorship through noise”—drowning out the truth with a barrage of lies, distortions, and conspiracy theories designed to confuse and...
Just watch: x Lou Dobbs is telling South Carolina residents not to vote for Lindsey Graham pic.twitter.com/vQ67BZZN6P— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) October 23, 2020 Media Matters provided the transcript: The Lou Dobbs quote of the day comes from South Carolina Senator Lindsey graham, he has an explanation today for not subpoenaing...
In revisionist history, perhaps the Union troops hunting down John Wilkes Booth were only interested in him because of some ‘wanton endangerment’. We do know who’s a snake in these counterfactual historical narratives. x For sure! It’d be like charging John Wilkes Booth for shooting recklessly inside a crowded theater....
Facebook has been waging war on climate science lately. The Guardian reported that over this weekend, hundreds of social justice, indigenous, and climate groups had their accounts suspended apparently to disrupt a virtual protest against the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline in British Columbia. x Yesterday, GPUSA and hundreds of Wet’suwet’en frontline...
Cry me a river: U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall is accusing Facebook of censorship after the social media giant removed a post from his account that promoted a conspiracy theory about federal reports of coronavirus deaths. In the comments that Marshall posted Sunday, he said the Centers for Disease Control and...
Trump claims a Joe Biden presidency would cause stock gains to ‘disintegrate and disappear‘. We’re already there, no thanks to an incompetent pandemic policy, or lack of one. #TrumpHasNoPlan Where’s that health plan he promised he’d sign by today. Ultimately Trump doesn’t care, and in some ways it expresses the kind of aesthetic...
Of many conservatives who write on the editorial side of the NY Times, the tenure of Bari Weiss was uneven with mainly meta-commentary, but apparently she will have a gig elsewhere in combination with some other writers like Andrew Sullivan. x .@bariweiss is leaving the NYT, @laurawags reports. https://t.co/mewLM6tbhQâ” Alex...
Trump is not exactly an author of any Emancipation Proclamations. Trump implies that he will retaliate against private social media but if he chooses anything remotely constitutional, he may actually have to address issues of fact weighed against his usual lies. But he does need diversions from the over 100,000 dead,...
This is what Republican governance looks like. Vote them all out! “I think it’s been a team effort here in Florida, we’ve got great public health people here at the county level, we've worked very good with the local governments as well, and we still have more work to do....
This is what Republican governance looks like. Vote them all out! “I think it’s been a team effort here in Florida, we’ve got great public health people here at the county level, we’ve worked very good with the local governments as well, and we still have more work to do....
Look, I hate Twitter too but this ridiculous: x Well, after phone calls, emails, letters, and faxes, I cannot get @johncornyn to unblock me. Looks like we're headed to court for real. Follow the case at https://t.co/QbMssaQixc I'm also launching a hashtag b/c that's what people do apparently: #1AForTexansâ Tod...
COVID-19 is not like the seasonal flu, among other things. The above chart should end all comments about it being “just like the flu”. Remember that 0.6% of the US population has been tested for COVID-19. And Howard Dean is the first to announce that he’ll not go on MSNBC as...
I envy the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. I wish I could edit Donald Trump out of my head. Unfortunately, I’m told very few insurance plans will approve that kind of surgery, no matter how many times I tell them it’s not really “elective.” So the CBC edited Trump out of its...
It was a horrible week of child suffering. We saw children’s parents being taken from them instantly with no thought given to the little ones left behind. We saw multiple mass shootings that didn’t spare children or babies. Our country is broken, and there are a lot of issues that...
It was a horrible week of child suffering. We saw children’s parents being taken from them instantly, with no thought given to the little ones left behind. We saw multiple mass shootings that didn’t spare children or babies. Our country is broken, and there are a lot of issues that...
So the guy who thinks vaccines cause autism and Alex Jones is a reputable journalist held a social media summit a couple of days ago. Really, it was an opportunity for a bunch of cranks to whine about being persecuted by (privately run) social media platforms for being unabashedly offensive...
People here in Central Florida lament the “brain drain” from talented students who leave the land of hospitality-based, dead-end jobs upon completion of their studies. We are ranked one of the worst places to live for young people, so the skilled and educated tend to leave for other places where higher education...
Al Jazeera gets it right !! Bottom of this diary. – – – First the obvious: negotiations with Iran are a multinational process. This is not an American treaty. No way, no how. The five Permanent Members of the United Nations Security Council — the United States, Russia, China, United...