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China's lunar probe plants a flag on the far side of the moon, sends samples back toward Earth Beijing — China said its lunar spacecraft unfurled the country's red and gold flag for the first time on the far side of the moon before part of the vehicle blasted off early Tuesday with rock and ... 06/3/2024 - 11:34 pm | View Link
Security tight in Hong Kong and China on Tiananmen crackdown anniversary Security was tight and access restricted to Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Tuesday, the 35th anniversary of the June 4 crackdown, while Hong Kong police detained several activists, as cities in Taiwan ... 06/3/2024 - 9:47 pm | View Link
Damning new report finds China lab leak most likely source of COVID-19 — and blames US for pumping millions into the dangerous research the co-author of “Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19,” wrote. Her findings paint an alarming picture of how the virus was sourced in China, supercharged for maximum infectiousness with US ... 06/3/2024 - 8:55 am | View Link
Chakwera emphasizes on the restoration of the lost factories LILONGWE-(MANA)-President Lazarus Chakwera says his government is working on restoring factories and banks, that were sold by previous government, as one way of co ... 06/1/2024 - 8:13 pm | View Link
The judge overseeing Alex Jones’ bankruptcy case threw him a bone yesterday, saying he could continue operating his media company over the next few weeks before the decision is made on whether it should be liquidated. Via the Daily Beast:
Jones has been ordered to pay $1.5 billion to the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School after they won lawsuits in Texas and Connecticut claiming he’d defamed them and caused them emotional distress.
Witnesses in the various criminal cases against the former president have gotten pay raises, new jobs and more. If any benefits were intended to influence testimony, that could be a crime. (Knowing Trump, what do you think?) Via ProPublica:
Nine witnesses in the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, and a grant of shares and cash from Trump’s media company.
The benefits have flowed from Trump’s businesses and campaign committees, according to a ProPublica analysis of public disclosures, court records and securities filings.
The newspaper that's converted more people to conspiracy theories than any other outlet might be in deep doo-doo. The Epoch Times, a formerly free newspaper distributed on the streets of New York that focuses on conspiracist, right-wing takes and reports that are extremely critical of the Chinese Communist Party, successfully expanded its operation on YouTube and Facebook, reaching millions of Americans with pro-Trump clickbait and batshit crazy misinformation.
Pardoned convicted felon Michael Flynn ranted at the Christian nationalist Reawaken America forum that to fix America we need to have only one religion: his version of Christianity.
CNN's Jim Acosta and Carl Bernstein were horrified by his words and couldn't believe he was Trump's first national security advisor.
JIM ACOSTA, CNN: Former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who is also facing a January 6th subpoena.
Mock Paper Scissors: The laddies doth protest too much.
Darwinfish2: Each one of these issues is important enough for the election.
Emptywheel: Trump undone by the truth of his Pecker.
Teri Kanefield: All about appeals.
Equal Justice Initiative: The execution of Jamie Mills.
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Forrest Gump once said, "I'm not a smart man, but I do know what love is." Well, Rudy Giuliani *really* isn't a smart man, and judging by his 3 divorces, doesn't seem to know too much about love either.
But man can the chode humiliate himself in service of Donald Trump.