Golfer Michelle Wie West put America’s disgusting mayor, Rudy Giuliani, in his place after he made demeaning, objectifying comments about her while appearing on a podcast hosted by former Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon. While Giuliani and Bannon were discussing the death of conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, Giuliani said …
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In the latest socially distanced episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by friend-of-the-podcast Glenn Greenwald. Matt and Katie cover Neera Tanden’s contentious confirmation hearing to become the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Our hosts break down the exhaustive GOP questioning of …
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WASHINGTON — The legal blitz by voting-machine companies who have been the target of right-wing conspiracies just took another big step forward. On Thursday, the company Smartmatic sued Fox News and some of its biggest names alleging defamation and asking for a staggering $2.7 billion in damages. The 285-page complaint …
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MSNBC host Joe Scarborough called for the arrest of Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr., and lawyer Rudy Giuliani for their roles in inciting the “insurrection” attempt at the Capitol Wednesday. “Are we a nation of laws, or are we a nation of one man? Donald J. Trump called …
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Two members of the House, Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.), have requested the FBI open a criminal investigation into the president following his call with Georgia‘s secretary of state. In the call, Trump attempted to get Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes” in order …
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President-elect Joe Biden addressed the nation hours after he secured an Electoral College victory. In the speech, he praised the strength of America’s democracy, called on the nation to unite and spoke about the challenges his administration will face. “Once again, in America, the rule of law, our constitution, and …
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The make America great again president proved once again, during a Friday night rally in Georgia, that’s it’s really just all about him. With coronavirus cases rising under his watch, and 218,000 of his fellow citizens already dead from the virus, Trump took time out of another super spreader event …
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The vice presidential debate shouldn’t be happening. Not in person, anyway. Since the White House Rose Garden event commemorating President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court late last month, Vice President Pence has been exposed to an untold number of Covid-positive individuals, both inside and outside …
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In his convention speech Wednesday night, Vice President Mike Pence backed cops to the hilt, while baselessly warning that a Biden administration would leave America unprotected. Pence even invoked a line from the mythology of American policing — that cops represent a fragile barrier between social order and unbridled violence. …
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Part way through former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley’s speech on the first night of the GOP convention — just before she delved into a biographical story about how her Indian parents “faced discrimination and hardship” as she was growing up, and then toured through wrenching moments of her governorship, …
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