'Baseless, mischevious': Adani Group denies report of US probe into alleged Iranian LPG links #Baseless #AdaniGroup #IranianLPG #socialnewsxyz
#baseless
#Trump baselessly blames DEI and Democrats for #Washington DC #planecrash
Trump turned what might have been a sombre briefing into a #baseless #rant against DEI despite #noevidence of a link with the plane crash.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/trump-washington-dc-plane-crash-dei
Far-right cable TV outlet #Newsmax and the voting machine company #Smartmatic settled a defamation lawsuit stemming from claims by Newsmax that the 2020 election was rigged
It's the latest in a series of such settlements related to the election and false claims that the results were somehow tabulated unfairly or suspiciously.
The deal came as jury selection had begun in Wilmington, Del., Thursday.
Smartmatic sued Newsmax over its #baseless #claims of election fraud and filed a similar suit against #Fox #News, which also furthered unsupported claims that the contest had been "stolen" from President Donald Trump.
No claims of widespread vote ballot tampering or voter machine malfunctions or irregularities were proven.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/09/26/uc-smartmatic-newsmax-settle-election-suit/1701727388853/
#ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump #Slammed After New ‘#Inflammatory’ #AllCaps #Claim About #DemocraticParty #PresidentialNominee #KamalaHarris.
#Trump and #runningmate #ShadyVance (#JDVance) have come under increasing #scrutiny in recent days for pushing #baseless #claims that #Haitian #migrants in #Springfield, #Ohio, are #eating residents’ #pets.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-new-attack-on-kamala-harris_n_66e920b7e4b06998fbecbf72
#ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump Is Using #hateful #AntiTrans #Rhetoric to #Distract From His #Waffling on #Abortion, #Experts Say.
The former president and #hatemonger has repeated #baseless #claims that #schools are performing #genderaffirmingsurgeries on #children without their #parents’ #consent.
https://www.them.us/story/trump-anti-trans-rhetoric-distract-waffling-on-abortion
Donald Trump on Friday promised, if elected, to carry out #mass #deportations of undocumented immigrants, starting in Springfield, Ohio, and Aurora, Colorado.
Why it matters:
Trump's announcement comes as he continues to push #baseless #conspiracy #theories about immigrants,
including during Tuesday night's presidential debate with Vice President Harris.
What he's saying:
❌"We're going to have the largest deportation in the history of our country," Trump said at a news conference at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
"And we're going to start with Springfield and Aurora."
Trump also said he may hold campaign events in one or both cities.
Catch up quick:
During Tuesday's debate, Trump echoed unfounded narratives that #Haitian #immigrants were #eating family #pets in Springfield.
He also referenced exaggerated claims about #Venezuelan #gang activity in Aurora,
claiming migrants are "taking over the town, taking over buildings ... they're destroying our country."
The other side:
Law enforcement officials and local leaders in both cities have countered the claims.
🔸"The prison gang Tren de Aragua "has not 'taken over' [Aurora]," Mayor Mike Coffman and Aurora City Council member Danielle Jurinsky said in a joint statement Wednesday.
🔸"There have been no credible reports or specific claims of pets being harmed, injured or abused by individuals within the immigrant community," a Springfield police spokesperson said in a statementTuesday.
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/13/trump-deportation-immigrants-springfield-ohio-aurora-colorado
#Ohio's 'medically #baseless and genuinely #dangerous' #genderaffirmingcare #ban upheld by #judge
#MichaelHolbrook wrote in #ruling those “#dissatisfied" with #legislation must settle their grievances "through their #vote not the #judicialsystem.”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Ohio #Healthcare #TransKids #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.advocate.com/news/ohio-gender-affirming-care-youth-ban
Utah Sen. Mike #Lee used his personal X/Twitter account to
🌟amplify a #baseless #claim 🌟that President Joe Biden was having a “medical emergency” on Air Force One.
It’s unclear if Lee tried to verify the falsehood before sharing it with his 224,000 followers.
The claim started with far-right activist and conspiracy theorist Laura #Loomer, who posted without attribution that “Joe Biden is reportedly having a medical emergency on Air Force One. Press access has been removed.”
A Community Note, a tool on X, formerly known as Twitter, that empowers people to add context to misleading posts, *debunked* Loomer’s claim, noting journalists traveling with the president reported 🔸there was no incident, and Biden exited the plane on his own.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2024/07/06/mike-lee-spreads-fake-claim-biden/
Some #Catholics want #Biden #excommunicated, but claim of effort underway is #baseless | #Factcheck
RNC plan for 2020 #denialist to head ‘#election #integrity’ unit raises alarms
As Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has cemented its hold on the Republican National Committee (RNC), alarms are being raised about the organisation’s tapping of the fervent election denialist #Christina #Bobb to run an “election integrity” unit.
Bobb is a former Trump lawyer and ex-reporter for the far-right #One #America #News #Network, who gained prominence after Trump’s 2020 loss for promoting bogus fraud charges in Arizona, Wisconsin and elsewhere, and was part of Trump-backed efforts to substitute fake electors for ones that Joe Biden won in some states.
Bobb helped spread phoney voting fraud claims with Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and the former campaign operative Mike Roman, both of whom along with Trump and others face charges in Fulton county, Georgia, of conspiring to overturn Biden’s win there; Bobb was not charged.
Last year Bobb wrote "Stealing Your Vote: The Inside Story of the 2020 Election and What It Means for 2024," a book that was chock full of #baseless charges about 2020 election fraud.
Former judges, ex-Republican congressmen and election watchdogs voice strong concerns about Bobb’s mission and the potential dangers posed by her flood of erroneous charges of voting fraud.
“By designating Bobb to the RNC post,
💥they’re beginning to promulgate the same false narrative of widespread election fraud that we saw in 2020 and 2021 but way earlier💥,” said John Jones, a former federal judge in Pennsylvania and now president of Dickinson College.
“There’s a concept known as #illusory #truth,” he added. “If you keep saying these same falsehoods over and over, people begin to believe they’re true, and it has the potential to morph into violence.
That puts judges, prosecutors and others at risk.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/01/republican-election-integrity-denier?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
The concern now, going into November, is not only another uptick in #threats #against #election #workers, but the continuation of a larger #delegitimization cycle that originated in 2020:
a greater number of clerical election errors due to new and inexperienced election staff, leading to more election conspiracy theory fodder, and ultimately culminating in more violence and another wave of resignations, where the vicious cycle begins again.
Some of the most viral 2020 election conspiracy theories originated from simple human error – a normal occurrence in any election that is in no way indicative of voter fraud.
In Antrim County, Michigan, for example, Trump and his allies spread #baseless #voter #fraud claims after the county inadvertently misreported a number of unofficial votes in 2020.
The mistake, which Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson quickly confirmed was not nefarious, but rather a “human error,” was then used by the MAGA world to cast doubt on electronic voting systems and election officials.
And, similarly, in Maricopa County, Arizona, printer issues stirred up a wave of conspiracy theories, leading to failed gubernatorial candidate and election denier Kari Lake filing a lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court asking the state to #overturn the #results of the election.
Even though election officials explained that the printer issues did not prevent voters from voting, bogus claims that the printing issues were intentional and depressed voter turnout continued to circulate.
It’s mistakes like the ones in Antrim County and Maricopa County, which bad actors seized upon to inflict harm and #violence on #election #workers, that experts worry will only increase ahead of the 2024 election.
This is especially true because, according to a survey from the Brennan Center, 💥one in five election officials are likely to resign ahead of November. 💥
And, per reporting from the nonprofit Issue One, 💥over 160 chief election officials have resigned in 11 states since the 2020 election.💥
“The concern is when you have experienced people leave particularly close to an election and you aren’t able to bring on an experienced person to help steer the ship,” David Levine, senior elections integrity fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy, told TPM in an interview.
And we’ve already begun to see this cycle play out.
A Spotlight PA and Vote Beat analysis found that 12 Pennsylvania counties reported 16 errors on or before Election Day during their November municipal election — more than twice the amount of errors reported since 2019.
The report found that the mistakes were linked to an increase in election official turnover.
This past November, in Northampton County, for example, a programming mistake caused votes for two county judges to be flipped on a ballot question. And although the error did not cause any changes in the official election results, rumors about voter fraud continued to circulate.
But just because there might be an increase in normal clerical errors, it doesn’t mean voters should assume that officials will make mistakes that won’t be caught. Election procedures are sound, emphasized Justin Levitt, a professor of law at Loyola Law School.
And while there is certainly benefit to having an experienced official on the job, a lack of experience doesn’t mean there will be errors that will impact the results of the election.
“In the wake of 2020, there’s been so many more challenges related to physical security, the threats, the harassment, the making sure that conspiracy theorists aren’t blowing innocuous things out of proportion,” Michael Beckel, research director for the nonpartisan organization Issue One, told TPM.
But Trump isn’t waiting around for clerical election errors to occur in order to spread bogus claims about a fraudulent election.
On Tuesday, Trump resurrected his “Stop the Steal” mantra from 2020 in a Truth Social post arguing that the people prosecuting him are involved in their own form of “election interference.”
It’s not surprising.
The delegitimization of our elections, according to Levitt, has been incredibly lucrative for those who have perpetuated baseless claims.
“The grievance machine is exceedingly lucrative,” said Levitt. Trump himself raised about $30 million for his Save America PAC solely off of frivolous election fraud lawsuits, Levitt noted.
“There’s unfortunately big business in claiming problems, and I expect there to be additional unsound, frivolous litigation,” Levitt said, emphasizing that election mistakes that impact the results of the election are exceedingly rare.
“We rarely see an election result in the US that gets overturned, or even a new election that gets called based on either large scale mistakes or nefarious behavior,” he said.
#Baseless Rumours: MCA Clears Air On Reports Of Action Against Fans Booing MI Captain Hardik Pandya During IPL 2024 Match Vs RR | Cricket News #TATAIPL #IPL24
#IPL24 # The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) has cleared the air on allegations of taking action against fans who booed or taunted Mumbai Indians skipper Hardik Pandya during the IPL 2024 match against Rajasthan Royals at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Monday, April 1. Earlier, a report from Lokmat Times…
#French #president #EmmanuelMacron #slams #baseless #rumours his #wife is #trans.
“The worst thing is the #false #information and #fabricated #scenarios,” #Macron said. “People eventually believe them and disturb you, even in your #intimacy
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #EuropeanUnion #France #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #BigLie #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/11/france-president-emmanual-macron-slams-rumour-brigitte-trans/
#Instagram #reinstates #GaysAgainstGroomers after #banning its #antiLGBTQ+ #content.
“The #antiLGBTQ ‘#groomer’ #trope, and similar #baseless and #dangerous #rhetoric #falsely asserting that #LGBTQ #people are #threats to #children, is #dangerous #HateSpeech
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/27/instagram-gays-against-groomers-suspension-reinstated/
#USA vs #Trump
#Conspiracy to #defraud page 5
#Jan6 #Congress meet in #JointSession
#certification by #VP as #President of #Senate
Trump #knowingly used false claims of #election #fraud to #subvert results and change #electoral #votes on #pretext of #baseless fraud claims
Pushed officials to #ignore #popular vote, #disenfranchise voters, #dismiss legitimate #electors
7 states (#AZ, #GA, #MI, #NV, #NM, #PA, #wi
#fraudulent electors to #sign #certificates falsely
🤭 5 eyes or the 5 best friend came together and said it’s CHINA.
AND THEN came Donald trump sitting there blaming China…
Yawnzzzz..
Can someone launch a probe into Maryland’s Fort Detrick
It might be the first case too.
The lady in RED… should prob into fort Derrick to be fair.
Have 2 report side by side before you declare something.
🤭
#Baseless #antitrans #claims fuel #adoption of #harmful #RepublicanParty #laws – two #criminologists explain.
Many of these #antitrans laws are #written and #financed by a group of #farright #hategroups, including the #AllianceDefendingFreedom, the #FamilyResearchCouncil, the #LibertyCounsel and the #AmericanPrinciplesProject.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
#Rightwing #pundits, with #ElonMusk's #encouragement, respond to #Nashville #massshooting with #antitrans #Disinformation and #HateSpeech on Twitter.
Although Johnson's tweet was #baseless, its #sentiments were #echoed by many #influential #voices on the #right using it to inflame the passsions of those targeting trans people for hate, and it's going to get more people killed!
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #SocialMedia #Twitter #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Transphobia https://popular.info/p/right-wing-pundits-with-musks-encouragement
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