Jargon run amok: A whimsical mashup of techspeak
2020 Election
Why is the stock market soaring amid a pandemic? Because Trump thinks that may save him
Back in October 2018, the New York Times published a Pulitzer Prize-winning profile of Trump's extensive tax fraud schemes, and in the process of that reporting uncovered one of the ways Trump screwed with the financial markets. Journalists David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner reported that Trump would routinely engage in a scam known colloquially as "greenmailing." It involved Trump, along with his father, Fred, as his "wing man," exploiting the news media to pump up the price of a stock by planting rumors, devised by Trump himself, about a takeover. This would drive up the price of the stock, only for Trump to either sell or to demand "lucrative concessions from the target company to make him go away."
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‘Clueless’ Ivanka Trump shredded for suggesting out-of-work Americans just ‘find something new’
The White House is backing an ad campaign intended to encourage out-of-work Americans to just "find something new" -- and it's got Ivanka Trump's fingerprints all over it.
The campaign came out of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board, which was created by President Donald Trump in 2018 and co-chaired by his eldest daughter along with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
“There has never been a more critical time for Americans of all ages and backgrounds to be aware of the multiple pathways to career success and gain the vocational training and skills they need to fill jobs in a changing economy,” Ivanka Trump said in announcing the campaign.
Last week, the Supreme Court wrapped up its latest term. For progressives, the mix of positive and disappointing rulings demonstrated both the power and the limits of organizing and advocating around the judiciary. Despite a handful of critical progressive rulings, however, the court's conservative majority remains a co-conspirator in a scheme to sabotage democracy for partisan reasons. And we must not let that reality resign us to a generation of minority rule.
Over the last few decades, the left has largely ceded judicial politics to conservatives. Conventional wisdom held that any discussion of the courts would backfire on Democrats by energizing Republican voters. Fortunately, that outdated view is beginning to erode. My organization, Take Back the Court, is one of several formed during Donald Trump's presidency and dedicated to rebalancing the judicial playing field.
Couple arrested after being caught on video brutally attacking female Black hotel employee
Pence claims on coronavirus second wave ‘proved wrong in nearly every way’ less than a month later: analysis
Wisconsin man attacks and slurs Black woman in front of her children in parking lot dispute
Trump is so mad at his campaign manager he is now doing the opposite of the advice he receives: report
‘You are falsifying information!’ Protester yells at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during press conference
Woman who became infamous for racist rants and alleged attacks gets hit by a fire truck
The coronavirus outlook is ‘grim’ in the US — and will only ‘get worse’ thanks to Trump and his sycophants: Paul Krugman
Trump-loving network OAN caught only releasing polls favorable to the president — and ignoring bad ones
The rise and fall of Newt Gingrich: The firebrand who remade the Republican Party — and paved the way for Trump
‘Christians have to resist being used’: New Republicans Against Trump ad takes aim at his evangelical base
‘Christians have to resist being used’: New Republicans Against Trump ad takes aim at his evangelical base
The View ends in shouting match after Meghan McCain comes out in support of Fox News’ Tucker Carlson
WATCH: Hispanic man harassed by white couple for bringing his ‘ghetto’ fruit stand to their community
‘What the hell does that mean?’ CNN’s Berman buries Tucker Carlson’s non-apology for employing racist lead writer
