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Feb 15 2021
Background
Conspiracy theories, misinformation, COVID-19, and the 2020 election
Democrats and Republicans both believe in conspiracy theories, but different ones.
Sixty percent of Democrats believe Russia has damaging information about Donald Trump, a belief shared by only one in three Americans overall. A majority (59 percent) of Republicans are convinced that there has been a coordinated effort by “unelected government officials” to undermine the Trump
American Enterprise Institute
Jul 13 2021
News
G.O.P. Lawmakers Question Amazon’s Connections on Pentagon Contract
As the Defense Department prepares to solicit bids for cloud-computing work that could yield billions of dollars for Amazon, members of Congress are raising new questions about the company’s efforts to win a $10 billion contract during the Trump administration.
Previously unreleased emails show that Pentagon officials in 2017 and 2018 lavished praise on several of the tech executives
New York Times (News)
Aug 24 2020
News
Rioters Devastate Kenosha: Businesses Destroyed, Cars Torched
Violent riots broke out in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Sunday night after police shot a black man earlier in the day while responding to a call about a domestic incident.
Journalist Drew Hernandez posted video footage on Twitter of the riots, which he said were being led by Black Lives Matter activists. The videos show businesses being looted and set on fire.
Wisconsin Democratic
The Daily Wire
Sep 17 2020
Fact Check
Neil Cavuto Fact Checks Biden's Coronavirus Presser
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden gave another doomsday speech on Wednesday about the coronavirus, again taking a chance to downplay President Trump's optimistic take on how we'll be able to emerge from this crisis. Echoing his sunny keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, Biden informed the American electorate that despite what the president says, "no miracle is coming
Townhall
Jan 19 2021
News
Pompeo Declares China’s Crackdown on Uighurs ‘Genocide’
With less than 24 hours left in office, the Trump administration on Tuesday declared that China’s violent repression against its Uighur population constituted a genocide, following widespread condemnation of the Chinese government’s campaign of mass internment, forced labor, forced sterilization, and other human rights violations against more than 1 million Muslim minorities.
The move
Foreign Policy
Apr 02 2021
News
Border Crisis
“The Biden administration for the first time Tuesday allowed journalists inside its main border detention facility for migrant children, revealing a severely overcrowded tent structure where more than 4,000 people, including children and families, were crammed into a space intended for 250…
“The Biden administration has continued expelling adults who try to cross the border under a
The Flip Side
Dec 20 2021
Opinion
Convincing the Skeptics
Published July 16, 2021: There’s no doubt that vaccination rates have hit a wall of skepticism: 48.5 percent of the population is fully vaccinated, and 56.1 percent have had at least one dose of the vaccine. This is consistent with opinion surveys earlier this year showing roughly 40 percent of the public as wary or skeptical about the vaccines. A wave of outreach has begun to get vaccination
Michael Brendan Dougherty
May 05 2020
News
General Election Update
As of Monday evening, with six months until the General Election, former Vice President Joe Biden holds a 5.3-point lead over President Donald Trump in national polls. (RealClearPolitics)
The left is optimistic about beating Trump despite some reservations about Biden, and calls for increased use of mail-in ballots due to the pandemic.
The right argues that the coronavirus has
The Flip Side
Author
Hasan Piker
About Hasan Piker Hasan Piker is a Turkish-American leftist political commentator and Twitch streamer. Piker's Twitch channel, Hasanabi, had over 2 million followers as of April 2022, and his near-daily streams often reach over 30,000 live viewers. Piker's Twitch channel temporarily became the most popular on the platform during the 2020 election.
Jun 15 2021
News
The one Biden priority Democrats are confident they can get done
Democrats are surprisingly confident about at least one item on President Joe Biden’s agenda: confirming judges.
After four years of watching Senate Republicans install more than 220 of former President Donald Trump’s picks on the federal bench, Democrats are ramping up their approvals of Biden's nominees. The Senate on Monday confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace now-
Politico