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Rebekah Sager

Stunning images captured of GOP lawmakers scrambling during House speaker vote

As fun as it’s been to watch Rep. Kevin McCarthy lose again and again and again, it’s been even more fun to see some of the photos captured on the floor of Congress: Republicans scrambling and kowtowing while Democrats smile slyly, for example, or New York Republican Rep. George Santos slithering around on the periphery, hoping to find a place to fit in.

This week has been a doozy; with 13 votes and counting, McCarthy has consistently come up short.

Six years of Trump’s taxes were released to the public Friday

UPDATE: Friday, Dec 30, 2022 · 8:58:15 PM +00:00

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CNN reports that the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) found that Trump claimed a few sizable items on his returns, including interest he allegedly received on loans to his children, possibly as a way of disguising gifts.

Primate expert Jane Goodall’s description of Trump is perfectly accurate and hilarious

Renowned primatologist and environmental activist Jane Goodall minced no words in a recent interview in which she was asked to describe former President Donald Trump.  

Goodall, 88, appeared on MSNBC’s latest installment of The Summit Series Tuesday with host Ari Melber, a show that features leaders at the summit of their fields. During the nearly 40-minute-long interview, Melber pivoted to the topic of politics.

DeSantis doubles down on misinformation campaign, vows to impanel grand jury on COVID-19 vaccine

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is pulling out all the stops to attract COVID conspiracy voters in his quest for the 2024 Republican crown. This weekend, he started laying the groundwork by indicting the COVID-19 vaccine, citing an unfounded conspiracy about the vaccine’s side effects.

Speaking at a private event, DeSantis announced his administration intends to impanel a statewide grand jury to “investigate any and all wrongdoing” by the makers of the mRNA vaccine.

Fox News’ criticism of Brittney Griner’s release is really just a hateful reaction to Black joy

It didn’t take long for Fox News and Republicans to try to erase President Joe Biden’s success in securing the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner. The right-wing machine has spent nearly every moment since the announcement trash-talking Griner—who they claim “hates America”—and Biden, who they blame for the continued Russian incarceration of former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan.

Alito interrupts Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to crack ‘joke’ about Black kids in KKK costumes

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case that uses “free speech” and personal religious beliefs as justifications to discriminate against LGBTQ Americans. Justice Samuel Alito clearly didn’t take the case seriously as he was overheard making a nonsensical joke about Black children in KKK costumes as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson attempted to clarify a hypothetical.  

The case is titled 303 Creative LLC  v.

AIDS activist Cleve Jones honored with Lifetime of Commitment Award on World AIDS Day

*Daily Kos is re-running the below story in honor of Cleve Jones, AIDS activist and founder of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, who was awarded a Lifetime of Commitment Award received on World AIDS Day, Dec. 1, 2022. 

The National AIDS Memorial marked the annual day of hope, healing, and remembrance, with observances at the 10-acre Memorial Grove and displaying the Quilt in nearly 100 communities throughout the U.S.

While turnout in Georgia Senate runoff is at a record high, brutal Warnock ad eviscerates Walker

Georgians are turning out early for the state’s Senate runoff election between Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock and his opponent, the professional bumbler and Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker.

According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC), more than 70,000 people voted on Saturday and another 87,000 people cast their votes on Sunday—including Sen. Warnock himself.

John Oliver hilariously rips Elon Musk as advertisers continue to pull out of Twitter

John Oliver ripped Musk’s recent $44 billion purchase of Twitter, opening his Sunday night segment of Last Week Tonight with, “It has now been three weeks since it was taken over by Elon Musk, a man who answers the question, ‘What if Willy Wonka benefited from apartheid?’”

Oliver began by slamming Musk’s initial entrance into the company headquarters when the Tesla CEO walked in carrying a sink, and then tweeted, “Let that sink in.

AOC skillfully corrects Chris Wallace on who’s ‘extreme,’ citing Marjorie Taylor Greene, GOP

When it comes to defining extremist views, somehow, the Republican Party can’t bring itself to consider that the demon is actually inside its own house.

In a recent appearance on Chris Wallace’s series Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace on HBO Max, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) took no time to push back when Wallace asked if she would concede that “people want both parties to move from the fringes, from the extremes back to the center.

Ron DeSantis and his voter investigation unit are having a chilling effect on Black voters

When Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill in April to launch what had all the makings of being a dark election-fraud special police, it was difficult to imagine it actually coming to fruition. And yet it has. In August, deputies from the department arrested 20 Floridians for allegedly voting illegally—and 15 of them (unsurprisingly) were Black voters.

All of the accused were charged with voting illegally.

In other weird news: Julia Roberts is oddly connected to Martin Luther King Jr. and his family

Of all the people Academy Award-winning actor Julia Roberts might be connected to, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would not be one you’d expect. But it’s true: The famed civil rights leader and the Pretty Woman star shared a unique connection.

In a bizarre turn of events, on Oct. 28, Roberts’ birthday, a fan shared a video compilation that prompted a comment stating that Martin Luther King Jr.

They finally debated: Warnock talked policy. Walker pulled out a prop sheriff’s badge

Before Sen. Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker walked onto the debate stage Friday night, supporters for both men raged outside of the venue in Savannah, Georgia, holding signs and chanting loudly.  

While Sen. Warnock’s supporters were primarily Black, with chants that were heartfelt and deeply soulful, fans of the Republican nominee Herschel Walker were primarily white, and their cheers were sad and sort of out of rhythm.

GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville might as well have been wearing the hood in a recent Trump rally

Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville held nothing back at a recent rally for former President Donald Trump. He was talking about crime, but that was simply code for Black Americans as criminals.

With just a week to go before early elections in the midterms, the GOP has pulled out all the stops. Nothing seems to be off limits, and crime appears to be the hot-button issue to rally their base.

‘My daughter’s gone. I have to fix it for others’: Mom of Uvalde shooting victim Lexi Rubio

Kimberly Mata-Rubio started her job as associate editor at the local newspaper in Uvalde, Texas, less than a week before the news of a shooting near her daughter and son’s elementary school broke. Within hours, Mata-Rubio would learn that on May 24, her 10-year-old daughter, Alexandria “Lexi” Aniyah Rubio, had been killed, along with 18 other children and two teachers, by a teenager with a violent history who was easily able to get his hands on an assault weapon.

Herschel Walker says forget about him holding gun to his wife’s head because Jesus

Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker is trying to out-Christian a pastor. In his latest attempt to gloss over his violent past, the former NFL star opted for a few Bible verses about redemption to gaslight his opponent.

In a recent interview with Christal Jordan, host of the YouTube show From Christal with Love XO, the former Heisman Trophy winner was asked about his history of domestic violence.

‘I hate a black f**king Democrat,’ white North Carolina sheriff says before firing Black staff

A North Carolina sheriff, in all his caucasity, likely never imagined he’d be at the center of an investigation into a phone call he made to blow off a little steam. He likely thought that calling his colleagues “black bastards” or even threatening to fire them for no reason other than their race was nothing out of the ordinary. But his calls were recorded, and now he knows.

The party of stolen valor just dropped a new lead character. Meet Ohio House candidate J.R. Majewski

 J.R. Majewski, who is running against Democrat Marcy Kaptur for Ohio’s 9th Congressional District, has been campaigning on a hero’s story—one in which after Sept. 11, he was deployed to Afghanistan and suffered under “tough” conditions. The only problem is, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press (AP), Majewski never stepped foot in Afghanistan.

It’s official: Trump won’t be invited to the Queen’s funeral

Queen Elizabeth II appeared to despise former President Donald Trump when she was essentially required to entertain him along with the former First Lady, but decorum prevailed. In death, all bets are off. According to statements from Windsor Palace, only current dignitaries have been invited to the United Kingdom for the Queen’s send-off.

Trump has bragged that meeting  Queen Elizabeth II was “the most extraordinary honor of [his] life.

Mark Meadows, come on down! A grand jury in Georgia would like to speak with you

If you thought the House Select Committee Investigating Jan. 6 was thorough, keep your eye on the Georgia special grand jury investigating the interference in the 2020 presidential election—Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is not playing around.

The special grand jury convened by Willis has asked for testimony from a slew of top Donald Trump associates, from his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani to Sen.