CNN Apologizes For Using Fake Congressman’s Quote On Mitch McConnell’s Health: ‘Obviously We Should Not Have Done That’

CNN Apologizes For Using Fake Congressman’s Quote On Mitch McConnell’s Health: ‘Obviously We Should Not Have Done That’

CNN issued an on-air mea culpa on Thursday morning after admitting the network fell for a post by a parody account of a Republican congressman who said he had spoken to ailing Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

For crying out loud, fact checking is rule #1. CNN should pay their anchors less and their fact checkers more.

 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• Secret Service urged Trump to use old Air Force One as a security precaution: Sources
• Iranian official issues warning to Trump over new threats: ‘We have no red lines'
• Trump Claims He Ended War Where ’15 Million People Had Their Heads Chopped Off’
• Turkey's Erdogan gives NATO leaders revolver conundrum after summit
• Texas Rights Group, Officials Demand Independent Probe After ICE Fatally Shoots Immigrant
• Man behind Gaza's World Cup screenings killed in Israeli strike
• Technical details need to be agreed before Ukraine can produce Patriot missiles, Zelensky says
• Russia hit ammunition warehouse in Ukraine's Kyiv region, Zelenskiy says

So now the whole world knows that Trump’s new Qatari bribery plane doesn’t have full defensive capabilities. - WokeMitt

"I'm No. 1 on the kill list for Iran”

-Donald Trump

The largest nuclear bomb in outer space exploded 64 yrs ago today. 

Starfish Prime was a 1.4 megaton thermonuclear warhead, detonated at the altitude the Space Station now orbits. It created man-made radiation belts that wrecked many satellites & lasted 5+ years. 

A year after the test the USA & USSR signed the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, leading to the global 1967 Outer Space Treaty.  - Chris Hadfield, Astronaut

BREAKING: President Trump has spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the situation in Iran and the next steps moving forward. - GeneralMcNews

Republican Shenanigans

• "I don't know if he's alive": GOP congressman demands McConnell answers
• Daily Show mocks Mitch McConnell over his ‘totally legit’ 20-minute phone calls with numerous Republicans
• Newsmax Hosts Slam Republicans on Mitch McConnell Health Scare: ‘Bullsh*t’
• Massie: Might as well call ObamaCare ‘Trumpcare’
• GOP Senator Crumbles Fortune Cookies While Vowing to ‘Stop Communist China’
• Republican running for Congress in South Florida says people are ‘born straight’
• Republican Party of Texas will continue in lawsuit to close primaries, for now
• Republicans ask WNBA to protect Caitlin Clark from possible ‘racially motivated’ attacks
• Actor James Woods, 78, Calls Donald Trump the ‘Greatest President of My Lifetime’

If Mitch McConnell is indeed brain dead, then every one of the Senators and Congressmen who said they spoke directly to him should be expelled from office. - Jetty

I'm So Old, I Remember When the USPS Was An Ultra-Dependable Affordable Government Service

The U.S. Postal Service is raising the price of the Forever stamp, as well as additional postal products and services, starting this weekend. The change comes as the agency says it's in the middle of a "severe financial crisis" amid rising operational costs.

The USPS announced in April that the price increases, effective Sunday, July 12, were intended to support its finances and that mailing services product prices would overall be raised by about 4.8%.

Norm Eisen, attorney for former Olympian David Hern: "Today, Davey Hern pled not guilty — because he is not guilty. If Mr. Hearn can be charged with a felony for touching the reflecting pool, every American is at risk and every American should be alarmed at this prosecution."

 

I’m going to combine my imaginary tariff check with my imaginary DOGE check and fill up on imaginary $2 gas. Living the MAGA dream, baby.

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Rock The Voter News

• JB Pritzker's Explosive Speech Against Trump Fires Up Democrats Before Elections 
• 5 Democrats say they’re ready to take Platner’s place in Maine’s US Senate race; more in the wings
• Fetterman Slams Bernie After He Twice Endorsed Him: ‘Pushing These Communists’
• WNBA to use Obama Presidential Center for All-Star events in Chicago

One day after Democrats forced a rapist out of a major Senate race, Republicans officially named a major airport after one. - \Covie

A Manhattan federal appeals court just rejected Trump's attempt to delay paying E. Jean Carroll $5.8 million.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit struck down Trump's emergency request shortly after Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered the release of funds — covering the $5 million judgment plus interest. - Kyle Griffin

Apparently, The Birthright Citizenship Trump Wants To Axe, Is Not Retroactive.
President Trump said Wednesday he will ask the Supreme Court to rehear a case on the legality of his executive order restricting birthright citizenship, after the high court struck down the policy last week. 

He has Nazi tattoos and sexually assaulted some women but you can't tell if I'm talking about Graham Platner or Pete Hegseth - Liam Nissan

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Business/Tech News

• Strait of Hormuz traffic is near a standstill again
• Stocks gain as investors look past Iran tensions to AI trade
• Chip shortage sparks tech boom for used Xboxes, iPhones, and Macbooks
• 2 World Trade Center breaks ground 25 years after 9/11

Get ready. Trump's screwed because he can't end this war with Iran, and now you're screwed holding the bill as inflation soars again. - The Lincoln Project

Musk To Pay Pocket Change, Much To The Dismay of the Judge
 A federal judge on Wednesday approved the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's settlement with Elon Musk over his ‌purchase of Twitter shares, despite expressing "significant misgivings" about the "red flags" the accord raised.

Jennifer Welch: “Republicans always do the exact same thing: start wars, add to the national deficit, cut social safety programs, bankrupt the stock market and then corporations get a surge of socialism, the American taxpayer has to fund it, and then a Democrat has to come back in and fix the economy”

Americans Support Putting Trump on Mt Rushmore if he Would Stay There - Andy Borowitz

 

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Odd News

• Sick of Earth? NASA is recruiting volunteers for a yearlong Moon and Mars simulation
• Dimming the Sun Would Help Lower the Risks of El Niño. No, Really
• This Italian village will fine tourists with bare chests or in swimwear
• Taylor Swift fans pay $25 for garbage from outside wedding
• Florida woman catches 60 pythons in 10 days, becomes challenge's first female winner

Time To Deflate Photo

Preacher’s Pulpit Rock – Preikestolen is One of the Most Visited Natural Tourist Attractions in Norway. Yodeling is optional.

Peace.

Ay yi yi

 I have a 2fer. Two reasons why I couldn't post today.

1. I needed to go to the big city and get a passport photo this morning. Awful photo. I will never show it to you.
2. My a/c needed coolant and I can't work in 100+ degree temps.  I was melting. But not now and it cost only $65usd plus he cleaned my a/c unit.

Not to leave you empty handed here are some visuals for your humor needs and we sure need it now more than ever.

I'll see you tomorrow.

Thanks for visiting!

Love.

McConnell spoke to GOP leaders amid uncertainty about his Senate return

McConnell spoke to GOP leaders amid uncertainty about his Senate return

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who has been hospitalized since June 14, spoke to Senate Republican leaders on Monday and Tuesday amid growing speculation about whether he will return to the Senate before the end of the year.

McConnell had a “lengthy and substantive conversation” with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Monday, undercutting the rumors that McConnell’s health condition may be substantially worse than his staff has acknowledged.

I spoke with my dear friend Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes this morning and he told me he supports universal healthcare, free college, raising the minimum wage and housing for all. - Sarah Ironside

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• Trump shrugs off concerns about selling F-35s to Turkey
• Iran strikes three vessels near Strait of Hormuz as Trump arrives at NATO summit
• Trump looms large as Nato grapples with challenge of rearming Europe
• Trump Administration Gave Iran Sensitive Details on Iranian Asylum Seekers, Lawsuit Says
• Lawsuit: Homeland Security, ICE Shared Refugee Information with Iranian Government
• FIRE Files Lawsuit Against ICE Violations of the First Amendment
• ICE has arrested more than 400 from Central Valley prisons under Trump
• 30% of Jewish American Adults Say Israel Committed Genocide in Gaza
• Rahm Emanuel to denounce Netanyahu during Tel Aviv speech as American politics shift against Israe
• Russia-Ukraine war 'doesn’t affect the United States’: Trump
• Zelenskyy says Nato should let Ukraine join to ‘make all of us stronger’

Trump just threatened to pull all American troops out of Europe unless Denmark gives him Greenland. He’s crazy. - Mike Nellis

Europe Gearing Up In Case Trump Invades Greenland

A stunning report in The Wall Street Journal described a marathon meeting of U.S. European allies who had come to view the country as a security risk under President Donald Trump.

Citing national security, Trump has repeatedly insisted that the U.S. must acquire Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory in the North Atlantic and Arctic Circle. The U.S. already maintains one military base on the island and, under an agreement, may increase its military presence there. However, Trump has indicated he wants Greenland to become a U.S. territory.

Republican Shenanigans

• Scott Jennings Shuts Down Mitch McConnell Rumors, Details Lengthy Phone Call
• MTG Rages at McConnell’s Medical Situation, Accuses His Wife of Being a CCP Spy
• Greene deletes post criticizing Platner accuser
• Trump posts a doctored photo of the Obamas and Air Force One with graffiti spray-painted on plane
• Trump Admin Blames 'Box-Cutter Vandals' for $15M Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Failure as It's Drained Again
• Kimmel Guest Host Tiffany Haddish Skewers Trump’s State Fair Turnout: ‘More People at My DUI Trial’
• Pratt knocks ‘vile, commie’ Mamdani

Laura Loomer says McConnell is brain dead. 

Scott Jennings says McConnell is alive and well. 

Who to believe? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - Mike Nellis

Hey, remember a couple years ago when Mitch McConnell's sister in law was killed when her locked Tesla backed into a lake?

That was weird, right? - Patrick S. Tomlinson

Donald Trump ruins everything.

He ruined America's 250th birthday. He ruined the National Mall. He ruined fireworks. He ruined the bipartisan housing bill. He ruined passports. He ruined soccer.

And that's just in the past week. - Middle Age Riot

He could be impeached tonight and convicted at trial in a few weeks and removed from office immediately thereafter if about 20 people in DC decided to put country over party for the first time in their miserable, self-dealing lives

MEOW Megyn!

Taylor Swift is “empty inside,” Megyn Kelly told Piers Morgan on Monday, adding that she feels sorry for the “Love Story” singer and her new husband, Travis Kelce.

Swift and Kelce were married on July 3 at Madison Square Garden in a ceremony Morgan described as “a bit OTT (over the top).”

“I mean, I may shock you, but I feel sorry for Taylor Swift,” Kelly said. “I really think she’s empty inside. I think most people who seek fame at a very early age, like in their teens, are chasing after some sort of fullness that wasn’t provided by their family of origin for whatever reason, and it never comes.”

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Rock The Voter News

• Congressional staffers call on leaders to overhaul sexual misconduct rules
• Sanders-founded organization backs Troy Jackson for Maine Senate
• Democratic Senate candidates hammer Republicans over ‘big beautiful bill’ fallout
• Democrats question Trump-linked businesses over IRS settlement's implications

So if everyone is calling for Platner to drop out then why isn’t everyone calling for Paxton to drop out? - WTFGOP

Bernie Said Bye Bye To Platner
In a brief statement obtained by CNN’s Aaron Blake, Senator Bernie Sanders said of the candidate he helped rise to a primary victory: “I have spoken with Graham Platner about the best path forward for Maine. In light of these very serious allegations, I have recommended that he step aside.”

Pro tip. If you want to hold political office and used to go around raping, make sure you are running as a republican if you want a chance at winning. = Boston Smalls

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Business/Tech News

• Stocks sink as chips sell off, oil prices jumps
• Defense stocks surge as governments boost spending on weapons, AI battlefield technology
• Econ Experts Roast Trump’s Walmart Boast as ‘Democratic Socialism’ On MS NOW
• Number of Americans taking GLP-1s for weight loss hits record high: Survey

The USA must never be allowed to host the World Cup ever again. - Jason Reed

Dear God, Who Is The Builder? Arrest Them!

More than half a dozen New York City buildings, including a school, were evacuated Tuesday morning after a 37-story building under construction apparently began to shed bricks — prompting officials to fear the structure could collapse after interior support beams buckled and the building was deemed “unstable,” city officials said.

First responders arrived at 235 East 42nd Street just after 8 a.m. after reports of bricks falling from the building

My favorite thing about the US/Belgium game tonight was at the end, after Belgium won, their whole team gathered on the field and mocked Trump, doing his double fisted jerk-off dance. Well played guys. - Mindy

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Odd News

• Japan's Hayabusa2 probe captures remarkable photo of a two-headed asteroid 62 million miles away
• Artemis II astronaut Jeremy Hansen announces space agency retirement weeks after historic moon mission
• SpaceX launches 81 satellites to orbit from California, lands rocket on ship at sea
• Dog chases bear away from playing boy in Connecticut
• Graffiti artist accused of scaling Australian bridge tower and painting giant cartoon bird

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Baku, Azerbaijan. I love the biomorphic architecture.

Peace.