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The articles and Facebook ad dollars look like the efforts of a run-of-the-mill political group. But they are actually from a news outlet: CourierNewsroom.com, also known as Courier, which was created and funded by the Democratic-aligned digital organization Acronym. Courier has spent over $1.4 million on Facebook ads this election cycle, mostly to promote its flattering articles and videos about more than a dozen endangered House Democrats at the top of the Democratic Party’s priority list this November, according to Facebook’s political ad tracker. … [Read more...] about Democrat Funded ‘News Outlet’ CourierNewsroom Floods Facebook with Election Ads

Facts First: "Very few ventilators" is less egregious than Trump's repeated claim that he was left no ventilators at all, but it's still misleading at best. According to a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, the Trump administration inherited about 19,000 ventilators from the Obama administration, including all 16,660 of the ones that were ready to be deployed as of March of this year; as of June 23, the Trump administration had distributed fewer than 11,000 ventilators. … [Read more...] about Fact check: Trump makes at least 19 false or misleading claims in wild anti-Biden monologue

That statue depicts President Abraham Lincoln holding the Emancipation Proclamation and a Black man kneeling at his feet who is newly freed from slavery. The statue has been the target of recent protests and even D.C. delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton called to remove the “problematic”  statue. … [Read more...] about Black conservatives kick off campaign to save Emancipation Memorial

“If you said the name ‘Macy’s’ more than you said the name ‘Breonna Taylor’ this week, you can very much fuck off,” he said. “Likewise, if you’re asking why a spontaneous decentralized protest can’t control every one of its participants more than you are asking the same of a taxpayer-funded heavy-regimented paid work force, you can also, in the words of this generation’s Robert Frost, ‘Suck my dick and choke on it. Fuck you.’” … [Read more...] about John Oliver Goes Nuclear on Trump for Invoking George Floyd: ‘Utterly F*cking Disgusting’

10:42 a.m. Former CDC directors blast Trump administration for politicizing pandemic: Four former heads of the CDC accused the Trump administration Tuesday of imperiling public health and lives by undermining CDC coronavirus response recommendations. In an op-ed in the Washington Post they wrote, “We cannot recall over our collective tenure a single time when political pressure led to a change in the interpretation of scientific evidence,” but, they said, the Trump administration has “cast public doubt” on CDC guidance relying on just such science. They specifically called out Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and said she “characterized the CDC guidelines as an impediment to reopening schools quickly rather than what they are: the path to doing so safely.” … [Read more...] about Coronavirus live updates: Bay Area hospitalizations jump to record 633 COVID-19 patients, death toll rises in 5 Bay Area counties