Last Call
Last Call: 9-12-20
Live from smokey, haze crazed California! Yes, the air quality is a putrid 200 AQI where I live; San Francisco comes in 201 AQI. We were supposed to walk down the street to a local MORE
Month: September 2020
2020 Elections
Trump, again, tells North Carolinians to vote twice; Twitter removes his nonsense
On Saturday, the Orange Buffoon took to Twitter to tell North Carolinians to potentially vote twice in our upcoming election; Twitter removed his tweet. The Orange Buffoon also brought up the Mueller investigation and tweeted MORE
Hate Watch
Racist Tirade Prompts Businesses To Cut Ties With Apple Farm
Several businesses and distributors have cut ties with an apple farmer in West Michigan after a racist tirade was caught on video, prompting local outrage and a criminal charge of assault. Travis Schoenborn, 31, the MORE
Education
DeVos Says Ruling on Private School Funding No Longer Effective
After a federal judge in Washington D.C. last week ruled that distributing CARES Act funding to private schools was illegal, it appears the Secretary of Education has quietly given up. The Education Department did not MORE
Europe
Hungary student protests find support in Hollywood
Within less than two weeks, fluttering red and white tape has become a symbol of resistance, hanging from street lamps, bicycle handlebars and house entrances; it is everywhere these days in the Hungarian capital. It MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
Peaches are everywhere at my house. All from one tree in my back yard. They’re on my patio, they’re on the kitchen counter, they’re in baskets, they’re in bags. Manna from the peach gods (that’s MORE
Breaking News
Nora Dannehy prosecutor and top aide to John Durham’s Trump-Russia investigation resigns amid concerns about pressure from Billy Barr
Federal prosecutor Nora Dannehy, a top aide to U.S. Attorney John H. Durham in his Russia investigation, has quietly resigned from the U.S. Justice Department probe – at least partly out of concern that the MORE
Coronavirus
Stores ended hazard pay for their workers; still spending hundreds of millions buying back stocks
Some major retailers are continuing a controversial practice known as share buybacks in the pandemic, despite ending hazard pay for their workers or not providing any at all. Kroger bought back more than $200 million MORE
2020 Elections
Trump threatens to ‘put … down very quickly’ any potential, election night riots
In an interview with the Queen of Box Wine, Jeanine Pirro, which will air Saturday evening, providing she isn’t looped, Trump claims he will “‘put … down very quickly’ riots on election night should aggrieved MORE
US
Trump officials propose collecting DNA from citizens sponsoring immigrants
The Trump administration on Friday issued a proposal to expand its DNA and other biometric data collection of immigrants to include citizens sponsoring them. MORE
Local
Hordes of mosquitoes kill livestock after Hurricane Laura
The Category 4 storm hit the state on Aug. 27, pushing the insects out of the state’s marshes. “The population just exploded in the southwest part of the state,” said Jeremy Hebert with LSU AgCenter MORE
US
Trump and Melania attend 9/11 memorial in PA
Join News Views for a Live Discussion on Trump’s attendance at a ‘memorial service for those who died on Flight 93, which crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pa., as passengers tried to retake control MORE
Politics
Trump administration secretly withheld millions from FDNY 9/11 health program
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has secretly siphoned nearly $4 million away from a program that tracks and treats FDNY firefighters and medics suffering from 9/11 related illnesses NY Daily News: The Trump administration has secretly MORE
2020 Elections
Trump Tells Michigan MAGAts About Imaginary Auto Plants He Brought Them
Donald Trump took his bigly COVID rally to rural Michigan on Thursday, making wild, inaccurate claims of saving the auto industry. “We brought you a lot of car plants, we brought you a lot … MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 37
Happy Friday, News Viewers, although we’re swimming in a river of tragedy, chaos, catastrophic and memory on this 9/11/2020. Nineteen years ago, we were, as they say, “woke”; this week, it happened again. . . MORE
News
The Final Push: A Living Statue comes to NYC- ‘It is what it is.’
Trump’s COVID-19 Response, Disdain For Slain Troops Mocked By Performance Artists Here’s one statue of a racist figure that President Donald Trump may actually like to tear down. The president, who has a penchant for preserving public MORE
Middle-East
Huge fire breaks out at Port of Beiru a month after devastating explosion
A huge fire broke out at the Port of Beirut on Thursday, triggering panic among residents traumatized by last month’s massive explosion there that killed and injured thousands of people. It was not immediately clear what caused MORE
Coronavirus
Covid-19 Pandemic USA Update
196,145 Americans are confirmed to have died from the Covid-19 virus, up 907 from 9/9. 6,585,702 Americans are confirmed to have been infected with the Covid-19 virus, up 36,350 from 9/9. Article submitted by, ronald MORE
Business
White House moves to curb policing of corporate misbehavior
Trump, who ran on cleaning up corporate abuses and draining the swamp, is now curbing corporate oversight at the behest of big business donors Politico: The White House is taking action to rein in enforcement MORE
Sports
NFL 2020 Season Opener
Houston Texans at Champion K.C. Chiefs, 8:20 ET kick-off on NBC, KC is a 9 point favorite. The last time these two teams played each other was in a AFC divisional game played January 12. MORE
Live Discussions
Trump holds a press briefing
Join News Views for a Live Discussion on Trump’s latest lies, spin, and damage control.
Pandemic Morons
Ohio moron at Miami University held a house party after testing positive for COVID-19
Oxford Police Department cited six men who attended a house party Saturday, and one of them was supposed to be under quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 a week prior. Bodycam footage shows a group MORE
Pandemic Morons
GOP’s ‘Skinny’ Stimulus Bill fails; expect no funding until after the election
Republicans lost their fight Thursday to pass a so-called “skinny” coronavirus stimulus package. The Senate failed to bring the measure to a vote when it got just 52 votes — far short of the 60 MORE
Education
College funding tied to faith rights, free speech in new Trump rule
The Trump administration is moving forward with a policy that expands protections for religious groups on college campuses and threatens to cut federal education funding to colleges that violate free speech rules. The rule was MORE
2020 Elections
Treasury Department sanctions Giuliani’s pal Andriy Derkach for U.S. election interference
The president’s personal lawyer has been working closely with “an active Russian agent” trying to smear the president’s chief political rival. That’s the conclusion of the U.S. Treasury Department, which sanctioned on Thursday one of Rudy Giuliani’s MORE