Roberts delays handover of Trump tax returns to House panel

Roberts delays handover of Trump tax returns to House panel

Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday put a temporary hold on the handover of former President Donald Trump's tax returns to a congressional committee.

Roberts' order gives the Supreme Court time to weigh the legal issues in Trump's emergency appeal to the high court, filed Monday.

Donald Trump could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone and our corrupt Supreme Court would block every investigation. - Jeff Tiedrich

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• 'What Is WRONG With These People?' Stunned Jake Tapper Destroys Republicans Joking — And 'Lying' — About Pelosi Attack
• 'Dear Lord Yes!' Daily Show's Jordan Klepper Says Elon Musk 'Bullsh*t' on Pelosi Attack Will Absolutely Spread and Derail Truth
• Don Lemon Rips 'Vile' Laughter From Kari Lake's Audience After Joke About Paul Pelosi Attack
• ‘I Know Enough to Smell a Rat’: Megyn Kelly Casts Doubt on San Fran PD's Narrative About Paul Pelosi Attack
• Whoopi Goldberg Blames Fox News for Political Violence in Wake of Pelosi Attack: ‘Some of This is On Your Hands’

The attack on Paul Pelosi originated with the exact same conspiracy theories as the January 6th attack on the US Capitol Building. Same rhetoric.  Same madness. Same cause. Same delusions. The same violence. 

Republicans won't condemn it, because they want MORE of it. - Stonekettle tweet

Will Trump Testify Or Nah?

The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection is “in discussions” with former President Donald Trump’s attorneys about testifying under oath in the probe, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the vice chairwoman of the panel, said Tuesday.

Schoolhouse Rock never prepared us for this sh*t. - John Collins tweet

Republican Shenanigans

• Ted Cruz Calls Out Trump for Not Opening Up His War Chest to Support Republicans in Tight Races: He's Got $100M and is 'Spending Almost None of it'
• Election Denier and GOP Nominee in Arizona Has Twitter Account Restored After Complaining to Elon Musk
• Whoops! Pennsylvania Senate Candidate Oz Tells Hannity the State Borders the Atlantic Ocean – It Doesn’t
• Judge tosses Meadows's suit fighting Jan. 6 subpoena
• Arizona’s Libertarian Senate Candidate Quits and Endorses Masters
• FiveThirtyEight Now Forecasts to 50/50 Odds That Republicans Will Win Back the Senate

“Liz Cheney and I are not brave. We are just surrounded by cowards”

- Rep. Adam Kinzinger

My, My, My, Fortune 500 Corporations Are Funding Election Denier Candidates. We Are So Screwed.

Lawmakers who voted against certifying the results of the 2020 election have raised more than $13 million from Fortune 500 companies since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to a data analysis by ProPublica.

John Roberts delays handing over Trump’s tax returns to Congress

Clarence Thomas temporarily blocked Graham’s testimony helping him run out the clock

Amy Coney Barrett just got a $2 million book deal

Kavanaugh was never vetted by the FBI

& they wonder why we don’t trust them? - Lindy Li tweet

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Rock The Voter News

• White House says all must call out political violence after Pelosi attack
• Justice Jackson Recused Herself From a Supreme Court Case. Your Move, Clarence Thomas!
• Stephen Colbert Taunts Donald Trump With 2 Things About Barack Obama He'll 'Never Have'

Brazil kicked fascism’s ass and we get our turn on November 8th. - Beks tweet

This Judge Is Optimistic About Abortion Rights 
A North Dakota judge ruled Monday that he will keep the state's ban on abortion from taking effect, saying there's a "substantial probability” that a constitutional challenge to the law will succeed.

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Business/Tech News

• One-third of Millennials behind on retirement savings: survey
• US manufacturing plummets to lowest level since 2020
• More than 40 lawmakers urge U.S. Soccer to comply with probe into culture of abuse
• Online requests for abortion pills spiked after Roe was reversed: study

Elon rolls out Twitter Platinum™️ for $49.99/month you can edit other people’s posts. - NotHoodlum tweet

I Wonder If Musk Pays Overtime Wages?

Staff at Twitter have been clocking up much longer hours than usual since Elon Musk took over, CNBC reported. This comes as staff face the looming threat of layoffs amid the tech mogul's planned overhaul of the company.

Twitter managers have told some staff to work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week — equivalent to 84 hours a week — to meet Musk's deadlines, CNBC reported, citing internal communications.

I've seen Elon Musk in a bathing suit.

Good thing he's rich. - Kona Lowell tweet

IKEA needs to provide better descriptions on their furniture like, what is the divorce rate on assembling this tv stand? - Jessie tweet

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Odd News

• Scientists Just Discovered an Entirely New Way of Measuring Time
• Extreme Climate Activists Declare 'Pause' on Defacing Priceless Art with Soup, For Now — Threaten 'Escalation' in Coming Days
• Massive Brawl Breaks Out at Women's Soccer Match Between LSU and Ole Miss
• TikTok chefs assemble world's largest sushi roll
• Swedish aquarium's escaped cobra returns home on its own

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The Architect who never went to school.

Peace.

CBS Anchor Margaret Brennan Absolutely Destroys GOP Rep. Over #FirePelosi Video: 'You’re Shooting A Gun! Our Viewers Just Saw It!'

CBS Anchor Margaret Brennan Absolutely Destroys GOP Rep. Over #FirePelosi Video: 'You’re Shooting A Gun! Our Viewers Just Saw It!'

Face the Nation anchor Margaret Brennan absolutely fricasseed Republican Congressman Tom Emmer over a #FirePelosi post featuring video of him firing a gun, repeatedly blocking his attempts at evasion.

Let. This. Sink. In.

There was an assassination attempt against the Speaker of the House and the Republican Party will not condemn it. - Tea Pain tweet

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Paul Pelosi attacker charged with alleged assault, attempted kidnapping
• Trump FINALLY Condemns Paul Pelosi Attack, Declares Dem-Run Cities ‘Far Worse Than Afghanistan’
• Ben Collins Sounds Alarm After Elon Musk Fuels Lies About Pelosi Attack: 'Start of Something that Gets Really, Really Bad'
• Ainsley Earhardt Defends Elon Musk Sharing Wild Conspiracy About Pelosi Attack as 'Free Speech'
• Donald Trump Jr. Mocks Paul Pelosi Attack With Tasteless Halloween Costume Suggestion
• Pence Connects Trump’s Election Denial to Jan. 6 In New Book: ‘The Seeds Were Being Sown for a Tragic Day in January’
• Medford woman allegedly described Capitol riot as 'first shot ... of the revolution'

This election day fight like a Ukrainian, vote like a Brazilian, and save our democracy like an American. - Greg Buster

Viva Lula!

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was elected president of Brazil in a runoff election that remained tight until its final moments.

Silva, formerly a prisoner over corruption charges, ran against right-wing incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro and won with just just over 50 percent of the vote,

I send my congratulations to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on his election to be the next president of Brazil following free, fair, and credible elections. I look forward to working together to continue the cooperation between our two countries in the months and years ahead. - President Biden tweet

Republican Shenanigans

• Arizona's Republican AG Slams ‘Horsesh*t’ 2020 Election Denial: 'I am Not Like the Clowns... It's Like a Giant Grift'
• Kanye West Gives Thumbs Up to Herschel Walker
• Joe Rogan and Dr. Phil Hype Danger of Halloween Candy Fentanyl Before Producer Tells Them Story May Be Fake
• Rick Scott: ‘I don’t know one Republican’ in favor of slashing retirees’ benefits
• Mark Levin Tears Up Pictures of MLK, Abraham Lincoln and the American Flag in Rant Furiously Insisting Republicans LOVE Those Things
• Charlie Kirk Promotes TPUSA Mens Summit: “We Deprive you of Calories, of Sleep, We Break You … You Learn How to Become a Man”
• Kemp leading Abrams by 7 points in Georgia governor race: survey 
• Warnock, Walker deadlocked in Georgia Senate race: poll
• Abbott beating O’Rourke by 6 points in Texas governor race: survey

If Republicans would stop inciting violence crime might go down. - JRubinBlogger tweet

Hmm, Putin Is Hiring Former Afghan Fighters?

Afghan special forces soldiers who fought alongside American troops and then fled to Iran after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal last year are now being recruited by the Russian military to fight in Ukraine, three former Afghan generals told The Associated Press.

They said the Russians want to attract thousands of the former elite Afghan commandos into a “foreign legion” with offers of steady, $1,500-a-month payments...

"Father’s Day must be really confusing for Herschel Walker. Also every other day."

-- Stephen Colbert

GOP’s America: where if you can survive the mass shootings, your reward is a $40,000 medical bill. - Steve Hofstetter

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Rock The Voter News

• Fetterman leading Oz by 5 points in Pennsylvania Senate race: survey
• Biden, Obama to hold rally in Philadelphia on Saturday
• Kelly tops Masters by 6 points in Arizona Senate race: poll 
• CDC director tests positive for COVID again

John Fetterman: “I've got green bananas that have been in Pennsylvania longer than Dr. Oz.”

Trump's Tax Returns Must Be Bad. Real Bad.
Former President Trump filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court Monday after a lower court declined to reverse its ruling mandating that he turn over his tax records to the House Ways and Means Committee. 

Governor Gretchen Whitmer: “If you don’t think the right to choose is an economic issue, you don’t have a uterus.”

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Business/Tech News

• Biden to suggest new tax on oil companies amid windfall profits
• Beyond spills, intentional dumping of oils fouls the world's oceans
• Elon Musk named sole director of Twitter, dissolves board
• Murphy calls for national security review of foreign investors in Musk Twitter acquisition consortium
• Elon Musk’s Twitter to Charge Verified Users $20 Per Month to Keep the Blue Check, Per Report

$20 a month to keep my blue check? F*ck that, they should pay me. If that gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron. - Stephen King

The Stock Market Is Doing Great

Stocks slipped on Monday, but the Dow capped off its best month since 1976 and all the major averages snapped a two-month losing streak...Markets made a huge comeback in October. The Dow guided those gains, soaring 13.95% for the month. The 30-stock finished its best month since 1976 as investors bet on more traditional companies, like banks, to lead the next bull.

This Halloween, I'll be giving all my candy to the richest child in the neighborhood. I'm sure it will trickle down to all the other kids. - Jeff Tiedrich

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Odd News

• ‘Planet killer’ asteroid spotted hiding in the sun’s glare
• Switzerland's 6,253-foot-long train breaks world record
• Flying man spots woman clinging to submerged car in a South Florida canal
• Man slices through apples while bouncing on pogo stick for world record
• Car wash chain becoming 'Tunnel of Terror' for Halloween night

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Mama Bear has her baby's back.

Peace.

More details emerge in attack on Pelosi's husband

More details emerge in attack on Pelosi's husband

"The suspect pulled the hammer away from Mr. Pelosi and violently assaulted him with it," San Francisco's police chief said, referring to Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi's husband.

Reportedly shouted 'Where is Nancy?' 

Attacked with a hammer in his home. Undergoing brain surgery. It was not a matter of if, but when, something like this would happen. We're in a bad place. - Don Lewis

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• A judge sentenced a Capitol rioter to more than 7 years in prison, saying he'd assaulted Officer Michael Fanone like 'he was your prey'
• Jan. 6 committee to seek interviews with Secret Service officials
• Jan. 6 committee members see surge in fundraising
• Russia stole from a Ukrainian crypt the bones of Catherine the Great's lover, the conqueror who annexed Crimea and inspired Putin

January 6 isn't over. They tried to kill Pelosi that day, and she's still in danger.

This won't end until every single person involved is brought to justice. Every. Single. One. - Tristan Snell

Yeezy Come, Yeezy Goes Up In Smoke.

A Florida man burned his Yeezy shoe collection on social media in protest of antisemitic remarks made by Kanye West.

Danny Shiff, who runs an investment and development firm in Miami Beach, told NBC Miami his family owns 45 pairs of Yeezy's between them. Since October 17, Shiff's been setting his Yeezy collection on fire and posting videos of the burning shoes to Instagram and TikTok.

Imagine you were the richest man in the world and that your number one priority was to allow the two most racist and well known public figures back on the world’s largest platform, knowing full well they would use it to spread more hate. If that isn’t evil, I don’t know what is. - Jack Hopkins

Republican Shenanigans

• ‘Going to be ugly’: All signs point to Republican landslide in Florida
• Trump taunts Ron DeSantis, sharing a video claiming the Florida governor would be destroyed trying to run against him
• Roger Stone tells Ron DeSantis that it would be 'ingratitude and treachery' to run against Trump in 2024
• 'SCUMBAG!' Keith Olbermann Goes All The Way Off on Joe Scarborough For Attacking Fetterman's Disability
• Judge considers stopping Phoenix ballot drop box watchers
• University of Florida faculty has ‘no confidence’ in Sasse as potential president
• Donald 'Trump Force One' back in Palm Beach County

Can we just talk for a minute about how broken inside and needy you have to be to name your plane Trump Force One. - Jeff Tiedrich

Jurors Chosen For Trump Co. Fraud Trial
Donald Trump's company is about to be tried on tax-fraud charges before a jury that is mostly minority, mostly male, and that includes two men who the defense tried — and failed — to challenge due to their stated qualms about the former president.

If men could get pregnant, we'd be the United States of Abortion. - Middle Age Riot

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden's midterm closing message: Republican economic plans would 'create chaos'​​
• Biden predicts student loan forgiveness checks will go out within two weeks
• Record-high 56 percent say local crime has increased: Gallup

Fox is trying really, really, really, really, really, hard to spin the Pelosi attack as a “crime is out of control in CA” story. - Ron Filipkowski

Federal Judge Ponders Revealing More Of Trump's Crimes
A federal judge is considering whether to unseal secret court documents detailing former President Donald Trump’s effort to prevent former aides from providing testimony to a grand jury investigating efforts to subvert the 2020 election.

The US media’s repeated references to the Trump-Russia ‘Dossier’ as ‘discredited’ are sloppy journalism. Despite a blow torch of politically-motivated criticism, the main tenets of it, including on collusion, have held up well. And few, if any, of the details have been disproven. - Christopher Steele

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Business/Tech News

• Auto prices finally begin to creep down from inflated highs
• Treasury Chief Yellen Tells CNN No 'Signs of a Recession' After Strong GDP Report
• Penguin Employees and Others Sign Open Letter Demanding Publisher Spike Amy Coney Barrett Memoir Over Abortion Vote
• Trump Celebrates Elon Musk Twitter Takeover — But Claims Truth Social Has 'Bigger Numbers' Than 
• TikTok
• Racist, antisemitic tweets quickly spread after Musk Twitter takeover

In the 5 years after Trump was elected in 2016, the number of recorded threats against members of Congress increased more than 10-fold. So far this year, the threats continue to mount. - Robert Reich

Twitter Founder To Launch Rival. This Should Be Interesting.

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's new Bluesky Social app is now accepting users for beta testing, and is set to launch "soon".

The highly anticipated social media project has been described as a rival to Twitter (TWTR) and is set to challenge existing social media platforms like Facebook (META), Instagram and Snapchat (SNAP).

I just bought some Diet Pills from Dr Oz!

i'm Pregnant! - John Pettigrew tweet

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Odd News

• Scientists Astonished by Strange Material That Can Be Made Like Plastic but Conducts Like Metal
• Giant inflatable duck breaks free of moorings, escapes Maine harbor
• Cameras Left by Famed Yukon Explorers Found 85 Years Later: 'So Surreal and Validating'
• Receding waters along Mississippi River reveal old casino riverboat
• Woman sues over ban on feeding homeless people in parks

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The Pinnacles in the Gunung Mulu National Park, Malaysia. They look like pointy headed ghosts in sheets.

Peace.