June 17, 2025 State Television, Trump Lies
Mediaite reports: Donald Trump Jr.’s lie about President Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election was edited out of a Newsmax interview as the outlet faces a major lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems — and has already settled a suit with Smartmatic for $40 million. On Tuesday’s edition of Newsmax’s Wake Up America, former Trump White House official-turned-Newsmax co-host Marc …
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June 17, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
“We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran. Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, but it doesn’t compare to American made, conceived, and manufactured “stuff.” Nobody does it better than the good ol’ USA. “We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding. He is an easy target, …
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June 17, 2025 Christianists, Trump cultists
The Houston Chronicle reports: The Minnesota man suspected of killing a Democratic state lawmaker and wounding another was a student at Christ For The Nations Institute in Dallas, the school confirmed. Vance Boelter, 57, enrolled in a two-year program at the interdenominational charismatic Bible college and graduated in 1990 with a diploma in Practical Theology and Pastoral. “We are absolutely …
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June 17, 2025 European Union, Trump Corruption
Politico Europe reports: Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Copenhagen is willing to invest more in Greenland as Denmark tries to fend off U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to seize the Arctic island. Since returning to the White House, Trump has repeatedly expressed his desire to take over Greenland, a strategically located autonomous Danish territory with vast caches of rare …
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June 17, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
NOTUS reports: A new internal memo to House Judiciary Committee Democrats zeroes in on a new attack line: President Donald Trump’s nearly 1,600 pardons are expensive. According to the document, Trump’s pardons are costing crime victims and taxpayers potentially $1.3 billion. “Not only has President Trump issued an unprecedented number of pardons in his second term,” the memo states, “he …
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June 17, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
The New York Post reports: Sergio Gor — the director of presidential personnel who recently convinced President Trump to yank an Elon Musk-endorsed nominee for NASA — has yet to submit official paperwork about his own background needed for a permanent security clearance, according to multiple sources. Gor, 38, is in charge of picking about 4,000 executive-branch staff to implement …
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June 17, 2025 Extremists, Fox News
“There’s an awful lot of people I notice right now saying how they’re true MAGA and they’re pure MAGA. I don’t think anybody at Fox can possibly be true MAGA and hardcore MAGA. “And the reason is, to be brutally frank, when President Trump had the election stolen from him and had the White House taken away and he went …
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June 17, 2025 Republicans, Trump Lies
The Hill reports: Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) on Tuesday deleted social media posts he made blaming the left for the fatal shooting of a Minnesota state legislator. As of Tuesday afternoon, the Utah Republican had deleted the posts from his @BasedMikeLee account. One post from over the weekend had dubbed the shooting the “Nightmare on Waltz Street,” an apparent reference to …
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June 17, 2025 Activism, Civil Rights
Via press release: Good Trouble Lives On is a national day of action to respond to the attacks on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration. Together, we’ll remind them that in America, the power lies with the people. Coined by civil rights leader Congressman John Lewis, “Good Trouble” is the action of coming together to take peaceful, …
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June 17, 2025 Immigration, New York City
AM New York reports: City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested and accosted by masked federal agents at immigration court in Lower Manhattan. The city’s elected financial watchdog, and a Democratic candidate for mayor, appeared at 26 Federal Plaza on the morning of June 17 to observe immigration hearings involving individuals marked for potential deportation. Lander’s arrest, which amNewYork observed, occurred as …
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