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How is this possible we all wondered… After all, this is America, the richest country in the world. What’s more, that notorious water crisis in Flint, Michigan, saw crooked politicians end up in jail. So we thought that ensured something like this would never happen again. Read more.
No. For starters, crime is not soaring. It’s at historic lows. In fact, the incidence of everything from murder to rape and petty theft was five times higher in the 1980s and early 1990s than it is today. Perception vs. reality But thanks to social media, so many crimes get viral coverage, almost every crime… Read more.
John Fetterman gave his first televised interview to MSNBC on Wednesday since suffering a stroke on May 13. Everyone expected him to answer the one question now hounding his campaign: When will he debate Dr. Mehmet Oz, his Republican opponent for this midterm’s Pennsylvania Senate seat? But, instead of answering it, Fetterman played the victim… Read more.
Even erstwhile sensible Republicans like Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire are coming across like those useful idiots on Fox News – who propagate Russian propaganda as readily as they do Trumpian lies. Only that explains Republicans all over TV these days carping about Hillary Clinton setting up a private email server at her home,… Read more.
Jamie Dimon has grown increasingly aggressive behind the scenes with a clampdown on remote work — and insiders say a major reason is likely a certain skyscraper that’s under construction in Midtown Manhattan. JPMorgan’s hard-charging chief executive has been quietly telling senior managers he expects the mega-bank’s rank and file to be in their seats… Read more.
Pursuant to court order, at noon today, the Department of Justice released the famous affidavit, which delineates the legal justification for the unprecedented search the FBI conducted earlier this month at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. But nobody is happier than Trump that everyone in the media is busy chasing the redacted information (aka… Read more.
Much is being made about the eminent historians who met with President Biden last week. According to The Washington Post, they felt compelled to raise alarms about currents events in American politics bearing unnerving parallels to those of the 1850s, namely the years preceding the Civil War. Their galvanizing fear is that we are polarizing… Read more.
And so we all wait with bated breath to know not when Trump will be arrested, but when Republicans will get their spines back. Because the fate of American democracy depends on it. But leave it to Trump for this FBI search to give even graver meaning to hiding skeletons in one’s closet.. Read more.
Everyone in Washington knew it had to take a truly grave concern for the FBI to search former President Donald Trump’s home – even with the kid gloves and in the discreet manner agents reportedly did. Well, according to The Washington Post, we now know that concern was as grave as grave can be. Because… Read more.
I know, I know. Kanye ran as an Independent. But everyone knows Jared Kushner recruited him in 2020 to do so as a useful idiot to help Republicans. Their misguided, racist thinking was that, blacks are so stupid, a significant percentage of them would waste their vote on Kanye just because he’s a black rapper.… Read more.
