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'More in common with the Taliban': Outrage erupts over state GOP's anti-Pride vitriol

The Colorado Republican Party wants all Gay Pride rainbow flags to burn to ash, according to a new report.

In a mass email titled “God Hates Pride” the state GOP made a call to flames, and castigated LGBTQ community as Pride month began on June 1, according to the local NBC affiliate 9News.

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Adam Schiff shades House Republicans with epic Sam Alito diss

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) hit House Republicans with an epic diss Tuesday as they grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland over their claims that the Department of Justice has been weaponized against Donald Trump.

Republicans at the House Judiciary hearing attacked Garland for everything from state charges against Donald Trump to ignoring GOP demands for the audio version of special counsel Robert Hur's interview with President Joe Biden.

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Mick Jagger hits DeSantis with vicious putdown as governor attends Rolling Stones concert

Rock legend Sir Mick Jagger took a sharp swipe Monday night at a high profile attendee of his Florida concert — Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida Today reports.

“We have some great local celebrities that have come tonight,” the Rolling Stones frontman said onstage at the Camping World Stadium. “Ron DeSantis is up there in the suite. He’s having a date night with Mickey Mouse. I’m so glad they finally made up.”

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Proud Boys leader who testified in Congress hit with Jan. 6 charges

Charges against a Proud Boys leader who testified to Congress have been unsealed by the Department of Justice.

Linking to the statement of facts, WBTV reported that Jay Thaxton, 50, faces five charges including "disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly or disruptive conduct in a capitol building or grounds; and obstructing or impeding passage in a capitol building or grounds."

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Watch: Ted Lieu demands apologies after GOP colleague seems to mock Biden's stutter

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) attacked his colleagues in the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, saying that they are endeavoring to humiliate President Joe Biden because he has a stutter.

Biden has long spoken about this stutter, explaining that he was able to overcome it by reading Irish poets aloud in the mirror for hours each day.

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'Just hilarious!' MTG's science gaffes mocked as 'The View' asks why she's on COVID panel

"The View" hosts were furious after watching the hearing in the House Monday.

Dr. Anthony Fauci testified before the House Oversight and Accountability Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Monday, where Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) refused to refer to him as a "doctor" and claimed that he should be in prison for "crimes against humanity."

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'Tirade': Matt Gaetz loses cool as he yells at Merrick Garland in Congress

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) lost his cool with Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday during a House Judiciary Committee.

Gaetz, who is still subject to an ethics investigation involving allegations that he trafficked an underage sex worker, yelled at Garland, "I have given my life to the law!"

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Kenneth Chesebro among Trump allies hit with new fake elector indictments in Wisconsin

Kenneth Chesebro, the architect of the fake elector's plot deployed by Donald Trump's campaign in an effort to overturn the 2020 election, has been indicted by the state of Wisconsin.

Chesebro joins James Troupis and Michael Roman in the indictment released Tuesday.

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'Crazy': Dr. Fauci sounds off against MTG's 'vitriol' during House hearing

A House Oversight meeting that saw Dr. Anthony Fauci sparring with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene unspooled in disarray the doctor believes is going to spawn death threats against him.

“You’re not a doctor, you’re Mr. Fauci in my few minutes” Greene declared. She also said he should be “in prison” for “crimes against humanity."

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'5-Alarm fire': GOP strategist says Trump is 'toast' if primary voters keep abandoning him

Former President Donald Trump is "toast" if Republican voters abandon him in the general election at anything like the rate they have been up until now in primary contests, wrote longtime Latino GOP political consultant and Lincoln Project co-founder Mike Madrid in a lengthy thread on X Monday evening.

This comes after Trump, who just became the first former U.S. president in history to be convicted on felony charges in New York, has continued to see high numbers of voters bolting in most contests to back former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, despite her having dropped out of the race months ago.

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'Big mistake': Republicans urge party members to keep quiet about  Trump conviction

Republicans ringing alarm bells over former President Donald Trump's criminal conviction are making a "big mistake" that could lose him the White House in 2024, their fellow party members say.

Trump's conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records has fellow Republicans decrying a rigged political system in support for the 77-year-old and his MAGA movement, but one lawmaker wishes they would cry a little less loudly.

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Mexican president-elect called 'less Jewish Jew' for thanking her husband — Jesús

An apparent language barrier led several English speakers on Monday to mistakenly claim Mexico’s first female president is “a less Jewish Jew” after she thanked her husband for accompanying her to the polls.

Monday, Mexican citizens elected Claudia Sheinbaum, a member of the leftist Morena party, as the nation’s first female president. According to the New York Times, Sheinbaum, a physicist and former mayor of Mexico City, “won a larger share of the vote than any other presidential candidate in decades, and her party and its allies are within reach of claiming big enough majorities in Congress to enact constitutional changes that have alarmed the opposition.”

Sheinbaum will be predominantly-Catholic Mexico’s first Jewish president. The president-elect has previously described her childhood as secular, telling Enlace Judío, a Mexican Jewish organization, “I grew up without religion.”

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Trump boasts guilty verdict 'outraged and motivated' Americans to give him $300M

Donald Trump's reelection campaign is rolling in the money, he says. And the 45th president isn't being bashful about it.

"RECORD AMOUNT RAISED FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN IN MAY ALONE – $141 MILLION IN SMALL DONATIONS,
ALMOST $300 MILLION OVERALL," reads the all-capped post by the presumptive Republican nominee.

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