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On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) coordinating with the White House about the upcoming Senate impeachment trial was “improper.” Blumenthal said, “It is improper. He said not only is he coordinating but taking his cues from the White House. He seems to be abandoning all pretense or semblance of objectivity and independence. It’s also unprecedented. In every one of the past proceedings, Republicans and Democrats have worked together. Especially in the Clinton impeachment proceeding, there was cooperation between Daschle and Lott, the majority and minority leaders,
A biological male transgender English professor derides “conservatives” for missing that the 1964 Christmas special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is all about “queer” people.
Jennifer Finney Boylan, a New York Times opinion writer who teaches at Barnard College, wrote Wednesday:
I’m sure that conservatives who love this old holiday chestnut will be infuriated by this suggestion. But if you watch the show without understanding that its central conflict is the way people who are different are constantly shunned and humiliated — well, I don’t know what show you’re watching. It’s not Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, I can tell you that, a show in which, at the climax,
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” Representative Karen Bass (D-CA) called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to recuse himself from the Senate’s impeachment trial.
Bass said, “The leader of the Senate has basically said he is in lockstep, and he is going to coordinate with the defendant. And so, if you can imagine going into a courtroom in a trial and the foreman of the jury says, well, I’m working with the person that’s being accused of the crime. And so, it’s completely inappropriate. McConnell should recuse himself. … How can a juror coordinate with the defendant? That is corrupt.”
More than 2,500 dead Americans remain on the voter rolls in Detroit, Michigan, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week.The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a lawsuit in federal court this week against the city of Detroit for allegedly failing to maintain their voter rolls, including keeping more than 2,500 dead Americans aged 85 and older on the rolls. After obtaining voter data from the state of Michigan earlier this year, PILF researchers said they discovered that a number of registered voters had either “impossibly old” or “disqualifying young” date of births. In one case, for example, PILF researchers said they found that a registered voter stated they
More than one million people
sign petition in protest at Netflix
Christmas film depicting Jesus as gay replies
sign petition in protest at Netflix
Christmas film depicting Jesus as gay replies
A Netflix Christmas special that depicts Jesus as a gay man has has offended more than one million Christians. The 46-minute film, The First Temptation of Christ, was released by Netflix in Brazil on December 3, but no sooner had the picture started streaming, controversy had been sparked. The flick is by a Brazil-based YouTube comedy group and shows Jesus as a closeted homosexual on Christmas. So far, more than 1.4 million people have signed an online petition calling on Netflix to remove the piece and take action against the producers for their 'alleged insensitivity toward Christians.'
Melting ice is stressing our planet. Sea levels are shifting. Volcanoes and fault lines are stirring. The Earth’s axis is tipping.
We could be in for a rough ride ahead.
“All over the world, evidence is stacking up that changes in global climate can and do affect the frequencies of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and catastrophic sea-floor landslides. (Snip) With overall temperatures rapidly warming, polar ice sheets are shrinking. Glaciers are melting. Soil moisture is evaporating.
That means a lot of weight is suddenly shifting about our planet’s surface.
In turn, this is causing the Earth’s crust to undergo rapid change. “There is a growing consensus that if climate change continues unchecked,
A wacko hacked into Ring security cameras installed in a Staten Island home to spy on a teenage boy and chat with him, his mom claims. Gina Sgarlato’s 13-year-old son was in the kitchen area of his Sunnyside home Wednesday when he heard a creepy voice coming from one of the security cameras mounted on the wall. “Hello. I see you,” the male voice says, prompting the startled teen to respond, “What?” according to security camera footage obtained by the Staten Island Advance. “How you doing? How’s your day? What’s your name?” the person then asks. The teen gave the fake name
Melania Trump spox says Greta Thunberg
fair game: Barron 'not an activist who
travels the globe' replies
fair game: Barron 'not an activist who
travels the globe' replies
A spokeswoman for Melania Trump on Friday defended President Trump for mocking Greta Thunberg, explaining that the 16-year-old climate activist is a public figure while the president’s 13-year-old son is a private individual who “deserves” to be left out of the public eye.
“Their son is not an activist who travels the globe giving speeches. He is a 13-year-old who wants and deserves privacy,” Stephanie Grisham, who serves as top communication aide for the first lady and the White House, said in a statement, CNN reported.
Mr. Trump sparked a wave of backlash Thursday after he said it was “ridiculous” that Greta was recently named Time magazine’s Person of the Year.
For the first time ever, women make up the majority of U.S. medical school students this year, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Women just barely surpassed the number of men enrolled in medical schools, comprising 50.5% of the student population.
The milestone builds upon earlier turning points for women in 2017 and 2018. In 2017, women accounted for most of first-year students in medical schools. Last year, they made up the majority of medical school applicants. “This is a welcomed milestone,” said Dr. John Prescott, the AAMC’s chief academic officer. “Women have long been the majority of U.S. college graduates
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was brilliant from beginning to end of this latest coup attempt and impeachment sham by radical Democrats from October through December.
Gaetz made it look like child’s play the way he utterly destroyed the pompous Trump-hating elitists who were called in to “testify” their hatred of President Trump. Who will ever forget this tongue-lashing he unloaded on the unhinged and hate-filled Stanford professor who took a jab at President Trump’s 13-year-old son. Pure Brilliance!
Hunter Biden’s wife is pregnant and in her second trimester as her husband is locked in a nasty paternity case with his apparent baby’s mother, according to the Daily Mail. Biden’s wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, was spotted with a baby bump during an errand run around Los Angeles on Thursday, the tabloid said. EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden to be a dad for the FIFTH time! New wife of VP's son seen with a baby bump https://t.co/1MrG4HaGor pic.twitter.com/kKqNycHk1w — Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) December 13, 2019 The news comes as Lunden Roberts, a 28-year-old stripper, is demanding child support for her 16-month-old baby, who was fathered by Biden,
The original requests to declassify the Carter Page FISA application came in January 2018 as a result of the Nunes memo. A classified and heavily redacted version of the application was released July 21st, 2018. A month later, in August 2018, Congress again requested the Trump administration to declassify the document(s). In September 2018 DAG Rod Rosenstein told the President if he followed through with the request Special Counsel Mueller would consider that an obstruction of his investigation: (Tweets)
Parents were shocked when they obtained a video from their son's Illinois school showing him detained inside a window-less, cell-like 'seclusion room' used for timeouts. Staley Sandy-Ester is seen in the April 30 footage at the Gages Lake School, a therapeutic, public school in Lake County. The video triggered a massive state investigation into the controversial practice. The boy appears upset and is prevented from leaving the room by a female school aide. When Staley, who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, kicks the woman,
All seven Democratic presidential candidates who have qualified for next week's primary debate in Los Angeles are now threatening to boycott it over a labor dispute. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a leading canidate, first signaled she wouldn't cross the picket line as workers represented by Unite Here Local 11 planned to protest outside the debate hall Thursday, the day the event's scheduled to take place. Soon the other six candidates followed. The union represents 150 cooks, dishwashers, cashiers, and servers who work on Loyola Marymount University's campus,
In the perpetually fluctuating universe of who lawyers representing Donald Trump, White House counsel Pat Cipollone will argue the president's case during a likely Senate impeachment trial.The situation will put under the lights a former corporate lawyer who banked millions, once worked for Attorney General Bill Barr, and penned a scathing letter refusing to cooperate with the Democratic impeachment inquiry.It is Cipollone who will be arguing during the televised trial, Bloomberg News reported. Opposing him will be Democratic House members
Do Bloomberg supporters even exist?After a video emerged on social media of 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg’s alleged supporters dancing to Maroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger” via the most awkward, corny routine ever, this very question began to drip from the public’s mouth.Well, this question and also whether all this is real life or just a simulation.After watching the clip below, you begin to suspect it’s the latter: (Video) What the h**l was THAT!? Certainly not real life, ama’rite!?The footage above was reportedly recorded at a rally for Bloomberg in Beverly Hills, a community brimming with wealthy Americans who earn $193,000 per year on average.
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether President Donald Trump may resist subpoenas for his accounting and tax records, teeing up a major decision on presidential immunity and Trump’s opaque finances ahead of the 2020 election.In a short afternoon order, the justices agreed to hear three separate cases involving subpoenas for Trump’s records over two hours of argument in March. A decision will follow by June 2020.That timeline heightens the stakes for the president. Should the high court rule against Trump, the contested subpoenas will be enforced in short order. As such, intimate information about the president’s finances
In the fight against climate change, the nation’s freight railroads have painted themselves as heroes. Rail is the “the most environmentally friendly way” to move cargo over land, says the Association of American Railroads, the industry’s trade group. The industry’s four biggest companies agree: “Railroads are essential to moving [climate] objectives forward,” says CSX Transportation, the largest railroad east of the Mississippi. Yet for almost 30 years, the biggest players in the freight-rail industry have waged a campaign to discredit climate science and oppose almost any federal climate policy, reveals new research analyzed by The Atlantic.
The four largest American
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) sent a memorandum Wednesday to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) explaining the legal foundations and reasons for holding up U.S. security assistance to Ukraine over the summer.
(Snip) the memo fills in some of the factual gaps in the account of what happened.
In the memo to GAO, which works for Congress, the OMB begins by explaining that it often holds up funding to federal agencies in the regular course of business under its apportionment authority, often for reasons as mundane as making sure funding is being spent efficiently.
The New York Post named the suspected “whistleblower” — Eric Ciaramella — in a column published by the newspaper’s editorial board and called for the partisan CIA analyst to answer questions about his knowledge regarding allegations of corruptions against former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son, Hunter Biden.
(Snip)op-ed entitled “Here’s the likely whistleblower — and the questions he should answer,” the Post credits journalist Paul Sperry for positing that Ciaramella is the likely “whistleblower” who, relying on second-hand information, accused President Donald Trump of attempting to pressure the leader of Ukraine to probe the Biden family in exchange for U.S. military aid. Both world leaders deny any pressure
Perhaps more than any other journalist, CNN’s Jim Sciutto has championed the Steele dossier, asserting in news articles and on-air segments that the FBI had verified central parts of the salacious document, and that the bureau would have corroborated the information before using it in applications for surveillance warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.Sciutto reported Feb. 10, 2017, that U.S. officials had “corroborated some” parts of the dossier. He insisted Dec. 26, 2017, in a broadcast that the FBI would have corroborated information in the report before using it to spy on Page. Sciutto, a former Obama State Department official,
WaPo Admits: Republicans’ Famous Memo
On FISA Abuse Blasted By Dems Ended
Up Getting It Mostly Right replies
On FISA Abuse Blasted By Dems Ended
Up Getting It Mostly Right replies
Now that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has finally released his much-anticipated report on alleged misconduct by the FBI during the 2016 election, two famous memos — one released by Republican Rep. Devin Nunes while he was House Intelligence Committee chairman, and Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, who has since taken over the position — have come under renewed scrutiny. The memos presented dueling versions of how the FBI began to surveil Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in an effort to investigate alleged “collusion” with Russia. So who had it right? A fact-checker for The Washington Post has been forced to admit that Nunes got a “fair amount” right —
On Friday’s broadcast of ABC’s “The View,” co-host Joy Behar said 2020 presidential candidate and former Vice president Joe Biden needs to “get tough” and address the Hunter Biden Ukraine business ties by attacking President Donald Trump’s nepotism.Behar said, “I think that Biden himself —I really see him as a very viable candidate, Joe Biden still…but I think he needs to go out there and really shame them and play the — not victim card, but the aggrieved father car. He has lost two children, Joe Biden has. He has one son left, and these shameless people are attacking his son. The one boy that he loves
The two anti-Semitic Jersey City shooters who slaughtered three innocent people in a kosher supermarket this week were actually targeting the yeshiva school next door, the city's mayor has claimed. Surveillance footage showed David Anderson appearing to walk to the side of the JC kosher supermarket, as if to go next door into the yeshiva adjacent, then changing his path to enter the store on Tuesday. He was followed by Francine Graham. Both were killed in a shoot-out with police. They were each carrying a gun and had three more in their U-Haul along with a live pipe bomb and more ammunition.