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This is a story you cannot make up: ” I’m going to see Rupert Murdoch,” Trump said at the end of an interview Friday on Fox News’ Fox and Friends. “I’m going to tell him something very simple, because I can’t talk to anybody else. Don’t put on negative commercials for 21 days.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareLegal experts from an advocacy group and a civil rights law firm on Friday called for a county prosecutor to issue criminal charges against former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance for their role in propagating lies about the Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio. Constitutional lawyers with Free Speech For People, a Massachusetts-based advocacy group, and Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, a Chicago-based law firm, issued a joint letter to Clark County prosecutor Daniel Driscoll in support of a criminal complaint brought by Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), a San Diego-based rights group, on September 24. The complaint alleges that Trump and Vance (R-Ohio), the Republican presidential and vice presidential nominees, disrupted public services, made false alarms, and engaged in telecommunications harassment and aggravated menacing. Last month, Trump and Vance repeatedly claimed that Haitian immigrants in Springfield were stealing pets to eat them—the claims, which had no credible basis, were widely derided as racist.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWe heard several of the classic corporate media fixations in this NBC News interview with Hallie Jackson and Kamala Harris. Via the New York Times: On Tuesday, she effectively shut down a question about whether she would be willing to make concessions or extend an “olive branch” to Republican lawmakers in Congress in an attempt to restore Roe v.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareChristian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon compared pigs and women during his October 20 Sunday sermon. The Christian nationalist pastor told his audience that that God wants women to be quiet and modest: "Like a golden ring in the snout of a pig, so too it is with a woman who is not modest." Webbon is a rising star in the Republican party, part of the so-called “TheoBros” movement.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAfter Republican-led states put in place abortion bans and restrictions following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, infant death has significantly increased, a new study published Monday shows. The report was published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics by researchers at the Ohio State University College of Public Health. The study compared infant mortality before the 2022 Dobbs v.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareVice President Kamala Harris delivered a rare public speech in front of her official residence in Washington on Wednesday to raise the alarm about Donald Trump’s stated desire to use the presidency to punish his political rivals and deploy the military “as his personal militia to carry out his personal and political vendettas.” [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Harris accused Trump of wanting “unchecked power,” citing recently published interviews with John Kelly, a retired four-star general who served as Trump’s White House chief of staff and Homeland Security Secretary.
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