Demand GOP Rep. Walberg resign for supporting the death penalty for LGBTQ people!

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Top GOP House leader doubles down on Trump’s Hitler-esque "poisoning the blood" remarks
Rep. Elise Stefanik, who has embraced her role as the grand antisemitism inquisitor of university presidents, defended the disgraced ex-president's recent claim that migrants are "poisoning the blood" of America — xenophobic comments that eerily echo Adolf Hitler’s rhetoric. Stefanik, steadfast seeker of "moral clarity" when it comes to university leaders, has a particularly less stringent and slippery set of standards when it comes to Trump and the GOP. Warning: Fealty to a cult leader may be harmful to your intellect and your country's health. [RETWEET THAT!]

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump embarrasses himself on stage at his own pep rally
While Republicans desperately want to make the 2024 election a referendum on President Biden's age and supposed cognitive decline, the serially indicted grifter's repeated on-stage ramblings tell a wildly different story. Donald Trump often sounds like someone needs to stop him from yelling at the clouds, whether he's talking about putting on pants, air currents, magnets, or, well, clouds. Please, by all means, let's continue discussing cognitive decline on the campaign trail.

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Surprise aspect of Trump's disqualification SURGES into spotlight
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Wow.

Ashli Babbitt's family files $30 million lawsuit over insurrectionist's Jan. 6 shooting death
MAGA rioter Ashli Babbitt was shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer on Jan. 6, 2021, while she tried to climb through a broken door into the Speaker's Lobby outside the House Chamber, as a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol while lawmakers were preparing to certify the results of the 2020 election. The shooting was captured on cell phone video. The insurrectionist's family is claiming in a new lawsuit that Babbitt was somehow "ambushed" when she was shot once by Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, who was protecting lawmakers just feet away from rioters who breached a barricaded door.

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Trump declines to sign Illinois pledge promising not to advocate for overthrow of US government
President Joe Biden’s campaign condemned the disgraced ex-president for sidestepping a decades-old, Illinois ballot-access tradition this past week in which candidates pledge against advocating for an overthrow of the government. Trump previously signed the pledge in 2016 and 2020. Uh, at least the serially indicted grifter is being up front about his intentions this time around?

Congressional leaders say they've reached agreement on government funding to avert shutdown
Congressional leaders announced Sunday they have reached a tentative agreement to avoid a costly government shutdown with a $1.66 trillion deal that includes $886 billion for defense and $772.7 billion for non-defense investments. "The bipartisan topline appropriations agreement clears the way for Congress to act over the next few weeks in order to maintain important funding priorities for the American people and avoid a government shutdown," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said. Disagreements on the topline have impeded negotiations as House Republicans have insisted on drastic, dead-on-arrival cuts to funding levels established under a bipartisan budget deal reached last May.

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Trump falsely claims — again — that the FBI and Antifa were "leading the charge" in Capitol insurrection
The disgraced ex-president, uh, commemorated the third anniversary of his failed insurrection by baselessly casting blame on Antifa and the FBI as the main proponents of the attack, laughably suggesting his followers were simply exercising their right to protest the results of the 2020 election. The serially indicted con man told Iowa voters with a straight face that "nobody’s been treated ever in history so badly" as "the J6 hostages." And by "hostages," of course, Donald is referring to the 1230-and-counting people arrested and prosecuted for their unlawful and seditious actions on behalf of their dear leader.

Corporate jagoffs have no place in Congress
Chris Deluzio for Congress: Chris is running for reelection in one of the most competitive districts in the nation. His GOP extremist opponents have sided with corporate jagoffs over the American people. We can't let them win. Will you chip in today to flip the House blue and get America back on track?

Pope calls for universal ban on surrogacy in global roundup of threats to peace and human dignity
Pope Francis called Monday for a universal ban on the "despicable" practice of surrogate motherhood, as he included the "commercialization" of pregnancy in an annual speech listing threats to global peace and human dignity. Francis delivered a lengthy laundry list of legitimate ills afflicting humanity and the increasing violation of international humanitarian law that allows them, before veering into a deeply problematic call for a universal ban on...surrogacy. "I consider despicable the practice of so-called surrogate motherhood, which represents a grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the child, based on the exploitation of situations of the mother’s material needs," the 87-year-old Francis stated.

Alaska Airlines and United cancel hundreds of flights following mid-air door blowout
Alaska Airlines and United Airlines canceled hundreds of flights after one of Alaska Airlines' Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft suffered a mid-air incident when an unused door exit blew out last Friday, requiring an emergency landing in Portland, Oregon. We aren't aviation experts here at atAdvocacy, but, uh, yeah, that seems like the right play here, folks.

Pentagon waited three days to inform White House that the defense secretary was hospitalized in ICU
Uh, yeah. You cannot be doing that...