March 15, 2025 Fox News, State Television
“He’s trying to broker peace in Ukraine and Russia. This week we saw wholesale prices go down, the price of eggs go down, mortgage rates go down, consumer confidence going up. Everything is turning up Trump. Donald Trump is all about policies and America-first principles and he’s winning at every single turn.” – First term Trump advisor turned paid Fox …
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March 15, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
The Hill reports: White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she will skip the annual White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner slated for late April this year. “I will not be in attendance at the White House Correspondents’ dinner and that’s breaking news for the Sean Spicer Show,” Leavitt said during her Friday appearance on the show hosted by Sean …
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March 15, 2025 Extremists, Trump Administration
Mediaite reports: Leo Terrell, former Fox News contributor who now heads the Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, shared a wild post by white nationalist Patrick Casey this week declaring President Donald Trump can “revoke someone’s Jew card.” Terrell shared the Wednesday post by Casey, who was once the executive director of Identity Evropa – a now defunct “alt right …
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March 15, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The New York Times reports: President Trump signed an executive order on Friday seeking to dismantle seven additional federal agencies, including the one that oversees Voice of America and other government-funded media outlets around the world. Mr. Trump directed the heads of the agencies, largely obscure entities that address issues like labor mediation and homelessness prevention, to eliminate all functions …
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March 15, 2025 Idiocracy, Medicine
NBC News reports: On Wednesday, a woman gave birth in a Lubbock, Texas, hospital in the middle of a deadly and fast-growing measles outbreak. Doctors didn’t realize until the young mother had been admitted and in labor that she was infected with the measles. By that time, other new moms, newborn babies and their families at University Medical Center Children’s …
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March 15, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
The Daily Beast reports: Vice President J.D. Vance took aim at protesters at a manufacturing event in Bay City, Michigan, where he touted President Donald Trump’s economic agenda. Vance, who was speaking at Vantage Plastics, had little sympathy for people outside the venue who were carrying signs with messages like “Protect Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.” In fact, he suggested …
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March 15, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
The New York Times reports: President Trump’s administration has officially expelled South Africa’s ambassador to the United States, a spokesman for the South African president said on Saturday, calling the decision “regrettable.” The ambassador, Ebrahim Rasool, received an expulsion letter from the State Department, said Vincent Magwenya, the spokesman for President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa. The move comes during …
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March 15, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Associated Press reports: US President Donald Trump says he was being a “little bit sarcastic” when he repeatedly boasted in his 2024 presidential campaign that he could end the war in Ukraine in a mere 24-hours, and even before taking office. Trump was questioned on his campaign promise during an interview with a US media outlet, as his administration …
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March 14, 2025 JMG Community, Open Thread
Deadline reports: The Menendez brothers will have to wait another month to discover whether they have a chance of getting their sentences of life without parole reduced or reassessed. Unsurprisingly, the previously rescheduled resentencing hearing set to begin March 20 has been kicked down the road. Now, Lyle Menendez and Erik Menendez will get their day(s) in court on April …
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March 14, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Reuters reports: A U.S. appeals court on Friday temporarily paused a judge’s ruling that had blocked the administration of President Donald Trump from implementing bans on diversity, equity and inclusion programs at federal agencies and businesses that contract with the federal government. The Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stayed a February ruling that said the directives by …
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