On Wednesday, CNN ran an article headlined “Trump says he wouldn’t sign federal abortion ban.” The headline at The Hill was nearly identical. USA Today’s headline included Trump complaining about the Arizona decision. The New York Times followed that same path. No matter what broadcast media, newspaper, or online outlet anyone visited on Wednesday, everyone got the same message: Donald Trump promised to not sign a federal ban on abortion and pushed back against the ban in Arizona. That’s a...
This was the week when the corporate media decided to mansplain Donald Trump to women and anyone else who might care about their reproductive rights. “Don’t worry your pretty little heads about what he says,” we were told. “We’re going to tell you what he means.” First, let’s tease out the most charitable take. The media always wants a ”story.” Thus, the thinking goes, Trump’s video statement this week describing his position on abortion must have been rooted in some political necessity. The...
In an alternate universe, Thursday’s top NFL story would have opened like this: “O.J. Simpson, one of the most electrifying running backs in NFL history, died Wednesday at age 76.” We don’t live in an alternate universe, however, but one in which Simpson allegedly murdered ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her male friend in June
Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara said Reed 'continued to fire at the officers while they were firing those 90 rounds.'
The Grand Canyon state is getting mixed reviews after the state's supreme court decided Tuesday to uphold a 1864 law banning abortion in almost all cases. The state’s highest court overturned a December 2022 injunction by an appeals court who thought that doctors shouldn’t be prosecuted after conducting abortions. With the new ruling, it will be illegal to perform abortions at any point in pregnancy except when absolutely necessary to save the life of the mother in the state of Arizona. The...
The Grand Canyon state is getting mixed reviews after the state's supreme court decided Tuesday to uphold a 1864 law banning abortion in almost all cases. The state’s highest court overturned a December 2022 injunction by an appeals court who thought that doctors shouldn’t be prosecuted after conducting abortions. With the new ruling, it will be illegal to perform abortions at any point in pregnancy except when absolutely necessary to save the life of the mother in the state of Arizona. The...
The AP is worried Americans have access to information that does not receive a stamp of approval from corporate media and Democrats.
Donald Trump released a video Monday proclaiming a hodgepodge of undercooked positions on abortion. Rachel Maddow broke down the traditional media’s failure to convey Trump’s cowardice, incoherence, and dishonesty. She recited a number of muted headlines from major newspapers and then explained what's wrong with them. YouTube Video MADDOW: Today, Donald Trump did put out a video statement in which he did indeed say that restrictions on abortions are things that should be...
Steven Porterfield allegedly sent threatening text messages about his plans to kill women, and the recipient shared them on Facebook. Now he's in jail.
Two firms in a federal civil lawsuit accuse Trump Media board member Eric Swider of plotting a "coup" to oust the then-CEO of Digital World Acquisition Corp.
State Supreme Court rules a near-total ban from 1864 can go into effect in a battleground state that could play an outsized role in the presidential election and help determine which party controls the U.S. Senate next year.
The BBC and other media are willing co-conspirators in promoting the pro-genocide playbook of groups like the Campaign Against Antisemitism How to interfere, once again, in British politics and further curtail fundamental civil liberties on behalf of a foreign power, Israel – all egged on by the political and media establishment – in seven easy […]