From sanewashing to false equivalence, many readers have had it with their favorite news publications. Editors would do well to listen.
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Some Weeks...
Sounds legit...
Since people seem to have missed this one, unsealed in the Smith filing:
-Trump used a burner phone, routed through a foreign country to contact Michigan house speaker.
-He tried to pressure the speaker in this off book call.
-Speaker McCarthy knew about the burner phone line.… https://t.co/vibkX7O74B
— Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) October 26, 2024
I Can't Stop Giggling
A federal judge has ordered Rudy Giuliani to place numerous assets, including cash, jewelry and his New York apartment, into a receivership controlled by two former Georgia election workers as they seek to collect a $148 million defamation claim against the former lawyer for Donald Trump.
It's All Greek To Me
In other languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_to_me
In Greek, the phrase is "This strikes me as Chinese".
Oh Amazon
The Free Market
Superintendent Ryan Walters isn’t just talking about buying Bibles for schools.
Bids opened Monday for a contract to supply the state Department of Education with 55,000 Bibles. According to the bid documents, vendors must meet certain specifications: Bibles must be the King James Version; must contain the Old and New Testaments; must include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights; and must be bound in leather or leather-like material.
A salesperson at Mardel Christian & Education searched, and though they carry 2,900 Bibles, none fit the parameters.
But one Bible fits perfectly: Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the U.S.A. Bible, endorsed by former President Donald Trump and commonly referred to as the Trump Bible. They cost $60 each online, with Trump receiving fees for his endorsement.
Coastal Flooding
I guess it's called Canal Street for a reason.
Pepper
Portrait of Nathaniel Olds by Jeptha Homer Wade
1837