Monthly Archives: June 2020

AMC To Reopen Next Month, No Masks Required

Variety reports: AMC Theatres, the world’s largest exhibitor, has unveiled plans to re-open after coronavirus forced it to close its more than 600 venues in the U.S. for nearly four months. The company is expected to resume operations in 450 of those locations on July 15 and expects to be almost fully operational by the time that Disney’s “Mulan” debuts …

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Twitter Slaps Warning On Trump’s Fake CNN Video

The Washington Post reports: Twitter on Thursday evening took the rare step of appending a warning label to one of President Trump’s tweets after the company determined it violated its policies on manipulated media. The president tweeted a doctored version of a popular video that went viral in 2019, which showed two toddlers, one black and one white, hugging. In …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Playbill reports: Pride Plays has announced an all-star cast for its upcoming live stream of Mart Crowley’s The Men From the Boys, the 2002 sequel to The Boys in the Band, which won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. The play revisits a handful of characters from Boys in the Band approximately 30 years later, with …

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Biden’s Lead Widens to +12 In Fox News National Poll

Fox News reports: In the head-to-head matchup, the poll finds Biden leads Trump by a 50-38 percent margin. That 12-point advantage is statistically significant, and up from Biden’s 8-point lead last month (48-40 percent). Independents prefer Biden over Trump by 39-17 percent, but another 43 percent are undecided or supporting someone else. Biden’s lead comes from the backing of black …

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Limbaugh Condemns “Cultural Rot” Of LGBTQ Rights: We’re Now So Low, We’re Looking Up At A Filthy Gutter

“This cultural rot has been happening for 30 years. It’d been happening since the sixties, the modern era of it. It’s longer than 30 years, and I have been waiting for this magical moment where most Americans finally realize what a cesspool the Democrat Party has turned the country into, what a cesspool American morality has become, what a cesspool …

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Senior State Official Quits Over Trump’s Racist Actions

The Washington Post reports: A senior State Department official who has served in the Trump administration since its first day is resigning over President Trump’s recent handling of racial tensions across the country — saying that the president’s actions “cut sharply against my core values and convictions.” Mary Elizabeth Taylor, the assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, submitted her …

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100 Million Angels Assigned To Guard GOP Convention

“We’re going to train you during the Republican National Convention how to command strategically the army assigned to you, when to send them and what to declare for them to do. “During this convention there will be no violence involved. We don’t want any violence, any interference, not in any area of society or in the natural (?) whatsoever that …

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FRC Prayer: Ask Jesus To Turn Back LGBTQ “Darkness”

From the Family Research Council’s prayer of the day: On Monday, the Supreme Court issued its ruling on three combined LGBT employment discrimination cases. The ruling redefines and reinterprets the term “sex” in the 1964 Civil Rights Act to mean not only biological gender — male or female — as intended by Congress in 1964, but also “sexual orientation” and …

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New York City To Enter Phase Two Opening On Monday

The New York Post reports: New York City will come even more back to life on Monday as it crosses into Phase Two of reopening from its coronavirus-triggered shutdown. Under Phase Two of the state’s four-phase reopening plan, restaurants and bars can open for outdoor dining — and office spaces, real estate services, in-store retail, barbershops and hair salons, car …

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Federal Court Suspends Wingnut Lawyer Larry Klayman

Bloomberg Law reports: Larry Klayman, founder of the right-wing watchdog group Judicial Watch and, later, Freedom Watch, was suspended from the practice of law for 90 days by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. The court said on Thursday that Klayman “flagrantly violated” an ethics rule forbidding changing sides in a matter, and that he acted “vindictively” toward his …

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California Gov Issues Statewide Mandatory Mask Rule

CBS News Los Angeles reports: Face masks are now required across the state of California, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday. The order applies to all Californians in indoor spaces, healthcare settings, on public transportation and rideshare vehicles and at workplaces that are visited by the public or where food is prepared for sale or distribution. Masks will also be required …

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After Fiery Exchange With Black Dem House Rep, GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz, 38, Claims To Have Adult Cuban Son

The Daily Beast reports: Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on police reform blew up when Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) took offense at remarks made by Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) about race, asking the Black congressman “who the hell” he thought he was. The Democrat noted that he was aware that there are GOP congressmen who have Black grandchildren before pointing …

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Wingnut PAC: Send Money To Save Carlson From Antifa

Just in via email: Pressure continues to mount on Tucker Carlson as Media Matters-ANTIFA with 501(c)(3) status- doubles down on its crusade against Tucker Carlson Tonight‘s advertisers. Is Media Matters deciding who you watch? Media Matters attacks Tucker’s advertisers because they don’t have a rebuttal to his arguments. They would rather shut Carlson down than debate him. And it looks …

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TEXAS: Schools To Open In Fall, No Masks Required

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas students will be returning to public schools in person this fall, Gov. Greg Abbott told state lawmakers Thursday morning. The state’s top education officials confirmed the plans in a statement to The Texas Tribune. “It will be safe for Texas public school students, teachers, and staff to return to school campuses for in-person instruction this …

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Trump Screeches: I Want “New” Supreme Court Justices

The Independent reports: Two conservative justices appointed by the president to the US Supreme Court have apparently have not yielded the kind of results Trump wanted, following the high court’s decision decision to uphold DACA and allow Dreamers who entered the US without legal permission as children to remain in the country. Now, he “will be releasing a new list …

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Facebook Removes Trump Ads For Using Nazi Symbols

The Washington Post reports: In its online salvo against antifa and “far-left mobs,” President Trump’s reelection campaign displayed a marking the Nazis once used to designate political prisoners in concentration camps. A red inverted triangle was first used in the 1930s to identify Communists, and was applied as well to Social Democrats, liberals, Freemasons and other members of opposition parties. …

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Branch Covidian Church Linked To 200+ New Cases

The Associated Press reports: A church in rural northeastern Oregon is now the epicenter of the state’s largest coronavirus outbreak, as 236 people tested positive for the disease, authorities said today. The largest outbreak, which was first made public Monday, is associated with Lighthouse Pentecostal Church in Union County. The Observer newspaper of La Grande reported that the church held …

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Trump Claims He Made Juneteenth “Very Famous”: It’s “An Important Event, But Nobody Had Ever Heard Of It”

USA Today reports: President Donald Trump took credit for widespread recognition of Juneteenth, which commemorates the Emancipation Proclamation, after drawing backlash for his Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally originally scheduled for the same date. In a wide-ranging interview with the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, Trump claimed that “nobody had ever heard of” the June 19 holiday before the controversy surrounding his …

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House Dems May Subpoena Bolton To Testify On Book

Politico reports: Top House Democrats say they’re seriously considering whether Bolton should appear before them — either voluntarily or under subpoena — to testify about explosive allegations contained in his new book, including that Trump encouraged China to construct internment camps for Uighurs, urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to purchase American agricultural products in order to help his reelection bid …

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Pelosi Orders Removal Of Four Confederate Portraits

NBC News reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Thursday announced that she has ordered the removal of portraits of four House speakers who served in the Confederacy that are on display at the Capitol. “There is no room in the hallowed halls of Congress or in any place of honor for memorializing men who embody the violent bigotry and …

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