Apr 22, 2022

Establishment Democrats are rethinking how to approach culture war issues against Republicans after Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow gave an impassioned speech destructing her opponent’s slanderous culture war attack.
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The Young Turks: April 22, 2022

Leaked audio has caught House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in a lie regarding his claim that he was going to call Trump and advise him to resign from the presidency before the impeachment hearings took place in 2020. McCarthy previously denied the report that he told other lawmakers he would make the call but the leaked audio says otherwise.
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Two of Steve Bannon’s associates have plead guilty to defrauding donors of the “We Build The Wall” project, a private fundraising effort to help build Trump’s border wall. While Bannon was pardoned by Trump for his crimes, Andrew Badolato and Brian Kolfage weren’t lucky enough to get the same treatment for illegally defrauding donors of around $25 million for the project.
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Establishment Democrats are rethinking how to approach culture war issues against Republicans after Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow gave an impassioned speech destructing her opponent’s slanderous culture war attack.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene testified in an Atlanta court in defense of her comments promoting the January 6th insurrection in the days leading up to the riots as voters have petitioned to remove her from future ballots for reelection. Greene repeatedly said that her violently charged rhetoric was not a call to action for Trump supporters, but rather a call to look into baseless claims of election and voter fraud.
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Texas mother Melissa Lucio is set to be executed by the state for allegedly killing her two-year-old child in 2007 despite mountains of evidence that suggest otherwise.
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Florida’s Republican-controlled legislature has passed Ron DeSantis’s incredibly gerrymandered congressional voting map to the dismay of Democratic lawmakers and voters across the state. The map will reportedly eliminate districts from Democratic lawmakers while packing Black voters into just one district in St. Petersburg and Tampa.
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A couple of leaked photos acquired by Politico show Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn partying wearing a set of women’s lingerie. Maybe his orgy claims have some merit...
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During a recent speech given to the Heritage Foundation in Florida, Donald Trump daydreamed about being a wannabe dictator and how he damaged the country’s international reputation by extorting NATO nations for trade funds. He then went on to tout the development of the coronavirus vaccine but had to tread lightly due to his anti-vaxxer voter base.
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After the story of the Ukrainian soldiers held up on Snake Island went viral after they told the Russian Moskva warship to go f*** itself, the Ukrainian postal service capitalizes on the opportunity and minted a stamp with the phrase and a painting of the altercation voted on by social media users. Now, the stamps are fetching over $30 per stamp and over $400 per 16-piece set.
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