Новости за 08.12.2020

The hosts of “Fox & Friends” is warning viewers of a new crisis gripping the holiday season: “Woke” mall Santas who won’t pledge to children that they’ll get toy guns for Christmas. Co-host Steve Doocy on Tuesday talked about the Christmas tradition of parents bringing their kids to see people dressed as Santa Claus at […]

All US states except Wisconsin appear to have met a deadline under federal law to resolve disputes arising from the November 3 presidential election, thereby ensuring Joe Biden’s victory, the Associated Press reports. Tuesday is the so-called safe harbor deadline for states to resolve disputes arising from the election. Under US law, Congress will consider […]

Contrary to what the hope-peddlers and other members of “the Church of the Savvy” would like the public to believe, none of this is normal or ultimately “harmless”. Everything is not OK. Donald Trump and his allies are continuing with their efforts to nullify the results of the 2020 presidential election and Joe Biden’s victory. […]

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman this week argued that President Donald Trump’s rejection of reality in the wake of his 2020 presidential election loss shouldn’t surprise anyone who has followed the Republican Party for the past 30 years. As Krugman documents, the GOP has for decades been a party that has rejected scientific consensus […]

In his column for the Daily Beast, conservative Matt Lewis ripped into Donald Trump’s inner circle for downplaying the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic until they get it — at which point they are quickly admitted to a hospital for the best medical treatment. Using the recent announcement that former New York City Mayor […]

A South Dakota man publicly shamed his state’s Republican governor after his father died from the coronavirus. Robert Sliper was an 84-year-old supporter of Gov. Kristi Noem, who insisted the pandemic was under control as she flew around the U.S. to campaign for President Donald Trump, and her administration assured the public on Nov. 10 […]

More than 250 scientists and scholars from 30 countries have issued an open letter calling on policymakers to “engage more with the growing risk of societal disruption and collapse due to damage to the climate and environment,” arguing that only then “might communities and nations begin to prepare and so reduce its likelihood, speed, severity, […]

President Donald Trump on Monday continued to wage war on members of his own party in Georgia. The latest Republican to face an angry tweet from the White House is Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R-GA). Trump has attacked Republicans in Georgia for not going along with his election fraud conspiracy theories. On Monday, Trump also […]

As time speeds to the end of the Donald Trump presidency the administration is moving fast to expand the ability of faith-based institutions to discriminate against LGBTQ people. The Dept. of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has just finalized a rule gutting protections for LGBTQ people who work for federal contractors, including allowing religious […]

Without a coronavirus relief package centered on helping working families who have lost jobs and watched their savings dwindle amid the pandemic, millions of people are “headed for absolute disaster,” one observer said Monday as Moody’s Analytics reported that 12 million renters are expected to owe an average of $5,850 in back rent and utilities […]

Jason Miller, the chief strategist for outgoing President Donald Trump‘s 2020 campaign, told a Florida family court judge in a sworn affidavit filed last Friday that he expects to be unemployed beginning Dec. 15 — which is next Tuesday, the day after the Electoral College meets to ratify Joe Biden’s election as president. As a result, Miller said, he […]

Climate action advocates and wildlife defenders celebrated Monday after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rejected the Trump administration’s approval of Liberty, a proposed offshore oil-drilling project in federal Arctic waters that opponents warned would endanger local communities, animals, and the environment. “In the face of a worsening climate crisis, the federal […]

A second US federal judge has suspended a Trump administration executive order threatening to ban TikTok in the United States. The preliminary injunction granted late Monday by judge Carl Nichols in a district court in Washington DC comes more than a month after a similar decision in Pennsylvania. Nichols said TikTok’s lawyers had demonstrated that […]

Britain became the first Western country to start a mass coronavirus vaccine campaign with a pensioner receiving the initial jab on Tuesday as across the Atlantic millions of Californians went into lockdown to stop surging US infections. The UK’s rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab — the first country to start using the approved inoculations — […]

In a case brought by Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), Republicans seek to overturn the election results in Pennsylvania. Republicans have been pushing the case hard, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) even publicly volunteered to argue the case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Petitioners’ legal team has asked me whether I would be willing to argue the […]

Axios on Monday published a bombshell report on a suspected information gathering operation by a foreign government. “A suspected Chinese intelligence operative developed extensive ties with local and national politicians, including a U.S. congressman, in what U.S. officials believe was a political intelligence operation run by China’s main civilian spy agency between 2011 and 2015, […]

Legendary pilot Chuck Yeager passed away on Monday evening, his wife Victoria posted to his Twitter account. She praised his “incredible life well lived” and labeled him “America’s greatest pilot.” Fr @VictoriaYeage11 It is w/ profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9pm ET. An incredible […]

President Donald Trump on Monday continued to wage war on members of his own party in Georgia. The latest Republican to face an angry tweet from the White House is Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R-GA). Trump has attacked Republicans in Georgia for not going along with his election fraud conspiracy theories. On Monday, Trump also […]

President Donald Trump has been discussing pardoning “every person who ever talked” to him, according to a new report by Axios. “President Trump isn’t just accepting pardon requests but blindly discussing them ‘like Christmas gifts’ to people who haven’t even asked,” Jonathan Swan reported Monday night, citing “sources with direct knowledge of the conversations.” “Trump […]

Senior White House advisor Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner are reportedly making a major real estate investment in Florida. “Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have splashed out on a $30 million-plus dollar lot of land on Miami’s uber-swanky and high-security Indian Creek Island — known as the “Billionaire’s Bunker” — Page Six can exclusively […]

On Fox News Monday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) laid out the simple reason why Republicans like himself are carrying water for outgoing President Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories about the election: it is the only way to appease Trump supporters enough for them to be re-elected themselves. “If you’re not fighting for Trump now when he […]

On Monday, Politico reported that Republican lawmakers are spending lavishly on Christmas parties in Washington, D.C., as the COVID-19 pandemic ravages the nation. “Some corners of the GOP, including members of Congress, are refusing to let the coronavirus intrude on their holiday gatherings and in-person fundraisers,” report Sarah Ferris, Melanie Zanona, and Daniel Lippman. “The […]

The United States has now exceeded 15 million confirmed cases of Covid-19, with casualties at the rate of one Pearl Harbor attack per day.  Over 100,000 have been hospitalized, overwhelming medical systems, and this is still before the spike of Thanksgiving weekend, when over 1 million traveled by air. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has not attended […]

President Donald Trump’s much-hyped border wall is in yet another scandal. “Two whistle-blowers have accused contractors building President Trump’s border wall of smuggling armed Mexican security teams into the United States to guard construction sites, even building an illegal dirt road to speed the operation, according to court documents unsealed by a federal judge on […]

On CNN Monday, Democratic Georgia Senate challenger Jon Ossoff tore into President Donald Trump and Republican Sen. David Perdue for their efforts to deny the franchise to Black voters in the state. “What President Trump is trying to do to pressure election officials in Georgia, to throw out legitimate ballots is an attack on Black voters in Georgia,” said Ossoff. […]