All quotes from: AOC Says Trump 'Gutted the Aviation Safety Committee Last Week,' Blames Him, Elon for DC Crash

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Her statement was in response to Trump telling reporters during a press briefing on Thursday that the crash "could have been" the result of diversity hiring.

AOC's trying to inform the American people of the realities of the Trump Administration is very important politically, culturally, and economically.

There need to be more air traffic controllers. Government regulation needs to effectively to be able to properly regulate.

TMR has advertised Ground News a couple of times now. And I have to admit, the concept is one I like. But I am a bit skeptical of it as well.

Ground News rates outlets based on factuality and political alignment, as far as I know. But I tend to think that's easier said than done.

I've seen some of the "political spectrum" graphics that have come out of the right. Where the left is basically equated with "more government" and so fascists are left-wing, and the right is basically equated with less government which would basically put anarchists as far-right.

Not to mention I've seen people throw around accusations about CNN being far-left, and even from more professional organizations who actually tried I've seen some of the graphics they've released. Where the political alignment is extremely questionable.

And then as for factuality, I mean... how do you judge that? That IS the issue at hand, isn't it? That people disagree on the factuality of things.

If you ask a Trump supporter I'm sure he'd say that the facts are that illegal immigrants murdering people left and right while stuffing kids' toys with fentanyl because the Democrats opened the border is factual, while claiming all of the legal cases against Trump are a witch hunt.

So on what basis do the people of ground news judge the factuality? And, more importantly, what prevents their factuality ratings from being influenced by their own political bias just like anyone else's?

These are basically my concerns about it. So I was just wondering, do you guys use it? If so, what's your experience with it?

Wanted to flag this for the show. Progressives have lined up behind Wikler but he apparently has close ties with Reid Hoffman. And, none of the leading candidates will say no PAC spending in primaries.

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Charles Schwab is financing a new scam from the Trump Org. I can't trust an organization that would support Trump in this way. I am moving my retirement accounts and encourage other Schwab users to do the same.

Trump Media partners with Charles Schwab, expands into crypto financial services

I know it’s early days, but if the Dems are serious (and we all know they’re not), they’d run Tim Walz and Laura Kelly as their ticket in 2028. Both of them are strong Dem governors with a proven track record of being decent fucking human beings. Walz is the closest we’d get to a Bernie 2.0 and Kelly has done an incredible job of cleaning up the chaos Brownback left behind.

Neither will run on their own because they’re not money/power hungry narcissists, but they’d do it if enough of us asked them to.

I sat down and watched the Crowder deposition (yes, I forced myself to watch the entire thing) and I have to say it was worth it watching Lil’ Steven get bodied by Mark time after time.

I hope this ruins what’s left of Crowder’s career.