The Lounge
Free Chat: Monday Moanin’
Good Monday Moanin’ NewsViewers, and welcome to another week of “living the dream” in our pandemic world. Part of a busy weekend meant having to run a few errands to the local hardware store and MORE
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Post Trump
‘Convicts For Trump’ Feature at Rally in Florida
‘Start of an awakening process.’ Former Gen. Mike Flynn headlines Bradenton rally More than a 1,000 people gathered early Saturday in the Desoto Square mall parking lot in Bradenton, Florida, well before former National Security MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
On April 23, 1971 — yes, 50 years ago today — the world received an interesting gift of music and art with the release of Sticky Fingers by the Rolling Stones. My BFF and I MORE
Police Behaving Badly
Black 66-year-old Librarian Victim of Excessive Force in North Carolina
In 2019, Stephanie Bottom, a 66-year-old grandmother and Atlanta librarian, was driving to a family funeral in North Carolina when she was a victim of excessive force during a traffic stop. Bottom was pulled over MORE
Hate Watch
George Floyd Mural in Houston Defaced
A racial slur was spray painted across the face of George Floyd on a mural in Houston on Thursday. Someone wrote the words “N***** Lives Don’t Matter.” The mural is located near the Third Ward MORE
Updates
Ted Nugent Performed in a Florida Grocery Store a Week Before Testing Positive for COVID-19
On Monday April 19, COVID-denier Ted Nugent announced to the world that he had flu symptoms for 10 days and thought he was dying. It turns out that Ted was performing in a grocery store MORE
Debate
Marjorie Taylor Greene Wants to Debate AOC After She Reads the Green New Deal
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been gunning to debate Alexandrai Ocasio-Cortez on the Green New Deal, and said she was glad she ran into AOC on the House floor to talk about it. Ocasio-Cortez has not MORE
Biden Administration
USPS Board Nominee Hearings Today, But DeJoy Not Likely to be Ousted
Critics of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy were hoping that today would be the beginning of the end for the Trump appointed postal service devil, as Senate confirmation hearings for three potential board members begin. But MORE
Politics
GOP Group Spotlights Kevin McCarthy’s Hypocrisy in New Ad
A conservative group is calling out House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy for hypocrisy after he led an attempt to censure Rep Maxine Waters earlier this week. McCarthy accused Waters of “violent rhetoric” when she told MORE
US
Virginia Police Officer Fired For Contributing to Rittenhouse Defense Fund
A police officer in Norfolk, Virginia, has been fired after he expressed support for Kyle Rittenhouse and made an anonymous $25 donation to his defense fund. The officer’s message at the time read, in part: MORE
News
What To Know About the Guilty Verdicts and Upcoming Sentencing of Chauvin
Derek Chauvin woke up this morning serving his first full day in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Perry Floyd. Chauvin was placed in MORE
US
Columbus Police Release Body Cam Footage of Shooting of 16-year-old Girl
Only minutes before the verdict in Minneapolis of the Derek Chauvin trial was read, police in Columbus, Ohio, responded to an incident that led to the fatal shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, a 16-year-old girl. Police MORE
Updates
Chauvin’s Trial Judge Suggests Maxine’s Comments May Give Defense Grounds for Appeal
Judge Peter Cahill, presiding over the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, rejected a defense request for a mistrial based in part on the remarks of California Rep Maxine Waters. “Congresswoman Waters may have given you MORE
Pandemic Morons
Ted Nugent Officially Tests Positive for COVID-19
Everybody told him that he shouldn’t announce this, but he couldn’t help himself, so he took to Facebook in a video. “I was officially tested positive for COVID-19 today,” Nugent declared, also referring to the MORE
The Lounge
Free Chat: Monday Moanin’
News Views has tried to provide a free chat outlet for Mondays, and apologies for the late entry……….but here’s a spot to exercise your First Amendment freedumbs. Whether you want to talk about the weather, MORE
The Press
CNN Producer Arrested While Covering Minnesota Protests: “Do You Speak English?”
Carolyn Sung, a CNN producer, was among the media covering protests in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, last week following the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright. Sung was trying to leave the area in compliance with a MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
Some new music has been slowly dribbling out this spring, which has me looking around more on Spotify — browsing for release dates and some promising, hopeful additions to approaching patio evenings with a bluetooth MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 15
Happy Friday, Viewers of News, and welcome to week 15 of 2021, another Friday of opening up your morning news for a glimpse of what occurred overnight. Let me just say, after seeing more of MORE
News
DeSantis Wants Voters’ Signatures to Match, But His Did Not
Handwriting experts say no two signatures from one person are the same. It’s why Florida election officials for years have used all the signatures at their disposal — sometimes more than a dozen — when MORE
News
Chauvin Defense Expert Currently Being Sued In a Similar Case
Dr. David Fowler, a forensic pathologist who took the stand for the defense of Derek Chauvin, is being sued by the family of another Black man who died while being subdued by police. Dr. Fowler MORE
Congress
Democrats Introducing Legislation Today to Expand Supreme Court
Democrats are introducing legislation today to expand the Supreme Court from nine to 13 members. The bill is led by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) as progressive groups are looking to MORE
Updates
Enter at your own risk: More GaetzGate Details
Two women who chose to remain anonymous revealed some more details of what parties with Matt Gaetz were like. Gaetz, the brash Republican, liked to discuss politics, said one of the women. He behaved like MORE
Live Discussions
Watch Live: President Biden on Afghanistan
Join us for a live discussion as President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the way forward in Afghanistan. The livestream is scheduled for 2:15pmEastern from the White House. MORE
Breaking News
Brooklyn Center Officer to be Charged With Second Degree Manslaughter After “Confusing” Her Glock with a Taser
The former Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright in a traffic stop will be charged with second degree manslaughter, according to a prosecutor from Washington County. The complaint was still being processed when MORE
Politics
Moderate Republicans Frustrated With Biden Negotiations
Staffers of a group of moderate Republicans known as the G-10 have been expressing how frustrated the group has been with the White House’s successful legislative push without bipartisan input. The ten Republican senators say MORE