Monthly Archives: July 2021

Cultist Reps Booted From Prison Holding Rioters: We’re In “Totalitarian Marxist Territory, This Is A Dictatorship”

Raw Story reports: Reps. Matt Gaetz (FL), Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), and Louie Gohmert (TX) complained on Thursday after prison officials refused to allow them to enter a facility housing people who allegedly attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Conservative news outlets OAN and RSBN covered the lawmakers’ attempt to enter the facility. The stunt was billed as an …

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Ex-Cardinal Charged With Sexual Assault Of Teen Boy, Allegedly Then Told “Sinner” Victim To Pray For Himself

NPR reports: Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked after a Vatican investigation confirmed he had sexually molested adults as well as children, has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy during a wedding reception in the 1970s, court records show. Court documents obtained by The Boston Globe shows that McCarrick is charged with three counts of indecent assault …

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Anne Graham Lotz: Jesus Got My Son Out Of The ICU

From Anne Graham Lotz’s Facebook page: PRAISE GOD!!! Praise our prayer-hearing, prayer-answering God! Jonathan has just been moved out of ICU. Now he begins rehab!! My precious mother taught me the following poem that seems appropriate now: “Trust Him when dark doubts assail thee, Trust Him when they strength is small. Trust Him when to simply trust Him is the …

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GOP Rep Assails McCarthy Over “Bullshit” Mask Rule

Politico reports: Rep. Chip Roy confronted House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday about a new Capitol Police bulletin that suggests congressional staffers and visitors could be arrested if they fail to heed the chamber’s new mask mandate. “This is bulls—. We need to lead,” Roy, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, told McCarthy during a brief meeting …

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GOP Sen. John Kennedy Demands To Know If Justice Department Nominee Believes In God Or Not [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: “Do you believe in God?” Not a question typically asked in a Department of Justice confirmation hearing, particularly given the long-standing Congressional tradition of observing the Constitutional separation of church and state, but that didn’t keep Senator John Kennedy from hectoring nominee Hampton Dellinger over his religious beliefs. Dellinger is the former North Carolina deputy attorney general and …

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Anti-Vaxxer Chokes Out Regrets About Something

Sacramento’s NBC News affiliate reports: As the delta variant fuels a rise of COVID-19 cases in San Joaquin County, 25 people are in the ICU due to the virus. One of them is Philly Baird, a Ripon man who KCRA 3 first met in 2018. Baird had been so devoted to his beloved NFL team, the Philadelphia Eagles, he had …

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Insurrectionist Rep Wore Body Armor To Pre-Riot Rally

The Insider reports: Republican Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama said he wore body armor to Donald Trump’s January 6 rally in Washington, DC, after being tipped off about “risks” in the days leading up to the event, Slate reported. “I was warned on Monday” — January 4 — “that there might be risks associated with the next few days,” Brooks …

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GOP Senator “Grateful” For Cop That Shot Ashli Babbitt

“The person that shot her is a police officer shooting a criminal not complying with officers telling her, ‘Stop. Don’t come through that window. We have guns drawn. Don’t do it.’ “They’re protecting people, and the officer was found to be innocent of any wrongdoing. So then what would be the purpose of releasing that officer’s name? What do you …

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Former NRA Head Tried To Hide Killing Of Elephant

The Daily Beast reports: The former head of the National Rifle Association and his wife went to great lengths to ship parts of the elephant they killed in Botswana back home—and to keep their names far removed from it. According to The New Yorker, Wayne LaPierre and his wife, Susan, had elephant feet repurposed for stools, umbrella stands, and a …

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Masks Again Required Indoors At Disney Theme Parks

Orlando’s ABC News affiliate reports: Face coverings will once again be required indoors and aboard all Resort transportation, regardless of vaccination status, at the Walt Disney World Resort beginning on Friday, July 30. Guests ages 2 and up will also be required to wear facial coverings in the queues for attractions at the four theme parks. Masks will continue to …

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Trump Vows To Primary McConnell Over Infrastructure Vote: He’s Giving The Democrats Everything They Want

The Hill reports: Former President Donald Trump lashed out at Senate Republicans on Thursday after the upper chamber voted to take up debate on a bipartisan infrastructure package, accusing Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and so-called “RINOs” for surrendering to Democrats. “Under the weak leadership of Mitch McConnell, Senate Republicans continue to lose,” Trump said in a statement. “He lost …

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US Gymnast Sunisa Lee Wins Gold In All-Around Event

The Associated Press reports: Sunisa Lee became the fifth straight American woman to claim the Olympic title in the women’s all-around. She edged Rebeca Andrade of Brazil in an entertaining and hotly contested final while Simone Biles watched from the stands. Lee’s total of 57.433 points was just enough to top Andrade. The Brazilian earned the first gymnastics all-around medal …

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DeSantis Mocks CDC In Utah While COVID Rages In FL

Politico reports: You couldn’t have a had more stunning split-screen view of the polarization over Covid-19 in Florida than in the previous 24 hours. News that Florida’s daily Covid-19 count soared to more than 16,000 new cases on Tuesday and hospital beds are beginning to fill up, has brought new fears that the coronavirus is raging uncontrolled across the state …

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US Economy Grew Robustly In Second Quarter

The New York Times reports: Vaccinations and federal aid helped lift the U.S. economy out of its pandemic-induced hole this spring. The next test will be whether that momentum can continue as coronavirus cases rise, masks return and government help wanes. Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic output, grew 1.6 percent in the second quarter of the year, …

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Kinzinger: Most Republicans Don’t Believe Election Lies

The Huffington Post reports: Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said Wednesday that the vast majority of his Republican colleagues don’t believe ex-President Donald Trump’s election lies, even though they may continue to peddle them in public. “Save one or two maybe out here, nobody ― and I think it’s very important to repeat ― nobody actually believes the election was stolen …

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AZ Fraudit Largely Funded By QAnon Ex-Overstock CEO

The Washington Post reports: A private contractor conducting a Republican-commissioned review of 2020 presidential ballots in Arizona’s largest county announced late Wednesday that it has collected more than $5.7 million in private donations to fund the process. In a statement, Cyber Ninjas indicated that $3.25 million came from the America Project, a group led by former Overstock chief executive Patrick …

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“Election Integrity” Cultists Go Door-To-Door In PA County, Demand To Know Who Residents Voted For

The York Dispatch reports: A group calling itself an “election integrity committee” drew allegations of voter intimidation after its members reportedly knocked on doors across York County asking about how and for whom residents voted. York County President Commissioner Julie Wheeler, who said she received numerous calls about the individuals claiming to be members of the committee, emphasized that they …

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Cultists Hurl Racist Abuse At St. Louis County Health Director As City Council Votes To Rescind Mask Rules

From St. Louis County’s health director Faisal Khan: My time before the Council began with a dog-whistle question from Councilman Tim Fitch, who said he wanted to emphasize for the assembled crowd that I was not from this country. As you know — and as Mr. Fitch surely knew since he was the crowd’s leader — the great majority of …

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Major 8.2 Quake Hits Off Alaskan Coast, No Tsunami

CNN reports: The 8.2 magnitude earthquake that struck off Alaska’s coast Wednesday night was the strongest one since 1964, an official told CNN. The very strong quake was located about 56 miles (91 kilometers) east southeast of Perryville, Alaska, and happened around 10:15 p.m. Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said. At 29 miles deep (46.7 km), the earthquake is considered …

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Trump Repeatedly Called His AG To Push Election Lies

The Washington Post reports: President Donald Trump called his acting attorney general nearly every day at the end of last year to alert him to claims of voter fraud or alleged improper vote counts in the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the conversations. The personal pressure campaign, which has not been previously reported, involved repeated phone calls …

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