The traces we leave on the Web and on our digital devices can give advertisers and others surprising, and sometimes disturbing, insights into our psychology
Meet the New Democrats. Same as the Old Democrats. Representatives of Israel.
America is influenced and directed by another nation (not Russia).
Trump: Dividing and Ripping Apart America (Aided and Abetted by the Republican Party and Faux News)
How Trump’s Brand of Grievance Politics Roiled a Pennsylvania Campaign (N.Y. Times)
The Republican Party and its candidates, particularly in state and local campaigns, are increasingly being reshaped in President Trump’s image, adopting his laundry list of political opponents and his willingness to go to great lengths to spite them.
In conversations with Mr. Scavo and his all-white supporters, this was not a race-blind anxiety, but a conscious fear around what they see as the replacement of traditional, white American culture. The message was constantly amplified by ominous reporting and commentary from conservative, pro-Trump media outlets.
Trump Promotes and Threatens Violence
Trump Again Threatens Violence If Democrats Don’t Support Him (NY Intelligencer)
“I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump–I have the tough people”
Faux News Pays Republican Contributors (Trumpites) as much as $569,423
Across cable news, the salaries paid to on-air contributors remain shrouded in mystery, ranging by network and by market demand for the contributor’s expertise. But, because at least 10 former Fox News contributors have served in Donald Trump’s administration and been forced to file financial disclosure forms, a window into the network’s payroll has been opened.
Among the eight Trump staffers who were forced to disclose what Fox News paid them to contribute, salaries averaged about $141,000 and ranged from a low of $31,336 for New York socialite Georgette Mosbacher (who serves as ambassador to Poland) to a high of $569,423 for John Bolton, who now serves as Donald Trump’s national security adviser.
Hollywood Reporter
Why is Betsy Devos Education Secretary? (Think “Thumpers”)
(Somebody asked that on twitter)
I suspect it’s because of thumpers–the religious zealots Trump works so hard to keep in the cult.
People for the American Way
Then there’s this:
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced Monday that she will no longer enforce a provision in federal law that bars religious organizations from providing federally funded educational services to private schools.
Trump Wants to Cut Survival Lifelines. The White House’s New Budget Exposes Donald Trump’s Lies About Protecting Medicare and Medicaid
So how does the “Budget for a Better America” treat Medicare and the other programs that Trump vowed to safeguard at all costs? By calling for even larger cuts to them than the White House proposed this time last year, when it formally abandoned Trump’s campaign pledges. The budget for the 2019 fiscal year called for five hundred and fifty billion dollars in cuts to Medicare over ten years. With the budget deficit skyrocketing as a consequence of the Trump-G.O.P. tax bill, the 2020 budget would reduce spending on Medicare by eight hundred and forty-five billion dollars over the next decade. Even in Washington, that’s a lot of money.
But he wants $6.8 billion for his wall.
When your Amazon job makes you want to commit suicide
“It’s this isolating colony of hell where people having breakdowns is a regular occurrence”
The Daily Beast
Massage Parlors and the President of the United States: Happy Ending?
Trump has also profited from selling access.
Most corrupt President EVER.
A Florida Massage Parlor Owner Has Been Selling Chinese Execs Access to Trump at Mar-a-Lago
When the Media Fails Us: Supporting Government Actions
Incredibly, instead of pointing out that the advocates of austerity have been shown wrong, most reporting continues to treat their policies as being credible, and in fact often works to hide evidence of its failure. The New York Times (2/14/19) gave us a great example of this practice in an article on the decline of the middle class across Europe, with a focus on Spain
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting)