Kate Gallego Comments on the U.N. Climate Report and Her Participation in Conferences to Combat Rising Temperatures and Water Shortages
March 28, 2023
Last week, the United Nations (U.N.) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report that shows that humanity’s efforts to decrease rising temperatures by reducing the global dependency on fossil fuels (oil and coal) are mixed at best. While progress has been made with investments in clean energy sources like solar and wind, industrial interests
Study: The Public Does Not Support The GQP White Christian Nationalist Anti-LGBTQ Agenda
March 28, 2023
Amanda Marcotte writes at Salon, The GOP is becoming more unhinged about LGBTQ people — which will only make them more unpopular (excerpt): [I]nitially, the post-Trump era of anti-LGBTQ activism began under the pretext of “protecting children.” Groups like the Proud Boys would organize protests of family-friendly drag events, baselessly arguing that people in silly
Federal Judge Rules That Sanctimonious Mike Pence Must Testify To Special Counsel’s Criminal Grand Jury
March 28, 2023
Update to Sanctimonious Mike Pence Makes Specious Arguments To Avoid Testifying To The Special Counsel’s Criminal Grand Jury. CNN reports, Mike Pence must testify about conversations he had with Donald Trump leading up to January 6, judge rules: A federal judge has decided that former Vice President Mike Pence must testify to a grand jury
The QAnon Witch’s List Of Books To Ban (Satire)
March 28, 2023
Above: h/t to Kenny Jacobs. Tucson treasure David Fitzsimmons (miss your toons, man) did some research into the book banning QAnon Witch and came up with Arizona Senator Justine Wadsack’s Banned Book List. (Note that Fitz is a humorist and satirist): Here are the top 20 books Wadsack is hoping to ban, along with the
A Rise In Christian Nationalist Violence Is Being Fueled By a Permission Structure From MAGA Republican Politicians
March 27, 2023
Nilay Saiya writes at Religion Dispatches, Should We Expect To See A Rise In Christian Nationalist Violence In The US?: Troubling new details regarding the violent propensity of Christian nationalism have been revealed by a new survey on American Christian nationalism released last month. According to the PRRI/Brookings Institution data, adherents of Christian nationalism are
Not Just Stormy Daniels – ‘Catch-And-Kill’ Payoff To Karen McDougal Is Part Of Grand Jury Testimony
March 27, 2023
So unindicted co-conspirator “Individual-1” falsely Claimed Without Evidence That Manhattan District Attorney ‘Already Dropped’ the Stormy Daniels Case at his lie-laden Waco rally on Saturday. The New York Post reports today, Ex-National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testifies before grand jury in Trump ‘hush money’ case: The former publisher of the National Enquirer testified Monday before
CBS News: Special Counsel Is Building A Conspiracy Case Against Coup Plotter Co-Conspirators
March 27, 2023
The MAGA congressional Coup Plotter co-conspirators: 11 House Republicans attended a White House meeting with Trump to strategize about overturning the election results on January 6. Six of them later asked for pardons.: The House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, offered new details on Tuesday about a meeting at the White House that involved
MAGA Republican Hostage Takers Promise To Kill The Hostage If Their Extortion Demands Are Not Met
March 27, 2023
Dana Milbank writes at the Washington Post: Speaker McCarthy defaults — on his promises The IOUs Kevin McCarthy gave out to win the speakership are now coming due — and it appears the poor guy is going to default. The California Republican promised right-wing holdouts that he would deliver a budget that balances within 10
