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Gov. Rick Scott’s anti-science purge begins: State employee banned for uttering ‘climate change’ A Florida state employee has been reprimanded and told not to come to work after Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) administration banned the use of the terms “climate change” and “global warming.” Earlier this month, reports said that officials in the Scott administration ordered Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) administrators not to use the terms in documents or meetings because they asserted that the climate science behind global warming was not a “true fact.” More
Portman among 47 GOP senators to sign letter to Iran WASHINGTON — In a move Democrats denounced as trying to sabotage the Obama administration’s foreign policy, Sen. Rob Portman and 46 other Senate Republicans yesterday warned Iran’s leadership that any agreement to limit Tehran’s apparent efforts to build a nuclear bomb would need Senate approval to stay in effect beyond 2016. More
Republicans to back Obama's student loan plan House Republicans are willing to give President Barack Obama a rare win, the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee said Thursday in outlining a deal that would let college students avoid a costly hike on their student loans. More
Lawyer examines Trump’s half-baked immunity claim [column] Former President Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to declare that the Constitution perpetually shields anyone who’s been president from prosecution for anything done during that person’s ... 05/11/2024 - 10:45 pm | View Link
Israel move on Rafah aims to obstruct talks Doha: A Hamas official on Thursday accused Israel of carrying out incursions in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah to block talks seeking a truce ... 05/9/2024 - 6:59 am | View Link
Hamas Says Israel Move On Rafah Aims To 'Obstruct' Truce Talks A Hamas official on Thursday accused Israel of carrying out incursions in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah to block talks seeking a truce in the seven-month war in the Palestinian territory. 05/9/2024 - 5:18 am | View Link
JPMorgan: SEC’s Wells Notice to Robinhood Won’t Obstruct Approval of Spot Ethereum ETFs JPMorgan analysts believe the US SEC will establish a middle ground between security and commodity for Ethereum. 05/9/2024 - 3:29 am | View Link
Flags attached to cars are not allowed to obstruct the driver’s vision Flags attached to cars are not allowed to obstruct the driver’s vision - Government guidance says: “The majority of vehicle flags currently on sale are legal, provided they are fitted to the vehicle ... 05/8/2024 - 9:41 pm | View Link
OBSTRUCT Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com verb (used with object) to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road. Synonyms: clog, choke, stop, arrest, retard, slow, check, prevent, impede, hinder. Antonyms: further, encourage. to interrupt, hinder, or oppose the passage, progress, course, etc., of. to block from sight; to be in the way of (a ... 05/9/2024 - 4:32 pm | View Link
Obstruct Definition & Meaning transitive verb. 1. : to block or close up by an obstacle. A piece of food obstructed his airway. The road was obstructed by a fallen tree. 2. : to hinder from passage, action, or operation : impede. Constant interruptions obstruct our progress. was charged with obstructing justice by lying to investigators. 05/8/2024 - 10:07 am | View Link
OBSTRUCT | meaning to be in a place that stops someone or something from moving or stops someone from seeing something: to obstruct the traffic. There was a pillar obstructing our view. obstruct verb [T] (STOP HAPPENING) to try to stop something from happening or developing: to obstruct a police investigation. obstruction. noun [ C, U ] uk / əbˈstrʌkʃ ə n / us. 05/7/2024 - 1:28 pm | View Link
OBSTRUCT Synonyms: 116 Similar and Opposite Words Synonyms for OBSTRUCT: impede, hinder, hamper, embarrass, inhibit, stymie, handicap, disrupt; Antonyms of OBSTRUCT: facilitate, help, assist, aid, open, clear, liberate, make way 05/6/2024 - 9:15 pm | View Link
OBSTRUCT | English meaning Add to word list. to block a road, passage, entrance, etc. so that nothing can go along it, or to prevent something from happening correctly by putting difficulties in its way: After the earthquake many roads were obstructed by collapsed buildings. Her view of the stage was obstructed by a pillar. 05/6/2024 - 4:21 pm | View Link
New York Times: “Running under the banner of Donald Trump’s populist political movement, Bernie Moreno, the Republican challenging Senator Sherrod Brown, humbly calls himself a “car guy from Cleveland” and recounts the modest circumstances of his childhood, when his immigrant family started over from scratch in the United States.”
Said Moreno: “We came here with absolutely nothing — we came here legally — but we came here, nine of us in a two-bedroom apartment.”
“But there is much more that Mr.
“Donald Trump has always surrounded himself with lawyers — all types of lawyers. There are the television-friendly talking heads. The polished criminal practitioners. The pit-bull litigators, the corporate suits and the legal advisers with their own legal troubles,” the New York Times reports.
“And then there was the singular Michael D.
“Donald Trump pledged to double down on tax cuts if he wins a second term as president, drawing a distinction with President Joe Biden who has called for tax hikes on businesses and the richest Americans,” Bloomberg reports.
Said Trump: “Instead of a Biden tax hike, I’ll give you a Trump middle class, upper class, lower class, business class big tax cut.”
“Paul Manafort, the longtime political power broker who served as the 2016 chairman for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, is no longer planning to help manage this summer’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee,” the Washington Post reports.
“Manafort’s decision to step aside comes a day after The Washington Post reported that he had re-engaged in international consulting, including lending support to a media venture in China, after being pardoned by Trump for crimes related to money laundering and obstruction of justice.”
“The person on the other side of the aisle is not an enemy. They’re a fellow American. Our enemies are like Hamas and Hezbollah and the people who are trying to kill us. These are our political adversaries.”
— Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), quoted by The Hill.
Donald Trump predicts that if President Joe Biden is reelected in 2024, the result will be a bloodbath, World War III, "and everything else”—presumably meaning the basic human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, and mass hysteria.
This all sounds pretty bad. Except, this isn't the first time Trump made this kind of prediction.