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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Trump dealt brutal court blow by judge he appointed

Pfizer’s COVID-19 antiviral proves almost 90% effective in latest trial data

Today's Top Stories:

Federal judge appointed by Trump rules Congress can see the ex-president's tax returns
Judge Trevor McFadden owes his seat to the ex-president but did him no favors when he rejected a bid to stop the Biden administration from releasing his tax returns to the House.

VIDEO OF THE DAY: Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Don Jr.’s damning January 6 texts finally revealed
They knew the severity of the deadly insurrection. They knew then. They know now. Any other narrative is an utter lie.

Republicans' secret plot to rig election FINALLY exposed
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Whoa.

House votes to hold Mark Meadows in contempt, sends criminal reference to DOJ
A day after lawmakers shared an explosive series of text messages sent to Meadows during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, the US House voted to hold the former Trump White House chief of staff in criminal contempt of Congress.

Senate passes debt ceiling increase, sending it to House hours before deadline
Congressional Democrats moved toward raising the debt ceiling Tuesday, one day before the Dec. 15 deadline that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned could mark the start of the first-ever US default.

Capitol rioter who texted about putting a bullet in Pelosi’s head is jailed
"Deplorable" doesn't even begin to describe these people.

Arizona asks the Supreme Court to allow enforcement of a ban on abortions
Texas Republicans led the way and now the rest are predictably following.

Texas tries AGAIN to overturn major Supreme Court ruling
American Refugee: Republicans in Texas are determined to destroy America's law to steal power and control lives.

Bernie Sanders to rally with striking Kellogg workers
Nearly 1,400 workers across the country are currently fighting for fair work conditions.

Trump’s legal nightmare: New witness testifies in criminal fraud probe
A longtime accountant for citizen Donald Trump has testified before the grand jury convened by the Manhattan DA in the criminal probe into the Trump Organization.

Elon Musk attacks Elizabeth Warren for saying he should pay his taxes
The billionaire's remarks were dripping with misogyny.

State employee says GOP governor's daughter received special treatment during real estate licensing process
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s daughter received unusual treatment in an application for her real estate appraiser license, including an extra opportunity to obtain it after failing to meet federal requirements.

Seriously?

Brazilian politicians are now settling disputes with MMA fighting

Family finds deadly snake lurking in its Christmas tree

Judge caught on family video saying the N-word asks for 'forgiveness'

Alabama jail accidentally releases kidnapper

White House says it falls to Congress to cancel student debt

Yes. Seriously.

Cop-punching MAGA rioter arrested after being spotted in insurrection outfit

3 Floridians arrested for casting multiple ballots in 2020... for Republicans

US passes 800,000 COVID-19 pandemic deaths

As the world burns...

Arctic hits record high temperature

Russia may deploy mid-range nuclear missiles in Europe

Belarusian opposition figure sentenced to 18 years

Colombian police massacred 11 during protests, report finds

Hope...

EU rules gay parents and their kids must be recognized as families

NYC taps first Black female police commissioner

Alabama 6th grader helps homeless for fifth year in a row

Starbucks workers at two Boston cafes file for union election

House passes bill to combat Islamophobia

Monday, November 29, 2021

MAGA rep blames Dems for omicron in hoax conspiracy theory

Carrie Meek, pioneering Black former congresswoman, dies at 95

Today's Top Stories:

Ex-White House doc and current GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson says Omicron is Democrat election ruse
Dr. Jackson, now a House rep from Texas, scoffed at the variant the WHO has deemed "highly transmissible" and "concerning," tweeting, "Here comes the ... Midterm Election Variant!"

GOP governor says Kevin McCarthy should condemn Lauren Boebert's anti-Muslim remarks
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson set a very low bar, but the GOP House minority leader almost certainly won't clear it.

Republicans pull disgusting stunt over new COVID variant
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Beyond shameless.

Fauci fires back at Ted Cruz over COVID claims: "I should be prosecuted? What happened on Jan. 6, senator?"
And THAT is how you drop a mic.

Omicron variant now in North America, Canadian officials say
Two cases of the newly identified coronavirus variant found in Africa and Europe have been detected in Ontario.

Biden seeks to raise the price to drill for oil and gas on public lands
The current royalty rate of 12.5 percent has been in place since 1920.

MAGA rabble-rouser and "Stop the Steal" rally organizer will comply with subpoena because he doesn't have "money to spend on legal bills"
Ali Alexander, the organizer behind the "Stop the Steal" rally in Washington, DC, also said he will comply with a congressional subpoena over his role in the Capitol riot on January 6 because he does not want to go to jail.

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Michael Cohen says prosecutors "are going after Donald, Don Jr., Eric, and Ivanka"
"I truly believe that [prosecutors] can indict Donald Trump tomorrow if they really wanted, and be successful," Trump’s former personal attorney said of New York law enforcement’s investigation of the Trump Organization.

GOP gives unemployment checks to unvaxxed that defied Biden mandate
Republican officials around the country are testing a creative mechanism to build loyalty with unvaccinated Americans while undermining Biden administration mandates: unemployment benefits.

Trump's Defense Secretary Mark Esper is suing the DOD, claiming it's wrongfully censoring his memoir
Mark Esper served as defense secretary from July 2019 until November 2020, when Trump fired him.

Matthew McConaughey will not run for Texas governor
Alright, alright, alright.

Seriously?

Quarantined couple with COVID caught trying to flee Holland by plane

Ghislaine Maxwell ran ads targeting kids to work for Epstein 'during school holidays'

UK MP: Casting women to play fictional male characters to blame for increase in crime

Yes. Seriously.

Czech president with COVID appoints new prime minister from inside airtight box

France detects ‘highly pathogenic’ bird flu outbreak

Vegan who refused vaccine over animal testing dies of COVID

Hope...

GoodGoodGood: App helps users raise money for charity every time they open a new browser tab

Nissan to spend $17.6 billion on electric vehicles over next 5 years

Merriam-Webster chooses 'vaccine' as the 2021 word of the year

Sunday, November 28, 2021

Racist murderer's lawyer equates Al Sharpton to KKK

Today's Top Stories:

Attorney for Ahmaud Arbery’s murderer regrets not equating Sharpton and other Black pastors to KKK during trial
Clarifying his objection to Black pastors attending the trial, defense attorney Kevin Gough suggested there was a double standard at play since Klan members wouldn't be allowed in.

Super-mutated Omicron variant reaches three more European countries
Although the United States has not yet confirmed any cases of the Omicron variant, Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Saturday that he wouldn’t be surprised if the variant was already circulating in the country.

Kevin McCarthy HUMILIATES himself with ultimate fail
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: What an embarrassment.

Trump says top US general should be "tried for treason" for intervening to prevent a war with China
The disgraced ex-president and man of many grievances said that Gen. Mark Milley should be "tried for treason" — a crime punishable by death — for taking steps to prevent a war with China during his term.

More trouble with QAnon: Now ex-Trump lawyer Lin Wood says "Stop The Steal" is a "deep state" plot
Yes, Democats embedded in Trump's government secretly tricked Trumpers to try to violently stop Biden from taking office. Riiiiiight.

QAnon Hero Michael Flynn secretly said QAnon is "total nonsense"
Oops.

MAGA rioter who compared insurrectionists to Disney World crowds denied pre-trial release for 6th time
Prosecutors requested that Judge Amit Mehta deny Kenneth Harrelson's latest try at release, saying his request was "rife with outlandish arguments." In a previous plea for release that Mehta denied, Harrelson cited COVID-19 conspiracy theories as a reason that he should be released from custody before his trial.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Madison Cawthorn, and Lauren Boebert's extremism costing them support from their voters
United Rural Democrats: New extremists in Congress are taking their districts for granted while delivering nothing for them. United Rural Democrats are organizing on the ground to shock Republicans by winning back Middle America. But they need your help!

Ted Cruz and Donald Trump Jr. taunt the WHO for skipping "Xi" to name the new coronavirus variant "Omicron"
Following an announcement on Friday that the new variant would be called Omicron, speculation arose that two letters were skipped to avoid confusion with the English word "new" and avoid antagonizing Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Jared Kushner raising Saudi cash after cozying up to crown prince while working for Trump
Trump's son-in-law, who has presided over several high-profile investment failures in the business world, is banking on a sizable contribution from the kingdom's $450 billion Public Investment Fund for his new investment firm.

Seriously?

Hundreds of FedEx packages found dumped in Alabama woods

Ship’s master said he spent 50 hours sleepless before $73m crash

American anti-vax extremism infiltrating New Zealand

Yes. Seriously.

China study warns of 'colossal' COVID outbreak if it opens up like west

QAnon's 'Queen of Canada' tells followers to 'kill' people vaccinating kids

UK brings back mask mandates to fight Omicron

Hope...

GoodGoodGood: Nepal's conservation efforts nearly double tiger population

Chinese automaker opens Beijing plant, will make 300k EVs per year

Archaeologists find 800-year old mummy in Peru

Josephine Baker, 1st Black woman honored in French Pantheon

Sunday Funnies

Monday, November 8, 2021

Ted Cruz floats Joe Rogan for 'president' of Texas

Today's Top Stories:

Ted Cruz talks Texit, floats Joe Rogan for "president" of Texas
In a startling address at Texas A&M, Cruz talked about "taking NASA" and "the oil" AND Joe Rogan becoming the "president" of Texas should the state secede from the union.

Republicans are going after their own after 13 voted with House Democrats in favor of the bipartisan infrastructure bill
The bill includes funding for roads, bridges, and public transit, as well as electric vehicles, clean energy, and high-speed broadband, but voting in favor meant cooperating with Democrats, which, in today's GOP, is akin to treason.

Republicans try to set TRAP for Democrats over Biden's new bill
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Disgraceful.

US lifts the pandemic travel ban and opens the doors to international visitors
The Biden administration lifted restrictions Monday on travel from a long list of countries, including Mexico, Canada, and most of Europe, allowing fully vaccinated tourists to make long-delayed trips and family members to reconnect with loved ones after more than a year and a half apart because of the pandemic.

Global greenhouse gas emissions vastly underreported to UN
In addition to the undercounting of carbon dioxide and methane emissions, analysts found that in some cases the emissions of human-made fluorinated gases, like those used in air conditioning and refrigeration, are not reported at all.

Obama to take swipe at Trump for "four years of active hostility" on climate in Glasgow speech
Obama's speech comes a week after President Biden's own appearance at the conference, where he explicitly apologized for Trump's abandonment of the Paris climate accords.

Committee interviews Jan. 6 MAGA rioter who witnessed state GOP contacts with Trump allies
The rioter, who interviewed with the committee twice in the past week, described knowledge of contacts between GOP officials in a key state Trump lost and allies of the former president in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 attack.

Liz Cheney chastises Fox News on Fox News: "Un-American’ to call Jan. 6 a ‘false flag’"
In a thinly veiled swipe at Tucker Carlson, Rep. Cheney said anyone spreading "false flag" conspiracies about the MAGA insurrection is "un-American" and "dangerous."

State voting official wrongly accused of fraud says Trump, Giuliani lies led to heart attacks, death threats
A Pennsylvania election worker who was falsely accused of rigging the state's election for Joe Biden is suing Trump and some of his top surrogates, charging their lies about him led to numerous death threats and two heart attacks.

California middle school removes history teacher who told her students that Trump is still president
The teacher also claimed President Biden's son Hunter "was having sexual intercourse with his own niece."

Travis Scott warned by Houston police chief hours before Astroworld catastrophe
Police Chief Troy Finner, who knows Scott personally, went to the artist's trailer before the concert to relay concerns about crowd control that evening, given Scott’s reputation for inciting his fans to rush security gates and "rage."

Seriously?

Big Bird's vaccination announcement sparks backlash from GOP

Jan. 6 MAGA rioter claims asylum in Belarus after fleeing FBI

Leaders threatened Trump with financial pain if he left GOP

Yes. Seriously.

Bomb threats called into multiple Ivy League universities

Deputy recovering from COVID changes mind about vaccine: ‘This virus will kill you’

China building mock US Navy ships for apparent missile target practice

Rebels closing in on Ethiopia's capital

Hope...

After drinking water crisis, Newark is winning war on lead

Navy ship named for Harvey Milk christened and launched

Remote Alaskan town finally getting high-speed broadband internet

Friday, November 5, 2021

Trump team makes damning admission under oath

Today’s Action: Join the global climate march TOMORROW!

Pfizer's COVID antiviral pill may cut severe illness by 89 percent

Today's Top Stories:

Trump allies admit under oath that they did little to verify debunked election fraud claims
Sworn testimony from Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell revealed the efforts of the two in their fraudulent scheme to sow doubt about the integrity of the 2020 election results.

2nd Manhattan grand jury convened in ongoing Trump Organization probe
The disgraced ex-president's legal woes could complicate his company's relationships with banks, and could pose a challenge to Trump's political future as he considers running for another term in 2024.

Republicans try to set TRAP for Democrats over Biden's new bill
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Disgraceful.

MAGA rioter who bragged she wouldn’t go to jail gets prison term
A real estate agent from suburban Dallas who flaunted her participation in the Capitol insurrection and later bragged she wasn’t going to jail because she is white, has blond hair and a good job was sentenced on Thursday to two months behind bars.

Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate appears with Nazi sympathizer and QAnon-linked activists at campaign events
Kari Lake, the Arizona gubernatorial candidate recently endorsed by Trump, has embraced far-right figures in her campaign events, including publicly thanking a Nazi sympathizer for his support and appearing with figures linked to the QAnon conspiracy

Juror dismissed in Rittenhouse trial for joking about Jacob Blake shooting
Prosecutors asked Judge Schroeder to excuse a juror who asked a courtroom deputy while being escorted to his car earlier in the week, "Why did the Kenosha police shoot Jacob Blake seven times? Because they ran out of bullets."

House plans Friday votes on Biden's safety net and infrastructure bills
Passing the two bills would cap months of internal negotiations and hand Biden a major legislative victory.

Grassroots group has plan to make the new Qanon Republican Party pay for their damage to America
United Rural Democrats: Across the country, Qanon conspiracists are announcing runs for office with Trump's support. United Rural Democrats won't let them get away with it. Check out their strategic plan to defeat Trump's Qanon acolytes where it hurts: rural and battleground districts. Then, find out how you can help defeat Trumpism before tonight’s critical deadline.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn issues sinister warning to anyone opposing him
No stranger to fearmongering, the first-term congressman bloviated, "We want our country back, we want our culture back, and if you want to stand in the way that, we will run you over."

Corporations calling for voting rights bill donated to Republicans who blocked it
Always. Follow. The. Money.

Ex-DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, who willingly pushed Trump's election lies, to testify before House panel today
Clark, the former acting head of the DOJ’s civil division, was a proponent Trump’s false claims that Joe Biden’s victory in the November election was the result of fraud.

Family outraged by racial makeup of jury in Arbery slaying
Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley acknowledged there "appears to be intentional discrimination" when looking at how the jury of 11 white people and one Black person was selected, but insisted there was nothing he could do about it.