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America's LOL Mayor has some dangerous advice for House Speaker Mike Johnson and Rep. Jim Jordan, but only the latter might listen. Former President Donald Trump was impeached for this very thing, but go ahead, guys, and listen to Rudy. "It should begin with him, and it should include Brennan; it should include Biden, the Vice President, who approved it and helped out," he said after mentioning Hillary Clinton, because of course.

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Fox News pundit Kellyanne Conway worried Sunday that a conservative conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama was running President Joe Biden's White House would backfire and bolster the Democratic vote. In an interview on Fox News, Conway reviewed some of the jokes about Biden from Saturday night's White House Correspondents Dinner. "Let's go through some of my favorite, greatest hits when they said, hey, we can we're looking for the strings of Barack Obama pulling your strings, I mean, thereby making fun of the fact that Joe Biden can't stand alone," Conway said. "But I do worry, by the way, that that becomes a positive if lots of Americans who are fence sitters between Biden and Trump friends, if they say, well, if I think Obama is really running the White House, running Washington, running the world, I'll feel better about that," she continued. Fox News host Will Cain said he had never met a Biden voter who was willing to switch and vote for former President Donald Trump. "Kellyanne, is there such thing as a fence sitter between Joe Biden and Donald Trump?" Cain wondered.

“A half-dozen conservative senators known as the ‘Breakfast Club’ are banding together to try to influence the race for Senate GOP leader — and how the chamber would run with a Republican majority,” Axios reports. “The Breakfast Club is an unofficial group but it’s as close as the Senate gets to the House Freedom Caucus, which has been a persistent thorn in the side of GOP leadership during one of the most chaotic sessions in that chamber’s history.”

“The House Freedom Caucus is upset with Speaker Mike Johnson. Even furious,” Punchbowl News reports. “But the group of hardline Republican conservatives isn’t signing onto Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) call to oust Johnson. At least not yet.” Said Rep. Josh Breckenridge (R-OK): “I’m not convinced that if we go into a motion to vacate, we come out with a more conservative solution, so I think every person has to evaluate it.” Axios: GOP lawmakers say Marjorie Taylor Green’s motion to vacate has fizzled.

A study once claimed that a T. rex was on par, intelligence wise with a modern baboon. Now we find out, that's not so. A new study co-authored by Hady George of the University of Bristol told ZME Science has a new take on the intelligence of a T. rex. Overall, the new study found that the previous estimate for the neuron count of T.