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Supreme Court secretly plotting GOP victory, says podcast pundit with zero chill
Raw Story headline: Supreme Court has a 'self-serving' interest in helping the GOP win the midterms: expert ~ 5/5 on the Snerdley Scale The latest entry in the “everything is a Republican conspiracy” genre comes wrapped in a dramatic warning that the Supreme Court...
‘Give me a break…Bye!’ AG Ellison storms off when grilled on Minnesota fraud scandal
SNERDLEY SCALE 1/5 Well, this one is not exactly a graduate seminar in transparency. A reporter asks Minnesota’s attorney general about a fraud scandal, and Ellison responds like someone just asked him to split the dinner check after ordering lobster. The most...
Sen. Hawley demands answers after MLB warns Giants players over Bible verses
Major League Baseball says it wants inclusion. Apparently, that invitation comes with fine print. The league is facing a growing backlash after warning several San Francisco Giants pitchers for writing Bible verses on their Pride Night caps — a move that critics say...
Bill Maher to Maine voters: Elect the tattooed train wreck and call it democracy
Bill Maher just handed Democrats one of the strangest endorsements of the election cycle — and in the process may have said more about the state of American politics than he intended. During Friday night’s episode of HBO’s “Real Time,” the comedian and longtime...
Swamp’s new draft defense bill would open up billion-dollar taxpayer purse for foreign countries
A newly proposed draft defense bill signals Congress has no plans to slow down the flow of American tax dollars to foreign countries. The 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), unveiled by Republican House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers...
BS daily political cartoons: From JFK to Nipple Nazi. Good job Dems.
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Here’s why warning shots can wreck your life
Attorneys and self-defense instructors told the Daily Caller News Foundation that firing a warning shot is almost a surefire way to face legal trouble, assuming one survives the incident. In two recent incidents, armed citizens fired warning shots, with one armed...
DHS arrests 10 non-citizens for illegally voting in NC, DOJ nabs 9 more in PA
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that 10 more non-citizens have been arrested for illegally voting in North Carolina as the Trump administration cracks down on voter fraud before the midterm elections. Among those arrested were criminals and illegal...
‘You know illegals?’ Adam Carolla puts Sunny Hostin on blast over anti-ICE rhetoric
Pontificating from a co-host of ABC’s “The View” and Gotham’s mayor was checked by comedian Adam Carolla with some simple questions. “You know illegals … or they mow your f*cking lawn, b*tch?” Like harping on mass shootings without note of the tragedies averted by...
Military boards go rogue on Hegseth’s transgender troop ban
Military boards are disobeying Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s ban on openly transgender-identifying service members in the U.S. Armed Forces. Nine of 12 Navy and Marine Corps review boards have recommended retaining transgender service members despite Pentagon...
‘Champagne communist’: AOC campaign splurges on fancy hotels
Potential 2028 White House hopeful Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) loves to portray herself as an oligarchy-fighting champion of the working class, but the receipts tell a much different story. While raging against the rich in order to appeal to her gullible...
Japan pushes back on nuclear shift speculation as debate over America’s nukes heats up
Japan insists its longstanding nuclear weapons policy remains unchanged, even as officials consider a historic shift that could allow American nuclear weapons onto Japanese territory amid growing threats from China, Russia and North Korea. The Japanese Embassy in...
