Monthly Archives: November 2021

CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

The New York Daily News reports: A “Jeopardy!” fan is making history as the first transgender contestant to qualify for the show’s Tournament of Champions. Amy Schneider, the reigning nine-time “Jeopardy!” champion with $343,200 in the bank, began her winning streak earlier this month, after dethroning five-day champion Andrew He. The fifth victory also qualified her for the show’s “Tournament …

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TX Gov “Guarantees” Lights Will Stay On This Winter

San Antonio’s ABC News affiliate reports: Gov. Greg Abbott is guaranteeing Texans won’t have issues keeping the power on this winter. “I can guarantee the lights will stay on,” Abbott told FOX 7 in Austin. “I signed almost a dozen laws that make the power grid more effective.” Abbott was referring to multiple bills he signed into law this year …

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CNN Suspends Host Chris Cuomo “Indefinitely”

From CNN’s communications office: The New York Attorney General’s office released transcripts and exhibits Monday that shed new light on Chris Cuomo’s involvement in his brother’s defense. The documents, which we were not privy to before their public release, raise serious questions. When Chris admitted to us that he had offered advice to his brother’s staff, he broke our rules …

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Franklin Graham Ignores Late Marcus Lamb’s Crusade Against Vaccines: “He’s Now In The Presence Of Jesus”

Posted this afternoon to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: I was shocked to learn today that Marcus Lamb passed away early this morning from complications due to COVID-19. Marcus was the founder of Daystar Television Network, located outside of Dallas. He will be greatly missed. My prayers are with his wife Joni and their children. For all those who put their …

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Feds Investigate Kraken’s Funding For Election Suits

The Daily Beast reports: The federal probe, which has not been previously reported, is examining the finances of Defending the Republic, an organization founded by Powell to fund her “Kraken” lawsuits to overturn the 2020 election, the sources said. According to two of the people familiar with the matter, a grand jury was empaneled, and subpoenas and documents requests have …

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FDA Panel Approves Merck’s COVID Treatment Pill

NBC News reports: A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted Tuesday to recommend Merck’s experimental antiviral pill to treat Covid-19 for emergency use authorization, paving the way for the agency to clear the first oral drug for the disease. Members of the agency’s Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee voted 13-10 in favor of the treatment, called molnupiravir, for use in …

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New Video Surfaces Of Boebert Calling Omar A Terrorist

CNN reports: Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado suggested to a crowd in September that Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, whom she called “black-hearted” and “evil,” was a terrorist. In those same remarks, she said that she felt safe around Omar because the Democrat wasn’t wearing a backpack while they were in an elevator together. It’s another instance in …

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“QAnon Shaman” Files Notice To Appeal Conviction

Bloomberg News reports: The “QAnon Shaman” who walked into the U.S. Senate chamber in January in a coyote-skin headdress and pleaded guilty in September to obstructing an official proceeding is now appealing. Jacob Chansley, who was sentenced this month to more than three years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, filed a notice of appeal …

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BREAKING: At Least 3 Dead In MI School Shooting

USA Today reports: The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office said they received reports of an active shooter around 1 p.m. local time at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, a suburb about 40 miles north of Detroit. A lone suspect was taken into custody shortly after the shooting and deputies say a handgun was recovered. The suspect was not immediately identified. …

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Dr. Mehmet Oz Hails Trump, Attacks “Elites” And Vax Mandates In Op-Ed Announcing His Bid For US Senate

From an op-ed in the right wing Washington Examiner: COVID-19 became an excuse for the government and elite thinkers who controlled the means of communication to suspend debate. Dissenting opinions from leading scholars were ridiculed and canceled so their ideas could not be disseminated. Instead, the government mandated policies that caused unnecessary suffering. The public was patronized and misled instead …

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Jury Selection Begins In Josh Duggar’s Child Porn Trial

ABC News reports: Jury selection was set to begin Tuesday in former reality TV star Josh Duggar’s trial over federal child pornography charges. Duggar, who appeared in TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting,” was charged in April with two counts of downloading and possessing child pornography. A federal Homeland Security agent in May testified that pornographic images depicting the sexual abuse …

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Family Of Late Anti-Vax Televangelist Blames Satan For His Death: “This Is A Spiritual Attack From The Enemy”

Religion News Service reports: In recent weeks, friends and supporters had been praying for his recovery from COVID, seeing it as a spiritual attack because of his advocacy against vaccines and push for alternate treatments. “There’s no doubt in my mind that this is a spiritual attack from the enemy,” Lamb’s son, Jonathan, said about his father’s COVID-19 illness on …

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REPORT: Trump Called Aides On Day Of Capitol Riot In Last Ditch Attempt To Stop Certification Of Biden’s Win

The Guardian reports: Hours before the deadly attack on the US Capitol this year, Donald Trump made several calls from the White House to top lieutenants at the Willard hotel in Washington and talked about ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election win from taking place on 6 January. The former president first told the lieutenants his vice-president, …

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WaPo: Meadows Now Cooperating With Riot Committee

The Washington Post reports: Mark Meadows, former president Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff at the time of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, is cooperating with the House committee investigating the pro-Trump insurrection, committee chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) said Tuesday. “Mr. Meadows has been engaging with the Select Committee through his attorney,” Thompson said in a …

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Anti-Vax Televangelist Marcus Lamb Dies Of Something

First, a reminder from earlier this month: Daystar Television Network, one of the largest Christian television networks in the world and The American Family Association, a nonprofit Christian organization, said in a lawsuit today that a federal vaccine mandate forcing large companies to require their employees to get the COVID-19 vaccinated is a “sin against God’s Holy Word.” AFA and …

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Russian Media Reports “Nazi” Attack On Kiev Gay Bar

From the state media outlet Russia Today: A Kiev bar, frequented by members of LGBT community, has been attacked by a group of masked assailants, believed to be neo-Nazis, who smashed the establishment’s windows and destroyed outdoor seating. The HvLv bar, located in the central part of Ukraine’s capital, was targeted late on Friday. The venue was set upon by …

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German Cops Raid Event Dispensing “Homemade” Vax

Deutsche Welle reports: German police had to close down an unauthorized event billing itself as a vaccination center on Saturday after a doctor began administering COVID-19 vaccine shots he had invented himself, German media reported. The jab, which was developed without any official recognition, was being administered as a vaccination drive at Lübeck airport in the north of Germany. Police …

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Cultist Reps Explode In Ugly Infighting On Twitter

Raw Story reports: It started when Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) launched a bigoted attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Boebert likened Omar to a suicide bomber and declared her a member of the “Jihad Squad.” During a Monday appearance on CNN, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said she “100 percent” condemned Boebert’s bigotry. That raised the ire of Rep. Marjorie Taylor …

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Texas Man Gets Nine Years In $1.6M COVID Relief Scam

From the Department of Justice: A Texas man was sentenced today to 110 months in prison for his scheme to fraudulently obtain and launder proceeds from more than $1.6 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. According to court documents, Lee Price III, …

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Austrian Anti-Vax Leader Dies After Injecting Bleach

TVN24 GO reports: One of Austria’s most famous opponents of coronavirus vaccines, Johann Biacsics, has died from COVID-19, local media reports. His condition worsened from October, and he was hospitalized in early November. Despite his breathing difficulties and critical condition, he refused conventional treatment. As the family wrote on the website, Biacsics had been ill since October, and his condition …

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