Jan. 6 panel moves forward with criminal contempt charge against Steve Bannon

Jan. 6 panel moves forward with criminal contempt charge against Steve Bannon

After failing to show for a deposition on Thursday, the Democratic-led House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol said it will move forward with criminal contempt proceedings against Trump ally and political strategist Steve Bannon.

I don't know about you guys, but I want front row seats to watch US Marshals round up the people refusing to comply with January 6th subpoenas.

Body cams should do the trick. - Brooklyn Dad tweet

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• 'There have to be consequences:' Judge ups sentences for Capitol rioters
• Antisemitic vandalism discovered at National Park site
• Putin Says American Reporter Is Too 'Beautiful' to Understand His Very Clever Point
• Pro-Iran militias warn of forceful response after Israeli strike on Syria's Palmyra

Republicans are now pledging their allegiance to the insurrection of the United States of America. - Woman In The Moon tweet

Trump Ordered To Give A Videotaped Deposition. Makeup Artists Are On Standby.

A New York judge has ordered former President Trump to give a videotaped deposition next week as part of a civil lawsuit connected to a 2015 protest where demonstrators and his security guards allegedly clashed.

A group of Mexican protesters filed a lawsuit against Trump, his campaign, his former head of security Keith Schiller and others following a rally outside Trump Tower in New York City in 2015.

Ask not what your country can do for you. Vax is what you can do for your country. - Dan Rather

Republican Shenanigans

• Kellyanne Conway Says Biden Failed on Vaccine ‘Marketing Campaign’: ‘We Did the Science Part’
• Lara Trump Slams Hunter Biden For Profiting Off Presidency: My Father-in-Law Would Be Impeached!
• Florida official followed, told to 'beg for mercy' for supporting masks in schools
• Cornyn raises more than $2M for Senate GOP
• ‘I Promise to Never Run Against You’: Book Trump Signed For Rudy Giuliani Sells For $54K at Auction
• Redistricting forces two GOP incumbents together in West Virginia
• DOJ opens civil rights probe into Texas youth correctional facilities
• Trump campaign, others want Dominion worker's suit dismissed

Trump Testing 2024 Waters By Inciting Iowans To Burn State Capitol To Ground. - The Onion

Trump Tells Republicans Not To Vote If He Doesn't Get His Way.

Well...alright then.

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued a statement claiming "Republicans will not be voting in [2022] or [2024]" unless the "thoroughly and conclusively documented" presidential "election fraud of 2020" is investigated. He then goes on to call abstaining from voting "the single most important thing for Republicans to do." Quite the interesting call to action for a man reportedly readying his own 2024 campaign.

Tom Hanks has been a leading voice for schools to STOP whitewashing history to avoid discomfort for students. 

Teach them the Tulsa massacre, he says. 

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Racists don't want their kids to be taught that their families were racists. - Don Winslow

Rock The Voter News

• Biden to have audience with pope, attend G20 summit
• Sotomayor says recent changes were made because male justices interrupted female colleagues
• Blinken pressed to fill empty post overseeing 'Havana syndrome'
• House Democrats' campaign arm outraises GOP counterpart in third quarter
• Paper Towel and Toilet Paper Shortage Hits Connecticut Stores

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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Pulls Up Justice Alito's Robe

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) on Thursday pushed back forcefully against a speech by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito during which he depicted the high court as undeserving of recent scorn...“Understand that you have fouled your nest, not us,” Whitehouse wrote in a piece published by Salon.

62% of police deaths over last year were from COVID.  Someone should teach them to use masks and get vaccinated. - John Oberlin

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Business/Tech News

• Jobless claims fall below 300k for first week since lockdowns
• Warren calls for Amazon breakup
• Netflix CEO Stands by Defense of Dave Chappelle Special; Employees Plan Walkout Next Week in Protest
• TSA says 40 percent of workforce unvaccinated ahead of November deadline
• Gupta tells Joe Rogan CNN shouldn't have called ivermectin 'horse dewormer'

William Shatner has now gone to space more times than Amazon has paid taxes. - Jeff Tiedrich

Wow, Who Knew That Vaccine Mandates Work? Biden.
Vaccination rates against COVID-19 in the United States have risen by more than 20 percentage points after multiple institutions adopted vaccine requirements, while case numbers and deaths from the virus are down, Biden administration officials said on Wednesday.

Feeding and housing the poor will do more to reduce crime than any amount of punishment ever will.

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Odd News

• A Last-Minute Nuke to Shatter an Incoming Asteroid Could Actually Work, Study Suggests
• UFOs spotted over New Jersey city may have been drones
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Throws Cold Water on UFO Videos: 'When the Aliens Come... We'll ALL Know'
• Couple surprised at airport with stowaway in luggage: their Chihuahua
• Florida Woman Allegedly Hacked Flight System, Cleared Unsafe Aircraft to Fly

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Rare Meteorite, known as Fukang Meteorite, in the sunlight. I will not make a cheap joke about its name.

Peace.

US Marshals may be called to round up former Trump aides who disobey Jan. 6 subpoenas: House investigator

US Marshals may be called to round up former Trump aides who disobey Jan. 6 subpoenas: House investigator

A member of the U.S. House select committee explained how Donald Trump's allies might be rounded up and arrested if they continued to defy congressional...

Can we please all agree that a subpoena with no penalty for ignoring it isn’t a subpoena? That’s basic Latin. 

Sub: under

Poena: penalty 

As Meadows, Patel, Scavino, and Bannon flipped their middle fingers at subpoenas they asked “what’s the penalty?” 

It’s time to show them. - Andrea Junker

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• MAGA Gun Church That Worships With AR-15s Has Bought a Giant Mountain Property in Tennessee
• Marjorie Taylor Greene Posts Twitter Poll Broaching the Idea of Red, Blue States Getting 'A National Divorce'
• Texas man charged with threatening prominent vaccine advocate

If every American was responsible enough to get the #COVID19 vaccine, we wouldn't need a vaccine mandate. - David Weissman

Manchin & Sinema Perform Their Daily Kabuki Dance

Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill have set the end of October as the time frame to nail down an agreement on a scaled-back version of President Biden's Build Back Better Agenda. After initially setting the price tag at $3.5 trillion over 10 years to enact sweeping health care, climate, education and child care policies, disagreements between progressives, who make up the bulk of the party's members, and two key Senate moderates mean some tough choices will need to be made to fashion a bill that can clear both chambers.

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., are the two holdouts who have publicly opposed the size and scope of the social spending package for months.

Polio, Mumps, Measles, and Chickenpox wait eagerly to see if Republican governors are going to ban mandates for their vaccines too. - Middle Age Riot

Republican Shenanigans

• NEW POLL: Trump Laps the GOP Field in Latest 2024 Survey, Nearly Quadruples Nearest Challengers Pence and DeSantis
• Reince Priebus Claims Democrats ‘Think Cows Are the Enemy of the American People’
• Swalwell Bodies Jim Jordan For Saying Ohio Should Ban Vax Mandates: 'Ohio Should Mandate Sexual Assault Reporting For Coaches'
• Newsmax Host Cites Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Mick Jagger’s Lips, and Queer Eye to Defend Jon Gruden
• Rubio rakes in $6 million for reelection bid in latest fundraising quarter
• Skechers Drops Former NFL Head Coach Jon Gruden After Racist and Homophobic Emails Surface

Trump To Replace Pence With Jon Gruden As 2024 Running Mate. - Andy Borowitz

Georgia Judge Outrages Georgia Congresswoman. Good.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) expressed outrage on Wednesday after a Georgia judge shot down the prospect of an audit of the 2020 election in Fulton County.

245 years of the American experiment and all it took was one "billionaire" man-child's temper tantrum to jeopardize all of it. - Meidas Touch tweet

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden lifting land border travel restrictions for fully vaccinated
• 'This Has Been Debunked': Psaki Dismisses Reporter's 'Very Long Question' About Claim Biden Owes $500K in Taxes
• Pa. Attorney General Josh Shapiro launches Democratic bid for governor
• Dwayne Johnson won't rule out presidential bid

To keep things in perspective, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger both voted against raising the debt ceiling. I’m thrilled they draw the line at insurrection but they’re perfectly willing to destroy the U.S. economy just to keep their party—which has rejected them—in power. - Mary L. Trump

Biden Decides To Go After Employers Of Unauthorized Immigrants & Not Immigrants. It About Damn Time.

The Biden administration on Tuesday announced U.S. immigration authorities will no longer carry out mass arrests of unauthorized immigrants at work sites, saying law enforcement efforts should focus on holding exploitative employers accountable

Gerrymandering= cheating

Using stolen emails= cheating

Blocking Garland vote for a year= cheating

7% of Kavanaugh's records = cheating

Vote ID laws= cheating

Slaveowners demand electoral college= cheating

Kemp keeps 53k (70% black) Georgians from voting  =  weapons-grade cheating. - John Fugelsang

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Business/Tech News

• Putin: US partly to blame for European gas shortages
• Consumer prices rose 0.4 percent in September, up 5.4 percent over last year
• Walgreens closing more stores in San Francisco due to organized theft
• Snapchat not working for tens of thousands around the world

Social Security checks for retirees and senior citizens will increase by 5.9% in 2022 which is the highest increase in decades. Thanks to President Biden.

Facebook To Protect Journalists & Activists. LOL. Sure They Will.
Facebook Inc(FB.O) will now count activists and journalists as "involuntary" public figures and so increase protections against harassment and bullying targeted at these groups, its global safety chief said in an interview this week.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. - George Bernard Shaw

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Odd News

• 'I Am Overwhelmed': William Shatner Hugs Jeff Bezos, Gives Emotional Address After Returning to Earth
•  Scientists say mysterious radio waves are coming from the center of the Milky Way
• Tiny Tennessee town listed for $725,000
• Man filming upskirt video unwittingly stood in front of off-duty police officer
• He's the most popular man on TikTok. And he doesn't say a word

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A wheel barrel full of puppers to make you smile.

Peace.

Florida fines county $3.5 million for violating vaccine mandate ban

Florida fines county $3.5 million for violating vaccine mandate ban

A Florida county government was reportedly fined $3.5 million by the state for violating a ban on COVID-19 vaccine passports and for firing workers who did not get vaccinated.

The state health department issued the fine for Leon County, which it says broke a state law banning governments and businesses from requiring proof of vaccination

This is madness. We can’t afford to have a pro-polio, pro-disease party in this country. The human cost would be horrific. COVID like waves of illness every year. U.S. would become a no go zone for foreign travel. And the economy would be in tatters. - Robert Shrum

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It Anymore’: Supporter at Trump Rally Tells MSNBC She Sees ‘Civil War Coming’
• Mark Meadows Dismisses 1/6 Committee After Being Subpoenaed: 'Democrats Want to Talk About Anything Other Than the Economy'
• Trump Rages Over 'Made Up Stories' About January 6 After Stunning Report on How He Reacted in Real Time
• Texas Gov. Abbott Issues Executive Order to Ban 'Any Entity' from Mandating Covid-19 Vaccines
• Judge allows religious exemptions to vaccine mandate for NY healthcare workers

Gov. Greg Abbot signed a law making Texas women essentially property of the state.

This ain't about freedom. 

This is what happens when you put fascist religious nuts in charge. They end up killing you. Every time. - Stonekettle

 Matt Gaetz Reminds Me Of A General Custer Type of Guy

Rep. Adam Schiff called GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz a '"congressbro" and said it was "like spring break in there" when Gaetz and a group of his Republican colleagues stormed a secure bunker used to handle classified information in the fall of 2019.

holy f*cking sh*t, vaccine mandates are causing teachers who don't believe in science to quit, nurses who don't believe in medicine to quit, and cops who don't believe in public safety to quit. I'm failing to see the downside to this. - Jeff Tiedrich

Republican Shenanigans

• Squid Game Director Compares Trump to One of the Series Villains: He's 'Giving People Horror'
• Bob Woodward Describes the State of the GOP as an 'Iron Curtain of Obedience to Trump'
• Larry Kudlow Defends Columbus Day: He Wasn't ‘Chopping Heads Off’ But 'The Indigenous Did a Pretty Good Job of Cutting Other Heads Off'
• GOP Candidate Josh Mandel Declares 'They' Are Trying to 'Destroy America' Because New Superman Is Bisexual
• Pro-Trump candidate suggests taking 'all the boats out of the water' to lower sea levels

Trump to Skip 2024 Campaign and Go Straight to Claiming He Won. - Andy Borowitz

UH, I Think This High School Is Breaking a Couple of Amendments
Several Black students at the Coosa High School in Rome, Georgia say they've been suspended simply for planning a protest against the Confederate flag.

My former political party is now the party of big government telling the private sector what it can and cannot do.  - Joe Walsh

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Rock The Voter News

• Pelosi Complains Reporters Aren't Promoting Her $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill Enough: 'You Could All Do a Better Job' Selling it
• 'You Were In Charge': Schiff Slams Trump for Blaming Capitol Riot on Democratic Failure
• Schiff said he preferred Michael Bolton to John Bolton for NSA: book
• 'This Is F*cking New Jersey': NJ Democratic Party Roasts GOP Candidate for Past Support of Cursing Ban With Profanity-Laden Ad
• Maxine Waters says her Twitter account has been hacked

Adam Schiff would make a great Attorney General.

Shooting The Messenger?
CNN head of strategic communications Matt Dornic dodged gunfire in Washington, D.C., on Monday night, according to a video he posted on Twitter on Tuesday.

Donald Trump has never stopped figuratively shooting people on 5th Avenue. Unsurprising, because that’s who & what Donald Trump is. What is entirely inexplicable is the steadfast refusal of good people in government to take the gun from Donald Trump’s hand. - Glenn Kirschner

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Business/Tech News

• A record number of Americans are quitting their jobs
• Trump, right-wingers praise anti-vax Southwest pilots — who turn out to be imaginary
• US FDA OKs Vuse e-cigarettes, its first vape authorization
• Amazon, Google workers call for termination of Israeli military contracts

$11.2 trillion is held in offshore accounts, double the rate from two years prior.

I don't have an economics degree, but it might be time to consider the possibility that maybe giving money to the wealthy to skip taxes and hoard it might not be the best stimulus. Just maybe. - Dan Price

Washington Post Goes After Its Owner. I Wonder How That'll Work Out.

The Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, published a damning exposé on Monday revealing a toxic workplace at Bezos’s Blue Origin.

The article was “based on interviews with more than 20 current and former Blue Origin employees and industry officials with close ties to the firm, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.” The Post obtained documents from inside the company as part of its reporting.

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Odd News

• Ontario woman wakes to meteorite landing on her pillow
• Canadian Coke fan collects 11,308 different cans for Guinness World Record
• Prince Charles says his Aston Martin sports car, gifted to him on his 21st birthday by the Queen, runs on white wine and cheese byproducts
• Video shows attempted kidnapping of toddler in NYC
• Bosnian makes rotating house a monument of love for his wife

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A Valais Black Nose Sheep smiling back at you.

Peace.