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Trump slams ‘stupid question’ from female reporter, calls April Ryan a ‘loser’

sudshr47 November 9, 2018

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Donald Trump is not backing down from personal attacks on reporters.

On Friday morning, before leaving on a trip to France to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, Trump stopped to speak to members of the press. He quickly lashed out at CNN’s Abby Phillip when she asked if the new interim Attorney General would try to rein in Robert Mueller’s investigation. Trump responded in a vicious tone, “What a stupid question. What a stupid question. But I watch you a lot and you ask a lot of stupid questions.”

In fact, Phillip’s question was not stupid — it was incredibly relevant as Matt Whitaker, who just took over as interim AG following the forced resignation of Jeff Sessions, has been highly critical of the Mueller investigation.  Read more…

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders shares doctored InfoWars video of Jim Acosta incident

sudshr47 November 8, 2018

The White House is spreading fake news.
On Wednesday, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted out an apparently doctored video of a testy interchange between President Trump and CNN reporter Jim Acosta during a post-election press conference. …

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White House shares manipulated Infowars video to justify CNN press ban

sudshr47 November 8, 2018

Read this slowly: The White House’s press secretary has tweeted a manipulated video shared by the editor-at-large of conspiracy theorist outlet Infowars to attempt to justify its decision to suspend the press credentials of CNN’s chief white house correspondent. CNN’s Jim Acosta had his press pass pulled by the White House earlier today after press secretary […]

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With $300M in new funding, Devoted Health launches its Medicare Advantage plan in Florida

sudshr47 October 16, 2018

Andreessen Horowitz has led the $300 million Series B, with participation from Premji Invest and Uprising.

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Trump has a corny painting of himself and former presidents hanging in the White House

sudshr47 October 15, 2018

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Art knows no bounds. That’s the only possible explanation for the reality-bending fantasy painting of President Donald Trump that now hangs in the White House, right?

The Andy Thomas painting, titled “The Republican Club,” features Trump and several former Republican presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon, and Teddy Roosevelt, chatting around a table.

oh my god, it’s hanging in the white house pic.twitter.com/wrq8eo7Bvx

— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) October 15, 2018

It was seen hanging on a wall of the White House in Trump’s 60 Minutes interview that aired Sunday and was mercilessly mocked online afterwards. Read more…

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Presidential alerts we really hope Trump won’t send…

sudshr47 October 4, 2018

Move over Twitter, President Trump now has the power to send every phone in the land a simultaneous message — thanks to the new “presidential alert”, tested by FEMA yesterday. What’s it for? The idea is to enable the president of the United States to warn the nation of major threats — such as a natural […]

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Protesters call on Salesforce to end contract with border patrol agency

sudshr47 September 25, 2018

A dozen or so people accompanied by a 14-foot, 800-pound cage gathered in downtown San Francisco Tuesday morning to protest Salesforce’s contract with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), the agency within the Department of Homeland Security responsible for enforcing the Trump Administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy. Today is the first day of Dreamforce, Salesforce’s annual user conference that […]

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White House says a draft executive order reviewing social media companies is not “official”

sudshr47 September 22, 2018

A draft executive order circulating around the White House “is not the result of an official White House policymaking process,” according to deputy White House press secretary, Lindsay Walters. According to a report in The Washington Post, Walters denied that White House staff had worked on a draft executive order that would require every federal agency to […]

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Trump expands tariffs on China by another $200 billion, threatens more

sudshr47 September 18, 2018

By this point, you should all know the drill. Another day, another massive tariff from the Trump administration. After rumors the past few weeks that the president was considering expanding tariffs to another $267 billion worth of imported goods from China, the administration announced today that it would expand them merely to another $200 billion […]

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African experiments with drone technologies could leapfrog decades of infrastructure neglect

sudshr47 September 16, 2018

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About that Omarosa book: This is what complicity looks like

sudshr47 August 15, 2018

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Everyone is the hero of their own story — but in telling that tale, people often reveal much more about themselves than they realize. That is true of autobiographies in general, and of Unhinged by Omarosa Manigault Newman more than most. 

The tell-all book, released Tuesday by the famous former reality show star and communications staffer, has plenty of beans to spill on the dysfunction and casual racism of Donald Trump and his White House. 

It’s also the story of how the kind of person who seems to think in soundbites could help elect and participate in such an administration without ever really knowing what she was doing. And how, even after reflecting for a year, that person thinks she can avoid doing much soul-searching about her role.  Read more…

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CNN reporter walks out of press briefing after heated exchange with Sarah Huckabee Sanders

sudshr47 August 2, 2018

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The Trump administration hasn’t been on the best of terms with the media lately, to put it lightly.

On Thursday, CNN’s Jim Acosta walked out of a White House press briefing after Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to confirm that the press corps is not the “enemy of the people,” as Trump has repeatedly called them in the past.

“…You read off a laundry list of your concerns about the press and things you feel like are misreported,” Acosta told Sanders. “You did not say that you feel like the press is not the enemy of the people. I think it would be a good thing if you were to say, right here, at the briefing, that the press … are not the enemy of the people.” Read more…

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