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In an apparent dig at the Trump administration, Obama says Biden's foreign policy team will 'know...
Former president Barack Obama.
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In a Tuesday interview with Stephen Colbert, former President Barack Obama praised President-elect Joe Biden's foreign policy picks for the incoming administration.
Obama said...
Topics: Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Stephen Colbert
‘He doesn’t like him’: DeSantis feuds with Florida GOP chair despite 2020 wins
TALLAHASSEE — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has yet to endorse party chairman Joe Gruters for reelection, sending a silent message of disapproval that has triggered an intra-party drama.
The Republican governor’s refusal to weigh in on the state...
Demanding Silicon Valley Suppress "Hyper Partisan Sites" Over MSM News Is Fraud: Greenwald
Demanding Silicon Valley Suppress "Hyper Partisan Sites" Over MSM News Is Fraud: Greenwald
Tyler Durden
Wed, 11/25/2020 - 12:45
Authored by Glenn Greenwald via greenwald.substack.com,
Due in part to a self-interested desire...
Topics: Silicon Valley, Glenn Greenwald
Joni Ernst attacks Georgia Senate candidates for something they didn't say
In fact, Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock said the opposite of what Ernst claimed they did. Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa stumped for the GOP's Georgia Senate candidates at a Monday rally by repeating false...
Topics: Senate
North Dakota Court Denies Governor’s Appointment
“North Dakota’s Supreme Court has stopped Gov. Doug Burgum (R) from appointing a state representative to a Bismarck-area House seat won by a deceased candidate,” the Bismarck Tribune reports.
“Now one of the...
America!: Coup or Coo? Pigeons Discuss
Experts debate what is at stake when a deranged pigeon leader refuses to accept the results of a pecking contest that he has clearly lost.
Topics: Debate
U.S. Jobless Claims Rise
“The Labor Department’s report Wednesday said jobless claims climbed from 748,000 the week before. Before the virus struck hard in mid-March, weekly claims typically amounted to roughly 225,000,” the AP reports.
“What’s more,...
Topics: Unemployment
'It's Not That I Don't Want To Work, It's That I Can't'
Some workers can't do their jobs until COVID-19 is under control, and Congress is doing nothing.
Moseley Braun Stumps for Interior Post
Former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun (D-IL) is interested in being President-elect Joe Biden’s Interior secretary, telling the Washington Post the position is “just a natural fit for me.”
The Hill: “The former Illinois lawmaker, who also...
Topics: Joe Biden
Feminism Not Militarism: Medea Benjamin on the Movement to Oppose Michèle Flournoy as Pentagon...
President-elect Joe Biden has introduced key members of his national security team this week, including his picks for secretary of state, national intelligence director, national security adviser, homeland security chief and ambassador to the United...
Topics: Feminism, Pentagon, Joe Biden
UMich Consumer Confidence Slides, Republican Hope Hammered
UMich Consumer Confidence Slides, Republican Hope Hammered
Tyler Durden
Wed, 11/25/2020 - 10:07
After yesterday's disappointing drop in consumer confidence from The Conference Board, this morning's final UMich sentiment survey...
Topics: Polls
NJ man charged in $1.7M theft of armored car outside casino
Describing it as “something out of the 1930s,” authorities say a former guard and two others stole more than $1.7 million from an armored car parked outside an Atlantic City casino earlier this month
Keith Olbermann: They All Need To Be Prosecuted Or They'll Try It Again
Keith Olbermann doesn't want to mince words: The Trump collaborators must be prosecuted, or they're going to do it all again. And it was bracing, as Keith spelled out how letting the Bush administration off the hook inevitably led to the attempted...
Florida Woman Planned To Kill Man And Convince His Wife To Run Away With Her
A Florida woman savagely hacked a man with a machete in his own bedroom during a psychotic attempt to convince his wife to run away with her, authorities said.
Alana J. Gibson, 27, is facing charges of attempted murder, armed burglary, battery and...
‘Dangerous’: Mitch McConnell just engineered a lifetime judgeship for an ‘unqualified’...
On Wednesday, The Daily Beast examined the “dangerous” record of 33-year-old Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, one of the final judicial nominees to be forced through by Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans — and her complete lack of...
Topics: Senate
Governors take heat for violating their own coronavirus restrictions
Several top Democrats have come under criticism in recent days for violating the coronavirus restrictions they imposed on their own states and cities in hopes of curbing the spread of the pandemic.California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) was...
A ransomware attack has shut down Baltimore's public schools
Students in the Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) system have suddenly found themselves with an extra day off for the Thanksgiving holiday, but it wasn't because of a snow day. As The Verge reports, an apparent ransomware attack took...
Topics: Thanksgiving
Apparent ransomware attack closes Baltimore County public schools
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
The Baltimore County Public School (BCPS) system has canceled classes after an apparent ransomware attack shut down internal networks. Described by officials as “a networking issue,” the outage is...
Rethinking Flournoy as SECDEF
In yesterday’s post “Biden SECDEF Pick on Hold?” I observed,
If he’s not impressed by [Michèle] Flournoy’s policy insights, that’s fine. Frankly, I’m not, either. She’s well-versed on the...
Topics: Joe Biden
Pushing Elephant ‘Personhood’
Animal rights must always be distinguished from animal welfare.