Russian state TV has begun broadcasting bloviating traitor Tucker Carlson’s pro-Putin rants, with subtitles. That’s right. As Ukrainians die, Russia is using American propaganda on its own citizenry. Carlson’s scumbagery is truly in a class all by itself.
Japan, Canada, and Australia joined the U.S. and Europe in imposing economic sanctions on Russia Wednesday (2/23/22), increasing pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his close allies and lieutenants over Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine. The sanctions, which target Russian banks, energy, and certain high income families with direct connections to Putin, are intended to …
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Hear that? It’s faint, we know, but you can almost hear it. That hideous guffaw. That self-satisfied chortle. That is Lachlan Murdoch’s delighted cackling, carried on the wind across the Pacific, all the way from his Australian mansion. Not because the Fox Corporation heir and CEO is actively rooting for Russia, necessarily, although his network …
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Part of what makes Right-Wing propaganda so effective is that it gives its consumers cover to believe both sides of the political spectrum are essentially the same. Left, Right—both sides (it vigorously implies) are engaged in partisan hackery costumed as journalism. This is why it poses as “News”: to lend authority to this false equivalence. …
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In a decision that was rendered largely ceremonial a day earlier, when the presiding judge announced that he planned to dismiss the case regardless of the jury’s verdict, a jury of Sarah Palin’s peers Tuesday rejected her libel lawsuit against The New York Times. Palin’s lawyers failed to prove she was defamed by the 2017 …
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This may come as something of a shock, gentle reader, but it turns out Fox News has been willfully lying and misrepresenting on its airwaves. And, no, this time we’re not talking about Sean Hannity endorsing the Big Lie, and we’re not talking about Tucker Carlson’s absolutely ridiculous (repeated (and repeated)) claims that the January …
Even as he holds rallies ahead of what will very likely be a 2024 run for the Presidency, Donald Trump appears to be increasingly concerned about investigations into him and his businesses. At his recent rally in Conroe, Texas, Trump returned to the subject again and again, trying desperately to cast the investigations as political …
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The rumblings began before the ink was even dry on Friday’s GOP censure of Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger: in the case of this blundering censure, bad publicity might actually be worse than no publicity at all. To recap: On Friday, 2/4/22, RNC members were faced with yet another proof-of-fealty vote between patriotism and former …
In a 5-4 decision Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court restored an Alabama congressional map which a lower court had ruled violated black Alabamians’ right to representation. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s 3 liberal members in dissent. According to New York Times reporting, “Both the stay and the decision to hear the case indicated …
Maybe you heard? *Whispers* As far as Republicans are concerned, violence is now “legitimate political discourse.” Of course, you’d have to have been paying really close attention to know it. It was Friday afternoon (2/4/22), when the Republican National Committee voted unironically to cancel—I mean, to “censure”—Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger …
