A previously unknown focus of an I.R.S. audit is a dubious accounting maneuver that effectively meant taking the same write-offs twice on a Chicago skyscraper....
Oh please, this is just more fake news by the lying liberal media designed to make a demented rapist and convicted fraud seem like some sort of dishonest person. Woke!
. . . Enter the Louisiana Supreme Court. In an opinion written by Justice James Genovese and published on March 22, the court found an absolute property right in the institutions’ right not to be sued. The Louisiana Child Victims Act, wrote Genovese, “cannot be retroactively applied to revive plaintiffs’ prescribed causes...
I thought you guys may like to know a bit about this. Most stories about the current state of nature are quite depressing, but this one is quite the opposite!...
What is happening? That they’re writing stories about trump as if he’s normal and just another presidential candidate?
Yeah, we can send you examples of that. Do you need to know more about Project 2025 or the multitudinous and fascistic threats he’s made on the campaign trail?
Okay it’s Saturday May 11th, what are the stories from CNN, NBC, ABC, WaPo, and NYT (front pages please) which say that. I just checked and there weren’t any.
There’s trump-in-court, trump-in-irs-trouble, other things like “some say he shouldn’t be campaigning in a blue state on his day off from court” or whatever.
It’s not like a breaking news story. It’s got to be folded into the telling of all the other stories about him. He tried - and failed - to stage a goddamned coup for fuck’s sake.
Incompetently planned, ridiculously reasoned, as one would expect, but he did it nonetheless and I want it to say IN EVERY ARTICLE ABOUT HIM that he tried to stage a coup which failed. Interview justice officials as to what - EXACTLY- are they going to do when he does it again. What protections are in place to prevent him from gutting appointees and protections? Where are those news stories?
And why, after 2016 and everything that we’re saying here happened then, would anyone need to explain this?
You could find 10+ of these types of posts from each of the big news sites.
These are good examples, but here’s the problem with them:
Opinion: Trump’s praise of dictators tells us all we need to know
This is an Opinion article, not a news article. In particular, the NYT likes to hide behind these, allowing opinion writers free rein while hedging and minimizing and normalizing the candidate in all the actual News articles.
‘It’s happening right here’: The authoritarian threat to American democracy
Likewise this is an interview with an author, not a news article.
Why does Trump keep talking like a fascist? Because it works
Another ‘editorial’, and Maddow is pretty great but sort of preaching to the choir. Not news reporting as such.
Twelve signs Trump would try to run a fascist dictatorship in a second term
Another Opinion piece, they even preface the author with “Perspective by” to distance themselves from it.
Talk of a Trump Dictatorship Charges the American Political Debate
This is the only actual news article of the bunch, and it is largely based on trumps famous ‘i’d be a dictator on the first day’ quote which was unfuckingbelievably outrageous in its own right. It’s probably worthy of a breakdown but I’d have to get past the paywall first. Also to note it’s on page 23 of the A section, not exactly front page anyway.
President Biden laid it out for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel long before letting the public know. In a conversation bristling with tension on Feb. 11, the president warned the prime minister against a major assault on the Gaza city of Rafah — and suggested that continued U.S. support would depend on how Israel...
His anger at Mr. Netanyahu boiled over during a private Dec. 23 call that ended when the president hung up on the prime minister. “I’m done,” Mr. Biden said, slamming down the phone.
What’s striking is how they’re trying to use standard diplomatic channels and Netanyahu keeps flipping them off.
Remember that time the GOP invited Bibi to speak to congress on the eve of the long-and-tough fight to get Iran to not go nuclear? And he showed up with a big bomb poster and ranted about how stupid Obama was? Of course, The Demented Rapist trashed it first thing (you’re welcome Bibi - trump’s your guy).
In response to American pressure, the Israelis put together an extensive proposal to move a million people out of Rafah to spare them the conflict. But it would require hundreds of thousands of tents and massive quantities of food and water. Whether it was possible to implement was less than certain.
With no agreement, the president was forced to decide whether to allow a pending shipment of bombs that could be used in the attack. This time he said no. His advisers notified the Israelis, but did not tell the public or Congress, which had just passed $15 billion in new military aid for Israel. The idea was to make the point privately to Mr. Netanyahu without a public blowup. But the Israelis leaked the news, at which point Mr. Biden went public on CNN with his vow not to provide any weapons that could be used in a major Rafah operation.
Yeah, just leak it. Screw diplomacy, right Bibi? Gotta pander out there!
Well that’s the danger - the conservatives here went full mask-off racist poor-haters which wasn’t as much of a surprise as their unbelievable lack of belief in anything.
No ideology, values, or any other mechanism holds them - not even science, which they pretend to believe in, when it suits them. The so-called ‘adults’ in the party have succumbed utterly to the cult. There are no rational leaders, only figureheads and capos.
It’s shameful and beyond pathetic, and I’d like to think Canada would never fall to such insanity, but the mechanism by which it was carried out (facebook, twitter, Qanon, convoys, right-wing news) are all the same. More power to you progressive Canadians. Hopefully you can weather it.
Sovcit sent in a "payment", T Mobile doesn't think so. (lemmy.world)
Trump-appointed judge halts Biden administration credit card late fee cap (thehill.com)
Fox News won’t bother mentioning this to their viewers.
Playing Peekabo
Narrative of Trump snoozing in court takes hold — much to his annoyance (www.washingtonpost.com)
Trump May Owe $100 Million From Double-Dip Tax Breaks, Audit Shows (www.nytimes.com)
A previously unknown focus of an I.R.S. audit is a dubious accounting maneuver that effectively meant taking the same write-offs twice on a Chicago skyscraper....
Louisiana Supreme Court Makes It Harder For Church Abuse Survivors to Hold Priests Accountable (ballsandstrikes.org)
. . . Enter the Louisiana Supreme Court. In an opinion written by Justice James Genovese and published on March 22, the court found an absolute property right in the institutions’ right not to be sued. The Louisiana Child Victims Act, wrote Genovese, “cannot be retroactively applied to revive plaintiffs’ prescribed causes...
Return of the Eurasian Eagle Owl to the Netherlands and Germany. (lemmy.world)
I thought you guys may like to know a bit about this. Most stories about the current state of nature are quite depressing, but this one is quite the opposite!...
Nation-to-Nation (lemmy.world)
Dang (lemmy.world)
Not Asking (lemmy.world)
This is the weirdest look she has given me yet. (lemmy.world)
Tesla’s profitable Supercharger network is in limbo after Musk axed the entire team (techcrunch.com)
After Elon Musk fired Tesla’s Supercharger team, the fate of the EV charging network is unknown. There are 25,000 charging ports in the U.S. alone.
The Long, Tortured Road to Biden’s Clash With Netanyahu Over Gaza War (www.nytimes.com)
President Biden laid it out for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel long before letting the public know. In a conversation bristling with tension on Feb. 11, the president warned the prime minister against a major assault on the Gaza city of Rafah — and suggested that continued U.S. support would depend on how Israel...
Texas man seeks to have ex-partner investigated for out-of-state abortion (www.theguardian.com)
Avoid consequences for your crimes with this one simple life hack (y.yarn.co)
cross-posted from: dubvee.org/post/1149097...
Conservatives want to bring back the smoking rooms in Tim Hortons ultimately, and fuck the planet. (lemmy.world)
Oh Yeah (lemmy.world)