The Best People Just Bought Alex Jones’s InfoWars
7 hours ago · Alex Jones at an anti-shutdown protest during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020. Alex Jones’s conspiracy-laden media properties, including the website InfoWars, have been purchased at a bankruptcy auction by an unlikely entity: the satirical news outlet The Onion. The satirical magazine, which refers to itself as “America’s Finest News Source ...
Trump’s Unhinged Rant Announcing Matt Gaetz as AG Signals …
12 hours ago · Former President Donald Trump in Raleigh, North Carolina, on November 4. On Wednesday, Donald Trump unleashed a rambling announcement explaining his choice of Representative Matt Gaetz as attorney general, lying manically about Gaetz’s supposed work revealing how the Justice Department had been weaponized against him. …
I Helped Run “War Games” on Trump’s Plans. They Were Not …
2 days ago · In the simulations, Trump announced his agenda and initial actions (we asked players to draw solely from actions Trump himself has indicated he supports), and players took turns responding to one another as the “games” unfolded. “War-gaming” exercises like these can help test assumptions, forcing participants to respond to dynamic ...
Schumer Rushes to Put Up Safeguards Against Trump’s Insanity
1 day ago · There are currently 47 judicial vacancies, including 45 in U.S. District Courts and two in appeals courts.Biden has 31 nominees still in the pipeline to be confirmed, and only 22 days left in session before Republicans are set to take over on January 3.. The Senate voted 51-44 on Tuesday to confirm April M. Perry as a federal district judge for the Northern District of Illinois.
The Real Reason Texas Isn’t Turning Blue | The New Republic
2 days ago · While Cruz underperformed Trump in counties across the state, Allred also underperformed in almost all of the state’s most populous counties—most of which already swing Democratic—and barely won more than Beto O’Rourke’s 2018 total. He even lost his home district, Collin County, by nearly six points.The loss was so bad that Texas’s longtime Democratic Party chair, Gilberto Hinojosa ...
The Most Infuriating Search Term Is Trending in States Trump Won
1 day ago · The search became so popular that it hit 100, according to Google Trends, which registers searched phrases on a scale of 0 to 100, with 100 indicating the peak popularity for a term. Some of the states that Trump won by the biggest margins, such as Iowa, generated the highest number of state-by-state queries for the term.
How Trump Accidentally Let His Biggest Advantage Over Harris …
Nov 5, 2024 · The results are striking. In that time period, the Harris campaign and all allied organizations spent an estimated total of nearly $225 million on such ads about the economy, AdImpact found. By contrast, the Trump campaign and its allied groups spent just over an estimated $155 million. If Harris does win this election, these expenditures ...
Trump’s Climate Plans Are Such a Disaster Even Exxon Is Worried
2 days ago · Even the Exxon CEO is telling Trump to reel it in on the environment. Exxon Mobil chair and chief executive Darren Woods warned President-elect Donald Trump from withdrawing from the Paris Climate agreement—as Trump has promised to do again—at the annual U.N. COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Tuesday.
Election Day Is Off to an Explosive Start—Literally
Nov 5, 2024 · Georgia has been hit with a spate of bomb threats on polling stations. The fake bomb threats that shut down two Georgia polling sites on Election Day stemmed from a “foreign state actor,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger revealed on Tuesday. “We pretty well dispelled that very quickly,” Raffensperger said at a press conference.
Where the Rich Can Buy Secrecy, Evade Laws, and Claim a Slice of …
Nov 6, 2024 · Riverhead Books, 336 pp., $21.00. Geneva, where Abrahamian grew up, is the perfect microcosm of this hidden economy—a world offshored, purposely obfuscated from anyone who would try to hold it in check. As she writes in her introduction, she set out to find how Geneva’s “infamous dullness squared with its endless repository of secrets ...