UPDATE: Sunday, Jan 8, 2023 · 9:50:25 PM +00:00
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Hunter
At least some rioters now appear to have been arrested.
UPDATE: Sunday, Jan 8, 2023 · 9:28:42 PM +00:00
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Hunter
Bloomberg now reports that law enforcement has retaken control of the Supreme Court building, but there is “extensive” damage.
“What was expected to be a day of triumph for House Republicans coming into the majority turned into chaos,” says Wednesday’s AP explainer, and it’s not immediately clear whether the nation’s political press was genuinely caught off guard by the current Republican shitshow or are just pretending at it.
Congressional Republicans have worked for two years to block investigations of their own members’ acts of support for the Jan.
The Daily Beast’s Zachary Petrizzo went to the trouble of soliciting some mean quotes from people who now hate Fox News host Sean Hannity, and if that’s not doing God’s work I don’t know what would be. All the trouble stems from Hannity’s admission in a legal deposition that no, he didn’t believe “for one second” the election fraud claims being peddled by Trump’s willing team of coup-egging propagandists.
After losing his reelection bid last October, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been treading a familiar path of late. Very familiar, in fact. It’s so familiar that rather than repeating his name over and over, we’re just going to give him a completely generic name for the purposes of retelling his very familiar tale. Let’s call him Biff for now.
Welcome back to this site’s least regular ongoing series, the vastly important and criminally underlooked Pandemic Guide to Anime.
Republican elected officials continue to compete with each other with stunts of premeditated evil. On Christmas Eve, three busloads of asylum-seeking adult and child refugees were unloaded on the street outside the Naval Observatory, the vice presidential residence in Washington, D.C.
It was 18 degrees, on Christmas Eve, and many of the migrants were not dressed for winter weather. After the migrants boarded the buses two days ago in Texas, they were abandoned on a D.C.
What … what am I looking at here?
🎄 I wrote and performed my own scary version of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas 🎄 Enjoy! pic.twitter.
It’s time to check in on Elon Musk’s retooling of Twitter into his own personal fiefdom and—oh. Oh, that’s not good. Yikes.
Things are going from bad to worse for the man who spent $44 billion in an attempt to return anti-vax and pro-insurrection conspiracy theorists to the nation’s tersest social network.
I’m a fan of the little details in this Washington Post story on Donald Trump’s post-presidential, post-attempted-coup life, cooped up inside his Mar-a-Lago home and resort. That Trump is being chauffeured around his golf course in a cart that sports a laptop or a laptop and printer combo so that his driver can show him “uplifting” news or internet posts between swings may not qualify as news, but it is certainly informative and deeply funny.
Another day, another story about how anti-abortion conservatives really, really want to start throwing people in jail. The Washington Post goes to Texas for this one, though much of the actual planning and grumbling is due to the same national anti-abortion groups that are always involved in these things.
Remember the expanded child tax credit? You know, the program that singlehandedly boosted millions of American children out of poverty, only to send them crashing back down because Republicans absolutely refused to keep the program running no matter how successful it was and were, in fact, enraged that Democrats managed to pass it in the first place? The one that saw Democratic Sen.
Just a day after The New York Times published an odiously misleading story pretending that Twitter owner Elon Musk’s politics were any more complicated than the “own the libs” far-right chuddery the man so relentlessly promotes, Musk apparently decided that he’d been too subtle in his views.
In a Thursday-issued ruling, a three-judge panel for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated Judge Aileen Cannon’s baffling prior order blocking the federal government from using stolen government documents seized at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate while instead ordering a new “special master” to evaluate Trump’s alleged ownership claims to those documents.
After spending $44 billion to purchase Twitter, Elon Musk has been doing his level best to kill off the social network.
It’s time once again to check in with Elon Musk’s new and improved Twitter and—yep, still a garbage fire. After buying the already-struggling company for a plainly ridiculous $44 billion, Musk’s first and only task is to somehow bring in enough money to justify the price he paid for it.
Good news, everybody: Our political press is now completely back to normal.
Six years after being appointed Donald Trump’s chief sycophant, sedition-agnostic former Vice President Mike Pence has once again deigned to express an opinion on something.
The big frontline news in Ukraine today is, as it often has been and was yesterday, the lack of big frontline news.
Here are today’s control-of-terrain maps for #Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine from @TheStudyofWar and @criticalthreats Click here to see our interactive map, updated daily: https://t.co/tXBburjuul pic.twitter.
UPDATE: Wednesday, Nov 16, 2022 · 3:09:46 AM +00:00
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Barbara Morrill
After more than an hour of spewing hate and lies, Trump finally finishes.
UPDATE: Wednesday, Nov 16, 2022 · 3:00:50 AM +00:00
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Barbara Morrill
Just to give you a sense of this. It’s been like this for 20 minutes.
It’s simply not possible that Elon Musk purchased Twitter with the sole intent of destroying it. And by “not possible,” we mean “unlikely.
UPDATE: Saturday, Nov 12, 2022 · 2:18:08 AM +00:00 · Joan McCarter
Democrats will hold both chambers of the legislature, so Lombardo will definitely be checked by the legislative branch.
Republican Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo has toppled incumbent Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, winning the Nevada governor’s office for Republicans.
Incumbent Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, has won reelection, defeating Republican nominee and prolific conspiracy theorist Tudor Dixon.
Arizona Trump supporters have gotten themselves a new hobby in these last weeks of the 2022 elections: Showing up just outside the legally protected 75′ perimeter around public ballot drop boxes in Maricopa County to watch voters turning in their ballots. Sometimes while sporting tactical vests and/or weapons. Sometimes while capturing videos of the voters that arrive or taking pictures of their license plates.
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This has led to confrontations, of course.
Donald Trump, a traitor, will be holding a Miami rally for Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio on Nov. 6, just two days before Election Day. You might think that the biggest news here is that Marco Rubio remains so eager to ally with the orchestrator of a violent attempted coup against our government, a coup that led to deaths and could well have led to the deaths of many of Rubio’s own supposed colleagues.
As Republicans fervently continue their efforts to turn Arizona into the Worst State—a challenge to be sure, but one they seem up to—the party’s latest walking humiliation continues her own lurches toward the state’s governor’s office.
Reuters has an update on the influx of Republican Party-backed “election observers” looking for evidence of all that invisible election fraud their treason-backing party leaders keep bellowing about, and it’s mostly more of the same. We learned earlier about Republican election training sessions that featured GOP partisans brazenly recommending ways to violate election laws by, for example, smuggling in smartphones or other recording devices.
The relationship between the United States and the journalist-killing Saudi Arabian monarchy is deteriorating quickly after the OPEC Plus decision to further cut world oil production, a move publicly blasted by the United States as an attempt to bolster consortium member Russia’s efforts to starve Europe of energy in the coming winter as means of pressuring European nations into reducing their support for Ukraine.
Now that the one son Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker had publicly acknowledged as his own has thrown up his hands and abandoned dad’s campaign, that campaign has gone even further off the rails than it was before. And it was never on the rails to begin with.
The United States’ relationship with oil-producing Saudi Arabia has never risen to the status of “good,” and soured considerably after the Saudi monarchy’s murder of a Washington Post correspondent who criticized the regime. While it does depend somewhat on whether the current American president is or is not a sociopath, murdering journalists is allegedly something we still take quite seriously in our own diplomatic relations.