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Saturday Dose of Democracy:

VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump crashes and burns over taking the stand at trial
The serially indicted cult leader just admitted he won't testify in his porn star hush money criminal trial because, as he claims, he's under a gag order. Got it. While the disgraced ex-president regularly treats his supporters like they are abject morons, it's hard to fathom they would believe Trump's pathetic excuse that his gag order is preventing him from testifying under oath. A more plausible explanation? Donald is incapable of telling the truth and testifying under oath would expose him to perjury charges on top of the many, many, many other criminal charges he is already facing.

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Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar and wife indicted over allegations of $600,000 bribes from Azerbaijan
Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife have been indicted by federal prosecutors on charges of conspiracy and bribery, after allegedly taking nearly $600,000 from an Azerbaijani-controlled company and a Mexican bank. Innocent until proven guilty, of course, but the pro-NRA, anti-abortion "centrist" is reliably the worst player on the Democratic bench, so we won't shed too many tears if the damning allegations turn out to be true.

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Insurrectionist Republican brings bad behavior to Washington
Eric Wilson for Congress: Wisconsin Republican Derrick Van Orden is a bad guy, with bad behavior, and bad politics. He’s made headlines for getting drunk at work and verbally abusing his pages; threatening librarians, and even throwing profane tantrums in hearings. Oh, and he was there for Trump’s January 6th rally in DC and is a MAGA extremist to boot. It’s time to send this cranky man-child home and replace him with a responsible adult, and a progressive one at that. If you agree, then Eric Wilson is your guy. He has vowed to fight for Medicare for All and refuses to take corporate money. Van Orden has no such principles, and has amassed himself a huge $1.6 million dark money war chest. Will you chip in to elect Eric Wilson and flip this critical battleground seat blue?

"Fox News called me an idiot!" Marjorie Taylor Greene rages at critics of her move to oust Speaker Johnson
We can't believe we're typing these words, but Fox News finally dropped some fair and balanced news, y'all.

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US billionaires pay lower tax rate than working class for first time
"An analysis published Friday by the renowned economist Gabriel Zucman shows that in 2018, US billionaires paid a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans for the first time in the nation's history, a data point that sparked a new flurry of calls for bold levies on the ultra-rich. Published in The New York Times with the headline 'It's Time to Tax the Billionaires,' Zucman's analysis notes that billionaires pay so little in taxes relative to their vast fortunes because they "live off their wealth" — mostly in the form of stock holdings — rather than wages and salaries." If you want to know what late-stage capitalism looks like, look no further than literally everywhere around you.

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Red Lobster considering bankruptcy after endless shrimp promotion
Again with the late-stage capitalism...