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  • Trump disavows Project 2025 transition plan after a key official calls for a new American Revolution

    07/05/2024 1:29:12 PM PDT · by joesbucks · 50 replies
    Associated Press ^ | ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
    Donald Trump distanced himself Friday from Project 2025, a massive proposed overhaul of the federal government drafted by longtime allies and former officials in his administration, days after the head of the think tank responsible for the program suggested there would be a second American Revolution. “I know nothing about Project 2025,” Trump posted on his social media website. “I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to...
  • Supreme Courts Rejects Bid to Restrict Access To Abortion Pill

    06/13/2024 8:11:08 AM PDT · by joesbucks · 56 replies
    NBC News ^ | 06/13/2024 | Lawrence Hurley
    The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the abortion pill mifepristone, meaning the commonly used drug can remain widely available. The court found unanimously that the group of anti-abortion doctors who questioned the Food and Drug Administration’s decisions making it easier to access the pill did not have legal standing to sue.
  • 'Tear down this wall': On this day in history, Reagan challenges Gorbachev

    06/12/2024 7:11:58 AM PDT · by joesbucks · 18 replies
    WCVB ^ | 06/12/2024 | National Desk Staff
    On this date in 1987, then President Reagan made his famous Tear Down This Wall Speech. “General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace–if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe–if you seek liberalization: come here, to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”
  • Donald Trump Supporters Leave Rally During Middle of Speech, Video Shows

    06/10/2024 12:07:00 PM PDT · by joesbucks · 131 replies
    Newsweak ^ | Ewan Palmer
    Scores of people were seen leaving Donald Trump's rally in Las Vegas early while the former president was still speaking on stage. A clip posted onto X, formerly Twitter, showed large numbers of Trump supporters exiting the area where Trump was speaking in Nevada on Sunday while the former president was delivering his remarks
  • ‘Not relevant’: Federal court hands MyPillow and Lindell a loss when it comes to compelling ‘attenuated at best’ testimony of DOJ and ex-DNI officials in Dominion lawsuit

    06/09/2024 6:57:32 AM PDT · by joesbucks · 89 replies
    Law & Crime ^ | Colin Kalmbacker
    In November 2022, the first subpoena was filed against John Negroponte, the former director of national intelligence — despite no prior involvement in the lawsuit on either side. Then, in June 2023, My Pillow, Inc. filed a motion to compel the testimony of Department of Justice attorney, Carlotta Wells. The career government lawyer, again, was not previously involved in the civil dispute between the voting machine companies and the bedding retailer up to that point. “First, as Lindell does not dispute, Wells and Negroponte do not have any personal or direct knowledge regarding the allegedly defamatory statements at issue,” the...
  • RNC website featured image of Ho Chi Minh City instead of Milwaukee

    06/04/2024 2:30:14 PM PDT · by joesbucks · 40 replies
    The Heartland ^ | 06/03/2024 | Richard Eberwein
    The Republican National Convention (RNC) is set to be held in Milwaukee on July 15; however, the convention’s website featured a banner image of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam for several months. Boston Globe reporter Sam Brodey flagged the blunder on X on Tuesday morning.
  • Fraud trial juror reports getting bag of $120,000 and promise of more if she’ll acquit

    06/03/2024 6:44:34 PM PDT · by joesbucks · 46 replies
    A juror was dismissed Monday after reporting that a woman dropped a bag of $120,000 in cash at her home and offered her more money if she would vote to acquit seven people charged with stealing more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children during the pandemic. These seven are the first of 70 defendants expected to go to trial in a conspiracy that cost taxpayers $250 million. Eighteen others have pleaded guilty, and authorities said they recovered about $50 million in one of the nation’s largest pandemic-related fraud cases. Prosecutors say just a fraction of the...
  • IRS sues Ohio doctor whose views on COVID-19 vaccinations drew complaints

    06/03/2024 6:39:08 PM PDT · by joesbucks · 16 replies
    ABC/Associated Press ^ | Associated Press
    An Ohio doctor who drew national attention when she claimed COVID-19 vaccines made people magnetic is being sued by the federal government over claims she hasn't paid nearly $650,000 in federal taxes and late fees. The lawsuit, filed last month in federal court in Cleveland, claims Sherri Tenpenny didn't pay taxes in 2001, 2012 and 2013.
  • Epoch Times CFO Bill Guan charged in alleged $67 million global money laundering scheme

    06/03/2024 3:40:44 PM PDT · by joesbucks · 59 replies
    CNBC ^ | Kevin Breuninger
    The chief financial officer of conservative global news outlet The Epoch Times was arrested and charged with leading a yearslong scheme to launder at least $67 million in illicit funds. The alleged scheme by Weidong Guan and others involved cryptocurrency, prepaid debit cards, fraudulently obtained unemployment insurance benefits and stolen personal identification information, according to federal prosecutors. The money laundering scheme caused tens of millions of dollars to be transferred to bank accounts linked the media company, prosecutors alleged.
  • Behind the Curtain: Speaker Johnson's secret muse

    06/03/2024 7:25:49 AM PDT · by joesbucks · 24 replies
    Axiosy ^ | Mike Allen, Jim Vanderhei
    It turns out House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) had a quiet mentor who helped pull off the biggest accomplishment of his rocky seven months with the gavel — defying his right wing to pass a vital aid package for Israel and Ukraine. John Boehner — an establishment Republican who was speaker a decade ago chronologically, but an eon ago in the GOP's radical evolution — has become a surprising tutor to the novice, full-MAGA speaker.
  • DeWine signs fix to get President Biden on Ohio's fall ballot

    06/02/2024 6:01:57 PM PDT · by joesbucks · 54 replies
    WBNS tv ^ | 06/02/2024 | 10tv web staff, AP
    Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill Sunday to ensure that President Joe Biden appears on Ohio's ballot for the November general election. DeWine also signed a bill to ban foreign nationals from contributing to state ballot campaigns.
  • Salem Media Retracts Dinesh D’Souza’s ‘2000 Mules’

    06/01/2024 9:38:03 PM PDT · by joesbucks · 178 replies
    Deadline ^ | 06/01/2024 | Ted Johnson
    In its statement, Salem said, In publishing the film and the book, we relied on representations made to us by Dinesh D’Souza and True the Vote, Inc. that the individuals depicted in the videos provided to us by TTV, including Mr. Andrews, illegally deposited ballots. We have learned that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has cleared Mr. Andrews of illegal voting activity in connection with the event depicted in 2000 Mules.
  • Steve Bannon Suggests Jim Jordan and James Comer Are Bought

    06/01/2024 9:32:40 PM PDT · by joesbucks · 116 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Rachel Dobkin
    The conservative talk show host called out House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan of Ohio, House Oversight Committee chair James Comer of Kentucky and House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana for not doing enough to help the MAGA cause. "Once again. I beg of you. Where is Jim Jordan, where's Comer, where's Polly Pockets Johnson. Where are the subpoenas? Where is an investigation? Why are people not being held accountable? Why does it take [conservative activist] Mike Davis and [former Trump aide] Kash Patel and the same people over, and over, and over again. [Former Republican Nevada attorney general candidate]...
  • Dershowitz to Newsmax: Trump Needs to Fire His Lawyers

    05/30/2024 7:18:09 PM PDT · by joesbucks · 212 replies
    Newsmax ^ | Mark Swanson
    “I'm going to predict that the first thing Trump does is fire his lawyers, which he should have done before the trial rather than after the trial," Dershowitz said on "The Record With Greta Van Susteren." His lawyers did not do a good job. And what worries me, as an appellate lawyer, is that they didn't do a good job preserving the record for appeal. They focused exclusively on the trial, which is what many trial lawyers erroneously do," Dershowitz said. "But you can't win an appeal if the lawyers below didn't create a record for appeal. And they didn't...
  • AstraZeneca withdraws Covid vaccine globally

    05/08/2024 5:11:55 AM PDT · by joesbucks · 18 replies
    The Tribune ^ | 05/08/2024 | None Given
    AstraZeneca has said it had initiated the worldwide withdrawal of its Covid-19 vaccine due to a "surplus of available updated vaccines" since the pandemic.
  • Indiana Presidential Primary Election Results 2024

    05/07/2024 8:37:15 PM PDT · by joesbucks · 59 replies
    NBC News ^ | None Given
    Donald Trump has secured the delegates needed to win the Republican nomination. Joe Biden has secured the delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination.
  • MTG Push to Oust Johnson Is MAGA Theater, Not a Real Threat

    05/07/2024 7:31:28 PM PDT · by joesbucks · 13 replies
    Intelligencer ^ | Ed Kilgore
    It’s been obvious for a while now that Marjorie Taylor Greene’s threat to take down Speaker Mike Johnson via a motion to vacate the chair — the same device that ejected MTG’s close friend Kevin McCarthy last fall — isn’t going to succeed. Only two House Republicans, notorious extremists Thomas Massie and Paul Gosar, have signed on to MTG’s draft motion to get rid of Johnson in retaliation for his repeated cooperation with Democrats on spending and foreign-aid measures. And a host of other House Freedom Caucus types are on record making it clear they aren’t interested in another bloodbath...
  • Trump says he has decided on 2024 running mate but refuses to name them: ‘Can’t tell you’

    05/05/2024 11:11:30 PM PDT · by joesbucks · 86 replies
    New York Post ^ | 01/10/2024 | Victor Nava
    Former President Donald Trump revealed Wednesday that he’s already settled on a running mate for his 2024 general election campaign if he were to win the Republican nomination for president. Trump, however, refused to say who it is when asked during a televised town hall in Des Moines, Iowa.
  • 6 months out, a tight presidential race with battle between issues and attributes: POLL

    05/05/2024 10:09:55 AM PDT · by joesbucks · 43 replies
    ABC News ^ | Gary Langer
    Excluding people who say they wouldn't vote, Trump has 46% support, Biden 44%, in this national survey of more than 2,200 adults. (Nearly all the rest say they'd pick someone else.) Among registered voters, it's Biden 46%, Trump 45%. Among likely voters, it's Biden 49%, Trump 45%
  • Trump calls classified documents special prosecutor Jack Smith a *bleeping bleep hole* brands Fani Willis a 'real beauty' and likens himself to Al Capone during fiery Mar-a-Lago speech.

    05/05/2024 8:10:59 AM PDT · by joesbucks · 60 replies
    The Daily Mail ^ | 50/05/2024 | Dominic Yeatman
    He teased his audience over who he would choose as his vice-presidential running mate and dished out praise to embattled House speaker Mike Johnson, ordering Republican critics to 'leave him alone'.