The Joe Biden presidential campaign is positioning the 2024 election as a referendum on democracy. But a new poll suggests that defending America’s constitutional system of checks and balances is no longer an electoral slam dunk. A startling 39 percent of Americans, including 74 percent of Republicans, think it’s a …
Read More »This Evangelical Billionaire Family Wants to Convert You on Super Bowl Sunday
The Super Bowl will once again feature ads promoting Jesus, thanks in large part to the billionaire family that leads Hobby Lobby. He Gets Us, the billion-dollar campaign to further raise Jesus’ profile, will be back at the big game this year to spread the good word. According to Greg …
Read More »Kremlin All But Admits Tucker Carlson Is a Useful Idiot
The Kremlin’s first public response to Tucker Carlson’s announcement that he’s landed an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin was to fact-check the former Fox News host. On Wednesday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Carlson had indeed interviewed Putin, but took issue with Carlson’s claim that “not a single …
Read More »Trump Says America Is Over 'As We Know It' if He Can't Do Crimes While in Office
Donald Trump isn’t happy that judges on a Washington, D.C., appeals court ruled that he’s not protected from prosecution in the Justice Department’s election interference case against him. The former president has long been claiming he should be immune from criminal repercussions for anything he did while in office — …
Read More »Mike Johnson Gathers Far-Right Christians to Cast Out Demons
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and two dozen members of Congress assembled at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., last week for the second-annual National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance. The event was chock-a-block with Christian nationalist pastors and featured a clarion call for spiritual warfare, with members …
Read More »Judges Torch Trump Immunity Claim: 'He Is Answerable in Court for His Conduct'
Donald Trump’s bid for presidential immunity in his federal election interference case has been summarily rejected by D.C.’s Federal Court of Appeals — and the issue could be headed to the Supreme Court. In a ruling issued Tuesday, the three-judge panel, which heard oral arguments in the case last month, …
Read More »Border Patrol Supports 'Strong' Immigration Deal. Republicans Don't Care
The big bipartisan border reform deal is all but dead, thanks to MAGA Republicans obeying Donald Trump‘s wishes to kill it. The legislation delivered many of the immigration measures conservatives have long wanted, but the former president and his allies in Congress worry progress on the issue would make Joe …
Read More »Feds Arrest Alleged Militia 'Sniper' Planning Attack at Southern Border
A Tennessee man allegedly plotting violence at the southern border with militia groups to “stir up the hornet’s nest” with an arsenal of explosives, AR-15s and a sniper rifle was arrested Monday after selling an undercover agent an unregistered AK-47 suppressor for $100, according to a federal criminal complaint. Paul …
Read More »Republicans Declare in Resolution That Trump Isn't an Insurrectionist … Because They Say So
House Republicans announced a resolution Monday to “authoritatively express” that Donald Trump “did not engage in insurrection or rebellion.” The stunt comes days before the Supreme Court hears oral arguments Thursday in an appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling that the former president “engaged in an insurrection” on Jan. …
Read More »Tucker Carlson Announces Interview With Putin. He's Praised the Russian Leader for Years
Tucker Carlson confirmed on Tuesday that he will be interviewing Russian President Vladimir Putin during his ongoing trip to Moscow. Carlson, a longtime defender of Putin’s authoritarian regime, would be the first American journalist granted a one-on-one interview with the dictator since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. In the video …
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