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The Washington Post’s Double Standard: Brooke Pinto Can Party with Trump, But Janeese Lewis George Can’t Attend a Colleague’s Birthday

Investigative Reports

[ad_1] For FAIR, I looked at how Schwartzman went after lefty DC mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George for the sin of attending her DC Council colleague’s birthday picnic. The colleague, Trayon White Sr., faces federal bribery charges (a case I wrote about previously). Meanwhile Schwartzman’s approach to covering the race for DC delegate, DC’s mostly nonvoting member of Congress, has been markedly different. In that race, Schwartzman lets candidate Brooke Pinto shape the narrative surrounding her partying with a figure far more toxic to DC voters than White — Donald Trump. Pinto’s top opponent — fellow DC council member Robert…

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Judge Ross Did Not Even Sign Her First Apology Letter

Politics & Policy

[ad_1] This story keeps getting weirder. @Jimmy_Esq flags the fact that Judge Ross writes like a toddler. The problem is worse. Here is her signature on the May 29 letter: That is fourth grade penmanship. And here is her signature on the June 11 letter: That is an adult’s signature. And here is Ross’s digital signature from the Raffensperger case (an order she certainly didn’t read):   The signatures on May 29 and June 11 are totally different. The May 29 signature includes “Judge” as a her first name. Who does that?? In the second letter has initial “E.” The…

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The AI Bubble Monitor: The Lay of the Land

Investigative Reports

[ad_1] Still from Ex Machina. The US economy has had two major bubbles in the last three decades. There are signs that we are in the midst of a third. In the late 1990s there was a tech bubble, driven to a large extent by excitement over the potential of the Internet. This drove stock prices to a peak value of 43.8 times earnings (known as the price-to-earnings ratio, or P/E), according to the calculations of Nobel Prize- winning economist Robert Shiller. This bubble began to burst in March of 2000. The S&P lost almost 50 percent of its value at…

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Eight Conspirators … Threatened University of Michigan Officials, Businesses, and the Jewish Federation

Political Spin

[ad_1] From a Justice Department press release Wednesday: “… In the dead of night, masked and hooded defendants allegedly threw noxious chemicals through the windows of families’ homes and taped demand letters to their front doors….,” said Jennifer Runyan, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Detroit Field Office. After the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, the defendants and unindicted conspirators enacted a series of coordinated “actions” threatening University of Michigan leaders, law enforcement, and businesses. Seemingly prompted by their perception of the University of Michigan’s and other victims’ purported financial support of Israel, the conspirators insisted…

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Inflation Is Not Going Away

Conspiracy Theories

[ad_1] The latest PCE inflation report confirmed exactly what I have warned. Inflation was never “transitory,” and the Federal Reserve has completely lost control of the narrative. The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, core PCE, rose 3.3% annually in April, up from 3.2% in March and well above the Fed’s mythical 2% target. Headline PCE inflation accelerated to 3.8%, the highest level in roughly three years. The government and mainstream economists will immediately try to calm everyone by saying the monthly core increase was “only” 0.2%. They are playing games with statistics because they know the public is scared. The reality…

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