Joe Biden

It's been just over a week since the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) announced that they would begin working on a decision of whether to block President Joe Biden from receiving communion because of his political position on reproductive freedom. It isn't going over well, however.

Writing for the Washington Post on Sunday, EJ Dionne cited a Pew Research Center survey that despite Biden's views, "67 percent of U.S. Catholics still said that he should be allowed to receive communion; only 29 percent said he should not. Even among Catholic Republicans, 44 percent thought Biden should be able to receive. This put the majority of bishops not only on the extreme end of Catholic opinion generally but also at the far end of Catholic opinion even within the GOP."

Almost eight months after now-President Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in Wisconsin in the 2020 presidential election, the former president continues to falsely claim that he was the real winner in Wisconsin — and he is bashing the Wisconsin Republicans who refuse to join him in the Big Lie. In an article published by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on June 26, journalist Molly Beck takes a look at "divisions" among "Wisconsin Republicans over whether and how far to litigate the outcome of the 2020 presidential election."

Those divisions, according to Beck, were evident during the Wisconsin GOP's annual convention on June 26. A small group of delegates, Beck reports, want to oust Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, a Republican over the 2020 election. At the convention, Beck reports, Vos announced that he "was hiring, at taxpayer expense, a former conservative Supreme Court justice to oversee an investigation by retired police detectives into the election — the third such review Vos has called for."

Donald Trump had a public therapy session disguised as a campaign rally on Saturday night.

The former leader of the free world listed his numerous grievances, pushed ridiculous conspiracy theories, lied about his record in office, and complained about his perceived enemies during a long-winded speech in Ohio.

Former Donald Trump staffer Max Miller praised his former boss as a role model during a speech at the former president's campaign rally in Ohio.

"While Trump has made speeches at Republican events since his election defeat by Democratic President Joe Biden, the rally in a state he carried in the 2020 election marks a return to the kind of freewheeling mass gatherings that have been critical to retaining the support of his base," Reuters noted. "It also marks the start of his public events lashing out at elected Republicans who he views as having crossed him. He will campaign for former White House aide Max Miller, who has launched a primary challenge against Representative Anthony Gonzalez, one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump on a charge of inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by his supporters that left five dead including a Capitol Police officer."

Donald Trump on Saturday traveled to Ohio to give a campaign speech in what is being described as his "revenge rally."

One conspiracy believing Trump fan appeared to drive 500 miles for the event.

Supporters of Donald Trump were excited to see the start of his revenge tour against Republicans he deems insufficiently loyal as the Republican Party's civil war escalates.

By Friday morning, supporters of the former president were waiting in line for the Saturday night speech, WKYC-TV reports.

Advertisers are facing renewed calls to drop their spots on Tucker Carlson's primetime Fox News show, with customers and activists alike putting particular pressure on the United Services Automobile Association, an insurance company which primarily serves veterans and their families.

The push comes after a week in which Carlson used his considerable platform to disparage U.S. military leaders for promoting anti-racist education in service academies and make several racially charged statements, including the claim that a full-fledged race war, and even something similar to the Rwandan Genocide, awaited white Americans in the near future if such lessons were allowed to continue.

On June 24, supporters of former President Donald Trump were infuriated to learn that his former personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, had been suspended from practicing law in New York City — where the ex-NYC mayor once served as a federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow discussed Giuliani's suspension and other things affecting Trumpworld on her show on June 24, warning that the more frustrated Trumpworld feels, the more dangerous and "radicalized" it will be.

Maddow noted that Trump, in response to Giuliani's suspension, urged his followers to "take back America." And Trumpworld, Maddow added, also feels frustration because members of the Michigan State Senate have debunked "all the Stop the Steal conspiracy theories about how the election was stolen from Trump in Michigan" — while in Georgia, a judge appeared "to have blocked an effort by Trump supporters to arrange some sort of Arizona-style recount in Georgia."

Rep. Lauren Boebert's (R-Colo.) recent attempt to insult President Joe Biden took a turn for the worse when Twitter users flipped the script on her. On Friday, June 25, the conspiracy theory-supporting lawmaker tweeted: "Six months into this disaster presidency and I've yet to see a liberal be able to praise Joe Biden on his own merits."

"It's always 'But Trump' or 'But the GOP,'" she complained.

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A group that includes Texas House Democrats and legislative staffers is asking the Texas Supreme Court to override Gov. Greg Abbott's recent veto of a portion of the state budget that funds the Legislature, staffers there and legislative agencies.

Vice President Kamala Harris visited a border patrol facility near the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday and urged a focus on children and practical solutions to migration, in a trip meant to blunt Republican criticism of White House immigration policies.

The visit - her first since becoming vice president five months ago - came amid a rise in migrants caught crossing the border, which has sparked outrage from Republicans who favor the stricter immigration policies implemented by former President Donald Trump.