Below are some headlines we may have missed. Please feel free to share your finds or talk among yourselves. Sunday’s blog has always consisted of missed headlines and a free chat! Enjoy what’s left of the weekend.
Updates:
Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that … it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 21, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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The Fascist Felon and His Brownshirts:
What a 💩:
GO FUCK YOURSELF, TRUMP!!!
— Lil A 🐴💙 (@lilatheofficial.bsky.social) September 21, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Trump nominates White House aide to be top US prosecutor for office probing Letitia James
President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would be nominating senior White House aide Lindsey Halligan to serve as the top federal prosecutor for the Virginia office that was thrown into turmoil when its U.S. attorney was pushed out Friday.
In a social media post just after he departed the White House for an event at Mount Vernon, Trump wrote he was nominating Halligan as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, writing that she “will be Fair, Smart, and will provide, desperately needed, JUSTICE FOR ALL!”
The announcement came as Trump pressed Attorney General Pam Bondi to move forward with pursuing cases against some of his political opponents, part of a vow for retribution that has been a theme of his return to the White House.
Pudding Time!:
Trump: "I think water fishing, I think almost anything we have to get into a boat right now in that area would not be doing too well."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 21, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Broken Promises:
Meet the Press put together a clip of Trump vowing in January to "bring back free speech to America," followed by him saying last Friday that negative coverage of him is "no longer free speech"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 21, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Cravin Assholes:
Sen. Roger Marshall on what he wants to ask RFK Jr: "How do we build up our own immunity, so when we do get viruses like covid – and we've probably each had had covid 5 or 10 times, we're developing natural immunity – but what can we do to address the chronic disease epidemic?"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 21, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Rand Paul stops short of criticizing Trump's egregious attack on free speech, saying "I can't control everything the president says" and deflecting by bringing up the Twitter Files
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 21, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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WELKER: Do you believe it's appropriate for the president to direct the AG to go after his political opponents? RAND PAUL: I think lawfare in all forms is bad. What they did to Donald Trump … WELKER: Do you disagree with Trump's post? RAND PAUL: I just said — lawfare of all sorts is wrong
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Broken Clock Alert:
WELKER: Do you believe Brendan Carr's comments were appropriate? RAND PAUL: Absolutely inappropriate. Brendan Carr has got no business weighing in on this.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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It’s Because Y’all Suck, Incompetent, and are Destroying Our Country and Democracy:
Mullin: "When 97% of the news stories are negative about him & 99% about Pete Hegseth are negative, it is cheating, bc you're putting out a narrative that isn't true…there's a thin line between free speech & when it crosses a line and causes violence. And when you start calling someone fascist…"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 21, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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BASH: He's asking his AG in a public way to go after his political enemies. You're okay with that? MARKWAYNE MULLIN: What we know is President Trump is very open and transparent with the American people and he speaks his mind. That's what his supporters love about him.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 21, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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State News:
California bans masks meant to hide law enforcement officers’ identities
SACRAMENTO, Calif — California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a law banning law enforcement from wearing masks on duty except for things like riot gear, medical masks and undercover work.
Saying it’s the first bill of its type in the country, Newsom — a Democrat and frequent critic of President Trump — said it was a sign of growing authoritarianism to have detentions in by masked men “hidden from accountability, any transparency, any oversight. That’s Trump’s America.”
He said federal agents had operated for years in the state unmasked and called masking “a new construct conceived to terrorize our diverse communities.”