February 1, 2025 Idiocracy, Trump cultists
The Washington Post reports: Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to arrive in Panama on Saturday with a lofty assignment: Retake the Panama Canal, the U.S.-built waterway that President Donald Trump laments should have never been relinquished to the Central American country 25 years ago. The audacious demand, which Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino called “impossible” and regional leaders …
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February 1, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
From the Wall Street Journal editorial board: Mr. Trump’s justification for this economic assault on the neighbors makes no sense. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says they’ve “enabled illegal drugs to pour into America.” But drugs have flowed into the U.S. for decades, and will continue to do so as long as Americans keep using them. Neither country can …
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February 1, 2025 Democrats, Politics
NBC News reports: Ken Martin, the longtime leader of the state Democratic Party organization in Minnesota, will be the new Democratic National Committee chair after winning Saturday’s election, as his party looks to turn the page and recover from a dismal 2024. Martin had been the frontrunner from the beginning of the race, leveraging his relationships with the more than …
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February 1, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Hill reports: The Trump administration forced out a number of FBI officials Friday, removing agents who worked on the criminal cases into President Trump as well as the heads of various field offices. A source familiar said agents who had worked on the Mar-a-Lago and Jan. 6 investigations were escorted out of the Washington Field Office. The same source …
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February 1, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The New York Times reports: The director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, was fired on Saturday, prematurely ending a five-year term that was scheduled to run through late 2026. “With so much power concentrated in the hands of a few, agencies like the C.F.P.B. have never been more critical,” Mr. Chopra wrote in a letter he posted …
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February 1, 2025 Christianists, Crime
ABC News Australia reports: Elizabeth Struhs lived and died suffering a deadly disease, but ultimately it was her parents’ dangerous views that ended her life. For days, as the eight-year-old lay dying, more than a dozen adults — her mother and father among them — prayed and sang songs instead of seeking life-saving medical treatment. In January 2022, she took …
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February 1, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Politico reports: President Donald Trump’s social media startup gifted more than $800,000 worth of stock each to Kash Patel, his nominee to run the FBI, and Linda McMahon, his pick to lead the Education Department, according to regulatory filings. Patel and McMahon — who both sit on the company’s board — were each awarded 25,946 shares in Trump Media & …
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February 1, 2025 Christianists, Hate Groups
The Lexington Herald-Leader reports: Lawyers for former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who garnered national attention nearly a decade ago when she refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, argued that Davis’ court-ordered payment to a couple to whom she denied a license should be tossed. Davis’ lawyers say she is not liable to pay more than $360,000 in …
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February 1, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
Courthouse News reports: A former aide to Donald Trump can proceed with her civil rape case against Trump’s longtime senior campaign advisor Jason Miller, a New York judge ruled Friday. The lawsuit is an escalation of a yearslong and salacious feud between Miller and former MAGA attorney A.J. Delgado, who claims that she was victimized in her publicized extramarital affair …
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February 1, 2025 Christianists, Republicans
The Associated Press reports: New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury on Friday for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country. Grand jurors at the District Court for the Parish of West Baton Rouge issued an indictment against Dr. Margaret Carpenter; …
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