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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Variety reports: Abortion organizations hosted at Olivia Rodrigo‘s “Guts” tour will no longer be distributing emergency contraceptives at the singer’s concerts. Organizers tell Variety that after widespread media attention, local abortion funds were told Thursday afternoon that they were no longer allowed to hand out free emergency birth control pills and other reproductive health resources at the concerts. The initiative …

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Panel: Cops Should Have Seized Mass Shooter’s Guns

The New York Times reports: A commission investigating the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, concluded on Friday that local law enforcement officers should have taken the gunman, Robert Card Jr., into custody and seized his weapons before he killed 18 people on Oct. 25. The decision to instead give Mr. Card’s family responsibility for removing his weapons was “an abdication …

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Feds Locate Person Behind Swatting Of Biden Officials

CBS News reports: Federal agents have located a person of interest in over 100 swatting calls, which included calls targeting Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure and Security Agency Director Jen Easterly and other senior Biden administration officials, according to law enforcement officials. Officials say the person of interest lives in Serbia; charges have not yet been filed, but …

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Moms For Liberty To Oversee Book Bans In FL Schools

The Florida Times-Union reports: Some of Florida’s loudest advocates for public school book removals make up half of a state government-sponsored group to advise school districts on how to select titles and when to pull them off shelves. Moms for Liberty members made up three of six members of a Department of Education workgroup that met Thursday in Tallahassee to …

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RNC Reverses On Ending Minority Outreach Programs

The Washington Post reports: The Republican Party’s new chairman, Michael Whatley, declared in a Thursday memo that the party would keep open its early-voting program, called Bank Your Vote, and not shutter any of its bricks-and-mortar community centers, contradicting comments by top party officials earlier in the week. The initial reports that community centers would close and Bank Your Vote …

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Judge Delays Trump’s Hush Money Trial Until Mid-April

NBC News reports: The trial in the New York hush money case against former President Donald Trump has been delayed until the middle of April, Judge Juan Merchan ruled Friday. Merchan said the trial — originally scheduled to begin March 25 — would be pushed back 30 days from Friday. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had previously said he would …

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Longtime Trump Critic Ben Shapiro Bends The Knee

Mediaite reports: Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro, long a harsh critic of Trump, announced he will be hosting a fundraiser for him next week. He justified his shift  by claiming Joe Biden is the worst commander-in-chief of his lifetime, adding he would “walk over broken glass” to vote for Trump. “I will always be honest with you about Donald Trump, …

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Pence Won’t Endorse Man Who Almost Got Him Killed

Politico reports: Mike Pence said on Friday that he would not endorse Donald Trump for president in 2024, breaking with the man who tapped him as vice president only to make him the target of an angry mob for his refusal to help with efforts to overturn the 2020 election. “It should come as no surprise that I will not …

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RNC Hires QAnon Homocon Riot Attendee Who Quit GOP Gig After Posting Porn He Filmed In Their Office

The cultist site Florida’s Voice reports: Republican National Committee Cochair Lara Trump announced she will soon be contacting conservative activist Scott Presler to set up a “legal ballot harvesting division” with Presler playing a major role. The announcement comes just after the outage of old RNC leadership and as Presler has pleaded with the national party for months to allow …

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