Posts by Kim Browne
Oklahoma Plans to Test Out-of-State Teachers for Wokeness
Oklahoma’s Education Department has approved plans to force teachers from California or New York to pass an ideology test to ensure that they aren’t too “woke” before they hire them. The test was created by right-wing think-tank Prager University, which has made headlines recently for developing education material that minimizes American slavery. It features 50…
Read MoreKaroline Leavitt Can’t Explain Why Trump Is So Optimistic About Putin
On Monday, President Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic saying that he thought Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to make a deal “for him,” to end the war on Ukraine. When a reporter asked Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday what led Trump to that conclusion, she offered a meandering nonanswer. ‘Well, the…
Read MoreTexas Dems Resort to Wild Measure to Protest Fascist Surveillance
Texas is treating Democratic representatives like convicted felons for trying to stop the GOP’s illegal gerrymandering efforts. Republican House Speaker Dustin Burrows is forcing every Democrat to stay with a state trooper at all times if they want to exit the House chamber, in response to their leaving Texas to protest Governor Greg Abbott’s redistricting…
Read MoreThe Projector owes S$1.2 million to creditors; Golden Mile cinema put up for rent
[SINGAPORE] The company behind embattled cinema chain The Projector owes creditors S$1.2 million, including close to S$90,000 to almost 2,300 of its members, The Business Times has learnt. In an e-mail to creditors on Tuesday (Aug 19) night, the company, Pocket Cinema, said that a creditor meeting has been set for Aug 29 at 2.30…
Read MoreCapitaLand Investment to advise Malaysian developer Astaka on retail strategy for RM1.2 billion Johor development
The project is expected to benefit from the formation of the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone [SINGAPORE] CapitaLand Investment (CLI) will provide retail advisory services to Malaysian property developer Astaka Holdings for a new mixed-use project in Johor worth RM1.2 billion (S$364.5 million) in gross development value. The project will comprise a lifestyle mall with 300,000 square…
Read MoreTranscript: Trump Lets Slip Dark Truth About His Plot to Rig Midterms
Daley: Here we go again, right? This is all of Donald Trump’s favorite lines about election fraud, about vote by mail, about how the 2020 election was stolen from him. And once again, all of these lines have no basis in reality. There is no truth to any of it. Whenever Republicans are asked to…
Read MoreHow To Cope With The Aftermath Of A Surgical Error
“After all these years, why has patient safety not improved?” So starts an editorial by Helen Haskell, president of the nonprofit group Mothers Against Medical Error. A mother who lost her son to complications of his sunken chest surgery, Haskell published the editorial in 2024 following a Harvard study that year that revealed over a…
Read MoreTrump Is Still Convinced Putin Wants to Make a Deal With Him
WUSA9 reported Sunday that restaurants in the nation’s capital saw a more than 25 percent dip in reservations in the days after Trump federalized the city’s police forces. Trump also deployed scores of federal forces and National Guardsmen to the city, giving them license to do “whatever the hell they want”—but apparently, that didn’t include…
Read MoreTrump Keeps Moving His Own Goalposts in Ukraine Peace Talks
WUSA9 reported Sunday that restaurants in the nation’s capital saw a more than 25 percent dip in reservations in the days after Trump federalized the city’s police forces. Trump also deployed scores of federal forces and National Guardsmen to the city, giving them license to do “whatever the hell they want”—but apparently, that didn’t include…
Read MoreTrump’s Attempt to Flex for Putin Is Already Backfiring
President Donald Trump wanted his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska last week to be a grand display of power in an attempt to pressure the Russian autocrat into a ceasefire. Instead, for some, it came off as an act of fealty to one of the world’s most detested leaders. “Look at what…
Read MoreTranscript: Trump Has Put Regulations on Companies “in a Coma”
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 18 episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch this interview here. Perry Bacon: Good morning. This is Perry Bacon. I’m here, right now, for The New Republic’s show about politics and policy. I’m honored to be joined today by Rohit Chopra. He…
Read MoreMarco Rubio Admits Trump Utterly Failed at Negotiating With Putin
Organizations are ranked on the sheet as strong, moderate, or low, Axios reported Friday, with ratings built off social media posts, press releases, video testimonials, ads, White House event attendance, and other budget law–oriented efforts. The data is being circulated among White House senior staff as a temperature gauge on how to interact with companies…
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