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6+ min ago (249+ words) They appropriate left-wing points of view and they mutate them for their own propaganda," the filmmaker adds Lilly Wachowski, the co-director and co-writer of The Matrix" franchise, hit back at MAGA members co-opting the red pill" concept from her movies for their political messaging. The filmmaker addressed the situation on Thursday's episode of the So True with Caleb Hearon" podcast, where she noted she wasn't surprised by MAGA's decision to take on The Matrix" moment since right-wing ideology appropriates absolutely everything." They appropriate left-wing points of view and they mutate them for their own propaganda, for their own to obfuscate what the real message is," she added. This is what fascism does. And so, of course, that's going to happen." MAGA voices have reworked the red pill" moment from The Matrix" by suggesting the film scene, where Neo (Keanu Reeves)…...

12+ min ago (138+ words) Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL), who is currently facing a barrage of scandals and ethics allegations, spent tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions on expenses like casino trips, limousines, and private jet charters, the conservative Washington Examiner reported on Friday. Additionally, flagged Roger Sollenberger of The Daily Beast, "Mills's campaign filings this year have also effectively hidden more than $14,000 in donor refunds " reporting them only as negative donations instead of listing them on the 'refund' line." Democrats initially pushed a resolution to censure Mills, but backed off in exchange for a censure against Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) also being tabled. After this news was reported, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) pledged to introduce her own censure measure against Mills. ALSO READ: We've seen this movie before " what happens next is never good...

13+ min ago (363+ words) President Donald Trump claimed to have "terminated" all documents signed by former President Joe Biden with the autopen."Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect," Trump said in a Friday post on Truth Social. "The Autopen is not allowed to be used if approval is not specifically given by the President of the United States.""The Radical Left Lunatics circling Biden around the beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office took the Presidency away from him," he continued. "I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally. Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was,…...

13+ min ago (216+ words) A Republican strategist on CNN slammed President Donald Trump for calling Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) "seriously retarded" in a Thanksgiving Day social media post. On Wednesday, two West Virginia National Guard members were shot in Washington, D.C. after being deployed there by Trump in August, one of whom died on Wednesday. The suspected gunman is a 29-year-old Afghan national who reportedly fought for a CIA-backed paramilitary unit'during the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan. On Friday's edition of The Arena on CNN, guest host Manu Raju read excerpts from the post before turning to Republican operative Melik Abdul. "That was the language from the president of the United States on Thanksgiving night," Raju said. "You're the Republican in the room. Can you defend that?" Abdul went on to say that Trump's Thanksgiving remarks and others like them harm downballot Republicans. "So what happens to…...

14+ min ago (312+ words) I wrote a book about the lying liars who write about me," the Trump impersonator says Canada's CBC sketch comedy series This Hour Has 22 Minutes" parodied President Donald Trump reading a fictional children's book titled Quiet Piggy!" which was written and named after Trump's controversial quiet, piggy" remarks towards a female journalist. He continued with his book, in which he breaks down his contentious run-in with Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey. These swine called reporters, they drive me insane. Who let these farm animals onto my plane? They ask me about Epstein, I say, "It's no biggie.' Then they press me again, and I say: "Quiet, Piggy!' That's the book title, kids, try and keep up." Trump said. The video also highlighted the real Trump's claims that convicted musician and businessman Sean Diddy" Combs requested a presidential pardon. Let me drink…...

21+ min ago (290+ words) They're terrified. It's insane," VanDiver told AP. People are acting xenophobic because of one deranged man. He doesn't represent all Afghans. He represents himself." On Thursday, it was announced that Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, deployed with the National Guard under orders from Trump, had died from her injuries while Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, remained in critical condition in a local hospital. While heartbreak and mourning was widely shared for the victims of the shooting, Trump's xenophobic response to the violent assault, including his racist social media posts on Truth Social that critics said echoed white nationalist rhetoric, proved for many observers once again his shortcomings as a national leader during times of crisis, but also as a human being. The perpetrator should face accountability but the entire Afghan community must not be punished due to the actions of one individual," said…...

25+ min ago (130+ words) Economist Paul Krugman at FIDES 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on September 25, 2023 (A.PAES/Shutterstock.com) The Wall Street meltdown of September 2008 gave the United States its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Both then-President George W. Bush and his successor, Barack Obama, drew criticism for supporting the costly Wall Street bailout, but both of them maintained that the bailout was necessary in order to prevent the Great Recession from worsening. Krugman adds, "In particular, the government failed to extend bank-type regulation to shadow banks that posed systemic bank-type risks. And the crisis came." According to Krugman, Trump and his allies haven't learned the lessons of The Great Recession. Paul Krugman's full Substack column is available at this link....

30+ min ago (294+ words) An ex-GOP strategist warned Friday that Republicans are facing a potential disaster in Tennessee's upcoming special congressional election " a race in a deep-red district that should otherwise be, in his words, "a layup." Joseph Moreno, a former federal prosecutor and current CNN commentator, said Friday the signs are unmistakably troubling for the GOP in Tennessee's Seventh Congressional District, where a Dec. 2 special election has unexpectedly tightened. The district is so heavily Republican, according to Moreno, that President Donald Trump won it by more than 22 points in 2024. "This should be a layup, right? This should be a really easy race," Moreno said. "That fact that it's polling within 5 points, maybe 2 points " that's scary for Republicans." He went on to warn that the tightening race fits a familiar pattern in U.S. politics. "It's consistent with what we saw in '93-'94, in 2005-2006, even 2021-2022 " the off-year…...

31+ min ago (446+ words) New Democratic Party ousts longtime Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, who has served in office since 2001. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is set for a change in leadership for the first time in more than two decades, with opposition leader Godwin Friday declaring victory in an election against longtime Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves. Preliminary results on Friday show the conservative-leaning New Democratic Party winning 14 out of the 15 constituencies in the Caribbean island nation. That clears the way for Friday, the opposition leader, to replace Gonsalves as prime minister. Though official results have yet to be released, the NDP's likely victory is slated to end the Unity Labour Party's 24 years in power. The party addressed its constituents in St Vincent and the Grenadines, sometimes known by the acronym SVG, in a social media post after Thursday's election. "We love you, SVG, and…...

36+ min ago (213+ words) Appeals Court Upholds $1M Penalty Against Trump A federal appeals court has upheld a penalty of nearly $1 million against President Donald Trump and attorney Alina Habba, concluding they committed "sanctionable conduct" by filing a frivolous lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and former FBI Director James Comey. Posted by lamplighter at 07:31 PM | 4 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | Appeals court upholds $1M penalty against Trump in lawsuit against Hillary Clinton[image or embed] The Atlanta-based appeals court also rejected Trump's bid to reinstate the 2022 lawsuit targeting Clinton, Comey and others over allegations about ties between Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and Russia. The lawsuit alleged a broad racketeering conspiracy to conjure up false allegations against his campaign and then instigate investigations like special counsel Robert Mueller's probe. #1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-27 12:41 PM | Reply had properly considered Trump's "pattern of misusing the courts" He's only been doing…...