Ex-GOP Ohio House speaker sentenced to 20 years for role in $60 million bribery scheme
Larry Householder is going to have to change his name to Larry Bighouseholder, because that's where he's headed. The 64-year-old former House speaker was handed the maximum sentence for his role in the largest corruption scandal in state history and taken immediately into custody, with US District Judge Timothy Black declaring, “the court and the community’s patience with Larry Householder has expired.” Ouch. [RETWEET THAT!]

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Nightmare development for Trump in federal trial
Just when the serial sexual predator and twice-indicted, twice-impeached, disgraced ex-president thought it couldn't get any worse...it did. LOL!

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Supreme Court rules for Christian mail carrier who refused to work Sundays
The Supreme Court unanimously handed a major victory to religious groups by greatly expanding how far employers must go to accommodate the religious views of their employees. The court ruled in favor of Gerald Groff, an evangelical Christian postal worker, who got in trouble after he refused to work on Sundays and subsequently sued the USPS for religious discrimination.

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Justice Jackson tears into Clarence Thomas for ending affirmative action after benefiting from it
Clarence Thomas pulled the ladder that he climbed up to the Supreme Court behind him as he and the rest of the right-wing zealots on the high court ruled to end affirmative action as we know it. This earned a well-deserved, sharp-tongued personal rebuke from Justice Jackson, who wrote in her dissent that "Justice Thomas ignites too many more straw men to list, or fully extinguish, here." Jackson, the first African American woman to join the court, excoriated Thomas and his conservative colleagues for their "let-them-eat-cake obliviousness" and called their ruling a "tragedy for us all."

Take Action: Tell the media to stop promoting climate deniers!

Gay wedding website case before Supreme Court is based on a lie
In the now notorious Supreme Court case to overturn protections against anti-LGBTQ discrimination, a Colorado website developer sued the state over its anti-discrimination laws because she says she's worried about having to make a website for a gay wedding, citing a call from "Stewart" inquiring about her services. Guess what! It's all bullshit. "Stewart" is straight, is already married, and says he never called the plaintiff. Guess what else! The robed oppressors in the Supreme Court majority don't care. [RETWEET THAT!]

Take Action: Call for more LGBTQ+ judges to be appointed to the federal bench!

Police say the stabbings of three people during a gender class in Canada were motivated by hate
Activists have long warned that the right-wing's hysterical, anti-trans demonization campaign would provoke violence — and it inevitably did, with a triple stabbing in a gender class in which the assailant wanted to make a "statement" about gender identity. Luckily, the perpetrator in Toronto couldn't just walk into a Wal-Mart and buy an assault rifle like he could have in the United States.

Trump sinks his OWN case with devastating mishap
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: This is bad...

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Dylan Mulvaney addresses backlash from Bud Light partnership in new video
The trans influencer who made the honest mistake of taking a job with Bud Light has opened up about how the company bailed on her after the right-wing hate mob started kicking and screaming, and detailed the terror that she's had to live with ever since the followers of blue-eyed Jesus started coming after her for apparently making their beer gay. "For months now, I've been scared to leave my house, I have been ridiculed in public, I've been followed," said Mulvaney in a video. "I have felt a loneliness that I wouldn't wish on anyone. There should be nothing controversial or divisive about working with us. Caring about the LGBTQ+ community requires a lot more than just a donation somewhere during Pride Month." Shame on Bud Light for abandoning her the minute it started to affect their bottom line!

The world's wildfire models are getting torched
Not to alarm anyone too much, but it appears that wildfires are getting stronger and more destructive to the point where scientists can no longer predict how they will affect climate change. “Some people like to say this is the new normal. I really do not like that term. Normal suggests a steady state. We’re not in a steady state. We’re in a downward spiral in Dante’s circle of hell,” says fire researcher Michael Flannigan. That...seems...very bad. [RETWEET THAT!]

DOJ says law signed by Ron DeSantis limiting Chinese land ownership is unconstitutional
Wow, who could have possibly predicted that an explicitly discriminatory and xenophobic law might be unconstitutional? DeSantis claims the measure is intended to counteract "the malign influence of the Chinese Communist Party in the state of Florida," when in fact it's nothing more than a desperate attempt to one-up his Republican presidential primary opponents in their race to, uh, make America white great again.

Consumers, food-makers face choice as WHO cancer agency set to warn on aspartame sweeteners as a carcinogen
Well, we aren't one to argue with scientists, but if aspartame is cancerous then Diet Coke-swilling Donald Trump would likely be one big sentient tumor at this point, right? Like, literally. Not the metaphorical tumor he is now.

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