VIDEO OF THE DAY: Jury finally hears BOMBSHELL evidence against Trump
The jury in Trump's porn star hush money case finally heard the most damning evidence of all — Donald Trump's voice on tape, saying things he really really shouldn't be saying.
Eric Adams is the lying face of the campus crackdowns
NYC Mayor Eric Adams, already notorious for his Trumpian relationship with the truth has fully embraced his pathological love of lies in order to justify the appalling police crackdowns on Gazan human rights protests at Columbia and CUNY. "When you are defending the indefensible, you need a spokesman like Adams, as prolific an inventor of fables as Scheherazade," writes Jeet Heer in The Nation. Without any evidence, Adams claimed that there is a conspiracy of "professionals" who are radicalizing college students, which is not a crime — and, if that were the case, then the raids would be a clear violation of the First Amendment. Adams has also claimed that "outside agitators" have been infiltrating the protests, again without any evidence. Heer notes that the "outside agitator" trope was much used by racists in the Jim Crow South as a way to demonize the civil rights movement. The Adams administration's third and most outrageous allegation was that of the "terrorist bike chain," which Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard trotted out on Morning Joe, claiming, "This is not what students bring to school. This is what professionals bring to campuses and universities." The bike chain, as many, many people noted, is sold on Columbia's website to its students. All these lies are used to create a false perception of the protests being illegitimate and justify the violence used to put them down, creating a distraction from the righteousness of their cause — and the culpability of the American political machine in some of the worst human rights atrocities perpetrated in recent memory.
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The far-right’s campaign to explode the population
The nation was given a glimpse into the biggest anxieties of the far-right's creepiest weirdos at "NatalCon," a conference where neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and all manner of racist losers and religious extremists paid thousands of dollars to listen to speakers fearmonger about how the American birth rate is declining because woke, of course, and chemicals in the water. Immigration, of course, is not a solution, as discussion veers straight into eugenics and the need to rebuild American society with "better" people. If you couldn't guess by this point what kind of people they have in mind, the declaration of one speaker that "the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its progeny are probably the single most destructive set of laws in American history, and all should be wiped forever," makes it obvious. One of the few attendees willing to give their name to POLITICO, Malcolm Collines, railed against the "urban monoculture...that breeds childlessness and therefore must poach other people’s children to survive. It lures them out of small towns and into large cities, encourages them to eschew their religious upbringings in favor of hedonistic secularism, and then leaves them to die alone." His goal is for white Christians to start "pushing back on social and cultural changes they see as imposed on them by outside forces... If everything goes as planned, the competition will go extinct on their own." Fun stuff!
Cigna doctor reveals company pressured her to deny insurance claims
Insurance giant Cigna tracks every minute that its staff doctors spend deciding whether to pay for healthcare. Dr. Debby Day said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: "Deny, deny, deny. That’s how you hit your numbers," Day told ProPublica, detailing how the company coerces its agents to deny insurance claims to sick and dying Americans under the threat of firing. On top of that, Cigna kept a public scoreboard of case tallies in order to create group pressure among its doctors to save the company money and deny patients healthcare. "Medical directors would message me and say, 'We can’t do these cases in four minutes. Not if you want to do a good job,'" Day recalled. While companies fighting to make their workers more productive is nothing new, these kinds of practices have no business in the medical field, which should be about saving lives and not some millionaire's bottom line. Unfortunately, in America, that is not the case.
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