Republican politicians and white nationalists spreading antisemitism along with COVID denialism
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In many ways, antisemitism and conspiracism are twins with common origins: The original conspiracy theory is the “blood libel” (claiming Jews use the blood of Gentile babies for matzoh) that arose in medieval times, and the ur-conspiracy theory of the 20t
Anti-vaxx Chronicles: COVID is just like eating raw cookie dough, except that maybe it isn't
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Facebook is a menace. COVID-19 is a menace. Conservatism is a cesspool. Together, those three ingredients have created a toxic stew of malevolent death and devastation. We can talk about all those things in the abstract, look at the numbers and statistics, an
Far-right livestreamer faces new charges on top of charges for defacing Hanukkah exhibit
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U.S. Capitol insurrection suspect, white supremacist online presence, and all-around douchebag Anthime Gionet, also known as “Baked Alaska,” is facing new charges added by authorities in Arizona. The two misdemeanor charges for criminal dam
2022 themes already taking shape as House passes Build Back Better bill
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It's been an eventful pre-Thanksgiving week bookended by blowhard Steve Bannon's surrender to the FBI and House Democrats passing the Build Back Better bill aimed at boosting American families and attacking climate change.
Though President Joe Biden's potent
Revelation that ex-Nazi now holds key DOJ counterterrorism highlights police infiltration threat
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A man who was a leading figure in the racist skinhead scene in the late ‘80s—the drummer for a white-power band called Arresting Officers, and an associate of a notorious neo-Nazi terrorist group—is now a key official overseeing counterterrorism for th
Donald Trump 'wrote' a 'book' for $229.99.* Here's my 'book,' and it is free
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In fairness, the $229.99 price tag for his picture book is the cost if you want a signed copy. But if you want to “read” his book without his signature, it is just $74.99, or, roughly the same price as six—count them—six of these.
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Far-right livestreamer faces charges on top of charges for defacing Hanukkah exhibit
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U.S. Capitol insurrection suspect, white supremacist online presence, and all-around douchebag Anthime Gionet, also known as “Baked Alaska,” is facing new charges added by authorities in Arizona. The two misdemeanor charges for criminal dam
Biden boots Bloom from Postal Service board, DeJoy’s days as Postmaster are numbered
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The House Democrats finally passed Build Back Better! Can this day get better? Why yes, yes it can. Friday, President Joe Biden announced his nominees for the United States Postal Service Board of Governors, “to replace outgoing Governor
Top health associations band together to support mandates, calling them 'reasonable and essential'
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Dear unvaccinated Americans: America's top health care groups are tired of your bullshit. They're tired of you coming into emergency rooms because you refused to protect yourself against a deadly pandemic. They're tired of working nonstop as waves of unvaccin
Disgraced Ferguson ex-cop 'Maserati Mike' wields sex toy outside courthouse at Rittenhouse trial
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A clown and disgraced Ferguson ex-cop who goes by the name “Maserati Mke” has been one of the loudest anti-Black protestors hanging around the Kenosha County Courthouse during the trial of vigilante and bad actor, Kyle Rittenhouse.
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Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty on all five counts in Kenosha shootings that killed 2, injured 1
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After almost three days of deliberation, the jury in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial has found the teenager not guilty on all five counts. The news came as Kenosha, Wisconsin, prepared for potential unrest, deploying 500 guardsmen from the Wisconsin Guar
Nazis lose the plot, and will likely lose their case, in 'Unite the Right' trial closing arguments
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The Nazis on trial in Charlottesville Thursday had three and a half hours between them to make the case as to why they shouldn’t be blamed for the violent “Unite the Right” rally they planned, executed, and hurt people at in 2017.
Instead, ma
'Unite the Right' trial Nazis try to out-white supremacist each other in closing arguments
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The Nazis on trial in Charlottesville Thursday had three and a half hours between them to make the case as to why they shouldn’t be blamed for the violent “Unite the Right” rally they planned, executed, and hurt people at in 2017.
Instead, ma
FDA clears up confusion over boosters by making Moderna and Pfizer available to all adults
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On Friday morning, the FDA announced that it was expanding the availability of booster shots to cover all adults 18 and older. This move, which many had forecast, came at the end of a week in which new cases of COVID-19 were again increasing across the U
Vice President Harris to receive transfer of presidential powers
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The nation will have its first woman president on Friday, albeit for just a short while, when President Joe Biden visits Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Friday for a colonoscopy and routine physical.
In a message distributed to the press corps F
Boosters for all: FDA authorizes Pfizer and Moderna third shot for all adults
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On Friday morning, the FDA announced that it was expanding the availability of booster shots to cover all adults 18 and older. This move, which many had forecast, came at the end of a week in which new cases of COVID-19 were again increasing across the U
Biden to undergo colonoscopy, will transfer powers of presidency to Harris
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The nation will have its first woman president on Friday, albeit for just a short while, when President Joe Biden visits Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Friday for a colonoscopy and routine physical.
In a message distributed to the press corps F
Biden, Pelosi, and progressives get it done, pass Build Back Better
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House Republicans made this the worst week for the institution since January 6, rallying around one of their worst after he made public his homicidal fantasies against a fellow member of Congress and President Biden—twice. Then they promised payback. I
Democrats reverse a bad week in the House with a big win, pass Biden's Build Back Better bill
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House Republicans made this the worst week for the institution since January 6, rallying around one of their worst after he made public his homicidal fantasies against a fellow member of Congress and President Biden—twice. Then they promised payback. I
'Furious' GOP donors pile on Republicans who voted for Biden's infrastructure bill
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Republicans aren't done clawing each others' eyes out over President Joe Biden's bipartisan infrastructure win yet. Now some GOP donors have reportedly chimed in, and they are livid over the 32 Republicans in Congress who voted in favor of creating jobs and&n
Morning Digest: Blasting GOP's new map as 'racially gerrymandered,' veteran Black congressman quits
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McCarthy delivers 8 hrs of sound and fury signifying nothing, to tee up passage of Build Back Better
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Last night, Americans were treated to the longest lunar eclipse in 500 years. Watching it required a good deal of patience, as the orb floated slowly across the sky, apparently unchanging from moment to moment. However, eventually there was real progress and
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Donald Trump has yet another branding operation under way. This time rather than bad cologne or suspect bottled water, he’s trying to put his stamp on how executive privileg
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The COVID pandemic is not over, as Europe heats up and the U.S. simmers
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Trump’s rage at Georgia Republicans should unsettle us all
CNN reports that [Gov Brian] Kemp is now facing the prospect of a serious primary challenge from David Perdue, the businessman and former senator. He very well may
News Roundup: Infrastructure Part 2; Republicans vow revenge; funding insurrection
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In the news today: House Democrats are on the cusp of passing the new, more dramatic modernization of American infrastructure that Joe Biden promoted as candidate. It will soon fall on one man, a Maserati-driving «blind trust» West Virginian coal
Eric Swalwell teaches Lauren Boebert that people who live in MAGA houses shouldn't throw stones
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Lauren Boebert’s natural milieu is a dive bar, so it’s kind of hard to decipher her dreck without at least 12 shots of Jägermeister and a Busch Light or three prepping my brain for her authentic frontier gibberish.
Sadly, these days I drink only oc
QAnon mascot's lawyer blasts Trump: 'Take care of a lot of the jackasses that you f^%@*d up'
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On Wednesday, Jacob Chansley, the QAnon mascot, was sentenced to 41 months in jail. Chansley, sans painted face and buffalo headdress, told the courtroom that he was sorry for his actions: “I am not an insurrectionist. I am certainly not a domestic ter
Liz Cheney on Ted Cruz's pro-Trump mewling: 'A real man would be defending his wife'
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Standard disclaimer: Like most Republicans, Liz Cheney is simply awful. But also like most Republicans, she’s not nearly as awful as Ted Cruz, whose (mostly) tongue-in-cheek association with the Zodiac Killer gives me the barest whiff of sympathy for the no
Matt Gaetz, who’s being investigated for human trafficking, wants Kyle Rittenhouse as his intern
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When you are under investigation for multiple crimes including narcotics use, hiring escorts, and human sex trafficking minors, you can go one of two ways: You can turns the state’s evidence and hope your punishment will be mitigated as a result, the way th
Henry Montgomery, the man behind the famed Supreme Court case, is free after nearly six decades
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After spending 58 years behind bars, Louisiana man Henry Montgomery was released from prison.
Montgomery’s Supreme Court case (Montgomery v. Louisiana) was critical in extending the possibility of freedom to hundreds of people sentenced to
Veteran North Carolina Democrat retiring after GOP passes new racial gerrymander
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Democratic Rep. G. K. Butterfield announced his retirement on Thursday, a decision that came about two weeks after North Carolina’s Republican-dominated state legislature passed a new gerrymandered map that reduces the Black population of his district to ma
Caribbean Matters: It's Puerto Rican Heritage Month. Let's salute the Nuyorican Movement
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We learn so little about Caribbean history, culture, and politics in our schools and via mainstream media. Is it any wonder when we don’t even know much about Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, which are Caribbean “territories” of the United
Rep. Ruben Gallego wants to strip 'traitor' Michael Flynn of his military pension
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A new book by ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl reports that Trump allies, such as disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn, tried with all his might and weight to pressure people in the Trump administration to get on
DeSantis signs new anti-vaxx bill in Brandon, Florida, because killing people is just a game to him
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Republicanism is now a movement that is actively hostile towards governing. It cannot abide it. It exists now only as a series of trolls intended to disparage Americans outside their membership, an eternal attempt to own the libs.
I am sure that Florida Ungo
Texts show Kimberly Guilfoyle may have raised $3M for Jan. 6 rally
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Two days before January 6, Kimberly Guilfoyle reportedly sent a text message to White House liaison Katrina Pierson bragging about how she had raised a whopping $3 million for the rally in Washington that would eventually descend into chaos and bloodshed.
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Earth Matters: Lying oil giants have some ads they'd like you to forget; protecting Chaco Canyon
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In a bullseye story at The Guardian, Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes remind us of the forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing.
The fossil fuel industry has perpetrated a multi-decade, multibillion dollar disi
Anti-vaxx Chronicles: Yes to Neosporin, no to table salt, this guy had a plan!
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`Facebook is a menace. COVID-19 is a menace. Conservatism is a cesspool. Together, those three ingredients have created a toxic stew of malevolent death and devastation. We can talk about all those things in the abstract, look at the numbers and statistics, a
Advocates urge San Diego district attorney to probe brutal 2010 killing at hands of border agents
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It has been over a decade since the killing of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas by Customs and Border Protection (CBP), who was “tased, stripped and beaten by a mob of border & customs officers in 2010,” author and columnist Jean Guerrero wrot
As House prepares to pass Build Back Better, making the tax provisions fairer is up to the Senate
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The legal of the former guy just keep hanging over Capitol Hill like a huge cloud of toxic hot air. It’s not just the lingering fear from Jan. 6 and violent threats from Republicans, it’s the remnants of their punitive policies.
Case in point, the curren
Guess which Republican suggested a brilliant, celebrated woman of color professor is a 'comrade'?
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If you’ve ever wondered whether or not Republicans will take any possible route to be racist, hateful, and discriminatory, shocking remarks made during a Senate Banking Committee nomination hearing for President Joe Biden’s bank regulator pick, Saule Omar
