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Bill Bronrott

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FactChecking Trump's '60 Minutes' Interview www.factcheck.org/2025/11/fact...

FactChecking Trump's 60 Minutes Interview - FactCheck.org

In a lengthy "60 Minutes" interview, President Donald Trump made false and questionable claims about nuclear weapons testing, inflation and military strikes in the Caribbean Sea. He also repeated nume...

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November 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM

Bill Bronrott

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October 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM

Bill Bronrott

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open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

The media is largely ignoring the trauma of millions. Here's why.

Plus: Watch George Stephanopolous pushes JD Vance with follow-up questions, cringe at Bari Weiss's pep talk to CBS journalists; and more

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October 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM

Bill Bronrott

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GoLocalProv | Obituaries | Joan Kennedy, Wife of Sen. Ted Kennedy and Mother of Patrick, Dies at 89 url:https://www.golocalprov.com/obituaries/joan-kennedy-wife-of-sen.-ted-kennedy-and-mother-of-patrick-dies-at-89

October 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM

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October 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM

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October 8, 2025 at 1:15 AM

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September 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM

Bill Bronrott

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The Facts Behind Claims on Autism, Tylenol and Folate www.factcheck.org/2025/09/the-...

The Facts Behind Claims on Autism, Tylenol and Folate - FactCheck.org

News reports have indicated Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may point to Tylenol and folate deficiency in his promised announcement on the causes of autism. But neither Tylen...

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September 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM

Bill Bronrott

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Trump Misleads on Climate Change and Renewables at U.N. www.factcheck.org/2025/09/trum...

Trump Misleads on Climate Change and Renewables at U.N. - FactCheck.org

In an hourlong address before the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 23, President Donald Trump lashed out at those promoting "the green energy agenda." Along the way, he made numerous false and misleadin...

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September 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM

Bill Bronrott

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Springsteen Keeps Slamming Trump Because ‘A Lot of People Bought Into His Lies’: ‘If Congress Had Guts, He’d Be Consigned to the Trash Heap of History’.
#springsteen #variety #time #ericcortellessa

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Bruce Springsteen Keeps Slamming Trump Because ‘A Lot of People Bought Into His Lies’: ‘If Congress Had Guts, He’d Be Consigned to the Trash Heap of History’

Bruce Springsteen did not hold back about President Trump in a new interview: 'If Congress had guts, he'd be consigned to the trash heap of history.'

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September 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM

Bill Bronrott

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TIME correspondent Eric Cortellessa’s front cover story marks 50 years since Bruce Springsteen first appeared on TIME’s cover. Eric takes readers on a rich, behind-the-scenes journey with The Boss on his home turf.
#Springsteen

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September 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM

Bill Bronrott

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The Facts Behind Claims on Autism, Tylenol and Folate www.factcheck.org/2025/09/the-...

The Facts Behind Claims on Autism, Tylenol and Folate - FactCheck.org

News reports have indicated Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may point to Tylenol and folate deficiency in his promised announcement on the causes of autism. But neither Tylen...

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September 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM

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Indivisible ❌👑

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A month from today, we will gather for the largest peaceful protest in American history. The only way to protect our freedom of speech is to exercise our freedom of speech. Join your local event to make it clear there are still NO KINGS in the USA: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

September 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM

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Indivisible ❌👑

@indivisible.org

This isn’t about Jimmy Kimmel, it’s about whether free speech and democracy survive. And the American people will make it clear: We won’t be silenced.

post malone ergo propter malone on Bluesky: “they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law.

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence.

the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear.

do not offer it to them.”

Matthew Gertz on Twitter: “People need to be honest that distributors were fleeing his show because the FCC chair publicly threatened their licenses if they didn't.
The FCC chair IS a state actor, not a private actor. Tell the truth.”

Aaron Fritschner on Twitter: “Carr is now acting like he didn't directly threaten to pull their license if they did not comply with the demands of the Trump Administration, a thing he did in full public view”

This You? on Twitter: (A screenshot of Brendan Carr’s tweet from February 14, 2019: “Should the government censor speech it doesn't like? Of course not.

The FCC does not have a roving mandate to police speech in the name of the "public interest."”)

September 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM

Bill Bronrott

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I am so looking forward to this! I love Jasmine Crockett, so I can't wait to hear what she has to say. Now's the time for us all to be as bold as she is. Join me and let's learn what actions we can take right now to tell wannabe authoritarians, "not on our watch!" social.redwine.blue/s/5Gzan6us