Senator Mitch McConnell censured Senator Elizabeth Warren for “Impugning a Senator,” blocking her from speaking on the floor for the rest of the debate. Sen. Warren, complaining about Jeff Sessions, was reading from the Congressional Record, quoting the letter Coretta Scott King (widow of MLK) wrote to Congress in 1986, when the...
(Borrowing from a nice NYT article by Charles J. Sykes.) The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth. — Garry Kasparov The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will...
A federal judge issued a stay against the Trump Muslim Ban Executive Order, temporarily blocking travel ban, effective nationwide. White House officials (Spicer, Priebus, et al) lied, saying that it effected only 109 people, and then lied again, saying they weren’t badly affected. At this point, Customs has denied over...
Protests continue against President Trump’s Executive Order temporarily banning immigration, refugees, and potentially, legal green card holders. Kellyanne Conway repeated the lie about President Obama’s purported six-month ban on the Iraqi refugees. She went on to make a new lie about two Iraqis who to the US and became the...