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Trump likens himself to the "great, great" Al Capone at Reno rally
The serially indicted ex-president provoked fresh outrage by comparing himself to the "great, great" Chicago Mafia boss Al Capone during his second campaign rally of the weekend on Sunday evening. Less than a day after channeling Adolf Hitler and praising current despotic world leaders, the 77-year-old grifter and GOP frontrunner (falsely) griped that he had now been indicted on more occasions than the notorious Depression-era mobster, asking his audience in Reno, Nevada: "Did anybody ever hear of the great Alphonse Capone, Al Capone, great, great head of the mafia, right? Now, I heard he was indicted once — a couple of people told me a few times more — but I was indicted four times." Fun fact: Capone was responsible for more than 200 murders during his blood-soaked reign. What a "great" guy!

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump snaps on stage, loses it at his own rally
At this point, if you want to know what the autocratic con man and serial philanderer is guilty of, just listen to what he accused President Biden of doing, because the projection could not be more obvious.

Republicans salivate at the thought of stealing a battleground Senate seat
Bob Casey for Senate: Stung from their humiliating defeat in 2022, McConnell and his cronies have now set their sights on defeating Bob Casey and flipping the Senate back to red. Can you chip in to help re-elect Sen. Casey and protect our critical Senate majority?

"Could care less": Lindsey Graham shrugs off Trump's appalling anti-immigrant rant
Repeatedly pressed to respond to the disgraced ex-president's dangerous, autocratic, and starkly Hitler-esque rhetoric concerning immigrants "poisoning the blood of our country," GOP Senator and Trump whipping boy Lindsay Graham flatly stated, "You know, we’re talking about language? I could care less what language people use as long as we get it right." Folks, when Republicans tell you how they really feel, believe them.

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Florida GOP suspends chairman and demands his resignation amid rape investigation
The Republican Party of Florida finally suspended Chairman Christian Ziegler and are now demanding his resignation as his ongoing sexual assault scandal explodes into public view. Ziegler is accused of raping a woman in October with whom he and his wife, Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, had a prior consensual sexual relationship, according to police records. Bridget Ziegler, who has railed against LGBTQ+ rights and the liberal "woke" agenda — whatever that means — as a member of the Sarasota School Board and as a leader of the anti-intellectual, pro-Dark-Ages hate group Moms of Liberty, is facing pressure of her own to step down amid well-deserved accusations of stunning hyopcrisy. Evergreen reminder: When Republicans are kicking and screaming about society's great ills, it's almost always pure projection.

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George Santos’ Cameo beef with Jimmy Kimmel heats up
Serial fabulist and disgraced ex-Congressman George Santos has apparently had enough of Jimmy Kimmel’s Cameo pranks. Kimmel has aired a number of hilarious paid-for Cameo videos made by Santos on his show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, as part of a new segment/social experiment titled "Will Santos Say It?." Santos' attorney sent a letter stating, "We are writing to congratulate you — your 'dream' of being sued by Mr. Santos may indeed come true." You can really feel Kimmel shaking in his boots, can't you?

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Trump embraces conspiratorial language to attack Big Pharma
We here at atAdvocacy aren't going to leap at the chance to defend "Big Pharma," for the list of complaints we have with the multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical industry is long, but facts matter. The disgraced ex-president's deeply dangerous and anti-intellectual embrace of vaccine conspiracies and the supposed connection between vaccines and chronic illness is ringing alarm bells inside medical and scientific communities. Vaccine scientist and pediatrician Peter Hotez noted that Trump's conspiratorial language is "so vague and so badly crafted, how do you even address it? It gives them a license to bring up any condition they want, whether it's asthma or whether its peanut allergies or whether it's lupus. They just use it as a catchall for whatever they feel like alleging at the time." In Trumpland, the loudest shouter tells the biggest truth.

Republicans finally go too far with STUNNING stunt
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Unreal.

Ohio Supreme Court dismisses challenge to order blocking enforcement of abortion ban
The Ohio Supreme Court has dismissed Republican state leaders' challenge to a judge's order that has blocked enforcement of Ohio's near-ban on abortions for the past 14 months. Justices ultimately denied Republican Attorney General Dave Yost request that they launch their own review of the constitutional right to abortion, leaving such arguments for a lower court. The ruling now moves action in the case back to Hamilton County Common Pleas, where abortion clinics asked Judge Christian Jenkins this week to permanently throw out the law following voters’ decision to approve enshrining abortion rights in the state constitution. Little by little, inch by inch, the fight for bodily autonomy marches on...

A Black woman in Ohio was criminally charged after a miscarriage. It shows the perils of pregnancy post-Roe
...And the stakes could not be higher. Case in point: Ohio was in the throes of its bitter debate over abortion rights this fall when 33-year-old Brittany Watts, 21 weeks and 5 days pregnant, began passing thick blood clots. The doctor said that, while a fetal heartbeat was still present, Watts’ water had broken prematurely and the fetus she was carrying would not survive. He advised heading to the hospital to have her labor induced, so she could have what amounted to an abortion to deliver the nonviable fetus. Otherwise, she would face "significant risk" of death. That was a Tuesday in September. What followed was a harrowing three days entailing: multiple trips to the hospital; Watts miscarrying into, and then flushing and plunging, a toilet at her home; a police investigation of those actions; and Watts, who is Black, being charged with being — wait for it — abuse of a corpse, a fifth-degree felony punishable by up to a year in prison and a $2,500 fine. In the wake of the radical right-wing Supreme Court's disastrous Dobbs ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, pregnant women like Watts, who was not even trying to get an abortion, have increasingly found themselves charged with "crimes against their own pregnancies," said Grace Howard, assistant justice studies professor at San José State University. "Roe was a clear legal roadblock to charging felonies for unintentionally harming pregnancies, when women were legally allowed to end their pregnancies through abortion,” she said. "Now that Roe is gone, that roadblock is entirely gone."

Clarence Thomas' complaints about money sparked fears he would resign, prompting deluge of billionaire gifts
Clarence Thomas' jealousy at not being as wealthy as the other Supreme Court justices and his high levels of debt led to him complaining to a Republican member of Congress. He hinted that he might even resign if his financial situation didn't improve...which kicked off the outrageous gravy train of gifts and defrayed living expenses from his wealthy benefactors on top of a campaign to raise SCOTUS' salaries from his GOP backers in Congress. The value of Thomas' vote as a hardline conservative on the Court was too important to the greater oligarchal project of corrupting every level of American governance, and Thomas proved himself an eager participant.

Amazon tells hard-off workers to beg orange blob mascot for holiday bonus
In yet another shockingly out-of-touch show of condescension from the corporate colossus, a flyer found in an Amazon warehouse in Rock Tavern, New York tells hard-off workers to write a letter to "Peccy," the company's Minion-like corporate mascot, for a chance to have their "holiday wishes" come true. Workers should not have to indignify themselves by begging an orange blob to help their families while working for a company that just tripled its quarterly profits to $9.9 BILLION dollars.