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![Tornadoes and Climate Change: What A Warming World Means for These Deadly Storms](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/twisters-3-400x284.jpg)
Tornadoes and the storms that create them are far below the scale that climate models can predict. So researchers look at the large-scale ingredients that make conditions for them to form.
![The Contempt of Mark Meadows and Trump’s Dereliction of Duty](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/jan6committee-400x284.jpg)
Stunning and critical information is packed into Liz Cheney's announcement of the contempt finding on Mark Meadows.
![What Would Anti-Vaxxers Say About a Vaccine that Slowed Aging?](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/fi3zhlxwryw-400x284.jpg)
How will the foil-hat anti-vax crowd react to a vaccine that appears to be able to extend the life of their physical bodies?
![Reality Check: The Scary Parallels Between Republican Policies and Fascist Economic History](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/scitech-Bildcxd-400x284.jpg)
The study of Fascist Economic History will alert people to the path the current decrepit, corrupt and degraded Republican Party has chosen. This might be one of the reasons Republicans seem to hate history education so much.
![How Billionaire Phyllis Taylor Uses Her Own Disaster to Avoid All Taxes](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/taylor-oil-slick-400x284.jpg)
According to ProPublica’s analysis of a secret trove of tax data, from 2005 to 2018, Phyllis Taylor took in some $444 million in income, most of it from wages, interest, dividends and capital gains, and didn’t pay a cent in federal income tax.
![Most Slave Plantation Tours Omit the Horrors of Slavery](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/rtiumbkyc-o-400x284.webp)
Even now, discussions during plantation tours among visitors can often turn into visceral debates over whether the history of slavery should be told or ignored.
![Pearl Harbor Day and January 6th — Similarities and Dangerous Differences](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/USS-Arizona-400x284.jpg)
One of the key differences between Pearl Harbor and the January 6th Insurrection is that after Pearl Harbor the nation galvanized to its own defense. With January 6th, not so much. In fact, a significant segment of the population have supported the attackers.
![The Tax Dodgers — Meet the Oil and Real Estate Tycoons Who Have Avoided Taxes for Years](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/tax-dodgers-400x284.jpg)
Donald Trump and other ultrarich Americans have made billions, but they’ve also managed to repeatedly dodge paying any federal income tax by claiming huge losses on their businesses.
![Trump Keeps Incriminating Himself—Can We Finally Just Indict Him?](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/trumponfaox-400x284.jpg)
Trump is one of the most obvious criminals we have ever seen from the standpoint of abuse of the highest office in the land alone. But just confronting that fact and actually acting on it seems to be engulfed in endless hesitation.
![Living in the “Guns for Everybody” World of the NRA](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ayktm863cfg-400x284.jpg)
The NRA and its supporters simply believe that their ability to own guns is more important than the lives of your children. Your children. Perhaps theirs, but definitely yours.
![Trump Finally Admits There Was No Election Fraud, Sort Of](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/vnfyixo0br8-400x284.jpg)
It is no secret that there actually were instances of election fraud in 2020. But all the documented instances were committed by Republican voters in favor of Trump.
![The Pillow Guy Wants to Sell You Pillows and Trump, but Dr. Oz is Peddling the Whole Bed](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/f0473fec-d6bf-4704-b045-a6f3971212cf-400x284.webp)
Dr. Oz, like many TV personalities, is really a pitch man. He's there to sell products for advertisers or those of his guests. But his real business is the Dr. Oz Good Life brand. He sells entire bedding and sleep systems. Yes, pillows too.
![Liars and Psychos and Crooks, Oh, My! Surviving in a World of Disinformation and Propaganda](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/propaganda-400x284.jpg)
Propaganda operators and criminals seem to have the same operating pattern: accuse others of what they themselves are doing. There's a reason for that.
![How Do We Restore Public Trust in Elections?](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/1uy8uuukids-e1638463522456-400x284.jpg)
Against all odds, election officials delivered a safe and secure election during a public health crisis. But a year later, they are looking for innovative ways to restore public trust in their work.
![Climate Emergency: Researchers Find that PR Firms Have Spent Decades Fueling Climate Misinformation](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/climate-400x284.jpg)
The best time for PR firms to stop working for fossil fuel clients was 20 years ago, when we had much more time to stop the climate emergency. The second best time is now.
![How Steve Bannon Exploited Google Ads to Make Money from Extremism](https://factkeepers.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1f851987-a82c-4e4f-89f6-083af04c2eb0-400x284.webp)
Google kicked Steve Bannon off YouTube because of his violent rhetoric but still sent ad dollars to his website that promotes misinformation about the election and the pandemic.