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Bessent Claims US Could Default Over Debt Ceiling

CBS News reports: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Congressional leaders Friday that the federal government could be unable to pay its bills as soon as August if Congress doesn’t act, urging lawmakers to address the debt limit by mid July. In a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson, Bessent said after reviewing April tax filings, “there is reasonable probability that …

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Google To Pay Texas $1.4 Billion In Privacy Settlement

Reuters reports: Google has agreed to pay $1.375 billion in a settlement in principle reached with the state of Texas over allegations the company violated users’ data privacy, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Friday. The agreement settles two lawsuits that covered three products for allegedly violating Texas consumer protection laws. “In Texas, Big Tech is not above the …

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One Million Moms Vs “Destructive” Arm & Hammer

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: One Million Moms has received numerous complaints regarding the new ad campaign from Arm & Hammer Laundry. The commercial features Meghan Trainor launching the new Power Sheets laundry detergent. Unfortunately, it also features a “Get Your Sheet Together” slogan. Foul language (or implication of it) is unnecessary in this or any advertisement. …

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MTG Won’t Run For Senate Because Its GOP Sucks

NBC News reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said definitively on Friday that she will not enter the U.S. Senate race, as Republicans eye Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff’s seat in the battleground state of Georgia as a crucial pickup to expand their three-seat majority next year. Greene’s announcement comes a day after another Trump ally, Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., announced …

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Judge Halts Trump Admin’s Plans For Mass Layoffs

The New York Times reports: A federal judge on Friday called for a two-week pause in the Trump administration’s mass layoff plans, barring two dozen agencies from moving forward with the largest phase of the president’s downsizing efforts, which the judge said was illegal without Congress’s authorization. Of all the lawsuits challenging President Trump’s vision to dramatically scale back the …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Variety reports: Liev Schreiber says his 16-year-old daughter Kai never actually told him and her mom, Naomi Watts, she was trans. “Kai was always who Kai is,” the “Ray Donovan” star told me Thursday morning. “But I suppose the most profound moment was her asking us to change her pronouns. To be honest with you, it didn’t feel like that …

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Karoline Leavitt: Trump “Left A Life Of Luxury For Public Service And Has Lost Money” Being President [VIDEO]

“It is ridiculous that anyone in this room would even suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit. He left a life of luxury and a life of running a very successful real estate empire for public service. Not just once, but twice. The American public reelected him back to the White House because they trust he …

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Trump Has Sat For 12 “Daily” Intel Briefings So Far

Politico reports: Since President Donald Trump was sworn into office in January, he has sat for just 12 presentations from intelligence officials of the President’s Daily Brief. That’s a significant drop compared with Trump’s first term in office, according to a POLITICO analysis of his public schedule. In much of his first term, Trump met with intel officials twice a …

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Roger Stone: Execute Sen. Mark Kelly For Treason

The Daily Beast reports: Roger Stone has called Arizona’s Democratic Senator Mark Kelly a traitor who deserves to die for questioning the president. Stone accused the Navy veteran, former astronaut, and current Democratic Senator of treason and called for his execution. The crime? Questioning Trump’s crypto connections. Last week, Kelly co-sponsored the End Crypto Corruption Act, a Senate bill that …

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