Let’s Talk About Trump’s Gibberish

Perhaps the greatest trick Donald Trump ever pulled was convincing millions of people—and the American media—to treat his lapses into fantasies and gibberish as a normal, meaningful form of oratory. But Trump is not a normal person, and his speeches are not normal political events. For too long, Trump has gotten away with pretending that his emotional issues are just part of some offbeat New York charm or an expression of his enthusiasm for public performance. But Trump is obviously unfit—and something is profoundly wrong with a political environment in…

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Major Corporations Employ DEI Agency to Feature ‘Underrepresented’ Communities in Commercials

Some of the world’s largest companies are hiring a nonprofit agency to make their commercials appear diverse. It’s called Free to Work, and it matches companies with minorities to star in their photo shoots and advertisements. Free the Work partners with Amazon, Google, Snapchat, Meta, Uber, Haagen-Dazs, Verizon, Target, and others to ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion in media campaigns. The nonprofit brought in more than $ 2.5 million in 2022, according to its 990 report, a financial statement filed by tax-exempt organizations. Free the Work has made two commercials…

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MoveOn Calls on Georgia Court of Appeals to Stop Delays in Trump Trials

MoveOn runs full-page ad in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution WASHINGTON, D.C. – MoveOn Political Action is calling on the Georgia Court of Appeals to stop delaying the criminal case against former President Donald Trump for his interference in Georgia’s 2020 election. On behalf of Donald Trump and his allies, the appeals court set a tentative date of October 4 for oral arguments to consider whether Judge Fani Willis is disqualified from prosecuting the election interference case, preventing the beginning of the trial. His strategy is likely to delay as long as…

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Former senior officials join rising calls for an alternative to Schedule F

A group of former senior officials is making a new and near last-ditch call to action aiming to prevent the possible resurrection of the controversial Schedule F executive order from the Trump administration. The five former national security officials, who sent a letter to congressional committee leaders Thursday, are approaching the years-long Schedule F debate with what has been a steadily growing angle: They proposed a middle-ground answer to the question of federal workforce accountability. Along with warning of what they said would be a dangerous return of Schedule F,…

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Ruth Bader Biden

We are a little over one week removed from the verdict—that verdict—and Democrats have what they’ve long been craving: a conviction of Donald Trump, 34 times over. What impact, if any, is it having on this noisy roulette game in which we’re trapped? Let us do the responsible thing and hedge: too soon, too soon. But early polls suggest that a significant plurality of Americans agree with the jury’s decision, and that it could produce at least a small bump in support for President Joe Biden. The Manhattan verdict has…

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