Yesterday, when I posted about how Donald Trump had installed someone as acting Attorney General who has said publicly that the Mueller investigation should be stopped, I made a brief mention of the fact that CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta, on the same day, had his press credentials revoked after refusing to stop a […]
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The Trump administration uses press conference footage deceptively edited by InfoWars to justify the banning of CNN’s Jim Acosta
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged CNN, Donald Trump, fake news, InfoWars, Jim Acosta, Matthew Whitaker, me too, Paul Joseph Watson, post-truth, press credentials, Republican lies, threats to journalists 96 Comments
“Just remember: what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.”
I wanted to write something tonight about this news that Donald “trade wars are good and easy to win” Trump was going to be asking the American taxpayers to pony up $12 billion to help offset the losses of the American soybean and dairy farmers who got totally fucked by his bright idea to jack […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged dairy, Donald Trump, international trade, post-fact, post-truth, reality, soybeans, tariffs, the nature of reality, trade war 138 Comments
Rewriting history in Texas
Remember how I told you that Republicans in Texas were attempting to make a few “minor” changes to their state’s K-12 history textbooks, like removing any mention of that little “separation of church and state” thing? Well, it looks like they’ve made some tremendous headway in the last few days. Since we last discussed it, […]
Posted in Church and State, Education, History, Politics Also tagged a wall of separation between Church & State, Alamo, asshole Republicans of Texas, asshole Republicans of Texas who are rewriting American history books, Bruce Maiman, Christian nation, founding fathers, Jefferson Davis, Joe McCarthy, John Calvin, Mary Helen Berlanga, removal of the word democratic, rewriting history, social studies, St. Thomas Aquinas, Tejanos, Texas, Texas Education Board, Texas Freedom Network, textbooks, Thomas Jefferson 13 Comments