Category: politics
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Where Do You Get Your News?
Our President gets his from the best sources: Mr. Trump’s demand for a congressional investigation appears to be based, at least in part, on unproved claims by Breitbart News and conservative talk radio hosts that secret warrants were issued authorizing the tapping of the phones of Mr. Trump and his aides at Trump Tower in…
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Linking 4chan to Trump
This is an excellent article from Dale Beran that helps explain the connection from 4chan to Trump supporters: How did we get here? What is 4chan exactly? And how did a website about anime become the avant garde of the far right? Mixed up with fascist movements, international intrigue, and Trump iconography? How do we interpret…
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Nine people flee U.S. border patrol to seek asylum in Canada
Christinne Muschi: Nine asylum-seekers, including four children, barely made it across the Canadian border on Friday as a U.S. border patrol officer tried to stop them and a Reuters photographer captured the scene. As a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer seized their passports and questioned a man in the front passenger seat of a…
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This Was The Worst Possible Time to Start a Site Called Nuclear Monster
During Trump’s 77 minute tirade on fake news about the illegal leaks that didn’t happen and definitely weren’t why he fired Mike Flynn, he happened to drop this bomb. All those hours in Fallouts 1, 2, 3, New Vegas, and 4, are going to come in handy.
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Chris Christie Will Have the Meatloaf
AP, via the Boston Globe: The Republican governor said while guest hosting a New York sports talk radio show Thursday that Trump pointed out the menu and told people to get whatever they want. Then he said he and Christie were going to have the meatloaf. ‘‘This is what it’s like to be with Trump,’’…