Imagine being the Attorney General of the state and you're accused of being involved in a hit and run accident where a man dies. Your job is literally to uphold the laws of the state for everyone.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The two experts featured on Morning Joe today seem pretty happy with the news about pending approval on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
"The good news for this week, Mika, is the Johnson & Johnson vaccine," Dr.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Donald Trump's taxes were officially handed over to the Manhattan D.A.'s office on Monday, just hours after the Supreme Court refused to block their release.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAbove, Texas’ Lt. Governor Dan Patrick telling people to read the fine print of their electricity contracts, you know, because it’s their own fault that the electric company made serious coin off of them.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The highest-profile Trump-adjacent legal event this year might be the Supreme Court's one-sentence order allowing Cyrus Vance, Jr., the Manhattan District Attorney, to obtain Donald Trump's tax and business records from his accountants.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareNASA is having a banner year. First they had the amazing landing of the Mars rover Perseverance.
Now this:
Astronaut Bruce McCandless II floats untethered away from the safety of the space shuttle, with nothing but his Manned Maneuvering Unit keeping him alive.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
What's this, actual help for the middle class and small businesses? A president who follows through on his promise to not allow the small fish to get swallowed up by the big fish when it comes to COVID relief?
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareI'm not ready to make nice
I'm not ready to back down
I'm still mad as hell, and I don't have time
To go 'round and 'round and 'round
So goes the song by The Chicks, formerly Dixie.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
During today's House Oversight Committee to improve the financial condition of the U.S. Postal Service, Rep. Gerry Connolly laid into Rep. Jim Jordan's caustic and lie- filled rant about Postmaster DeJoy and election integrity.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The Former Guy left D.C. just a month ago, but he has been trying to offload his D.C.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWe now know why tall fencing and barbed wire surrounds the Capitol. The insurrectionists are planning an encore.
That's right, only this time they're cosplaying "Designated Survivor." They want to blow it up.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
"Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd."
- The Mourning Bride by William Congreve (1697)
Source: Washington Post
As I noted last week when it was announced that Rush had passed away, the legacy of his work speaks for itself. One year ago this week, in February of 2020, C&L's Karoli Kuns covered Rush Limbaugh "hatching a nice conspiracy theory" about COVID19:
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Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA) joined Maria Bartiromo on FOX Sunday on January 3rd, just 3 days before the Insurrection on the Capitol, led by Trump supporters, White Nationalists, 3 Percenters, Proud Boys and QAnon freaks.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Jimmy Kimmel presented an alternative covid history last night (shared on Morning Joe):
"This week in covid history, it's the end of February in Roaring 2020. Movie theaters are packed with Sonic the Hedgehog fever, presidential hopeful Pete 'Bullwinkle' Buttigieg's dance has taken the nation by storm, and America remains safe from a mysterious virus from Wuhan.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
There was an awkward moment of silence at Tuesday's House Republican leadership press conference after Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) were asked if former President Donald Trump should speak at the upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Tucker Carlson continued his assault on reality and gaslighted his audience by claiming that believing "QAnon" even exists is the real conspiracy theory.
Carlson's opening segment was an assault on journalists' attempts (he singled out Brian Stelter from CNN) to weed out conspiracy theories and misinformation perpetrated by the fever swamps of conservatism.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
It's often comedians who give the best political interviews. Tuesday night Jimmy Kimmel did a great job interviewing the new chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Bernie Sanders.
Jimmy started the interview by asking Sanders if he was in his office or "a hotel room in Cancun right now." Sanders admitted that some Senators get grief for their travels "depending on which side of the aisle you're on."
The Lawrence Ferlinghetti Memorial Edition.
Scottie summarizes some stuff.
Rudy The G. in his natural habitat: Evading subpoenas.
The chairwoman and three other board leaders of Texas’ power grid operator have resigned – and get this: none of them live in Texas.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIn case you were busy paying attention to important news, Hasbro announced today that it is giving the toy a new brand name: “Potato Head.” There will also be a new Potato Head playset to allow kids to “create their own type of families, including two moms or two dads,” AP reported.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA video obtained by Robert Evans (Bellingcat) is believed to be Riley June Williams, the young woman arrested by the FBI in connection with the Capitol riot. She's alleged to have stolen Nancy Pelosi's laptop, included in the affidavit by the FBI.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareCPAC, the odious conservative conference, transformed this year into a meeting for QAnon wackos and voter fraud nincompoops, starts today in Orlando Florida, so Fox News is Johnny on the spot.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The Thursday Edition.
The Rude Pundit would like to see all the dead bodies piled up in mounds, Lou Reed style. In Front of The G.O.P., to be specific.
Brains & Eggs welcomes Biden, more from Texas.
CNN's Oren Lieberman starts a segment in response to a new Pentagon report on the prevalence of white supremacists in the U.S. military with a look at tattoos.
The coverup was, I want to say, six total sessions.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareYes, for those poor conservatives who think Fox, Newsmax and OAN are too hard and CNN too soft, Al Jazeera has come up with what it apparently thinks is a “Goldilocks” solution: a platform, called “Rightly.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareShould be quite the steel cage match! The House Sub-Committee on Energy and Commerce is holding a hearing called “Fanning the Flames: Disinformation and Extremism in the Media.” The hearing has already been labeled by Republicans as an attack on the First Amendment.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareConservative media is going to great lengths to rewrite actual facts and events in order to defend Trump and his traitorous supporters following the infamous January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
During today's investigative hearing by the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Captain Carneysha Mendoza of the U.S. Capitol Police testified about the infamous events she was part of on January 6th.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Yesterday, we heard former Capitol Police chief Steven Sund insist he couldn't have known how bad it was going to be during the Capitol attack, dismissing an FBI warning. In fact, he claimed the entire intelligence community missed the threat!
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