Fox News panel erupts in chaos over "zero evidence" in Biden impeachment
Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy finally had the guts to tell his audience that Republicans don't have jack-squat on President Biden in their sham impeachment crusade — to the horror of the rest of his panel, who immediately melted down in desperate protest.
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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Supreme Court makes bombshell announcement
Trump's cronies on the Supreme Court have agreed to hear the serially indicted ex-president's appeal and decide whether or not he's immune from criminal charges in his sprawling federal election interference case. Unfortunately, given the glacially slow pace of the high court, this likely means a decision won't come before the election — meaning there is very little chance that Trump could be convicted of insurrection before November. A federal district judge and a federal appeals court have already rejected the disgraced ex-president's claim that he cannot be prosecuted for challenging the 2020 election results, and there is no reason for SCOTUS to pick up this case now, except to bail out the con man and keep him from getting convicted before voters go to the polls. Once again, a very small group of unelected and deeply corrupt judges is changing the course of American history for the worse.
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Democrats score huge win in key battleground state
Wisconsin Democrats: Governor Tony Evers just got rid of Wisconsin’s outrageous — and illegal — Republican gerrymandered maps and passed new legislative maps that Democrats can finally compete and WIN with! This is a rare opportunity to flip A TON of Republican seats — IF we have the resources. Can you chip in to help fill the legislature with progressive Democrats and start undoing all the damage that years of GOP rule has done?
Rabid House Freedom Caucus tells Senate colleagues to replace McConnell NOW
Radical, right-wing goons in the House simply cannot wait for Mitch McConnell to officially step down as GOP Senate leader later this year and have laughably accused the Kentucky Republican of being too focused on delivering on Democratic priorities, like providing more US aid to Ukraine to fend off Russia's ongoing, brutal invasion. "No need to wait till November," they wrote in a statement on their Twitter account. "Senate Republicans should IMMEDIATELY elect a *Republican* Minority Leader." That's right, folks. Mitch McConnell — who voted with Trump more than 90% of the time, has a lifetime A+ rating from the frickin' NRA, helped orchestrate the installment of THREE right-wing justices to the Supreme Court hand-picked by Donald himself, and stood as the disgraced ex-president's most effective firewall against conviction in BOTH of Trump's impeachment trials — is no longer Republican enough for the MAGA clown caucus. Incredible.
GOP senator derails bill to protect access to IVF
Following the astoundingly stupid ruling by a radical, right-wing Alabama court last week that declared embryos are babies, Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi single-handedly derailed Democratic legislation which would've created badly needed federal protections for IVF. The treatment, which helps hundreds of thousands of Americans welcome babies into their families each year, has run head first into the GOP's deranged, dogmatic obsession with controlling women's bodies and dictating reproductive care in America. Hyde-Smith claimed the bill, put forward by Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth, was full of "poison pills" as she and her Republican colleagues took to the Senate floor to spout some absolute top-shelf, grade-A bullshit about leaving such matters to state legislatures. Had enough? Vote blue in November.
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Judge denies Trump request to post $100 million bond instead of "impossible" $464 million penalty in New York fraud case
Trump has just 30 days to pay up before the New York attorney general's office can begin collecting on the fraudster's nearly half-BILLION dollar fine, but it turns out the world's Lyingest Liar Who Ever Lied doesn't actually have the money he said he did. Shocking, we know. Trump's attorneys said it would be "impossible" for him to put up the full amount without selling off some of his properties...to which we reply, "Hey, you f*cked around! Now, you're finding out!"
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Texas executes Ivan Cantu for the murders of his cousin and his cousin’s fiancée in 2000
A public advocacy campaign demanding the staying of Cantu's execution has failed, and the endless bloodlust of the Texas state has claimed another life under very questionable circumstances. There was so much wrong with the case against Cantu, including false testimony, evidence withheld by the prosecution, and key witnesses who later recanted their statements. Cantu swore he was framed by rival drug dealers, and even three trial jurors have said that they might have rendered a different verdict if they'd known all that they know now. But all of that mattered not to Gov. Greg Abbott, who has made a name for himself as one of the cruelest men in America.
Republican ruling backfires in spectacular fashion
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A California middle school is investigating students sharing AI-made nude photos of classmates
Nothing screams we need federal legislation regulating AI image generators RIGHT NOW more than kids being able to make deepfake pornography of their underage classmates...IN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
Hackers threaten to leak Trump trial docs if ransom isn't paid
A ransomware crew that claims to have obtained a trove of court documents related to Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Fulton County, Georgia, is threatening to dump it all online unless officials agree to buy its silence, according to a new report from former Washington Post reporter Brian Krebs. In a recent blog post, Krebs reported that the Russian-based LockBit hacker collective has warned it will publish the stolen documents on Saturday. It was not immediately clear how much money LockBit, which has published proof of the hack, has demanded. The threat surfaced after the FBI seized the gang’s servers last week, briefly taking them offline before the hackers were able to mount a comeback on the dark web.
Illinois judge removes Trump from ballot because of "insurrectionist ban"
The serial grifter and presumptive Republican nominee for president has now been kicked off the ballot in THREE states, including Colorado and Maine. But those decisions have been paused pending the appeal of the Colorado case to the US Supreme Court, and the Illinois case is unfortunately paused, too. Sadly, it's hard to see how Trump's hand-picked justices would let him get kicked off the ballot for trying to — must we remind everyone — literally overthrow the government.
America's largest companies dodged more than $276 BILLION in taxes from 2018 to 2022, report finds
But please, tell us more about welfare moochers and the lazy lower class perpetually taking the United States government for a ride. 🙄
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