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Evangelical: Thanks to God, My Backed-Up Toilet “Flushed PERFECT”
Last night, I’m ready to go to bed, and I look at the toilet, and I forgot to flush it,” he said. “And so I flushed it again, and then it totally backs up. I MORE
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Some U.S. churches plan to have Easter services, ignoring public health guidelines
(Reuters) – A handful of holdout U.S. churches plan to hold in-person services on Easter Sunday, saying their right to worship in person outweighs public health officials’ warnings against holding large gatherings during the coronavirus MORE
Coronavirus
Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, Religious-Right Broadcasters Worry About Free Porn
LE††UCE PREY Adult entertainment site Pornhub has offered free premium memberships in response to the coronavirus pandemic. A blog post on the company’s website states: “[W]e’ve decided to play our part in encouraging everyone to stay home MORE
Coronavirus
Iowa woman drives to police station to have meth tested for coronavirus
Woodbury County cops said Shawn Salmen wandered into a police station over the weekend “showing signs of impatience such as erratic behavior, emotional, paranoid and profuse sweating” and confessed she’s smoked methamphetamine. The covidiot then MORE
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CDC removes unusual guidance to doctors about drug favored by Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has removed from its website highly unusual guidance informing doctors on how to prescribe hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, drugs recommended by President Donald Trump to MORE
Nutter Watch
Malheur Militia’s Ammon Bundy Defies COVID-19 Social Distancing Orders
NU††ER WA†CH Plans to Gather 1,000 people on Easter Ammon Bundy was one of the leaders of the occupation of the Oregon Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016. Bundy told The New York Times his MORE
Hate Crime
Teenage girls charged with hate crime after attacking a woman in NY and blaming her for COVID-19
(CNN)Teen girls were charged with hate crimes after police said they attacked a woman on a New York bus, made “anti-Asian statements” toward her and told her she caused coronavirus. Police said the four suspects attacked the 51-year-old victim on MORE
Wingnut Watch
A deeper look at the Christian right’s dangerous response to Covid-19
Howard-Browne is just one of the most prominent religious leaders on the Christian right who are endangering their flocks and the rest of America by claiming the virus is a hoax. MORE
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‘Christian’ Radio Host Gets 25 Years in Prison for Bilking Old Folks Out of Millions
DALLAS — A Texas radio host and financial consultant who admitted to conning elderly listeners out of millions of dollars in a Ponzi scheme was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Gallagher targeted older, Christian MORE
Coronavirus
GOP Georgia Governor Says He Didn’t Know People Without Symptoms Can Spread Coronavirus!
The Stupidest Governor in the Country? The (R) Governor of Georgia Brian Kemp, the state where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is headquartered — said Wednesday he had only just learned that the coronavirus MORE
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Medical supplies seized from alleged price gouger to be distributed to hospitals
Hundreds of thousands of masks and other pieces of medical equipment seized from a Brooklyn man will be distributed to medical workers on the front lines treating novel coronavirus patients in New York and New Jersey, the Justice Department and Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday. MORE
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How Congress intends to keep an eye on where the 2 trillion is going
When Congress doles out massive amounts of taxpayer money at breakneck speed, safeguards against abuse, waste and graft aren’t always airtight. MORE
Nutter Watch
Sacramento health alert: One-third of county’s coronavirus cases are connected to churches
LE††UCE PREY Nearly a third of Sacramento County’s coronavirus cases are connected to churches, officials said Wednesday, a discovery this week that has prompted alarmed county officials to issue a special plea for congregations to MORE
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Prosecutors: Engineer deliberately ran train off tracks in attempt to smash the USNS Mercy hospital ship
SAN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — An engineer deliberately ran a train off the tracks at high speed near the Port of Los Angeles in an attempt to crash into and damage the USNS Mercy MORE
Wingnut Watch
WH Press Secretary invites OAN Wing Nut to the press briefings; booted for violating social distancing order
All members of the press must take a seat several feet away from one another in order to attend The Trump Show the White House daily press briefings on the deadly Coronvirus. On Tuesday, White MORE
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Truck hauling toilet paper catches fire on Texas interstate
HUTCHINS, Texas (AP) — A tractor-trailer hauling toilet paper crashed and caught fire near Dallas early Wednesday, spilling the hot commodity all over an interstate, officials said. MORE
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Convicted swindler asks judge for home confinement; claims he is vulnerable to COVID-19
Convicted of defrauding his employer of millions, a former United Way vice president has asked a federal judge to let him out of jail because his compromised immune system makes him vulnerable to COVID-19. District MORE
Wingnut Watch
My Pillow Guy: ‘God gave us grace on Nov. 8th 2016. Read your Bibles!’
Trump invited Mike Lindell to speak in the Rose Garden during a news briefing about the White House’s coronavirus response. Lindell outlined what his company is doing to try to assist businesses as they face material shortages MORE
Daily Shootings
Pennsylvania man asked to cover his coughing pulls out gun instead
Report: Man ‘coughing and not covering’ led to shots fired at Johnstown Sheetz Source: Police say officers were called to the Sheetz on Broad Street last Saturday for reports of shots fired into an MORE
Nutter Watch
Megachurch Florida Pastor Arrested for Defying Coronavirus Order
LE††UCE PREY Rodney Howard-Brown of The River at Tampa Bay “Showed reckless disregard for human life and put hundreds of people from his congregation at risk.” On Monday, Florida sheriff’s deputies arrested the evangelical pastor, MORE
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Billy Graham’s Daughter: The Silver Lining In The Virus Is It Will “Turn People From Secularism” And Back To God!
LE††UCE PREY Billy Graham’s daughter, Anne Graham Lotz asked: “…could it be that God is using the coronavirus to get our attention so that we will listen to His message?” she writes, adding, “It’s time MORE
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NUTTER WATCH: Florida pastor says he’ll keep church open during coronavirus outbreak!
Claims to have most sterile building in America! “The Lord has helped us to secure our congregation,” says Howard-Browne, head pastor at the River Tampa Bay Church. “We brought in 13 machines that basically kill MORE
News
OHIO: Trump calls on GM to start making ventilators at Lordstown plant they sold last year!
“General Motors MUST immediately open their stupidly abandoned Lordstown plant in Ohio, or some other plant, and START MAKING VENTILATORS, NOW!!! FORD, GET GOING ON VENTILATORS FAST!” he tweeted. General Motors MUST immediately open their MORE
Hate Crime
White Nationalist Scumbag Planned to Blow Up Hospital to Protest C19 Lockdown, Dies in FBI Shootout
Man Suspected of Planning Attack on Missouri Hospital Is Killed, Officials Say https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/us/politics/coronavirus-fbi-shooting.html A man suspected of planning to attack a Missouri hospital was killed during a shootout with F.B.I. agents, the authorities said on MORE
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A Different Kind of Storm: New Orleans Facing Deadly Virus Outbreak
NEW ORLEANS — Yanti Turang, an emergency room nurse at a New Orleans hospital, walked out into the parking lot in full protective gear early this month to meet a woman with flulike symptoms who MORE