Governors across the country have been frustrated for the past two days with the Trump administration’s inept distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine created by Pfizer-BioNTech. They say the number of doses they expected was cut by nearly half in some cases, and they were left in the dark as to …
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The Federal Trade Commission, along with 46 states and two territories, has accused Facebook of being a “social networking monopoly” and purchasing competitors, like Instagram and WhatsApp, to maintain their monopoly. The allegations were outlined in a lawsuit filed Wednesday. “For nearly a decade, Facebook has used its dominance and …
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“I think I was making my coffee. I had just bought this French press and I was so excited to use it,” says Jorge Gutierrez, who was at home in Los Angeles with his partner this past Saturday, when his phone started blowing up. “There was sort of that sense …
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In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by author and tech entrepreneur Antonio García Martínez. Katie and Matt break down a contentious interview with Wolf Blitzer and Nancy Pelosi, which derailed when Blitzer questioned the reasoning for stalling the potential HEROES Act …
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Dr. Anthony Fauci’s displeasure with the news that he may, again, be used in a Trump presidential campaign ad was palpable during a Monday appearance on CNN. When host Jake Tapper told the nation’s top infectious disease expert about his reporting regarding the Trump team’s plans to do another ad …
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Fox News Sunday host and moderator of this week’s disastrous presidential debate, Chris Wallace, blamed the president for what turned out to be a dumpster fire event during a Thursday interview with Fox’s Bill Hemmer. Wallace jokingly told Hemmer that he’d “just gotten over post-traumatic stress disorder and now you’ve …
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You can tell a lot about a millionaire by how he spreads his money around. In the case of Louis DeJoy — the GOP megadonor now threatening the integrity of the 2020 election as Postmaster General by slowing deliveries and destroying mail-sorting equipment in swing states — he’s offered consistent …
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In this week’s quarantine episode of our Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts, Alex Morse, who discusses the recent controversy around his campaign for Congress. First, Matt and Katy discuss the Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion song “WAP,” and …
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For the second time in as many weeks, Vice President Mike Pence refused to utter the words Black lives matter. And this time, as part of his rationale, he used the name of the Civil Rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., twisting King’s words and legacy to justify his …
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The Supreme Court has ruled the Trump Administration violated federal law when it rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, created by President Obama in 2012. DACA granted temporary legal status to approximately 700,000 immigrants brought to the United States as children. That status was thrown into question by …
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