Trump doubles down on xenophobic anti-immigrant attacks, claims he's never even read Hitler's "Mein Kampf"
The disgraced ex-president doubled down — yet again — on his appalling "poisoning the blood of our country" attacks on immigrants and offered up a most baffling defense: assuring his minions that he's never even read Adolf Hitler's infamous Mein Kampf and so the eerily similar, anti-immigrant language they share is just a big coincidence! Donald, everyone knows haven't read Mein Kampf, because, well, that would require reading. We're really more concerned with the vile, racist, xenophobic bile spewing out of your mouth everyday and what it means for the future of this country.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump disqualified from ballot
THIS IS NOT A DRILL! The entire 2024 political landscape has been upended with a single swing of the proverbial gavel.

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One last chance to avert catastrophe
Environmental Defense Fund: With the climate crisis accelerating by the year, the results of the 2024 election will prove to be pivotal for the course of human civilization as we know it. It is red-alert, all-hands-on-deck, sound-the-alarm important that we elect climate champions who will lead the way in transitioning to a green economy and putting an end to the fossil fuel pollution that threatens everything that we hold dear. Will you pledge to vote for climate champions in 2024 and help avert disaster?

Federal judge orders documents naming Jeffrey Epstein's associates to be unsealed
At long last, nearly four years after the abrupt and suspicious death of the notorious archpedophile, the names of his unindicted co-conspirators, customers, and assorted hangers-on will finally be revealed to the public. Given the high profile of the people we know were in his circle — men like former Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, sweaty Prince Andrew, former Israeli PM Ehud Barak, and RFK Jr. — the release of the documents is sure to cause a stir and some very uncomfortable press conferences.

Take Action: Expose Republicans trying taking credit for the Biden infrastructure law they opposed!

Police crash car into St. Louis gay bar, then arrest co-owner
Only in America can the cops speed so fast down a road that they lose control and crash an SUV into your place of business and then arrest YOU for getting angry about it. A co-owner came down from his home above the bar at 12:30am to see what had happened and was put in cuffs for refusing to show his ID, in HIS OWN BAR, which the cop had, again, JUST CRASHED HIS CAR INTO. The bar's other co-owner became understandably super pissed off about the whole ordeal, leading to some sort of altercation which got HIM arrested and charged with a felony for "assaulting an officer," which was predictably reduced to a misdemeanor hours later. Video footage of the cop threatening to arrest others on the scene on preposterous "nobody gets to yell at me" grounds apparently exists, but has not yet been made public. What an absurd miscarriage of justice and a terrifying glimpse into the impunity with which American police conduct themselves.

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118th Congress set to be one of the least productive in US history
You can't deny that the GOP majority in Congress hasn't been busy — after all, think of all the countless investigations that produced no evidence, the hysterical press conferences, the two protracted and deeply embarrassing speakership battles, that time they kicked out George Santos for defrauding fellow Rep. Max Miller's mom, the time a vaping Lauren Boebert got to second base at a family theater performance, the efforts to impeach every single member of the Biden administration... It's sure been a wild ride. Unfortunately, they failed to do the one thing they were actually elected to do, which is govern. So far this year, which ends in twelve days, they have passed just 20 bills. 20! Surely the American people will be proud of a Congress whose greatest achievements include renaming VA clinics and minting a special coin for the birthday of the Marine Corps.

Texas power plants have no responsibility to provide electricity in emergencies, judges rule
Welcome to the libertarian paradise of Texas, where the deregulated, for-profit power companies are both unable to provide power for all their customers AND can't be held liable for letting your grandma freeze to death when their duct-tape and coat-hanger-ass power grid inevitably collapses under the weight of neglect and refusal to divert any money away from almighty shareholder profits.

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

Charges against Chicago man dropped in murder case that relied on "legally blind" witness testimony
Darien Harris is finally being released from prison after serving 12 years of a 76-year sentence handed down by a judge who relied on eyewitness testimony from a legally blind person in the murder of Rondell Moore. The alleged getaway driver in the killing admitted that police had coerced him into pointing the finger at Harris. This story of incredibly tenuous evidence and police coercion used to condemn a Black man into the carceral state plays itself out over and over and over again across the country, and it should never stop making you furious.

Civil rights, advocacy groups sue to stop Texas immigration law
That didn't take very long. Gov. Greg Abbott's appalling new bill granting the police the power to arrest anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant — i.e., having brown skin — has already been met with legal challenges by the ACLU and other civil rights groups, and if the Supreme Court's decision to squash Arizona's 2010 "Show Me Your Papers" law is anything to judge by, this bill should go straight in the dumpster for unconstitutional GOP radicalism.

New COVID strain rises in US ahead of holidays
A fast-spreading new COVID-19 variant called JN.1 could drive a new wave of disease across the country this holiday season just as other respiratory viruses are cresting, experts say. Daily new infection numbers are at 965,000 and aren't even close to peaking. Make sure to take adequate precautions and get tested before you go see your family for the holidays!

America's Greyhound bus stops are being preyed on by private equity vultures
Millions of Americans rely on our beleaguered private bus systems like Greyhound and Megabus to get around the country. But it's getting harder and harder for them to do so because — stop us if you've heard THIS one before — the bus stations are all getting gobbled up by private equity vultures, who then close them and sell off the real estate for a tidy profit.

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