The abortion law builds on legislation passed in 2010 that represented a major shift for a traditionally Catholic country, transforming Spain into one of the most progressive countries in Europe on reproductive rights. Spain's constitutional court last week rejected a challenge by the right-wing Popular Party against allowing abortions in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.
The debate will be heated in Spain, I imagine, as the conservative opposition pushes back. My daughter had horrible menstrual pain during her adolescence and young adulthood. I'm certain that she would have benefitted from that time.
Maddow has some cred because she's educated and knows history and facts. She has more cred than Hannity or Carlson imo. But she does spin and makes her living making the right look bad, so I don't listen to her much.
Maddow has some cred because she's educated and knows history and facts. She has more cred than Hannity or Carlson imo. But she does spin and makes her living making the right look bad, so I don't listen to her much.
Yep, she's educated and knows facts. That means she is very well aware that she is lying.
Yep, she's educated and knows facts. That means she is very well aware that she is lying.
Fair enough. And since you don't provide any information, I wanted to do a deeper dive. I wish now I hadn't gone down that rapid hole and need the last 15 minutes of my life back. LOL
Politicifact has a page on her but it seems to stop at 2021 with one "Pants off Fire" lie from 2013 but not a lot of entries and several fact checks are True. I know she also took a lot of heat during the " Russian collusion" time. We talked about it at the time. But for people pedaling the idea that Trump won the election to hold on to one conspiracy theory she got wrong (or did she?) seems a bit whack.
I can't find much recent stuff but that might be because she's doing other things than her shows. Although I understand she's doing a show a day for 100 days of Trump. No information on what lies she's telling during this time.
Hannity recently went on a rant about her "No one in the media mob has peddled more lies, more conspiracy theories than Rachel Maddow. Every night for about five solid years, and it still goes on to this day, Maddow proudly donned that tinfoil hat and spread some of the most insane, craziest conspiracy theories that we've ever heard.” And he went back to the Russian collusion thing but although he says she lies every day didn't give any more examples. Not to tit for tat or deflect, I went to his page which will speak for itself.
Trump also had made statements about her and MSNBC in general. Calling them the "enemy of the people". So much for free speech. I wanted to research his claim about their ratings tanking. They had a post-election slump that was apparently dramatic, but it's making a comeback. "MSNBC's decision to bring back "The Rachel Maddow Show" to five nights a week for the first 100 days of Trump's time in office has also paid off, with ratings for that show averaging around 1.7 million. The show that goes right up against Maddow on CNN, "The Source with Kaitlan Collins,” has been averaging 745,000 viewers during the same time period. "Maddow" had shifted to a once-weekly format back in 2022."
Donald Trump is risking world peace by siding with North Korea, China and Belarus in refusing to condemn Vladimir Putin, senior Tories have claimed.
In a chilling warning, former deputy prime minster Lord Heseltine said the US president risks forming a "new axis' which will reward Russia and its allies.
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He spoke out after the Trump administration, alongside the three dictatorships, rejected a UN General Assembly resolution against Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine which was backed by Europe and most other nations.
The vote came just hours after Fench president Emmanuel Macron had visited Trump in the White House and ahead of Sir Keir Starmer's visit to Washington later this week.
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'We have relied on American support which enabled us to defeat the fascists in the 1940s and saw the rehabilitation of democracy in the post war Atlantic alliance and it has now thrown an incentive not to peacekeepers but to those who threaten the stability of the modern world.’
The USA has now thrown its support behind the dictators and aggressors. It's an Upside-down world when a crazy authoritarian is in control of the USA.
I saw on Trump's Truth Social he congratulated the 2nd place winner (the won that Vance visited) in Germany but not the first place winner that I could see.
I don't blame Merz for being pissed after Trump sent his pro-Nazi lackey to instruct the Germans how to vote. If we lose our European support, we have lost our last great coalition of supporters on the planet.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence plummeted in February, the biggest monthly decline in more than four years, a business research group said Tuesday, with inflation seemingly stuck and a trade war under President Donald Trump seen by a growing number of Americans as inevitable.
The Conference Board reported that its consumer confidence index sank this month to 98.3 from 105.3 in January. That's far below the expectations of economists, who projected a reading of 103, according to a survey by FactSet.
The seven-point drop was the biggest month-to-month decline since August of 2021.
Markets on Wall Street immediately dropped. The S&P 500 fell 0.6% in midday trading, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average was flat. The Nasdaq declined 1.1%.
Looks like we're going to have a bumpy economic road. Buckle up.
I don't blame Merz for being pissed after Trump sent his pro-Nazi lackey to instruct the Germans how to vote. If we lose our European support, we have lost our last great coalition of supporters on the planet.
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Maddow has some cred because she's educated and knows history and facts. She has more cred than Hannity or Carlson imo. But she does spin and makes her living making the right look bad, so I don't listen to her much.