House rejects bid to censure Adam Schiff over Trump investigations
20 Republicans joined with Democrats to kill a Trumper-led effort to punish Rep. Adam Schiff over his tireless efforts to investigate Donald Trump. They did so not because they approve of holding the disgraced ex-president accountable for any of his many crimes but because they are EXTREMELY unwilling to set the precedent of levying multi-million dollar fines against a fellow member of Congress. Given the atrocious behavior exhibited by most congressional Republicans, one can understand why they would not want to open that door.
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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump admits to his own crimes in astonishing move
He just can't EVER keep his mouth shut, can he?
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Trump pulls dangerous stunt amid federal indictment
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Beyond the pale.
🚨 Brian Tyler Cohen launched a Spanish YouTube channel! The left has a huge problem reaching Spanish speaking audiences, and our vote share among Spanish speakers is actually declining, so please spread the Democrats' message by subscribing to his channel (and watch some videos to get them going in the algorithm) by clicking here.
Fulton DA: Trump’s federal indictment will not impact our case
Don't worry, everybody not named Donald J. Trump! While the New York cases against the serial grifter will likely be put on hold until the stolen classified documents trial resolves, the Georgia grand jury case will proceed at full speed ahead. At this point the only question really is how many charges *can* one disgraced ex-president rack up?
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Fox News says it "addressed" onscreen message that called Biden a "wannabe dictator"
Fox News says that it "regrets" the incident (yeah, right) but offered no explanation for why President Biden was labeled a "wannabe dictator" in a chyron during its coverage of Trump's federal indictment, or why it wasn't removed before the same segment re-aired later that night. The devastating Dominion Voting Systems settlement earlier this year clearly did nothing to change the network's fake news, propagandistic ways — which has even ex-Fox execs wondering why it's still allowed to function as a news agency.
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Grand jury indicts Daniel Penny in chokehold death of Jordan Neely
Jordan Neely will finally have justice as the vigilante ex-Marine who choked him to death on a New York subway car will face charges.
Grandparent shuts down school sporting event over suspicion that nine-year-old athlete was trans
In Kelowna, British Columbia, an unidentified man stopped a school racing event because a nine-year-old girl had a pixie haircut, which he thought meant that she was trans. He demanded to see her "certificate" and then screamed at her mother that she was “a genital mutilator, a groomer, and a pedophile." Nine 👏 years 👏 old.
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KCPD officer who fatally shot 2 has track record of killing, assaults
A Kansas City officer, who of course has not been identified by the department but is reported to be Blayne Newton, shot and killed two people and injured a third in a recent incident at a McDonalds. Turns out this same officer shot and killed an unarmed man in 2020, put his knee in the back of a woman laid belly-first on the ground who was NINE months pregnant, and was also involved in the group beating of a teenager. You can't blame "bad apples" for police misconduct if you just leave them in the barrel to rot!
Former Trump chief of staff says ex-president is "scared shitless"
John Kelly, Trump's one-time ally and chief of staff, did not mince words describing his ex-boss' behavior and state of mind following his historic federal indictment.
"No Labels" is helping a firm that raises money for right-wing extremists
Alright, yet another ostensibly "nonpartisan" group that is very insistent on opposing extremism on BOTH sides, let's see who you really are! *yanks off mask* We cannot believe this, it was a far-right fundraising cutout all along! AGAIN!
JD Vance helped lobbyists water down his own rail safety bill
Vance, the vat-grown Peter Thiel acolyte and first-term senator from Ohio, neutered his OWN rail safety bill, delaying desperately needed safety upgrades for years at the request of train company lobbyists. You would think that an entire town of his constituents being poisoned en masse by a preventable Norfolk Southern train derailment would be enough to give him pause, but the man who sold his soul to get elected remains utterly unsympathetic to anyone but his corporate masters.
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Today’s Action: Tell Congress to do MORE to reduce gun violence!
The United States as officially recorded more than 260 mass shootings this year alone, and we haven’t even reached the halfway point. We barely have time to catch our collective breath before the next mass shooting makes headlines. There simply aren’t adequate words to express the continued loss we all experience just by living in America. It’s long past time that we finally begin the job of curbing the epidemic of unspeakable — and very preventable — gun violence and pass the real, meaningful gun-safety reform that is supported by a clear majority of Americans. The trauma is getting old.
It’s unacceptable that after so much loss, our elected officials still haven’t managed to advance any meaningful anti-gun violence legislation through Congress. In the United States it is still legal to own an AR-15, the very killing machine that has been used time and time again to murder and maim innocent Americans en masse. AR-15-style rifles were used in the mass murders at Sandy Hook, Parkland, Aurora, Sutherland Springs, Las Vegas, San Bernardino, the Poway synagogue, the Tree of Life synagogue, the Buffalo supermarket, Uvalde, Louisville, Cleveland…the list goes on and on — and will continue to be used to massacre innocent civilians until we finally do something about it.
Call (202.224.3121) or email your representatives and demand Congress immediately take action to ban AR-15s and other assault rifles!
Assault rifles are specifically designed to kill on the battlefield; there is no good reason they should ever be in civilian hands. There were 646 mass shootings in the United States last year and 693 in 2021. Excluding suicide, there were 20,726 gun deaths in 2021, as well. According to the Washington Post, a child is shot every hour in America. We simply cannot stand idly by and let 2023 continue this horrific trend. The cause of this problem is clear — it’s the guns!
Call (202.224.3121) or email your representatives to demand Congress ban assault weapons immediately!
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