August 4, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
NBC News reports: Audience members attending a town hall for Republican Rep. Mike Flood in Lincoln, Nebraska, tonight began booing and jeering Flood shortly after the event started. Flood kicked off the town hall by talking about Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” focusing on health care implications for Nebraskans. When he told the crowd there is a work requirement to receive …
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August 4, 2025 Extremists, Trump cultists
The Guardian reports: A Brazilian supreme court judge has ordered the house arrest of former president Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly breaching “preventative measures” which were imposed amid concerns the far-right leader might abscond to avoid punishment over an alleged coup attempt. According to the ruling on Monday by Justice Alexandre de Moraes, Bolsonaro breached a ban on using social media …
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August 4, 2025 Idiocracy, Trump Administration
CBS News reports: The Florida Department of Health is warning about the risks of drinking raw, unpasteurized milk after 21 people, including six children under the age of 10, were sickened by E. coli and campylobacter bacteria linked to raw milk from the same farm. Seven people have been hospitalized, and two have developed severe complications. “Sanitation practices in this …
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August 4, 2025 Natural Disasters, Trump Administration
Reuters reports: U.S. states and cities that boycott Israeli companies will be denied federal aid for natural disaster preparedness, the Trump administration has announced, tying routine federal funding to its political stance. The Federal Emergency Management Agency stated in grant notices posted on Friday that states must follow its “terms and conditions.” Those conditions require they certify they will not …
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August 4, 2025 Idiocracy, Trump Administration
Politico reports: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans this week to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, the first major action by the former Fox News host as the interim NASA administrator. The first country to have a reactor could “declare a keep-out zone which would significantly inhibit the United States,” the directive states, a sign of …
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August 4, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Corruption
Fox News reports: Attorney General Pam Bondi directed her staff Monday to act on the criminal referral from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard related to the alleged conspiracy to tie President Donald Trump to Russia, and the Department of Justice is now opening a grand jury investigation into the matter, Fox News Digital has learned. Bondi personally ordered an …
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August 4, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
The Texas Tribune reports: The Texas House voted Monday afternoon to track down and arrest more than 50 Democratic lawmakers who were not present when the chamber gaveled in. After the 85-6 vote, House Speaker Dustin Burrows said he would immediately sign civil warrants for each of the legislators, empowering the chamber’s sergeant-at-arms and state troopers to arrest and bring …
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August 4, 2025 Fox News, State Television
“In many respects, we’re living in an authoritarian democracy right now. It is one that is embraced, advanced, and promoted by the Democrat Party and their ideological supporters. This scandal involving Obama and Hillary Clinton, targeted against Donald Trump, our electoral system, and Mr. and Mrs. America is so stunning in scope that it cannot be discussed enough. And for …
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August 4, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
The Associated Press reports: Texas Democrats on Monday successfully prevented their state’s House of Representatives from moving forward with a redrawn congressional map sought by President Donald Trump to shore up Republicans’ 2026 midterm prospects as his political standing falters. After dozens of Democrats left the state, the Republican-dominated House was unable to establish the quorum of lawmakers required to …
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August 4, 2025 Christianists, Trump cultists
From the editorial board of the Tulsa World: State Superintendent Ryan Walters insulted Oklahomans when he recently lied at a press conference and then attempted to plant a conspiracy theory about it. This is just the latest in nearly five years of controversies. Rather than confirm, deny or explain possibilities of what might have happened, a spokesman for the Oklahoma …
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