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Never mind that there's every reason to doubt that any of their story is true, Fox's John Roberts and Shannon Bream did their best to help the Alito's turn the story about their unacceptable behavior into another conservative victimhood fairy tale that's all about the neighbor. Here's Roberts and Bream on this Friday's America Reports playing stenographers for the Alitos: ROBERTS: Let's bring in Shannon Bream, anchor of Fox News Sunday and chief legal correspondent.

Workers at a Mercedes Benz plant in Alabama voted against joining the United Auto Workers union Friday, potentially stalling hopes of a rapidly growing organizing wave for autoworkers in the southern United States. Via CNN: The result was a close outcome. Out of the valid votes counted, 56% of workers voted “no,” while 44% voted “yes” for unionization, according to Mercedes-Benz.

Rubin and Elie Mystal discussed the shocking revelation that Supreme Court Justice flew a reversed “Stop the Steal” flag on his front lawn as the court was considering a 2020 election case. The revelation came not long after we learned that Justice Clarence Thomas gives the distinct appearance of having broken the law by dodging taxes on a forgiven RV loan. It's long overdue for Democrats to stop wringing their hands and start doing something about it. Mystal noted that it was already obvious from Alito’s and Thomas’ written opinions and comments at oral arguments that they support the insurrection and are doing everything they can to help Trump evade prosecution and accountability for his crimes.

If ever you needed proof that it’s the Biden administration looking out for the little guy, while Trump looks out for himself and his wealthy donors, look no further than the right-wing attacks on the CFPB’s efforts to protect Americans from predatory lending practices. The Washington Post makes clear that the Trump administration wanted lenders to be able to make expensive loans to low-income borrowers that they could not afford to repay. The dispute began in 2017, when the watchdog agency issued rules preventing payday lenders from offering expensive loans to low-income Americans who could not afford to pay the money back.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is under fire after news revealed that he flew the upside-down American flag—the same symbol adopted by some Trump supporters who deny the election results—outside his home in the days following the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. Alito, of course, blamed his wife, but that story doesn't hold water for several reasons.

Fox News' Outnumbered program reacted very strongly to the congressional outbursts instigated by Marjorie Taylor Greene's mendacity which resulted in Emily Campagno blaming the disintegration of the Republican led House on President Biden. "This is supposed to be the most noble, the most sacred, or among them, serving and representing the people," Compagno said." "If I want to see someone cussing out someone else, I walk outside my door.

Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) and Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) were named in McCormick's divorce papers after alleged hanky panky. Yet another scandal involving Republicans and sex. At least this time it didn't involve a ménage à trois and all the tittering that inspired. Source: Daily Mail After 12 years of marriage and less than two years into his congressional career, Georgia Republican Rep.

A caller on C-SPAN's morning show explained that she had left the Republican Party because its lawmakers "do nothing but interfere" and "endorse everything [Donald] Trump does." During Wednesday's Washington Journal program, a caller from Maryland named Mary said she used to be a Republican but changed her party affiliation to Independent. "The reason I'm calling is to just say that anybody voting for a Republican is voting against their best interest," the caller announced.

BoBo is having such a lousy day that even Rep. Rapey McForehead left her standing there alone. Republicans lined up to attend Donald Trump's criminal trial, and Rep. Lauren Boebert's son, Tyler, attended court by himself. And I'm sure the jury noticed that, once again, the defendant's wifebot was not by his side.

In an interview with ABC News, former White House Situation Room officer Mike Stiegler revealed that Jan. rioters “came that close” to murdering Mike Pence. “It’s important to me that we don’t forget that it did come that close. And that we did have discussions. If we lose the VP, if the 25th is invoked.

Yesterday a barge slammed into a bridge pillar in Galveston, Texas, spilling oil into waters near busy shipping channels and closing the only road to a small neighboring island. Via NPR: The impact sent pieces of the bridge, which connects Galveston to Pelican Island, tumbling on top of the barge and shut down a stretch of waterway so crews could clean up the spill.

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GOP Trump lickspittle Tommy Tuberville saying the quiet part out loud, and proving once again he's one of the dumbest members of the United States Senate. As we discussed here, Tuberville made an appearance outside of the courtroom in Manhattan and whined that the prosecutors were causing Trump "mental anguish." Apparently embarrassing himself with those remarks, along with the rest of the cultists who showed up in their MAGA uniforms at the courthouse this Tuesday wasn't enough for Tuberville.

Ballot drop boxes have been popular in Wisconsin for decades. And like every other state, there was a tremendous surge in their popularity in 2020 during the COVID pandemic. Then Trump came along with his Big Lie and tried to cast dispersion and doubt on drop boxes, saying they allowed tremendous amounts of fraud.

Fox's Maria Bartiromo helps GOP Sen. Mike Lee promote the Republican's false narrative that migrants crossing the border are going to vote in federal elections in droves and their latest voter suppression attempt based on that narrative. Just like Speaker Mike Johnson, Lee has no proof that this is happening anywhere, but that didn't stop him from pretending people would risk going to prison by voting illegally during his interview this Sunday: BARTIROMO: Let's talk about the bill that you are pushing, the SAVE Act, and I want to get your take on a free and fair election come November.

As we enter day 809 of Putin's three-day "Special Military Operation" in Ukraine it's fair to say that things have not gone according to plan. That is, if there ever was a plan. Source: The Guardian Vladimir Putin has removed his longtime ally Sergei Shoigu as defence minister in the most significant reshuffle to the military command since Russian troops invaded Ukraine more than two years ago. In a surprise announcement, the Kremlin said Andrei Belousov, a former deputy prime minister who specialises in economics, will replace Shoigu. Putin, who was sworn into his fifth term as Russia’s leader earlier this week, proposed that Shoigu take the position as head of Russia’s powerful security council.