BREAKING: Sen. Dianne Feinstein has died at age 90

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House GOP’s OWN impeachment witnesses say there's no evidence that Biden committed a crime
The House Oversight Committee on Thursday convened its first sham hearing in the GOP's futile impeachment inquiry, presenting a panel of 👏 hand-picked 👏 Republican 👏 witnesses 👏 who admitted there is no evidence of a crime by President Joe Biden. Enough with the clown show. Can we maybe get back to work NOT shutting down the federal government, please? [RETWEET THAT!]

Take Action: Demand Speaker McCarthy stop his baseless impeachment inquiry into President Biden!

VIDEO OF THE DAY: Star Democrat torches fiddling House Republicans with speech of the year
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett utterly eviscerated deeply unserious Republicans during their sham impeachment inquiry hearing against Joe Biden, torching her, uh, we'll call them colleagues for the raft of illegality they enthusiastically defend on behalf of Trump while desperately flailing about for any whiff of wrongdoing on the part of President Biden. We'd call it a galling double standard, but that would suggest literally any standard exists for Republicans in the first place.

Defending Tammy Baldwin's Wisconsin Senate seat is the key to preventing a second Trump presidency
Tammy Baldwin for Senate: They say whichever way Wisconsin goes, so goes the presidency — which makes defending Sen. Baldwin's seat a top Democratic priority for 2024. Can you chip in to Tammy Baldwin's re-election campaign to protect our Senate majority and help propel President Biden to a second term in this end-all-be-all battleground state?

Court rejects Donald Trump’s bid to delay trial in wake of fraud ruling that threatens his business
An appeals court Thursday rejected the serially indicted con man's latest bid to delay his civil trial in a $250 million lawsuit brought by New York’s attorney general, allowing the case to proceed days after a judge ruled the disgraced ex-president committed years of fraud and stripped him of some companies as punishment. It's not justice, but we're inching closer to something resembling accountability here.

Take Action: Stop the racist, sexist attacks on Trump's prosecutor!

Joe Biden comes out swinging, warns voters a second Trump presidency will threaten democracy
President Biden dramatically raised the ante in his reelection campaign with a stark and impassioned warning about the threat the serially indicted grifter and runaway frontrunner in the GOP primary poses to American democracy. We shouldn't be here, of course, but Republicans abandoned any semblance of principle long ago, paving the way for the woefully ill-equipped, washed-up, narcissistic autocrat to take paralyzing control of their morally bankrupt party.

Take Action: Tell President Biden to protect access to Medicaid!

Hero steals the show, gives not-so-subtle finger to radical, right-wing, "anti-woke" Oklahoma schools boss zealot
Not all heroes wear capes, folks.

Freedom Caucus clowns plotting move to oust Kevin McCarthy next week
Kevin McCarthy's brief and disastrous run as House speaker appears to be rapidly nearing its end, as even-further-right-wing goons in the so-called Freedom Caucus are openly plotting his removal as early as next week. So far, no viable alternatives have emerged to take the reins. Turns out very few folks seem keen on running an adult daycare center overrun with entitlement and pugnacity.

Take Action: Stop Republican gerrymandering!

Boebert's challenger now poised to UNSEAT her in upcoming election
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Brian interviews the Democrat running for Lauren Boebert’s seat in Colorado, Adam Frisch, about her Beetlejuice scandal and how he plans on winning what was the closest race of 2022.

Elon Musk’s border livestream on X plagued by technical issues
Much like Ron DeSantis' glitch-ridden presidential announcement on Twitter earlier this year, Elon's attempt yesterday to livestream his southern US border circus show was plagued by technical issues, robbing the billionaire tech bozo of his cowboy cosplay moment in the sun. Following the incident, Musk sent a brief email to the entire staff at X that read, “Please fix this.” Maybe if he hadn't fired 80% of Twitter's staff after his $44 billion takeover that would be an easier assignment?

Black Tesla workers endured routine and incessant racial abuse for years, according to new lawsuit
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Elon Musk’s car company for tolerating and enabling "widespread and ongoing racial harassment" of its Black employees and retaliating against them when they complained. For years, Black employees at the company’s Fremont, California plant have had to routinely endure “racial abuse, pervasive stereotyping, and hostility, as well as epithets such as variations of the N-word, 'monkey,' 'boy,' and 'black b*tch.'" Employees also described being subjected to imagery like swastikas, nooses, references to the Ku Klux Klan, and scrawled threats like "kill black people," the agency’s lawsuit says. Good stuff, Elon.

Student loan payments to resume even if GOP shuts down government
Despite advocates' pleas for the Biden administration to slam on the brakes, the US Education Department confirmed Thursday that student loan payments will resume for the first time in three-and-a-half years on October 1 — even if Republicans force the federal government to shut down. Student loan debt began accruing interest again earlier this month after the coronavirus pandemic-related pause, and, well, you've got to feed the beast, right?