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True (4%) — 15 of 350 Researched Statements

Mostly True (12%) — 41 of 350 Researched Statements

Half True (15%) — 51 of 350 Researched Statements

Mostly False (19%) — 66 of 350 Researched Statements

False (33%) — 115 of 350 Researched Statements

Pants on Fire (18%) — 62 of 350 Researched Statements

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How Russia Findings Divided Trump and Intelligence Agencies
Officials told The New York Times Magazine that the draft of a classified document reporting that Russia favored President Trump in the 2020 election was changed to soften its assessment. ... read more
The New York Times2020-08-08
3 hours ago
Ravaged by Covid-19, Polluted Communities Demand Environmental Justice
Growing up in Newark’s South Ward, Kim Gaddy often struggled to breathe. When her asthma was at its worst and inhaling stung and failed to fill her lungs, she would wind up in the local emergency room. Gaddy spent considerably more time in the ER when her three children were young. They also grew up in the South Ward, where the children’s asthma rate is three times the national average. All of Gaddy’s kids — now 31, 20, and 16 — have asthma too, as did Gaddy’s parents, two of her brothers, ... read more
The Intercept2020-08-08
3 hours ago
How an Iowa summer resort region became a Covid-19 hot spot
A party on Lake Okoboji in the Great Lakes region of Iowa over July Fourth weekend. A medical anthropologist on why the coronavirus response is so controversial in her hometown. ARNOLDS PARK, Iowa — Walking down Broadway Street, flanked with nightclubs and restaurants, you would never know that the coronavirus is lurking here. The sun is shining, maskless people are buzzing about, and ice cream is selling. This is the 100 days of summer in which the Iowa Great Lakes region makes most of its money. Everything is open. But this year, the vacation destination is also a ... read more
Vox2020-08-08
4 hours ago
The Man Determined to Deliver Trump’s Alaskan Oil Promise
Later this year, the Trump administration is expected to fulfill a decadeslong Republican dream. The Department of the Interior will likely sell the first leases for oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, opening up to development the last remaining stretch of protected land along the North Slope.For the oil and gas industry in Alaska, which has been especially hard hit by the global pandemic and economic downturn, it will be a bit of welcome good news. For Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), whose father spent much of his Senate career fighting to open the refuge, it will ... read more
POLITICO2020-08-08
4 hours ago
Susan Rice’s Fear Came True
A few days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, then-National Security Adviser Susan Rice held a press briefing in her office to talk about the threats she saw on the horizon as Barack Obama’s presidency drew to a close. “What keeps you up at night? one reporter asked toward the end of the meeting. Her answer: a pandemic that spirals out of control.Yesterday afternoon, I asked Rice how the past five months have compared to what she’d been worried about in the early days of 2017. “This is about in the realm of my worst nightmare,” she told me. That’s why, Rice ... read more
The Atlantic2020-08-08
4 hours ago
Nursing Home Magnate Cozied Up to Trump as Deaths Rose in His Facilities
In October 2019, months before the coronavirus pandemic hit, the Southeast Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in San Antonio received a citation for failure to “provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.” This was far from the first citation the facility had received. The report, which lists several problems at the facility, describes a staff member using a soiled towel to wipe clean a resident’s buttocks and then subsequently failing to wash their hands — and said residents were at risk of foodborne illness. The nursing home, residents’ relatives said, did not take the necessary steps toward improving conditions. But ... read more
The Intercept2020-08-08
5 hours ago
Donald Trump’s Long History Of Racism Laid Bare In New Ad
From the racist "Birther" conspiracy theory about Barack Obama to his attacks on the Central Park Five. ... read more
The Huffington Post2020-08-08
8 hours ago
Instagram Displayed Negative Related Hashtags For Biden, But Hid Them For Trump
“A technical error caused a number of hashtags to not show related hashtags. We've disabled this feature while we investigate.”View Entire Post › ... read more
Buzzfeed Politics2020-08-07
11 hours ago
Fact check: At his golf club, Trump nonsensically accuses Democrats of election ‘cheating’
President Donald Trump turned a hastily scheduled Friday night "news conference" at his New Jersey golf club into a surreal kind of campaign rally -- uttering the usual boasts and false claims, except with polo-clad club members standing at the back of the room. ... read more
CNN2020-08-07
13 hours ago
You’ll Be Stunned To Learn Which 2020 Candidate Russian Trolls Are Trying To Bring Down
China, meanwhile, "prefers" that Trump does not win reelection and is "expanding" its own efforts, an intelligence community leader said.View Entire Post › ... read more
Buzzfeed Politics2020-08-07
13 hours ago
Trump Threatens to Bypass Congress as Stimulus Talks Fail Again
Democrats said the talks had been “disappointing,” and President Trump promised to use executive orders to provide relief if no agreement could be reached. ... read more
The New York Times2020-08-07
14 hours ago
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CNN2020-08-07
14 hours ago
Republican Group Selectively Edits Biden Tax Remark
A Republican group’s TV ad uses an out-of-context video clip of Joe Biden saying if he is elected president, “your taxes are going to be raised, not cut.” That was Biden’s response to one person at a 2019 campaign rally who said he or she had done “very well” financially as a result of the Republican-crafted tax bill that became law in 2017. Biden, who wants to repeal most of that law’s tax cuts for corporations and those with very high incomes, wasn’t telling everyone in the audience that he would raise their taxes — as the ad could lead ... read more
FactCheck.org2020-08-07
17 hours ago
Video Using Trump’s State of the Union Address Wasn’t ‘Banned’
Quick Take A viral video on Facebook claims to show a “campaign ad” for President Donald Trump that was “banned” by Facebook. There’s no evidence the video — showcasing audio from Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address — was “banned,” or that it’s an ad from the Trump campaign. Full Story Facebook recently removed a video posted by President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign in which Trump claimed that children are “virtually immune” to COVID-19. The platform said it violated a policy on COVID-19 misinformation that can lead to physical harm. (As we’ve explained, while children rarely become ... read more
FactCheck.org2020-08-07
18 hours ago
Biden Video Deceptively Edited to Make Him Appear ‘Lost’
Quick Take A deceptively edited video clip of Joe Biden circulating on social media cuts an hour-long speech to less than one minute, retaining only parts of statements and his pauses between words. Full Story Joe Biden, former vice president and presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, spoke from a community center near his home in Delaware on July 28. The speech, which focused on addressing racial equality through his economic plan, and his answers to questions from reporters ran just over an hour. But a clip circulating on social media has spliced together parts of Biden’s remarks into a video that ... read more
FactCheck.org2020-08-07
18 hours ago
US Postmaster DeJoy says election mail will not be slowed down
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said that the US Postal Service is not "slowing down" election-related or other mail and will undergo an "organizational realignment" after the agency often criticized by President Donald Trump as a money-losing venture has faced doubts over its capacity to handle anticipated high numbers of mail-in ballots. ... read more
CNN2020-08-07
18 hours ago
How Ellen DeGeneres’s facade of kindness crumbled
Ellen DeGeneres in her home. | Getty Images Ellen DeGeneres built her career on being nice. Now that’s in jeopardy. The most chaotic, dramatic story in television right now is whatever’s going on offstage at The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Reports of a toxic work culture, discrimination, and sexual harassment are tarnishing the 17-year-old, feel-good talk show’s reputation as a dreamland where celebrities become our closest friends, donations change lives, and a lot of clunky dancing takes place. The cracks in this veneer started off thin and narrow: As the show became a daytime TV juggernaut over the past two ... read more
Vox2020-08-07
18 hours ago
The professor who accurately predicted every election since 1984 has made his choice for 2020
American University Professor Allan Lichtman has accurately predicted* every presidential race since 1984 based on his 13 "keys" that decide who will win the White House."The Keys to the White House" is a historically based prediction system," he told The Washington Post in 2016."I derived the system by looking at every American presidential election from 1860 to 1980, and have since used the system to correctly predict the outcomes of all eight American presidential elections from 1984 to 2012."The keys, which are explained in-depth in Lichtman's book "Predicting the Next President: The Keys to the White House 2016" are:Party Mandate: ... read more
GOOD2020-08-07
19 hours ago
What’s wrong with the mail
Some say that recent delays in the mail are part of an effort by President Trump to sabotage mail-in ballots in the November election. | Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images As November nears, the Postal Service is facing a crisis that could interfere with the election. The United States Postal Service is dealing with crippling backlogs of letters and packages. A postmaster in upstate New York recently told their union that the regular mail was two days behind and, for the first time in their career, Express Priority Mail was not going out on time. Despite a surge in ... read more
Vox2020-08-07
20 hours ago
HRC Marks One Year Under the Leadership of Alphonso David
Today, the Human Rights Campaign celebrated the one year anniversary of Alphonso David being appointed president of the organization. “I’m so proud of the work that we have done at the Human Rights Campaign over the past year – one of the most challenging, yet inspiring, years of my life,” said Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign. “We have fought for LGBTQ rights in a myriad of venues — in state legislatures, Congress, courtrooms and around the world. We are reaffirming that Black Lives Matter. We are aggressively fighting for justice for transgender people, and for ... read more
Human Rights Campaign2020-08-07
20 hours ago
The Amazing Disappearing Election
Over the past six months, it has seemed like every news story is about the coronavirus, or President Donald Trump’s failed response to it. It’s been a challenge for even crucial issues like racial justice and police violence to break into the media agenda for more than a few days at a time.Although the events of 2020 present unique challenges to the media—and to humanity as a whole—the narrowing of the media agenda, a phenomenon I call “agenda compression,” dates back to the 2016 election. Former CBS President Les Moonves famously observed of Trump’s candidacy: "It may not be good ... read more
The Atlantic2020-08-07
20 hours ago
Dueling Trump, Biden Claims on COVID-19 Vaccination Distribution
As scientists work to find a safe vaccine for COVID-19, President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, have made competing claims about the administration’s plans to carry out the daunting task of distributing hundreds of millions of vaccine doses: Biden goes too far when he claims the Trump administration hasn’t done “any planning” for vaccine distribution and has no “command officer” in charge of it. Trump put the Army’s top logistics officer in charge, and numerous federal officials are working on vaccination prioritization and distribution plans. Trump, for his part, exaggerates when he says the Department of ... read more
FactCheck.org2020-08-07
20 hours ago
How Mike Pompeo Built a Blood-for-Oil Pipeline
Donald Trump’s plan in Syria is simple: Commit war crimes. Last October, the president unilaterally withdrew most American troops from their positions in Syria. He was convinced to leave only a few soldiers behind by the defense establishment, which prevailed on Trump by telling him the troops were necessary to protect the region’s oil fields for future American exploitation. “We’re keeping the oil,” Trump has said repeatedly.That likely counts as “pillaging,” a crime of war under the United States-ratified Geneva Conventions. “It’s very hard to see how that’s not a war crime,” Carl Bruch, a senior lawyer at the Environmental ... read more
The New Republic2020-08-07
21 hours ago
Republicans Go All-In on Kanye West Campaign As a Way To Sink Joe Biden
The most offensive thing about Republicans with ties to President Donald Trump’s re-election efforts openly working to put rapper Kanye West on swing states’ ballots isn’t that they’re trying to pull votes away from Joe Biden. It’s that they’re doing so with very little effort to hide their true intention: to chip away at Biden’s support among Black voters. Reports are coming in fast and shameless about GOP efforts in places like Ohio, Wisconsin and Colorado to get West’s name on the ballot in what can only be seen as an exploitative campaign to suppress the votes of ... read more
TIME Magazine2020-08-07
21 hours ago
That Georgia Teen Who Outed Her Mask-Less Classmates Just Got Her Suspension Revoked
One of two Georgia high schoolers who were punished for posting photos and video of a crowded school corridor with little to no regard for social distancing or masks will not face suspension after all. Hannah Watters, 15, was initially suspended from North Paulding High earlier this week for posting the now-viral photo on Twitter. The picture, which shows students traversing school hallways shoulder to shoulder, many without masks, coincided with reopenings of schools in southern states like Georgia and Tennessee where the deadly coronavirus is still taking the lives of hundreds every day. The photos that Watters’ and a ... read more
VICE News2020-08-07
21 hours ago
Why is the Trump administration banning TikTok and WeChat?
By Geoffrey GertzLate Wednesday night, President Trump issued executive orders that will effectively ban two major Chinese apps from the U.S. market. The orders state that, 45 days from now, Americans will be prohibited from carrying out any transactions with the parent companies of TikTok and WeChat—meaning U.S. companies and individuals couldn’t advertise with the platforms, offer them for download via app stores, or enter into licensing agreements with them. The decision will have both immediate and long-term implications for the companies and their American consumers, for U.S.-China relations, and for the broader conflict over the future of the internet. ... read more
The Brookings Institution2020-08-07
22 hours ago
Right Wing Round-Up: Thighliand
Ben Collins and Kevin Collier @ NBC News: Facebook removes troll farm posing as African-American support for Donald Trump. Aaron Keller @ Law & Crime: Former NRATV Host Dan Bongino Loses Defamation Lawsuit Against the Daily Beast. Will Sommer @ The Daily Beast: Anti-Muslim Activist Laura Loomer Is About to Get a Little Closer to Congress. Cristina Cabrera @ Talking Points Memo: Trump: My Nov. Timeline For COVID Vaccine Isn’t About Reelection But It ‘Wouldn’t Hurt.’ Rosie Gray @ BuzzFeed: Customers For Glenn Beck’s Botched Cruise Can Get Their Money Back — If They Sell Their Tickets. Tommy Christopher ... read more
Right Wing Watch2020-08-07
22 hours ago
America Could Have ‘Great Depression’ Levels of Homelessness by Year’s End
As many as 40 million Americans could face eviction by the end of the year if the federal government doesn’t come up with significant financial assistance and tenant protections, according to research published Friday. A cadre of researchers from Wake Forest University, the Aspen Institute, the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and others analyzed Census data, unemployment numbers, eviction filing projections, and information on housing insecurity to conclude that some 30 million to 40 million Americans could soon be at risk for eviction due to the massive job and ... read more
VICE News2020-08-07
22 hours ago
Voting by Mail in the Swing States
President Donald Trump has repeatedly attacked mail-in voting as “fraudulent” and “corrupt,” even going so far to suggest it might be a reason to postpone the Nov. 3 election. But voters can use that option without giving a reason for doing so in six swing states that are crucial to his reelection bid. The six — Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — are among the 34 states (plus Washington, D.C.) that have “no excuse” absentee or mail-in voting, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. About a quarter of ballots cast in the 2018 general elections ... read more
FactCheck.org2020-08-07
23 hours ago
James Robison Says COVID-19 Is Satan Going ‘Ballistic’ to Stop Trump’s Reelection
Religious-right pastor James Robison, who has been a key spiritual adviser to and ardent defender of President Donald Trump, declared in an interview posted Wednesday that the current COVID-19 pandemic is the result of Satan having gone “ballistic” in an effort to prevent the reelection of President Donald Trump because Trump was leading the nation into a new spiritual awakening. Robison was interviewing fellow Trump–loving evangelical leader Samuel Rodriquez about the importance of reelecting Trump when he asserted that various controversies and crises impacting the United States at the moment are the work of Satan. “We were seeing miraculous answers ... read more
Right Wing Watch2020-08-07
24 hours ago
U.S. Sanctions Hong Kong Leader Carrie Lam and Other Officials
(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. on Friday imposed sanctions on Hong Kong officials, including the pro-China leader of the government, accusing them of roles in squashing freedom in the former British colony. The Treasury Department announced sanctions on Carrie Lam, the leader of the government in Hong Kong, and other officials. The sanctions are the latest in a string of actions the Trump administration has taken targeting China as tensions between the two nations rise over trade disputes and the coronavirus. The sanctions were authorized by an executive order that President Donald Trump signed recently to levy penalties against China ... read more
TIME Magazine2020-08-07
24 hours ago
The Tech Companies Enabling Far-Right Talk Show Host Josh Bernstein’s Extreme Rhetoric
Far-right talk show host Josh Bernstein depends on major tech companies to support his broadcasts, which frequently contain violent rhetoric and conspiracy theories that may violate some of those tech platforms’ own stated policies. “The Josh Bernstein Show” is currently supported financially by a handful of business advertisers and paying fans on Patreon, a membership platform for online content creators, and reaches viewers via YouTube and the streaming platform Roku. At the end of a video uploaded to YouTube on Aug. 2, Bernstein made clear his reliance on Patreon. He told viewers that YouTube had at some point in time demonetized his channel, ... read more
Right Wing Watch2020-08-07
24 hours ago
The Economy’s Recovery From Coronavirus Is Losing Steam
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The Trump administration has been hoping for its mythical, V-shaped recovery, where the employment shoots back up after crashing to its lowest depths since 1947. They'll have to keep waiting.. The United States added 1.8 million jobs in July, well below the nearly 5 million added in June. That leaves the country’s unemployment rate over 10%, with net loss of nearly 13 million jobs since the onset of the pandemic in February, according to the latest jobs report released Thursday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Over ... read more
VICE News2020-08-07
1 day ago
2020: The Year of the Woman Voter
By Michael D. Hais, Morley WinogradThe 1992 election was called the “Year of the Woman” because the number of female senators tripled (from two all the way to six) and two dozen women were elected to their first term in the House, the largest number in congressional history. By contrast, this year’s election is being driven by the increasingly overwhelming determination of a significant number of women from every demographic to vote Democratic at every level of the ballot regardless of the gender of the candidate. After analyzing the results of the 2018 midterm elections, we wrote earlier this year ... read more
The Brookings Institution2020-08-07
1 day ago
Trump long has relied on nondisclosure deals to prevent criticism. That strategy may be unraveling.
Following publication of books by Trump’s niece and former top advisers, a lawsuit aims to release hundreds of others from confidentiality agreements. ... read more
The Washington Post2020-08-07
1 day ago
‘Most Deranged I’ve Ever Seen’: Critics Rip Trump’s ‘Desperate’ Attack On Biden
People from the left and right united to denounce Trump's latest attack on his Democratic 2020 rival. ... read more
The Huffington Post2020-08-07
1 day ago
Judge Denies Trump’s Bid to Delay Defamation Suit From Woman Alleging Rape
(NEW YORK) — A New York judge knocked down President Donald Trump’s bid to delay a lawsuit from a woman who accused him of rape, ruling in a decision released Thursday that the presidency doesn’t shield him from the case. Pointing to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the president isn’t immune from a New York prosecutor’s criminal investigation, Manhattan judge Verna Saunders said the same principle applies to E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit, in which Trump’s lawyers have argued that the Constitution bars presidents from being dragged into lawsuits in state courts. “No, it does not,” ... read more
TIME Magazine2020-08-06
2 days ago
Trump Signs Executive Orders Barring Transactions With TikTok and WeChat in 45 Days
President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders prohibiting U.S. residents from doing any business with TikTok, WeChat or the apps’ Chinese owners beginning 45 days from now, citing the national security risk of leaving Americans’ personal data exposed. The move coincides with Trump’s push for the sale of TikTok, the popular video app owned by ByteDance Ltd., to an American company, and it comes a day after Secretary of State Michael Pompeo urged U.S. businesses to remove Chinese apps from their stores. The measure threatens penalties on any U.S. resident or company that engages in any ... read more
TIME Magazine2020-08-06
2 days ago
Biden Campaign Pushes Back on Trump’s Claim That Democratic Opponent Is ‘Against God’
(CLEVELAND) — President Donald Trump billed his trip to Ohio Thursday as a chance to promote economic recovery, but he quickly pivoted to a deeply personal attack on Joe Biden, even questioning without foundation the former vice president’s faith in God. Even for a president known for his blunt criticism, Trump’s remarks stood out and they signaled how contentious the campaign may get over the coming months. “He’s following the radical left agenda, take away your guns, destroy your 2nd Amendment, no religion, no anything, hurt the Bible, hurt God. He’s against God. He’s against guns. He’s against ... read more
TIME Magazine2020-08-06
2 days ago
Facebook, Twitter remove Trump post over false claims
Facebook took down one of President Trump’s posts for claiming that children are almost immune to covid-19, Twitter, also issuing a warning. This as the president insists that the virus will disappear. ... read more
Fusion2020-08-06
2 days ago
New York sues to dissolve the National Rifle Association for ‘illegal’ and ‘fraudulent’ conduct
New York state Attorney General Letitia James has announced a lawsuit to dissolve the National Rifle Association (NRA) over alleged financial mismanagement that's run rampant in the organization for years.The state of New York has the power to dissolve the group because it operates as a New York-registered 501(c)(4) not-for-profit, charitable corporation. State law requires that the group's assets are used in a way that serves the interests of NRA membership and advance the organization's charitable mission.However, according to the lawsuit, the NRA has been doing the exact opposite. In the announcement, James said the gun-rights group is "fraught with ... read more
GOOD2020-08-06
2 days ago
Right Wing Round-Up: Dissolve the NRA
Tim Mak @ NPR: New York Attorney General Moves To Dissolve The NRA After Fraud Investigation. Tarpley Hitt @ The Daily Beast: Inside ‘Out of Shadows’: The Bonkers Hollywood-Pedophilia ‘Documentary’ QAnon Loves. Ali Breland @ Mother Jones: A California State Senator Introduced a Bill Pushing LGBTQ Equality—and a QAnon Mob Came for Him. Media Matters: On Fox & Friends, Rudy Giuliani calls Black Lives Matter “terrorist” “killers” who “hate white people … white men in particular.” Oliver Willis @ The American Independent: Trump claims Biden will somehow ‘hurt the Bible, hurt God’ if elected. Charlie Nash @ Mediaite: Trump ... read more
Right Wing Watch2020-08-06
2 days ago
Rashida Tlaib and Slate of Local Wins Signal Progressive Revival in Michigan
Detroiters put Rashida Tlaib in a strong position for reelection in Michigan’s 13th Congressional District on Tuesday night, as she beat back a rematch from Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones in the Democratic primary. While it could be weeks before a final vote count is known, Tlaib’s margin with most precincts reporting was 66 percent to 34 percent of the vote on Wednesday morning. Tlaib’s seat was considered the most vulnerable among members of the so-called Squad, as the congresswoman faced off against a more or less unified Detroit political establishment and the ire of President Donald Trump. Tlaib’s presumed ... read more
The Intercept2020-08-05
3 days ago
Donald Trump will eventually leave the White House. What happens after?
ShutterstockTrump represents merely a symptom of an underlying diseased nation rife with systemic political, social, and economic inequities. ... read more
LGBTQ Nation2020-08-04
4 days ago
The President’s Damned Lies Are Killing Us
John Nichols The president’s not an idiot. He is a liar. The question is: How many more coronavirus deaths will his lies cause between now and Election Day? The post The President’s Damned Lies Are Killing Us appeared first on The Nation. ... read more
The Nation2020-08-04
4 days ago
Beyond Big Meat
The hogs screech as the barn fills with steam. Thousands jostle and shriek. It takes hours, but eventually they quiet and then collapse. By morning, their bodies cover the floor. Survivors snort and squeal weakly through the haze, until two workers, using captive-bolt guns, put them down. At the end, a John Deere track loader is brought in to scoop up carcasses and carry them off.The video, shot in May on a hidden camera installed by animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere at a rural facility owned by Iowa Select Farms, captures what the meat industry calls “ventilation shutdown plus.” ... read more
The New Republic2020-08-04
4 days ago
The Never Trumpers Have Already Won
What causes people to draw ethical lines and purport to stand on principle? In February 2016, as it became clearer and clearer that Donald Trump was on track to win the nomination of the Republican Party for president, some of its elites took fright. The hashtag #NeverTrump “blew up” on social media, Robert P. Saldin and Steven M. Teles remark in their new book, when the host of The Apprentice won endorsements from the likes of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, his beaten foe in the primaries, and Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, his future attorney general. Suddenly the bad joke ... read more
The New Republic2020-08-04
4 days ago
To Defeat Trump, Discredit His Movement, and Elect Progressives
Various Contributors An open letter to the Nation readership. The post To Defeat Trump, Discredit His Movement, and Elect Progressives appeared first on The Nation. ... read more
The Nation2020-08-03
5 days ago
Donald Trump Truly Is the Heir to the Legacy of Andrew Jackson
Early in his presidency, when he was still pretending to be a serious person, Donald Trump traveled to the birthplace of Andrew Jackson, our seventh president, to extol his virtues. Trump praised Jackson’s support for tariffs and his hatred of elites. (Ironically, Jackson, together with Thomas Jefferson, is considered one of the founders of the Democratic Party.) But some of the things about Jackson that Trump failed to mention probably were equally, if not more, attractive to him–Jackson’s racism, support for slavery, and willingness to use massive federal force against those who didn’t fit his racial or cultural concept of ... read more
The New Republic2020-08-03
5 days ago
‘Is There Going to Be Another Portland?’
As federal agents begin a phased withdrawal from Portland, Oregon, following a weekslong crackdown on demonstrators that saw protests swell in size and intensity, even experts are left with as many questions as answers about what just happened.What explains the federal government’s harsh response in Portland? Why did the Department of Homeland Security mobilize officers in Customs and Border Protection to patrol the protests? And are we about to see more?Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at University of Texas, has made a study of national security law, and watched closely as the crackdown started and grew. He was surprised at ... read more
POLITICO2020-07-31
1 week ago
When Conservative Justices Revolt
Until two months ago, Leonard Leo was among the unambiguous winners of the Trump era. The bookish lawyer and architect of the conservative legal movement has spent the past three and a half years executing his decades-long vision of remaking the federal judiciary—he was instrumental in the Supreme Court appointments of Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch. But during the Court’s term this summer, an old conservative nightmare recurred: Republican-appointed justices, including Gorsuch, aligned with their liberal colleagues on big, consequential decisions about immigration, abortion, and LGBTQ protections.In recent decades, conservative justices have consistently moved to the left once reaching the ... read more
The Atlantic2020-07-28
2 weeks ago
Trump’s Biggest Problem Isn’t Wealthy Suburbanites. It’s the White Working Class.
July 28, 2020 | Scranton, PennsylvaniaDear Washington, The president is in trouble. You know it and I know it. Here we are, just under 100 days out from Election Day, and every metric we have at our disposal—right track vs. wrong track numbers, approval and disapproval ratings, horse race polling nationally and in battleground states—suggests that Donald Trump is headed toward defeat on Nov. 3. The data is especially daunting for its consistency. There is zero sign of minority attitudes softening toward the president; if anything, four years after Trump won just 21 percent of all nonwhite voters, there is ... read more
POLITICO2020-07-28
2 weeks ago
Trump’s Summer of Love Is a Distant Memory Now
Four years ago today, 8,879 people crammed into an arena in Toledo, Ohio, and waved signs and pumped fists and jumped up and down and shrieked at the sight of the man Republicans the week before had tapped as their candidate for president. “Wow!” Donald Trump raved, standing on the stage, bathing in the cheers, pointing to the highest reaches of the up-to-the-rafters masses. “Boy! Look at that!”The frenzied scene kicked off the finale of a frenetic Wednesday, the itinerary taking Trump from an extraordinary late morning news conference in Miami to a boisterous late afternoon rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, ... read more
POLITICO2020-07-27
2 weeks ago
How Ugly Politicking Ate Election Oversight
This article is a collaboration between The Atlantic and ProPublica.Updated at 2:15 p.m. ET on July 22, 2020.On March 20, state election administrators got on a conference call with the Election Assistance Commission to plead for help. The EAC is the bipartisan federal agency that was established for the precise purpose of maintaining election integrity through emergencies, and this was, by every account, an emergency. In a matter of weeks, the coronavirus had grown from an abstract concern to a global horror, and voting by mail was the only way ballots could safely be cast in states that had not ... read more
The Atlantic2020-07-22
2 weeks ago
‘They Got Her This Time, Son’
This article is a collaboration between The Atlantic and The Marshall Project.On September 12, 2018, the five adult children of Debbie Liles waited in the prosecutor’s office in Jacksonville, Florida, to meet the man who one year earlier had bludgeoned their mother to death with a golf club.Michelle, 38, had brought what she called her “madwoman” binder of colorfully highlighted police reports about the murder. Have you seen the crime-scene photos of our mom’s brain leaking onto her kitchen floor? she wanted to ask the killer. Because we have. So you should too.Sitting on a windowsill, Dana, 42, clutched a ... read more
The Atlantic2020-07-21
3 weeks ago
‘We’ve all been afraid to step up.’ South Carolina College GOP chair says he won’t vote Trump
Will Galloway, Chariman of the South Carolina College Republicans, and avowed conservative since the seventh grade, has announced he will not vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 election.Galloway has worked for GOP candidates since the age of 14 and was an outreach director for Senator Rick Santorum's presidential campaign in 2015. But in a video posted by Republican Voters Against Trump, he announced that he will not voting for Trump because the values he supports as a conservative are "not what we're seeing in our supposedly Republican Commander-in-Chief."Galloway's Twitter profile shows that he's a staunch pro-life conservative who strongly ... read more
GOOD2020-07-10
4 weeks ago
Pelosi says Trump ‘ethically unfit’ for presidency, will continue oversight
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday revelations in a book by a former top White House aide show President Donald Trump is unfit and unprepared to be president and Democrats will continue oversight of the Republican president's behavior. ... read more
Reuters2020-06-18
2 months ago
Trump: U.S. Supreme Court decisions ‘horrible’
President Donald Trump on Thursday railed against the U. S. Supreme Court's "horrible" decisions, seemingly referring to recent rulings that gay and transgender workers are protected under federal employment laws and blocking his bid to end legal protections for immigrants known as "Dreamers." ... read more
Reuters2020-06-18
2 months ago
Trump asked China to help him win in 2020, offered ‘favors to dictators,’ Bolton says
In a withering behind-the-scenes portrayal, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton accused him of sweeping misdeeds that included explicitly seeking Chinese President Xi Jinping's help to win re-election. ... read more
Reuters2020-06-18
2 months ago
China says it has no intention of interfering in U.S. elections
China said on Thursday it has no intention of interfering in the U.S. elections, responding to U.S. President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, John Bolton, who has said that Trump had sought Chinese President Xi Jinping's help to win re-election. ... read more
Reuters2020-06-18
2 months ago
Trump administration proposes rolling back protections for big tech
The U.S. Justice Department proposed on Wednesday that Congress take up legislation to curb protections big tech platforms like Alphabet's Google and Facebook have had for decades, a senior official said, following through on President Donald Trump's bid to crack down on tech giants. ... read more
Reuters2020-06-17
2 months ago
FACT CHECK: President Trump Delivers His 3rd State Of The Union Address
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NPR2020-02-04
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PolitiFact answers the Senate's impeachment questions
Senators took control of their chamber’s impeachment trial this week, submitting questions to the Democratic House managers and President Donald Trump’s legal team. The questions, provided to Chief Justice John Roberts in writing, gave a window into the senators’ thinking as they consider whether to remove a president from office for the first time. But House managers and the Trump team spun their answers to serve their perspective. So we decided to take on the questions ourselves, with the facts in mind. On whether impeachment and removal requires a crime The question (from Democratic senators): "Does the phrase ‘‘or other ... read more
PolitiFact2020-01-31
6 months ago
Fact-checking Joe Biden in Ankeny, Iowa
ANKENY, Iowa — Former Vice President Joe Biden ignored his Democratic rivals and focused extensively on attacking President Donald Trump at a campaign event, saying Trump is "a commander-in-chief who has no notion — none — of what it takes to lead." Biden mocked Trump for saying he was the one who protected pre-existing conditions and portrayed Trump as a divider who has bashed the press and Congress. In the 2020 election, Biden said, "the character of the country is on the ballot. The character of our candidates is on the ballot." Biden’s Jan. 25 event attracted about 300 voters on ... read more
PolitiFact2020-01-26
6 months ago
Five Key Takeaways From Israel’s Indecisive Election Rerun
Heidi Levine/Sipa/Pool via AP Benjamin Netanyahu at a voting station in Jerusalem, September 17, 2019 Anyone expecting clarity from Israel’s electoral rerun will be disappointed. The public was sent back to the polls when coalition negotiations following the April 9 election failed. The resumption of those negotiations based on the new distribution of seats in the Knesset will not prove any easier. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will soon call the party leaders to begin the traditional round of post-election consultations, and within days will call on either ... read more
The American Prospect2019-09-21
11 months ago
Former Biden Chief of Staff is Fox News’ Top Lobbyist
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The American Prospect2019-09-20
11 months ago
How Mexico Is Doing America’s Deportation Work for Us
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The American Prospect2019-09-20
11 months ago
Transitioning ThinkProgress
Many years ago, we embarked on a new experiment: moving ThinkProgress from an organizational blog to a progressive news site, powered by reporters and editorially independent. We are proud that ThinkProgress helped shape the conversation in this country—exposing the companies that were supporting the NRA, uncovering sexual abuse within religious organizations, documenting voter suppression, and tracking the financing of white nationalism, to name just a few of the many, many, many important stories ThinkProgress covered. Unfortunately, as with so many ventures in today’s digital media landscape, ThinkProgress suffered multi-million dollar shortfalls the past two years—an unsustainable option for a non-profit ... read more
ThinkProgress2019-09-09
11 months ago
CNN’s planning a 2020 LGBTQ forum. Here are some issues advocates say the candidates should address.
A prominent LGBTQ rights organization, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced Thursday that it will host a presidential town hall on LGBTQ issues next month. The event will air on CNN. LGBTQ advocacy groups told ThinkProgress that they know exactly what ideas they want to hear discussed at the town hall set for Oct. 10, which is National Coming Out Day. Many said that first and foremost, they want candidates to acknowledge the struggles of the most marginalized in the community, including LGBTQ people of color, and put forward policies to respond to anti-LGBTQ bias in the criminal justice system. ... read more
ThinkProgress2019-09-05
11 months ago
It wasn’t a debate, but CNN’s 7-hour climate forum laid bare key differences among Democrats
CNN’s seven-hour town hall on the climate crisis wasn’t the debate many activists have spent months calling for. But Wednesday night’s marathon event teased out notable differences among Democratic presidential contenders, giving voters a taste of how each candidate might approach climate policy if elected. Two of the main issues where candidates staked out wildly different stances were nuclear power and abolishing the filibuster. They also differed on fracking, the process of extracting natural gas to be used for energy. Meanwhile, former Vice President Joe Biden took heat over a controversial fundraiser scheduled for Thursday night and hosted by an oil ... read more
ThinkProgress2019-09-05
11 months ago
GOP candidate has a pretty hypocritical excuse for why he’s down in the polls
Dan Bishop, the Republican nominee in next week’s North Carolina congressional special election, claimed on Thursday that the reason polls show he could lose a district that President Donald Trump won easily is that so much money was coming in from out of district to support his Democratic opponent. But most of the money going to support Bishop also comes from outside of North Carolina. Voters in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District will vote Tuesday in their latest attempt to elect a U.S. Representative. The 2018 midterm election result was thrown out due to election fraud by the then-Republican nominee’s ... read more
ThinkProgress2019-09-05
11 months ago
FACT CHECK: Foreign Interference And ‘Opposition Research’ Are Not The Same
President Trump says he might be open to taking information from a foreign government in a future election, calling it a part of politics. But the law draws a distinction when foreigners are involved.(Image credit: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images) ... read more
NPR2019-06-13
1 year ago
FACT CHECK: Russian Interference Went Far Beyond ‘Facebook Ads’ Kushner Described
President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser said the investigations into Russian interference have been more damaging than the interference itself. But there was more to it than online ads.(Image credit: Brian Ach/Getty Images for Time) ... read more
NPR2019-04-24
1 year ago
Why Is It So Fraught to Talk About the Klobuchar Bad Boss Reports?
This article is adapted from a segment on the Waves and has been edited and condensed for clarity. Christina Cauterucci: Last week, HuffPost and BuzzFeed both ran pieces that contained a whole slew of allegations that Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota runs a borderline abusive workplace. There were multiple former staffers who said they and their fellow employees were berated for wrongdoing in front of their peers. Sometimes they’d be CC’d on their emails, saying, “This is the worst press release I’ve ever read in my life.” They were forced to endure emotional outbursts and fits of rage. They were ... read more
Slate2019-02-15
1 year ago
Andrew McCabe: Jeff Sessions Complained That He Missed When the FBI “Only Hired Irishmen”
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s new book, which details his frustrations with President’s Trump administration, has made it clear that his “disdain for Trump is rivaled only by his contempt for [Jeff] Sessions,” according to an assessment from Washington Post reporter Greg Miller. According to Miller’s review of the book, McCabe saw then-Attorney General Sessions as a Trump-like idiot and racist who had “trouble focusing, particularly when topics of conversation strayed from a small number of issues,” failed to read intelligence reports, and jumbled classified material with publicly reported news. The strangest detail from the book, though, had to ... read more
Slate2019-02-15
1 year ago
There Is No New Backpage
Last April, two successive tremors shook the business of sex on the internet. The first was the dramatic FBI shutdown of Backpage, a website for posting online personals that had attained outsize importance among sex workers. Days after that, President Trump signed two new bills into law, the Stop Enabling Online Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) and Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), which together make websites that knowingly allow sex trafficking to happen liable for hosting the illegal activity—thus making it much easier for prosecutors to go after the proprietors of sites like Backpage. Both of these moves were meant ... read more
Slate2019-02-13
1 year ago
Roger Stone’s chance to make a positive impact
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The Washington Post2019-02-13
1 year ago
The Feminist Future of Modesty
“I get it,” is Gretchen Carlson’s message to all the American women who wince at the thought of parading around in a swimsuit. Carlson, who is the new Chairwoman of the Miss America pageant and who also won the competition in 1989, announced last week that the swimsuit portion of the spectacle would be axed. The #MeToo-friendly, revamped Miss American “Competition” (the word “pageant” is also no more) would focus on substance instead of appearance; it would promote neither ogling at various female parts nor the premise that a willingness to bare almost all is necessary to winning.It’s a timely ... read more
The Feminist Future of Modesty2018-06-12
2 years ago
Trump: ’13 angry Democrats’ on Mueller team should be wary
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is striking a combative tone against the Russia probe. He's talking about "Fighting Back" and telling Democrats on the special counsel's team, "wait 'till the Courts get to see your unrevealed Conflicts of Interest!" ... read more
Associated Press2018-05-07
2 years ago
Giuliani’s media blitz defending Trump is off to rough start
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's new attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is off to a rough start in his media blitz defending Trump's stance toward the special counsel's Russian investigation and a $130,000 porn star hush payment. ... read more
Associated Press2018-05-07
2 years ago
Trump defends CIA nominee, says she is ‘tough on terror’
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Monday defended Gina Haspel, his nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, dismissing debate over her involvement in a harsh interrogation program and arguing Democrats want her out because she "is too tough on terror." ... read more
Associated Press2018-05-07
2 years ago
Trump urges West Virginia voters to reject Blankenship
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is urging West Virginia voters to reject a former federal convict and coal baron running in the Republican Senate primary, arguing that Don Blankenship he would lose the general election. ... read more
Associated Press2018-05-07
2 years ago
Trump’s Tweets Threaten His Travel Ban’s Chances in Court
President Donald Trump began the week with a barrage of early-morning tweets blasting the courts for blocking his travel ban executive order. But in doing so, he may have just made it more likely that the courts will keep blocking the ban. People, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want, but I am calling it what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2017 The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted ... read more
Mother Jones2017-06-05
3 years ago
The Fox Primary For March: Trump Widens His Airtime Lead
As the Republican presidential field shrunk to three candidates in March, front-runner Donald Trump again led his competitors in interview airtime on Fox News. Fox News hosted the businessman for 6 hours and 15 minutes, compared to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's 5 hours and 18 minutes and Ohio Gov. John Kasich's 3 hours and 44 minutes. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former neurosurgeon Ben Carson both ended their campaigns in March -- their airtime totals from before they dropped out are listed, but they will not be included in future editions. Trump's lead in Fox interview time comes amid ongoing tension ... read more
Media Matters for America2016-04-07
4 years ago
Morning Joe Panel: Hillary Clinton “Clearly Did Not Say Bernie Sanders Was Not Qualified To Be President”
From the April 7 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe: MIKA BRZEZINSKI (CO-HOST): Late last night, Clinton's press secretary Brian Fallon responded to [Sanders'] remarks on Twitter saying quote "Hillary Clinton did not say Bernie Sanders was 'not qualified.' But he has now - absurdly - said it about her. This is a new low." He added "Bernie Sanders, take back your words about Hillary Clinton." Sanders did no such thing. His campaign released a statement that began quote "Responding to Hillary Clinton's attempt to portray him as unqualified for the White House, Senator Sanders linked her to a trade pact exploited by wealthy individuals and profitable corporations to ... read more
Media Matters for America2016-04-07
4 years ago

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