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Six years after Republican secretary of state Brad Raffensperger defied President Donald Trump, the Georgia official is still scrutinizing polls and making sure the voting process is not the “ third world ” mess that Trump claims it is without proof. “He’s still battling many of the same issues that initially made him a target of President Donald Trump and his allies, with fellow Republicans sowing doubt about election administration in Georgia and nationally, despite a lack of evidence,” reports NBC News . “So Raffensperger is pulling out all the stops to demonstrate the voting process will be safe, secure and accurate ahead of the November election.” Raffensperger was thrust into the front lines of the nation’s voting wars in 2020, after Trump tried to claim the state was stolen from him and went to Biden. It is an argument that Trump stubbornly spreads to this day — but the secretary of state and his metaphorical clipboard is overseeing his final election in the key battleground st...

Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle's scandal is spreading as her $100,000 shakedown of Eric Deters, a campaign donor to President Donald Trump makes the rounds, but Deters told CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Thursday that Guilfoyle's brand of grift is nowhere near the end of the corruption choking the Trump administration. Speaking with Tapper, Deter outlined a dismal smear of exploitation, repeating that Guilfoyle is “wicked” and “knows plenty” about Trump-era corruption. “That's just common sense. I mean, when Don Jr. and her broke up, she gets the Greek ambassadorship. That was throwing her a bone,” said Deter. “She could find herself a Greek billionaire. And the Trumps could have peace. However, it's not working out very good because she's been flying around Europe with an energy lobbyist, and now she's having to deal with the allegations that I've brought forward against her.” According to a Wednesday Wall Street Journal report , Guilfoyle needed Deters, a fo...

President Donald Trump enjoys inciting a crowd with talk, whether or not it has any ground beneath it. Much, of it, say critics, has to do with insulting others. And Trump’s insults came hot and fast in San Antonio, Texas, at a rally with Senate candidate Ken Paxton and House candidate Carlos De La Cruz. Paxton is running a close race against Democratic state Rep. James Talarico in one of the highest-profile matches of the midterms. And Trump lit into Talarico and his fellow Democrats by calling them ‘Dirty.” But not just dirty — filthy in every sense of the word. No. 1. Dems Dirty Doorknobs. “Texas has been the state people flee to escape the economic and social collapse of Democrat run California, New York, and other failing blue states, but if Talarico and the Democrats get their way, all of that squalor and misery, poverty, homelessness [will come to Texas],” Trump told the roaring crowd. “When the blues get in everything becomes dirty,” said Trump. “The streets become dirty. The ...

What if someone modified the video game Snake , where the snake’s tail grows longer the more it eats, but instead, the game involved a border guard who creates a growing tail of arrested migrants? This is actually a mini-game — a short, simplified video game — that is now available on the United States government’s website alongside other game options that focus on healthy school lunches and a “Trump savings account.” The migrant game is called “Rio Run.” These games use simple, clear messaging to deliver political messages under the guise of light-hearted entertainment. By hiding behind the “it’s just a game” defence, they weaponize play via political satire instead of harnessing the educational potential of video games to explore complex issues. While their mechanics are persuasively designed — embedding arguments directly into player actions — they remain overly simplistic. As a researcher and serious-games designer, I believe government platforms could go much further to truly ...

President Donald Trump frequently touts trillion-dollar figures as evidence that his “America First” economic agenda is working, but those numbers are far from reality, say experts. And some of those experts, according to NBC News, work for Trump. Trump’s recent fixation is $21 trillion — the sum he claims to have pulled in for the U.S. economy through his policies and deal-making. He repeatedly invokes that $21 million ahead of the midterm elections as an unmatched achievement. Trump claimed just weeks into his second term, that the number stood at $1.7 trillion, NBC reports. And last month he predicted it could climb as high as $25 trillion. The numbers are on a scale that are “unfathomable to many,” Trump wrote in a January op-ed for the Wall Street Journal . “And for good reason, economists say: They aren’t real,” reports NBC. “Trump’s claim is clearly inaccurate,” said former treasury secretary Janet Yellen, , told NBC News. “It matches no meaningful measure of foreign investment...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports the Trump era is getting to witness the death of an American steel-making legend. According to the 120-year-old company's website , Maynard Steel was created in 1907 in Milwaukee by Charles Maynard at 716 Reed St. It began life as Maynard Electric Steel Casting Company before it was bought be Sylvester Wabiszewski and renamed Maynard Steel Casting Company. When the Great Depression hit, employment at the company shrank from 400 employees to fewer than 90, but World War II was a life-saver for steel workers, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, blasting employment up to more than 600 employees as the company churned out materials for the war effort. Soon after, the company won the Army-Nave "E" flag for excellence in productivity in 1945. During the 1960s, employment then grew to more than 725 workers, and the facility had to adopt a new water recycling cooling system to save 55 million gallons of water a year. But that was ...