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Longstanding tensions within the Democratic party have reemerged in a New York congressional race where an insurgent candidate is seeking to unseat a long-time senior party figure. The divide is largely between establishment Democrats lining up behind incumbent congressman Eliot Engel, a member of congress for three decades who chairs the House foreign affairs committee […] More
Matilda, help! I have come across something called Elite/Alt TikTok. Have Elon Musk and Grimes renamed their baby? Ha, no. So, to understand Alt and Elite TikTok you first need to understand how TikTok started. In the beginning, the platform was essentially a bunch of genetically blessed teenagers lip-syncing to popular songs and repeating the […] More
Trade adviser also claims without foundation that the virus ‘was a product of the Chinese Communist party’ Donald Trump speaks at the BOK Center in Tulsa. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images White House adviser Peter Navarro claimed Donald Trump was being “tongue in cheek” when he claimed to have asked public health officials to slow down […] More
Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, was under pressure on Sunday, after claiming hundreds of thousands of people had applied for tickets to the president’s return to the campaign trail in Tulsa, only for the rally to attract an underwhelming crowd. At the BOK Center in the Oklahoma city on Saturday night, as the president […] More
K-pop fans and users of TikTok claimed tickets to Donald Trump’s Saturday night rally in Tulsa then did not use them, as part of a coordinated effort which helped to leave hundreds of seats empty in a 19,000-capacity venue. As reported by the New York Times, the scheme stemmed from a 11 June tweet from […] More
John Bolton Judge allows publication of tell-all but slams author’s behaviour Aide: ‘That guy should turn in his seersucker suit for a jumpsuit’ The Room Where It Happened: a broadside to sink Trump? John Bolton – wearing a seersucker suit – waits in the Oval Office in July 2019. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA White House […] More
Peter Navarro: Covid-19 ‘was product of Chinese Communist party’ President returns to campaign trail at muted Oklahoma event Trump says he ordered coronavirus testing to ‘slow down’ US attorney behind inquiries into Trump allies resigns John Bolton: judge declines to block tell-all Trump book LIVE Updated Trade adviser Peter Navarro: ‘We know that virus was […] More
Tom Petty Family says late singer stood against ‘racism and discrimination of any kind’ Tom Petty performing at the 2008 Super Bowl. Photograph: Jeff Haynes/Reuters The family of Tom Petty has issued a formal cease and desist letter to the Donald Trump campaign over its use of his song I Won’t Back Down at a […] More
