“You read in the bible about – was it Elijah, pastor – who put the flour in the stew to remove the poison? And so here’s the deal. If God can take poison out of a stew, he can take poison out of a body. “And that’s what I’ve been praying. Yes, we gotta fight this, but if you’ve already …

Newsweek reports: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said on Tuesday that the Walt Disney Company “crossed a line” by announcing its plan to repeal the Florida legislation known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which was officially signed into law on Monday. In a press conference in Tallahassee on Tuesday, DeSantis told reporters, “For Disney to come out and put a …

Filed under infighting is funny: Dr. Mehmet Oz, the liberal celebrity doctor running as a Republican for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, is under fire for his prior support for gun control in a series of columns he now publicly claims he did not write himself. The columns, which Oz co-authored with the Cleveland Clinic’s Dr. Michael Roizen, show a years-long …

The Tennessean reports: A bill to place residency requirements on Tennessee congressional candidates cleared its final hurdle in the General Assembly on Monday as both chambers agreed to allow the requirements to take effect immediately upon signing. The House and Senate had previously passed competing versions of the bill, which implicitly targeted the candidacy of Morgan Ortagus, a former State …

Bloomberg News reports: Senator Elizabeth Warren and almost two dozen other Democratic lawmakers are demanding that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recuse himself from any cases involving 2020 election disputes or the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol after revelations his wife advocated actions to overturn the presidential election. Warren, Representative Pramila Jayapal and members of the House and Senate judiciary …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release dirt on President Joe Biden amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In an interview with Just the News founder John Solomon published on Tuesday, Trump reiterated his unproven claim that Yelena Baturina, a Russian oligarch and the wife of former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, gave $3.5 million …

Fox News reports: Oklahoma GOP U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Markwayne Mullin Tuesday is introducing a resolution to expunge former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment – saying Democrats didn’t prove “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Mullin’s nine-page resolution, if passed by the House, would declare “expunged” Trump’s 2019 impeachment over allegedly leveraging U.S. military aid to Ukraine for political favors involving investigations …

From convicted homocon rioter Brandon Straka: Part of my sentence is court ordered mental health evaluation. I don’t believe this was something done in an effort to “help” me. I think this was done because everybody who went to DC to protest is considered insane by the powerful in DC. Today we did assessments, and unsurprisingly, she diagnosed me with …

The Hill reports: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) pledged to speak to Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) about his allegation that people in Washington, D.C. have invited him to orgies and done cocaine in front of him after Republican members expressed frustration with the comments. “I look at all these people, a lot of them that I’ve looked up to …

Mediaite reports: Texas Congressman Pete Sessions (R) appeared on a far-right podcast where he embraced the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory. Sessions was speaking with Stew Peters, a right-wing shock jock who has been de-platformed by Spotify and Apple after pushing coronavirus conspiracy theories, calling for Dr. Anthony Fauci’s execution, and participating in the recent white nationalist conference led by Nick …

USA Today reports: People age 50 and up are now eligible for a second booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine at least four months after their first, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday. “Based on an analysis of emerging data, a second booster dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine could help increase protection levels for these higher-risk …

“I believe Jesus Christ is savior. I believe that Jesus Christ, um, is the way to heaven. I mean, these are my beliefs I’ve had my entire life. So I understand feeling that way as a Christian. But we gotta be bold. The anecdote to darkness is light. And the anecdote to a really grim future is filling the world …

The New York Times reports: Mr. Trump’s Twitter post in the early hours of Dec. 19, 2020, was the first time he publicly urged supporters to come to Washington on the day Congress was scheduled to certify the Electoral College results. His message — which concluded with, “Be there, will be wild!” — has long been seen as instrumental in …

The Hill reports: Mick Mulvaney, a former Republican congressman from South Carolina and top aide to former President Trump, has been hired by CBS News to serve as a contributor, the network announced this week. Mulvaney appeared on CBS’s streaming service for the first time on Tuesday and was asked about President Biden’s recent budget proposal, the framework for which …

The Associated Press reports: Russia’s military said Tuesday it would “fundamentally” cut back operations near Ukraine’s capital and a northern city, potentially a significant concession by Moscow since it invaded its neighbor more than a month ago. Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin said the move was meant “to increase trust” in talks aimed at ending fighting, as negotiators met face-to-face …

Media Matters has the transcript: JESSE WATTERS (HOST): But, there is something deeper going on here. And for the crowd that insists the Oscars are so white, what would have happened if anybody but Will Smith went up there and slapped Chris Rock live on TV? Could you imagine if it were Mel Gibson? The LAPD would have had to …

The Daily Beast reports: More than a year and a half after he ran down and killed a man, South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg may be done with facing any consequences. A special investigative committee of the South Dakota House of Representatives emerged from a closed-door meeting Monday to recommend against impeaching Ravnsborg. It would have been the first …

The Insider reports: Hours after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on the Oscars stage, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene shared her thoughts on the shocking moment, saying that both sides handled the situation well. “I have to say I appreciate the Alpha male response of a husband defending his wife,” she wrote. “I never watch the Oscars but I’ve seen the …

The Washington Post reports: Internal White House records from the day of the attack on the U.S. Capitol that were turned over to the House select committee show a gap in President Donald Trump’s phone logs of seven hours and 37 minutes, including the period when the building was being violently assaulted. The lack of an official White House notation …

Politico reports: Former Rep. Scott Taylor (R-Va.) was on a trip several weeks ago to Belarus when a D.C. lobbyist, with whom he was sharing an Airbnb in Minsk, woke him up with alarming news: Russia was invading the country next door. The lobbyist with whom Taylor was rooming, Robert Stryk, described what happened next as something out of a …