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How Secession Became America’s Favorite Idle Threat POLITICO 12/16/2020 © AP Photo/LM Otero 201216_shafer_secession_ap.jpg “Perhaps law-abiding states should band together and form a Union of states that will abide by the constitution,” Texas Republican Party Chairman Allen West stated in a press release last week, all but promising to restart the Civil War. What got West so riled was the Supreme Court’s speedy rejection of his state’s lawsuit, which called for the court to toss...

© AP/Mary Altaffer Edward Snowden via uplink from Moscow Amid mounting speculation that President Trump is about to announce a list of presidential pardons, calls for — and against — NSA whistleblower Edward Snowdens name to be included are growing louder. In November, as is customary, Donald Trump pardoned a turkey for Thanksgiving. Now, in the lame duck session of his presidency, he appears to be making a customary list of people to pardon as well. Influential and well-connected publica...

Left and Right Unite in Calls for Snowden Pardon Amid Speculation of a Trump Decision Comments Amid mounting speculation that President Trump is about to announce a list of presidential pardons, calls for — and against — NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s name to be included are growing louder. In November, as is customary, Donald Trump pardoned a turkey for Thanksgiving. Now, in the lame duck session of his presidency, he appears to be making a cu...

Never Trumpers: Trump, Giuliani and Texas AG ‘Electoral Terrorists’ 11 Dec 2020 Renowned anti-Trump activists, including members of the Lincoln Project, which led a campaign intimidating lawyers representing the Trump campaign, are celebrating the Supreme Court’s decision to dismiss a legal challenge to the 2020 election results filed by the State of Texas as they rip into supportive Republicans across the board. “Don’t ever forget Republicans TRIED to overthrow this election,” wrot...

Biden AND Kamala Harris are awarded Time Person of the Year for 2020 over Trump and frontline COVID workers - despite ONLY the president-elect being on the shortlist Time magazines 2020 Person of the Year was announced as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on Thursday Time said they chose the pair for their victory over Trump, in which they ousted an incumbent president for just the 10th time in US history Harris is the first Vice President-elect to be named Person of the Year  Frontline health care...

Right now, children are dying. >> because you want to have crossfire. >> and theyre totally defenseless. >> between teacher and mass shooter. >> the only one firing is the bad guy. i want someone firing other than the bad guy. >> you want them to shoot it out in school. frank, your thoughts. >> thats ludicrous. >> welcome back to "am joy," that was some of my attempted conversation with florida republican mat gets from earlier this morning. on saturday, the florida state senate passed a measure ...

Than steel. its a very minor source of american steel. we import about 30 million tons a year, we make 70 million tons and we export about 12 million tons. canada will be much more deeply hurt, so will britain. and whats strange about this, joy, is that under american law, title 10 of our federal codes, canada, britain, and australia are considered part of the united states for manufacturing purposes for national defense like steel. >> wow. and so we just put up the top suppliers of steel to the...

Noticed that at a tab open, japanese or non-european, as creepy as it sounds part of the internet erupted, but he had an explanation for this. "believe it or not, my kids and i were trying to convince my wife that tentacle porn existed. i cannot find any and ended up with this, my family reads my twitter feed, so they know this is true." well, of course, searching for hard-core porn with your kids. well, easy to mock a lot of that and americas doing that right now. for real, this is a troubled m...

Bridges, repealing obamacare, ought to have a family member die in agony, because he wants to see them tortured. at the left responds with glee, "newsweek" gets clicks, msnbc gets viewers. they are exploiting him. it is cool. so are the supposedly news organizations, plea, for real, stop kurt eichenwald before he tweets again. he will thank you later for that if you do. while, there has been a lot of leaks at the executive branch, and jim comey openly admitted to being the source of one of them....

Supposedly her real name, is accused of leaking classified surveillance of russian hackers. the documents addressed an effort to penetrate u.s. election software, though, not to change vote totals. not that the details matter in this case. the whole thing sounds sinister. that was the point of the leak, to add to the that trump somehow is a foreign agent. reality winner seems like the kind of person who might want to make the point. take a look at her twitter account. it contains a constant stre...