Democrats Wave the White Flag In the face of overwhelming chaos sowed by the Trump administration, Congressional Democrats are being as about as effective as you’d expect. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries simply raised the white flag live on television at a time we need strong leadership. Victim blaming: He went on to criticize “activist groups” for “dividing” the Democratic… Read More
US Attorney Aims to Quash Dissent as FCC Makes Probes Interim D.C. US Attorney Edward Martin threatened to prosecute anyone who “target or impede” Elon Musk or Doge, including journalists. Meanwhile the FCC is investigating KCBS in Los Angeles for their coverage of ICE raids. PBS and NPR are also under scrutiny under the auspice of underwriting. These threats come amidst a climate set by… Read More
Facebook Settles Electoral Vote is reporting that Facebook have settled a lawsuit from the Trump Administration for $25 million, because it’s better for business than being on Trump’s list of enemies. From the article: Donald Trump was furious when Mark Zuckerberg suspended Trump’s Facebook account on account of all the lies he was telling. So Trump did… Read More
The TikTok KowTow Challenge Over the past sixteen hours, TikTok has engaged in the ancient Chinese practice of prostration known as 叩頭, usually romanized as kowtow . . . virtually, of course. On background, a law took effect today in the US, banning TikTok. As written, the law would take effect 270 days from the day it is signed… Read More
Alabama Governor orders flags at full mast for inauguration Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, breaking with the tradition of honoring the passing of a past President, has ordered that the flags in the state be raised to full mast for the inauguration of Donald Trump. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, breaking with the tradition of honoring the passing of a past President, has ordered that the… Read More
Meta to Drop Fact-Checking Program Because It’s ‘Too Politically Biased’ Variety is reporting that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and others, is dropping fact checking because it is allegedly too politically biased. Of course we’ve all heard the expression that the truth has a liberal bias. I am not sure that’s true so much as conservatism, and especially fascism, has a falsehood bias.… Read More
ABC Rolls Over and Settles Over One Word Trump sued ABC News over their use of the word “rape” rather than “Sexual Assault.” While ABC could likely have fought this, they instead rolled over and paid $15 million to settle it. Here is the saleint part from Electoral-Vote.com: ABC News decided it was better to pay Trump than fight this in court, so… Read More