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onto Backstabber Watch March 6, 2021 3:41 PM
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After a mammoth afternoon, evening, and night of Senate clerks being forced to read the entirety of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan—10 hours and 43 minutes—Sen. Ron Johnson got bored with his delaying tactics meant to drag out the process. Philip Bump at the Washington Post did some calculations: "Given the current rate at which people are dying of covid-19, that means that about 880 Americans likely succumbed to the disease during" the reading of the bill forced by Johnson.
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They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon. The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come. Revelation 9:11-12 (ESV)
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Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost on Wednesday did his bit to amplify a conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants legally present in Springfield, Ohio are stealing and eating pets, ducks and geese.
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According to former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, there is still a solid case against Donald Trump to take to trial despite the dismissal of several charges on Thursday.
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A Delaware judge ruled Thursday that a defamation case filed by voting tech firm Smartmatic against the right-wing network Newsmax can proceed to trial at the end of this month, according to a report. The trial is scheduled to begin Sept. 30, CNN reported...
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Donald Trump could rightly be seen as a Russian asset, according to a former FBI director the ex-president fired in his first term.
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New York's highest court rejected Donald Trump's latest appeal of the gag order in his Manhattan criminal trial.
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Republican Voters Against Trump president and longtime GOP pollster Sarah Longwell confessed that a key moment in the Tuesday debate was "stunning."
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House Republicans plowed ahead Tuesday with a short-term government funding package that one leading Democratic lawmaker denounced as "a ploy to force the extreme Project 2025 manifesto agenda on the American people."
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Reporting from Philadelphia where he attended the first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump, MSNBC contributor John Heilemann told the hosts of "Morning Joe" that it was a funereal scene in the so-called "spin room" for Trump advocates trying to dismiss what one Fox News personality called a "trainwreck."
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House Republicans privately know that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) doesn't have the votes to pass his combined voting regulation and shutdown-averting spending package bill, reported NOTUS — and are just bracing for how bad the politics are going to be for them when it fails.
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Failed far-right Nevada candidate Michele Fiore has been accused of defrauding another Republican politician out of money as part of a wire fraud scheme, according to court documents released Monday and reported by the Nevada Independent.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had a big plan to pass a spending bill that included a massive GOP priority: a provision gutting the National Voter Registration Act by requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.
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'God bless you': Marjorie Taylor Greene praises Jan. 6 rioter for 'assaulting' Democracy - Raw Story
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) thanked a Jan. 6 rioter who was found guilty after he was accused of entering the U.S. Capitol through a broken window and drinking whiskey shots in Rep. Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) office.
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MSNBC panelists focused on one particular moment during this week's presidential debate that made Donald Trump an international "laughing stock."
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Former President Donald Trump has gone off the deep end, warned former Tea Party lawmaker turned independent, anti-MAGA critic Rep. Joe Walsh on Friday. "He’s lost his marbles, and he’s cruel. Just plain cruel," wrote Walsh, of Illinois.
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At least 50 U.S. lawmakers or members of their households are financially invested in companies that make military weapons and equipment—even as these firms "receive hundreds of billions of dollars annually from congressionally-crafted Pentagon appropriations legislation," a report published Thursday revealed.
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Former President Donald Trump seems to want the American economy to go downhill ahead of the November election, but even some of his congressional allies aren't on board.
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CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin confronted Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance because some farmers are "worried" about former President Donald Trump's plan to impose broad tariffs on imports.In an interview on Thursday,
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'She's a lunatic!': GOP insiders call for 'wake up moment' as Trump embraces MAGA 'kook' - Raw Story
Laura Loomer, a right-wing activist who has earned the rare distinction of being a MAGA supporter too extreme for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), has increasingly become a member of former President Donald Trump's inner circle. A pair of CNN panelists on Thursday sounded the alarm...
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The Democratic chair of the Senate Finance Committee said during a hearing Wednesday that instead of tossing Social Security's sacred guarantee "in the trash" by cutting benefits, lawmakers should crack down on mega-rich tax dodgers as a way to keep the New Deal program fully solvent for decades to come.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson struggled Tuesday to explain away former President Donald Trump's demand that he shut down the federal government should controversial legislation fail to pass.
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Shares in former President Donald Trump's Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company of his Truth Social network, took a nosedive in early trading on Wednesday, plunging by more than 15 percent shortly after the opening bell on Wall Street. The dive in Truth Social shares came after...
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Rock duo The White Stripes has sued former President Donald Trump for the unauthorized use of its hit song "Seven Nation Army" in a Facebook campaign video, according to a report.
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North Carolina Republican gubernatorial Mark Robinson, journalist Billy Ball writes in a Monday MSNBC op-ed "has built his brand on judging, more than any politician I’ve seen in my two decades covering politics in" the state."
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A former senior Republican congressional advisor is warning about the dangers of Donald Trump's return to the White House.
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A new analysis of the controversial policy platform former President Donald Trump denies supporting, despite contributions from more than 100 of his former staffers, revealed Monday eight significant ways its implementation could upend Americans' lives.
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