Tom Cotton lied about being an Army Ranger because he thought it would make him look honorable. He voted against healthcare for veterans suffering from the toxic effects of burn pits and he sits on the Armed Services Committee.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tom-cotton-army-ranger-school-1118418/

So just to sum up: the Secret Service deleted all their texts from J6; VP Pence was afraid to get in a car with them; they knew Pelosi (3rd in line) was a target but didn’t tell her; and their IG is refusing to cooperate with the investigation.

Yeah, nothing to see here at all.

In a wholly predictable but presumably unexpected result, a school district in Texas has banned all copies of the Bible as well as 40 other books from its school libraries, because one person or another "challenged" them and distinguishing between reasonable and unreasonable challenges turned out to be too controversial.

I can make it really easy for them: they're *all* unreasonable.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/us/texas-school-books-removed-bible.html

RT @BlairConnelly: @duty2warn So just to sum up: the Secret Service deleted all their texts from J6; VP Pence was afraid to get in a car with them; they knew Pelosi (3rd in line) was a target but didn’t tell her; and their IG is refusing to cooperate with the investigation.

Yeah, nothing to see here at all. https://twitter.com/claystorm/status/1560113315749191681

Two Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than $200 million to the victims of their crimes.

https://apnews.com/article/crime-trending-news-government-and-politics-6f30f575dc739415af1e5b47b1be50f0

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this chart is coprologically accurate.

#GQP

Video Shows Dr. Oz Saying He Has Two Houses. He Has 10.
MONOPOLY MONEY

It’s a simple question for most people: How many houses do you own? But apparently, it’s not so simple for Dr. Oz.

***Liar Liar pants on fire ???***

https://www.thedailybeast.com/video-shows-dr-oz-saying-he-has-two-houses-he-actually-has-10

Emails show Secret Service was warned about Jan. 6 threat to Pence — but failed to act

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/the-secret-service-knew-about-jan-6-threat-they-dismissed-it/

#politics

Lol

Trump's Truth Social will hand over account info to the FBI as its users level threats at the agency https://www.rawstory.com/truth-social-app/

A lot of y’all still not getting that fascists are utterly unconcerned with being called out for hypocrisy. Depending on the person it either doesn’t phase them at all, or it amuses them that you are wasting your time and effort pointing it out. They think it’s funny that you think it matters.

ffs don’t make me break out the Bertolt Brecht so help me...

So just to recap, The GOP :

Are trying to cover for a traitor.

Are on The NRA and Putin's payroll.

Are forcing rape victims to give birth.

Are throwing anybody who doesn't bow down to The Orange Asshole under the bus.

Are trying to make voting obsolete so they can stay in power forever.

Seriously, fuck everyone who still supports these fascist assholes.

Listened to the Terry Gross interview with Adam Schiff. He had interesting things to say about how many Republicans he knows know that TFG is dishonest. That doesn't excuse them. They are cowards and continue to put our country in danger using him to merely get elected.

So it turns out the email lady's calling them deplorables was being generous.

Trump is rushing to hire seasoned lawyers — but he keeps hearing ‘No’
The former president’s current legal team includes a Florida insurance lawyer who’s never had a federal case, a past general counsel for a parking-garage company and a former host at far-right One America News

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/16/trump-lawyers-fbi-raid/

any conversation suggesting appeasement for trump and his supporters to affect some sort of calming should be met with extreme ridicule.

fuck the optics, fuck the politics, fuck the army of angry cultists.

what is allowed will persist. letting these goons off the hook only enables them.

Dr Oz is a comically bad candidate. Here's Lynda Carter dunking on him for your enjoyment.

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Betty Bowers wrote:

Pop Quiz for "Christian Nationalists"

Q: Name something (other than abortion & homosexuality) that Jesus never mentions.
A: The United States

Q: Name something (other than bullets) the United States Constitution never mentions.
A: Jesus

#MAGA #bigotry #nationalism #originalism

https://youtu.be/PPFHMQ7L_Ks

How CoSo has evolved through out the the years from a few "novelty" features to full blown fully functional site with loads to do

It's friggin awesome to wat watch and be part of off ✌️✌️👍👍 watching this site evolve with community input is just outstanding imo

Keep it up J

Xiomara Mercedes Hernández

Read this important article that my husband, Raphael E. Rogers, wrote regarding how politicians are attempting to control how teachers discuss race/slavery in the classroom

Politicians seek to control classroom discussions about slavery in the US

https://theconversation.com/politicians-seek-to-control-classroom-discussions-about-slavery-in-the-us-187057