Showing posts with label Trump. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trump. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
States Already Have a Good Way to Ensure Election Integrity—and MAGA Hates It – Mother Jones
“Conspiracy theorists targeted ERIC. Apparently, it was working too well for them,” Becker, also the founder and director of the “fiercely nonpartisan” Center for Election Innovation and Research, recalled at a CEIR press briefing on Friday. “They spread lies about me,” he said, and “They spread lies about ERIC’s funding, what ERIC does, how ERIC works. We continue to see that.”…
Trump tries to kill regulations on 'HOAX' AI dangers - POLITICO
The president is trying to shut down a growing push for AI regulation, amid calls from leaders to slow the production of artificial intelligence…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/14/donald-trump-ai-regulation-pushback-01074230
Carney eyes ‘unique alliance’ with EU as Trump trade war strains Canada’s US ties – POLITICO
“We share the same values, we have the same priorities and we have very complementary strengths,” the Canadian prime minister told reporters in Toronto.
https://www.politico.eu/article/canada-mark-carney-eyes-unique-alliance-with-eu/
Trump targets this city's groundbreaking reparations program : NPR
Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss rejects the claim that the city is handing out money based only on race.
"Deliberate decisions were made that sent property values of property owned by white folks up, and property values owned by Black folks down. And that created a wealth gap that is felt today," Biss said. "This is a program that is trying to undo the consequences of racial discrimination."…
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/14/nx-s1-5869793/evanston-illinois-reparations-trump-administration
Former EPA Officials: Trump Is Letting Data Centers Make People Sick – Mother Jones
“Over the decades, toxicologists, chemists, atmospheric scientists, modelers and engineers worked in concert with academic colleagues on behalf of the American people—not on behalf of industry,” Costa said in a press briefing last week. “We wanted to carry out EPA’s mission of protecting people’s health from industrial air pollution.”
Now, though, that work force has been gutted. The Trump administration has dismantled EPA’s main research office, and the agency’s priorities have shifted away from strict enforcement of pollution standards. “Transforming the nation’s energy system, while diminishing its scientific capacity to understand what the impacts are going to be, makes no sense,” Costa said…
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/trump-epa-data-centers-epn-report-health-hazards/
US ‘super-emitters’ of planet heating methane identified by satellite analysis
Energy Transfer, whose CEO is a major Trump donor, named as biggest single methane producer in new rankings…
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/14/us-companies-methane-pollution-rankings
Monday, September 14, 2026
The Grand Conspiracy (Andrew McCabe and Allison Gill; Unjustified podcast)
European prosecutors investigating Epstein coconspirators say the US Department of Justice has ignored requests for assistance.
Joe DiGenova abruptly resigned from his post at the US Attorney's office in Miami where he was investigating the non-existent grand conspiracy against Donald Trump.
The contractor that renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has told the Trump administration that errors in its own work and flaws in the repair plan, not vandalism, caused the pool’s new blue liner to peel and break loose.
The chief of the Civil Rights Division at Main Justice has sent 29 letters to secretaries of state ordering them to preserve 2024 election materials and informing them that they’re under investigation.
Plus listener questions.
Interview:
Joe DiGenova abruptly resigned from his post at the US Attorney's office in Miami where he was investigating the non-existent grand conspiracy against Donald Trump.
The contractor that renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has told the Trump administration that errors in its own work and flaws in the repair plan, not vandalism, caused the pool’s new blue liner to peel and break loose.
The chief of the Civil Rights Division at Main Justice has sent 29 letters to secretaries of state ordering them to preserve 2024 election materials and informing them that they’re under investigation.
Plus listener questions.
Interview:
Taxes wouldn’t fund $5,000 Trump ‘dividend’ if Republicans win midterms, says commerce secretary
Lutnick said $500bn of estimated $1tn needed to fund checks to all US adults could come from new visa program…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/12/trump-midterm-dividend-funding
Sunday, September 13, 2026
Weekly Roundup: 9/11, Mamdani, and MAGA's Holy War (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Brad breaks down Donald Trump’s false claims about his experience that day, Rudy Giuliani’s attacks on Mayor Zohran Mamdani for attending the memorial as a Muslim, and newly released documents showing NYC officials knew Ground Zero air was toxic but told the public otherwise.
Then Brad welcomes former CIA officer Holly Berkley Fletcher to unpack how the “national malaise” of the 1990s — after the Cold War ended and the country turned inward — set the stage for 9/11 to be reframed not as a fight against a terrorist group, but as a civilizational battle against Islam itself. They trace how that shift accelerated Christian nationalism, fractured America’s foreign policy consensus, and set the country on a path that runs through the Iraq War, January 6th, and the rise of MAGA Christianity today.
Interview:
Then Brad welcomes former CIA officer Holly Berkley Fletcher to unpack how the “national malaise” of the 1990s — after the Cold War ended and the country turned inward — set the stage for 9/11 to be reframed not as a fight against a terrorist group, but as a civilizational battle against Islam itself. They trace how that shift accelerated Christian nationalism, fractured America’s foreign policy consensus, and set the country on a path that runs through the Iraq War, January 6th, and the rise of MAGA Christianity today.
Interview:
Saturday, September 12, 2026
WATCH: Trump leads RNC in pledge to 'cheat like hell' in November elections | PBS News
After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that "we want honesty in our elections," he led them in a pledge to "cheat like hell" and "go out and vote" in the midterm elections…
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