
Trump goes on bizarre "would you rather" rally rant about ways to die
Gobbledygook and Trump pep rallies go hand in hand, but the serial grifter served up a babbling aside so strange on Sunday it baffled even the most ardent MAGA supporters who usually hang rapturously on the con man's every word. Ranting in Iowa about electric cars, Trump declared he’d rather be electrocuted than eaten by a shark if he was in a shipwreck. "If I’m sitting down and that boat’s going down and I’m on top of a battery, and the water starts flooding in, I’m getting concerned," Trump bloviated. "But then I look 10 yards to my left and there’s a shark over there. So I have a choice of electrocution or a shark — you know what I’m going to take? Electrocution. I will take electrocution every single time. Do we agree?” Uh, whatever you say, Donnie.
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Matt Gaetz says he will seek to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker this week
Florida congressman, accused sex trafficker, and professional Trump bootlicker Matt Gaetz said he will try to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a fellow Republican, from his leadership position this week after McCarthy relied on Democratic support to pass stop-gap legislation that avoided a catastrophic government shutdown. "Bring it on," the feckless speaker responded, raising the, uh we'll call them stakes, in the House GOP's dysfunctional race to the bottom.
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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?
Trump fraud civil suit starting Monday threatens to end his business career
New York Attorney General Letitia James has accused the disgraced ex-president of committing years of systemic, ongoing fraud to make himself wealthier and broker more favorable deals for his businesses. If found liable, the serial con man could be forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and lose his ability to continue doing business in New York City. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
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Fox News host tells Ron DeSantis to "face it" in blunt 2024 reality check
You know things have really gone off the rails for your floundering presidential aspirations when Fox News' far-right grievance machine and Big Lie mouthpiece Maria Bartiromo is dressing you down over your abysmal poll numbers. Maybe dial back those ambitious goals and stick to only ruining the lives of Floridians, Ron?

Gov. Gavin Newsom names Laphonza Butler, former Kamala Harris adviser, to Feinstein Senate seat
Newsom has appointed Laphonza Butler, a Democratic strategist and adviser to Harris' 2020 presidential campaign, to temporarily fill the US Senate seat made vacant by the death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein. In choosing Butler — who will serve out the remainder of Feinstein's term through January 2025 — Newsom fulfilled his pledge to appoint a Black woman to any future openings in the chamber. Butler will be the only Black woman serving in the US Senate and the first openly LGBTQ+ person to represent California as a senator.
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Trump calls for Jamaal Bowman to be jailed for triggering House office building fire alarm
The disgraced ex-president and noted insurrection instigator called Bowman's actions "a horrible display of nerve and criminality" without an ounce of irony or self-awareness.

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.
Sen. Lindsey Graham says ousting McCarthy as House speaker would be a disaster
To be fair, NOT ousting Kevin McCarthy would also be a disaster, McCarthy being the very lowest of common denominators here.
Millions of borrowers set to resume monthly payments as pandemic pause on student loans officially ends
After more than three years, millions of Americans will be getting bills this month from the Department of Education as federal student loan repayments officially restart. Repayments were paused in March 2020 as a response to the financial hardship many faced in the onset of the COVID pandemic. President Biden's efforts thus far to forgive student loan debt across the board have been met with fierce resistance from Republicans, who are perfectly willing to subsidize all manner of corporate welfare to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars every year but can't seem to find the congressional pocket change or personal courage to transform the lives of millions of Americans with a comparatively small act of compassion.

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