Election Updates: Trump will not commit to accepting result of 2024 race, and repeats lie about 2020. Trump made his third retail stop in New York City, visiting a firehouse in Midtown Manhattan, where he shook hands with firefighters and posed for photos. He did not take questions from the press, and ... 05/2/2024 - 7:48 am | View Link
Bernie Sanders’s warning to Biden and frustrated young voters on Israel Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is offering some unsolicited advice to President Joe Biden and a subtle reality check for young progressives who are frustrated with U.S. policy toward Israel. The ... 05/2/2024 - 7:22 am | View Link
Exclusive: Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump He believes a policy change by Biden on Israel is long overdue, but also worries that young people are underestimating the true threat that Trump poses and in their anger over Israel and other issues, ... 05/1/2024 - 10:31 pm | View Link
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Israel: "This May Be Biden's Vietnam" Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) in an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour warned President Biden that his support for Israel could become his Vietnam. "Lyndon Johnson in many respects, was a very, ... 05/1/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
A Tale of Two Labor Candidates in the East Bay East Bay Democratic Socialists of America (EBDSA) members and other progressives organized a preelection rally at a Berkeley High School auditorium. A wildly cheering crowd of several thousand came to ... 04/28/2024 - 1:07 am | View Link
Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) “has repeatedly claimed to be the recipient of two Bronze Star medals and a Combat Infantryman Badge from his time in the U. S. Army serving in Iraq and Afghanistan,” CBS News reports.
“There is no question that Nehls served overseas, engaged in combat, and was awarded a Bronze Star for his duties there.
“Kristi Noem’s damage-control tour is in full swing. It appears destined for the same fate as her late dog Cricket: dead in a gravel pit somewhere near Pierre,” Politico reports.
“But at Mar-a-Lago, even before the revelation about her dog, Noem had long ago been cast aside as a likely running mate, according to six people close to former President Donald Trump who, while not discounting Noem entirely, have for many weeks said she has almost no chance of being on the ticket.
“Donald Trump on Thursday scoffed at the notion that he would debate long shot presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. even as the former president’s allies show more concern about Kennedy’s campaign,” Business Insider reports.
Said Trump: “He’s, uh, not a serious candidate. They say he hurts Biden. I don’t know who he hurts, he might hurt me.
“A key political operative on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign was charged with assault after allegedly choking and punching a woman in New York early Saturday morning,” Mediaite reports.
“Trent Pool, who serves as a paid consultant on the long-shot independent campaign and has been leading the effort to get Kennedy on the ballot in all 50 states, was charged with assault and criminal obstruction of breathing.”
Russian state-affiliated accounts have boosted their use of TikTok and are getting more engagement on the short-form video platform ahead of the U. S. presidential election, according to a study published Thursday by the nonprofit Brookings Institution.
The report states that Russia is increasingly leveraging TikTok to disseminate Kremlin messages in both English and Spanish, with state-linked accounts posting far more frequently on the platform than they did two years ago.
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Such accounts are also active on other social media platforms and have a larger presence on Telegram and X than on TikTok.