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The New York Post reports: American Airlines went viral after responding to a Twitter user Saturday who complained about a pilot because he had a “Let’s Go Brandon” sticker on his luggage. A Twitter user who has since made her Twitter account private took a picture of the sticker and sent it to the airline, asking if they accept “cowardly …

Law & Crime reports: The Missouri woman accused in a fatal drunk driving crash has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for entering the Capitol building on Jan. 6. Emily Hernandez, 22, was seen in pictures and on video grinning widely while holding a fragment of a sign appearing to identify the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) on Jan. …

The Hill reports: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a defamation lawsuit brought by former Trump campaign official Carter Page against the Democratic National Committee and others linked to the controversial Steele dossier. The court’s order was issued without comment or noted dissent, in keeping with common practice. Page had appealed to the Supreme Court after his lawsuit …

Politico reports: As Trump’s team pushed its discredited voter fraud narrative, the National Archives received forged certificates of ascertainment declaring him and then-Vice President Mike Pence the winners of both Michigan and Arizona and their electors after the 2020 election. Public records requests show the secretaries of state for those states sent those certificates to the Jan. 6 panel, along …

Newsweek reports: Ohio congressman Jim Jordan has said he won’t voluntarily cooperate with the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol, describing the “Democrat obsession” as the latest of the “partisan witch hunts.” The Republican, who represents Ohio’s 4th congressional district, wrote in a letter to committee chair rep. Bennie Thompson that the inquiry into the …

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports: Doug Mastriano, the state senator from Franklin County who parlayed anger over coronavirus pandemic rules and no-holds-barred support for former President Donald Trump into an extended political moment, opened his candidacy for Pennsylvania governor on Saturday. Mr. Mastriano, who has developed a sizeable following over the last two years, joins a still-evolving Republican field. That field …

CNN’s Daniel Dale reports: J.D. Vance, a Republican candidate for a US Senate seat in Ohio, is a law school graduate. But Vance made a significant false claim about legal proceedings against people who allegedly participated in the Capitol insurrection last year. On the first anniversary of the January 6, 2021 riot, Vance tweeted out a link to a website …

Posted today to Marjorie Taylor Green’s Telegram account: In foreign countries, you can walk in a pharmacy and buy Ivermectin over the counter without a prescription like I did, and it has saved many lives. The media makes fun of people for wanting to take it, calls it horse wormer, & reported fake stories about hospitals overflowing with people overdosing …

The Hill reports: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) announced Sunday he will run for reelection this November, setting up a high-stakes Senate battle in a key swing state. Johnson’s decision to run for a third term breaks a vow he made in his 2016 campaign that he’d only seek two six-year stints in the Senate. Johnson is anticipated to cruise to …

“I am done. I am done with Ted Cruz. He always made me feel a little bit hinky. I know he’s super smart, he went to Harvard. But what he did is betrayed the truth when he said ‘terrorists.’ Really? Grandmothers who were arrested, put in solitary confinement? “Did he even mention Ashli Babbitt’s name, the only person who was …

Posted last night to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: With all respect, President Joe Biden needs to be careful how he denounces those who disagree with him. Hillary Clinton tried that once by calling supporters of President Donald J. Trump “deplorables,” and it didn’t go too well for her. It was an insult to about half the country. This week in …

From the editorial board of the Kansas City Star: We asked weight loss experts, and people who have lost large amounts of weight themselves, whether it’s possible to lose 90 pounds in six months simply by eating better and hitting a humble home gym for half an hour five or six times a week. Their response? Absolutely not, almost certainly …

Raw Story reports: An accused MAGA rioter has created a list of all-star witnesses he wants to testify at his trial, including former President Donald Trump, attorney Rudy Giuliani, and podcaster Steve Bannon. Via Politico‘s Kyle Cheney, an attorney representing January 6th defendant Dustin Thompson revealed on Friday that his client “intends to subpoena numerous witnesses involved in the planning …

Yahoo News reports: A Florida official admitted Thursday that as many as 1 million COVID-19 test kits expired in a state warehouse over the last few days of December while coronavirus cases were skyrocketing and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said nothing about the health crisis. Kevin Guthrie, director of the state Division of Emergency Management, made the startling revelation about …

The Associated Press reports: A North Carolina woman who brought her 14-year-old son into the U.S. Capitol during last year’s riot was sentenced Friday to three months imprisonment. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said she finds it “very hard to comprehend” why Virginia Marie Spencer and her husband took their child into the building during a violent insurrection. Spencer’s husband, …

Florida Politics reports: Military men like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis know the actual meaning of the phrase “Charlie Foxtrot,” and while the precise translation isn’t suitable for a family publication, it worked just fine as a title for a fundraising email from the Governor’s re-election campaign. From there, DeSantis lumped the Capitol rioters in with the mainstream conservative movement: “The …

The Daily Beast reports: Cirsten Weldon focused on attacking vaccines and other efforts to fight COVID-19, saying in one video that Dr. Anthony Fauci “needs to be hung from a rope.” She claimed the vaccine killed people and even recorded herself yelling at people standing in line to receive vaccines. “The vaccines kill, don’t get it!” Weldon warned the waiting …

Sorry Anti-Vaxxer reports: According to social media posts, Cirsten Tien Soong Weldon died from COVID. Cirsten is a well known Qanon Conspiracy “Qtuber” who does live feed shows and posts on Telegram. She wrote “Intel Drops” which is a conspiracy theory laden book she claims was a Amazon best seller until Amazon “killed it” by removing it. She is sometimes …

“As you may have heard, this is the anniversary of Jan 6. And in commemoration of that, we have donned the official network approved solemn anchor outfit: white shirt, navy tie. Message: reverence. “But if you take three steps back as historical events go, if we are being honest now, Jan. 6 barely rates as a footnote. Really not a …

Law & Crime reports: Federal authorities on Thursday unsealed a criminal case against a defendant accused of playing a role in the Jan. 6, 2021 siege on the U.S. Capitol Complex — exactly one year to the day after the fateful event. James Wayne Brooks of Knoxville, Tenn., is accused of four counts. A warrant indicates that Brooks was arrested …