House Speaker Kevin McCarthy exiled Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) from the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday. The move intensifies an ongoing game of tit-for-tat over committee assignments, and makes good on McCarthy’s vow for revenge after Democrats and a handful of Republicans voted to oust Reps. …
Read More »'We Are in Hell': Texts Reveal the Jan. 6 Spiral of Ali Alexander, Kanye's Election-Denying Confidant
Ali Alexander — the far-right political agitator infamous for organizing the Jan. 6 protests that morphed into a bloody insurgency — has treated his recent Twitter reinstatement as a coming out party. He’s used his @Ali handle to diss political enemies (including trashing Marjorie Taylor Greene) and boast of his …
Read More »Quiz: Which Claims Came From George Santos, and Which Did We Make Up?
George Santos has only been in Congress for a few weeks, but his legacy as one of D.C.’s most prolific and compulsive liars has already been cemented. The Long Island congressman is facing multiple criminal and ethical investigations regarding his deception of voters over the course of his run for …
Read More »Covid Conspiracist Marjorie Taylor Greene Tapped to Investigate the Government's Covid Response
Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has been appointed to a new congressional select subcommittee tasked with investigating the government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. “The Members selected to serve,” will, “finally get answers to the Covid origins and the federal government’s gain of function research that contributed to the pandemic.” …
Read More »Kanye's 2024 Brain Trust Booted From Twitter (Again)
The Twitter accounts of Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander and white nationalist Nick Fuentes were suspended from the platform on Wednesday. The pair have been advising Kanye West, now known as Ye, as the rapper weighs his 2024 presidential campaign amid a torrent of antisemitism. Alexander and Fuentes now …
Read More »Trump, Who Used Social Media to Incite Insurrection, to Get Facebook Account Back
Donald Trump is primed to get his Facebook and Instagram accounts back, as parent company Meta has decided that the ex-president who used social media to incite an insurrection should get another crack at posting to its platforms. A Meta spokesperson directed Rolling Stone to the company’s posted statement, which …
Read More »Start the Steal? Trump Allies Suddenly OK with Mail-In Voting
When the election-deniers faceplanted in the 2022 midterms, it wasn’t just humiliating for Donald Trump and the Republican Party. It had a sudden, devastating impact on how the former president and his aides had planned to wage their 2024 campaign to retake the White House. And now, Trump’s allies are …
Read More »How Do You Hide a 255-Foot Superyacht? Poorly
How Do You Hide a 255-Foot Superyacht? If you’re Putin crony and sanctioned-billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, the answer is relatively straightforward: pay someone else to do it for you. Unfortunately for Vekselberg, the men he delegated the task to fell short of expectations, causing his $90 million superyacht, Tango, to become …
Read More »Classified Docs Found in Mike Pence's Home
A tranche of about a dozen classified documents have been found in the Indiana home of Mike Pence, multiple outlets reported on Tuesday. In a letter to the National Archives reviewed by CNN, Pence’s attorney and liaison to the archives, Greg Jacobs, indicated that a “small number of documents bearing …
Read More »Kamala Harris Marks Roe's 50th Anniversary in Florida: 'We Are Fighting Back'
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke in Tallahassee, Florida — a state whose leaders are discussing changing the timeline for abortions to 12 weeks of pregnancy from 15 and impeding the distribution of abortion pills — on Sunday to mark the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The landmark 1973 decision …
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