Below, you will find some headlines we may have missed and some interesting video clips on several subjects. Please feel free to share anything you may have run across; just make sure it’s not from a MAGAt infested shithole.
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After the deluge, the lies: Misinformation and hoaxes about Helene cloud the recovery
The facts emerging from Hurricane Helene’s destruction are heartrending: Businesses and homes destroyed, whole communities nearly wiped out, hundreds of lives lost, hundreds of people missing.
Yet this devastation and despair is not enough for the extremist groups, disinformation agents, hucksters and politicians who are exploiting the disaster to spread false claims and conspiracy theories about it and the government’s response.
According to former President Donald Trump, the federal government is intentionally withholding aid to Republican disaster victims. Far-right extremist groups warn on social media that officials plan to bulldoze affected communities and seize the land from residents. A tale straight from science fiction asserts that Washington used weather control technology to steer Helene toward Republican voters in order to tilt the presidential election toward Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
A Trump-backed Bible seems a suspicious fit for Oklahoma’s narrow school text criteria
The superintendent wants Bibles in classrooms but outlined requirements that disqualify thousands in the market. But Trump’s “God bless the USA” Bible is somehow tailor-made.
A mandate for Oklahoma public schools to teach the Bible in class went into effect in August amid sharp national criticism and opposition from local school districts. This week, Oklahoma’s Department of Education opened bids for a contract to provide 55,000 Bibles for classrooms across the state, with criteria so specific as to exclude thousands of available Bibles — but not Donald Trump’s infamous “God bless the USA” Bible.
According to the state’s specifications, the Bible must be in the King James version — and must also contain the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It “must also be bound in leather or leather-like material for durability.”
As Oklahoma Watch points out, many — if not most — Bibles in the marketplace don’t fit those criteria. But one that does tick all the state’s boxes is a $60 Trump-endorsed “God Bless the USA” Bible, which began selling in March and from which Trump has made $300,000 in royalties, according to his latest financial disclosure from August. (A version with Trump’s signature sells for $1,000.)
Another Bible that meets the criteria is a $90 “We The People” Bible, which Donald Trump Jr. promoted in late 2022.
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