from the slapp-slapp-slapp dept Donald Trump, who presents himself as a free speech champion, sure loves suing the media for their First Amendment-protected speech. CNN is a favorite target of his though these lawsuits don’t do particularly well. Back in 2022, he sued CNN for calling Trump’s lies about the results of the 2020 election […]

Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board have released frame-by-frame images showing the left engine of the UPS McDonnell Douglas MD-11F freighter separating from the aircraft during a straight-out departure earlier this month in Louisville, leading to a horrific crash. NTSB’s preliminary report showed the left engine (No. 1) and entire pylon assembly tore away […]

Welcome to Dispatch Energy! Representatives from nearly 200 countries around the world—with the notable exception of the United States—gathered in Belém, Brazil, this month for the United Nations’ COP30 climate summit. The location of COP30 has symbolic significance—it was in Brazil in 1992 that the international climate movement was launched at the Rio Earth Summit. […]

Now that we’re making progress on Epstein – after President Trump and Mike Johnson were forced to cave under overwhelming pressure for DOJ disclosure – a logical next step is to look into who was funding the notorious sex-trafficker.  Jeffrey Epstein, former Barclays / JP Morgan exec Jes Staley On Thursday morning, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) called […]

It’s been more than a week since Congress voted to end the government shutdown and get back to business. And, this being Congress, that business has largely been occupied by votes to condemn each other. This week in the House of Representatives—the people’s house!—members have introduced resolutions to reprimand or censure four different colleagues. One […]