Brett Pransky
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Viral ‘Triple-demic’ Strains Hospitals, Empties Store Shelves
The winter cold of the holiday season has brought about an expected surge in COVID cases, but it has also resulted in a number of other illnesses that were not expected, or not expected to hit as hard as they have.
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Scott Perry’s Appetite for Conspiracies on Full Display in 2020 Election-denying Texts
A new report detailing text messages between Pennsylvania Republican US Rep. Scott Perry and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows shows the Dauphin County congressman was spreading wild conspiracy theories in an effort to amplify Donald Trump’s “big lie” about the 2020 Election.
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Alleged Bomb Maker in 1988 Lockerbie Terrorist Attack Now in US Custody
Most of the 270 victims were Americans, including two Seton Hill College students, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, a volunteer firefighter from Pleasant Hills, and a widow from New Castle and her two daughters.
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Could Doug Mastriano and Scott Perry Face Criminal Referrals From Jan. 6 Committee?
The Jan. 6 committee is likely to begin issuing criminal referrals related to Donald Trump’s failed coup on Jan. 6, 2021, and several Pennsylvania Republicans could find themselves referred for prosecution.
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Corporate Polluter Will Pay Millions for New Water System in Susquehanna County
While the judgment will help the people of Dimock, the small town that has become synonymous with the anti-fracking movement, questions about swift justice and corporate accountability remain.
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Is Donald Trump Following the Doug Mastriano Playbook?
The former president’s dinner with known white supremacist Nick Fuentes is the kind of flirtation with white nationalism Pennsylvanians are familiar with after watching Doug Mastriano’s failed campaign for governor.
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Crime and Recession Coverage Predictably Plummet After Election
With the midterm elections over, it’s a good time to inform people that news coverage related to crime—this election cycle’s “flood the zone” narrative—has nearly vanished, and the coming recession that so many pundits referred to as a certainty, is not certain at all, and never has been.
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Doug Mastriano May Have Lost, but His Candidacy Itself Was a Huge Red Flag
While Mastriano lost the Pennsylvania governor’s race to Democrat Josh Shapiro by double digits, the fact that a man who openly embraced election denialism, gun fetishism, racism, and antisemitism was the Republican nominee at all is disturbing and evidence of a massive sea change in both Pennsylvania and American politics.
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Beware the Red Mirage and Another Round of Republican Lies About Elections
Because of the way votes are counted in Pennsylvania, we are likely to see another election cycle in which things shift as the counting progresses.
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Trump Plans to Begin His Next Attack on American Elections in Philadelphia
Former President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to challenge the Philadelphia election results of the US Senate race between Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz—a move many see as a dry run for the 2024 election.
