April 18, 2025 Extremists, Trump cultists
“Look at Josh Shapiro. He’s crying out in pain as he strikes us. Go fuck yourself, Josh. I don’t have any pity for you. I don’t have any sympathy for self-hating liberal Jews. “He’s funding these Islamic Jew haters who are trying to destroy Western civilization. He’s supporting groups like HIAS. He’s supporting mass immigration. He’s supported Alejandro Mayorkas. “He’s …
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April 18, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
The Telegraph reports: Trump is assessing whether he can sack the head of the Federal Reserve, the White House has said. Kevin Hassett, Trump’s economic adviser, said on Friday that the president and his team were looking at whether he had the authority to remove Jerome Powell when asked if sacking the Fed chairman was an option. “The president and …
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April 18, 2025 Elon Musk, Trump Corruption
Reuters reports: A member of billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency allegedly screamed and demanded 36-hours of straight work to process Thursday’s mass firings at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency employee said in a sworn statement on Friday. “DOGE member Gavin Kliger…kept the team up for 36 hours straight to ensure that the notices would go …
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April 18, 2025 Crime, Religion
Michigan radio station WHMI reports: A former pastor has pleaded guilty to numerous felony charges for secretly recording people in a church bathroom. Former 2/42 Community Church Pastor 38-year-old Will Johnson pleaded guilty to all 15 charges against him that included tampering with evidence, child sexually abusive activity, using a commuter to commit a crime, possession of child sexually abusive …
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April 18, 2025 Fox News, State Television
Media Matters has the transcript: BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): “So let’s talk Democrats. And for the most part, you’re looking at a party looking for leaders. But one thing they are getting is big crowds. And they’re getting big crowds where Bernie Sanders and AOC are traveling around. They’re going to areas, and there’s definitely people out there when you have …
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April 18, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
From a just-launched White House website: “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak theory — was prompted by Dr. Fauci to push the preferred narrative that COVID-19 originated in nature. A lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research is the most likely the origin of COVID-19. …
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April 18, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Mediaite reports: Trump took to Truth Social Friday morning to blast Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s much-publicized trip to the Central American nation to meet with the Maryland resident — and illegal immigrant — who was wrongfully deported and sent to an El Salvadorian prison without due process. Trump wrote, “Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland looked like a fool yesterday …
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April 18, 2025 Extremists, Mass Shootings
USA Today reports: The son of a Florida sheriff’s deputy suspected to be the gunman in an attack at Florida State University that killed two and injured six had a history of espousing radical conspiracy theories, according to people who knew him. Leon County Sheriff Walter A. McNeil identified the alleged gunman as 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, a student at Florida …
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April 18, 2025 Education, Trump Administration
CNN reports: The Trump administration is considering eliminating funding for two key federal programs that help millions of low-income Americans educate their young children and heat their homes. A draft of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal for the coming fiscal year calls for ending support for Head Start, which provides early childhood education and other services to nearly 800,000 kids, …
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April 18, 2025 Politics, Republicans
The Hill reports: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who finished in second place to President Trump in the 2016 Republican presidential primary, has distinguished himself from MAGA World by declaring his skepticism of long-term tariffs, remaining a hawk on Russia and coming out against proposals to tax the rich. By calling out tariffs as “taxes on American consumers” and sticking to …
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