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Watch Fox’s Shepard Smith Debunk Trump’s False Claims Scrubbing Russia Of Involvement In The US Elec

To my friends on the right and those who support Trump. Is Shep smith a democratic shill also? Is Fox News biased against republicans?

Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations

ICE contracted with Palantir, founded by Trump adviser Peter Thiel, to create an intelligence-sharing database used to track and deport immigrants. (via Transition Adviser Peter Thiel Could Directly Profit From Mass Deportations) The swamp just got ten feet deeper.

How to help the rust belt: Let’s relocate a bunch of government agencies to the Midwest

Time to shift economic activity from the overcrowded coasts to places that need more of it. (via Let’s relocate a bunch of government agencies to the Midwest – Vox) This would help the rust belt.

Nearly a third of Republicans don’t know that Trump lost the popular vote

This will be sent down the memory hole, like Saddam and 9/11. Republicans will just know that Trump won the popular vote, actual facts be damned.

Investors think Trump’s giving SoftBank regulatory favors in exchange for a nice press release – Vox

Hints of systematic corruption. (via Investors think Trump’s giving SoftBank regulatory favors in exchange for a nice press release – Vox) Worth a read. This is not normal. In any other administration, this would be a huge scandal. Under Trump this is being played off as an ethical rounding error.

Divesting the Trump commercial holdings how about Congressional insider trading? – Marginal REVOLUTION

Yes, I absolutely favor enforcing clear commercial conflict of interest regulations on any president, if only for reasons of perception and legitimacy. But may I quote Alex T. from way back when (2010, the rest of the passage is him note I am not double indenting)? Bloomberg: Your senator learns that a much- maligned weapons… Continue reading Divesting the Trump commercial holdings how about Congressional insider trading? – Marginal REVOLUTION

Secret CIA assessment says Russia was trying to help Trump win White House

These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history.“

Both of these statements are false.

The CIA didn’t say Saddam had WMD. That was the Bush 43 White house.

And his EC victory was the weakest since Bush 43 in 2000. It wasn’t a landslide.

Giving poor people cash gets them to spend more on good stuff and less on tobacco and alcohol — Quartz

Not one of the 19 studies found that cash grants increase tobacco and alcohol consumption and many of them found that it leads to a reduction. … They don’t squander it. (via Giving poor people cash gets them to spend more on good stuff and less on tobacco and alcohol — Quartz)

The Professor Watchlist Gets an F for Accuracy

This is what political correctness actually looks like. It’s a group of people attempting to control what is taught by enforcing speech codes in an attempt to band ideas that bother them. But since it’s coming from the right, it isn’t being labeled as political correctness.

And the proponents of campus free speech who were so outraged about every little safe space and trigger warning argument will be silent about this because their outrage was never about a threat to free speech.