Donald Trump has said he only hires “the best people,” but he stocked his presidential administration with a historically incompetent collection of fools who have no business working in government. Just ask Donald Trump. The former president has thrown countless figures he appointed to critical positions under the bus, deriding …
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Daniel Ellsberg, the U.S. military analyst-turned-whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers and helped reveal the political deceptions underpinning the brutal expansion of the Vietnam War, died Friday in his California home. He was 92. The cause was pancreatic cancer, according to a statement by Ellsberg’s family. In early March, Ellsberg …
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Donald Trump can’t stop taking advice from Judicial Watch President (and definitely not a lawyer) Tom Fitton — and it’s driving his attorneys crazy. According to a report from The Washington Post, who spoke to seven Trump advisers familiar with the behind-the-scenes events of Trump’s indictment by the Justice Department, …
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Multiple federal government agencies have been hit as part of a recent wave of cyberattacks exploiting a flaw in a common file-transfer application, CNN reported on Thursday. Eric Goldstein of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in a statement that the the CISA “is providing support to several …
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Vaccine conspiracy theorist and Democratic 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. believes his uncle was assassinated by the CIA. He told Joe Rogan that he’s “aware” that he, too, could be targeted by U.S. intelligence — but he doesn’t “live in fear” of the possibility. Kennedy has repeatedly stated …
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It looks like Donald Trump has established a playbook for getting indicted: fly into the city he’s being charged in, load up the motorcade, go to court, get arrested, get arraigned, then fly to one of his resorts for a night-of speech. Trump flew to Mar-a-Lago to speak after getting …
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As the nation’s ideological fight reaches book shelves, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation on Monday that would cut off state funding for Illinois public libraries that restrict or ban books. Pritzker called the bill, which takes effect on Jan. 1, 2024, the first of its kind. The legislation arrives as …
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Fox News dropped its “Fair and Balanced” motto in 2017, and has been doing its best to embody the change ever since. On Tuesday, the network reached new heights of shameless propaganda during Donald Trump’s post-arrest speech in New Jersey. During the network’s live coverage of Trump’s address, Fox briefly …
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Music Hall of Williamsburg, a popular venue in Brooklyn, has canceled a rental contract with Candace Owens’ group Blexit, which was set to host an event there this weekend. Owens — the controversial far-right commentator known for her close ties to Kanye West and “documentary” The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running for president, and thus on leave as the chairman of the Children’s Health Defense. The group, like its founder, has spent the past few years pushing misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccines. It has also, as Media Matters reported on Wednesday, been using the far-right …
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