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Last Call: 06/12/21
Better late than never, we’ve had a very busy day. What my husband thought would be an easy job installing something for my mom turned into an all day project. So, pour yourself a beverage MORE
Year: 2021
Congress
House Ends Mask Mandate for Vaccinated Lawmakers
Lawmakers in the House of Representatives who are fully vaccinated are no longer required to wear face masks or socially distance themselves from others while on the chamber floor or in committee hearings. The announcement MORE
Gun Violence
The Pulse Nightclub Shooting was 5 Years Ago Today; Survivors, Families Remember
The 49 victims who were massacred at a gay nightclub shooting in Florida are being honored this week with a community run, a museum exhibit, a mass yoga session, a gay chorus performance and a MORE
Gun Violence
Another mass shooting in the US of A: Austin, TX
Early Saturday morning, at least thirteen people were injured, two in critical condition, by a gunman who opened fire in the downtown area of Austin, Texas. So far, no one has died from this senseless MORE
Updates
YouTube suspends GOP Sen. Ron Johnson’s account, says he violated Covid-19 policy
YouTube suspended Sen. Ron Johnson’s account on Friday after the Wisconsin Republican posted his recent remarks about alternative therapies to treat Covid-19. “We removed the video in accordance with our COVID-19 medical misinformation policies, which don’t MORE
News
Four People Were Rescued Out of a Boat Hanging Over a Dam in a Texas Reservoir
Austin-Travis County EMS wrote on Twitter at about 2:30 p.m. that crews were responding to a dam in the Colorado River near Lady Bird Lake after multiple people called 911 reporting a boat “up against MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
So this week I started planning (for real this time) a road trip for next month. Each summer we look forward to packing up the summer car and heading Up North — more a state MORE
Food
Humpback Whale Catches Lobster Diver in Its Mouth, Sending Him to Hospital
Lobster divers literally pluck lobsters off the sandy bottom, and as he dove down, he saw schools of sand lances and stripers swimming by. The ocean food chain was in full evidence, but about 35 MORE
Business
Trump Casino Dream Dashed in Florida as Doral Votes to Ban Gambling
The Doral city council voted 4-0 on Wednesday to ban gambling and casinos from the city unless they were approved by the city’s residents in a referendum, the Miami Herald reported. The move comes after MORE
News
Governor Abbott says Texas will build a bigly wall on the southern border
On Thursday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that Texas will begin building a wall along the southern border, of course he offered no details on costs or the location of his bigly wall. “I will MORE
Pandemic Morons
Oregon State Republican Expelled For Facilitating Capitol Breach
The Oregon House ejected a sitting representative for the first time in history because he allowed far-right protesters into the closed Oregon Capitol during a legislative session on December 21, 2020. The vote was 59-1 MORE
News
The Former Guy’s DoJ seized records from Apple for metadata of House Intelligence Committee members and others
From the New York Times: As the Justice Department investigated who was behind leaks of classified information early in the Trump administration, it took a highly unusual step: Prosecutors subpoenaed Apple for data from the MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 21
Happy Friday News Viewers, already mid-June, and hot hot hot — and in this neck of the woods, humid, sticky.. . .Back in the day, we would have gone swimming in weather like this, but MORE
In case you missed it:
Liveblog - In case you missed it: Headlines 06/10/21
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Religion
Anti-Vaxxer Pastor Rick Wiles Blames Chinese Agents for His COVID-19 Infection !
Says China is exterminating American population ! NU††ER WA†CH After a bout with COVID-19, Rick Wiles returned to his “TruNews” program Wednesday. True to form, Wiles, who has spent the last year spreading baseless conspiracy theories MORE
World
Kim Jong-un: apparent weight loss prompts speculation over North Korean leader’s health
The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has prompted more speculation about his health after recent photographs suggested he had lost weight. Kim, whose heavy frame has drawn global interest since he became the country’s leader almost MORE
Wingnut Watch
Bob Ritchie Will Have a Talk with Kid Rock About His Homophobic Slurs
Kid Rock behaved like an idiot a few days ago onstage in Tennessee when he got angry at people recording him with their cell phones at Fishlipz Bar & Grill in Smithville. After noticing some MORE
Ohio's Finest
The Hits Just Keep on Coming at Ohio’s Lordstown Motors
Report: Lordstown Motors May Not Survive “Those jobs have left Ohio. They’re all coming back. … Don’t move. Don’t sell your house,” – Trump at a 2017 Youngstown rally. “Lordstown” Motor Corp (LMC) purchased the MORE
Ohio's Finest
Ohio Sisters Accused of Shooting Homeless With BB Gun Turn Themselves In
CINCINNATI — Sisters Brittany and Kelsey Hopper turned themselves in to police Tuesday after being accused of driving around Over-the-Rhine last week and shooting at homeless people with a BB gun, hitting some while they MORE
Congress
Ilhan Omar at the Center of Controversy Surrounding Her Comments
A group of Jewish Democrats in the House are chastising Rep. Ilhan Omar by name after she made comments on Monday they say placed the U.S. and Israel in the same category as Hamas and MORE
Business
Consumer Price Index shows Rising Prices and Slowed Supply Chains
Inflation soared 5 percent in May, the fastest year-on-year pace since 2008, as surging demand from the reopening economy met supply chains choked with shortages. Rising prices in the heating, yet fragile, economy are continuing MORE
Congress
The House Judiciary Committee releases transcript of former White House Counsel Don McGahn’s testimony
In a closed-door interview on June 4 with the House Judiciary Committee, former White House counsel Donald McGahn confirmed to lawmakers that the Former Guy ‘urged him to oust special counsel Robert Mueller, who investigated his 2016 MORE
In case you missed it:
Liveblog - In case you missed it: Headlines 06/09/21
With so many crazy things happening, sometimes things fall through the cracks. Here are some headlines that you may find interesting and worth discussing. Please feel free to post ‘headlines’ you would like to share MORE
WTF America?
Louie Gohmert Asks if Earth and the Moon’s Orbit Can Be Changed to Fight Climate Change
Texas Rep Louie Gohmert wants to know if the Earth’s orbit around the sun could be altered to fix climate change. The question was posed during a House Natural Resources meeting on Tuesday to Jennifer MORE
Economy
Secret IRS Files Reveal How Little the Wealthiest Pay in Taxes
ProPublica, a non-profit newsroom that investigates abuses of power, released a report of IRS information that shows how little some of the wealthiest Americans pay in income taxes — sometimes even nothing. ProPublica obtained a MORE