June 16, 2025 Trump cultists, Trump Lies
Courthouse News reports: A former Dominion Voting Systems director asked eight Colorado jurors on Friday to find MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell guilty of defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and civil conspiracy for spreading debunked claims that put him at the center of 2020 election fraud narratives. “Dr. Coomer was a good man, in a good job, with a good …
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June 16, 2025 Extremists, Infighting Is Funny
The Daily Beast reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has called out conservatives for failing to stick to Trump’s “America First” agenda in a new war of words Sunday. The Georgia lawmaker unloaded in a lengthy X post on Sunday night, railing against anyone voicing support for U.S. involvement in the Middle East war. Greene said the conflict between Israel and …
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June 16, 2025 Democrats, Education
The New York Times reports: The leaders of two of the nation’s largest and most influential labor unions have quit their posts in the Democratic National Committee in a major rebuke to the party’s new chairman, Ken Martin. Randi Weingarten, the longtime leader of the American Federation of Teachers and a major voice in Democratic politics, and Lee Saunders, the …
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June 16, 2025 European Union, Trump Administration
Politico Europe reports: Convincing U.S. President Donald Trump to stop his global trade war is among the EU’s top priorities for the G7 summit in Canada, the bloc’s leaders said. European Commission boss Ursula von der Leyen and President of the European Council António Costa on Sunday both urged Trump to stop hurting the global economy with tariffs. “Let’s keep …
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June 16, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Corruption
Axios reports: President Trump’s immigration crackdown is burning through cash so quickly that the agency charged with arresting, detaining and removing unauthorized immigrants could run out of money next month. ICE is already $1 billion over budget by one estimate, with more than three months left in the fiscal year. That’s alarmed lawmakers in both parties — and raised the …
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June 16, 2025 Christianists, Crime
NBC News reports: The suspect wanted in the slaying of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, as well as in the shooting of a state senator and his wife, was found Sunday night armed and crawling in a field in a sparsely populated stretch of Minnesota, authorities said. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced Vance Boelter’s capture at a news conference …
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June 16, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Hill reports: The Trump Organization on Monday announced it was launching a new mobile phone business: Trump Mobile. It’s the latest new business the Trump Organization is getting into during President Trump’s second term in the White House, a dynamic that has raised various ethical concerns from his critics. Donald Trump Jr., the president’s oldest son, announced the new …
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June 16, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
The Washington Post reports: As part of the GOP campaign attacking the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office for the grim fiscal projections for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of tax and spending cuts pending in the Senate, Scott posted a one-minute video that was instantly ridiculed for its errors — nine, by our count. That’s one mistake every 6.66 seconds. …
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June 16, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
“Our Nation’s ICE Officers have shown incredible strength, determination, and courage as they facilitate a very important mission, the largest Mass Deportation Operation of Illegal Aliens in History. “Every day, the Brave Men and Women of ICE are subjected to violence, harassment, and even threats from Radical Democrat Politicians, but nothing will stop us from executing our mission, and fulfilling …
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June 16, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Axios reports: President Trump has not called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz more than 24 hours after a prominent Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband were killed in what officials have described as a “politically motivated assassination.” Saturday’s fatal shooting of Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman has exacerbated bipartisan security concerns among elected officials. When asked by ABC News …
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