Posts by Kim Browne
The Biggest Criminal in D.C. Right Now Is Trump
The ironies ricochet in every direction. The only reason we don’t see Trump referred to regularly in print as a convicted felon is that the word felon offends civil libertarians; the nation’s most powerful scourge against wokeism turns out, preposterously, to be its greatest beneficiary. Trump is nobody’s idea of a Jean Valjean, not even…
Read MoreRepublican Rep’s Town Hall Goes Sideways as Voters Demand Impeachment
On Monday, Representative Doug LaMalfa of California became the latest Republican to face furious constituents, at an in-person town hall in Chico. Many Republicans haven’t held such events for months—GOP leaders advised lawmakers to avoid them earlier this year—so the handful who’ve decided to break the advised embargo in recent weeks have endured fierce confrontations…
Read MoreOops! FBI Chief Undermines Trump’s Main Reason for Taking Over D.C.
The Trump administration is deploying the National Guard to Washington over a supposed “public safety emergency”—but it can’t seem to iron out its reason for doing so. Mere moments after the president claimed Monday that federalization of Washington’s law enforcement was warranted on the basis that the city was a crime-riddled hellscape, FBI Director Kash…
Read MoreFLCT prices S$100 million notes due 2034 at 2.45%
The notes, rated “BBB+” by S&P, will be issued on Aug 15 under the Reit’s S$1 billion multi-currency debt issuance programme [SINGAPORE] Frasers Logistics & Commercial Trust (FLCT) is offering S$100 million in fixed-rate notes due 2034 at 2.45 per cent, its manager said on Monday (Aug 11). They will be issued on Aug 15…
Read MoreTrump’s Reckless Assault on Remembrance
Americans will encounter the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026 through four distinct but intertwined forms of remembrance: commemoration, celebration, memory, and history. The four perspectives constantly shift and interconnect, often in surprising ways. Celebration recalls the highest ideals and greatest accomplishments of the nation’s story, finding patriotism in common purpose and…
Read MoreHearing of Hyflux founder and ex-CEO Olivia Lum, ex-CFO and directors starts Monday
[SINGAPORE] The trial of Hyflux founder and former chief executive Olivia Lum, its ex-chief financial officer (CFO), and four independent directors is slated to begin on Monday (Aug 11). Their trial comes after former director Rajsekar Kuppuswami Mitta, 68, was fined S$90,000 and barred from holding any directorship following his guilty plea on Thursday over…
Read MoreRFK’s War on Antidepressants Will Hit Postpartum Patients Hard
“It got to the point where I was just panicked, and my whole body hurt and ached from the stress. And I just broke down,” she said. She’d taken online quizzes about postpartum depression, but found that particular shoe to be ill-fitting. Without much more to go on, she simply didn’t know what was wrong.…
Read MoreIt Sure Looks Like Pete Hegseth Doesn’t Think Women Should Vote
“In fact, where are the journalists even asking them to make a statement, OK?” she continued. “A state leader—a state leader is speaking about your constituent, and launching a lawsuit and saying they’re gonna impoverish them for executing a First Amendment right. Where are you? If you are Trump, the first thing you should have…
Read MoreTrump Is Axing IRS Head After Just Two Months on the Job
“In fact, where are the journalists even asking them to make a statement, OK?” she continued. “A state leader—a state leader is speaking about your constituent, and launching a lawsuit and saying they’re gonna impoverish them for executing a First Amendment right. Where are you? If you are Trump, the first thing you should have…
Read MoreCandace Owens Loses It Over Trump’s Silence on Macron Lawsuit
“In fact, where are the journalists even asking them to make a statement, OK?” she continued. “A state leader—a state leader is speaking about your constituent, and launching a lawsuit and saying they’re gonna impoverish them for executing a First Amendment right. Where are you? If you are Trump, the first thing you should have…
Read MoreJustice Department Takes Revenge on One of Trump’s Top Enemies
The Justice Department has opened an investigation into New York State Attorney General Letitia James, in an apparent act of Trumpian retribution. Two grand jury subpoenas were issued to James’s office, requesting information pertaining to the Attorney General’s previous investigations into the Trump Organization and the National Rifle Association, reported CNN. The subpoenas are related…
Read MoreTexas Is the Dry Run for the GOP’s Dismantling of Electoral Democracy
They know what they’re doing. In his opening remarks, King outlined his reasons for sponsoring the bill: “My first objective is to create a plan that will elect five more Republicans to the U.S. Congress.” If this sounds scandalous to you, it’s because you are correctly drawing the connection between GOP seats and decreasing representation…
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