‘Everyone in the Capitol is nervous’: Florida Republicans fear they’ll be swept up in Matt Gaetz investigation, lawmaker says

‘Everyone in the Capitol is nervous’: Florida Republicans fear they’ll be swept up in Matt Gaetz investigation, lawmaker says
"The web of corruption that Matt Gaetz, Joel Greenberg, and [Ron] DeSantis are all wrapped up in is really a web that appears to tie up the entire Republican Party of Florida," said Smith. "It seems like everyone in the Capitol is nervous about what the next revelation is going to be and who else is implicated in this sweeping saga of corruption that they've been a part of for so long."

Imagine being Matt Gaetz and realizing that Trump thinks you’re too gross to be seen with. - Andy Borowitz

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• The US has reported at least 50 mass shootings since the Atlanta spa shootings
• As Chauvin verdict looms, police across U.S. jittery
• MN Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan: 'Minnesota Is A Place Where It Is Not Safe To Be Black'
• CNN Producer Reportedly Was Asked 'Do You Speak English' After Being Thrown to the Ground, Arrested While Covering MN Protests
• More than 400 Virginia convictions connected to officer could be overturned

Link Found Between Gun Violence and Cowardly Politicians. - Andy Borowitz

 

China & Russia Fueling QAnon Crazies
Foreign-based actors, principally in China and Russia, are spreading online disinformation rooted in QAnon conspiracy theories, fueling a movement that has become a mounting domestic terrorism threat, according to new analysis of online propaganda by a security firm.

Anglo-Saxon Caucus Attacked By Viking Caucus. - Andy Borowitz

Republican Shenanigans

• GOP sheds college-educated voters
• DeSantis Hints at Political Consequences for Companies That ‘Genuflect’ to ‘Wokeness’
• ‘That’s Not Going To Happen Here’: Gov. Ron DeSantis Signs Controversial Protest Crackdown Bill Into Law
• Marjorie Taylor Green distances herself from "Anglo-Saxon political traditions" document
• Ex-GOP Rep Gobsmacked By Vile Language of Marjorie Taylor Greene's America First Caucus: 'Racism in a Jar'
• Miami Nurse Videoed Herself Threatening to Kill Kamala Harris, Busted by Secret Service When She Sent the Evidence to Her Incarcerated Husband
• ‘I’m a Christian woman of God.’ Texas school board candidate cited after refusing mask.
• MyPillow counter-sues Dominion in response to multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit
• William Barr, Amy Coney Barrett land book deals
• Bush surprised by reaction to his friendship with Michelle Obama

Your reminder that George W. Bush was an uncaring incurious overgrown smirking frat boy who started two pointless wars, ran torture camps and crashed the world's economy, and only a barrel-bottom sh*t-stain like Donald Trump can make him seem statesmanlike by comparison. - Jeff Tiedrich

 

If the epidemic of gun violence were a virus, Republicans would have to — oh wait they didn’t do sh*t about the virus either. - Andy Borowitz

Supreme Court Passes On Federal Gun Ban
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up three challenges to a federal ban on gun ownership for people convicted of nonviolent crimes, surprising Second Amendment advocates who hoped the court would chip away at the restriction.

Today we learn whether Derek Chauvin goes to jail or becomes a host of a Fox News show. - Jeremy Newberger

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden meets lawmakers, including Republican who tried to block election, on infrastructure push
• White House Launching 'Targeted Media Blitz' to Promote Covid-19 Vaccine Eligibility, Including Partnering With Facebook and Twitter
• Obama, Shaq, and Charles Barkley Tweet Video Message Encouraging Americans to Get The Covid-19 Vaccine
• Matthew McConaughey Trounces Greg Abbott In Poll For Texas Governor
• Most Americans want to end lifetime Supreme Court appointments for justices

In 1994, President Bill Clinton banned assault weapons: mass shooting deaths went down by 42%.

In 2004, the GOP Congress let the ban purposely expire: mass shooting deaths spiked over 220% and have been climbing ever since. - Andrea Junker

 

 

GREAT NEWS For The Coast Guard
President Biden will nominate Coast Guard Vice Adm. Linda Fagan for vice commandant, which would make her the first female four-star admiral in Coast Guard history, the White House announced Monday.



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Business/Tech News

• Facebook braces for Derek Chauvin verdict, cracks down on threats and content that celebrates or mocks George Floyd
• Interstate water wars are heating up along with the climate
• U.S. regulator urges people with children to stop using Peloton treadmill after child death
• McDonald's new BTS meal is coming, featuring flavors you weren't able to get in the US

Vaccine question: I just had my second Moderna shot. When will my mind start being controlled by Bill Gates? - Andy Borowitz

 

Self Driving Tesla Kills Two

Two men were killed in a crash in Texas while riding in a Tesla car that police said almost certainly had no one behind the wheel, U.S. media reported Sunday.

The vehicle was driving at high speed late Saturday north of Houston when it slammed into a tree and burst into flames, the Wall Street Journal reported, quoting Harris County Sheriff Mark Herman

I couldn't afford an Ancestry DNA kit, so I announced that I won the lottery.  I soon found out who my relatives are. - KPMoore tweet

 

 

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Odd News

• Human-animal hybrid research raises eyebrows
• Couple: Man has tossed used cups in their yard for 3 years
• Winners of $20M contest make concrete to trap carbon dioxide
• Philippine Coast Guard seizes 200 tons of giant fossilized clam shells
• VIDEO: Florida woman says she spotted a 'baby dinosaur' running through yard

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Hand holding won't help if that Tiger Shark is hungry.

Peace.

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.