It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 somewhere this Friday the 13th, and we’re 67 days away from Inauguration Day. Do you have your champagne ready? Unfortunately, we still have 67 days to survive until we can celebrate our freedom MORE
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2020 Elections
Wayne County Michigan Judge Rejects GOP Request for Audit
Wayne County Circuit Judge Timothy Kenny denied Friday a request to stop the canvassing and certification of Wayne County’s election results, noting that Detroit officials “offered a more accurate and persuasive explanation of activity” within MORE
Coronavirus
More Than 130 Secret Service Agents Are Reported Positive or Quarantining
More than 130 Secret Service agents who protect the White House and the president when he travels have recently been ordered to quarantine due to a positive test or close contact to an infected co-worker, MORE
News
Scottish Leader Says She Would Hold Trump Accountable in Turnberry Probe
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, leader of the Scottish government, said that Trump would face “due accountability” if evidence is found linking money laundering or other financial fraud to his Scottish golf resorts. Sturgeon’s comments in MORE
2020 Elections
Stacey Abrams Puts Muscle Into the Georgia Run-Offs
More than a week since the 2020 Presidential election has passed and the Peach State has yet to be called. But Stacey Abrams is reaping praise for what appears to be a Joe Biden victory. MORE
Pandemic Morons
Scott Atlas Calls Dr. Fauci a “Political Animal”
Donald Trump’s chief coronavirus guru Dr. Scott Atlas called Dr. Fauci a political animal on Tuesday in an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham. The host and Atlas accused the nation’s top infectious disease expert MORE
2020 Elections
Trump Campaign Drops Las Vegas Challenge of Ballot Counts
Trump and Nevada Republicans have dropped their challenge to ballot counting in the Las Vegas area. Las Vegas, in Clark County, is a Democratic-leaning county. The case centered around poll watchers. The Nevada Supreme Court MORE
News
Karl Rove Acknowledges The Election Won’t Be Overturned
Karl Rove, Republican strategist, wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that acknowledged there is little likelihood of the election results being overturned, regardless of the number of lawsuits the Trump campaign MORE
2020 Elections
Pence Cancels Florida Vacation
Administration officials reported that VP Mike Pence will be staying in Washington instead of vacationing at Sanibel Island in Florida this week. Pence argued to Senators on Tuesday that they should stick behind Trump’s efforts MORE
News
29 Victims Honored on the 45th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
“The Maritime Sailors’ Cathedral” in Detroit honored 29 men who died 45 years ago today in the shipwreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sank Nov. 10, 1975, during a storm on Lake MORE
2020 Elections
DOJ Election Crimes Prosecutor Resigns
The Justice Department’s top election crimes prosecutor resigned Monday in protest after Attorney General William Barr told federal prosecutors that they should examine allegations of voting irregularities before states move to certify results in the coming weeks. Richard Pilger, MORE
News
Trump Says Mark Esper is Out as Defense Secretary
Soon outgoing president Donald Trump fired the Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on Twitter Monday. Presidents who win reelection often replace Cabinet members, including the secretary of defense, but losing presidents have kept their Pentagon MORE
Pandemic Morons
Dr. Ben Carson and Ukraine President Zelensky Test Positive for COVID-19
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday morning after experiencing symptoms that prompted him to get tested. Carson’s chief of staff said that he is in good MORE
Nutter Watch
Parler Is Top App As Conservatives Flee Facebook and Twitter
Social media platform Parler is being flooded with wingnuts who are looking for a “free speech” right-wing echo chamber. Parler has drawn Trump supporters who have been claiming censorship on Twitter and Facebook for misinformation, MORE
Pandemic Morons
Matt Gaetz Tests Positive For Coronavirus/Antibodies
Another Florida Man high-profile Congressman has tested positive for coronavirus. Matt Gaetz told several people on Capitol Hill and in the White House that he had contracted the coronavirus. Gaetz mocked mask-wearing back in March MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
The clock does say 5:00 here, but let’s talk about time for a few minutes. (See what I did there?) We follow time with clocks, calendars and moons, and still a true concept of time MORE
2020 Elections
House Democrats Infighting and Pointing Fingers
Centrist House Democrats got vocal with their more liberal counterparts on Thursday in a private conference call discussing their outcome in the 2020 election. There was a bitter exchange that lasted more than three hours MORE
Environment
The US Is Now Officially Out of the Paris Climate Agreement
The U.S. became the first country to exit the Paris Climate Agreement on Wednesday, an agreement aimed at protecting the planet from the worsening climate crisis. If Joe Biden becomes president, the U.S. could quickly MORE
Updates
US Postal Service Blows Off the Sweep for 300,000 Missing Ballots
U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington on Tuesday morning ordered the US Postal Service to sweep their facilities in a dozen districts for missing ballots unaccounted for. The USPS admitted their delivery performance had dropped MORE
2020 Elections
Here’s When to Expect Election Results in 6 Key States
In six particular states the margin of victory is expected to be slim, so it may be difficult to declare a winner until the final votes are tallied. The following states account for 101 of MORE
Hate Watch
Jewish Cemetery Vandalized With Pro-Trump Spray Paint
Just hours before Trump was delivering his final superspreader campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a Jewish cemetery in the city was being vandalized with red spray paint reading “TRUMP” and “MAGA” on several headstones. MORE
Newscasts
News Views Breakfast of Champions: What If a U.S. President Refuses to Concede After an Election?
Lawyer and political commentator Van Jones exposes alarming loopholes in the process that would enable a dictator-wannabe to grab power even if losing the popular vote and the electoral college — and what citizens can MORE
Civil Rights
Supreme Court Hands Down Rare Ruling Against Law Enforcement Officials
The Supreme Court on Monday overturned a lower court’s decision that protected corrections officers who allegedly kept an inmate housed in “shockingly unsanitary cells” for six days. The decision is a rare rebuke to law MORE
2020 Elections
Ballot Processing Center in Detroit Removes Two Poll Challengers
As ballot processing began in Michigan today, police removed two poll challengers from the convention center, one who was wearing a horror-movie mask, acted strangely and began shouting that the process was “crooked.” The man MORE
2020 Elections
The Stock Market Has Made Its Prediction of the Election
Wall Street has a fairly reliable track record of predicting who wins presidential elections. Since World War II, when the S&P 500 fell in the three months leading up to the November vote during a MORE