McCarthy demands work requirements on ‘all the programs’ including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP

McCarthy demands work requirements on ‘all the programs’ including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP

Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is under fire after announcing Tuesday he is demanding work requirements for "all" social safety net programs as part of his debt ceiling "negotiations" with President Joe Biden.

Kevin McCarthy wants to add work requirements to Social Security and Medicare

How about adding some work requirements to the $2 TRILLION tax giveaway Trump passed for billionaires?

And some work requirements for the filthy rich bankers the American people keep bailing out?! - Lindy Li tweet

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• 'This Was a Coup': Trump Claims He Was the Victim of Overthrow Attempt
• Texas Gov. Abbott asks governors to fight Biden asylum rules
• Judge temporarily blocks NYC mayor from sending asylum-seekers to nearby county
• Miami-Dade police said they won't ask for paperwork in stops ahead of sweeping immigration law

SCOTUS Is Just Kicking The Ban Down The Road

The Supreme Court declined to immediately block Illinois’s assault weapons and high-capacity magazine bans, leaving them in place, for now.

A gun rights group and gun shop owner asked the justices to pause the law’s enforcement by intervening in the case ahead of an appeals court’s final ruling. The lawsuit also challenges an ordinance in Naperville, Ill., that bans the sale of assault rifles.

I am totally blind at the age of 51 currently and I don’t think anyone will hire me; should I go out and try to sell pencils or something? That sounds like Republicans want me to do. - David Conte tweet

Republican Shenanigans

• ‘Let’s Don’t Have Elections Anymore’: Alabama Senator Rages About Durham Report Findings, Demands People Go to Jail
• Republican primary winner mocks DeSantis: ‘Trump culture of winning is alive and well’
• 'You're Behind the 8-Ball': Hannity Tells RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel She's Not Doing Her Job Well Enough
• Jim Jordan, Mike Turner threaten CIA subpoena in Hunter Biden letter inquiry
• Matt Gaetz Body Shames Lizzo While Advocating For Bikini Clad Beer Ads: ‘Nobody Wants to Buy a Beer From’ Her
• Bill Barr Doesn’t Rule Out Giuliani Scheming with Trump to Sell Pardons: 'I Hope He Wouldn’t, But I Don’t Know'
• Lauren Boebert's Heartbroken Husband Says He Still Loves Her Despite Divorce
• Bannon Rips 'Epic Failure' John Durham For Lack of Prosecutorial Wins in Trump-Russia Probe
• Trump Classified Docs Attorney Quits Team Days After Trump Pops Off On Case At CNN Town Hall
• Trump Takes Credit for 'Getting Rid of Roe v. Wade' in Newsmax Interview
• Abortion pill fight comes to America’s most conservative appeals court 

33 years ago today, the General Assembly of the World Health Organization eliminated homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.

Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia still contagious though. - John Fugelsang

U.S. Secret Service Slackers? Probably.

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating how an intruder managed to enter the home of national security adviser Jake Sullivan in April without being detected by his security detail, the agency said Tuesday. 

The incident occurred in late April, when an unknown man, apparently intoxicated, walked into Sullivan's home in Washington, D.C., around 3 a.m., a U.S. law enforcement official said. Sullivan confronted him and told him to leave. The Secret Service detail outside, which consisted of more than two people, was not aware of the intrusion until Sullivan told them. There were no signs of forced entry and the intruder is still at large.

For the record, Tesla has received a subpoena demanding Elon Musk turn over "all Documents reflecting or regarding Epstein's involvement in human trafficking and/or his procurement of girls or women for consensual sex."

How is that not bigger news? - BlackKnight10K tweet

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden maintains edge over Trump in 2024 US election -Reuters/Ipsos poll
• Democrat Donna Deegan flips the Jacksonville mayor's office in a major upset
• Manchin pulls support for Biden energy nominee over appliance efficiency rules
• Democrat Introduces Resolution to Expel George Santos from House of Representatives
• More than 1M tax returns flagged for potential identity fraud: IRS

George Santos Pleads Nonexistent. - Andy Borowitz

Publishers, Authors, and Parents Sue Florida School District. Good.

Penguin Random House, authors, parents and an advocacy group filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a Florida school district for removing 10 books related to race and the LGBTQ community after a high school teacher complained.

First Marge got divorced, now Lauren Boebert. Someone offer their husbands a book deal. - Jane of the North tweet

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Business/Tech News

• Shell to use AI to boost deep sea oil output
• Elon Musk Calls Remote Work 'Bullsh*t' and 'Morally Wrong'
• 6 in 10 view AI as threat to humanity’s future: poll
• Influencer extradited to U.S. in connection with alleged $2 million romance scam, prosecutors say

If Elon Musk believes he’s that savvy and smart I would love for him to sit down with Jon Stewart. One hour. Nothing off limits. - Rex Chapman tweet

Prince Charles Was A Cruel Husband and King Charles Is A Cruel Father
Buckingham Palace had no comment after Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were involved in a "near catastrophic car chase" in New York City on Tuesday night..."Last night, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Ms. Ragland were involved in a near catastrophic car chase at the hands of a ring of highly aggressive paparazzi. This relentless pursuit, lasting over two hours, resulted in multiple near collisions involving other drivers on the road, pedestrians and two NYPD officers," a spokesperson for the couple said in a statement to PEOPLE.

I still remember that punch in the gut feeling the morning I woke up to find out that Donald was president and not Hillary. I still have that punched in the gut feeling. - gggirl1924 tweet

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Odd News

• Modern humans arose after 2 distinct groups in Africa mated over tens of thousands of years
• 'Lost' bacteria found on Neanderthal teeth could be used to develop new antibiotics
• 1.7 billion Tyrannosaurus rexes walked the Earth before going extinct, new study estimates
• Snake slithers into Texas substation, knocks out power for 16,000
• Australian strongman spins Ferris wheel with his bare hands
• Florida woman searches for owner of dentures found on ocean floor

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The traffic lights in Akureyri, Iceland, have heart-shaped designs intended to evoke positive feelings among drivers.

Peace.

CIA launches video to recruit Russian spies

CIA launches video to recruit Russian spies

The Central Intelligence Agency has launched a new effort to capitalize on what US intelligence officials believe is an “unprecedented”...

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Marsha Blackburn: 'All along it was Hillary Clinton' colluding with Russians for her defeat
• 'Ever Think You'd Hear That On CNN? It DOES Exonerate Donald Trump!' Fox & Friends Applauds Jake Tapper Over Durham Report
• Bipartisan group calls for investigation into Comer's remarks about missing whistleblower
• Russian national charged in cyberattacks on critical US infrastructure

Evangelical Christians are actively trying to bring about the end of the world so they can be Raptured, and everyone else can burn.

We are literally up against an insane death cult. - USASingers tweet

The Durham Report According To The Primary Investigator
Andrew McCabe responded defiantly to John Durham’s special counsel report, trashing its legitimacy and arguing that he couldn’t find anything new to impugn the FBI...McCabe proceeded to summarize Russia’s attempts to meddle with American institutions over the past several years, and “we knew” part of their campaign involved the theft and weaponization of information to damage Hillary Clinton’s candidacy. McCabe tied this to former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos bragging to an Australian diplomat that Russia had dirt on Clinton

So let me get this right..

Durham spent 4 years to write a love letter to Trump and still failed miserably? - Woman In The Moon tweet

Republican Shenanigans

• 'Just Insane To Me!' Florida Teacher Being Investigated Over Disney Movie Torches 'Don't Say Gay' Policy
• DeSantis Fires Back After Trump's Attack on 'Harsh' Abortion Ban: 'I Was Proud to Do It, He Won’t Answer Whether He’d Sign It'
• Marjorie Taylor Greene: House Republicans 'plan to punish' FBI and DOJ
• Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will move to impeach US attorney for DC
• Mace: Biden should cancel Asia trip to focus on debt ceiling negotiations
• Hawley opens up about wife’s miscarriage in new book ‘Manhood’
• E. Jean Carroll Lawyer Tells Maddow Trump's CNN Attacks 'Definitely Actionable' And 'He's Not Going To Get Away With It'

Florida just banned everything I teach at the university level. If legislators bothered to take my class, they’d learn that backlash events like this always coincide with white supremacist vigilante & state violence. Then again, they may already know. - Dr. William Horne

America's Former Mayor Is About To Become America's Pay Her

A former associate of Rudy Giuliani sued the former New York mayor, presidential candidate and attorney to Donald Trump for $10m on Monday, alleging “abuses of power, wide-ranging sexual assault and harassment, wage theft and other misconduct” including “alcohol-drenched rants that included sexist, racist and antisemitic remarks”.

Filed in New York state, Noelle Dunphy’s suit includes the allegation that Giuliani “often demanded oral sex while he took phone calls on speaker phone from high-profile friends and clients, including then-President Trump”.

Not to be a downer (read: realist) but the person who filed the suit about Giuliani has so much dirt on so many people that some Harlan Crowe is going to back up a dump truck of money, unload it on her doorstep, and make her suit go away at whatever price required. - The Hoarse Whisperer tweet

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It’s kind of ironic that Rudy was so worried about the email lady. - nashishereforit tweet

Rock The Voter News

• Obama Tells CBS the 'Divided Media' Keeps Him Up at Night: 'We Almost Occupy Different Realities'
• Biden ‘re-evaluating,’ may cut Asia trip short
• Biden vetoes bipartisan resolution resuming solar tariffs
• Schwarzenegger: Newsom White House bid ‘a no-brainer’

I’m not watching any Rudy sex tapes. You people don’t pay me enough. - Ron Filipkowski tweet

Will SCOTUS Protect Trump? Hell, Yeah!
The Supreme Court said Monday that it will consider whether House Democrats can sue to get information from a federal agency about its lease for the Old Post Office building in Washington, D.C., that was awarded to a company owned by former President Donald Trump.

Trump threatened to beat DA Alvin Bragg with a baseball bat

An assailant beat 2 staffers of a Democratic Congressman with a baseball bat

Kevin McCarthy joked about hitting Pelosi with a gavel

A MAGA extremist smashed Paul Pelosi‘s skull with a hammer

The ROT starts at the TOP. - Lindy Li tweet

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Business/Tech News

• Biden administration may halt plans to move Space Command to Alabama over state's abortion law.
• California Assembly passes first-in-nation bill to ban five toxic chemicals from food products
• Fox News, Dominion deny Tucker Carlson ouster a condition of settlement
• 'Soros Hates Humanity': Elon Musk Launches Personal Attack on Jewish Billionaire After He Sells Tesla Stock

New Twitter CEO Demands to Work from Home After One Day in Office With Musk. - Andy Borowitz

GOP: Them Moochers Gotta Work For Food!
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday said work requirements for public assistance programs are a nonnegotiable in debt ceiling talks, laying out one of his first hard stances ahead of an afternoon meeting with President Biden and other top congressional leaders.

John Fetterman just asked the Silicon Valley Bank CEO if there should be work requirements for CEOs who crash banks and dear reader, I almost fell out of my chair. - Adam Jentleson tweet

On this day in 1986, Top Gun opened in American movie theaters. The film wasn't just a box office hit — it also generated a 500 percent increase in U.S. Navy flight training applications.

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Odd News

• Webb telescope spots water in rare comet
• How to See the Moon's Ghostly 'Da Vinci Glow' Phenomenon
• Mysterious lights in California sky identified as satellites
• Creepy dolls among unusual Texas beach discoveries headed for auction
• Florida police attempt to wrangle alligator, discover it's made of sand

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British Imperial Airways.This is what it was like to travel inside a commercial plane in 1936 when everyone had a window seat.

Peace.

Biden says he’ll meet with McCarthy on Tuesday to talk debt ceiling

Biden says he’ll meet with McCarthy on Tuesday to talk debt ceiling
President Biden told reporters that he is meeting with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday to resume talks about the debt limit and avoiding a default.

They didn't produce a budget. What they did was produce a ransom note. That's what the 'default on America act' is. And effectively, what they're saying to the people is either you accept these dramatic cuts or accept a catastrophic default. - Speaker Hakeem Jeffries

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

• Rep. Connolly (D-VA) staffers attacked in district office by baseball bat-wielding assailant
• Biden Warns Of White Supremacy 'Terrorist Threat' — 'Black History Being Erased' In Howard HBCU Grad Speech
• DoJ wins request to block Trump deposition in lawsuit from former FBI agents over critical texts
• Marine who put homeless man in deadly chokehold is 'Good Samaritan', says Ron DeSantis
• US homeland security chief says border crossings are down 50% since Title 42 expiration
• Texas sends more migrants to vice president’s house
• US jets intercept six Russian warplanes near Alaska

Donald Trump said he would issue pardons to people who stormed the US Capitol, and no one batted an eye. - Tim Hannan tweet

This Sorta Sounds Significant. FBI Raids Trump Tower Condos Owned By Russians.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has raided a condo owned by two Russian businessmen at one of the three Trump Towers on Sunny Isles Beach in Florida.

A squad of FBI agents, assisted by local police, carried out the raid on Thursday morning at the luxury beachfront high-rise...

If a black marine had choked and killed a white guy on the subway would republicans be fundraising for the killer? - JCrongeyer tweet

Republican Shenanigans

• 'Just Stunning!' Maria Bartiromo Blown Away by James Comer Saying His Committee Lost Biden Investigation Informant
• 'They are missing': Marjorie Taylor Greene confirms GOP has lost several Biden 'whistleblowers'
• Nikki Haley Lets Trump Skate on Sexual Abuse Verdict in Stunning Dodge on CBS: 'There's Been an Appeal'
• Chuck Todd Doubts DeSantis’ Political Strategy: ‘I Don’t Know If Trump Supporters Accept the Premise That They’ve Been Losing’
• Rick Perry Doesn't Rule Out Another Run For White House: 'We'll See How This All Works Out'
• Josh Hawley Claims The Left Thinks There 'Something Inherently Wrong With Masculinity' and it 'Contributes to Climate Change'
• Trump Delivers Heartwarming Mother's Day Greeting to the 'Mothers, Wives and Lovers of the Radical Left Fascists, Marxists, and Communists'
• Trump attacks Kaitlan Collins over CNN town hall: ‘Not exactly Barbara Walters’
• 'Trump's Sexual Abuse Makes The Senator Want To Vote For Him Twice!' Jen Psaki Amazed By GOP Reaction To Trump Verdict
• Eric Trump Speaks at Extreme-Right Conference Alongside Pizzagaters and an American Idol Castoff Who Claims Celebs Drink Children's Blood
• Christianity Today Editor Quotes Jesus To Explain Why He'd 'Never' Vote Trump
• 'Answer the F*cking Question!' Mary Trump Lays Out Plan To Handle Trump At Town Hall
• Village People Slaps Trump With Cease and Desist Following Recent ‘Macho Man’ Mar-a-Lago Performance

The Morning After pill should be available by mail in every single corner of this country that Viagra ships to. - lanechanged tweet

Friendly reminder as we get into hotter weather: she's not dressed like a slut, you just think like a rapist. - Mohamad Safa tweet

The groomers aren’t in our schools.

They are in the churches. - John Collins

Mexican Ambassador Calls Out Racist Republican Senator

Mexican Ambassador to the United States Esteban Moctezuma excoriated Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) over a derogatory statement he made at a Senate hearing last week.

While prodding Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Anne Milgram to endorse U.S. military and law enforcement action in Mexico, Kennedy said that “without the people of America, Mexico, figuratively speaking, would be eating cat food out of a can and living under a tent behind an Outback.”

Donald Trump's tax cuts for the obscenely wealthy are responsible for a QUARTER OF OUR NATION'S ENTIRE DEBT and Republicans want to cut YOUR social security to pay for it, and that's what this debt ceiling bullsh*t is all about. f-ing unacceptable. - Jeff Tiedrich

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Rock The Voter News

• Biden Cracks Wise To Media Over Calmer-Than-Expected Border During Weekend Bike Ride
• Joe Biden spotted at Penn graduation for Hunter's daughter as corruption claims swirl
• Democrats ‘Are Literally Praying’ For Kari Lake to Run For Senate While GOP Scurries to Recruit More Electable Candidates

It Is Terrifying Watching DeSantis Erase History Taught In Public Schools

Eliminating references in some Florida social-studies textbooks about social justice and the death of George Floyd has teachers concerned the state is doing a disservice to students, who — in learning about such issues — can understand history in real-time lessons that they can relate to.

Steve Bannon: Trump’s your daddy. He owns you right now.

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Business/Tech News

• Enes Kanter Freedom Rips Elon Musk Censoring Twitter at Turkish Government's Whim: 'Literally Bowing Down to a Dictatorship'
• Co-workers could bear costs of accommodating religious employees in the workplace if Supreme Court tosses out 46-year-old precedent
• DeSantis: Companies like Google ‘exercising way more power than Standard Oil ever did’
• NYC skyscrapers turning to carbon capture to lessen climate change

If you’re ever wondering why the next 40 years are sucking, remember a former game show host convicted for sexual assault appointed one third of the Supreme Court. - Zack Bornstein tweet

Fox News MAD Biden Spoke To Black People
Fox News was not happy with President Joe Biden’s commencement address to Howard University, which one Fox host called “pandering” and led another to declare America the “least racist country in the world.”

Earth is orbiting a star at 18.64 miles per second (30 km/s), that star is orbiting the center of the galaxy at 155.34 miles per second (250 km/s), and that galaxy is moving through the universe at a rate of 372.82 miles per second (600 km/s). Isn't that mind-boggling? - J.T. Aquin tweet

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Odd News

• Human DNA can now be pulled from thin air or a footprint on the beach. 
• Meteorite hunters race to find rock for $25k reward
•  'STOP IT!' Taylor Swift Interrupts Own Song To Defend Fans From Aggressive Concert Security
• Florida researcher breaks world record for living underwater
• Teen uses slingshot to fend off kidnapper who tried to nab his 8-year-old sister
• Lost boy and his dog found wandering road in Louisiana. The dog led cops to his home

Time To Deflate Photo

The Epidendrum floribundum orchids are happy faces with hats.

Peace.