Wired reports: On Monday night, what is left of the trust and safety team at X (formerly Twitter) announced the measures it was taking to try and put the genie back in the bottle and curb the virulent spread of disinformation around the Israel-Hamas war on its platform. The statement, issued three days after the conflict began, reads: “As the …
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RFK Raises $11M In One Day, Seeks Musk’s Support
Politico reports: Just hours after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced he would run for president as an independent, more than $11 million gushed to the coffers of the super PAC supporting him. American Values 2024 said it raised $11.28 million in just six hours following Kennedy’s announcement. Tony Lyons, a co-founder of the PAC, is also in talks with billionaire-entrepreneur …
Read More »New Freaky Details In Lawsuit Against Tim Ballard
Vice News reports: Tim Ballard, the founder and former head of the anti-trafficking group Operation Underground Railroad whose heavily fictionalized exploits were the subject of this summer’s surprise box-office hit Sound of Freedom, has been sued in Utah’s Third District Court by five women accusing him of sexual misconduct. The suit also alleges that Ballard pressured women into going to …
Read More »SCOTUS Rebuffs Coal Baron’s Suit Against News Orgs
NBC News reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to consider overturning a landmark case that gives protections to news organizations facing defamation claims by rejecting an appeal brought by West Virginia coal baron Don Blankenship. Blankenship, also an erstwhile Republican Senate candidate, sued various news organizations for referring to him as a convicted felon when in fact he was …
Read More »GA Defendant: I’ll Be Trump’s Next WH Press Secretary
The Messenger reports: Trevian Kutti, a one-time publicist for the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, in a since-deleted social media post claimed she’ll be Donald Trump’s next press secretary if he’s elected in 2024. “I look forward to redeeming Black women in politics by becoming Press Secretary to the 47th President of the United States @realDonaldTrump,” Kutti wrote on …
Read More »RFK Formally Declares Independent Run For President
The Guardian reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr has officially announced that he will be running for US president as an independent. “I’m here to declare myself an independent candidate for president of the United States,” Kennedy said to applause and chants. Kennedy added that he will be creating a new “Declaration of Independence” for the US. Kennedy claimed that a …
Read More »New Death Threats From QAnon’s “Queen Of Canada”
Vice News reports: Tensions are growing in a small Canadian town after a cult took over an abandoned school and followers of the so-called “QAnon Queen” sent death threats to local officials. On September 13, the small quiet town of Richmound, Saskatchewan, had its world turned upside down when Romana Didulo—a woman who has convinced a sizeable group of people …
Read More »Robert Kennedy Jr. To Headline Coming CPAC Event
The Hill reports: Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will be a headline speaker at a Conservative Political Action Conference event in Las Vegas later this month, the conference announced Friday. The anti-establishment environmental lawyer has run a longshot primary campaign against President Biden, but is expected to change affiliation to independent next week. “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has …
Read More »Lindell: “I’ve Lost Everything, Every Dime, It’s All Gone”
NBC News reports: In a court filing Thursday, the law firm of Parker Daniels Kibort LLC said Lindell and MyPillow are months behind on their legal bills in three defamation cases, and they can no longer afford to represent him. “At this time, Defendants are in arrears by millions of dollars to PDK,” the filing said. “PDK is a small …
Read More »Iowa Protesters Ram Ramaswamy’s Unoccupied Car
The Associated Press reports: Protesters upset about Vivek Ramaswamy’s remarks in opposition to aid for Ukraine yelled and swore at the presidential candidate in Iowa on Thursday before jumping into a vehicle, ramming a campaign car and speeding off, according to his campaign. Ramaswamy spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said no one was in the campaign vehicle when it was hit in …
Read More »Lindell: My Lawyers Just Quit Since I Didn’t Pay Them
“Ten minutes ago all the lawyers we have for MyPillow and myself in the lawsuits with the lawfare with Dominion and Smartmatic, they just filed in federal court that – to drop us as our attorneys and this comes from the lawfare, basically. And from the media. “The attacks on MyPillow, what American Express did — just devastating our credit. …
Read More »Reuters: Banks Might “Take Back The Keys” To Twitter
Reuters reports: X is still worth something, but not for the people running it. Boss Linda Yaccarino is set to present her plans for the social network formerly known as Twitter to bankers holding nearly $13 billion of its debt, the Financial Times reported. Looming over talks is the likelihood that X’s value is substantially less than even that figure. …
Read More »Happy 5G Zombification Day To All Who Celebrate
CBS News reports: A nationwide test of the federal emergency alert system will be broadcast at approximately 2:20 p.m. EDT to cellphones, televisions and radios across the United States. The test will occur simultaneously across time zones, so people in the middle of the country can expect it at 1:20 p.m. Central Time, or 12:20 p.m. Mountain Time. On the …
Read More »Prager Attacks Trump’s Judge As “Liver-Spotted Simp”
Dennis Prager writes for Townhall: The only fraud perpetrated in this kangaroo court prosecution of Trump is the fraud being executed by James on the American justice system and, by extension, on the American people. She’s set forward a preposterous legal theory, accusing Trump of inflating his assets to defraud banking partners. The matter before the court is de facto …
Read More »Ramaswamy Touts “Faith” Not Drugs For Mentally Ill
“Violent crime has risen over precisely the period we have shuttered these psychiatric institutions. And you know what? The number one psychiatric institution today is jail. It’s prison. And they don’t do a very good job. “And now you then get the calls to clear the jails or to have commuting of sentences or shortening of sentences. People leave those …
Read More »Shapiro Rants Over “Wild Left Winger” Laphonza Butler
“So, Gavin Newsom has to fill her seat. This means that this is the second Senate seat that he has had to fill. The first one was Kamala Harris for no reason at all except that she’s a Black woman. “Now, who the hell is Laphonza Butler? Laphonza Butler is a lesbian Democratic strategist and advisor to Kamala Harris’ 2020 …
Read More »Musk Sued For Falsely Naming Man As Neo-Nazi
Vice News reports: A young man falsely accused of being a federal agent posing as a neo-Nazi by Elon Musk and a bunch of other right-wing trolls has launched a lawsuit against the one-time richest man in the world. Earlier this year, college student Ben Brody, 22, had his life turned upside down when he was accused of being a …
Read More »Angry Ramaswamy Calls For “True Shutdown” Of Govt
“My first reaction is the reaction it’s been for the last several days, which is this whole debate is a farce. It’s a deflection. Even if the government were gonna shut down, we know what happens every time. They get the back pay, it comes back bigger every time. We need to stop the artificial debate about fake government shutdowns …
Read More »Ramaswamy Threatens Mexico: I’ll Be Your New Daddy
Fox News reports: During a press conference earlier this week, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador lashed out at the 38-year-old political outsider after he was asked by a reporter about the candidate’s so-called “threat” to the country. “That candidate from the Republican Party who says he is going to invade Mexico, no American of Mexican origin should vote for …
Read More »REPORT: Robert Kennedy Jr. To Run As Independent
Mediaite reports: 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce he will run as an independent on October 9 in Pennsylvania, Mediaite has learned. Kennedy’s campaign machine is now planning “attack ads” against the Democratic National Committee in order to “pave the way” for his announcement in Philadelphia about running as an independent, according to a text reviewed …
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