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Biden White House smacks down Marjorie Taylor Greene in a tweet

In an extremely unusual move for the Biden Administration, the White House responded to an attack on the President’s student loan forgiveness plan by U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene by announcing that the far right wing Georgia GOP Congresswoman had over $180,000 in PPP loans forgiven.

Highlighting the hypocrisy of Greene and other Republicans claiming it’s unfair to have loans forgiven at taxpayer expense, the White House also posted to Twitter that U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL), and other Republicans attacking the administration for its student loan forgiveness program, had massive PPP loans forgiven.

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Hypocrisy of Christian nationalism on display as GOP ignores Bible in its panic over student loans: columnists

The Republican outrage over President Joe Biden's student loan debt relief has exposed the hypocrisy of Christian nationalism, according to a new analysis by Time magazine.

"While President Biden’s announcement of student-debt forgiveness elicited shouts of joy from many of the 43 million Americans who could experience relief under his plan, Republicans have responded by declaring their opposition to the very idea of debt forgiveness," Bishop William Barber, Jr. and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove wrote in Time.

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Transgender connection to Marjorie Taylor Greene swatting call unclear as police investigate

Rome Police officers responded to the home of Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday after receiving a false report of a shooting. Nobody was injured in the incident.

Officers are calling it an attempted swatting, a harassment technique where the perpetrator attempts to summon a large number of armed police to a victim’s home to frighten or intimidate them.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene on student loans: Biden 'rewarding' people who 'want me murdered'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) claimed that President Joe Biden's move to forgive some student loans was "rewarding" people who want her "murdered" after a SWAT team was called to her home as a dangerous prank.

During a Wednesday night appearance on Real America's Voice, Greene was asked about Biden's new policy that will provide $10,000 in loan relief to many former students. Recipients of Pell grants could qualify for $20,000 in relief.

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GOP melts down over Biden's loan forgiveness after Trump filed for bankruptcy six times

Republicans have played up the idea that no American should be handed free money for student loan repayment. But a June NPR/Ipsos poll among American adults showed that 55 percent of Americans support giving the $10,000 in loan forgiveness to families making less than $125,000 a year.

The Republican House Judiciary committee posted a comment, "If you take out a loan, you pay it back. Period." They later ranted in all-caps, "NOTHING IS FREE."

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DOJ says it can't trust Trump's lawyers: report

The Department of Justice says it can't trust Donald Trump's lawyers due to the former president's frequent mind changes, according to The New York Times.

The New York Times report also noted that DOJ officials don't believe Trump's lawyers could speak with any authority for the former president because he often withholds information from his own representation.

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Florida postal worker mauled and killed by 5 dogs after her mail truck broke down

A Florida U.S. Postal Service worker is dead after she was attacked and mauled by 5 dogs, NBC News reports.

Pamela Jane Rock, 61, died Monday night at the hospital one day after the attack. At one point during the attack, a resident came outside and tried to get the dogs to disperse by firing a gun into the air, but was unsuccessful.

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'I picked up my gun': Marjorie Taylor Greene says she could have been 'murdered' by SWAT team

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) revealed on Wednesday that she immediately grabbed her gun when a SWAT team visited her home earlier that morning.

According to police reports, someone called 911 dispatchers with a report that a shooting had taken place at Greene's home early Wednesday morning. The tactic is known as "swatting."

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'He governed in a very peculiar way': Jared Kushner stumbles when asked if Trump was wrong to take Mar-a-Lago docs

Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner had some difficulty giving a direct answer on Wednesday when Fox News host Bill Hemmer asked if the former president made a mistake by taking top secret government documents with him to Mar-a-Lago.

During an interview in which Kushner promoted his new book about his work in the Trump White House, Hemmer asked him point-blank, "Did [Trump] make a mistake by taking that material to Florida?"

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Former US ambassador: 'No comparison' between Trump’s top secret docs and Hillary’s emails

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The raid on Mar-a-Lago was unprecedented – but that’s because it was unprecedented for former President Trump to leave the White House with stacks of classified and top-secret materials, according to former US ambassador Don Beyer. Now a congressman, Beyer remembers when he held a top-secret clearance, which is why he’s astounded sensitive government secrets were handled so cavalierly by Trump.

In the wake of this latest Trump scandal, Democrats now have a new opportunity to challenge the GOP’s self-anointed title of the “law and order” party, according to Beyer who is disgusted with all the anti-FBI rhetoric coming from Republicans these days.

“Completely reprehensible,” Beyer, a Virginia Democrat, told Raw Story in a phone interview this week. “They've always had an advantage for a long time over Democrats in terms of law enforcement, but they’re just giving it all away.”

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Missouri school district plans to bring back spanking children with a paddle

A Missouri school district told parents this Tuesday that a new corporal punishment policy approved back in June decision would soon be implemented.

According to the Springfield News-Leader, Cassville School District parents are being asked if they would like to opt their child in or out of the program.

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At least 25 candidates hand-picked by Gov. Ron DeSantis during his 'anti-woke' campaign won Florida primaries

A recent report from Mother Jones noted how Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) helped at least 25 candidates win their primaries on Tuesday night. Journalist Isabela Diaz reported on the governor's “Education Tour” in which he endorsed 30 candidates throughout Florida for school board races running on an "anti-woke" campaign.

In Sarasota, the school board was flipped from liberal to conservative. Christina Pushaw, the rapid response director for the governor's reelection campaign, tweeted about the win on Tuesday night. "Sarasota School Board had a 3-2 liberal majority," she wrote. "Today @RonDeSantisFL endorsed candidates won and flipped the school board so it’s now 4-1 anti wokes indoctrination and pro parental rights."

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Trump officials pushed FDA to rush COVID-19 vaccines — and wanted to investigate Fauci's emails as election stunt: report

The Trump administration pressured the Food and Drug Administration to authorize the first COVID-19 vaccines and unproven treatments for political purposes, according to a new report issued Democrats on the House select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis.

Senior administration officials fought for the reauthorization of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment, despite studies finding it was ineffective, and tried to block the FDA from collecting additional safety data for vaccines in a rush to get them out before the 2020 election, reported Politico.

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