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..Access Hollywood tape...E. Jean Carroll vs. Donald Trump... Karen McDougal...Stormy Daniels....pageant dressing room "visits"... on and on.

A Donald Trump connection to convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein also was generally well-known prior to 2024.

..NOW some of you are agitated and dismayed ..?? (..For whatever strange reasons..) Know it: 99%-100% certain that we would be getting NONE of this slimy garbage with President Kamala Harris (or family guy Joe Biden). Way, way too many of you actually voted a known sleaze-bag in to the highest government office in the land. (Yeah: Not too much of the Trump (otherwise) well-known smarmy-ness made it onto 'Faux News'..)

..Just more evidence that, collectively, this is no longer a serious or sane, or smart country ↓anymore..

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..Sleazy Trump worms his way out of this current mess ..? ..Also more evidence that there is some kind of amoral *cult* in place here..)

(One example: Sane + sound U.S. leadership:)


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YT video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA9CA3nOou0

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↓ ..We will be using AI models for fact-checking more often here. ...Will learn if the technology can keep up with the never-ceasing torrent of Trump lies:

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Source article link: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ai/

...7/6/25: Let's start off fact-checking a top Trump admin. misleading 'spin-meister': "ICE Barbie Dodges Blame for Disastrous Texas Flooding on Trump’s Watch" (Ref.: Off-site article link:) https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-barbie-kristi-noem-dodges-blame-for-disastrous-texas-flooding-on-trumps-watch/

↓↓↓Reposted partial screen-grab of AI evaluation summary of Noem's claims. (Image source is linked:)

7/10/25 reposted article. Yet more...courtesy of the Trump clown car "cabinet" 🤡🤡🤡: "ICE Barbie Delayed Texas Aid While Asking Instagram Which Portrait to Order"

Unaffiliated source link: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-barbies-new-spending-rule-delayed-fema-response-to-texas-floods-cnn/

7/12/25 reports: 🤡🤡🤡🤡 ↓..Worse and worse.. (Recall Donald Trump's history of bashing governors and other administrations about FEMA's disaster responses:)
"'Horrific': Thousands of flood survivors called for aid — but FEMA didn’t answer"


Source article link: https://www.rawstory.com/fema-2673142115/

↓Also: Reposted 7/12/25 AI fact-check summary, per ChatGPT.com:

"In **short**: yes, FEMA did **not** answer thousands of calls during and just after the Texas floods, and the main reason was a **bureaucratic delay in renewing call‑center contracts** under new spending controls mandated by Noem."

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🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 P.S...An actual reported quotation from a supposed "leader" ...someone above you and me..(??):

"“These contracts were in place, and those people were in those call centers, and they were picking up the phone and answering these calls from these individuals. So that report needs to be validified,” Noem said, making up a new word — “validified.”"

(Source article link:) https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/texas-fema-calls-kristi-noem-fake-news-1235384583/

Insert: ↓Excerpts from a plausible explanation for Kristi Noem, and those of her kind:

"...In the world of MAGA, stupidity is a badge of honor for both sexes, but the heads of women need to be thoroughly empty. Book learning, in MAGA-land, is for lesbians and cat ladies. Intelligence gets in the way of the true duties of MAGA womanhood: keeping up your highly artificial appearance and, crucially, defending the man you serve with your whole heart and soul. Especially if said man, in this case Donald Trump, is himself dumber than a box of rocks. It's so much easier to be a yes-woman for such a man if you turn your own brain off completely..."

"...The 20th-century version of the "bimbo" was dim, but almost always good-hearted, exhibiting a childlike generosity to others. The innovation of the MAGA movement, however, is to make the bimbo a nasty figure, as cruel as she is dumb. In the past, what men wanted from a bimbo was someone with dog-like loyalty. For the right-wing man of our time, the craving is more for an attack dog, someone who will charge in to fight your battles, unconstrained by intellectual concerns about whether doing so makes sense."


Unaffiliated source article link: https://www.salon.com/2025/05/23/kristi-noems-proud-maga-bimbo-act-builds-on-the-legacy-of-sarah-palin/


P.P.S. (Excerpt:) ..↓Pretty much all that anyone needs need to know about (too) many current U.S. Republicans:

"A group of Republican lawmakers has complained that smoke from Canadian wildfires is ruining summer for Americans, just days after voting for a major bill that will cause more of the planet-heating pollution that is worsening wildfires."


(Source article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/republicans-canada-wildfire-complaint-letter)

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(↓Off-site article link:)

"USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years, researchers say"


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↓7/15/25 excerpt:

"The Trump administration has ordered 500 metric tons of emergency food aid—enough to feed 1.5 million malnourished children for a week—to be incinerated tomorrow rather than be distributed as part of its ongoing purge of USAID. The high-energy biscuits, intended for children under five living in war and disaster zones, are currently being stored in a warehouse in Dubai and were meant to be shipped out this year, but will instead go to waste due to cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effectively halting nearly all forms of foreign aid. Current and former aid workers, speaking anonymously for fear of retaliation, told The Atlantic that the sheer scale of waste is unprecedented."

Source link: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-to-incinerate-500-tons-of-emergency-food-for-children/

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..Hey, Mr. Stephen Miller, Xenophobe+: Please NOTE ..."Americans have made a U-turn on immigration since 2024 election"

Source article link: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/11/trump-immigration-crackdown-poll-00448342

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HINT:..NOT at a tin-pot dictator's silly + wa$teful (..up to $45 million cost) vanity parade. 6/13/25 update: ..It's likely going to be millions of people, despite bad weather in some forecasts..

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..↓6/14/25: Just a couple of representative photos from approx. 2000 separate protests..:
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..↓'Sparse-ness' of "crowd".. ..Desperate to leave..?
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YT video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GscjJWIS9VU



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..Now ↓this↓ cruel zillionaire crazy (..but he is 100% correct, below..) may think of running for president..😱 (Musk is not a natural U.S.-born citizen.. So, NO.) 🥳🥳

(↓6/3/25 copy, no affiliation:)

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Off-site article link: https://www.axios.com/2025/06/02/us-treasury-auction-debt-interest-rates
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(Reposted 5/20/25 video. No affiliation:)


YT video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMB5OdzKsVg&ab_channel=GOPFootage

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(Off-site link:)"Attack of the Sadistic Zombies"

Also credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbzXaL5aYVo&ab_channel=MSNBC
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↓..Only re-posting two samples from the near-infinite Trump vileness continuum. Copies, no affiliation:



BTW: (5/26/25) ↓INSANITY..The real, actual SCUM name-calling non-scum people 'scum'... (etc.)This isn't normal. ..What if Joe Biden or Barack Obama - or anyone - did this (repeatedly)?? (↓Reposted false GARBAGE:)


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Your first question (..next time): Is the candidate mentally stable? ..Basically sane??

Screen-captured image, April 2025. No copyright, no affiliation. Linked to source
MORE, 4/27/25: "Poll: Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades" (https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/politics/approval-rating-trump-100-days/index.html)

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Unaffiliated 2/23/25 source article:https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20250223176/warren-buffett-warning-of-scoundrels-and-fiscal-folly-slashes-his-exposure-to-us-stocks
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2/9/25 article excerpt:

"..The second Trump administration’s brazen pattern of blowing through myriad apparent legal limits has prompted debate about its intentions. One theory is that it is deliberately setting up test cases that would ultimately pave the way for the Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed supermajority to expand presidential power by striking down the statutes as unconstitutional.

But the escalating pace of courtroom clashes has raised the question of what would happen if Mr. Trump simply started ignoring decisions he did not like, rather than appealing them. The result would be a constitutional crisis."


Unaffiliated source link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/us/politics/vance-trump-federal-courts-executive-order.html

2/10/25 update: "Judge finds Trump administration violated court order halting funding freeze"(Off-site link:) https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-finds-trump-administration-violated-court-order-halting-funding-rcna191528

(>>>>A couple of suggested links for taking some action. No direct affiliation here: https://democracyforward.org/, and, https://www.fiftyfifty.one/)

...Selected 2/2025 polling result: "Overwhelming majority of Americans say Trump should follow federal court rulings"
(Source link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-poll-unpopular-post-ipsos/)

↑Public domain photo, edited. "Office of Speaker Mike Johnson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons"

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Reposted 1/21/25 news story (link): "Trump grants sweeping pardon of Jan. 6 defendants, including rioters who violently attacked police"
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'“We won in a landslide,” Trump claims, again. In fact, he won the popular vote by just 1.5 percentage points, one of the smallest margins of victory since the 19th century."
Unaffiliated source link for ↑quotation: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/16/us/trump-news/65fa139e-2785-5caa-9e35-272e582b00b1?smid=url-share. Also: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-fact-checker-tracked-trump-claims/2021/01/23/ad04b69a-5c1d-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html
P.S. 12/2024: ..The unhinged person that so many actually chose to vote for. (Link) ..Spewing out hate and screwball insults -- on Christmas no less -- isn't "normal", decent or sane. It's SICK in the head, most likely. (..Parental discretion suggested): https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/113716074695799383
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↓↓↓↓ 11/2024.... NOPE:
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(Source: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/thomas_jefferson_135369
Unaffiliated source for graffiti font: https://fontmeme.com/graffiti-creator/....REMINDER: How the 10 most highly educated U.S. states voted (overall) in 2024: https://donaldwontlast.blogspot.com/2024/11/headline-rubio-democrats-lost-election.html)
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"...a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens."

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Thursday, January 3, 2019

Yellow journalism watch: Fox 'News'.com today -- 1/3/19

(Commentary, including reposted material.)
Blogger note: We're going to try a little new feature here for a few days (or so) and see how it goes. This commentary series may subsequently be moved to a slightly larger-audience web outlet if it seems worthwhile...(Link to be provided.) Note: Today's featured item can be found further below. (Parental guidance suggested.)

We need to begin with a few basic definitions and stipulations:

A definition of "yellow journalism", copied from Wikipedia
"Yellow journalism and the yellow press are American terms for journalism and associated newspapers that present little or no legitimate well-researched news while instead using eye-catching headlines for increased sales. Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism. By extension, the term yellow journalism is used today as a pejorative to decry any journalism that treats news in an unprofessional or unethical fashion."
Another definition of yellow journalism, reposted. Source is linked:
"the use of cheaply sensational or unscrupulous methods in newspapers, etc. to attract or influence readers"

A second definition (excerpted): "What makes journalism different than other forms of communication?":
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"...While journalism occupies a much smaller space than the talk, entertainment, opinion, assertion, advertising and propaganda that dominate the media universe, it is nevertheless perceived as being more valuable than most of the “stuff out there.”
That value flows from its purpose, to provide people with verified information they can use to make better decisions, and its practices, the most important of which is a systematic process – a discipline of verification – that journalists use to find not just the facts, but also the “truth about the facts.”"
-- Source article link. (No affiliation.)


A couple of conditions or additional requirements for this blog:

 -- The article/photo/video reposted and featured here must be prominently displayed at or near the top of the https://www.foxnews.com/ webpage (- no affiliation here -) for at least an hour's time on any particular day. Note that foxnews.com regularly changes what is prominently broadcast at or near the top of their webpage throughout the day -- so readers will often have to take my 'word' about this.  (A link to the subject article will be provided, but no 'guarantees ' as to how long that link will function.)
P.S. We are not going to examine the Fox 'News' television channel's content here.

-- The article reposted and featured here is not/was not clearly and unambiguously labeled as 'commentary', 'opinion', a 'feature', or a regular commentary 'column'. In other words, the story reposted here is not/was not clearly labeled as something other than a "news" presentation. E.g., so (that) a person unfamiliar with foxnews.com could easily identify it as something other than news reporting..

-- The published headline of the reposted and featured foxnews.com story will regularly be considered here as a key component of (perceived) sensationalist reporting, unscrupulous presentation, etc.

-- It's currently the opinion of this blog-writer that Fox 'news'/foxnews.com regularly and blatantly 'mixes'-together opinion/commentary within purported (- or misclassified or improperly labeled -) news articles. (Presented under the banner of a major broadcast 'news' outlet.) We're going to learn whether at least some of this proves out or not. 

-- I'll probably include a short comment here as to why we think the day's reposted story qualifies as 'yellow journalism', or very close to 'yellow journalism'..(BTW: Only ONE foxnews.com story will be selected for each post, even though there might be a number from which to choose.)

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From https://www.foxnews.com, 1/3/19. This story was featured at the top of that webpage during part of the morning (EST):

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Here is a current link to the entire article (new window opens):
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/socialism-rising-dems-take-house-pushing-massive-government-expansion-as-party-lurches-left


Comment: Out of many, two of my chief objections to this piece are: 1) its (former) top-center (- "first story above the 'fold' (or break)", if you will -) placement on the foxnews.com webpage (featuring a sensational, opinion-expressing headline), and 2), the ambiguous, not-defined 'Socialism' "topic" designation (for the story). 

As originally published I could not find a 'commentary' or 'opinion' label for this story.... though much of the article seems rife with that...

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YT video link. No copyright claimed or assumed. Language warning.

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