Joe Jervis

Virginia Gov Signs Bill Codifying Same-Sex Marriage

The Virginia Mercury reports: In the first signals of how he’ll act on legislation approved by Virginia’s Democratic General Assembly, Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed a largely symbolic bill protecting same-sex marriage but took a more adversarial stance to bills dealing with gun control, reproductive rights and marijuana. Youngkin had until Friday night to take action on 84 bills the legislature …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Deadline Hollywood reports: Veteran television actress Jean Allison, best known for roles in shows like Bonanza, Gunsmoke, and Perry Mason, has died at 94. Her family’s obituary said she died Feb. 28 in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, but no cause was given. Allison, a character actress, built a long resume in popular TV. She appeared in episodes of Charlie’s Angels, …

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McDaniel Warns That Abortion Rights Could Sink GOP

Politico reports: Ronna McDaniel, the outgoing chair of the Republican National Committee, on Friday again called on the party to adjust its messaging on abortion, cautioning that the GOP will not reach independent and swing voters if they don’t. “We cannot put our heads in the sand and ignore abortion and the Dobbs decision,” McDaniel said in her parting speech …

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Trump Lavishes Praise On “Fantastic” Dictator Orban

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump continued to heap praise on Viktor Orbán on social media Saturday after he and Melania hosted a lavish party celebrating the Hungarian autocrat. Orbán changed the country’s constitution multiple times, and “has faced international criticism over democratic standards, media freedom and minority rights,” Reuters reported. Trump has a well-known fondness for dictators, having lauded …

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Britt Spox: The Story She Told Was “100% Correct”

“The story Senator Britt told was 100 percent correct. And there are more innocent victims of that kind of disgusting, brutal trafficking by the cartels than ever before right now. The Biden administration’s policies — the policies in this country that the president falsely claims are humane — have empowered the cartels and acted as a magnet to a historic …

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Trump Rages After Blistering Rant By DeNiro [VIDEO]

“The bottom line is, it’s Biden versus Trump. We want to live in a world that we want to live in and enjoy living in, not live in a nightmare. Vote for Trump – you’ll get a nightmare. Vote for Biden and we’ll be back to normalcy. I just don’t want to feel the way I did, and many of …

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Musk To Launch YouTube Competitor For Smart TVs

Mint reports: Elon Musk has revealed that long-form videos will soon be accessible on smart television sets through the social network X. The announcement comes in the wake of reports by Fortune magazine stating that the platform is gearing up to launch a TV app next week for Amazon and Samsung users. Responding to a user’s inquiry on X, Musk …

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Biden Builds On SOTU Response With $30M Ad Buy

Axios reports: The White House and Biden campaign call this State of the Union Month, and Thursday’s speech is being amplified by a $30 million ad buy (including spots during March Madness) and presidential travel to swing states — Pennsylvania Friday, Georgia Saturday. The campaign wants viewers to keep seeing President Biden as a feisty fighter — “Smokin’ Joe Biden,” …

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Secret Male Christian Group Plots “National Divorce”

Talking Points Memo reports: A secret, men-only right-wing society with members in influential positions around the country is on a crusade: to recruit a Christian government that will form after the right achieves regime change in the United States, potentially via a “national divorce.” It sounds like the stuff of fantasy, but it’s real. The group is called the Society …

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DeSantis: Florida Has “Restored Sanity” On Measles

From Florida’s Department of Health: Today, Florida is providing an update on the measles outbreak in southeast Florida. Since January 2024, sixteen states have reported measles cases including: California, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Washington, Indiana, and Arizona. Unfortunately, the measles cases in Florida have received disproportionate attention for political reasons. The national medical health establishment and the media lost …

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Trump Ally Claims He’ll Buy TikTok If It Gets Banned

The Hill reports: “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary suggested that he will buy social media platform TikTok if a proposed ban goes ahead. “Not going to get banned, ‘cause I’m gonna buy it,” O’Leary said on Fox News. “Somebody’s going to buy it, it won’t be Meta and it won’t be Google, ‘cause…regulator [will] stop that.” “This is worth billions, …

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Katie Britt Busted In Whopper Lie In SOTU Response

The Daily Kos reports: Journalist Jonathan M. Katz has created a TikTok video about his investigation of Sen. Britt’s anecdote about speaking to a sex trafficking victim, implying that she had been repeatedly raped as a 12 year old upon being recently taken to the United States. Katz found that the person in question, Karla Jacinto Romero really was abducted …

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QAnon/GOP Arizona Rep: If Slutty Women Want Birth Control, They Should Put Aspirin Between Their Knees

The Arizona Mirror reports: A bid to make birth control a right in Arizona that was a top policy priority for Gov. Katie Hobbs has stagnated in the Republican-controlled legislature and is likely dead. Sen. Sonny Borrelli, the No. 2 Republican in the state Senate, responded to a question about whether he would oppose future efforts to restrict access to …

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Pope Forces Out Polish Bishop For Abuse Coverup

Reuters reports: Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a Polish bishop for negligence in handling cases of sexual abuse committed by some clergy against minors, his representatives in the country said on Saturday. Andrzej Dziuba [photo], a bishop in Lowicz, had not informed law enforcement authorities about the case of a priest from his diocese who abused a 14-year-old …

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McCarthy: Biden’s SOTU Address Was Actually Meant As A Message To Democrats To Keep Him On Their Ticket

“He wasn’t speaking to the nation. What he was really doing was speaking to his party. This was more about a convention. I think he was worried about Democrats removing him for the nominee. “That’s why he came out, he tried to show every Democrat, ‘You know, you gotta be tougher, you gotta be stronger.’ And all he did was …

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FL Man Charged With Hate Crime Murder Of Gay Man

The Tampa Bay Times reports: Hillsborough County prosecutors charged a man with murder Friday, alleging that the fatal shooting of a gay man last month at the West Dog Park in Tampa was a hate crime. Gerald Declan Radford faces a second-degree murder charge in the Feb. 2 death of John Walter Lay. Friends of both men told the Tampa …

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Cultists Rage At Trump For Celebrating COVID Vaccine

The Meidas Touch reports: Donald Trump posted a response last night on Truth Social to Joe Biden’s remarks about the pandemic, and he is getting absolutely destroyed in the replies by his own MAGA supporters. MAGA is almost 100% anti-vax. It is one of the reasons why so many of them also like anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist RFK Jr. Trump has …

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Senate Passes Govt Funding Bill With Hours To Spare

NBC News reports: The Senate voted 75-22 on Friday to pass a major government funding bill to keep a slew of agencies afloat through September, defusing fears of a partial shutdown and sending the legislation to President Joe Biden to become law. The 1,050-page measure is a collection of six appropriations bills negotiated by Schumer, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., …

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Watters: Biden Was On “Speed Or Something” At SOTU

“If you see a horse, and the horse is old and injured and mopes around the barnyard, and then all of a sudden you race the horse and he fires out of the gate and laps everybody — what did they give the horse? “The man has walked around lethargically for the last three years. Barely picks his head up, …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Variety reports: When the Providence Place Mall was constructed in the late ’90s, it was touted by Rhode Island leaders as a sign of urban renewal for its struggling capital city. For eight artists, it became something else — home. These friends constructed a makeshift apartment — complete with a sofa, a TV and video game system, a microwave and …

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