‘We need to talk about special counsel Jack Smith’s latest filing.’
The Dispatch→ National Security Experts: Harris and Trump Both Fail to Inspire Confidence
A Dispatch symposium.
The Dispatch→ Don’t Vote Like Your Life Depended on It
The most important election is always the next one.
Internet Archive→ 60 Minutes : KPIX : October 7, 2024 8:00pm-9:00pm PDT
Vice President Kamala Harris; Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.); Arizona's Maricopa County, home to more than 60 percent of Arizona's voters and a critical battleground in a key swing state; the one year anniversary of Hamas' terror attack on Israel..This item b
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 2,000 Were NOT Stranded In North Carolina Church Without Food For 6 Days
Were 200 or as many as 2,000 people found stranded after Hurricane Helene in a church in Candler, North Carolina, after six days without food? No, that's not true: The communications and public engagement director for that county told Lea
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FEMA Contractor Used Secondary Runway But Did NOT Prevent Civilian Disaster Aid At Greenville, South Carolina, Airport For Helene Victims
Did FEMA aircraft block a runway at the Greenville, South Carolina, airport on October 5, 2024, preventing civilian disaster aid from reaching Hurricane Helene victims and "stopping help"? No, that's not true: While an airport representat
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Biden Did NOT Refuse To Deploy 82nd Airborne Division As Of October 3, 2024
Was the Army's 82nd Airborne Division not deployed to help Hurricane Helene victims as of October 3, 2024, as a post on Instagram Threads claimed? No, that's not true: President Joe Biden announced the immediate deployment of 1,000 active
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FEMA Does NOT Have Policy To Help ‘White People Last’ In Providing Disaster Relief
Does a policy of the Federal Emergency Management Agency direct it to help "white people last" in 2024? No, that's not true: The document mentioning FEMA's "equity" goal cited on social media as proof says nothing about that. The agency h
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No votes, no aid? No, 2020 votes didn’t determine disaster aid delivery in North Carolina counties
“Out of the 28 North Carolina counties destroyed by Hurricane Helene, 26 of them supported President Trump in the 2020 election … If you’re wondering why the government hasn’t helped these people, now you know why.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FAKE Kamala Harris Campaign Ad Shows Mother Wishing She Had Abortion
Did the Kamala Harris campaign release a video ad depicting a boy in makeup, necklace and dress trashing his home as part of the campaign's efforts to push abortion rights? No, that's not true: The video was produced three years ago for a
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – This viral video of Beirut on fire is AI-generated
Video shows Oct. 6, 2024, fires in Beirut caused by Israeli air strikes.
The Dispatch→ The Minister of Propaganda
Elon Musk and the arc of right-wing media.
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, FEMA didn’t block hurricane relief flights at South Carolina airport
FEMA “blocked a runway” at a South Carolina airport and “halted” hurricane relief flights.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – Dockworkers are no longer striking, but misinformation about their motivations is still spreading
Dockworkers went on strike because “they hear screaming children inside shipping containers!”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Image Does NOT Show US Military Base Under Attack In Baghdad — It’s A Photo From 2011 Taken In New Jersey
Does a photo on social media show an attack on a U.S. military base in Baghdad? No, that's not true: The scene in the picture is of a fire in 2011 at a facility in New Jersey. There is no evidence that an explosion occurred at a U.S. mili
The Dispatch→ FEMA Did Not Spend Emergency Relief Funds to House Illegal Immigrants
Social media users are making false claims.
The Dispatch→ Assessing Claims That Immigrants Receive More Benefits Than Social Security Recipients
The figures cited by social media users are incorrect.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: $750 FEMA Aid For Helene Victims Is NOT Loan; It’s Non-Repayable Grant, Does NOT Involve Property Seizure
Is the $750 in initial federal aid to Hurricane Helene victims a loan that must be paid back or people's property could be seized? No, that's not true: The $750, which comes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Serious Needs Ass
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – Kansas City Chiefs refusing to host Pride Night is satire
“Breaking: Kansas City Chiefs refuse to host a Pride Night, ‘It’s woke agenda’”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows Driver Supposedly Getting Flat Tire After Running Over Trump 2024 Yard Sign — It’s Comedy Sketch
Does a viral video show a driver actually getting a flat tire after deliberately running over a Trump 2024 yard sign? No, that's not true: This video is a comedy sketch by someone who labels themselves a video creator on their YouTube cha
PolitiFact→ New Hampshire Democratic Party – New Hampshire Democrats’ ad omits context about Kelly Ayotte, corporate boards
When New Hampshire gubernatorial nominee Kelly Ayotte served on two companies’ boards, one “laid off 18,000 workers” and the other “laid off 1,200 American workers, moving jobs overseas.”
PolitiFact→ Kelly Ayotte – N.H. governor’s race: Kelly Ayotte attack on Joyce Craig’s Manchester tax record needs context
In Manchester, N.H., gubernatorial candidate Joyce Craig “pushed for a city sales tax. Then, Joyce Craig overrode the tax cap and tried to raise taxes six times.”
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Video shows pyrotechnic skydivers in United Arab Emirates, not Iran’s missile strike on Israel
Video shows a missile strike on Israel.
The Dispatch→ Welcome to Dispatch Politics on the Road … in Pennsylvania
Plus: An update on the race for control of the Senate.
Full Fact→ £1.7 billion isn’t really the right figure for the total cost of NHS strikes
It doesn’t include the junior doctors’ strikes in the summer of 2024, and the overall cost would include a range of other factors.
Full Fact→ Image does not show damaged ring belonging to killed Hezbollah leader
The photo of a broken silver ring has been circulating on social media with misleading claims that it was found with the body of Hassan Nasrallah.
The Dispatch→ The Dispatch Monthly Mailbag With Valerie Smith
It’s our first employee’s turn to answer your questions.
Full Fact→ Video of ‘Tel Aviv destroyed by Iran’ actually of Taiwan factory fire
The video was uploaded to several stock image websites in July 2023 and is unrelated to recent events in Israel.
Full Fact→ A year of fact checking the Middle East conflict
Full Fact looks back on its fact checking a year on from the start of the current conflict in the Middle East.
The Dispatch→ Presbyterians and Hipsters
How Asheville is getting on with it after Hurricane Helene.
The Dispatch→ Marking One Year Since the October 7 Attacks
Plus: Checking in on the presidential election with less than one month to go before election day.
The Dispatch→ A Year Since Oct 7: The Future of the War (Part 2)
The balance of power in the Middle East, one year after October 7.
The Dispatch→ A Year Since Oct 7: Israel After the Massacre (Part 1)
How will Israelis remember the worst pogrom since the Holocaust?
The Dispatch→ ‘Something Inside Me Broke on October 7’
A year after Hamas’ attack, a return to normal seems impossible for some Israeli border communities.
The Dispatch→ One Year of Military Lessons
What Israel, its rivals, and the world have learned from the latest Middle East war.
Internet Archive→ FOX News Sunday : FOXNEWSW : October 6, 2024 11:00pm-12:00am PDT
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.); Sen. Joni Ernst (R); Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.); panelists include Michael Allen, Susan Page, Karl Rove and Juan Williams; Hadassah and Matthew Lieberman..This item belongs to: movies/TV-FOXNEWSW.This item has files of th
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, FEMA, other emergency responders are not 'confiscating' emergency supplies, donations
The Federal Emergency Management Agency “is confiscating supplies and donations!”
PolitiFact→ X posts – FEMA gives $750 to help hurricane victims with supplies. The claim it’s a loan is Pants on Fire!
“The $750 from FEMA that Kamala Harris is offering them is actually a loan, not real relief. And that if they don’t pay it back the feds can seize their property.”
PolitiFact→ Ask PolitiFact: Fact-checking Harris, Trump’s AARP interviews
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-10-6-24-house-speaker-mike/story?id=114532003
The Dispatch→ October 7 and the Perils of Memory
Why remembering is paramount in the Jewish faith.