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Fox News Embarrasses Itself Trying To Mock Biden For Maskless White House Speech

Fox News breathlessly tried to make a big deal out of President Biden speaking at a White House event maskless after the CDC eased guidelines for vaccinated people. Video: “There he is maskless” pic.twitter.com/RFuTFL6vnz — Acyn (@Acyn) May 13, 2021 As Biden sprinted to the podium, the Fox News voiceover said, “There he is maskless,

Joni Ernst Sticks Up for Liz Cheney, Accuses GOP Colleagues of Trying to Cancel Her

Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell have very different leadership styles. Since Trump left office in January, McConnell and Republican senators have barely mentioned him (outside of lap-dog Lindsey Graham). Kevin McCarthy and GOP congresspeople, however, mention Trump every chance they get. And there is also a big difference in how GOP senators and congresspeople are

Schumer trying to workaround filibuster through parliamentarian

Sen. Chuck Schumer is attempting to get permission from the Senate parliamentarian to be able to push through a third spending bill this year without the 10 Republicans necessary to break a filibuster. Aides to Schumer (D-NY) recently argued to the parliamentarian that they could use Section 304 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974

Texas woman allegedly slugs cop trying to impound pot belly pig

A Texas woman was arrested Monday for allegedly punching a police officer who was trying to impound her pot belly pig, a report said. Arianna Swenson, 34, was charged with assaulting a public servant over the alleged attack on Hooks Police Officer Cole Ogden, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by TXK Today. Ogden

Republicans Are Trying To Steal Michigan For Trump By Refusing To Certify Detroit Votes

In another brazen effort to steal a state for Donald Trump, Republicans in Michigan are trying to prevent votes in Wayne County – where Detroit is located – from being certified. “The Republican chair of the board, Monica Palmer, literally just said she would be open to certifying the vote in ‘communities other than Detroit’,”

Trump’s Base Is Shrinking Which Is Why He’s Trying To Block Your Vote

The backbone of Trump’s support is non-college-educated white voters, but these voters have shrunk by 4% since 2016. NPR and Brookings Institution analyzed census data and found: President Trump’s base has gotten smaller. That’s a key finding of an analysis of how the U.S. electorate has changed since 2016, based on census data analyzed by

Sean Hannity Humiliates Himself While Trying To Attack AOC

Sean Hannity tried to attack AOC for her speech seconding the nomination of Sen. Bernie Sanders, but he only embarrassed himself. After AOC gave the perfunctory seconding, Hannity said, “Wow, did I hear that right?…Is she going to say second the nomination for Bolshevik Bernie? Did I hear that right?” Ari Fleischer then had to

Newt Gingrich Lies About Mail-In Voting, Claims Democrats Are Trying to “Steal” November Election

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich repeated President Donald Trump’s own false claims about mail-in voting, saying that Democrats can’t win an “honest election” so they are trying “to set up an ability to steal it.” Gingrich pointed to the state of Nevada, which the president announced his administration will sue after its legislature

Trump And The RNC Are Currently Trying To Limit Voting Access In 17 States

Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee are teaming up to wage war on voting access in more than a dozen states with 90 days until the November elections. As MSNBC’s Chris Hayes pointed out on Tuesday, Trump and the GOP aren’t even trying to hide this coordinated effort to “bar people from voting by

America’s Adversaries Are Trying to Capitalize on George Floyd Protests to Criticize U.S. Leaders

(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — Standing at a lectern with a backdrop map of the world behind him reminiscent of one at the State Department, the spokesman of Iran’s Foreign Ministry made a point Monday to criticize the U.S. in English amid ongoing protests over police killings of black people. “To the American people, the…

The South Sudanese Bishop Trying to Bring War to an End in the World’s Newest Country

South Sudan ranks just above Syria and Afghanistan as the least peaceful country in the world. Its people are being force-fed the full toxic stew of warfare: violence, child soldiers, warlords (remember Joseph Kony?), famine, displacement, statelessness. Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, who heads the Catholic church in the Tombura-Yambio diocese in the country’s southwest, is…

Republicans trying to Rig Federal Courts for Decades

Trump made the courts a tremendous voting difficulty for Republicans in 2016. Liberal felony advocacy companies and court docket watchdogs are divided on the way to make that occur for Democrats in 2020. View Whole Submit › Read Extra