VIDEO OF THE DAY: Jamie Raskin humiliates Marjorie Taylor Greene at ridiculous hearing
Another House oversight hearing means another opportunity for House Republicans, led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, to humiliate themselves in their interminable desperation to turn anything they touch into a circus. Right on cue, Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin was having none of it.
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Multiple Trump witnesses have received significant financial benefits from his businesses, campaign
If it walks, squawks, and bribes witnesses like a wannabe mobster, folks, it is a wannabe mobster — and one more than deserving of the newest title added to the public record: convicted felon.
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Senate Democrats renew push to protect IVF nationwide
Because radical, right-wing Republicans will not rest until they foist their Handmaid's Tale-esque hellscape vision on all of America, Democrats have been compelled to draft new legislation to defend and protect the very uncontroversial, decidedly pro-family, life-giving gift that is in vitro fertilization. That we are having these incredibly stupid fights in 2024 is more than a damning indictment on just how off the rails the GOP has gone in their nefarious quest to dictate what women do with their uteruses — it's a stark, existential reminder of just what is at stake this November.
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Biden calls Trump a "convicted felon," says he doesn't deserve to be president
President Biden said the 2024 presidential race was now in "uncharted territory" and called Donald Trump a "convicted felon" in harsh remarks at a campaign event on Monday, a signal the historic verdict will soon play center stage on both sides of the campaign trail. Inside-the-beltway talk of Democrats letting the verdict speak for itself appear overblown, and, folks, we're here for it. Calling the MAGA cult leader what he actually is — a serial lawbreaker and convicted felon — isn't spiking the football or running up the scoreboard, it's deadly accurate and politically prudent, especially with tens of millions of casual voters are just beginning to tune in ahead of November's fateful election.
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Texas professors sue to flunk students who seek abortions
A pair of disgruntled, non-uterus-having Texas professors figured out that their adult female students have sex (the horror!) and, boy, they apparently do not like it one bit. So now the philosophy professor and finance professor are suing for the right to punish their students who, outside of class, seek abortion care. "Pregnancy is not a disease, and elective abortions are not 'healthcare,'" University of Texas at Austin professor Daniel Bonevac sneered in a federal court filing with fellow professor and knuckledragger John Hatfield. Instead, Bonevac writes, because pregnancy is the result of "voluntary and consensual sexual intercourse," students should not be allowed time off to get abortions. If the students disobey and miss class for abortion care, the filing continues, the professors should be allowed to flunk students. Additionally, Bonevac asserts that he has a right to refuse to employ a teaching assistant who has had an abortion, calling such women "criminals." Never mind the glaring fact that pregnancy is not ONLY the result of voluntary and consensual intercourse — an estimated 433,000 people are raped or sexually assaulted in the United States every goddamn year — a state-funded university professor's role is to educate in their respective field of expertise, not brow-beat and discriminate because they love a particular book in the Bible and apparently despise vaginas. Enough with these clowns already.
Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey to seek independent re-election bid amid federal corruption trial
New Jersey's embattled senator, Bob "Many Gold Bars" Menendez, who is on trial on federal bribery charges in New York, told voters earlier this year he would not seek the Democratic nomination to run for a fourth term, but he apparently has no plans to leave the Senate quietly. On Monday he filed paperwork with the state to launch an independent bid, listing his new party affiliation as “Menendez for Senate.” It's unclear how much support Menendez could siphon from Democratic Rep. Andy Kim, who is in a favorable position to win the Democratic primary today, but having two left-leaning candidates on the ballot in a state where the GOP hasn’t won a US Senate election since 1972 seems like an incredibly boneheaded move. Let's hope Bob comes to whatever senses he has left in the tank and walks away for the good of the country.
Trump makes FATAL MISTAKE following guilty verdict
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Elon Musk’s X announces new rules allowing porn
Adult content has long deluged Twitter, but in a new update announced Monday, the social media platform now known as X will allow more NSFW material. The billionaire tech bozo's ridiculous, brand-busting platform name change is starting to come into sharper focus...
COVID fraud trial juror reports getting bag of $120,000 and promise of more if she'll acquit
A juror was dismissed Monday after reporting that a woman dropped a bag of $120,000 in cash at her home and offered her more money if she would vote to acquit seven people charged with stealing more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children during the pandemic. These seven are the first of 70 defendants expected to go to trial in a conspiracy that cost taxpayers a whopping $250 million. Eighteen others have pleaded guilty, and authorities said they recovered about $50 million in one of the nation's largest pandemic-related fraud cases. Prosecutors say just a fraction of the money went to feed low-income kids, while the rest was spent on luxury cars, jewelry, travel, and property. The 23-year-old juror said she immediately turned over the bag of cash to police. She said a woman left it with her father-in-law Sunday with the message that she'd get another bag of cash if she voted to acquit. “This is completely beyond the pale,” Assistant US Attorney Joseph Thompson said in court on Monday. “This is outrageous behavior. This is stuff that happens in mob movies.”
Russia funneled millions to far-right politicians via fake news site
Russia gave European far-right politicians large amounts of cash through a propaganda operation intended to sow division on the continent, according to a new Washington Post report. Citing European intelligence officials, the report reveals that a close ally of Vladimir Putin set up a pro-Kremlin propaganda site, Voice of Europe, in the Czech Republic in May 2023. The organization was used to funnel up as much as one million euros a month to “dozens” of far-right politicians in Europe to plant pro-Russian propaganda in the Western media. Voice of Europe, which was ultimately shut down by Czech and European Union authorities, was also an attempt to increase the number of far-right politicians in the European Parliament who would then “conduct classic espionage” on behalf of Moscow.
Department of Justice accuses far-right Epoch Times of being money-laundering operation
Turns out that The Epoch Times, the propaganda outlet for "Falun Gong," the Chinese apocalyptic death cult that obsessively promotes pro-Trump conspiracy theories, was in fact all a cover for a colossal $67 million money-laundering scheme. Is there anything related to the MAGA cult leader that ISN'T a cover for just preposterous amounts of fraud, grift, and corruption?
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