Category: Republicans

BBC Should Go the Way of NPR After Trump J6 Speech Deceptive Edits Scandal

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It looks like there’s big, Trump-sized trouble in store for the BBC. On Monday, President Donald Trump threatened the government-funded British Broadcasting Corporation with a $ 1 billion lawsuit over its broadcasting of an edited version of his speech near the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The BBC edit made it look like Trump was directly calling for violence that day. The Telegraph blew up the story after it revealed an internal BBC document provided to them by a whistleblower found that the clip was highly misleading to the public.…

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Dem Senator Scolds Moreno Over Shutdown, Misses Key Points

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Heated exchanges on Capitol Hill over what’s been dubbed the Schumer shutdown are becoming the norm. The latest dustup involves Ohio’s own Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno and Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., during Wednesday’s Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation meeting. The fiery exchange over shutdown blame and claims of hypocrisy was noticed by Donald Trump Jr., who applauded Moreno over X. “More of this please,” Don. Jr. said. “More Republicans like @berniemoreno calling Democrats out for their bull**** and propaganda right to their face.” In response to the first…

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Fetterman Breaks Ranks: Dems ‘Need to Own the Shutdown’

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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., openly criticized his own party‘s refusal to reopen the government on CNN’s “State of the Union,” stating that Democrats “really need to own the shutdown.“ PA Senator John Fetterman blames his own party for the shutdown ? @CNNSOTU "I feel like the Democrats really need to own the shutdown. I mean, WE’RE shutting it down." pic.twitter.com/62CIaFTX1C — Dave Briggs (@davebriggstv) November 2, 2025 “Fundamentally, I’m deeply distressing that 42 million Americans are going to lose their SNAP benefits. And now that’s one of the big reasons…

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Beyond the Shutdown, Federal Appropriations Challenges Loom

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In a press call hosted by House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., and the House Freedom Caucus, Republican members of Congress weighed in on the future of federal appropriations whether or not the stopgap spending continuing resolution languishing in the Senate is passed.  “Republicans have been moving their committee stuff forward as best they can, but … you can’t do everything during a government shutdown. You can’t talk about what the next one is going to be until you open it up in the first place,” Emmer told The Daily…

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Louvre Heist Encapsulates a Western Culture That Will Not Defend Itself

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I write from a quiet, mountainous part of Central Europe. The scenery is idyllic, and the fall air is crisp. But much as the case has been in my other recent trips to the European continent, the sights I see and the conversations I hear are all underscored by a similar haunting concern: Will there even be a Europe, in any cognizable sense of the term, a century from now? All across the continent, fertility rates have plummeted, and the Christianity that defined the civilization for two millennia is viewed as a…

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