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The humanitarian disaster unfolding in the mountains of western North Carolina dominated our coverage this week, with our Andy Fancher spending forty-eight hours in parts of the country decimated by Hurricane Helene.
Andy’s reporting on the true death toll associated with the “Appalachian Apocalypse” ruffled some feathers – and riled some censors – but it marked the first time a media outlet provided a credible estimate of the dead based on first-hand reports from first responders in the area.
Andy is head back to western North Carolina this week, so stay tuned for more….
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In other news, our Jenn Wood discussed her extensive reporting on the murder of 20-year-old Jessica Barnes of Pendleton, S.C. This story has an eerie ‘Manson Family‘ feel to it… notably a tangled web of romantic relationships revolving around Barnes’ husband and accused killer, Brandon Barnes.
Jenn and I also delved into reporting by our Callie Lyons about an alleged fundraising fraud targeting the family of the late Mica Francis Miller – whose death this spring continues to fuel passionate debate across the country.
Finally, our Dylan Nolan and I dove into the latest news from the 2024 presidential election – which has seen former U.S. president Donald Trump pull ahead of vice president Kamala Harris in several key swing states.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR …
Will Folks is the owner and founding editor of FITSNews. Prior to founding his own news outlet, he served as press secretary to the governor of South Carolina, bass guitarist in an alternative rock band and bouncer at a Columbia, S.C. dive bar. He lives in the Midlands region of the state with his wife and eight children.
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6 comments
“… it marked the first time a media outlet provided a credible estimate of the dead…”
lol
It was so credible that Facebook flagged it as misinfo.
When will you MAGA weirdos learn that lying and making things up is not OK? Normal adults think you all act like strange children.
Trump is literally and audibly shitting his diapers during his speeches now. He refuses to release his medical records and keeps chickening out of debates and non-softball interviews. Trump won’t last much longer….which means you’re really voting for JD Vance to be President.
We can NOT allow that to happen to the many sofas in the White House.
You have to wonder how many Trump voters from 2016 are still alive.
Trump, and Republicans for that matter, haven’t gained any new voters since then. Trump helped kill off hundreds of thousands of Republican voters during his inept pandemic response. Thousands more are locked away in prison from the Jan 6th terrorist attack on our Capitol. No telling how many thousands more are hurting because of Trump’s lies about FEMA and government response. Polling of new voters show an overwhelming support for Harris/Walz.
The biggest censor in the world is Elon Musk, who only censors anti-Trump speech.
In the meantime, Tump continues to lie incessantly, at every “rally.” Trump continues to stiff municipalities and other venues that don’t require him to pay in advance, including our own Coastal Carolina and Winthrop (Everyone in NY knows get your money from Trump upfront or you will never be paid.) This week he stranded hundreds of his followers in the desert because he paid for the buses to take them to the rally site but tried to stiff the bus companies on the return trip. Trump continues to try to sell pieces of his suit, his fake watches, and his trading cards, like the carnival barker he has always been. Now he is openly saying he is going to round up brown people and put them in concentration camps, prosecute his political enemies, use the US military against American citizens who oppose his ruling our nation (as he is fond of saying) with an iron fist, and suspend the Constitutional rights of an untold number of people. Oh, and of course he will “take care” of our Women. I mean, who in their right mind would leave their teenage daughter alone with that man?
I am so sick and tired of this abomination, his dictator worship, and his open Fascism. Yet it will be a close race because the Three R coalition is holding (Rich, Racist, and Really Dumb.) I don’t think the nation as it has existed for the past 250 years can survive another Trump Term. So pray for America. Pray we can make it through the greatest threat to our freedom since WWII. The man the nation’s founders feared would arise, finally has arisen, and the institutions established to protect our rights are failing. Our daughters are fighting to regain rights their mothers and grandmothers took for granted.
“When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” How true that was.
Let no anti-trump voter sit this one out. Even in the states, we are unlikely to win, we must vote like we have never voted before. America, do not go gentle into that good night; fight, fight the fading of the light!
“When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” We just did not know it would be Bibles and Flags imported from China, by a man who makes his acolytes tattoo MAGA on their foreheads and makes the leaders of his cult kiss his ass at high noon on the Capitol steps and abandon any dignity they ever had.
“Just a former president suggesting he’ll use the military against his fellow citizens for exercising their freedom of speech. Nothing to worry about, folks. Seriously, when is he gonna grow that little mustache already? Because there’s only three weeks left!”
— Jimmy Kimmel, on his show last night.
No, they are not Fascist at all.
“These people are already up to no good, so we gotta win first. We win, and then Katie Bar the door. Believe me, the gates of hell, my hell will be unleashed.”
— Retired Gen. Michael Flynn, when asked at the Freedom Festival if he’d “sit at the head of a military tribunal to not only drain the swamp, but imprison the swamp, and on a few occasions, execute the swamp.”