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Seth Meyers Exposes Sean Hannitys Huge Coronavirus Hoax Lie

Nobody in the media got a pass from Seth Meyers on Wednesday night. In his latest praised President Donald Trumps new tone on the crisis at his daily briefing on Tuesday. Because he managed to restrain himself for an hour, after weeks of lies and serial failures that led us to this harrowing moment, Meyers said, some in the media were actually gullible enough after four years to give Trump credit for his change of tone. He singled out MSNBCs Brian Williams and CNNs Erin Burnett and Jim Acosta, among…

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Trump Obsesses Over Flu Deaths, Attacks Cuomo in Softball Fox News Chat

In a Tuesday virtual town hall with a deferential Fox News panel, President Donald Trump spent much of his time obsessing over the number of flu deaths America experiences annually in order to downplay the threat of the coronavirus pandemic as complained about the lack of ventilators received from the federal government. I watched Governor Cuomo and he was very nice, the president said of the New York governors press conference, which preceded the Fox News town hall, before attacking Cuomo for complaining about receiving only 3,000 ventilators from the…

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Trump Turns to Tucker Carlson to Help Decide Roger Stones Fate

If President Trump ends up pardoning his former political operative part-time Trump adviser: Tucker Carlson. For roughly a year, the primetime host has done a series of segments devoted to calling on the president to pardon the so-called dirty trickster Stone, a Republican consultant, Nixon enthusiast, withdrew, mere hours after the Justice Department headquarters intervened to supercede their recommendation to a federal judge that Stone be sentenced to seven-to-nine years behind bars. And on Wednesday morning, Trump posted a tweet railing against the rogue prosecutors, branding them part of the…

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Trevor Noah Exposes Trumps Hypocrisy on Pelosi and Limbaugh

After taking a few moments to express shock at Mitt Romneys decision to stand by him, Trevor Noah moved on to the rights ripping up her copy of the presidents State of the Union address. The Daily Show host played a montage of the most over-the-top reactions from Fox News pundits, culminating with both Kellyanne Conway and Laura Ingraham accusing Pelosi of shredding the stories of the Americans Trump talked about in his speech. That is so true, my friends, Noah said, nodding gravely. When Nancy Pelosi tore up a…

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Finland just gave fathers 7 months of paid family leave while 85% of all Americans still get zero

The U.S. is the only industrialized country without a federal paid family leave policy. The Family Medical Leave Act, passed in 1993, says that employers must let new parents take up to 12 weeks off, but there is no guarantee of getting paid. Currently, the District of Columbia and nine states have laws offering paid family leave, Washington, California, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New York, Washington, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Oregon. New laws in Connecticut and Oregon are waiting to go into effect. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor…

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