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Pour one out for Fox News’ Sean Hannity, who’s lost the support of pro-Trump seditionists

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.

Texas Gov. Abbott abandons over 100 asylum seekers on D.C. street on a subfreezing Christmas Eve

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.

Unstaffed and seething, Donald Trump in exile is the grifting crook he always was

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.

Negotiations over boosting child tax credits are proof we are a crooked, crooked country

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.

11th Circuit rules no ‘special master’ needed in Trump stolen documents case, orders case dismissed

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.

Republican Joe Lombardo unseats Democratic Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak

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.

Arizona conspiracy cranks are staking out ballot boxes because they have no actual lives to live

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.

Rubio to hold event with coup plotter Trump, and Republicans are tittering about who’s not invited

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.

Tip: If you’re staking out elections offices with ‘night vision goggles,’ you’re doing it wrong

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.

U.S.-Saudi relationship crumbling quickly as U.S. accuses kingdom of siding with Putin

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.

White House signals it may support new arms embargo after Saudi moves to boost Putin

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.