A former chief of staff at the Homeland Security Department revealed a request he heard from President Donald Trump during an MSNBC interview on Wednesday. “He actually said … we could swap Puerto Rico for Greenland because, in his words, Puerto Rico was ‘dirty’ and ‘the people were poor,'” former …
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Goodyear tumbles 6% after Trump tweets to boycott company over MAGA has ban (GT)
Elise Amendola / AP Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. fell as much as 6% on Wednesday after President Donald Trump told his 85 million Twitter followers to boycott Goodyear ties. “DO NOT BUY GOODYEAR TIRES – They announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS,” Trump tweeted. Trump’s tweet was likely prompted …
Read More »Closing of colleges: university outbreaks and parental anxiety
Problems with college: parties and fraternities The coronavirus is already spreading in colleges and universities at an alarming rate – and some of the largest clusters have been at sororities, fraternities and off-campus parties. The Times has linked at least 251 cases of the virus to fraternities and sororities across …
Read More »Greenland Succumbs – CounterPunch.org
Photo source: Silvan Leinss – Own work – CC BY-SA 4.0 Since the turn of the new century, every aspect of climate change has gone ballistically, up, up, and away, not looking back, leaving the 20th century fairly harmless, but only on a relative basis, especially compared to the rip-snorting …
Read More »DC FanDome Trailer teases surprises from ‘The Batman,’ ‘Suicide Squad 2’ ‘and more
Warner Bros. Pictures published the trailer for DC Fandome: Hall of Heroes, scheduled to take place August 22 on the website dedicated to the event. It included tons of big-name records from Dwayne Johnson (who plays the title character in “Black Adam”) to Matt Reeves (director of “The Batman”) to …
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