Monthly Archives: January 2021

CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Mediaite reports: Louise Linton, the wife of former United States Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin, dropped an incredibly thrilling and campy trailer for her upcoming dark comedy Me You Madness. Linton stars in her directorial debut as murderous billionaire and self-identified “materialistic, narcissistic, self absorbed misanthrope” Catherine Black, who ends up developing a “soft spot” for Ed Westwick’s character …

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Banished QAnon Cultists Migrate To New TikTok Clone

The Verge reports: After this month’s deadly attack at the Capitol, QAnon has been widely banished from the internet. Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok have all banned Q-related content, and the right’s favored platform, Parler, has been forced offline for weeks. But it hasn’t all disappeared. A new platform called Clapper, a “free-speech” TikTok clone, is becoming a home for QAnon …

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PA Lt Gov To Defy GOP Ban On Rainbow Flag At Capitol

NBC News reports: The latest front line in the free speech war is a balcony in the Pennsylvania state Capitol — and it’s being fought over marijuana and rainbow flags. The flags belong to Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a tattooed 6-foot-8 Democrat considering a run for Senate next year, who hung the pro-legalization green leaf and LGBTQ rights flags …

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Forum Scrutinized By FBI Scrubs Thousands Of Posts

Mother Jones reports: In the days ahead of the January 6 Capitol riot, there were warnings, but no guarantee that the day would turn violent. But users of TheDonald.win, a major online pro-Trump forum, were preparing for a fight, posting maps of the Capitol and swapping messages about being ready to die. In the wake of the carnage, law enforcement …

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Rubio Suggests QAnon Rep Is “Deranged Or A Sadist”

Via email from right wing columnist Erick Erickson: Today, I learn the congresswoman from Georgia who replaces Cynthia McKinney as Georgia’s in-house antisemite believes the Jews have an orbital space laser that started wild fires in California to clear a path for a high speed rail system. Marjorie Taylor Greene also believes or believed that the Newtown, CT and Parkland, …

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STOP THE STEAL: Ward Refuses Audit Of Own Race

The Arizona Republic reports: The Arizona Republican Party is rebuffing demands from some of its activists to audit the procedures and results of its own election for chair and other positions, according to an email sent Thursday night to party members. During a radio interview Friday with KFYI’s “The Conservative Circus With James T. Harris,” Kelli Ward, who was reelected …

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NJ Republican Candidate Charged With Voting Twice

My Central Jersey reports: A former Republican mayoral candidate has been charged with voting twice in the November election by using two different names. Frederick Gattuso, 43, was arrested without incident and charged with one count of third-degree fraudulent voting, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone announced Thursday. Gattuso was charged after an investigation by the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office determined …

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COURT: Tax Firm Must Give Trump Org Docs To NY AG

CBS New York reports: A judge in New York on Friday ordered a law firm serving as counsel to the Trump Organization to turn over documents related to the former president’s business to the state’s attorney general. New York State Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron said in an order that he had completed a review of documents from the firm …

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PA Republican Charged With Voting For Dead Wife

Pittsburgh’s ABC News affiliate reports: A criminal complaint alleges a South Park man submitted a mail-in ballot for November’s election in the name of his wife who had died seven years earlier. Allegheny County police said they learned of the crime while investigating an allegation of voter fraud in which Judy C. Presto had voted in the November election, despite …

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Kraken Lawyer Faces Disbarment For Mental Illness

Law & Crime reports: Because attorney Lin Wood said publicly on Thursday that the State Bar of Georgia demanded he undergo a mental health evaluation in order to keep his law license, the Bar told Law&Crime on Friday that it could confirm an active inquiry into Wood. The Bar said that although the investigative process is normally confidential, Wood’s statement …

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Lawmakers To Get Portal To Coordinate Travel Security

The Associated Press reports: The Capitol Police are stepping up security at Washington-area transportation hubs and taking other steps to safeguard traveling lawmakers as Congress continues to react to this month’s deadly assault on the Capitol. Capitol Police will be stationed at area airports and Washington’s Union Station railway hub on busy travel days, the House’s chief law enforcement officer …

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Giuliani Claims Lincoln Project Was Behind DC Riots

The Daily Beast reports: Saying that the Capitol riot was planned by antifa and “even some right-wing groups that were enemies” of Trump, the ex-mayor wildly claimed that anti-Trump political action committee The Lincoln Project was involved in this supposed scheme. “Hang on! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa—what are you saying ‘working for The Lincoln Project?’ Right-wing groups, like who?” Bannon …

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Nadler Letter To DOJ Demands Charges For All Rioters

Reuters reports: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) on Friday called on the Justice Department to prosecute all those who illegally entered the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot and to provide detailed information about how it is making charging decisions. Nadler made the request in a letter to acting attorney general Monty Wilkinson, citing news accounts that prosecutors …

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FL Bill Excludes Felons From Minimum Wage Raise

Click Orlando reports: Florida’s minimum wage is set to hit $15 per hour by 2026, but not everyone in the state will see that money if one Republican state senator gets his way. Sen. Jeff Brandes, of St. Petersburg, filed a proposed amendment to Florida’s constitution on Wednesday. The proposal from Brandes, who serves as chair of the Judiciary Committee, …

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OOPS: Florida Gov Seeks $1B To Battle Rising Seas

The Tampa Bay Times reports: Faced with mounting evidence that sea level rise and intensifying storms will cost Florida governments billions into the future, Gov. Ron DeSantis this week announced a $1 billion investment over four years to allow local governments to build new infrastructure to address the impacts. If the Legislature approves the new program, “Resilient Florida” will use …

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Homocon Charged In Riot Plans Crowdfunded Defense

From Brandon Straka’s Facebook page: Patriots, The entire #WalkAway team wants to thank you for your concern for Brandon. We want to let you all know that Brandon has been released from jail and is doing well. There is a long road ahead of him but he’s strong and he’s looking forward to the future. We’ve had a lot of …

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Dem Rep Is Moving Her Office After Maskless QAnon Rep And Staffers “Berated” Her In US Capitol Hallway

The Hill reports: Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) said Friday that she’s moving her office away from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) for her safety. The progressive lawmaker accused Greene and her staff of berating her in a hallway, adding that the Georgia Republican targeted her on Twitter. Greene has drawn scrutiny this week after a video surfaced that showed her …

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QAnon Rep: RBG Had Been Replaced By Body Double

Media Matters reports: In early 2019, conspiracy theorists — including QAnon supporters — claimed that Democrats were hiding Ginsburg or covering up that she was dead so they could hold on to her Supreme Court seat. In one iteration, some people claimed that a body double replaced Ginsburg when she was seen in public. Greene is one of those people. …

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Charlie Kirk Seeks To Cancel Star Christian Rapper

The Christian Post reports: Charlie Kirk, founder of the conservative student group Turning Point USA, said prominent Christian entertainer Lecrae “should never be allowed” to perform in Christian churches after he campaigned for Raphael Warnock, a pro-choice Democrat. Kirk, author of The MAGA Doctrine, made the comments at Pastor Jack Hibbs’ Calvary Chapel Chino church the week of the inauguration …

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Ex-KGB Spy Tells Of 80s “Charm Offensive” With Trump

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset over 40 years and proved so willing to parrot anti-western propaganda that there were celebrations in Moscow, a former KGB spy has told the Guardian. Yuri Shvets, posted to Washington by the Soviet Union in the 1980s, compares the former US president to “the Cambridge five”, the British spy …

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