'He's no longer a sitting president': Merrick Garland gets grilled about why he's not prosecuting Trump

'He's no longer a sitting president': Merrick Garland gets grilled about why he's not prosecuting Trump

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday because the Department of Justice has not indicted former President Donald Trump.

The Department of Justice did nothing to Nixon about Watergate, or to Reagan/Bush about Iran/Contra or GW Bush/Cheney lying us into the Iraq War. No wonder Trump wants to be president again, he knows he can do whatever he wants.

Oh, oh, but the Department of Justice did provide hundreds of FBI agents to investigate the Clintons while he was president.

Next Trump will sue the US Constitution. - Jeremy Newberger

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Garland: DOJ will follow 'facts and the law' on whether to prosecute Bannon
• Condoleezza Rice says that while Jan. 6 Capitol riot was 'wrong,' it's time to move on
• 'I'm Invincible': Alleged Jan. 6 Rioter Thought He Got Away With It...Until His Buddy Turned Him In
• Tucker Carlson Drops Wild 1/6 Take Saying Rioters Had ‘Reason to Be Frustrated’: They Had ‘Some Evidence’ Election Was Stolen
• Anti-Asian hate crimes up 76 percent in Los Angeles area
• Fight breaks out between Jordan, Nadler over rules about showing video at Garland hearing

Remember, if your vote truly didn't matter, Republicans wouldn't be working so hard to take yours away from you. - Jeff Tiedrich

Uh, Oh, More Covid-19 Strains Coming From The UK?
When it comes to COVID-19, what happens in the United Kingdom rarely stays in the United Kingdom — and that, in turn, rarely bodes well for the rest of the world.

If the way police unions are acting over vaccine mandates doesn't convince people that police aren't an antidote for public safety, I'm not sure what will. - AJ Springer tweet

Republican Shenanigans

• Joe Manchin praised by billionaire who voted for Trump as "most important guy in D.C."
• Gov. Greg Abbott’s pick for top Texas election post worked with Trump to fight 2020 results
• Trump's new social-media investors DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS INVOLVED when they loaned $300 million
• Conservative-backed education group launches $1M ad campaign hitting McAuliffe
• Andy Cohen Confronts Meghan McCain Over Her Book: 'On a 1-to-10 Scale, How Hypocritical is it That You Wrote a Tell-All?'
• Sen. Kennedy Tells Biden: 'I Say This With Respect... You Just Got to Try Harder Not to Suck'
• 'I Think Someone May Be Trying to Kill Me': Matt Gaetz Says He Got Death Threat in House Floor Speech
• Ghislaine Maxwell attorneys want potential jurors screened privately
• Woman accused of threatening judge over ballot review suit

Donald Trump launching a social network named Truth. What’s next, a Steve Bannon skincare line? - Tim Hannan

Meghan McCain Burns Her ABC Bridge

Former co-host of "The View," Meghan McCain alleged that there was a toxic work environment at her ABC show because Joy Behar said she didn't miss McCain while she was on maternity leave.

... ABC is pushing back on McCain's claims, with sources telling the site that the network is furious about her new "tell-all" memoir that trashes the show.

"We're told there are many points of dissent -- for instance, ABC execs say the notion Meghan left on her own volition is wrong, and ditto for her claim everybody except her was oozing toxicity," said the report.

Many thanks to Meghan's hairstylist for entertaining us all these years!

America’s Children Demand That Joe Manchin’s Salary Be Tied to Work Requirement. - Andy Borowitz

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Rock The Voter News

• Claire McCaskill Slams ‘Weak’ Joe Manchin on Voting Rights Outreach to GOP: ‘He Couldn’t Get One Vote for His Bill!’
• Bill Clinton Shares Message After Being Released from Hospital: 'I'm on the Road to Recovery'
• Biden Faces Deadline for Release of More JFK Assassination Papers

Republicans: "We can't let minorities make the rules."

Sane Person: "But you're the minority."

Republicans: "Well, that's different." - Middle Age Riot

Five of Sen. Sinema's Staff Resigns

Five military veterans on Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's advisory board resigned from their roles this week, slamming the Arizona Democrat as one of the "principal obstacles to progress."

In a letter to Sinema, the veterans expressed frustration with her refusal to change the Senate filibuster to protect voting rights, failure to support prescription drug negotiations, her opposition to parts of the Democrats' sweeping budget reconciliation package that make up President Joe Biden's agenda and criticized her for not voting on the January 6 commission.

What do you call a system in which 41 Republican Senators, representing just 21% of the population, can stop voting rights legislation backed by 70% of Americans? 

How about “broken”? - Laurence Tribe

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Business/Tech News

• China-linked campaign pushes unfounded claim tying Maine lobster to COVID: report
• CDC links onions from Mexico to salmonella outbreak in 37 states
• Consumer agency to probe Big Tech's payment systems
• News organizations, journalists ask court to review decision on Nunes lawsuit

4 yrs ago 5 ex-presidents raised $ for hurricane disaster relief.  

DT went golfing, paid for by you.

DT's Secret Service had to pay for Mar-a-Lago rooms, food & golf carts so they could guard him, paid for by you.

That $ went directly into DT's bank account 

Paid for by you. - John Fugelsang

Republican Upholds His Party's Tradition of Making Migrants Boogeymen
A Republican House member on Thursday relayed a baseless claim that there are illegal immigrants who’ve been wearing “big bulky coats” with AK-47s underneath them.

Here’s the deal: If you spent $3 on your coffee this morning, that’s more than what 55 major corporations paid in taxes in recent years.

It’s wrong — and it’s got to change. - President Joe Biden

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Odd News

• Tiny crab preserved in 100-million-year-old amber lived among dinosaurs
• Fantastic fireball over the Midwest was a failed Russian spy satellite
• Couple in flooded India region float to wedding in a cooking pot
• A South Florida puppy-snatching turned into a wild shootout.
• Women across the UK say they're being injected with needles in nightclubs and waking up with no recollection of what happened

Time To Deflate Photo

An incredible Mammatus clouds formation with anti-crepuscular rays of sunlight shining through, in Kansas, United States. That looks right out of The Wizard of Oz. Photo/Rob Darby


Peace.

Cheney: Bannon's actions suggest Trump was involved in Capitol riot planning

Cheney: Bannon's actions suggest Trump was involved in Capitol riot planning

..."Based on the committee’s investigation, it appears that Mr. Bannon had substantial advance knowledge of the plans for Jan. 6 and likely had an important role in formulating those plans. Mr. Bannon was in the war room at the Willard on Jan. 6...

I have to hand it to Liz Cheney for standing up to her dangerous colleagues in Congress.

Imagine if we lived in a country where a tiny minority of the population couldn’t  block progress for the majority. - Travis Allen

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• 'We’re Coming After You and Every Motherf***er that Stole This Election': Disturbing Threats Against 2020 Election Officials Air in Vivid Clip
• Walter Reed Medical Center on Lockdown Due to Reported Bomb Threat
• 'Taliban!' Fox & Friends Freaks Out Over Dire Threat Posed By Migrant Children
• MMA-trained Texas paramedic suspended after video shows him kicking homeless man in the head

Soldiers of the future will be computer hackers. - JCrongeyer tweet

Police All Over The Country Have Decided Not To Protect & Serve
Two suburban sheriffs said they would not send their deputies to Chicago to help with potential staffing shortages amid a feud between the mayor and a police union surrounding vaccine mandates.

The Republican Party promises to protect you from ANY politicians who are trying to protect you. - John Fugelsang

Republican Shenanigans

• Gaetz Dismisses House Jan. 6 Committee Investigating Capitol Riot and Steve Bannon as ‘a Uniquely Washington Obsession’
• Trump Statement Defending Jefferson's Legacy Flubs Key Detail, Calls Him 'Principal Writer' of the Constitution
• Liz Cheney Calls Out GOP Colleagues Before Bannon Contempt Vote: 'You All KNOW' Election Fraud Claims Are False
• Rudy Giuliani Cosplaying as Abe Lincoln Is Somehow More Unsettling Than That Sounds
• Travis Tritt Roundly Mocked for Going on Twitter Blocking Frenzy After Canceling Shows at Venues with Covid Safety Measures
• GOP lawmaker says he's prescribed ivermectin as COVID-19 treatment
• Meghan McCain Says Sarah Palin Was 'Set Up' for Failure by Her Dad’s Aides, Rips Nicolle Wallace and Katie Couric
• Fox's Neil Cavuto Off Air After Contracting Covid: 'Had I Not Been Vaccinated... This Would Be a Far More Dire Situation'
• Army reservist with 'Hitler mustache' demoted, discharged after Jan. 6 charges: report

This is a reminder that Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested the Parkland shooting was a 'false flag' event. - John Collins

Lock Ivanka Up!
A$6 billion federal program created to provide fresh produce to families affected by the pandemic was mismanaged and used by the Trump administration for political gain, a new congressional report has found.

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Rock The Voter News

• Joe Manchin has told associates that he is considering leaving the Democratic Party
• 1/6 Committee Chair Warns Those Thinking of Defying Subpoenas Before Bannon Vote: ‘You Are On Notice’
• Harris takes central role in climate fight
• McAuliffe rolls out ad featuring Obama ahead of campaign stop

Being the next president after the worst president in history was never going to be easy. - Middle Age Riot

Go Away, Joe.
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.) is defending Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (W.Va.), saying that while the Democrats are at odds with some in their own party over a sweeping spending bill, the pair are simply being “true to their own conscience.”

Just a casual reminder that in 1861, 11 Senators and 3 Representatives were expelled from Congress for failing to recognize Lincoln’s election and supporting insurrection. - Andrea Junker

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Business/Tech News

• A worker in Florida applied to 60 entry-level jobs in September and got 1 interview
• TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat executives to testify at Senate hearing on kids' safety
• Sustainable meat firm shuts down restaurants, retail operations after controversy
• Hawaii Is Officially Welcoming Tourists Back on Nov. 1

Tuesday: The military gets an extra $10 billion added to its $725 billion budget after ending a war.

Wednesday: The $9 billion-a-year plan for free community college is cut from the budget. - Dan Price

Zuckerberg Is Changing Facebook's Name. Like That Will Help. 

On Tuesday night The Verge reported that Facebook will rebrand its company name by the end of the month.

“The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28th, but could unveil sooner, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills that entail,” said the report, citing a source with direct knowledge.

New Facebook Logo

Zuckerberg should just go all in and rename it Fascistbook. - OhNoSheTwitnt

You can’t fix stupid, but you can numb it with a 2 x 4. - Betty White

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Odd News

• Vikings discovered America 500 years before Christopher Columbus, study claims
• Spokane Weather Report Inadvertently Airs 13 Seconds of Pornography
• Bear wanders into house, breaks computer monitor
•  Pig kidney attached to human found to work normally
• Florida Woman Shoots Former T-Mobile Boss After He 'Ruined Her Life' by Firing Her: Police

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The crystal clear tide pools at Botanical Beach, Juan de Fuca Provincial Park, south west coast of Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.

Peace.

FBI agents swarm Washington home of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska

FBI agents swarm Washington home of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska
FBI agents on Tuesday swarmed the home of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in Washington, D.C., an agency spokesperson confirmed to NBC News...Next door neighbor George Conway, the husband of former President Trump senior counselor Kellyanne Conway, walked over to the house on Tuesday afternoon to snap a photo of the law enforcement activity. Conway said he has never seen Deripaska at the home.

Remember when Steve Mnuchin tried to lift sanctions on Deripaska’s companies?

Yeah. Me too.

I think what's most important about the raid on multiple homes of Oleg Deripaska is it shows that Merrick Garland hasn't forgotten about 2016, Russia, Manafort, Giuliani, and the Trump campaign and he's not going to just let them get a pass. - BlackKnight10K tweet

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Jan. 6 panel lays out criminal contempt case against Bannon
• U.S. House committee rejects Bannon 'privilege' argument in Jan. 6 probe
• Iowa Democratic Party chair says he received multiple threats after op-ed critical of Trump
• ‘People Actually Die as a Result of Watching Fox News’: Mehdi Hasan Says Fox ‘Misinformation’ Led to Deaths in Iraq, Covid Pandemic
• Brian Stelter Blames Tucker Carlson and Fox News for 'Prolonging the Pandemic': 'It is That Simple and Awful'
• Russia records another daily record of deaths as COVID-19 continues surge

Trump woke up today thinking he was gonna have a nice relaxing day spitting his normal bile at fallen heroes and now one of his main Russian mob associates had his DC mansion raided by the FBI. Who’s next Donnie? My money is on Jared. - Noel Casler

More Russians!

A Russian businessman funded an account used by two ex-associates of Rudy Giuliani to donate to U.S. political campaigns, according to documents shown in court on Monday.

Prosecutors presented the financial records to a Manhattan federal court jury in the second week of the trial of one of the former associates, Lev Parnas, on charges of violating campaign finance laws.

When you see the behavior of the anti-vaxxers and the arrogant anti-science crowd, it’s remarkable humans ever escaped the darkness of the Middle Ages. - Steven Beschloss

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump Tramples on Colin Powell's Grave in Blistering Statement: 'A Classic RINO ... But Anyway, May He Rest in Peace!'
• Republican Congressman Says He Expects to Be Indicted
• Bill to ban employer vaccine mandates fails in Texas legislature
• Texas GOP approves redistricting maps amid Democratic outcry
• Texas residents rip teachers on Holocaust remark: 'There are not two sides to a genocide'
• Judge grants another sentencing delay to Gaetz associate, but says it will be his last
• Eric Trump Criticizes Joe Biden's Delaware Visit, Despite His Dad's Own Travel Schedule
• Meghan McCain Blames The View Exit on Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg's 'Toxic, Direct and Purposeful Hostility'

Trump released a statement on the death of Colin Powell specifically to spit on his grave. That's your choice for President of the United States? - Jeremy Newberger

El Chapo Refuses To Share Prison Cell With Steve Bannon. - Andy Borowitz

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden to take part in CNN town hall in Baltimore
• ‘We’re Talking’: Watch Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders Banter Awkwardly After Emerging from Negotiations
• Manchin climate stance threatens to shatter infrastructure bargain
• Passengers who did not intervene in sexual assault on train could face charges: report

Has anyone tried telling Joe Manchin that it's hard to burn coal under water? - Stephen Colbert

What are you bringing to the War on Christmas? - DesignationSix tweet

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Business/Tech News

• Complaints about spam texts were up 146% last year. Now, the FCC wants to take action
• Zillow slams the brakes on home buying as it struggles to manage its backlog of inventory
• FDA moves to allow hearing aids to be sold over-the-counter
• Elon Musk reclaims world's richest person title on Tesla stock gains

Change my mind: Almost every heartwarming story is actually a systemic failure papered over with individual kindness. - Dan Price

I'm Not Surprised. No Wonder Melinda Left Him.
Years before Microsoft's board investigated a romantic relationship that founder Bill Gates had with an employee, Gates was told by fellow executives to stop inappropriately emailing with a different employee, Microsoft (MSFT) confirmed on Monday.

Overheard: If paying a cashier a living wage will make prices go up. Why doesn't replacing cashiers with Self Checkouts make prices go down?

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Odd News

• Grateful Dead T-shirt auctioned for a record-breaking $17,640
• Fisher Price's Iconic Toy Telephone Now Actually Makes Phone Calls
• Scuba diver finds 900-year-old Crusader sword off the coast of Israel
• Vase purchased for $4.99 at thrift store valued at up to $15,000
• Dog helps lead game warden to suspect at Kansas lake
• Report: 21 survive plane crash outside Houston

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This is a semisubmersible boat that was captured yesterday, near Golfito, Costa Rica packed with cocaine. Good for the police!

Peace.