Politics

BASED.

If you thought Trump was going to take it easy on Twitter, after becoming President of the United States, think again. He's been going apeshit on Twitter over the Jill Stein recount scheme and is now trying to trigger Hillary Clinton and her supporters by suggesting he actually won the popular vote (latest data shows Clinton with a 2 million vote lead in the popular vote), when taking into account all of the illegal voters that participated in the elections -- most of which voted for her.

Via Jesse's Cafe Americain blog,

Update: Alain Juppe concedes making Francois Fillon Les Republicans' presidential candidate against Marine Le Pen in next year's presidential election.

#BREAKING Alain Juppe concedes defeat in French presidential primary

— AFP news agency (@AFP) November 27, 2016

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Authored by Ben Norton and Glenn Greenwald, originally posted at TheIntercept.com,

Not content with arresting or firing any potential source of domestic political opposition, Turkey's president Erdogan is targeting foreign journalists. Having previously arrested dozens of Turkish journalists after the failed July "coup" attempt led to a nationwide crackdown on the media, overnight the Turkish government detained reporters working for BBC and Voice of America in southeastern Turkey.