June 10, 2024 Republicans, Trump cultists
Florida Politics reports: Ex-President Donald Trump’s campaign to retake the White House this November just launched a rebranded coalition of Latino supporters called Latino Americans for Trump. Many notable political players from the Sunshine State, particularly Miami, are on board. Topping the list of members to the group, formerly called “Latinos for Trump,” is U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio. He said …
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June 10, 2024 Medicine, Science
ABC News reports: Moderna’s combo flu and COVID vaccine provided a strong immune response in older adults, with levels comparable to getting the flu and COVID shots separately, according to the company’s results from a late-stage clinical trial. There are still multiple steps required before the shot would become available. Moderna would need to apply to the FDA for approval, …
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June 10, 2024 Fake News, Fox News
Mediaite reports: Fox’s Outnumbered co-hosts had nothing but praise for former President Donald Trump after his prompter failed during his Las Vegas rally, saying that it proved Trump was “a normal, average American.” Everyone on the panel fawned over Trump’s performance at Sunday’s rally, celebrating his off-the-cuff comments that included a rant about electrocution and sharks. Co-host Emily Compagno had …
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June 10, 2024 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Hill reports: President Biden’s reelection campaign seized on former President Trump saying he doesn’t care about people but just needs their vote with a new video Monday. The former president held a rally Sunday in Las Vegas, where temperatures climbed to more than 100 degrees and he fumed over technical difficulties, threatening not to pay the crew. “I don’t …
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June 10, 2024 News, Politics
Rolling Stone reports: Justice Samuel Alito spoke candidly about the ideological battle between the left and the right — discussing the difficulty of living “peacefully” with ideological opponents in the face of “fundamental” differences that “can’t be compromised.” He endorsed what his interlocutor described as a necessary fight to “return our country to a place of godliness.” And Alito offered …
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June 10, 2024 Christianists, Crackpots
“Don’t live with your boyfriend or your fiancé before you get married. Statistically, you are far more likely to break up or to divorce if you do. “Not everyone, of course, but that is statistically true. Plus, you are giving him all of the milk without having to buy the cow, you are playing wife without him really having to …
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June 10, 2024 LGBT News, Politics
Reuters reports: In a Pristina apartment, gay actors laugh and cry their way through rehearsals for a play lampooning homophobic politicians and advocating equal rights for the LGBT community in Kosovo, which may soon become the first Muslim-majority country to allow same-sex unions. The play is scheduled to run during Pride Week in June, but may also coincide with a …
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June 10, 2024 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Yahoo News reports: In the wake of former President Donald Trump’s felony conviction last week for falsifying business records to hide a hush money payment to a porn star, President Biden (46%) now leads his Republican rival (44%) in a two-way race for the White House for the first time since October 2023, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. …
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June 10, 2024 Christianists, Trump cultists
Religion News Service reports: Worship leader and conservative activist Sean Feucht has filed a lawsuit against the city of Spokane, Washington, claiming the city council violated his religious freedom when it passed a resolution last year condemning an event he headlined and referring to him as an “anti-LGBTQ extremist.” The lawsuit is the latest chapter in a controversy over an …
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June 10, 2024 News, Politics
Bloomberg News reports: Hunter Biden’s defense team rested their case Monday without his testimony, leaving only closing arguments before the jury will be instructed to deliberate whether he is guilty of violating federal firearm laws. The decision to rest caps a week of dramatic and often personally poignant testimony in which the family members and former lovers of President Joe …
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