...just like his wife Ginni.

Monday, May 16, 2022
BY BRIAN BEUTLER & CROOKED MEDIA


** -Elise Stefanik spokesman ([link removed]) , lying about calling her opponents pedophiles
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A neo-Nazi indoctrinated with Republican conspiracy theories about immigration murdered 10 people with an assault rifle Saturday at a grocery store in a black neighborhood in Buffalo, NY.
* The mass killer, Payton Gendron, live streamed his massacre on the platform Twitch, which quickly and indefinitely suspended his account and has, along with other major social outlets, removed copies of the video from its platform. Gendron is 18 years old, and an avowed antisemite ([link removed]) . He wrote a 180 page manifesto before his killing spree, which endorses the same so-called “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory that has gained mainstream acceptance within the GOP.

* “Great Replacement” describes the right-wing lie that a cabal of elites (usually Jewish elites, in their telling) has orchestrated a plot to increase the non-white immigrant population and use it to “replace” white Americans. Though once a fringe idea associated with neo-Nazis, extremely prominent Republicans, including party leaders and Tucker Carlson, the most widely watched Fox News host, have adopted it in recent months—a time period that coincides with a number of mass shootings by right-wing killers who believe the conspiracy theory is true.

* The 13 victims, including three survivors, ranged in age from 20 to 86 ([link removed]) ; 11 of them, including one of the survivors, were black; two white victims survived the shooting. Buffalo police say they have evidence suggesting Gendron planned to continue his massacre ([link removed]) , targeting more black people, had he managed to escape the grocery store before being captured. His mass killing is also under investigation as a federal hate crime.

Now about the Republican connection, and making sure people know about it.
* Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (who represents New York and will travel to Buffalo with President Biden this week) condemned Carlson, Fox News, and “MAGA Republicans” ([link removed]) on the Senate floor for giving the Great Replacement libel “legitimacy.” Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) alluded ([link removed]) to the fact that one of the promoters of Great Replacement theory, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), is a member of GOP leadership: “The House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism,” she asserted, correctly.

* But there’s much more work to be done. The fascist movement that endorses replacement theory, and believes it can benefit politically from spreading it, now controls the GOP. And so far they don’t seem too cowed by their obvious connection to the Buffalo massacre. Stefanik issued a joint statement ([link removed]) with her senior adviser, in which he defended her replacement theory propaganda. State-Sen. Wendy Rogers (R-AZ), an influential fascist who’s a good barometer for beyond-the-pale ideas that quickly go mainstream within the GOP has already suggested ([link removed]) that the mass shooting was a false-flag operation run by the federal government.

It may feel impolite or seem counterproductive to describe specific elected Republicans and their movement as fascist. But the time has come. Their agitprop has been getting people killed for years now, but we’re suddenly just six months from an election where they, and the ideology they share with Payton Gendron, are poised to take over the Congress.
Lovett or Leave It ([link removed]) is up past our bedtime at the ‘ol Hollywood Improv. A super chill GOP congresswoman (Atsuko Okatsuka) thinks we should all calm down about this leaked opinion. Jason Concepcion swings on by like Spider-Man to decide which hero is the most super of all. Lovett and Erin Ryan go house hunting based on real estate prices and… other factors. What will they pick!? The answer may surprise you. But wanna know what’s really surprising? The too hot takes Jon, Atsuko, Jason, and Erin find themselves forced to defend.
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Omnibus Russia-invasion-of-Ukraine update:
* Sweden’s governing Social Democrats party have dropped their historic opposition to joining NATO, ([link removed]) which should pave the way for the country to enter the alliance alongside Finland ([link removed]) , notwithstanding reluctance to the idea from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ([link removed]) .

* The growth and consolidation of NATO falls against a backdrop of Russia’s failure to achieve its scaled-back aims in Ukraine ([link removed]) ; its forces now seem to be withdrawing from Kharkiv, and their efforts to make advances in the Donbas have stalled.

* Senate Republicans, who helped Donald Trump try to cover up and get away with his scheme to extort Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, traveled to Ukraine to meet with Zelensky in Kyiv. ([link removed]) Those same Republicans, who enabled a criminal Russian attack on the 2016 election, also said ([link removed]) the U.S. government should add Russia to its list of state sponsors of terrorism.

* The House January 6 Committee has reportedly prepared staff for more bombshells ([link removed]) ahead of its public-hearing phase, which begins June 9.

* Yet more evidence that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is an own-the-libs style troll, ([link removed]) just like his wife Ginni.

* Elon Musk has begun talking about his contractual obligation to purchase Twitter for $44 billion as something that won’t happen ([link removed]) .

* Relatedly, billionaire Larry Ellison funded a dark money group that smeared Twitter as anti-conservative before pledging $1 billion ([link removed]) to help Musk buyout Twitter.

* New York City has reimposed its indoor masking recommendation ([link removed]) as rising hospitalizations trigger the CDC’s new “high alert” level.

* Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has appointed a new secretary of state, Cory Byrd, whose wife supported the insurrection, ([link removed]) and is a mouthpiece for QAnon, whose flag the Byrds fly on their boat.

* The court-appointed special master tasked with drawing New York’s legislative maps has drafted districts that would be much more favorable to Republicans ([link removed]) than the ones Democratic officials drew, and will likely pit Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Jerry Nadler (D-NY) in a primary against each other.

* Check out front-running Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Kathy Barnette ([link removed]) —who claims she didn’t participate in the Capitol riot, and has no affiliation with the Proud Boys—marching to the Capitol with the Proud Boys.

* Pennsylvania Democratic Senate frontrunner John Fetterman suffered a mild stroke last week ([link removed]) and will be off the campaign trail through Tuesday’s primary.

* In other minor strokes, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) also suffered a minor stroke ([link removed]) .

* Georgia voters have appealed a judge’s decision to allow Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to appear on a ballot ([link removed]) for federal office despite being an insurrectionist.

* Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will impose a 10 p.m. curfew for teenagers ([link removed]) .

* Churchgoers in Orange County, CA, tackled and hogtied a would-be mass shooter, ([link removed]) after he shot six people, killing one of them.

* Tomorrow’s House intelligence committee UFO hearing might just be a banger ([link removed]) .

The Supreme Court’s Republican justices are still up to no good, even when the issues aren’t as salient as reproductive rights. On Monday, all six of those justices did a favor for their friend Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) ([link removed]) and invalidated (on dubious first amendment grounds) a federal anti-corruption law limiting the amount of campaign debt winning candidates can pay off with money they raise after they win election. Cruz filed the suit (instead of using his power as a senator to try to change the law), but it will also benefit people like Donald Trump, who loaned his own campaign $50 million, and can now reimburse himself with what are effectively bribes. At the same, five of them ruled against a Georgia man who’s lived in the U.S. for decades, but now faces deportation because he checked the wrong box on his driver’s license application
([link removed]) . Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the dissent for himself and the court’s three remaining liberals, but the controlling opinion will effectively shut federal courts out of factual disputes in immigration cases, leaving immigrants with no recourse even when the bureaucracy makes a mistake.
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The Biden administration has unveiled a major new plan to reduce housing costs and close the housing-supply gap ([link removed]) .

Omicron breakthrough infections may provide a huge immune boost against all COVID-19 variants in vaccinated people ([link removed]) .

A federal judge—a Trump judge, in fact!—has blocked enforcement of most of Alabama’s new Republican law ([link removed]) banning gender-affirming health care for minors.

Abbott Nutrition has reached an agreement with the government to reopen the infant formula plant ([link removed]) that led to a nationwide formula shortage when it had to be closed due to contamination
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