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As it happens, the guy behind the "Black Insurrectionist" Xitter account, which widely spread a disgusting fabrication about Tim Walz and baseless claims about Vice President Kamala Harris, is a white dude from upstate New York who owes more than $6.7 million in back taxes, the Associated Press reports. Jason G.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareApparently, entitled old white men are still a thing in this country, as this one, a news anchor at WLOX in Biloxi since 1985, felt he could do or say anything he damned well pleased on social media and get away with it. Soon after his video was posted to Twitter Dave Elliot found out the hard way that was not the case. Source: SunHerald.com David “Dave” Elliott, a fixture at WLOX-TV, says he was fired Friday morning over his personal political posts on X, formerly known as Twitter. Elliott announced his departure to the public on one of his Facebook page, “David Elliott WLOX TV” and on his personal Facebook page, Dave Elliott. “I’m no longer at WLOX as of 10-25-24,” Elliott wrote Friday morning.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Shareby Shondiin Silversmith, Arizona Mirror October 24, 2024 For the first time in history, a sitting U. S. president is set to apologize to Indigenous communities for the role the federal government played in the atrocities Indigenous children faced in the federal Native American Boarding School system. The apology, which President Joe Biden will deliver Friday when he speaks at the Gila River Crossing School on the Gila River Indian Community near Phoenix, comes three years after Interior Secretary Deb Haaland launched the first-ever investigation into Native American Boarding Schools. The final boarding school report provided eight recommendations from the Department of Indian Affairs for the federal government that would support a path to healing for tribal communities. At the top of that list was a call for the United States to acknowledge and apologize for its role in the federal Indian boarding school policies that have harmed — and continue to harm — Indigenous peoples across the country. “The president is taking that to heart, and he plans on making an apology to Indian Country for the boarding school era,” Haaland said in an Oct.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIn the lead up to the presidential election, candidates Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have taken to appearing on podcasts to engage with potential voters. According to Jeff Gulati, a political science professor at Bentley University in Waltham, Mass., Harris and Trump’s podcast appearances are simply another part of their larger campaign and communication strategy. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] For Trump, this includes appealing to young, often politically unengaged men, who are “predisposed to support him but less likely to vote,” Gulati says.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareCNN's Jake Tapper brought the receipts after House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell were crying about meanie Kamala Harris "normalizing violence" with her language about Trump. Tapper can get on my last nerve at times, but this was spot on. On Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) issued a joint statement weighing on Vice President Kamala Harris' characterization of former President Donald Trump as a "fascist." CNN host Jake Tapper was having none of it on his Friday broadcast. As the Hill reported, both Johnson and McConnell suggested that Harris calling her opponent a fascist could potentially invite more political violence ahead of the November election.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWhy would two reliable Democrat house organs withhold this widely expected form of support for their preferred candidate?
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