June 16, 2024 Republicans, Trump cultists
NBC News reports: Florida GOP Rep. Byron Donalds on Sunday urged the Supreme Court to take up former President Donald Trump’s New York case in which he was convicted on 34 counts of falsification of business records. “Speaker [Mike] Johnson, myself included, and many Americans believe the Supreme Court should step into this matter,” Donalds told NBC News’ “Meet the …
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June 16, 2024 LGBT News, News
The Baltimore Banner reports: A possible chemical agent was released in front of the main stage at the Baltimore Pride Parade and Block Party on Saturday night, causing a stampede. The incident occurred around 7 p.m. and police did not release the chemical agent, according to a spokesperson. The main stage for the event was located near North Avenue and …
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June 16, 2024 Trump cultists, Trump Lies
“Donald Trump. I wanna name five groups where he’s doing better. He doing better than before among blacks, Hispanics, union hassles (?), political independents, young people. And some female groups. He doesn’t need 50% of any group I just said to you and he can be president. “And the irony is that Joe Biden is doing slightly better, that is, …
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June 16, 2024 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Newsweek reports: Former President Donald Trump spoke about “executing people” during his tenure, former White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffin said on a Mediaite podcast. The former aide mentioned an interview between CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and Trump’s former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr from April. Griffin said that Collins “asked about an anecdote that I had shared about a meeting …
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June 16, 2024 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Politico reports: Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday blasted the scale of U.S. support for Ukraine and said that if he is reelected in November he would immediately “have that settled.” At a campaign rally in Detroit, Trump criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling him “the greatest salesman of all time” for Kyiv’s push to secure U.S. support in …
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June 16, 2024 Christianists, Republicans
The Texas Tribune reports: Paul Pressler, the monumental Southern Baptist leader and Republican activist at the center of a massive sex abuse scandal, died on June 7. He was 94. Pressler was one of the most influential, if lesser-known, evangelical figures of the last half-century, having co-led a movement in the Southern Baptist Convention that pushed the nation’s second-largest faith …
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June 16, 2024 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Washington Post reports: Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump repeated his characterization of Black communities as dangerous and depressed on Saturday, courting voters in a city he has called “hell” and “totally corrupt” as his campaign hopes incremental gains with Black voters could be decisive in swing states. “Look, the crime is most rampant right here and in African American …
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June 16, 2024 LGBT News, Religion
The New York Times reports: The pontiff’s image was everywhere. On cardboard cutouts adorned with flower necklaces, on glittery banners, on stickers. Romans came to the Pride parade on Saturday dressed like Francis, wearing papal hats and T-shirts that read, “There is never too much frociaggine,” a reference to an offensive slur against gay men that the pope has been …
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June 16, 2024 Britain, Politics
Reuters reports: Three British opinion polls released late on Saturday presented a grim picture for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party, and one pollster warned that the party faced “electoral extinction” in July 4’s election. The polls come just over halfway through the election campaign, after a week in which both the Conservatives and Labour set out their manifestos, and …
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June 16, 2024 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Associated Press reports: Donald Trump on Saturday night suggested President Joe Biden “should have to take a cognitive test,” only to confuse who administered the test to him in the next sentence. “He doesn’t even know what the word ‘inflation’ means. I think he should take a cognitive test like I did,” the former president said of Biden during …
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