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Controversial GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is now aiming at Fox News. It could be because a columnist for Fox News called her an "idiot" who should get over herself. She's quickly losing power with Republicans as she was met with boos after calling up a resolution to remove GOP Speaker Mike Johnson on the House floor.

I'm old enough to remember when a Republican President cut off American arms being sent to Israel. Rep. Steven Scalise now thinks that's worthy of impeachment when a Democrat is in the White House. The Louisiana Republican sounded so ridiculous that Fox host Stuart Varney looked puzzled.

The 3rd week of the Donald Trump's first criminal trial (of four) ended with a roller coaster of news.

Jordan Klepper’s Wednesday stint hosting “The Daily Show” began with a roundup of the past week’s big political news: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem shooting a puppy and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s brain worm. 

Traitor Trump's notorious MAGA spokesman Steve Bannon failed at his attempt to overturn his four-month prison sentence. Bannon's conviction was upheld by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.

Former Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is endorsing Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz’s primary challenger, former naval pilot Aaron Dimmock. 

by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Arizona Mirror
May 6, 2024

A Glendale Republican lawmaker is no longer allowed to access legislative broadcast equipment after the Arizona Mirror reported on May 3 that he used the Senate’s broadcast studio to appear on a far-right talk show last week with a host who has declared Adolf Hitler a “hero.”

On May 1, Sen. Anthony Kern appeared on ”The Stew Peters Show” to discuss a Drag Story Hour that was hosted the day before in a basement meeting room in the Arizona House of Representatives. Читать дальше...

You may have heard of this already, where Trump casually promised a quid pro quo to the oil industry that would let them rape and pillage the environment at will. Even for Trump, this was stunning. Via the Washington Post:

Now that Rick Scott is job auditioning for American Orange Idol, he's rewriting history by claiming he was the victim of political persecution over his hospital chain, which paid $1.7 billion to resolve Medicare fraud charges. Via Rolling Stone:

Amazing, how right wing donors created this almost overnight to take down Obamacare and climate change progress via their precious little Tea Party, and it's disappearing the same way! Ha ha, remember how we were called "rude" for calling them teabaggers? Via Politico:

If anyone knows a thing or two about the threat of authoritarianism from Donald Trump, it’s Hillary Clinton. Gleeful chants of “lock her up” were almost as prevalent in the 2016 presidential campaign as the “make American great again” slogan. This campaign year, there seems to be an endless list of people Trump wants to lock up, deport and execute.

Above, The Alarm performs, Rescue Me. Will no one rescue us from our failed political press?

In just a week since its launch, Utah's "snitch line" for a new law restricting transgender people's access to some bathrooms and changing facilities was inundated with around 10,000 "bogus" reports, state Auditor John Dougall revealed Tuesday.

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Day 14 of Donald Trump's first criminal trial (of 4) was an day of paradoxes. Starting with the porn star being portrayed as a "nut and a slut" and ending with Trump's long time former personal assistant, Madeleine Westerhout.