Australian minister calls Donald Trump Jr. a "big baby" over canceled tour
The noted animal shooter and sweaty crime syndicate scion has cancelled his speaking tour of Australia for what he claims are visa issues — but Australian Home Minister Clare O'Neil shot down his pathetic attempt at crying victimhood in epic fashion. "Geez, Donald Trump Jr. is a bit of a sore loser... Donald Trump Jr. has been given a visa to come to Australia. He didn't get cancelled. He's just a big baby, who isn't very popular," O'Neil said. Who would have thought a juiced-up Donnie J. projecting his daddy issues through trite culture war rants about gay beer wouldn't go over Down Under? [RETWEET THAT!]
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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Republicans dump Marjorie Taylor Greene in ultimate humiliation
The radical-right-wing Freedom Caucus booted QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from their ranks in the most humiliating blacklisting of a clown since Bozo was unceremoniously ousted from the esteemed World Clown Association for talking shit about Ronald McDonald's kitchen sink dye job. Greene's supposed red-line offense? Calling Lauren Boebert a "nasty little bitch" on the House floor. Tsk, tsk.
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Pete Buttigieg SMACKS DOWN Republicans who voted NO but took credit
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NYC mayor made up fake story about police officer photo he "carried in his wallet for decades"
In one of the more breathtakingly shameless displays of political pandering in recent memory, the "photo of a fallen police officer" that NYC Mayor Eric Adams says he carried around in his pocket for "decades" is in fact a picture his staff recently printed from the internet and then poured coffee on to make it look older. This is not the first time that the right-wing mayor has been caught lying to the public; both his politics and his behavior are what you would expect from a Republican, not an ostensible Democrat, which makes his election in the first place all the more bewildering.
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The organization central to stoking panic against trans athletes is now driving targeted threats against high schoolers
The Independent Council on Women’s Sports, a right-wing anti-trans group instrumental in driving anti-trans legislation throughout the country, has now gone full witch-hunt mode by publicly identifying trans athletes and directing its followers to harass and threaten KIDS for the very terrible crime of...participating in school sports. It's obvious these rabble rousers don't give a shit about women's sports or the welfare of children, since they are subjecting actual kids to debilitating harassment and abuse — they want to force trans people back into the closet, plain and simple. [RETWEET THAT!]
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Florida GOP lawmaker faces multiple allegations of sexual harassment
In what is possibly the MOST Florida Republican story ever, a legislative aide accused Rep. Fabian Basabe of groping his buttocks while attending an 👏 elementary 👏 school 👏 Career Day and telling him, "I want all of that butt." In a separate incident, an unpaid intern says Basabe repeatedly harassed him and told him to break off his engagement to his girlfriend and "explore his sexuality by having sex with men." Uh, you really can't be doing that, Fabian.
Trump valet Walt Nauta pleads not guilty in classified documents case
The other guy charged in the disgraced ex-president's stolen documents case has finally managed to hire a lawyer and has appeared in court, pleading "nauta guilty" to the 38 counts of assorted crimes he committed on behalf of his con man boss. Prosecutors have accused Nauta of helping Trump move boxes of classified documents to deliberately hide them from the traitor's own lawyers.
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Ohio abortion amendment has necessary signatures to appear on ballot, organizers say
The people of Ohio will finally have a say on whether or not they deserve the right to an abortion as the move to put the issue to a statewide referendum appears to have succeeded — as long as at least 413,000 of the 700,000 (!!!) signatures that organizers collected are valid. Buckle up and prepare to canvass, folks! There is no way in hell we can let this opportunity to restore abortion rights in Ohio — and consequently, for people who live in the surrounding states — go to waste. [RETWEET THAT!]
Nearly half of nation's tap water contains PFAS, a new study finds. Americans living in urban areas are most at risk
Well, well, well, if it isn't the greed of corporate America knowingly poisoning all of us, AGAIN. Hopefully the Grand Old Party of fAmiLy VaLuEs will be champing at the bit to hold chemical companies accountable for, again, poisoning our drinking water with tiny substances that cause cancer, low birth weight, and thyroid disease... Right?
Elon threatens to sue Meta for stealing "trade secrets" by hiring his ex-staff to build their new Twitter competitor
Now, we aren't big time geniuses like Elon Musk, but maybe unceremoniously firing 80% of the Twitter staff and cheating them out of their severance pay was not the smartest idea. Did the billionaire tech bozo think all those highly employable folks were just never going to work again?
The leader of the JFK-QAnon cult is dead — but his followers think it's all part of the plan
To you, it's just a notorious charlatan falling off a dirt bike and dying of a brain injury, but to Michael Protzman's followers, that's just part of God's plan to kill the "evil" Protzman so that the "good" Protzman — who they believe is JFK Jr. in a mask — can, uh, reveal the rest of the super duper important plan soon, or something. Just. You. Wait.
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Today’s Action: Tell Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to release wrongfully convicted Keith LaMar!
Death row inmate Keith LaMar is set to be executed on November 16, 2023, despite extensive evidence that he was wrongfully convicted of murder by the state of Ohio. LaMar, imprisoned in 1989 for using deadly force to defend himself against a violent home robbery, was only four years into his sentence when an uprising broke out at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. The event resulted in the death of a prison guard as well as multiple inmates, and with no one to pin the catastrophe on at the time the state worked as hard as they could to ensure LaMar would take the blame — all to maintain the illusion that they had the situation under control.
Paid informants offered false testimony, evidence of his innocence was intentionally withheld (including a confession to one of the murders from another inmate), and potential Black jurors were intentionally dismissed from hearing the trial. Keith LaMar, an innocent Black man, was sentenced to death by an all-white jury and judge. He has subsequently spent the last 28 years in solitary confinement with no exceptions for good behavior, fighting to keep his indomitable spirit alive.
Write Gov. DeWine and demand that he IMMEDIATELY release LaMar!
In 2011, the Joint Task Force to Review the Administration of Ohio's Death Penalty asserted "that no one should be indicted, let alone sentenced to death, based solely on the uncorroborated testimony of jailhouse informants." This is an independent task force of retired judges, attorneys, and college professors that was literally brought together by the Ohio Supreme Court. Based on this recommendation alone, LaMar should NOT be sentenced to death.
LaMar has suffered physical and mental abuse for nearly three decades for a crime he did not commit, thanks to a badly broken, notoriously racist justice system. It's past time to make it right.
Fill out Gov. DeWine’s “Contact Us” form to call for the immediate release of Keith LaMar, before it's too late!
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