Saturday, April 16, 2022

GOP lawmakers behind coup texts to Trump team IDed

 


Today's Top Stories:

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GOP lawmakers behind damning coup text messages revealed

Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Chip Roy sent coup-plotting text messages to Trump's Chief of Staff, including: "We're driving a stake in the heart of the federal republic."


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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Jen Psaki shreds Texas governor over his border stunt

The White House press secretary listed fact after damning fact that clearly laid out why Gregg Abbott's disastrous antics are blowing up in his face.



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Republicans' "groomer" attacks BACKFIRE spectacularly

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: WOW.


Twitter board adopts "poison pill" to stop Elon Musk takeover
The billionaire oligarch-in-training has made no secret of his attempts to seize one of the world's most important digital public squares from shareholders, but 11th hour maneuvering by the board may neutralize him.



Disgraced Trump EPA chief to run for senate in Oklahoma
There's stiff competition, but Scott Pruitt might have been the most blatantly corrupt of Trump's deputies during his scandal-ridden tenure as EPA chief, and so of course he's now a Republican senate candidate.



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Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene made payments to 1/6 mastermind

Trump lawyer John Eastman is widely considered to be the brains behind the Republican plot to overturn the electoral college results. So why did a Super PAC co-operated by MTG and Matt Gaetz pay him over $25,000?


DOJ boxes Steve Bannon in as contempt trial looms
The white nationalist Trump advisor has made it clear he intends to use every legal trick in the book to turn his upcoming 1/6 trial into a circus, but lawyers at the Justice Department are taking steps to keep proceedings on track.


Gay lawmaker delivers impassioned speech against transgender ban
Democratic State Rep. Ian Mackey of Missouri confronted the author of an amendment that would effectively ban transgender athletes from some high school sports, saying, "You may win this today, but you're going to lose."


Writer J.D. Vance changes tune, receives coveted Trump endorsement
The "Hillbilly Elegy" author was once highly critical of the disgraced former president, but now that he's running for senate in Ohio in a crowded GOP primary field, he's happily bending the knee.


GOP-run states slash food assistance programs as prices skyrocket
Pandemic-fueled inflation is weighing down the economy and Russia's invasion of Ukraine has triggered global gas and food shortages. Republicans think this is the perfect time to kill critical programs millions of families rely on.


Biden administration to protect 10,000 Cameroonians from deportation
The Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that Temporary Protected Status will be granted to the group of Cameroonian refugees here in the U.S. due to the ongoing armed conflict in the struggling African nation.


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America is fiddling...

...as the world burns

Hope...





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