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- How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal
A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Why budding birders are flocking to Shazam-like apps to identify avians
Birdwatchers tell the BBC how apps have changed their lifelong hobby - and attracted new birders. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Dr Fauci Celebrated ‘Flattering’ Washington Post and NY Times Coverage in Un...
(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) Dr. Anthony Fauci watched like a hawk how mainstream outlets like the Washington Post and The New York Times covered him during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and speculated he had become “the most famous and talked about person” in America, according to newly-released 2020 diary entries. The diary notes were posted on Saturday by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). Fauci’s entries indicate he was obsessed with the press and took time to jot down notes on both favorable and unfavorable stories about him, right alongside notes on the rising COVID death toll in the U.S. and abroad. “Press is going wild with me,” Fauci wrote on March 22, 2020. He noted right before COVID cases were continuing to “soar,” with 30,000 reported in the U.S., before getting back to his media coverage. “Front page in Washintgton Post [sic] yesterday and Op Ed by Maureen Dowd in NY Times today about me and my relationship with the POTUS. Profile by Peter Nicholas on me in The Atlantic,” Fauci wrote. Nicholas had dubbed Fauci an “instant icon” in the piece. Fauci then talked about how the media was covering him compared to President Donald Trump. I am trying in several articles and on TV to clarify that the POTUS is tsalking [sic] about hope for therapies although there are no good data, while I must stick to the science and so fundamentally we are approaching this from different, but not conflicting standpoints. The press are crucifying the POTUS for “not listening to me and making crazy statements about ‘game-changing’ therapies and praising me fot [sic] stivking [sic] to my guns. He wrote in the same diary entry there were “many print profiles and features on me. Ridiculous – too numeous [sic] to count!” One day earlier, Fauci wrote about a “big front page article” in the Washington Post on him. “Very flattering,” Fauci wrote. “The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable. It is not hyoperbole [sic] to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable peson [sic] in the world.” He continued, “Countless profiles on me in multiple media. I cannot even read all the things that are written abuyt [sic] me since I am so busy….seriously. POTUS seems to be enamored of me even though I… [TheTopNews] Read More.11 hours ago - CNN Fact-Checker Daniel Dale Shreds Trump’s Wildest New Claims: ‘Did Not Hap...
CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale on Sunday shredded the recent whoppers told by President Donald Trump, when he asked his audience, “Remember that?” Except, there was nothing to remember. “So, Daniel, you’ve been digging into these claims,” began CNN anchor Erica Hill. “The most recent one from President Trump on Thursday saying, ‘Oh, remember when all the TVs went out because there was no wind to power the wind turbines that brought the electricity,” which was an event the president asked us to remember that never actually happened. And it’s not the first time he’s done this.” “It’s not. The president is making stuff up again!” Dale exclaimed. “So he’s asking people to recall this massive nationwide television outage caused by the wind not blowing on June 27th, 2024, when he debated Joe Biden,” Dale said. “Did not happen, obviously. He said, ‘Nobody could watch that debate.’ More than 51 million Americans watched that debate on television alone, including people, of course, in the state that produces by far the most wind power, and that is Texas — Republican dominated Texas — then and now the nation’s leader in wind.” Dale continued: So there have been at least a few times where he’s asked people explicitly to remember something that absolutely did not occur. For example, last year he said, “Remember when I was at my golf course in Scotland the day of the Brexit vote? And I correctly predicted that Brexit was going to pass in the referendum.’ In fact, he was at that golf course the day after. So obviously couldn’t make a prediction at the time. And then he has repeatedly offered fake history. This month alone, he’s, at least on two other occasions, told stories that are also made up, one about George Washington and one about the construction of the Panama Canal. CNN rolled tape of Trump in the Oval Office saying, “George Washington had two desks in his pre-White House. One was — and they were right next to each other — One was for business and one was for the presidency. He had two desks in the same room.” “When President Trump started telling this, ‘George Washington had two desks‘ story during his first term, I reached out to a number of historians who were experts on George Washington,” Dale said. “They say they have no idea what the president is talking… [TheTopNews] Read More.11 hours ago - Margaret Brennan Confronts Bernie Sanders On Scandal-Plagued Graham Platner: ‘...CBS News’s Margaret Brennan confronted Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) about not dropping his support for scandal-plagued U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) earlier than he did. On Sunday’s Face The Nation, Brennan asked, “You were an early supporter in Maine of Graham Platner. You helped him rise. Do you regret not acting earlier to call for him to drop out, given the warning signs? Would that have given you a leg up with [Troy] Jackson?” “No, I don’t think so,” Sanders said. “When we heard the serious allegations made against him, I wanted to get on the phone, I wanted to talk to him. I did. I asked, along with virtually all of his supporters, that he should get out of the race, and he did.” “But you are confident that with your endorsements, these other candidates have been fully vetted?” Brennan asked. “Well, look, I think, you know, there are hundreds of candidates,” Sanders answered. “I don’t know who has, quote, unquote, ‘been fully vetted’…All I know is, Margaret, the candidates that we are supporting are standing up for the working class of this country.” Earlier in the interview, Sanders said he believed Jackson had an “excellent” chance of beating incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) because his message resonates with Mainers. “I think he can [win]…I’ve known Troy for many years,” Sanders said, continuing: What he understands that, the people of Maine are sick and tired of a rigged economy in which the billionaire class is getting richer and richer, where we have more income and wealth inequality today than we’ve ever had in the history of this country, while 60% of our people, including in Maine, including in Vermont, all over this country, are living paycheck to paycheck, trying to put food on the table, trying to pay for health care, for housing, put aside a few bucks retirement. Troy understand that. He’s a working-class guy. He’s from the working class. He is very articulate. I think he stands an excellent chance to win. Watch the clip above via Face The Nation on CBS.The post Margaret Brennan Confronts Bernie Sanders On Scandal-Plagued Graham Platner: ‘Do You Regret Not Acting Earlier?’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.12 hours ago
- ‘Nobody Is Scared’ of Ken Martin: CNN Reporter Predicts Blue States Could Re...The Democratic National Committee is such a mess it could have a mutiny on its hands soon, according to CNN senior reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere. He said blue states like New Hampshire may start revolting against orders because DNC Chairman Ken Martin is an impotent leader during the Sunday episode of Inside Politics with Manu Raju. Dovere shared his prediction right after a pair of damning stories painted the DNC as a behind-the-scenes train wreck led by a paranoid and weak boss. “There is the possibility that a state could choose to not follow the DNC here and hold their primary when they want to,” Dovere said. Host Manu Raju chimed in, “Like New Hampshire wants to,” referring to the DNC snubbing it in favor of South Carolina as the lead-off primary state. Dovere continued, “People [are] saying, hey, the DNC is broke, they can’t do anything to help us anyway. Nobody is scared in any way of Ken Martin as the chair, and so maybe they’ll go and violate it. It is not where the infrastructure of the party needs to be for going into 2026 and then 2028.” His analysis followed a report from The New York Times which revealed Martin threw his phone at a junior aide’s desk in a fit of frustration. Martin has a “growing sense of paranoia” about DNC insiders pushing to boot him, according to the report. The Times also dished on the committee’s financial woes, reporting the DNC is currently $2 million in the red, while their Republicans rivals are more than nine figures in the black. NOTUS followed with its own Sunday report on the DNC’s dough problems. The outlet reported the DNC put up its headquarters as collateral to obtain a $15 million loan last year — a move it said was not unprecedented, but raised liberal concerns because it was not done in an election year. Raju asked Dovere if Martin could “survive” after the pair of black eye reports. “He can only leave if he resigns, he cannot be kicked out,” Dovere said. “And so it’s up to him.” Watch above.The post ‘Nobody Is Scared’ of Ken Martin: CNN Reporter Predicts Blue States Could Revolt Against ‘Broke’ DNC first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.12 hours ago
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