Prosecutor takes major step toward charging Trump

US orders 8,500 troops on heightened alert amid Russia worry

Today's Top Stories:

Special grand jury set to probe Trump's election interference in Georgia
Georgia's attorney general expects to have a decision on whether or not to bring criminal charges against the former president by the end of the year.

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Fox News reporter Peter Doocy tries sparring with Jen Psaki again
Biden's press secretary swifly swatted down repeated attempts by Doocy to blame the president for the troubling spike in crime that began in 2020, during his predecessor's term.

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Republicans contend with WORST CASE scenario in Wisconsin
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Not looking good...

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State supreme court judge strikes down New York mask mandate
Nassau County Supreme Court Judge Thomas Rademaker argued that because New York was no longer under a state of emergency at the time the mask mandate was announced, the governor and health commissioner did not have the additional authority to order such a mandate, adding the mandate is now unenforceable.

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Biden calls Fox News reporter a "stupid son of a bitch"
The president got fed up when Peter Doocey tried to make inflation all about politics.

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Republican congressman accused of misusing official resources, receiving inappropriate gifts
Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado allegedly made his staffers perform menial tasks for his wife.

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Sarah Palin's positive COVID test delays NY Times defamation trial
"She is of course unvaccinated," US District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan said at a hearing. "Since she has apparently tested positive three times, I'm going to assume that she's positive."

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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 is organizing on the ground to shock Republicans by winning back Middle America. But they need your help!

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Donald Trump Jr. tries to pin the blame for possible Russian invasion of Ukraine... on Hunter Biden
This obsession with President Biden's son has gotten completely out of control.

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Lawmakers call on Pelosi, McCarthy to bring stock trading ban to the floor
Twenty-seven House members have signed a letter urging Pelosi and McCarthy to bring forward legislation that would ban Members of Congress from owning or trading stocks.

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8 senators revive Russia sanctions push as Ukraine invasion fears mount
Eastern Europe appears to be on the verge of war and Congress is scrambling to deploy every tool in its arsenal.

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Seven Virginia school boards sue Gov. Youngkin for lifting mask mandate
The new Republican governor has come under legal fire for ending the commonwealth’s mask mandate in public schools.

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Seriously?

Kremlin says watching US actions over Ukraine with great concern

Giuliani slammed for selling signed 9/11 shirts for $911 a pop

Eric Clapton claims vaccinated people are under 'mass hypnosis'

London police investigating more Downing Street lockdown parties

Woman arrested for trying to buy a child for $500,000 at Walmart

Yes. Seriously.

Mass shooting unfolds at German university

Russia might cyberattack US if it responds to Ukraine invasion

British PM warns Russian invasion of Ukraine would be 'disastrous'

FDA halts use of antibody drugs that don’t work vs. omicron

Neil Young wants music off Spotify over Joe Rogan vaccine misinfo

Deadly shooting at party in Inglewood worst in city since the ’90s

Hope...

GoodGoodGood: Why I committed to changing education

Mars Perseverance rover discovers organic molecules

Record 88% of Japanese 'feel friendly' toward US

Iran 'will consider' direct talks with US over nuclear deal

Free N95 masks arriving at stores around the country

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SCOTUS deals decisive blow to Trump's 1/6 coverup

 

Manchin, Sinema join Senate Republicans to block rule change for voting rights

Today's Top Stories:

Supreme Court rejects Trump request to hide 1/6 docs from Congress
The ex-president's attempt to keep hundreds of his presidential records out of the Jan. 6 committee's hands was decisively slapped down by the court, including his own justices.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Fox News reporter Peter Doocy's attempt to embarrass Biden backfires immediately
President Biden went on offense against both his obstructionist opponents in the GOP and the network that relentlessly enables them.

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Sinema pulls stunning move ahead of voting rights vote
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Unreal.

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Ron DeSantis pushing bill to keep whites from being "discomforted" by past racism
The "no cancel culture" crowd is now trying to cancel their own history.

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Eric Trump spent six hours in court pleading the Fifth Amendment more than 500 times
The ex-president's son exercised his constitutional right to not incriminate himself more than 500 times, because he's obviously innocent.

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Dems attempt to craft version of Build Back Better bill that Manchin would vote for
The landmark investment in American families is headed to the cutting room in a last-ditch attempt to appease the conservative holdout.

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GOP Texas gubernatorial candidate refuses to fire white nationalist staffer
Don Huffines, a former state senator and one of three Republicans running in a primary against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, declared that he will "not participate in cancel culture."

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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 is organizing on the ground to shock Republicans by winning back Middle America. But they need your help!

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Tucker Carlson demands homeless Americans "get the hell out of here"
The Fox News blowhard is as heartless as he is gutless.

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Top donors threaten to cut off funding to Sinema
It turns out actions do have consequences, even for senators.

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Police in Alabama town busted running enormous extortion racket
In two years, the police made more arrests than the town of Brookside had residents.

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New Mexico asks National Guard to sub for sick teachers amid omicron
Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced the unprecedented effort to reopen classrooms in the capital city of Santa Fe and shore up staffing across the state.

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Seriously?

Djokovic owns majority stake in COVID cure startup

Power co. convinced Georgia to bury toxic waste near groundwater

Republicans keep taking credit for funding they voted against

Anti-vax folk singer dies from COVID after intentional infection

"Worst" house on the block sells for $2 million in San Francisco

Yes. Seriously.

U of M reaches $490M settlement with sexual abuse accusers

Exxon-Mobil using radical Texas law to clamp down on Cali critics

Chaplain is 4th person charged with sex abuse at women's prison

Steve Bannon's new cryptocurrency looks like a scam

Millions of kids could fall into poverty after end of tax credit payments

Hope...

Judge finds Native woman not guilty in border wall dispute

Democrats unveil bill to ban online ‘surveillance advertising’

House resolution calls for more peaceful US foreign policy

19-year-old woman sets record for solo global flight

Disabled Tongan man swept away by tsunami stayed afloat for 24 hours

Cops arrest Black Congresswoman at peaceful protest

 

Today’s Action: End the lethal strikes program!

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Today's Top Stories:

Democratic congresswoman arrested during voting rights protest at Capitol
Ohio Rep. Joyce Beatty, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, was calling on the Senate to pass a key election reform bill to protect Americans' right to vote.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: A fed up Jen Psaki chastises Fox News reporter over misleading question
Peter Doocy's at it again, providing cover for Republicans advancing voter suppression laws across the country who know they can't win if they play fair.

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Tucker Carlson finally goes overboard on COVID vaccine
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: OMG.

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Leaked Kremlin documents described Trump as an "impulsive, mentally unstable and unbalanced individual"
Recently unearthed documents appear to show that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally supported Moscow's interference in the 2016 presidential election to support Trump's campaign, bolstering the US intelligence community's findings on the matter.

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Kevin McCarthy rolls over for Donald Trump
The meeting itself, at Trump’s country club, of course, was a show of dominance from the party’s real leader to its House "leader."

Take Action: Peter Doocy's at it again, providing cover for Republicans advancing voter suppression laws across the country who know they can't win if they play fair.

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen calls for permanent increase in child tax credit
Under the Biden administration's American Rescue Plan passed by Congress in March, parents are set to receive $250 to $300 per child every month for the rest of this year. The first of those monthly payments, totaling $15 billion, were delivered on Thursday.

Take Action: Call out Republicans taking credit for the Rescue Plan they opposed!

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Trump says if he did a coup it wouldn’t be with General Milley
The ex-president blithely stated, "I saw in that moment [Milley] had no courage or skill, certainly not the type of person I would be talking ‘coup’ with... I’m not into coups!"

Take Action: Add your name to call for interns for be protected in the American Jobs Plan!

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NDLB releases first ad of the campaign, and it pulls no punches
No Dem Left Behind: "Republicans are terrorists."

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The WHO's chief now says it was premature to rule out a lab leak as the pandemic's origin
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus acknowledged it was premature to rule out a potential link between the pandemic and a laboratory leak, and he said he is asking China to be more transparent as scientists search for the origins of the virus.

Take Action: Add your name to call for EVERY STATE to expand Medicaid to those who need it!

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Explosive interview directly Implicates Trump in tax scheme
As investigators look into a scheme at the Trump Organization to avoid paying taxes on employee benefits, one witness has set the scene to show Trump was directly involved.

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Sen. Joe Manchin meets with Texas Dems and says he wants pared-down voting rights bill
Manchin, a key vote in the effort to pass federal voting rights legislation, said he and a group of Texas House Democrats, who left their state in a dramatic effort to block restrictive voting bills, have come to a "total agreement" on what they want, which is "basically to protect voting rights."

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16 members of Florida white supremacist gang charged in sweeping indictment
The group called the Unforgiven required its members to study "Aryan Philosophy" and carry out acts of extreme violence, the indictment says.

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Teen charged with hate crime for stomping on 'Back the Blue' sign

California doc faces charges in fake vaccine card scheme

State Dept. backlog causing monthslong wait for US passports

Meanwhile...

Climate scientists shocked by scale of floods in Germany

Texas officer killed, 4 others injured in standoff

Los Angeles mask mandate returns, even for fully vaccinated

Virus cases surging in 49 states

Hope...

First woman completes Navy special warfare training

Canada planning to open border to fully vaccinated travelers from US

DOJ nixes Trump-era immigration order, cutting huge case backlog

Stacey Abrams group launches new voting rights initiative

Olympics will feature historic number of LGBTQ athletes

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Today’s Action: End the lethal strikes program!

In late June, 113 organizations around the world sent a joint letter to President Biden asking him to end the lethal strikes program outside of recognized battlefields, including through the use of drones. 

Amnesty International called the lethal strikes program "a centerpiece of the United States’ forever wars," one that "has exacted an appalling toll on Muslim, Brown, and Black communities in multiple parts of the world." They added, "Twenty years into a war-based approach that has undermined and violated fundamental rights, we urge you to abandon it and embrace an approach that advances our collective human security."

The 113 signatories are calling for an end to military force as a first resort, and divestment of those extraordinary defense funds to critical issues like climate change.

Write President Biden and tell him you stand behind the organizations calling for the end of the lethal strikes program, which has caused countless civilian deaths and unprecedented destruction abroad.

Biden has stated that he wants to end forever wars during his presidency. While lethal strikes have already significantly decreased, the organizations listed in the letter deserve our unwavering support in demanding a firm, permanent end to the lethal strikes program. 

The immediate use of force in areas with bystanders and critical infrastructure is more than inhumane and the threshold for what constitutes such military action must be raised immediately. The Biden administration’s focus should be on repairing our infrastructure, rebuilding our economy, and fighting against climate change — not turning more civilians into casualties of war.

Write President Biden and demand an outspoken promise to end the use of lethal strikes outside of recognized battlefields!

PS — Please don't forget to sign the petition holding Trump and Barr accountable for spying on journalists and House Democrats, and be sure to follow OD Action on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.