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Democratic socialist U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York -- who insists the world has only 12 years left -- claims she captured on video the poisoning of the air by fracking. The only problem is there wasn't any fracking going on, and what she claimed was pollution was merely thermal waves.

0:41 Wednesday at the NAACP town hall, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Miami has only a few years left on this planet. Ocasio-Cortez said, “When it comes to climate change, what is not realistic is not responding … with a solution on the scale of the crisis—because what’s not realistic is Miami not existing in a few years. That’s not realistic. So we need to be realistic about the problem.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) retweeted a video showing the extent of the damage already caused by Hurricane Dorian as it ravaged the Bahamas over the past few days. In her post, the freshman lawmaker writes that the video “is what climate change looks like; it hits vulnerable communities first.” “I can already hear climate deniers screeching: “It’s always been like this! You’re dim,” etc,” she wrote. “No. This is about science & leadership. We either decarbonize&cut emissions, or we don’t & let people die.” The minute-long video showed flyover shots of Abaco in the Bahamas with the pilot pointing out...

A prominent liberal author has compared the red “Make America Great Again” hats to Nazi swastikas, and told “normal people” — that is, people who don’t support Trump — to stop wearing any kind of red hat, lest they start “making people scared.” Rebecca Makkai, who has been a finalist for both a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, made the controversial comments on Twitter, according to Fox News. To be clear, Makkai really was talking about all red hats. In fact, she even specifically asked fans of sports teams that wear red hats — such as the Cincinnati Reds...

The lawyer handcuffed and hauled out of court for arguing with a judge over his refusal to dismiss her client’s Straight Pride Parade protest case blasted the jurist for locking her up at the end of another tense day in Boston Municipal Court.“I was just released after being unlawfufully, unreasonably and honestly outrageously arrested for doing my job,” attorney Susan Church said Wednesday in the hallway of the court. Church was held in contempt for several hours Wednesday by Judge Richard Sinnott while defending Lilley Antoinette, 29, a protester from Somerville who was charged with disorderly conduct at the Straight...

2020 Democrat hopeful Joe Biden told “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert Wednesday night that he would nominate his former ‘boss’ Barack Obama to the US Supreme Court. “Would you appoint him [Obama] to the Supreme Court?” Colbert asked Biden. “Hell…yes!” Biden said with a creepy grin on his face. “I don’t think he’d do it but…he’s fully qualified.”

Full title: Karma: Samuel L. Jackson Said He’s Happy To lose Fans Over His Anti-Trump Rants – His Latest Movie Just Bombed According to Observer.com, Shaft was a world wide flop. The movie cost about $35 million to make, and only grossed “world wide” a dismal $16 million and is listed as as one of the biggest box office flops of 2019.

MSNBC’s Saturday Night Politics with Donny Deutsch has ended after airing just 13 episodes. Deutsch, an ad exec turned political commentator, led the show on 8 p.m. Saturday nights which launched on May 4. It didn’t even last the entire summer of 2019, with Adweek reporting that MSNBC cancelled the show following its August 17 episode.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who proposed “Green New Deal” climate change legislation, warned that melting glaciers could release ancient diseases that the modern world is incapable of handling. The first-term Democrat from New York said she woke up while on vacation at 3:30 in the morning worried about the consequences of climate change. “I’m 29 years old, I really struggle sometimes with the idea of how to be a policymaker, and potentially have a family in the time of climate change,” she said on Instagram live Tuesday, listing a number of ​impending ​environmental catastrophes like melting glaciers and rising sea levels....

Actress turned leftist activist Alyssa Milano revealed the “key to beating Trump” in an op-ed published in The Hill Tuesday evening: “Biden at the top and a Harris vice presidency,” featuring virtually every other candidate serving in tops roles in a hypothetical Biden administration. Milano — who is, arguably, one of the most outspoken left-wing celebrities in Hollywood — indicated in her op-ed that Joe Biden (D) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) serve as the best duo to take down President Donald Trump in 2020. “Imagine this: Vice President Biden is currently leading the field, so let’s start there. With...

Kellie Watson said she was just finishing her workday last October when she received a phone call from her 12-year-old son. "It was unbelievable to hear the fear and panic in his voice," she said. Her son told her that her father, 69-year-old Maurice Stallard, had been shot. Stallard had been shopping for school supplies with his grandson at a Kroger grocery store in Louisville, Kentucky, when a gunman opened fire, killing two – including Stallard. Watson said the only thing that stopped the alleged gunman from shooting her son was that he ran. "If he hadn't run, I probably...

An intruder who fled from police into Andersen Air Force Base Wednesday evening and stabbed a Defense Department civilian security forces member has died from gunshot wounds inflicted by security forces. The unnamed man was shot while being apprehended at approximately 6:35 a.m. Thursday, Air Force officials said in two statements Thursday. He had reportedly stabbed an unnamed civilian guard attached to base security forces who was attempting to apprehend him, prompting the guard to open fire. The intruder was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:52 a.m. while being treated by emergency medical personnel, the statements said. The Air...

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper seemed to celebrate the idea of white people no longer constituting the majority of those in the United States. "The idea that, you know, whites will not be the majority, I mean, that's -- it's an exciting transformation of the country, it's an exciting evolution and you know, progress of our country in many different ways," he said. He made those comments while interviewing Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, who has openly advocated for more open immigration policies.

The war of words continues between President Trump and 2020 presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, who on Wednesday declared Trump a "white supremacist" and said that the United States "has been racist since it's been a country." As the president visited O'Rourke's hometown of El Paso, Texas, following the mass shooting there last weekend that left 22 people dead, the former congressman ratcheted up his attacks during an interview on MSNBC. He insisted another shooting will occur because of Trump's rhetoric, which some say influenced a manifesto that investigators suspect was the El Paso gunman's. "What happened in El Paso is...

Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke compared the rhetoric of President Trump to Nazi Germany Monday, before declaring, “Well, Jesus Christ, of course he’s racist.” O’Rourke joined MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to discuss his thoughts on the tragic mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio when host Joe Scarborough criticized Republicans who don’t condemn rhetoric used by Trump. “I mean the president has not been shy. He’s not been saying this behind closed doors. This is out in the open. All people of one religion, inherently defective ... should be banned from the shores of this country,” O’Rourke said on...

He’s a few dollars short of a paycheck. A knucklehead Ohio bank robber slipped a teller a hold-up note — with his name and address scrawled on it, officials said. Michael Harrell, 54, entered a U.S. Bank branch in Cleveland on Monday and passed the not-so-discreet note, the FBI said.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) posted a video Saturday bragging about how he had escorted an eight-and-a-half months pregnant migrant from Mexico into the U.S. because the woman allegedly was having a difficult pregnancy. Wyden does not tell viewers that the woman is a Mexican citizen and that she brought her husband and 3-year-old son with her across the border.

Full Title: KARMA: GA Woman Faces Up To Five Years In Prison After Driving Through Barbed-Wire Fence To Destroy Trump Sign…Then Her Car Got Stuck A Cobb County, GA Trump supporter says his surveillance camera captured a woman driving through his fence to vandalize his Trump 2020 sign. The problem is, once the 20-year-old unhinged woman drove through the barbed-wire fence, she couldn’t get her car out of the fence and had to leave it behind.

Kyle Korver, a 38-year-old NBA player, attacked white privilege in a column on The Players Tribune, declaring whites are responsible for the racism of America's ancestors.

FULL TITLE: Michelle Obama Claims People Dismiss Presidency After Barack: ‘If a Black Guy Can Do It, Anybody Can’ In a Saturday interview, former first lady Michelle Obama insisted that Americans now dismiss the U.S. presidency because a black man was recently in the office. Speaking to TV host Gayle King during the 2019 Essence Festival at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, Obama exclaimed that husband Barack made the presidency “look too easy,” Fox News reported. “I guess it’s kind of like if the black guy can do it, anybody can do it — and that’s not true. It’s a hard job,”...