Noam Chomsky

• 'Mother of all superspreader events': Expert warns daily COVID deaths 'will double' in days after Thanksgiving
  As millions of Americans are traveling across the country this Thanksgiving, ignoring CDC guidance to stay home and not mix households, a medical expert warns daily COVID-19 deaths will soon double."It's potentially the mother of all superspreader events," Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a professor of medicine at George Washington University, tells CNN Thursday.The U.S. saw more […]
  The New Civil Rights Movement
• ‘Kraken’ attorney's message for Trump fans: Make checks payable to Sidney Powell
  Today we learned why mobster Don Donald Trump wanted the wildest of his wild-eyed attorneys ejected unceremoniously from his so-called legal team: She was trying to cut into his action.Yes, TV attorney Sidney Powell can grift with the best of them.Now that Powell has "unleashed the Kraken" with the help of a copy editor who […]
  Ray Hartmann
• Conservative explains why Trump’s primary motivation in pardoning Michael Flynn was to protect himself
  When President Donald Trump announced, on Wednesday afternoon, November 25, that he was granting former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn a presidential pardon, many of Trump's critics were appalled but not surprised. Trump also pardoned long-time ally and GOP operative Roger Stone, and many Trump critics believe that a pardon for his former campaign manager, […]
  Alex Henderson
• Donor sues Tea Party group for $2.5 million after it failed to show evidence of widespread voter fraud
  True the Vote, a far-right Tea Party-associated group founded in Houston in 2009, has described its mission as fighting voter fraud — and critics have slammed True the Vote for promoting voter suppression, especially in communities of color. The group has been busy this year, vowing to "investigate, litigate and expose suspected illegal balloting and […]
  Alex Henderson
• Sidney Powell suffers another setback as Georgia GOP county chair demands removal from 'kraken' election lawsuit
  Georgia is one of the states where Republican lawyer Sidney Powell is trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and making baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. And on Thanksgiving, Jason Shepherd — the Republican Party chairman for Cobb County, Georgia — demanded to be removed from Powell's lawsuit in that state.Shepherd […]
  Alex Henderson
• British journalist Mehdi Hasan slams Bill Maher for ‘brazen Islamophobia’ during a no-nonsense interview
  Bill Maher, the outspoken host of "Real Time With Bill Maher" on HBO, has often been highly critical of organized religion — although he has said he considers Judaism the "coolest" of the western religions because it promotes a better quality of life on Earth. Progressive firebrand Mehdi Hasan, whose program, "The Mehdi Hasan Show," […]
  Alex Henderson
• Justice Sotomayor pens scathing dissent to COVID ruling: This ‘will only exacerbate the Nation’s suffering’
  Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted her more conservative colleagues for barring New York state from reimposing coronavirus restrictions on religious gatherings.The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4, in a late-night emergency ruling, that state officials could not reimpose limits on churches and synagogues to prevent the spread of the highly contagious virus, and Sotomayor penned a scathing […]
  Travis Gettys
• Conservative activist slams GOP 'war on Thanksgiving' claims as total nonsense: 'We are in the middle of a pandemic'
  After years of pushing former Fox News pundit Bill O'Reilly's "War on Christmas" nonsense, far-right Republican culture warriors have a new meme: the so-called "War on Thanksgiving." Republicans and allies of outgoing President Donald Trump have been making the ludicrous claim that Democrats who are encouraging social distancing measures on Thanksgiving oppose the holiday. But […]
  Alex Henderson
• Comcast got $1 billion in public subsidies — now its hiking prices for new data fees
  The only thing more American holiday season than conservatives pretending that liberals want to destroy them, is telecommunication companies telling consumers that right around the holiday season they are going to raise the prices of their services for bullshit reasons and there's nothing you can do about it. And as we head into Thanksgiving and […]
  Walter Einenkel
• #AmyCovidBarrett trends after SCOTUS blocks NY from limiting church attendance
  Justice Amy Coney Barrett is the focus of many across this nation as they vent their ire and anger this Thanksgiving Day on the newly-minted Supreme Court jurist who cast the deciding vote in a decision that places religious rights over all others.Overnight the Supreme Court preemptively blocked New York Governor Andrew Cuomo from limiting […]
  The New Civil Rights Movement