119 posts tagged ‘Politics’
Fox News host brutally attacks Gen Z, calling them everything from "stupid" to "pretty evil" (video)
Boing Boing,
Fox News commentator Dagen McDowell just scorched Gen Z — a voting block that Republicans already lack — by viciously describing America's youngest adults as "egomaniacal and unmotivated and irretrievably stupid layabouts" who are also "immoral and heartless and pretty evil." — Read the rest
What Was George Santos Buying at Sephora?
The Cut,
An ethics report claims he used campaign funds to buy cosmetics, Botox, and luxury goods.
Meta Officially Accepts Blood Money to Promote the Big Lie
Gizmodo,
Meta made a quiet policy update last year allowing advertisers on Facebook and Instagram to say the 2020 election was rigged. The company has made one thing clear: you can’t use their ad systems to question the legitimacy of the American election system — unless you have a credit card, in which case they’re happy to… Read more...
Piers Morgan confronts Marjorie Taylor Greene on her notorious lies by playing her videos and asking her to explain them
Piers Morgan confronted Marjorie Taylor Greene on his show over a parade of her most notorious fibs and phantasms. Greene, fiercely clutching the narrative of media-perpetuated victimhood, spars with Morgan, who teases and taunts the unstable conspiracy theorist with her own past words—words she claims are as misunderstood as her persona. — Read the rest
We’ve Been Wrong to Worry About Deepfakes (So Far)
The New Yorker,
Daniel Immerwahr, a history professor at Northwestern University, discusses why videos generated by artificial intelligence haven’t had more influence on electoral politics.
Pelosi hammer attacker David DePape tearfully testifies that he was radicalized by Gamergate
David DePape, the right-wing conspiracy-theorizing anti-semite who broke into former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's house and attacked her husband with a hammer, had a sad on the stand at his trial yesterday. On Tuesday, in sometimes tearful testimony, Mr DePape told the court he used to have left-wing political beliefs before a political transformation that started when he was living in a garage without a toilet or shower, playing video games for hours at a time. — Read the rest
Trump’s Fascistic Rhetoric Only Emphasizes the Stakes in 2024
As he leads the polls nearly a year out from Election Day, the former President is taking the sort of hateful language that in the past he’s used about immigrants and applying it to his political enemies.
Watch US senator challenge Teamsters boss to a fistfight during Congressional hearing (video)
In a US Senate hearing this morning, Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R) challenged International Brotherhood of Teamsters general president Sean O'Brien to a fist fight in the committee room. O'Brien had previously called Mullin a "clown" and a "fraud" in posts on X. — Read the rest