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So right-wing media continues the deliberate degradation of information, and then pulls it back when threatened with legal action. OAN is not really all that different from Fox, where Jesse Watters gleefully spreads manure on the air. Via the Daily Beast: Far-right cable news network One America News apologized to Donald Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen Monday after retracting a report that suggested he—rather than Trump himself—had been the one who carried out an affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels.

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 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.

Former Speaker of the House and all around badass had no time for Katy Tur's bullshit today. She joined her for a polite in studio interview at MSNBC and with the skill and bluntness that only Nancy Pelosi possesses, she put Tur in her place with on sentence. PELOSI: So there's nothing in his performance, if that's the word we'll use, what he has done, that would indicate that he cares, prioritizes, or ever valued or did anything to support a democracy.