Politics

Gay Politician Resigns After Pissing On Gay Bar’s Door

Los Angeles’s CW affiliate reports: Crescenta Valley Town Council member Chris Kilpatrick has resigned his position in the wake of a video showing him urinating on the door of a downtown Los Angeles LGBTQ bar. Kilpatrick resigned Thursday, hours ahead of a special meeting planned to discuss his conduct, the city said in a post to Facebook. The bar, Precinct, …

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Porn Bots Spam Texas Republicans’ Replies On X

The Daily Dot reports: “Pornhub has now disabled its website in Texas,” Paxton wrote victoriously. “Sites like Pornhub are on the run because Texas has a law that aims to prevent them from showing harmful, obscene material to children. Good riddance.” “PUSSY IN BIO” a bot commented on Paxton’s post. Texas State Rep. Nate Schatzline (R), who has said he …

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RBG’s Family Furious Over Namesake Award For Musk

The Washington Post reports: The family of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg and some of the Supreme Court justice’s former colleagues have denounced this year’s slate of honorees for an award that a philanthropic foundation bestows in the name of the liberal icon. In a statement Friday, the family called the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation’s plans to give its “Ruth …

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Longtime Trump Critic Ben Shapiro Bends The Knee

Mediaite reports: Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro, long a harsh critic of Trump, announced he will be hosting a fundraiser for him next week. He justified his shift  by claiming Joe Biden is the worst commander-in-chief of his lifetime, adding he would “walk over broken glass” to vote for Trump. “I will always be honest with you about Donald Trump, …

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Pence Won’t Endorse Man Who Almost Got Him Killed

Politico reports: Mike Pence said on Friday that he would not endorse Donald Trump for president in 2024, breaking with the man who tapped him as vice president only to make him the target of an angry mob for his refusal to help with efforts to overturn the 2020 election. “It should come as no surprise that I will not …

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Texans Scramble For VPNs In Wake Of Porn Blackout

PC World reports: In response to Texas’s age-verification law being upheld, the ultra-popular PornHub and numerous other adult sites operated by parent company Aylo went dark in the state. Replacing the NSFW videos you’d normally expect to see, a message decrying government overreach and proposed compromises has been posted. Texas’s actions prompted an increased interest in virtual private networks, or …

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Russians Vote In Election To Give Putin Six More Years

Reuters reports: Russians cast their ballots across the country’s 11 time zones on Friday, the start of a three-day election that is almost certain to hand Vladimir Putin six more years at the helm of the world’s biggest nuclear power. Amid the Ukraine war, the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War Two, the 71-year-old Kremlin chief dominates Russia’s political …

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No Labels Names Committee To Select Candidate

The Washington Post reports: The centrist group No Labels announced a committee of 12 people Thursday who will decide in the coming weeks who should appear on the group’s potential third-party presidential ticket. Led by co-chairs of the group — including former senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), retired Navy Adm. Dennis Blair and civil rights activist Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. — …

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Pornhub Blocks Texas Users Over Age Verification Law

The Houston Chronicle reports: One of the most-visited pornography websites, Pornhub, disabled its site in Texas on Thursday over objections to a state law that requires age verification to prevent access to minors. People who go to the site are now greeted with a long message from the company railing against the legal change as “ineffective, haphazard, and dangerous.” The …

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Republicans Blast Schumer’s Call To Oust Netanyahu

The Associated Press reports: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday called on Israel to hold new elections, saying he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way” and is an obstacle to peace in the region amid a growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The speech drew a swift reprisal from Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, who said …

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Harris To Make History With Abortion Clinic Visit

NBC News reports: Vice President Kamala Harris plans to tour a Planned Parenthood clinic in Minnesota that provides abortion services Thursday, according to three sources familiar with the planning. The sources said they believed this was the first time a president or vice president has ever visited a clinic that provides abortion services in U.S. history. Harris plans to tour …

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Schumer Calls For Israeli Election To Replace Netanyahu

The Associated Press reports: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling on Israel to hold new elections, saying he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way” in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza and a growing humanitarian crisis there. Schumer says the prime minister has put himself in a coalition of far-right extremists and “as a result, he …

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Buck Hints That More GOP Resignations Are Coming

Axios reports: House Republicans are panicking about their shrinking majority after Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) said he will resign at the end of next week, stunning GOP leadership. That brought the GOP’s majority in the House down to just two seats — and raised speculation that GOP attrition could cost the party its majority before the Nov. 5 election. The …

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No Labels To Appoint Panel To Select Its Candidate

The Washington Post reports: No Labels, the centrist group planning a third-party presidential bid, plans to announce a nominating committee Thursday that will be charged with selecting a presidential candidate in the coming weeks, the group’s co-chair, Joseph Lieberman, said in an interview Wednesday. The new committee, which Lieberman, a former U.S. senator from Connecticut, expects to join, will also …

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Jesus Goes To Court In Anti-Abortion Pill Music Video

Via press release from Christian Newswire: The Moral Outcry National Petition Movement to make abortion illegal in all states has collaborated with Luminate Pictures’ new music video “Plead Their Case,” on YouTube and other music apps. The video illustrates a woman considering whether or not to take the chemical abortion drug protocol (mifepristone/misoprostol), while a U.S. Supreme Court justice labors …

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MI Teen Shot In Face By Friend Sues Ghost Gun Seller

The Associated Press reports: A 19-year-old Michigan man who lost his right eye after being shot with a firearm made from a ghost gun kit filed a lawsuit Tuesday against his former best friend who accidentally shot him and the Pennsylvania company that sold his friend the kit. The lawsuit, which was filed in Washtenaw County Circuit Court, alleges that …

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GOP Rep. Ken Buck To Leave Congress Next Week

Denver’s Fox affiliate reports: Only a handful of months after announcing his intent to not run for reelection, U.S. Representative Ken Buck has announced his intent to resign from the House by March 22. In a brief message sent Tuesday morning, the Republican from Windsor said his terms in office were “an honor.” Buck has previously discussed fractures in the …

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GOP Sen. Mike Lee Calls For “Abolishing The TSA”

Glenn Beck’s The Blaze reports: Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah advocated the idea of abolishing the Transportation Security Administration, suggesting that airlines would do a better job of conducting security screenings. “Air-travel security need not depend on TSA. Airlines have many compelling reasons to keep weapons out of planes. They’d do so if a federal agency didn’t do it …

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Appeals Court Upholds TX Porn Age Verification Law

Ars Technica reports: Texas can enforce a law requiring age-verification systems on porn websites, the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled. The appeals court vacated an injunction against the law’s age-verification requirement but said that Texas cannot enforce a provision requiring porn websites to “display health warnings about the effects of the consumption of pornography.” In a …

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Robert Hur Resigns From DOJ Ahead Of Testimony

The Independent reports: Robert Hur, the former Trump-appointed US Attorney who declined to prosecute President Joe Biden after classified materials were found in his Delaware home and a former office in Washington, DC, will appear before the House Judiciary Committee as a private citizen who has surrounded himself with Republican partisans and notorious figures linked to former president Donald Trump …

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