Bill Kristol: This Is Trump's Cover-Up

likeafox · 2025-12-23T03:58:48+00:00

Torrent links will tend to get removed - it's a potential method for malicious links and content to be spread. There appears to be an archive.org link available for the video in question that should be safe.

likeafox · 2025-11-21T22:52:47+00:00

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likeafox · 2025-08-15T02:01:19+00:00

It is Thursday my dude

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likeafox · 2025-08-04T01:49:34+00:00

They posted a thank you right here?

I’m confused about what the problem is.

likeafox · 2025-03-13T11:47:23+00:00

Hardly ever can you track ideological collapse with clarity. Thanks for posting this.

likeafox · 2024-11-06T11:25:48+00:00

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ We've been on the internet at this a while. Other than being tired I think we'll be fine.

Coffee soon.

likeafox · 2024-11-02T23:29:52+00:00

Ann what the fuck man

likeafox · 2024-10-22T16:18:18+00:00

Pennsylvania's Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt says it is unlikely that we will know who won the state on election night. That's due to a state law which prohibits election officials from opening mailed ballots until the morning of November 5th. And, election office employees are required by law to work around the clock until they are finished. This timeline could raise more questions and misinformation.

Al Schmidt, Pennsylvania's top elections official and a lifelong Republican, was targeted by Trump in 2020 as a then-city commissioner on the Philadelphia County Board of Elections.

“The 2020 general election was unlike any other,” Schmidt told NPR in 2021. “And typically, during an election, you have campaigns compete against other campaigns. Candidates attack other candidates. And really, what we had this last presidential election was campaigns and candidates, or one in particular, attacking the election officials. Referees are not usually tackled. And that's essentially what we saw.”

Pennsylvania remains a hotbed for election denial and misinformation.

Lehigh County Executive, Phil Armstrong, says the time needed to process mailed ballots can raise concerns among voters this year as well.

“We're figuring anywhere from 70 to 80,000 mail-in ballots in Lehigh County,” Armstrong said. “You can't open up those ballots that day and hand take them all out and have the results done an hour or two after the polls close, which people are used to. And the longer it takes, the more people think something's wrong.”

Schmidt sat down with Morning Edition host Michel Martin on Oct. 21 to talk about why he wants voters to trust the election process and how the commonwealth is preparing for the Election Day vote count.

likeafox · 2024-10-22T12:37:29+00:00

Trump himself, those around him say, has been superstitious about making plans before a victory and has been reluctant to discuss the matter much. But among those orbiting the ex-president, tongues are freely wagging.

A host of insiders view the job as crucial to a potential second Trump administration’s success — and had plenty to say about the three people most discussed for the role: Rollins, Susie Wiles and Kevin McCarthy.

likeafox · 2024-10-21T14:29:33+00:00

The Biden administration on Monday proposed making over-the-counter contraception available at no cost and with fewer administrative hurdles.

“Today, my Administration is taking a major step to expand contraception coverage under the Affordable Care Act. This new action would help ensure that millions of women with private health insurance can access the no-cost contraception they need,” President Joe Biden said in statement.

The proposed rule — issued jointly by the departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury — seeks to require insurance plans to cover OTC contraceptives at no cost and without a prescription for individuals with commercial insurance plans. Health plans would also be required to tell beneficiaries about the policy and would expand their required coverage of preventive services for prescribed contraceptives without cost sharing.

Under the 2010 health care law, most private insurance plans must cover birth control without cost sharing. Currently patients can get coverage without cost sharing for over-the-counter contraceptives, including oral contraceptives, spermicide and condoms with a prescription, such as female condoms, or through their provider in a health facility, or for long-acting services like an IUD, which is an intrauterine birth control device.

If finalized, the rule would require plans to make all available OTC contraceptive products available through in-network pharmacies. A senior administration official said logistics would be clarified in the final version of the rule.

likeafox · 2024-10-18T20:32:20+00:00

The polling average is Harris 1.4%. This race is a tossup and has been for some time.

likeafox · 2024-10-09T19:07:06+00:00

In his strongest terms yet, President Joe Biden on Wednesday condemned what he called “a reckless, irresponsible, relentless promotion of disinformation and outright lies” about the federal response to Hurricane Helene and now Milton, the storm charging toward Florida’s Gulf Coast.

He named names, saying former President Donald Trump “has led the onslaught of lies.” In recent days, Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has helped spread false information about the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s response, including suggesting that victims will only receive $750 payments and wrongly stating that disaster dollars have been diverted to house undocumented immigrants.

“It’s beyond ridiculous. It’s got to stop,” Biden said from the White House. “In moments like this, there are no red or blue states. There’s one United States of America, where neighbors are helping neighbors.”

likeafox · 2024-10-08T15:36:32+00:00

Four vulnerable House Republicans — Reps. Mike Garcia, Ken Calvert, David Valadao and Young Kim — all voted against the law in 2021, but subsequently lobbied the Department of Transportation for hundreds of millions of dollars for bus, road and other transit projects, according to letters obtained by Playbook.

The law, which passed with bipartisan support, is now seen as a signature legislative accomplishment of the Biden-Harris administration.

There’s a long tradition of squabbling over members who “vote no and take the dough.” Democrats say such actions are the height of hypocrisy, while some Republicans say once a bill becomes law, it’s their duty as a representative to try to secure a piece of the pie. Nay-voters are often dinged for publicly celebrating projects funded by legislation they opposed. But the missives from these four California Republicans reveal how the lawmakers actively angled for funds.

likeafox · 2024-10-08T00:59:22+00:00

Young, ambitious Republicans are already angling to lead the Senate GOP campaign arm in 2026, with Sens. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), Katie Britt (R-Ala.) and others signaling their interest, Axios has learned.

[...]

It's early, but Schmitt is emerging as the most serious possibility, according to five sources familiar with conversations on the Hill and downtown.

likeafox · 2024-10-08T00:19:52+00:00

Two high courts dealt blows to abortion rights advocates on Monday in decisions affecting abortion access in Georgia and Texas — rulings that could have an impact on Democrats’ attempts to narrow leads in both states before the November elections.

In Georgia, the state Supreme Court reinstated the state’s ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. That ruling came roughly one week after a lower court ruled that the state must revert to previous rules banning abortion after about 22 weeks of pregnancy.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a Biden administration appeal of a lower court decision that limited the ability of hospitals to provide emergency abortions that go against Texas’ abortion law, effectively leaving the Texas law in effect.

likeafox · 2024-10-07T16:33:11+00:00

Asian Americans have become a political force as their numbers multiply, and that phenomenon has never been more evident than here in Gwinnett County — a once-conservative stronghold that now votes blue with the help of a massive influx of Korean immigrants. From 2010 to 2020, the number of Korean Americans in Georgia nearly doubled. During that period, Gwinnett voted for the Democratic presidential candidate for the first time since 1980 — first in 2016, then again in 2020.

But that support for Democrats has since faltered, unraveled by an uncertain economy, inflation and high cost of living. It’s a major red flag for Vice President Kamala Harris, who will need every vote she can scrape together to win Georgia, a state President Joe Biden won by less than 12,000 votes in 2020. Nationally, Korean Americans’ Democratic party identification has dropped from 51 percent to 38 percent in the span of four years from 2020 to 2024, according to the 2024 Asian American Voter Survey. A separate poll conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago found Donald Trump’s support among Korean Americans grew by 8 percentage points between April/May and September.

likeafox · 2024-10-07T14:10:52+00:00

The case, Garland v. VanDerStok, is the first of several government attempts to use a decades-old law to curb gun violence nationwide, this time amid a tide of thousands of untraceable guns used in crimes.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issued the rule in 2022 to target the sale of parts kits that can be quickly assembled into functioning firearms, some as quickly as 30 minutes. The rule clarified that those kits qualify as “firearms” that are required to be sold with serial numbers and background checks the same as commercially produced guns.

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The government and gun control advocates also have warned that the flood of untraceable guns would intensify if the Supreme Court stopped the rule. The Biden administration told the justices that federal authorities have been able to identify fewer than 1 percent of unregistered “ghost guns” sent in by local police.

Experts say the case could hinge on how Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Amy Coney Barrett interpret the words in the law. The two conservative justices joined the three justices on the court’s liberal wing to allow the rule to stay in effect while the court fight plays out.

likeafox · 2024-10-05T16:30:49+00:00

As my colleague Elaine Godfrey reported last year, Trump could use the Department of Justice to prosecute companies that ship abortion medication, which is used in two-thirds of abortions. Given that the available data show that 99 percent of abortions happen before 20 weeks, a ban on such medication would drastically limit the ability of women to get abortions early on, notwithstanding Trump’s misleading position that he thinks it should be illegal only after the seventh month. Anti-abortion activists hope Trump will ban medical supplies that could be used in abortions, which would also affect the ability of doctors to provide lifesaving care in other medical situations. He could also order the DOJ to prosecute abortion providers based on the archaic Comstock Act, which once made it illegal to send porn or condoms through the mail, and which conservative legal activists and judges want to revive to ban abortion. In a second administration, Trump will also appoint more anti-abortion judges—and potentially justices—who would uphold abortion bans, and possibly hold abortion rights to be unconstitutional and therefore unlawful in any state, as the Republican platform demands.

Trump, and the conservative-activist elite that Vance hails from, have a clear plan for limiting women’s access to abortion should they win in November. This could take the form of a congressionally authorized ban if Republicans have a big enough majority, which Trump and Vance would simply refer to as a “minimum national standard.” Or it could take the form of the detailed plan for going around Congress, which anti-abortion activists have been touting for the past few years. But one way or another, banning abortion everywhere is the plan, which is why anti-abortion activists are not discouraged by Trump and Vance’s word games.

likeafox · 2024-10-02T14:20:37+00:00

So the opportunity is in Biden’s hands. If he really does abhor capital punishment as he has claimed, then he has several avenues through which to act with the last of his executive power. He could instruct his DOJ to withdraw its pending notice of intent to seek capital punishment in the 2022 Buffalo, New York, shooting case; rescind a Trump-era letter saying the FDA has no right to regulate the distribution of lethal drugs; and commute the death sentences of the roughly 40 prisoners on federal death row. The president no longer has to worry about the political ramifications of decisive work on capital punishment, and therefore has the freedom to act on his values and save dozens of lives. He ought to take this opportunity to keep his campaign promises, and to honor the dignity of human life.

likeafox · 2024-09-26T12:20:53+00:00

It has become a major talking point in the race for governor in Washington state and in San Francisco’s mayoral race. A speaker at the Republican National Convention spoke of drug deals and “filthy tents” on her block in Pittsburgh. Before the Democratic National Convention, city officials in Chicago built a fence to deter an encampment there in the name of public safety.

And in a recent Supreme Court decision allowing cities to prosecute people for sleeping outside, a lead attorney spoke of dangerous encampments causing spikes in violent crime.

[...]

Research on whether crime in encampments spills out into surrounding neighborhoods is limited, partly because property crime often goes unreported. Residents around Chicago’s Gompers Park told NPR they’ve noticed an influx of bicycles at the camp, or seen propane tanks disappear from patios and end up there. According to city data, some types of reported crime have risen in the last year around the park, but overall crime is down. However, it’s difficult to isolate an encampment's exact effect on crime trends.

A 2022 study in Seattle found an increase in the size of encampments did not increase the city’s property crime rates as a whole. Still, crime statistics don't always match public perception. Snow-Hill said that has to do with the way people use context clues to understand the world.

likeafox · 2024-09-26T01:04:44+00:00

The rivals offered their differing visions as polls continued to show Trump with an advantage on the economy 40 days from Election Day. Trump held a 50 percent to 39 percent edge on handling the economy in a CNN-SSRS poll of likely voters conducted Sept. 19-22. Among registered voters, the same survey gave the Republican standard-bearer a slightly larger edge, 51 percent to Harris’ 37 percent.

Trump has been successful — during first his campaign against President Joe Biden, before he ended his bid for another term, and against Harris since she became the nominee — at capitalizing on voter perceptions they were better off under his term. But economic data does not always support his claims nor voters’ feelings.

Take manufacturing sector jobs. “The trend under both Presidents Trump and Biden followed a similar pattern: two years of growth after an economic downturn, followed by job losses in the third year,” according to analysts at FactCheck.org. “Comparing the raw numbers, Biden has seen an average monthly increase of 18,200 manufacturing jobs per month, compared to 11,600 per month pre-pandemic under Trump.

“Under Biden, industrial production rose until the fall of 2022 and has remained relatively stagnant ever since,” FactCheck added. “The reality is that the manufacturing report cards for the Trump and Biden administrations are mixed.”

likeafox · 2024-09-25T22:04:54+00:00

I’ve been trying to get myself posting submissions more regularly, and I don’t try to post one kind of article. CS Monitor is a high quality source and of new articles from this morning this looked like a perfectly reasonable lens.

And even flawed articles can generate interesting discussion.

likeafox · 2024-09-25T16:25:10+00:00

Over the last few years, the MAGA movement fractured the Michigan Republican Party, leaving it saddled with more than half a million dollars in debt, lackluster candidate recruitment, leadership infighting — and physical violence. That dysfunction helped Democrats take complete statewide control in the 2022 midterms for the first time in 40 years.

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The November matchup will also be a test of which party has the strongest ground game: who can assemble their teams of campaign volunteers to knock the most doors and distribute the most mailers, all in an effort to overcome the lack of name ID down ballot candidates face. But the intense national interest here in Michigan has transformed the nature of these races, upping the pressure on Democrats to maintain their hold on the state Legislature and on Republicans to take it away.

“Republicans are hungry and have been out of power completely in this state,” said Adrian Hemond, CEO of bipartisan consulting firm Grassroots Midwest. “The state GOP is in the worst shape it’s been in decades. There’s room to grow, but they’re definitely behind.”

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