June 6, 2024 Trump cultists, Trump Lies
The Daily Beast reports: President Joe Biden delivered a forceful speech Thursday in France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landing, warning that “democracy is not guaranteed” and “the price of unchecked tyranny is the blood of the young and the brave.” MAGA trolls reacted by accusing the president of pooping in his pants. In a 13-second clip …
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June 6, 2024 Christianists, LGBT News
From the anti-LGBTQ Thomas More Society: The Los Angeles County Fire Department has agreed to partially accommodate lifeguard Captain Jeffrey Little for his religious beliefs and not require him to raise the ‘Progress Pride Flag’ as a part of his job for the remainder of June, which they have designated as ‘Pride Month.’ This partial concession follows a federal lawsuit …
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June 6, 2024 BREAKING NEWS
NBC News reports: A federal judge on Thursday ordered former Trump adviser Steve Bannon to report to prison on July 1 to begin a four-month prison sentence for defying subpoenas from the Jan. 6 Committee after a higher court rejected his appeal. Bannon was found guilty on two counts of contempt of Congress in July 2022 for defying the committee’s …
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June 6, 2024 Christianists, Hate Groups
Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: Alerting all parents! Netflix has aired a lesbian kiss on their PG-rated animated series Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous. In Season 5, Episode 9, titled “The Core,” the dinosaur cartoon featured a scene where female characters Yaz and Sammy confess their strong and intimate feelings for each other and share a kiss while …
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June 6, 2024 Christianists, Hate Groups
The Vermont Public reports: The conservative Christian law firm that helped orchestrate the downfall of Roe v. Wade is suing Vermont — again. This time, the Alliance Defending Freedom has filed suit on behalf of two southern Vermont couples, who allege that Vermont’s policy requiring foster families adhere to new policies aimed at protecting LGBTQ youth is unconstitutional. They were …
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June 6, 2024 Fake News, Trump cultists
“Judge Merchan is not going to be intimidated. He’s already run the trial. It’s over He obviously disregarded every indication that he shouldn’t have been on the trial. Everyone knows that he had made contributions to the Biden campaign, which no judge is supposed to do. “We all know about what was going on with his family and profiting off …
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June 6, 2024 Democrats, Joe Biden
CBS News reports: President Biden and key U.S. allies were in Normandy Thursday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the U.S.-led allied forces’ D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France. The brazen air and sea invasion would mark the beginning of the end of World War II, leading to the defeat of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi German forces in Europe less than a …
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June 6, 2024 Republicans, Trump cultists
The Washington Post reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday appointed Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) and Ronny Jackson (R-Tex.), two Trump loyalists who denied the results of the 2020 election, to the House Intelligence Committee, granting them oversight of the U.S. intelligence community and sensitive government material. eats on the committee are highly sought after in Congress and closely …
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June 6, 2024 Medicine, Science
NYU’s Langone Health News reports: Experts at NYU Langone Health who focus on the spread of contagious rashes document the first reported case in the United States of a sexually transmitted fungal infection that can take months to clear up, even with treatment. The first report, which published online on June 5 in the journal JAMA Dermatology, describes a man …
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June 6, 2024 Science, Technology
The New York Times reports: Starship, the gargantuan rocket under development by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, launched on Thursday morning to make a fourth attempt to get to space and back. The previous three flights of the vehicle all ended in explosions, but each got farther than the last. Such progress is regarded as success in SpaceX’s break-it-then-fix-it approach to engineering …
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