How a music teacher falsely accused of pedophilia sparked the Matt Gaetz investigation

How a music teacher falsely accused of pedophilia sparked the Matt Gaetz investigation

Joel Greenberg, 36, and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), 38, became friends soon after Greenberg was elected Seminole County tax collector and Gaetz won a seat in Congress in 2016. Both

Wait, there's a deep state plot to hold Matt Gaetz accountable for his sex crimes? actually that sounds f*cking awesome. - Jeff Tiedrich

 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• 8 people killed in shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, police say
• Adam Toledo video shows dropping item, hands up, shot within 2 seconds
• Oath Keepers founding member pleads guilty in Jan. 6 riot case
• Proud Boy charged in Capitol riot gets coronavirus while jailed
• In secret Facebook groups, America's best warriors share racist jabs, lies about 2020, even QAnon theories
• Derek Chauvin takes the Fifth, the defense rests, and closings next in trial of George Floyd's death
• No, U.S. Intelligence Has Not Concluded Russian Bounty Story Was a 'Hoax' or 'Fake'

Americans Opposed to Being Shot Seek Representation in Washington. - Andy Borowitz

 

 

They Should Send The Security Bills To Trump & The Republican Party

Anti-Trump lawmakers like Congresswomen Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Liz Cheney and Congressman Eric Swalwell have spent tens of thousands of campaign dollars each for security since the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

On the 100-day mark post-insurrection, Punchbowl News reports that lawmakers have privately said “that they got a flood of death threats after opposing Trump, and feared for their own safety and the welfare of their families and staff.”

Minnesota Deploys National Guard Ahead Of Next Week’s Police Shooting - The Onion

 

Republican Shenanigans

• Fox News' Outnumbered Repeats False Claims that Russian Bounty Story Was Debunked
• Newsmax Reporter Tries to Get Biden to Fire Black UN Ambassador for Speech About Slavery and White Supremacy
• Hawley, who voted to overturn election, claims court bill seeks to overturn elections
• Oklahoma stuck with over a million hydroxychloroquine doses after Trump-hyped drug proved to be a bust
• James O'Keefe Banned By Twitter
• Ghislaine Maxwell wants trial delay, blames prosecutors
• Liberty University sues its former president Jerry Falwell Jr. for $10 million in damages
• Matt Gaetz Has Spent $85,626 Of Campaign Contributions on Legal Fees Since Last July

Jim Jordan is a loud mouth, unless you're a college wrestler asking for his help to stop sexual assault. - Chris Hahn

 

 

DeSantis For President? DeNo.

'A nicer version of Trump': GOP donors flock to DeSantis. The Florida governor has cultivated relationships with many of the party's biggest givers, who admire his opposition to strict Covid mitigation policies.

Fauci Would Have Thought Twice About Career in Medicine Had He Known It Meant Someday Talking to Jim Jordan. - Andy Borowitz

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Rock The Voter News

• Pew poll: 50 percent approve of Democrats in Congress
• Biden hits 59 percent approval rating in Pew poll
• Yang under fire for appearance in video suggesting violence toward women
• Hunter Biden Book Tanks, Ekes Out Just Over 10,000 First-Week Sales Despite Massive Promotion
• Jen Psaki expecting Joe Biden and Yoshihide Suga to discuss Fukushima nuclear issue

Russian Diplomats Given 30 Days To Complete Espionage Before Being Expelled. - The Onion 

Chelsea Clinton Steps Into The Tucker Carlson Frey. Good!
Chelsea Clinton is calling on Facebook to ban Fox News host Tucker Carlson from the platform following a surge in online engagement with a post that included the conservative television personality’s speculation on the effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines. 

Matt Gaetz never took COVID-19 seriously because she was a little too old for him. - Stephen Colbert

 

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Business/Tech News

• Biden administration investing $1.7B into tracking, combating COVID-19 variants
• Pfizer CEO says third Covid vaccine dose likely needed within 12 months
• Facebook Oversight Board to rule on Trump ban in 'coming weeks'
• Simon & Schuster won't distribute book by officer in Breonna Taylor case

Bernie Madoff died in prison because he stole from the rich. If he stole from the poor he would be a Republican member of Congress. - Deacon Blues

 

 

Japan Is Giving The World The Olympics And Radioactive Oceans!

The head of the Tokyo Olympics on Friday said that they are not considering canceling the games despite a rise of coronavirus cases in Japan.

“There are a variety of concerns but as the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee we are not thinking about canceling the games,” organizing committee president Seiko Hashimoto said, according to The Associated Press.

The President should leave the White House flag at half-staff until the senate passes gun reform. - Matthew Dowd

 

 

 

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Odd News

• China using free eggs, coupons to encourage vaccinations
• Brawl breaks out between parents, ref at Indiana girls' basketball game
• Florida Man Takes Wild Drive, Jumping Drawbridge As It Was Opening (He’s Now Wanted By Police)
• Billions of T. rexes roamed the Earth over their lifetime, study says
• Canadian lawmaker caught naked during video conference

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Ansel Adams set out along Yosemite’s LeConte Gully to capture an image of the striking sheer face of Half Dome, one of Yosemite National Park’s most iconic natural features.

 “Monolith, The Face of Half Dome” was created on April 10th, 1927.  Ansel considered this his first true visualization.

Peace.

Rep. Maxine Waters Shuts Up Rep. Jim Jordan

‘Shut Your Mouth!’ House Covid Hearing ERUPTS as Maxine Waters Cuts Off Brutal Exchange Between Jim Jordan and Fauci

A hearing for the House Select subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis plunged into chaos when Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH), James Clyburn (D-SC) and Maxine Waters (D-CA) started shouting during testimony from Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Looking forward to George Clooney’s upcoming docuseries about the Ohio State mass sex abuse scandal which involves pervert Jim Jordan. That’ll shut his gross ass up even more. - Ricky Davila

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• US expels Russian diplomats, imposes sanctions for hacking
• CDC: Less Than .01% of US Population Has Gotten Covid After Full Vaccination
• Watch Evangelicals Tell CNN They Won't Get Covid Vaccine Because 'Bill Gates and Them Trying to Kill Us'
• Derek Chauvin Takes the Fifth, Will Not Testify in Murder Trial
• Protesters Confront CNN Crew, Pelt Crew Member With Water Bottle, Chase Them Away
• 'YOU SON OF A B*TCH!’ Geraldo Rivera, Dan Bongino Get in Shouting Match Over Police, Protests

I like presidents who stand up to Russia. - Jeff Tiedrich

 

Putin's Pimping Payoff

A longtime associate of former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign chief Paul Manafort gave Russian intelligence agencies “sensitive information on polling and campaign strategy” during the election that year, the U.S. Treasury Department said Thursday.

Manafort’s associate, Konstantin Kilimnik, “also sought to promote the narrative that Ukraine, not Russia, had interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election,” the Treasury Department said as the Biden administration announced new sanctions on Russia, Kilimnik and others.

At least Putin is finally being punished for Trump’s crimes. - Noel Casler

 

 

Americans Favor Sending Mitch McConnell To Afghanistan. - Andy Borowitz

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump hit with $1 trillion lawsuit over massive COVID-19 death toll in America
• McCarthy: I've met with Gaetz, he professed innocence
• It's Even Weirder Than You Thought: How a Roger Stone Acolyte and a 'Tiger King Tax Collector' Spawned the Matt Gaetz Scandal
• Chris Christie Reportedly Buries Trump in Closed-Door Speech to GOP Congressmen: I Warned Him to 'Knock Off Some of This Crazy Stuff'
• Sarah Sanders raises nearly $5M for Arkansas governor's race
• Pat Robertson Does Taser/Glock Demo On Air, Goes OFF on Cops: 'We Don't Have the Finest in the Police Department'

The Republican Party had a buy one, get the rest free sale on politicians and Russia was the first in line. - Middle Age Riot

 

 

Racists Are Itching for Civil War II
The organizer of the aborted White Lives Matter rally in Raleigh, NC claims to be a National Guard member who wants to launch an "aboveground fascist movement," according to recordings from an April 9 voice chat leaked to Raw Story.

Can we please all agree that “Supreme Court Packing” has been the Republican playbook for decades? Asking for Merrick Garland. - Andrea Junker

 

 

So, Is Florida Appointing An Inspector General of Genitals?
The GOP-controlled Florida House on Wednesday passed controversial legislation banning transgender athletes from playing girls’ sports, shifting attention to the state Senate where final approval is needed to send the bill to Gov. Ron DeSantis.

If Gaetz is indicted, he’ll be the third Republican congressman indicted in three years. - Alex Thomas

 

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Rock The Voter News

• Pelosi shoots down House bill to expand Supreme Court — but says more justices ‘not out of the question’
• Nancy Pelosi Reveals Mitch McConnell Blocked Ruth Bader Ginsburg From Getting Capitol Rotunda Memorial
• Reparations bill approved out of committee in historic vote

Kavanaugh Supports Expanding Supreme Court If New Justices Bring Own Beer. - Andy Borowitz

 

 

MEDIA: Hold Them Accountable!
Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) forces stationed on the western side of the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection made more than a dozen calls for backup and received little assistance, according to a Washington Post investigation.



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Business/Tech News

• NSA urges applying critical Microsoft patches released today
• US average mortgage rates fall again; 30-year loan at 3.04%
• China scolds Canada over Parliament's support of Halifax Security Forum award to Taiwan
• Forthcoming Russia sanctions won't include Nord Stream 2

This is an interesting tweet from Edward Snowden who's still holed up in Russia:

With the FBI breaking into US systems to delete malware from Microsoft exchange servers and now this, the government is engaged in a breathtaking sprint to protect the Microsoft brand.

Have the Solarwinds hacks led to a quiet embrace of "national champions" style infosec policy?

Mike Pence Has A Slow Heart. Makes Sense.
Former Vice President Mike Pence underwent successful surgery on Wednesday to implant a pacemaker after experiencing symptoms associated with a slow heart rate, his office disclosed Thursday.

Thoughts and prayers for Vlad Putin, who can no longer pick up the phone and tell the president of the United States what to do. - Jeff Tiedrich

 

 

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Odd News

• Science now says you can judge people by their taste in music after all
• Edmonton man needs shovel-wielding employee to rescue him from angry goose
• Diver finds gold ring in California river, tracks down owner
• Man in teddy bear costume walking from Los Angeles to San Francisco
• Animal rescuers find reported iguana in a tree was a croissant

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The Bear & the Bird Feeder. Whomever sunk that bird feeder pole in concrete, did one heckuva job.

Peace.

Hollywood Icons, Mega-Corporations, Business Titans Team Up to Bash GA Voting Laws in Brutal Open Letter Published By NYT and WaPo

Hollywood Icons, Mega-Corporations, Business Titans Team Up to Bash GA Voting Laws in Brutal Open Letter Published By NYT and WaPo

Hundreds of Hollywood stars, major corporations and top executives signed a statement released Wednesday opposing Georgia’s new voting laws.

The open letter, printed in The New York Times and The Washington Post, was organized by former American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault and Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier. It emerged following a Zoom call with more than 100 corporate leaders from major retailers, airlines and manufacturers.

Republican politicians may as well just change their names to Jim Crow at this point. - Meidas Touch tweet

 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Officer Kim Potter to be charged with 2nd-degree manslaughter in Daunte Wright's death
• Judge denies defense request to acquit Derek Chauvin in George Floyd's death
• Grand jury indicts Muncie officers accused of covering up excessive force
• Texas senate passes bill requiring cities to get voter approval before cutting police budgets
• Gov Ricketts declares Nebraska a 'Second Amendment Sanctuary State'
• FBI chief says five QAnon conspiracy advocates arrested for January 6 U.S. Capitol attack

Holy f*cking sh*t, it really is time we legalized Driving While Black. - Jeff Tiedrich

 

Stupid Is As Stupid Does
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) on Wednesday brought to the Capitol a milk carton with Vice President Harris's picture and the words "missing at the border," a dig at what Republicans say is the Biden administration's lack of urgency about the surge in migration. 

The question isn’t how you could mistake a gun for a taser. It’s how you could mistake someone with an air freshener violation for someone you should shoot. - Andy Borowitz

 

 

Republican Shenanigans

• Women detail drug use, sex and payments after late-night parties with Gaetz and others
• Leaked: Trump’s Comments on Michelle Obama’s Appearance Draw Laughter at RNC Speech
• Fox News Anchor Praises Biden as ‘Iconic’ For Speech Honoring Slain Officer
• GOP Rep. Kevin Brady won't seek reelection
• CNN Staffer Goes on Five Tinder Dates With Project Veritas Spy Recording the Whole Thing
• Tennessee Senate passes ban on government issued 'vaccine passports'
• Trump alumni launch 'America First' nonprofit with $20M to promote populist conservatism
• Dr. Fauci Dismisses Tucker Carlson's Suggestion that Vaccines Don't Work: 'Just a Typical Crazy Conspiracy Theory'

Witnesses are now coming forward, the floodgaetz have opened. - Christopher Bouzy

 

Rep. Steve Scalise Fully Prepared To Throw Gaetz Under The Bus
Rep. Steve Scalise (La.), the No. 2 Republican in the House, on Wednesday, promised that his party and the Democratic majority would "take action" against Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) if the Justice Department was to file "formal" charges against the Florida lawmaker related to an ongoing sex trafficking investigation.

We need Republicans to be vaccine Evangelists, that’s the only way to combat all the damage trump has done to vaccines and science in general. - Molly Jong-Fast

 

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Rock The Voter News

• White House: Jill Biden 'tolerated' medical procedure 'well'
• Vice President Harris says she is planning to visit Mexico and Guatemala
• Hank Aaron's name replacing Klan leader's on Atlanta school

Biden Tells Putin He Must Return His Oval Office Keys. - Andy Borowitz

 

 

Sometimes Justice Prevails, Big Time.
A former Buffalo Police officer who said she was fired for intervening when a White officer attempted to choke a Black suspect will receive her pension after winning a lawsuit on Tuesday. The New York State Supreme Court vacated a previous ruling upholding the firing of Cariol Horne...

Fun Fact: Joe Biden’s 100th day in office is still two weeks away.

 

 

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Bernie Madoff died. You think he'll be buried in a pyramid? - Elayne Boolser

 

 

Business/Tech News

• Coinbase valued at close to $100 billion in its Nasdaq debut
• EU medicines regulator says benefits of J&J vaccine outweigh risks as it reviews rare blood clots
• Ponzi Scheme King Bernie Madoff Dies in Federal Prison at 82
• ‘Steve Urkel’ Actor Jaleel White Launches Purple Urkle Cannabis Brand With 710 Labs

Flag At Mar-a-Lago Flies At Half-mast For Bernie Madoff. - Andy Borowitz

 

 

Wow. Biden Lifts Abortion Pill Restriction So Women Can Get Prompt Healthcare
The Biden administration will temporarily lift a medication abortion restriction that requires abortion pills to be dispensed in person, reversing a Trump-era policy and handing abortion-rights groups one of their first major victories of the new administration.

One minute you're young and fun. And the next, you're turning down the stereo in your car to see better. - Mariana Z tweet

 

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Odd News

• US avalanche deaths at 11-year high
• Indian jumping ants have ability to shrink brain and re-grow it — study
• Researchers Turn Spider Webs Into Music
• Restaurant offers year of free burgers to customers who get tattoos
• Busch beer offers $20,000 for a canine 'chief tasting officer' to sample Dog Brew

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Territorio de Zaguates, Land of the strays, is an extraordinary dog shelter located in the mountains above Heredia Costa Rica an hour from downtown San José. I have no idea why those people are in the tree.

Peace.