News Views

Partial Success for India’s Moon Landing

09/07/2019 Clancy 18

An ancient world leader in astronomy tried yesterday to land a robotic spacecraft near the moon’s south pole, but lost contact with the lander 2.1 km (1.3 miles) above the lunar surface. So far only MORE

Unattributed NOAA statement subverts science for Stable Genius sycophancy

09/07/2019 Community 35

National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released an unattributed statement yesterday that fully caters to Trump’s narcissistic meltdown and goes as far as to slam National Weather Service (NWS) for adhering to sound scientific protocol and MORE

Just how corrupt is the Trump administration?

09/07/2019 Ms. G 85

Natasha Bertrand, national security correspondent for Politico, talks with Rachel Maddow about new reporting that military flights may have been making unusual stop-overs at Donald Trump’s Scotland resort as a means of pumping money into MORE

Trump threatens banning Washington Post reporters

09/07/2019 Ms. G 55

A follow-up to a previous News Views article: On Sunday, The Washington Post published an article outlining Trump’s disastrous summer, which they have claimed could ultimately compromise Trump’s chances for re-election in 2020. The White House has MORE

The CDC wants you to stop kissing chickens

09/07/2019 forkless 15

A recent advisory from the Centers for Disease Control is warning Americans of the hazards of contact with chickens, including the risk of catching salmonella. This year alone, the CDC has recorded 1,003 cases of MORE

Wrinkles the Clown

09/06/2019 forkless 6

In late 2014, a low-res video of a person in a clown mask emerging from underneath a sleeping child’s bed appears on YouTube. The description below the video claims that the clown is named “Wrinkles,” that he lives in southwest Florida, and that he’s been hired by the child’s parents to frighten her for misbehaving. MORE

Rep. Mark Walker (R-NC) accuses the Navy of withholding information on UFOs

09/06/2019 Ms. G 28

Politico: Rep. Mark Walker of North Carolina, the ranking member of the Intelligence and Counterrorism subcommittee, asked Secretary Richard V. Spencer in July to outline what resources the Navy is dedicating to investigating the sightings. He also MORE

Antonio Brown to play in Raiders’ Monday season opener

09/06/2019 Ms. G 9

Raiders’ star receiver Antonio Brown’s status for Monday’s home opening game against the Denver Broncos was quite tenuous the last fews days after he engaged in an altercation with Raiders’ General Manager Mike Mayock. Tension MORE

AZ GOP Chairperson: “We’ll stop gun-grabber Mark Kelly dead in his tracks”

09/06/2019 Ms. G 34

Arizona GOP chairperson and mega Trump supporter, Kelli Ward, sent out a fund raising email asking donors to stop Democratic Senate candidate, Mark Kelly, “dead in his tracks.” “Support the Republican Party of Arizona today MORE

ThinkProgress to shutter

09/06/2019 Ms. G 13

ThinkProgress, the influential news site that rose to prominence in the shadow of the Bush administration and helped define progressivism during the Obama years, is shutting down. The outlet, which served as an editorially independent MORE

States plan to scrap GOP primaries and caucus to ensure Trump victory

09/06/2019 Ms. G 158

Politico reported that four states plan to scrap their GOP primaries or caucus to ensure Trump’s long shot challengers have no chance of carrying that particular state. At meetings this weekend, GOP leaders in SC, NV, MORE

Military Base Loses Funding for New School to Trump’s Border Wall

09/06/2019 Community 137

For almost two decades, families at Fort Campbell, the sprawling Army base along the Kentucky-Tennessee border, have borne the brunt of the country’s war efforts as a steady clip of troops with the 101st Airborne Division and from Special Operations units deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq. MORE

In major shift, Walgreens and CVS ask customers to leave their guns outside

09/06/2019 Community 65

Five retailers have announced this week that they will start asking customers not to openly carry guns into their stores in states where open carry is legal. MORE

Mike Pence “Shat On The Carpet” in Ireland

09/06/2019 Community 48

Mike Pence’s praise of Brexit leader Boris Johnson caused humiliation to Ireland according to members of the Irish press. Beginning with complicated travel plans due to the stay at the Trump hotel far away from the meetings, his outright praise of the British prime minister MORE

Trump Administration hoarding billions in disaster relief funds

09/06/2019 Community 27

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is sitting on tens of billions of dollars in unspent recovery money meant to help Americans recover from disasters, leaving people less able to rebound from the effects of Hurricane MORE

August Jobs’ Report: Lower than expected

09/06/2019 Ms. G 6

The US added fewer jobs than expected during the month of August. Originally anticipated to total 160,000, 130,000 non-farm jobs were added. MORE

Friday Chat Friday, Week 36

09/06/2019 Rachel Kennedy 234

Happy Friday, all — I’m calling today a holiday, a day off, a free day; after all, while the Leader of the Free World is obsessively occupied redrawing the map of Dorian and the American South, We the People might as well enjoy just living life, right? MORE