The Gateway Pundit, a right-wing website known for spreading election conspiracies, will declare bankruptcy as it faces lawsuits for defamation. ... Those lawsuits include one from the Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who sued the organization in Missouri, where it is based, after the website perpetuated false claims that the two had been involved in election fraud in Georgia.
Republican Senator Thom Tillis called one of his House colleagues a "waste of time", a bad leader, and a threat to the future of the GOP, according to a recent report. CNN's Erin Burnett played an audio recording of the senator trashing Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene during her show on Tuesday. "I think she's uninformed, she is a total waste of time," Tillis says on the recording. "She is a horrible leader. She is dragging our brand down. She -- not the Democrats -- [is] the biggest risk to us getting back to a majority."
When asked by[CNN's Dana] Bash if she believed there should be exceptions for rape and incest, [South Dakota Governor Kristi] Noem, a potential VP on the GOP ticket, replied: "We rely in South Dakota on the fact that I am pro-life and we have a law that says there is an exception for the life of the mother, and I just don't believe that a tragedy should perpetuate another tragedy." read more
President Biden on Tuesday trolled former President Trump on the fourth anniversary of him suggesting Americans inject bleach during the COVID-19 pandemic. read more
Celebrating the decline in Ukraine's capabilities without American help, prominent propagandists started to refer to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson as "our Johnson," in a similar vein to claiming Trump as their own, calling him "our Trump" or affectionately referring to him as Trumpushka. When Speaker Johnson finally advanced the long-stalled aid package and the House approved $61bn of desperately needed foreign aid for Ukraine -- including a measure to allow the sale of frozen Russian sovereign assets to help Ukraine's war effort -- the disappointment in Moscow was palpable. read more
Pumpkinhead showed up to ogle Virginia Foxx.