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Donald Trump and Republican candidates held a Nevada rally on Saturday. Thanks to the speakers, there was no attempt to misdirect or moderate the speeches. What was on display was the heart of Republicanism’s new fascism. Racism; paranoia; hoax promotion; a focus not on winning elections, but on winning the power to administer and subjugate them. Highlights of the event come via Acyn.

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Again: There is no underlying Republican philosophy. None at all, aside from an insistence that anything a Republican does is good and anyone who criticizes a Republican is bad. Republican voters don’t care if you have sex with minors (Matt Gaetz), help cover up the sexual abuse of student-athletes (Jim Jordan), troll local malls looking for teen girls to sexually assault (Roy Moore), or commit actual treason against the republic (Donald What’s-His-Name).

After being scraped out of the White House and deposited back at Mar-a-Lago, it didn’t take long for Donald J. Trump to begin holding for-profit events that looked and sounded a lot like campaign rallies but have, in fact, been nothing but personal cash grabs.

At this point, we have probably all heard of “indicted for seven damn years now” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s brave efforts to dodge a process server trying to serve him with a subpoena. But hearing about it is not enough. It’s important to also make fun of him, because Jeebus, this dude is going all-in trying to portray himself as having barely dodged some of the rampant violence going on down in Texas these days.

In a just-released ruling, the Michigan Supreme Court has ordered the Board of State Canvassers to certify for the ballot the Reproductive Freedom For All petition intended to enshrine abortion rights into the state constitution. “It is undisputed that there are sufficient signatures to warrant certification,” notes the court, while shooting down arguments over “sufficient space between certain words.

We’re all going to be long dead before Republican Party officials and pundits get over their outrage at President Joe Biden’s condemnation of Republican extremism.

We have not been writing enough movie reviews around here, and that’s something we’re going to have to fix. Conveniently, the den of white nationalists and incubator of aspirational felons calling itself “Breitbart” is reimagining itself as a movie studio, and is pushing hard to promote a new “crowdfunded” film called My Son Hunter.

We have not been writing enough movie reviews around here, and that’s something we’re going to have to fix. Conveniently, the den of white nationalists and incubator of aspirational felons calling itself “Breitbart” is reimagining itself as a movie studio, and is pushing hard to promote a new “crowdfunded” film called My Son Hunter.

We have not been writing enough movie reviews around here, and that’s something we’re going to have to fix. Conveniently, the den of white nationalists and incubator of aspirational felons calling itself “Breitbart” is reimagining itself as a movie studio, and is pushing hard to promote a new “crowdfunded” film called My Son Hunter.

Top Republican Party lawmakers and officials screamed to see the search warrant. They screamed again to see the “affidavit.” When both of those made Donald J.

There’s a new CNN report that suggests failed coup planner and ongoing traitor to his country Donald Trump might be wavering on that supposedly-maybe-imminent declaration that he’s running for president again, and it needs to be taken with All The Salt because this is the sort of story that gets offered up to the media when somebody in political inner circles wants to make something happen, not suggest something is happening.

The weekend saw some extremely bizarre action in Donald Trump’s attempts to claw back government records seized by federal agents at Mar-a-Lago, with a friendly judge indicating on Saturday a potential willingness to appoint a “special master” to review the documents for that purpose.

It’s a big deal: An announcement from President Joe Biden forgiving $10,000 in student loan debt—$20,000 for Pell Grant recipients—puts a dent in the latest crisis of capitalism, but it’s the provision that freezes loan interest so that it can’t keep growing even as borrowers make their monthly payments that may do the most for ex-students suffering from predatory loan structures. As Sen.

Any notion that Donald Trump’s move of highly classified national security documents to his private golf club was “accidental,” after his failed coup attempt and subsequent relinquishing of the White House, has gone by the wayside with the news that over 300 such documents were recovered by the FBI team sent to Mar-a-Lago to recover them. There’s no way that’s an oversight.

Losing her Republican primary hasn’t softened Rep. Liz Cheney’s eagerness to hold Donald Trump—and her whole party—accountable for staging a violent coup inside the U.S. Capitol. She’s inviting key House Republican enemies to come testify about that day to her House committee, if they’ve got the guts for it. (They don’t.) U.S.

A mostly quiet weekend capped another news week dominated by Trump’s newest crimes, but in Florida schools are preparing for a new school year constrained by a host of new indoctrination laws, from the Republican-mandated rewriting of history to new rules that appear to ban any discussion of “gender” at all.

Republican crimes continued to dominate the news today because, really, how could they not; as a Florida judge mulls a media request to publicly release the evidence-filled affidavit used by the government to justify the Mar-a-Lago search, Donald Trump’s longtime chief financial officer pleads guilty to tax fraud, and the Justice Department is asking the National Archives to turn over the same list of documents that the House committee investigating the Jan.

News broke today that the Secret Service knew about threats to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi days before the Jan. 6 coup attempt, but they didn’t tell her or the U.S. Capitol Police about those threats until the violence was already underway. This adds another wrinkle to the “accidental” scrubbing of Secret Service communications from before and during the coup.

President Biden signed the legislation known as the Inflation Reduction Act today; despite the Manchin-pandering title, the bulk of the bill is devoted to steps to slow climate change, better enforce tax laws ignored by the rich, and lower American health care costs.

As pro-treason Republicans shift from demanding to see the warrant used to search Mar-a-Lago (which didn’t work out well for them), to demanding to see the affidavit the department presented to a judge detailing the evidence they had for believing materials relating to a federal crime would be found there, a new Justice Department filing opposing its public release notes that it would cause “irreparable damage” to an “ongoing criminal investigation.

The weekend was stuffed with new Republican excuses for why a FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort that found multiple secret, top secret, and confidential government security documents was either of no major significance or another instance of investigators being mean to Trump, but none of the excuses square with what we already know.

The Republican reactions to Trump, ahem, being caught with highly classified nuclear weapons-related documents after asserting to federal agents he didn’t have them continues, and as the facts worsen for Trump his pro-attempted-coup Republican allies are sliding towards the obvious endpoint. If a Republican leader commits a crime against the government, well then maybe that thing shouldn’t even be a crime at all!

Rand Paul has been homing in on that one.

The Republican Party is now obsessively inventing excuses for why the man who attempted to overthrow the government rather than abide his election loss is allowed to make off with whatever classified nuclear weapons documents he wants to, after the coup’s failure, but we’ve been learning much more about the actual circumstances of the FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club with each passing day.

After the news broke that the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago the FBI obtained a search warrant to hunt for pertained to classified nuclear secrets, it took about zero point zero seconds for the Russian government and its media mouthpieces to decide that they really, really would love it if Donald trump came to Moscow. You know, for humanitarian reasons or whatever.

The Daily Beast brings us this one.

After several days of relentless attacks on the FBI from Fox News hosts, Republican partisans, and countless Republican lawmakers, an attack on the FBI field office in Cincinnati, Ohio, today has all the hallmarks of domestic terrorism. Immediately after that attack, U.S.

The big news yesterday remained Ukrainian’s massively successful attack on a Russian airbase in Crimea, but in the early evening hours an explosion at another airfield Russia’s been relying on for its campaign against Ukraine was reported, and this one’s also a doozy.

The apparent Ukrainian strike against a Russian military base in occupied Crimea may turn out to be one of the most consequential of the war to date; video and satellite images taken after the blast show widespread damage, including the likely destruction of at least nine Russian warplanes. The blast, far from the frontlines, significantly dents Russian airpower in southern Ukraine—and Ukraine is being coy about how, exactly, they might have done it.

The first-ever FBI search warrant served against a former U.S. president is still the big news in the country, but we still don’t know much more about it than we did yesterday. Donald Trump took “classified national security documents” from the White House when he left; when those documents were discovered at Mar-a-Lago in early June, Trump seems to have refused to relinquish them, relying on his apparent political power to skirt consequences. Didn’t work out for him.

There are big developments both inside and outside Ukraine today, so let’s get right to it.