Monthly Archives: April 2022

CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Variety reports: Most of the cast of “That ’70s Show” is coming back for “That ’90s Show” at Netflix, Variety has learned. Topher Grace, Laura Prepon, Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, and Wilmer Valderrama are all set to make guest appearances in the spinoff series, once again playing their characters from the original series. The only main cast member not returning …

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No Jail For Republican Who Used Dead Mom’s Ballot

The New York Daily News reports: An Arizona woman who voted on behalf of her dead mother in the 2020 general election has dodged jail time. Tracey Kay McKee was sentenced on Friday to two years’ felony probation, fines and community service, after Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Margaret LaBianca rejected a prosecutor’s request that she serve at least 30 …

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Meadows Complains That Riot Panel Is “Vilifying” Him

The Associated Press reports: Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows accused the congressional committee investigating last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol of leaking all of the text messages he provided to the panel in what he says was an effort to vilify him publicly. The argument was made in a filing Friday in Washington’s federal court, …

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Country Star Naomi Judd Dies By Suicide At Age 76

Nashville’s ABC News affiliate reports: Naomi Judd, Grammy-winning member of The Judds, has died after taking her own life. She was 76. The daughters announced her death on Saturday in a statement provided to The Associated Press. “Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness,” the statement said. “We are shattered. …

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At This Weekend’s Christian Men’s Conference [VIDEO]

Jezebel reports: In this week’s edition of “Are Men Okay?,” we need to discuss the annual Christian men’s conference taking place in Missouri this weekend, in which, on Friday night, a monster truck drove off a giant ramp in an arena amidst shooting columns of flames against the soundtrack of really bad live electric guitar music. If and only if …

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Pope: Rapist Priests Are Eroding Trust In The Church

The Associated Press reports: Pope Francis gave a new mandate to his sex abuse advisory commission Friday, telling its members to work with bishops around the world to establish special welcome centers for victims and to audit the church’s progress on fighting abuse from its new perch within the Vatican. Francis warned that without more accountability from the church, the …

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Cultist NE Gov Candidate Again Accused Of Groping

The New York Times reports: A second woman has publicly accused Charles W. Herbster, the Republican candidate for governor in Nebraska endorsed by former President Donald J. Trump, of groping her at a 2019 Republican fund-raising dinner. Elizabeth Todsen said Mr. Herbster grabbed her at the dinner in Omaha and said details of the incident reported earlier this month by …

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FL Reinstates Math Books Now Scrubbed Of “Wokeness”

The Washington Post reports: After Florida education officials rejected a number of math textbooks over alleged “woke content,” some of the books have been reinstated. The Florida Department of Education announced Thursday that nine books were added back to an adoption list of instructional materials for math after publishers removed prohibited topics from the text. “Publishers are aligning their instructional …

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New York Man Says He Murdered His “Witch” Sister Because She Blocked His “Communication With God”

Albany’s CBS News affiliate reports: “I was done with her witchcraft.” That’s what 51-year-old Anthony Dibella allegedly told police after the stabbing death of his sister in the town of Lyme Thursday morning. According to court documents, Dibella repeatedly stabbed 67-year-old Wanda Paoli in the head, neck and face with a bayonet blade and an awl. The papers say Dibella …

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Georgia Lawyers File Perjury Complaint Against MTG

The Guardian reports: Lawyers for voters seeking to bar the far-right Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress over her support for the January 6 insurrection have accused her of lying in a hearing in the case. In a filing Friday, lawyers for groups challenging Greene said a text from the Georgia congresswoman to then White House chief of staff Mark …

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Tennessee Gov Signs Bill Legalizing OTC Horse Paste

Via press release from hate group leader Mat Staver: Governor Bill Lee has signed SB 2188 that allows Ivermectin, an award-winning antiviral drug, to be available for the treatment of COVID-19 without a prescription in Tennessee. The state’s Senate overwhelmingly voted 66-20, and the House voted 22-6 in favor of the bill. The bill states that a pharmacist can provide …

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Georgian Leader Presses For US Support Against Russia

The Hill reports: Georgia President Salome Zourabichvili is on a mission in Washington to build support for her country as a key bulwark in case Russia seeks to expand its aggression beyond Ukraine. In an interview with The Hill, Zourabichvili said that she believes Moscow doesn’t have the capacity to move its military to launch another operation, but that “it …

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Laura Ingraham Mocks Student Debt “Freeloaders” After Saying That Her Own Mother Paid Her Student Loans

Mediaite reports: Laura Ingraham hypocritically mocked adults who still financially rely on their parents after explaining that is exactly what she had done. During the segment with Raymond Arroyo, Ingraham noted a report released this week that shows about half of American parents with adult children financially support them in some capacity. Arroyo asked those in the crowd who still …

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DOJ Files Challenge To Alabama’s Anti-Trans Law

From the Justice Department: The Justice Department today filed a complaint challenging a recently enacted Alabama law, Senate Bill (S.B.) 184, that denies necessary medical care to children based solely on who they are, and that threatens criminal prosecution and jail time to doctors, parents, and anyone else who provides or “causes” that care. The United States’ complaint alleges that …

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Riot Police Assemble For Renewed Covidiocy In Ottawa

The Associated Press reports: Police wearing helmets and shields made several arrests Friday night in Canada’s capital after facing off against protesters opposed to COVID-19 mandates. Big-rig trucks attempted to make their way to Parliament Hill as part of the “Rolling Thunder” rally, organized by Freedom Fighters Canada, a group dedicated to speaking out against COVID-19 mandates. Many of the …

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MTG Claims Satan Convinces Women To Get Abortions By Promising That The Father Will Marry Them [VIDEO]

“It’s whispered, softly and gently into your ears and into your soul. And he tells you it’s okay. “And he says, ‘It’s just this one thing. You’re just gonna get it done, get it over with.’ “And then he tells you a promise. He promises you all these dreams that you have in your heart. And that’s how Satan sells …

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Eastman To Turn Over 10,000 Pages Of Trump Emails

Politico reports: Attorney John Eastman, a key architect of Donald Trump’s legal effort to overturn the 2020 election, is preparing to provide another 10,000 pages of records to the Jan. 6 select committee, his attorney revealed late Friday. It’s the latest breakthrough for investigators in their ongoing fight to obtain details of Trump’s last-ditch plans to overturn his election loss. …

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GA Grand Jury Selection Starts Monday In Trump Case

CBS News reports: Fulton County prosecutors will begin selecting participants Monday for a special grand jury to consider whether former president Donald Trump should be charged for his attempts to pressure Georgia officials to overturn the results of the 2020 election, which he lost. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis asked a panel of judges in January for the special …

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NYT: Coronavirus Cases Rising In Almost Every State

The New York Times reports: Coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are rising in a majority of American states, in what appears to be the first widespread increase since the peak of the Omicron surge in January. Reports of new cases were nearly flat in the United States at the beginning of April, but as the month draws to a close, they …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Variety reports: “Come on Barbie, let’s go party!” is the immortal refrain from Aqua’s 1997 song “Barbie Girl” but when it comes to the upcoming Margot Robbie movie, Aqua haven’t been invited to join the fun. Despite fans insisting that the Europop banger – which has clocked up over a billion views on YouTube – should appear in the soundtrack …

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