UPDATE 7/21/23: James Gordon Meekhas pleaded guilty to child pornography charges A federal judge has revoked former ABC News producer James Gordon Meek’s bail and ordered him held until his trial on child pornography charges, according to court documents filed on Monday. Meek was charged last week with transportation of …
Read More »GOP's Hunter Biden Obsession Enters Overdrive With 'Twitter Files' Hearing
House Republicans have made clear they intend to do everything they can to cast President Biden as the ringleader of a global crime racket that he’s now using the White House to facilitate. The House Oversight Committee, led by a guy who just a few days ago wondered if the …
Read More »The State of the Union Is in Flux. How Will Biden Address It Tonight?
President Joe Biden will deliver the annual State of the Union address tonight from the Capitol. It will be Biden’s first major national address under a divided Congress, with newly empowered House Republicans working to paint the president and his family as weak, corrupt, and anti-American ahead of a potential …
Read More »Biden Will Tout His Accomplishments Tonight. Progressives Have Notes
What is the state of our union? Asked to appraise the country using a single word, Americans have recently chosen to describe it as “awful,” “chaotic,” and a “mess.” Republicans still experiencing a case of the vapors from Sunday’s Grammy Awards might reach for “evil” or even “demonic.” When he …
Read More »Paul Gosar Worries Immigrants Will Change 'Our Culture'
Kevin McCarthy kicked off his tenure as House Speaker by stocking the chamber’s committees with bigots, conspiracy theorists, and election deniers. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar, who both have a history of cavorting with white supremacists, were part of the new appointments — despite having been previously removed from …
Read More »Well, Trump Is Now Suggesting Ron DeSantis Is a Pedophile
Donald Trump recently has been ramping up his attacks on Ron DeSantis ahead of a potential 2024 Republican primary showdown. We’re not going to lie, we figured it take the former president a least a few more months before he started accusing the Florida governor of pedophilia. Trump has been …
Read More »Ted Cruz, Marjorie Taylor Greene Raise Hell Over Sam Smith's Grammys Performance
The Grammys was its usual lavish spectacle featuring scores of styled-out celebrities on Sunday night. The buttoned-up, right-wing political commentariat was not pleased, particularly about Sam Smith and Kim Petras‘ performance of “Unholy” — which featured fire, red lighting, and Smith sporting a pair of horns. “Don’t fight the culture …
Read More »Elizabeth Warren Is Furious with the Restaurant Lobby
For decades, a major restaurant lobby has devoted millions of dollars to stomping out bills that would improve the lives of the industry’s workers — including attempts to raise state and federal minimum wages to $15 per hour. As it turns out, the workers who stood to gain from those …
Read More »Confessions of a Sometimes-MAGA Critic
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) did not intend to strip Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) of her seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee —until, of course, she did. As a personal matter, Mace says she has nothing against Omar. “I don’t know her from Adam,” she says,an odd contention from someone …
Read More »Fox News Host Wonders If Biden Needed China's 'Permission' to Shoot Down Balloon
Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy suggested Sunday that President Biden is “potentially compromised” by China and therefore had to make sure it was okay with the Chinese before the U.S. military shot down the country’s surveillance balloon off the coast of the Carolinas on Saturday. Campos-Duffy complained on Fox & …
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