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Trump faces reckoning as DC judge mulls gag order
US District Court Judge and woman not f*cking around Tanya Chutkan will consider special counsel Jack Smith's formal request to order the serially indicted ex-president to stop attacking potential witnesses, prosecutors, and court officials involved in his sweeping federal case over election fraud. Trump obviously cannot stop yapping away about all the ways the world has wronged him, so a formal gag order would drastically raise the specter of jail time for the grifter should Chutkan see fit to rein him in.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump accidentally humiliates himself with ridiculous gaffe
The 77-year-old, disgraced ex-president has increasingly become a slurring gaffe machine on the campaign trail, punctuated perfectly by this weekend's tremendously bigly teleprompter fail, where he turned run-of-the-mill barbs against perceived Republican enemies into something far more bizarre with a sloshy slip of the tongue.

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Republicans hint at possible deal with Democrats on House speaker as internal fight continues
Mutinous, far-right toddlers holding the US House of Representatives hostage for nearly two weeks have grinded the chamber to a halt, as Republicans have yet to coalesce around a new speaker to replace Kevin McCarthy. Jim Jordan is poised to meet the same fate as Steve Scalise before him, with numerous holdouts refusing to help him reach the magical number of 217 yay votes to win the gavel. The unfolding carnival is now forcing slightly less radical members of the party to consider the once unthinkable — working with Democrats to elect a speaker and get on with the job the American people sent them to DC to do: actually govern.

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President Biden says Hamas should be eliminated "entirely"
The president appeared on CBS' 60 Minutes and declared that the Palestinian militant group Hamas should be eliminated "entirely" — but reiterated his support for a "two state" solution to the conflict that involves an official Palestinian state and a Palestinian authority to run it. Biden also insisted that US support for Ukraine’s war against Russia would not be interrupted by the new conflict.

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71-year-old landlord stabs six-year-old Muslim boy to death in Illinois hate crime
A 71-year-old, ignorant, angry landlord has been charged with murder and a hate crime after fatally stabbing a SIX-YEAR-OLD CHILD and grievously wounding his mother simply because they were Muslims. "You Muslims must die!" Joseph Czuba screamed as he carried out the vile attack, which was surely in no way influenced or spurred on by the alarmingly racist, xenophobic rhetoric spewing from right-wing airwaves and radical "America First" politicians 24 hours a day.

Ted Cruz’s Democratic challenger Colin Allred outraises him by nearly $2 million in donations
Permanently grounding Flyin' Ted in Texas is obviously a tall order, but state Rep. Colin Allred is giving Democrats reason for optimism, having raised $4.7 million in donations during the third quarter, nearly $2 million more than Cruz in that same period.

The possibility of a DEMOCRATIC Speaker surges into spotlight
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Mike Pence’s presidential dreams looking grim after pathetic fundraising haul
In news everyone not named Mike Pence could see coming a mile away, the one-time Trump lapdog's aspirations of claiming the GOP nomination are dissolving faster than Metamucil in a glass of tepid milk. The sentient bran flake apparently believed he could somehow convince the Republican Party, including a rabid MAGA base that literally chanted "Hang Mike Pence!" during Trump's failed insurrection, that he was the best man for the job this time around. Hubris, it's a thing!

Lauren Boebert spent campaign cash at Beetlejuice boyfriend’s drag-friendly bar
The cloud-ripping QAnon congresswoman wasn't just dating the LGBTQ-friendly, Democratic owner of Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar in Aspen, Colorado, folks. She dropped hundreds of dollars of campaign cash at the super scary drag-friendly establishment, news her virulently homophobic base of supporters will surely be thrilled to learn.