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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump loses it with unhinged response to bombshell Georgia news
The disgraced former president has built himself a Great Wall of Delusion after the special grand jury report was released Thursday, desperately claiming that the heavily redacted document somehow exonerated him of all wrongdoing. Spoiler alert: it very much does not exonerate him.
Take Action: Kick Marjorie Taylor Greene off the Homeland Security Committee!
Rep. Angie Craig flooded with abuse after deranged Fox News take on her assault
Just over a week after she was assaulted outside her D.C. apartment, the Minnesota Democrat's office released audio Friday of threatening, vulgar phone calls it said it received after a segment on Fox News’ “The Five” show where the hosts bashed efforts by some Democratic cities and states to reform police departments. One caller said, “Finally this piece of shit gets accosted... You deserved it.” Far from ever sharing any actual "news," Fox now seems to exist solely to incite harrassment and terror campaigns against anyone the eye of Murdoch casts its baleful gaze upon and will remain a threat to people's lives as long as it remains on the air.
Take Action: Tell Congress to ban Trump from running in 2024!
The Rural Outreach Coordinated Campaign is poised to change Democrats' prospects in Rural America
atAdvocacy Partner: ROCC is organizing infrastructure engineered by lifelong rural Dems to empower the best grassroots mobilization techniques and coordinate them into national strategy. This short video explains the work being done.
Disinformation campaign targeting Ohio train derailment traced to bogus news site
A flurry of conspiracies flooded social media after a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous materials derailed last week, catching fire and spewing toxic chemicals into the atmosphere and waterways. While the damage done is tragic and the lives affected are real, it appears the conspiracy theories were all sourced from a website that purports to be a news outlet but is really a disinformation operation whose writers are fake people with AI-generated faces.
Take Action: Protect communities from corporate railroad greed!
Firm caught hiring kids to clean meatpacking plant gets slap-on-the-wrist fine
Packers Sanitation Services paid a $1.5 million fine for illegally employing over 100 minors – some as young as 13 – to clean and sanitize "kill floors" with hazardous chemicals at meatpacking factories across the U.S. during overnight shifts, according to the Department of Labor. But it's a drop in the bloodbucket for a company that made $2 billion last year, begging the question of when will we come up with some kind of punishment for corporate wrongdoing that might actually deter them from breaking the law whenever they want to save a buck?
Take Action: Tell Congress to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment ASAP!
Ann Coulter tells Nikki Haley to "go back to your own country" in racist tirade
Speaking on "The Mark Simone Show," Ann Coulter went full Klan mode on U.S. born Nikki Haley for her audacity to be of Indian heritage. Coulter went on to deride India for "worshipping cows" and having a "rat temple." This degree of ignorance and hate mongering is sadly what it takes apparently to stay relevant in right-wing media circles, and even a Republican shill like Nikki Haley deserves better and we can't believe Republicans are SO BAD that we have to defend this morally depraved, self-enriching former Trump enabler.
Take Action: Reject the GOP's plan to enrich the wealthy with a 30% tax on working families!
Trump tries to block evidence of two sexual assault allegations at rape defamation trial
At least 26 women have accused the serial assaulter of sexual misconduct since the 1970s, and lawyers for E. Jean Carroll, who alleges Trump raped her in the mid-1990s, want to use two of them to support their case in the upcoming defamation trial. Trump's lawyers are desperately trying to block the inclusion of evidence in those cases, while also trying to block the admission of the infamous Access Hollywood tape where he admits to sexually assaulting women. Guilty much?
Pete Buttigieg takes down Marjorie Taylor Greene
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Brilliant.
GOP in full retreat on proposed cuts to Social Security and Medicare
Republican Rick Scott has nominally surrendered in his quest to fulfill the GOP's long-promised threats to cut, privatize, or otherwise gut Social Security and Medicare by letting the popular programs “sunset.” The move comes after President Biden called Scott's plan out during the State of the Union Address and then spent the next two weeks hammering them on the subject, forcing Republicans to backtrack faster than George Santos during his record breaking 100-meter dash at the 2016 Olympics. But don't believe this goblin for a second — you can bet George Santos' Olympic horse farm that Scott will have Social Security and Medicare back on the chopping block the minute they have control of the Senate again.
Cops body slam pregnant woman during botched raid, shackle her while in labor
Hennepin County, Minnesota taxpayers must cover a $500,000 settlement to a woman after officers brutalized her and shackled her while she was giving labor. Police burst into the home of Faris and Sara Hussein in search of a stolen snowblower, falsely believing Faris was involved with a thief. They ended up slamming Sara, who was nine months pregnant, to the ground, which sent her into labor — and in response they sent her to the hospital in shackles in violation of state law. Horrifying, unforgivable conduct from police once again.
Statewide college walkouts planned after DeSantis transgender data demand revealed
In just the latest front in his war on his transgender citizens, Governor Ron DeSantis demanded – and received – information about trans students' healthcare from at least six Florida universities, which delivered anonymized data on all students who had received medical attention for gender dysphoria through school-funded medical facilities over the past five years. Even for Florida, this is tragically dystopian.
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