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Former Trump aide Peter Navarro convicted for contempt of Congress
Former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro became the second high-ranking former Trump official to be convicted in a case related to Donald's incessant and incredibly illegal efforts to steal the 2020 election. Don't worry, Peter. Many more of your friends and colleagues will be joining you soon.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Jim Jordan absolutely schooled by Fani Willis
Trump lap dog and very serious man with hands on hips Jim Jordan brought his trusty spork to a legal knife fight with the Fulton County district attorney and things went about as well as you'd expect. In a sharply worded clapback letter, Willis wrote, "Chairman Jordan, I tell people often ‘deal with reality or reality will deal with you.’ It is time that you deal with some basic realities... Your letter makes clear that you lack a basic understanding of the law, its practice, and the ethical obligations of attorneys generally and prosecutors specifically." Mic drop.

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Corporate jagoffs have no place in Congress
Chris Deluzio for Congress: Rep. Deluzio represents one of the most critical swing districts in the country — in Western PA. He's not shying away from holding big corporations accountable and standing up for the little guy who for too long has been ripped off by the rich and powerful. Republicans are coming for Chris but you can help send him back to Congress. Will you chip in to help get him re-elected?

Republicans are trying to find a new term for "pro-life" to stave off more electoral losses
We'll make this easy for you, Republicans. It's not the cute little names you give your catastrophic policies. It's the horror and trauma your theocratic moral crusading inflicts on innocent people that doesn't sit well with a clear majority of Americans. Call it whatever you want, we'll keep fighting — and winning — until reproductive freedom is the sacrosanct law of the land.

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Trump hosts $100,000-per-person Bedminster fundraiser to help Giuliani pay legal bills
In a move we honestly did not see coming, the disgraced ex-president appeared to offer some sort of helping hand to his impressively inept former lawyer, who's facing a barrage of legal fees, fines, sanctions, and damages directly related to his brazen efforts to overturn and steal the 2020 election on behalf of Trump. Donald didn't tap into his supposed vault of vast personal wealth to help Rudy out, of course, instead opting to bilk deep-pocketed fans from MAGA land to the tune of $100,000 each to, um, we'll say "dine" together at his Bedminster golf club. The event was expected to raise more than $1 million for Giuliani. He's gonna need a lot more where that came from at the rate he's crimed.

Watchdog finds Trump's ridiculous border wall harmed environment, Indigenous sites, and wildlife
"This racist political stunt has been an ineffective waste of billions of American taxpayers' dollars — and now we know it has caused immeasurable, irreparable harm," said Democratic Congressman Raúl Grijalva in response to the newly released Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. File this one under D for "Duh," folks.

Texas paid bitcoin miner Riot $31.7 million to shut down during heat wave in August
In the hyper-capitalist hellscape that is Texas' heavily deregulated utility market, power grid operator ERCOT actually gave bitcoin miner Riot Platforms nearly $32 MILLION in energy credits to NOT mine coins during this summer's record heat wave. The total value of the credits dwarfed the 333 bitcoin the company mined in August, worth about $8.9 million dollars as of the end of the month. Riot Platforms is not alone. ERCOT has a relatively simple, mutually beneficial, and altogether nefarious relationship with bitcoin miners. The agency, through established “demand response” programs, pays miners to reduce their power so as not to overstress the state's rickety grid when air conditioners need to run at full blast. It's a helluva business model — build massive, energy-intensive coin-mining plants in the regulatory wild west of Texas, effectively hold the grid hostage with systemic overuse, then get paid exorbitant sums to NOT trigger blackouts so ordinary folks can run their AC units to stave off wave after wave of brutal, deadly heat.

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Secretaries of State weigh Trump disqualification in 2024
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: This could be big...

Special grand jury report that led to Trump's Georgia indictment to be released
This should make for some fun, light, weekend reading!

Private equity sues to stop new transparency rules
Six private equity trade groups filed a lawsuit last week seeking to block the SEC from implementing already watered-down new fund oversight rules. Lead attorney Eugene Scalia — it sounds familiar because it is familiar — argued the SEC overstepped its authority to regulate private funds. In short, private equity isn't asking for fairer or smarter or prettier rules. It's asking for no new rules at all. What could possibly go wrong?

Seven in 10 West Africans turned down for US student visas
The overall rate of refusal in 2022 for African students seeking US visas was 54% in 2022. By contrast, refusal rates were constantly under 10% in Europe and mostly under 35% elsewhere. Make of those troubling numbers what you will.

Kavanaugh predicts "concrete steps soon" to address glaring Supreme Court ethics concerns
Uh, yeah. We're expecting something more along the lines of wet gravel over loose dirt, but whatever you say, Brett.