Former President Donald Trump, who has a long history of denigrating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and who, as president, discussed removing the U.S. from the alliance, has now claimed credit for its existence. He’s also patting himself on the back for supplying Ukraine with weapons, despite once threatening …
Read More »Ukraine's a False Flag! No, It's the End of the Deep State! Nutters Can't Decide
In the gutter world of the internet, many conspiracy theorists are struggling to weave a single narrative around Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. While some subscribe to the belief that the war is a possible false flag operation, others think Vladimir Putin is attacking Ukraine to destroy the Deep State, a …
Read More »White Nationalists Raid CPAC But Find Themselves Right at Home
ORLANDO — The Conservative Political Action Conference, the nation’s premier gathering of right-wing, pro-Donald Trump die-hards is here this year. The American First Political Action Conference, the nation’s premier gathering that includes right-wing, pro-Donald Trump die-hards who are also overt and public white nationalists, is here this year too. In …
Read More »Trump on Russia Attacking Ukraine: The 2020 Election Was Stolen and Immigrants Are Ruining America
Missiles fell, lives were lost, and millions of civilians hoped to escape with their lives as Russian President Vladimir Putin launched at attack on Ukraine. It’s a war, a humanitarian crisis, a tragedy, a horror, and a time when real journalists are counted on to provide timely, accurate, and pertinent …
Read More »E. Jean Carroll Will 'Never Settle' Her Defamation Case Against Donald Trump
“I’ll never settle,” E. Jean Carroll said outside a New York City courtroom late Tuesday afternoon, where a hearing took place in her defamation case against former president Donald Trump. “We’re in this fight, not really for me, but for all women who have been grabbed and groped, and assaulted …
Read More »When the MAGA Movement Comes for Your School
COLLIN COUNTY, Texas — Michael Phillips is a professor, a 15-year veteran of Collin College in Texas, and the area’s preeminent historian of racial politics and right-wing extremism. At the end of the school year, he’ll also be out of a job. Phillips says he was summoned to a series …
Read More »Trump, Don Jr., and Ivanka Must Testify Under Oath in New York Probe, Judge Rules
A New York state judge ruled on Thursday that former President Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr., and his daughter Ivanka Trump must sit for a deposition as part of New York Attorney General Letitia James‘ civil investigation into whether the Trump Organization made fraudulent asset evaluations. “In the …
Read More »Judge Says that Trump Maybe, Just Maybe, Incited Violence on Jan. 6
A federal judge on Friday refused to dismiss lawsuits against Donald Trump, rejecting the president’s legal team’s argument that there was noway he incited violence when he told people the 2020 election was stolen, called them to a mass demonstration in Washington, and then exhorted them to “flight like hell” …
Read More »Trump's Spammy Fundraising Emails Are Rankling Republicans: Report
Top GOP officials are worried that former President Donald Trump‘s barrage of fundraising emails could crowd out other Republicans and harm efforts to compete with Democratic fundraising hauls, Axios reported on Wednesday. According to the report, Trump’s two political action committees — Save America and the Trump Make America Great …
Read More »Party of Trump Unironically Wants to Test Biden's Mental Fitness
Republicans, the party that elected President Donald Trump, have recently renewed their call for President Joe Biden to submit to a cognitive exam. It’s a rich demand coming from people who supported Trump, whose already loose grip on reality seemed to slip even further into delusion as he shitposted his …
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