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Trump claims US is headed for its own October 7 attack in raving mad anti-migrant rally speech
There's conspiratorial fearmongering, fundamentally missing the point, and cravenly playing to your base's absolute worst instincts, and then there's this — an unholy trinity of hate-fueled ignorance served on a gold-plated platter to advance the MAGA cult leader's own self-interest. Disgusting.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Democrats score huge win in special election
New York Democrat Timothy Kennedy scored a huge special election win this week, defeating Republican challenger Gary Dickson by a whopping 36%, shrinking GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson's dysfunctional majority to one, single seat. While Kennedy was forecasted to win the race in the left-leaning district, his margin of victory massively outperformed expectations, throwing cold water on right-wing proclamations of lagging Democratic voter enthusiasm.

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President Biden scores HUGE win for the planet
Evergreen Action: Thanks to the activism of Evergreen Action and people like you, President Biden has finalized new rules that will force new gas plants and coal plants to cut pollution by 90%! Will you help spread the good news and share this video far and wide?

House passes GOP's boneheaded "antisemitism" bill amid ongoing college unrest
By a troubling margin of 320-91, with 70 Democrats opposing, the House passed the so-called Antisemitism Awareness Act which, if signed into law, would require the Department of Education to adopt a new definition of antisemitism that includes all anti-Zionist expression or criticism of the Israeli government. FOUNDER'S NOTE: Each of my great-grandparents was forced to flee their home country because of laws passed against them for being Jewish. This is, to my knowledge, the first time a country has passed a measure labeling any of us antisemitic. And I am far from alone. Polling shows that two million American Jews oppose Israel's siege of Gaza and millions more loathe Netanyahu. Aside from the horrifying fact that this places our First Amendment right to peaceably assemble in opposition to a war in the same category as religious discrimination, it's a pretty terrible look for us Jews! If opposition to Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories and the slaughter in Gaza is anti-Jewish, doesn't that mean those things are inherently Jewish? We have been fighting back against bullshit conspiracies against us for centuries, and this should take its place among them.

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Arizona legislature finally votes to repeal 1864 abortion ban after Republicans cave
Just 160 years after it was enacted, the Arizona state Senate voted to repeal the state's hideous, no-good, plum-awful 1864 abortion ban, which was written by a child rapist when slavery was still a thing and women were 56 years away from being allowed to vote. Two Republicans came to their senses (or, more likely, read the electoral tea leaves) and joined Democrats to pass the measure 16-14. The bill now heads to the desk of Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, who is expected to sign it swiftly. A timely reminder that Hobbs won her hard-fought election in 2022 by a razor-thin 0.6% margin. Elections matter, folks. Please remember in November!

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Lauren Boebert met with chants of "Beetlejuice" during PR stunt visit to anti-war encampment at George Washington University
The kids are alright.

Riot police brutally clear protest encampment at UCLA with shocking force
Hundreds of police in riot gear have charged into the UCLA protest by pro-Palestinian human rights and anti-war advocates a day after their encampment was violently attacked by masked pro-Israel counter-protesters. Videos show shocking scenes of violence as police fire rubber bullets at point-blank range into the crowd, including shooting one student directly in the face and hurling 20+ flashbang grenades into the encampment. Hundreds have been arrested. Students across the US have called for a ceasefire in Gaza and for their universities to divest from Israeli companies and those that supply the Israeli military, in some of the biggest demonstrations to roil US campuses since the anti-Vietnam war protests of the 1960s. While some schools, like Brown and Northwestern, have decided to take the peaceful route and meet the kids halfway, most others have called in the cops to simply remove them with extreme prejudice. Teachers and students alike have been brutalized; new video shows the police strangling Black academic Sami Schalk at the UW-Madison encampment, sending her to the hospital and nearly "ripping the dress from her body."

Trump suddenly faces NEW punishment
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Uh oh.

Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will force vote over Speaker Johnson's ouster next week
We can't go a week without the QAnon dingbat Georgia raising the stupid stakes and lowering the bar for congressional dysfunction, and, well, this week is no different. Greene has vowed to imminently file a motion to vacate GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson — not for the many, many legitimate reasons he should not hold the gavel, of course, but because he committed the unforgivable sin of working with Democrats to fund the government and provide critical aid to Ukraine.

Kimberly Guilfoyle floats absurd theory about Kristi Noem’s dog-killing admission
Newly minted child's author and Donald Trump Jr.'s aspiring future ex-wife Kimberly Guilfoyle took a little detour while promoting her new book, "The Princess and Her Pup," to float an absolutely ridiculous theory for exactly how South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's puppy-killing (and career-killing) anecdote ended up in her new book. “It makes no sense. I don't understand,” said Guilfoyle. "I don't know what happened, maybe somebody slipped that in and she didn't see it." Ah, yes. The editor's old "slip-a-puppy-killing-story-into-the-manuscript" ruse. If we've seen it once, we've seen it a thousand times... Kinda makes you wanna re-read "Old Yeller" and "Where the Red Fern Grows" with renewed scrutiny, doesn't it?

Another whistleblower linked to Boeing is dead
A whistleblower who sounded the alarm on safety issues with Boeing planes has died under mysterious circumstances, The Seattle Times reported on Wednesday. Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems, died after “a short and sudden illness.” Dean, 45, was diagnosed with pneumonia and a bacterial infection — MRSA — spending two weeks in critical condition before his death on Tuesday. While working for Spirit, Dean filed a complaint with the Federal Aviation Administration alleging “serious and gross misconduct by senior quality management of the 737 production line,” according to the Times. He was fired in April 2023, alleging later to the Department of Labor that it was because he’d continued to raise concerns about manufacturing defects. Dean’s death comes two months after that of John Barnett, a former Boeing employee who was found dead of a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound in the middle of giving testimony in a whistleblower lawsuit against the beleaguered company.

United Methodist Church lifts 40-year ban on gay clergy
The United Methodist Church unanimously voted on Wednesday to finally remove a decades-old ban on homosexual clergy members. The decision is a historic win for the progressive faction of the denomination, which has fought for years to repeal the 40-year ban. Another measure passed by delegates prohibits local church leaders from penalizing churches or their clergy for their position on holding same-sex weddings, leaving the door open for churches to decline couples a venue. Despite a controversial 2019 vote to tighten restrictions on LGBTQ+ clergy members and weddings, conservatives have been exiting the Methodist church in droves. Methodist pastor Matt Patrick responded to the news, writing on Twitter: "This morning I cried… because a fight I've been in for so long found justice. We no longer say that being gay is a sin… and no longer ban LGBT from serving as ministers." Better late than never.