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• MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE HTS THAT KEV MCCARTHY IS GAY ON TUCKER CARLSON’S SHOW
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• KEV MCCARTHY JT SIGNED A SUICI PACT WH DONALD TMP ON IMPEACHMENTTHE AL PUTS MCCARTHY A DAMNED IF HE DO, DAMNED IF HE DON’T POSN.ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGKEV MCCARTHY AND DONALD TMPSPEAKER OF THE HOE KEV MCCARTHY DON’T WANT TO ENDORSE DONALD TMP FOR PRINT YET. SO HE STEAD PROMISED THAT THE HOE WOULD EXPUNGE BOTH IMPEACHMENTS AGAST THE FORMER PRINT—AND DO SO BEFORE THE AUGT RECS. RECS BEGS LS THAN TWO WEEKS.POLI’S PLAYBOOK REPORTED ON MCCARTHY’S PLEDGE TO THE TWICE-IMPEACHED, TWICE-DICTED, AND LIABLE-FOR-SEXUAL-ABE FORMER PRINT WHO NOW FAC A LIKELY THIRD CRIMAL DICTMENT. MCCARTHY HAS SO FAR CLED TO ENDORSE TMP AND LAST MONTH EXPLICLY SAID THAT TMP MAY NOT BE THE STRONGT REPUBLIN NDIDATE FOR 2024. HE HAS LIKELY AVOID AN ENDORSEMENT EFFORTS TO PROVI VER TO ALL MEMBERS OF HIS UC, NOT PLACG PRSURE ON ANY OF THEM, PECIALLY THE VULNERABLE ON, TO GET BEHD THE SERIAL-CRIMAL NDIDATE.BUT MCCARTHY’S REFAL TO ENDORSE FURIATED TMP, WHO FUMED, “HE NEEDS TO ENDORSE ME—TODAY!” ON HIS WAY TO A MPAIGN EVENT NEW HAMPSHIRE, TO WHOEVER WAS AROUND TO HEAR. SO, TO QUELL THE FORMER PRINT, MCCARTHY PLEDGED THAT HE WOULD GET THE HOE TO VOTE TO EXPUNGE THE TWO IMPEACHMENTS AGAST HIM, AND THAT THEY’D GET DONE BEFORE THE AUGT RECS. AND WHILE THE AL MIGHT’VE GOTTEN MCCARTHY SOME TIME, AS PLAYBOOK WR, “STAVG OFF A PUBLIC WAR WH THE MAN WHO ALMOST SGLE-HANDLY REHABILATED [MCCARTHY’S] ENTIRE REER AND ENSURED HE WON THE GAVEL JANUARY,” THE AGREEMENT PUTS MCCARTHY A DAMNED IF HE DO, DAMNED IF HE DON’T SUATN.THERE ARE 18 HOE REPUBLINS WHO WON 2022 DISTRICTS THAT JOE BIN WON. MOST WOULD BE HIGHLY DISCENTIVIZED, ELECTORALLY, TO VOTE FOR ANY ROLUTN THAT EXPUNG BOTH, EVEN ONE, OF THE IMPEACHMENTS AGAST THE FORMER PRINT. TWO REPUBLIN HOE MEMBERS HAD VOTED TO IMPEACH TMP. AND WHOUT THE MEMBERS, ANY ATTEMPT TO EXPUNGE THE IMPEACHMENTS WOULD FAIL. SO MCCARTHY IS A BD: EHER MAKE GOOD ON HIS WILD PROMISE TO THE MAN WHO HELPED HIM SECURE THE SPEAKERSHIP TO EXPUNGE HIS IMPEACHMENTS—AND CREASE THE RISK OF LOSG THAT SPEAKERSHIP—OR GO BACK ON THE PLEDGE AND WELE THE LEADG NDIDATE’S WRATH.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKDONALD TMP HASN’T LOST HIS SUPERPOWER MOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/JULY 20, 2023/2:17 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYMARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE MAY HAVE SENT HUNTER BIN NUS TO A BUNCH OF MORSTHERE ARE LAWS ABOUT NOT DOG THIS.ANNA MONEYMAKER/GETTY IMAGIN HER SPERATN TO PROVE WRONGDOG BY HUNTER BIN, REPRENTATIVE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE MAY HAVE SENT HIS NU PHOTOS TO MORS.THE HOE OVERSIGHT COMMTEE HEARD TTIMONY ON WEDNDAY OM TWO IRS AGENTS WHO SAY THE DEPARTMENT OF JTICE DRAGGED S FEET ON VTIGATG THE YOUNGER BIN FOR TAX D. THE HEARG PRODUCED ZERO ACTUAL EVINCE, SO STEAD, GREENE TRIED TO CLAIM THAT BIN ENGAGED SEX TRAFFICKG AND LISTED PAYMENTS TO SEX WORKERS AS A TAX WRE-OFF.TO SUPPORT HER ARGUMENT, SHE HELD UP POSTER-SIZE PRTS OF BIN’S NU PHOTOS, WHICH WERE TAKEN OFF HIS LAPTOP. NOT ONLY WERE HER ACTNS WILDLY APPROPRIATE—OVERSIGHT CHAIR JAM COMER DID NOT REPRIMAND HER, THOUGH—BUT SHE MAY ALSO HAVE VLATED D.C. REVENGE PORN LAW.AND NOW, GREENE MAY HAVE EMAILED THE NUS TO MORS. THE GEIA REPRENTATIVE EMAILED HER NSTUENTS WEDNDAY EVENG CLAIMG SHE HAD NFIRMED BIN WAS GUILTY OF SEX TRAFFICKG AND TAX D (SHE HAD NOT). THE EMAIL CLUD A VIO THAT SHOWED HIS NUS.MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE JT SENT THIS EMAIL TO HER NSTUENTS (Y THIS G OFFICIAL, TAXPAYER-FUND ROURC). I CLICKED THE LK SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO, IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU THK — AARON FRSCHNER (@FRSCHNER) JULY 19, 2023 THERE IS NO SCREENG FOR AGE WHEN SIGNG UP FOR GREENE’S EMAIL NEWSLETTER, SO ANY MORS WHO SUBSCRIBE—SUCH AS FOR A SOCIAL STUDI PROJECT OR SIMPLY TO STAY UP TO DATE—HAVE NOW RECEIVED NUS OM THEIR NGRSWOMAN. IF THAT IS THE SE, THEN GREENE WOULD NOT ONLY HAVE VLATED HER STATE’S REVENGE PORN LAW, BUT SHE ULD ALSO HAVE BROKEN FERAL LAWS BANNG THE DISTRIBUTN OF OBSCENE MATERIAL TO MORS.HOE REPUBLINS, LED BY COMER, HAVE FOR MONTHS ACCED THE BINS OF RPTN AND OTHER FORMS OF WRONGDOG, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE YET TO PRODUCE ANY ACTUAL EVINCE. THE HEARG ON WEDNDAY WAS MEANT TO FOC ON HUNTER BIN’S PLEA AL OVER HIS TAX, WHICH WILL ALLOW HIM TO AVOID JAIL TIME.IRS AGENTS GARY SHAPLEY AND JOE ZIEGLER TTIFIED BEFORE THE OVERSIGHT COMMTEE ABOUT HUNTER BIN’S ALLEGED WRONGDOG. JAMIE RASK, THE OVERSIGHT RANKG MEMBER, HAD WARNED EARLIER WEDNDAY, HOWEVER, THAT SHAPLEY AND ZIEGLER HAVE ALREADY “UNRMED THIS REPUBLIN NARRATIVE” THEIR PREV POSNS.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKREPUBLINS BRG THEIR WAR ON TRANSGENR AMERINS TO THE PENTAGONMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/JULY 19, 2023/9:21 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYDARK BRANDON AD VOICED BY NONE OTHER THAN MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE GO VIRALTHE MPAIGN AD REACHED MORE THAN 35 LN VIEWS LS THAN A DAY. KEN CENO/UPI/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGPRINT JOE BIN“JOE BIN HAD THE LARGT PUBLIC VTMENT SOCIAL ASTCTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS, THAT IS ACTUALLY FISHG WHAT FDR STARTED, THAT LBJ EXPAND ON, AND JOE BIN IS ATTEMPTG TO PLETE,” MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE SAID AT THE NSERVATIVE TURNG POT ACTN NFERENCE OVER THE WEEKEND.EXCEPT … SHE MEANT ALL AS AN SULT?THE TOPSY-TURVY LOGIC WAS NOT MISSED BY THE BIN WHE HOE, WHICH PASTED GREENE’S REMARKS TO A 35-SEND VIO, CLIPPED WH VIOS OF BIN AND VICE PRINT HARRIS SURROUND BY FACTORY WORKERS, OFFICERS, RTRANT WORKERS, MEN HARD HATS AND NSTCTN VTS, AND SG FANS MEETG THE PRINT.GREENE ALSO NOTED SOME OF THE OTHER PROGRAMS THE BIN ADMISTRATN HAS FOCED ON, CLUDG ON “TO ADDRS TN, MEDIL RE, URBAN PROBLEMS, RAL POVERTY, TRANSPORTATN, MEDIRE, MEDIID, LABOR UNNS,” ADDG THAT “HE STILL IS WORKG ON .”“I APPROVE THIS MSAGE,” BIN’S ACUNT TWEETED ALONGSI THE VIO.I APPROVE THIS MSAGE. — JOE BIN (@JOEBIN) JULY 18, 2023 AS OF LATE AFTERNOON WEDNDAY, THE VIO HAD AMASSED 35 LN VIEWS—SEND ONLY TO A VIO BIN RELEASED APRIL ANNOUNCG HIS REELECTN BID, WHICH HAS OVER 45 LN VIEWS.GREENE’S ROYALTY-EE ENDORSEMENT OF BIN ME BEFORE ANOTHER CUR FAVOR FOR DEMOCRATS. TODAY, THE GEIA REPUBLIN SAID ON THE HOE FLOOR THAT “WHEN EVINCE AND PROOF OF A CRIME IS PRENTED, NO PROSECUTN SHOULD BE NIED, NO MATTER WHO THE PERSON IS.”IN OTHER NEWS, TWICE-IMPEACHED, TWICE-DICTED, AND RAPIST FORMER PRINT DONALD TMP NOW FAC A LIKELY THIRD CRIMAL DICTMENT.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKSONIA SOTOMAYOR’S BOOK SNDAL IS BANAL AND TROUBLGMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/JULY 19, 2023/8:49 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYWOMAN SUG TEXAS OVER ABORTN BAN VOMS DURG TRIAL AFTER RELIVG TRMAWELE TO THE REPUBLIN PARTY’S AMERI.RICK KERN/GETTY IMAG FOR THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTSTHE PLATIFFS SUG TEXAS OVER S RADIL ABORTN BAN AND THEIR LEGAL TEAMWOMEN WHO SUFFERED MEDIL PLITNS AFTER BEG NIED ABORTNS TEXAS ARE NOW HAVG TO RELIVE THE TRMA OF THEIR JURI AND AD BABI AS THEY PLEAD THEIR SE AGAST THE STATE. WELE TO THE REPUBLIN PARTY’S AMERI.ON WEDNDAY, WOMEN WHO ARE PART OF A 15-PERSON (BOTH PATIENTS AND DOCTORS) LAWSU AGAST THE STATE OF TEXAS, RETURNED BACK TO URT TO CHALLENGE THE STATE’S EXTREME ABORTN BAN.TEXAS IMPLEMENTED A NEAR-TOTAL ABORTN BAN SEPTEMBER 2021, EVEN BEFORE ROE V. WA WAS OVERTURNED BY A SUPREME COURT NOW FOUND TO HAVE NEARLY HALF S JURISTS EMBROILED SNDAL AND RPTN. THE BAN PROHIBS ANYONE OM GETTG AN ABORTN UNLS THEIR LIFE IS AT RISK—NO EXCEPTNS FOR A FET VELOPG AN ANOMALY THAT WOULD PREVENT OM SURVIVG PAST BIRTH. DOCTORS FACE LIFE PRISON AND F OF UP TO $10,000 IF THEY ARE FOUND SUPPORTG AN ABORTN PROCRE.THE WOMEN CHALLENGG THE BAN WERE SENTIALLY FORCED TO RELIVE THEIR TRMA, AND AT ONE POT, THE URT WAS FORCED TO TAKE A BREAK AFTER A PLATIFF BEGAN VOMG ON THE WNS STAND WHILE REUNTG HER OWN EXPERIENCE.SAMANTHA CASIANO VOMED WHILE RETELLG THE STORY OF HOW SHE WAS NIED ACCS TO AN ABORTN AFTER HER BABY WAS DIAGNOSED WH ANENCEPHALY, A BIRTH FECT WHICH A BABY IS BORN WHOUT PARTS OF THE BRA AND SKULL. CASIANO SAID SHE HAD TO WATCH HER BABY DIE AFTER GIVG BIRTH.CASIANO’S TTIMONY WAS JT ONE OF THE HEARTBREAKG STORI TOLD ON WEDNDAY.ONE OF THE LEAD PLATIFFS, AMANDA ZURAWSKI, TTIFIED THAT SHE WAS IALLY EXCED TO BEE PREGNANT. BUT HER WATER BROKE PREMATURELY AT ABOUT 18 WEEKS, MEANG THE FET WOULDN’T SURVIVE—AND HER LIFE WAS AT RISK IF SHE ULDN’T GET AN ABORTN. UNR THE REPRSIVE NEW LAWS, A TEXAS HOSPAL REFED TO HELP HER UNTIL SHE BEME MUCH SICKER. THANKS TO THE REPUBLIN-MA LAY, ZURAWSKI VELOPED SEPSIS. PEOPLE WHO SUFFER OM SEPTIC SHOCK HAVE A MORTALY RATE OF UP TO 40 PERCENT, AND EVEN AFTER REVERG, SEPSIS STILL RRI A FATAL RISK.IN OTHER WORDS, REPUBLINS ARE DIRECTLY RPONSIBLE FOR ZURAWSKI’S LIFE BEG ON THE LE EVEN TODAY.AND IF SHE WOULD LIKE TO BEE PREGNANT AGA, HER FERTILY HAS BEEN DAMAGED AS A RULT OF THE SEPSIS SHE VELOPED WHILE NSTANTLY BEG TURNED AWAY OM THE HOSPAL. ONE OF HER FALLOPIAN TUB REMAS PERMANENTLY CLOSED.TTIFYG URT WEDNDAY, ZURAWSKI REUNTED, TEARS, ABOUT BEG NIED AN ABORTN WHEN HER WATER BROKE AND DOCTORS CLARED HER PREGNANCY NONVIABLE. POLI REPORTER ALICE MIRANDA OLLSTE REPORTS THAT THE STATE SIMPLY OBJECTED, LLG THE NIGHTMARISH TTIMONY “IRRELEVANT.”THE JUDGE OVERLED.ZURAWSKI THEN SAID SHE WAS ONLY ABLE TO OBTA AN ABORTN AFTER GOG TO SEPTIC SHOCK. AGA THE STATE OBJECTED, LLG ZURAWSKI’S SCRIPTN OF WHAT DOCTORS TOLD HER “HEARSAY.”THE STATE OF TEXAS NTUED S ASSLT AGAST THE WOMAN—AS IF THE ORIGAL ATTACK ON HER WASN’T ENOUGH—APPARENTLY EFFORTS TO FD SOMEONE ELSE TO BLAME FOR HER SUFFERG.THE ARE JT A TASTE OF THE MISERY AND SUFFERG TEXAS REPUBLINS HAVE NOT ONLY OVERSEEN BUT ACTIVELY BROUGHT TO REALY.GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT, THE REPUBLIN-NTROLLED STATE LEGISLATURE, AND EVEN SENATORS TED CZ AND JOHN CORNYN HAVE ALL PED FOR THE ABORTN BAN THE STATE NOW HAS. AND THE ARE THE BLOODY, MD-NUMBG NSEQUENC.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKOH REPUBLINS’ DEV PLOT TO STOP VOTERS FROM LEGALIZG ABORTNMOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/JULY 19, 2023/8:25 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYREPUBLINS HAVE SO LTLE HUNTER BIN EVINCE THEY SHARED HIS NUS INSTEADMARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE WAVED THE PHOTOS AROUND A NGRSNAL HEARG.DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAG REPRENTATIVE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENEREPUBLINS HAVE YET TO PRODUCE ANY EVINCE OF ACTUAL WRONGDOG BY HUNTER BIN, SO THEY LET MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE WAVE HIS NU PHOTOS AROUND WEDNDAY DURG A HOE OVERSIGHT COMMTEE HEARG ON HIS TAX.HOE REPUBLINS HAVE FOR MONTHS ACCED THE BINS OF RPTN AND OTHER FORMS OF WRONGDOG, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE YET TO PRODUCE ANY ACTUAL EVINCE. THEY’VE RECENTLY SEIZED ON HUNTER BIN’S PLEA AL ON HIS TAX, WHICH WILL ALLOW HIM TO AVOID JAIL TIME. BUT AGA, DURG THAT HOE HEARG, REPUBLINS AND THEIR “WHISTLEBLOWER” WNS FAILED TO SHOW ANY MEANGFUL EVINCE OF SAID RPTN.SO STEAD, GREENE TRIED TO CLAIM THAT BIN ENGAGED SEX TRAFFICKG AND LISTED PAYMENTS TO SEX WORKERS AS A TAX WREOFF. AS PART OF HER ARGUMENT, SHE HELD UP POSTER-SIZE PRTS OF BIN’S NU PHOTOS, WHICH WERE TAKEN OFF HIS LAPTOP.MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE IS CURRENTLY DISPLAYG NU IMAG OF HUNTER BIN DURG A NGRSNAL HEARG — NIKKI MCNN RAMíREZ (@NIKKIMCR) JULY 19, 2023 EVERYONE ELSE THE ROOM GREW VISIBLY UNFORTABLE AS GREENE DISPLAYED PHOTO AFTER PHOTO. AT ONE POT, DEMOCRATS TERJECTED, POTG OUT THAT GREENE HAD GONE OVER HER ALLOTTED TIME AND WARNG THAT HER ACTNS WERE NOT APPROPRIATE. BUT HOE OVERSIGHT CHAIR JAM COMER, WHO HAS SPEARHEAD THE VTIGATN TO THE BINS, DID NOT REPRIMAND GREENE.NOT ONLY WAS GREENE’S CISN TO WAVE BIN’S NUS AROUND WILDLY APPROPRIATE FOR A NGRSNAL HEARG, BUT MAY ALSO HAVE VLATED D.C. REVENGE PORN LAW. CY LAW PROHIBS KNOWGLY DISCLOSG ONE OR MORE SEXUAL IMAG OF AN INTIFIED OR INTIFIABLE PERSON WHEN THE PERSON THE PHOTO DID NOT NSENT TO THE IMAGE BEG SHARED.THIS ISN’T THE FIRST TIME REPUBLINS HAVE SHARED HUNTER’S NUS, BUT BLOWG THEM UP ON A POSTER FOR A NGRSNAL HEARG IS A NEW LOW. OVERSIGHT RANKG MEMBER JAMIE RASK TORE TO REPUBLINS AT THE BEGNG OF THE HEARG, NOTG THAT THE MAJORY PARTY HAD NO EVINCE. EARLIER THE DAY, HE WARNED THAT THE TWO WNS HAD ALREADY “UNRMED THIS REPUBLIN NARRATIVE” THEIR OWN PREV POSNS.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKCOULD JAM COMER POSSIBLY GET MORE EMBARRASSG? (UM, Y.) MOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/JULY 19, 2023/6:42 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYRASK TEARS INTO GOP HUNTER BIN HEARG AND STAR FUGIVE WHISTLEBLOWERREPRENTATIVE JAMIE RASK BRILLIANTLY BUNKED REPUBLINS’ HUNTER BIN NSPIRACY THEORI.ANNA MONEYMAKER/GETTY IMAGREPRENTATIVE JAMIE RASKREPRENTATIVE JAMIE RASK ME OUT SWGG WEDNDAY AT THE START OF THE HOE OVERSIGHT COMMTEE’S HEARG WH TWO IRS AGENTS ON SUPPOSED RPTN THE BIN FAY.HOE REPUBLINS, LED BY OVERSIGHT CHAIR JAM COMER, HAVE FOR MONTHS ACCED THE BINS OF RPTN AND OTHER FORMS OF WRONGDOG, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE YET TO PRODUCE ANY ACTUAL EVINCE. THEY’VE RECENTLY SEIZED ON HUNTER BIN’S PLEA AL OVER HIS TAX, WHICH WILL ALLOW HIM TO AVOID JAIL TIME. IRS AGENTS GARY SHAPLEY AND JOE ZIEGLER TTIFIED BEFORE THE OVERSIGHT COMMTEE ABOUT HUNTER BIN’S ALLEGED WRONGDOG.RASK, THE MTEE’S RANKG MEMBER, TORE TO BOTH REPUBLINS AND THEIR STAR RMANTS DURG HIS OPENG REMARKS. “I THOUGHT WE MIGHT BE HERE TODAY ON THE MATTER THAT THE CHAIRMAN CLARED HIS TOP PRRY—THE CSA TO FD EVINCE OF WRONGDOG BY PRINT BIN—BUT NOW, THE MAJORY’S LONG-PROMISED STAR WNS TURNS OUT TO BE A FUGIVE OM AMERIN JTICE,” HE SAID.RASK WAS REFERRG TO GAL LUFT, WHOM COMER HAS TOUTED AS A KEY RMANT. LUFT WAS CHARGED LAST WEEK WH ACTG AS A FOREIGN AGENT FOR CHA, VLATG U.S. SANCTNS AGAST IRAN, AND ARMS TRAFFICKG.“ONE THG YOU WILL NOT HEAR TODAY IS ANY EVINCE OF WRONGDOG BY PRINT JOE BIN OR HIS ADMISTRATN,” RASK NTUED. “LIKE EVERY OTHER TRY BY OUR LLEAGU TO NCT A SNDAL ABOUT PRINT BIN, THIS ONE IS A PLETE AND TOTAL BT.”“IN FACT, THE ONGOG SE THAT THE MAJORY V TO TERFERE WH TODAY IS ACTUALLY A STRIKG ILLTRATN OF THE SUCCS OF THE AMERIN SYSTEM OF PENNT PROSECUTORS OPERATG UNR THE LE OF LAW AND OUTSI THE REALM OF THE KD OF POLIL FLUENCE MY LLEAGU ARE TRYG TO EXERCISE TODAY.”HERE'S JAMIE RASK BUNKG THE GOP'S HUNTER BIN NSPIRACY THEORI SWEEPG FASHN UNR 2 MUT — AARON RUPAR (@ATPAR) JULY 19, 2023 HE REMD REPUBLINS THAT THE VTIGATG FERAL PROSECUTOR, DAVID WEISS, WAS APPOTED BY DONALD TMP AND HAND-PICKED TO LEAD THE VTIGATN BY THEN–ATTORNEY GENERAL BILL BARR (ALSO A TMP APPOTEE). RASK ALSO POTED OUT THAT ONCE JOE BIN TOOK OFFICE, HE DID NOT LL THE VTIGATN A “WCH HUNT”—A CLEAR JAB AT TMP—BUT STEAD LET THE PROBE PLAY OUT.RASK WARNED EARLIER WEDNDAY THAT SHAPLEY AND ZIEGLER HAD ALREADY “UNRMED THIS REPUBLIN NARRATIVE” PREV POSNS.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKCOULD JAM COMER POSSIBLY GET MORE EMBARRASSG? (UM, Y.) MOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/JULY 19, 2023/6:05 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYJUDGE E. JEAN CARROLL CASE: Y, DONALD TMP IS A RAPISTA JUDGE REJECTED TMP’S SEMANTIC ATTEMPT TO THROW OUT THE SE.MAR TAMA/GETTY IMAGON WEDNDAY, TMP’S REQUT FOR A NEW TRIAL THE E. JEAN CARROLL SE, AFTER HE WAS FOUND LIABLE FOR SEXUAL ABE, BATTERY, AND FAMATN, WAS REJECTED. AND HIS SPERATE ATTEMPT TO AVOID ACUNTABILY, THE TWICE-IMPEACHED AND TWICE-DICTED FORMER PRINT MAY HAVE UNTENTNALLY ALLOWED HIMSELF TO NOW BE FORMALLY KNOWN AS A RAPIST.TMP’S TEAM HAD REQUTED A NEW TRIAL THE SE, ARGUG THAT THE $5 LN DAMAG HE WAS ORRED TO PAY CARROLL WAS EXCSIVE, BEE HE WAS ONLY CHARGED WH SEXUAL ABE. THE JURY HAD NOT FOUND THAT TMP “RAPED” CARROLL, A TALKG POT TMP’S TEAM OFTEN PARROTED.BUT JUDGE LEWIS KAPLAN LLED TMP’S SEMANTIC ARGUMENT “ENTIRELY UNPERSUASIVE.” HE CLARIFIED THAT THE JURY FOUND THAT THE FORMER PRINT DID ED “RAPE” CARROLL BASED ON THE MON FN OF THE WORD.KAPLAN NOTED THAT NEW YORK PENAL LAW (THE JURY THE CARROLL SE WAS BASED NEW YORK) HAS A “FAR NARROWER” FN OF THE WORD “RAPE” THAN “MON MORN PARLANCE, S FN SOME DICTNARI, SOME FERAL AND STATE CRIMAL STATUT, AND ELSEWHERE.”“THE FDG THAT MS. CARROLL FAILED TO PROVE THAT SHE WAS ‘RAPED’ WH THE MEANG OF THE NEW YORK PENAL LAW DO NOT MEAN THAT SHE FAILED TO PROVE THAT MR. TMP ‘RAPED’ HER AS MANY PEOPLE MONLY UNRSTAND THE WORD ‘RAPE,’” KAPLAN WROTE.“INED, AS THE EVINCE AT TRIAL REUNTED BELOW MAK CLEAR, THE JURY FOUND THAT MR. TMP FACT DID EXACTLY THAT [RAPE, AS ‘MONLY’ UNRSTOOD].”“A UNED STAT DISTRICT JUDGE HAS NOW FORMALLY HELD, A LENGTHY WRTEN OPN, THAT IS PERFECTLY APPROPRIATE, AND, ED, ENTIRELY ACCURATE, TO LL A CERTA FORMER PRINT OF THE UNED STAT A RAPIST,” NOTED GEE CONWAY, LAWYER AND HBAND TO FORMER TMP AI KELLYANNE CONWAY.ALL THAT TO SAY, BASED ON THE LEGAL LANGUAGE, A RAPIST—FOR THE THIRD PRINTIAL CYCLE A ROW—IS LEADG THE 2024 REPUBLIN PRIMARY. SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKPAY ATTENTN TO WHAT YOU SEE: DONALD TMP IS LOSG HIS MARBLMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/JULY 19, 2023/5:04 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYREPUBLINS’ DEADLY PLAN TO BLOCK BIN FROM DECLARG A CLIMATE EMERGENCYTHOANDS OF PEOPLE ARE GOG TO THE E.R. AMID RERD-BREAKG HEAT WAV. BUT REPUBLINS DON’T THK THIS IS A REAL EMERGENCY. ATRICK T. FALLON/AFP/GETTY IMAGA BILLBOARD DISPLAYS A TEMPERATURE OF 118 GRE DURG A RERD HEAT WAVE PHOENIX ON JULY 18.WEDNDAY MARKS THE TWENTIETH DAY A ROW THAT PHOENIX ECLIPS 110 GRE FAHRENHE—AND THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS ARE PROJECTED TO MATA THE RERD-BREAKG HORROR. THOANDS OF TEXANS HAVE BEEN GOG TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM BEE OF HEAT ILLNS. AND A ROTATG ST OF SOME 100 LN AMERINS HAVE BEEN UNR HEAT WAVE AND SMOG ALERTS FOR OVER A MONTH.AMID ALL THAT, REPUBLINS ARE TRYG TO STOP THE PRINT OM BEG ABLE TO CLARE A NATNAL EMERGENCY OVER CLIMATE CHANGE. LAST MONTH, A GROUP OF REPUBLINS TRODUCED A BILL, SULTGLY KNOWN AS THE “REAL EMERGENCI ACT,” TO PREVENT PRINT JOE BIN OM MOBILIZG THE NATN TO TAKE NECSARY ACTN TO STAVE OFF LIFE-THREATENG CLIMATE CHANGE.AS THE LEVER NOT, “IF BIN WERE TO CLARE A NATNAL EMERGENCY OVER CLIMATE CHANGE, HE ULD TAKE AGGRSIVE ACTN TO CUT FOSSIL FUEL PRODUCTN AND SPEED UP CLEAN ENERGY MANUFACTURG BY REIMPOSG THE BAN ON C OIL EXPORTS, HALTG OIL AND GAS LEASG, VTG PUBLIC TRANS ASTCTURE, AND REQUIRG PRIVATE PANI TO MANUFACTURE RENEWABL.”THIS KD OF STRONG, LLECTIVE ACTN—TO STAND UP AGAST FAT-T FOSSIL FUELS, TO MAKE OUR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATN ACTUALLY SERVE THE PUBLIC, TO MAKE OUR SYSTEMS AND TH LIV CLEANER—IS WHAT REPUBLINS ARE FURLY OPPOSG.AND THE DO-NOTHG REPUBLINS ARE BUTTRSED BY THEIR FOSSIL FUEL IENDS WHO HAVE KNOWN FOR S THE CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS OF THEIR VAMPIRISTIC ACTIVI—AND HAVE KEPT ON DRILLG ANYWAY.THE BILL WAS TRODUCED BY WT VIRGIA REPUBLIN SENATOR SHELLEY MOORE CAPO AND TEXAS REPUBLIN REPRENTATIVE AUGT PFLUGER.AS WE NOTED TUDAY, PFLUGER’S OWN DISTRICT HAS BEEN AT THE CENTER OF SOME OF THE MOST SEVERE HEAT THE UNTRY—, AGA, A STATE SENDG THOANDS OF PEOPLE TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM. YET HE HAS BEEN BY G TAXPAYER-FUND TIME TRODUCG LEGISLATN TO STOP ACTN ON CLIMATE CHANGE, OR TO PLEDGE AMERIN SUPPORT TO ISRAEL WHILE MATAS AN APARTHEID REGIME OVER PALTIANS.PFLUGER HAS TAKEN OVER $1.1 LN OM THE FOSSIL FUEL DTRY AND ANOTHER $28,050 OM PRO-ISRAEL, ELECTN-NIALIST-SUPPORTG AIPAC. HE HAS LLECTED ALL THAT AND MORE WHILE ONLY TAKG OFFICE THREE YEARS AGO.AS THE LEVER ALSO POTS OUT, PFLUGER IS THE HOE’S SEND-HIGHT RECIPIENT OF OIL AND GAS MONEY, BEHD NONE OTHER THAN SPEAKER KEV MCCARTHY. AND THE TEXAS REPUBLIN HAS A PERSONAL NFLICT OF TERT, BEG A DIRECTOR OF “AN ENERGY PANY ENGAGED PIPEL AND ASTCTURE” AND AN VTOR A PIPELE PANY THAT  CELEBRATED THE PASSAGE OF ANOTHER ONE OF HIS BILLS TO REPEAL A METHANE EMISSNS TAX.THE SWAMP IS SWAMPG.CAPO, MEANWHILE, IS NO DIFFERENT; SHE HAS BEEN A MAJOR BACKER FOR THE NATURAL GAS MOUNTA VALLEY PIPELE WHILE ALSO BEG VTED ONE OF THE PANI NSTCTG THE WHOLE THG.OVERALL, THE HOE AND SENATE SPONSORS OF THE BILL TO STOP THE ERNMENT OM CLARG A CLIMATE EMERGENCY HAVE LLECTED AT LEAST SOME $5 LN OM FOSSIL FUEL TERTS THE PAST FIVE YEARS ALONE.THIS—BOUGHT-OUT OFFICIALS FIGHTG TO STOP THE ERNMENT OM LLG A CRISIS SENDG THOANDS OF PEOPLE TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AN “EMERGENCY”—IS WHAT IS WRONG WH AMERIN POLICS. NOT WOKENS, NOT DIVERSY, NOT GAY PEOPLE. DON’T LET ANYBODY TELL YOU DIFFERENTLY.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKTHE MEDIA HAS NO IA HOW TO COVER EXTREME HEATMOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/JULY 19, 2023/3:25 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYE. 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MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE HTS THAT KEV MCCARTHY IS GAY ON TUCKER CARLSON’S SHOW

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JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

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KEV MCCARTHY JT SIGNED A SUICI PACT WH DONALD TMP ON IMPEACHMENTTHE AL PUTS MCCARTHY A DAMNED IF HE DO, DAMNED IF HE DON’T POSN.ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGKEV MCCARTHY AND DONALD TMPSPEAKER OF THE HOE KEV MCCARTHY DON’T WANT TO ENDORSE DONALD TMP FOR PRINT YET. SO HE STEAD PROMISED THAT THE HOE WOULD EXPUNGE BOTH IMPEACHMENTS AGAST THE FORMER PRINT—AND DO SO BEFORE THE AUGT RECS. RECS BEGS LS THAN TWO WEEKS.POLI’S PLAYBOOK REPORTED ON MCCARTHY’S PLEDGE TO THE TWICE-IMPEACHED, TWICE-DICTED, AND LIABLE-FOR-SEXUAL-ABE FORMER PRINT WHO NOW FAC A LIKELY THIRD CRIMAL DICTMENT. MCCARTHY HAS SO FAR CLED TO ENDORSE TMP AND LAST MONTH EXPLICLY SAID THAT TMP MAY NOT BE THE STRONGT REPUBLIN NDIDATE FOR 2024. HE HAS LIKELY AVOID AN ENDORSEMENT EFFORTS TO PROVI VER TO ALL MEMBERS OF HIS UC, NOT PLACG PRSURE ON ANY OF THEM, PECIALLY THE VULNERABLE ON, TO GET BEHD THE SERIAL-CRIMAL NDIDATE.BUT MCCARTHY’S REFAL TO ENDORSE FURIATED TMP, WHO FUMED, “HE NEEDS TO ENDORSE ME—TODAY!” ON HIS WAY TO A MPAIGN EVENT NEW HAMPSHIRE, TO WHOEVER WAS AROUND TO HEAR. SO, TO QUELL THE FORMER PRINT, MCCARTHY PLEDGED THAT HE WOULD GET THE HOE TO VOTE TO EXPUNGE THE TWO IMPEACHMENTS AGAST HIM, AND THAT THEY’D GET DONE BEFORE THE AUGT RECS. AND WHILE THE AL MIGHT’VE GOTTEN MCCARTHY SOME TIME, AS PLAYBOOK WR, “STAVG OFF A PUBLIC WAR WH THE MAN WHO ALMOST SGLE-HANDLY REHABILATED [MCCARTHY’S] ENTIRE REER AND ENSURED HE WON THE GAVEL JANUARY,” THE AGREEMENT PUTS MCCARTHY A DAMNED IF HE DO, DAMNED IF HE DON’T SUATN.THERE ARE 18 HOE REPUBLINS WHO WON 2022 DISTRICTS THAT JOE BIN WON. MOST WOULD BE HIGHLY DISCENTIVIZED, ELECTORALLY, TO VOTE FOR ANY ROLUTN THAT EXPUNG BOTH, EVEN ONE, OF THE IMPEACHMENTS AGAST THE FORMER PRINT. TWO REPUBLIN HOE MEMBERS HAD VOTED TO IMPEACH TMP. AND WHOUT THE MEMBERS, ANY ATTEMPT TO EXPUNGE THE IMPEACHMENTS WOULD FAIL. SO MCCARTHY IS A BD: EHER MAKE GOOD ON HIS WILD PROMISE TO THE MAN WHO HELPED HIM SECURE THE SPEAKERSHIP TO EXPUNGE HIS IMPEACHMENTS—AND CREASE THE RISK OF LOSG THAT SPEAKERSHIP—OR GO BACK ON THE PLEDGE AND WELE THE LEADG NDIDATE’S WRATH.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKDONALD TMP HASN’T LOST HIS SUPERPOWER MOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/JULY 20, 2023/2:17 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYMARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE MAY HAVE SENT HUNTER BIN NUS TO A BUNCH OF MORSTHERE ARE LAWS ABOUT NOT DOG THIS.ANNA MONEYMAKER/GETTY IMAGIN HER SPERATN TO PROVE WRONGDOG BY HUNTER BIN, REPRENTATIVE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE MAY HAVE SENT HIS NU PHOTOS TO MORS.THE HOE OVERSIGHT COMMTEE HEARD TTIMONY ON WEDNDAY OM TWO IRS AGENTS WHO SAY THE DEPARTMENT OF JTICE DRAGGED S FEET ON VTIGATG THE YOUNGER BIN FOR TAX D. THE HEARG PRODUCED ZERO ACTUAL EVINCE, SO STEAD, GREENE TRIED TO CLAIM THAT BIN ENGAGED SEX TRAFFICKG AND LISTED PAYMENTS TO SEX WORKERS AS A TAX WRE-OFF.TO SUPPORT HER ARGUMENT, SHE HELD UP POSTER-SIZE PRTS OF BIN’S NU PHOTOS, WHICH WERE TAKEN OFF HIS LAPTOP. NOT ONLY WERE HER ACTNS WILDLY APPROPRIATE—OVERSIGHT CHAIR JAM COMER DID NOT REPRIMAND HER, THOUGH—BUT SHE MAY ALSO HAVE VLATED D.C. REVENGE PORN LAW.AND NOW, GREENE MAY HAVE EMAILED THE NUS TO MORS. THE GEIA REPRENTATIVE EMAILED HER NSTUENTS WEDNDAY EVENG CLAIMG SHE HAD NFIRMED BIN WAS GUILTY OF SEX TRAFFICKG AND TAX D (SHE HAD NOT). THE EMAIL CLUD A VIO THAT SHOWED HIS NUS.MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE JT SENT THIS EMAIL TO HER NSTUENTS (Y THIS G OFFICIAL, TAXPAYER-FUND ROURC). I CLICKED THE LK SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO, IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU THK — AARON FRSCHNER (@FRSCHNER) JULY 19, 2023 THERE IS NO SCREENG FOR AGE WHEN SIGNG UP FOR GREENE’S EMAIL NEWSLETTER, SO ANY MORS WHO SUBSCRIBE—SUCH AS FOR A SOCIAL STUDI PROJECT OR SIMPLY TO STAY UP TO DATE—HAVE NOW RECEIVED NUS OM THEIR NGRSWOMAN. IF THAT IS THE SE, THEN GREENE WOULD NOT ONLY HAVE VLATED HER STATE’S REVENGE PORN LAW, BUT SHE ULD ALSO HAVE BROKEN FERAL LAWS BANNG THE DISTRIBUTN OF OBSCENE MATERIAL TO MORS.HOE REPUBLINS, LED BY COMER, HAVE FOR MONTHS ACCED THE BINS OF RPTN AND OTHER FORMS OF WRONGDOG, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE YET TO PRODUCE ANY ACTUAL EVINCE. THE HEARG ON WEDNDAY WAS MEANT TO FOC ON HUNTER BIN’S PLEA AL OVER HIS TAX, WHICH WILL ALLOW HIM TO AVOID JAIL TIME.IRS AGENTS GARY SHAPLEY AND JOE ZIEGLER TTIFIED BEFORE THE OVERSIGHT COMMTEE ABOUT HUNTER BIN’S ALLEGED WRONGDOG. JAMIE RASK, THE OVERSIGHT RANKG MEMBER, HAD WARNED EARLIER WEDNDAY, HOWEVER, THAT SHAPLEY AND ZIEGLER HAVE ALREADY “UNRMED THIS REPUBLIN NARRATIVE” THEIR PREV POSNS.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKREPUBLINS BRG THEIR WAR ON TRANSGENR AMERINS TO THE PENTAGONMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/JULY 19, 2023/9:21 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYDARK BRANDON AD VOICED BY NONE OTHER THAN MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE GO VIRALTHE MPAIGN AD REACHED MORE THAN 35 LN VIEWS LS THAN A DAY. KEN CENO/UPI/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGPRINT JOE BIN“JOE BIN HAD THE LARGT PUBLIC VTMENT SOCIAL ASTCTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS, THAT IS ACTUALLY FISHG WHAT FDR STARTED, THAT LBJ EXPAND ON, AND JOE BIN IS ATTEMPTG TO PLETE,” MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE SAID AT THE NSERVATIVE TURNG POT ACTN NFERENCE OVER THE WEEKEND.EXCEPT … SHE MEANT ALL AS AN SULT?THE TOPSY-TURVY LOGIC WAS NOT MISSED BY THE BIN WHE HOE, WHICH PASTED GREENE’S REMARKS TO A 35-SEND VIO, CLIPPED WH VIOS OF BIN AND VICE PRINT HARRIS SURROUND BY FACTORY WORKERS, OFFICERS, RTRANT WORKERS, MEN HARD HATS AND NSTCTN VTS, AND SG FANS MEETG THE PRINT.GREENE ALSO NOTED SOME OF THE OTHER PROGRAMS THE BIN ADMISTRATN HAS FOCED ON, CLUDG ON “TO ADDRS TN, MEDIL RE, URBAN PROBLEMS, RAL POVERTY, TRANSPORTATN, MEDIRE, MEDIID, LABOR UNNS,” ADDG THAT “HE STILL IS WORKG ON .”“I APPROVE THIS MSAGE,” BIN’S ACUNT TWEETED ALONGSI THE VIO.I APPROVE THIS MSAGE. — JOE BIN (@JOEBIN) JULY 18, 2023 AS OF LATE AFTERNOON WEDNDAY, THE VIO HAD AMASSED 35 LN VIEWS—SEND ONLY TO A VIO BIN RELEASED APRIL ANNOUNCG HIS REELECTN BID, WHICH HAS OVER 45 LN VIEWS.GREENE’S ROYALTY-EE ENDORSEMENT OF BIN ME BEFORE ANOTHER CUR FAVOR FOR DEMOCRATS. TODAY, THE GEIA REPUBLIN SAID ON THE HOE FLOOR THAT “WHEN EVINCE AND PROOF OF A CRIME IS PRENTED, NO PROSECUTN SHOULD BE NIED, NO MATTER WHO THE PERSON IS.”IN OTHER NEWS, TWICE-IMPEACHED, TWICE-DICTED, AND RAPIST FORMER PRINT DONALD TMP NOW FAC A LIKELY THIRD CRIMAL DICTMENT.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKSONIA SOTOMAYOR’S BOOK SNDAL IS BANAL AND TROUBLGMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/JULY 19, 2023/8:49 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYWOMAN SUG TEXAS OVER ABORTN BAN VOMS DURG TRIAL AFTER RELIVG TRMAWELE TO THE REPUBLIN PARTY’S AMERI.RICK KERN/GETTY IMAG FOR THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTSTHE PLATIFFS SUG TEXAS OVER S RADIL ABORTN BAN AND THEIR LEGAL TEAMWOMEN WHO SUFFERED MEDIL PLITNS AFTER BEG NIED ABORTNS TEXAS ARE NOW HAVG TO RELIVE THE TRMA OF THEIR JURI AND AD BABI AS THEY PLEAD THEIR SE AGAST THE STATE. WELE TO THE REPUBLIN PARTY’S AMERI.ON WEDNDAY, WOMEN WHO ARE PART OF A 15-PERSON (BOTH PATIENTS AND DOCTORS) LAWSU AGAST THE STATE OF TEXAS, RETURNED BACK TO URT TO CHALLENGE THE STATE’S EXTREME ABORTN BAN.TEXAS IMPLEMENTED A NEAR-TOTAL ABORTN BAN SEPTEMBER 2021, EVEN BEFORE ROE V. WA WAS OVERTURNED BY A SUPREME COURT NOW FOUND TO HAVE NEARLY HALF S JURISTS EMBROILED SNDAL AND RPTN. THE BAN PROHIBS ANYONE OM GETTG AN ABORTN UNLS THEIR LIFE IS AT RISK—NO EXCEPTNS FOR A FET VELOPG AN ANOMALY THAT WOULD PREVENT OM SURVIVG PAST BIRTH. DOCTORS FACE LIFE PRISON AND F OF UP TO $10,000 IF THEY ARE FOUND SUPPORTG AN ABORTN PROCRE.THE WOMEN CHALLENGG THE BAN WERE SENTIALLY FORCED TO RELIVE THEIR TRMA, AND AT ONE POT, THE URT WAS FORCED TO TAKE A BREAK AFTER A PLATIFF BEGAN VOMG ON THE WNS STAND WHILE REUNTG HER OWN EXPERIENCE.SAMANTHA CASIANO VOMED WHILE RETELLG THE STORY OF HOW SHE WAS NIED ACCS TO AN ABORTN AFTER HER BABY WAS DIAGNOSED WH ANENCEPHALY, A BIRTH FECT WHICH A BABY IS BORN WHOUT PARTS OF THE BRA AND SKULL. CASIANO SAID SHE HAD TO WATCH HER BABY DIE AFTER GIVG BIRTH.CASIANO’S TTIMONY WAS JT ONE OF THE HEARTBREAKG STORI TOLD ON WEDNDAY.ONE OF THE LEAD PLATIFFS, AMANDA ZURAWSKI, TTIFIED THAT SHE WAS IALLY EXCED TO BEE PREGNANT. BUT HER WATER BROKE PREMATURELY AT ABOUT 18 WEEKS, MEANG THE FET WOULDN’T SURVIVE—AND HER LIFE WAS AT RISK IF SHE ULDN’T GET AN ABORTN. UNR THE REPRSIVE NEW LAWS, A TEXAS HOSPAL REFED TO HELP HER UNTIL SHE BEME MUCH SICKER. THANKS TO THE REPUBLIN-MA LAY, ZURAWSKI VELOPED SEPSIS. PEOPLE WHO SUFFER OM SEPTIC SHOCK HAVE A MORTALY RATE OF UP TO 40 PERCENT, AND EVEN AFTER REVERG, SEPSIS STILL RRI A FATAL RISK.IN OTHER WORDS, REPUBLINS ARE DIRECTLY RPONSIBLE FOR ZURAWSKI’S LIFE BEG ON THE LE EVEN TODAY.AND IF SHE WOULD LIKE TO BEE PREGNANT AGA, HER FERTILY HAS BEEN DAMAGED AS A RULT OF THE SEPSIS SHE VELOPED WHILE NSTANTLY BEG TURNED AWAY OM THE HOSPAL. ONE OF HER FALLOPIAN TUB REMAS PERMANENTLY CLOSED.TTIFYG URT WEDNDAY, ZURAWSKI REUNTED, TEARS, ABOUT BEG NIED AN ABORTN WHEN HER WATER BROKE AND DOCTORS CLARED HER PREGNANCY NONVIABLE. POLI REPORTER ALICE MIRANDA OLLSTE REPORTS THAT THE STATE SIMPLY OBJECTED, LLG THE NIGHTMARISH TTIMONY “IRRELEVANT.”THE JUDGE OVERLED.ZURAWSKI THEN SAID SHE WAS ONLY ABLE TO OBTA AN ABORTN AFTER GOG TO SEPTIC SHOCK. AGA THE STATE OBJECTED, LLG ZURAWSKI’S SCRIPTN OF WHAT DOCTORS TOLD HER “HEARSAY.”THE STATE OF TEXAS NTUED S ASSLT AGAST THE WOMAN—AS IF THE ORIGAL ATTACK ON HER WASN’T ENOUGH—APPARENTLY EFFORTS TO FD SOMEONE ELSE TO BLAME FOR HER SUFFERG.THE ARE JT A TASTE OF THE MISERY AND SUFFERG TEXAS REPUBLINS HAVE NOT ONLY OVERSEEN BUT ACTIVELY BROUGHT TO REALY.GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTT, THE REPUBLIN-NTROLLED STATE LEGISLATURE, AND EVEN SENATORS TED CZ AND JOHN CORNYN HAVE ALL PED FOR THE ABORTN BAN THE STATE NOW HAS. AND THE ARE THE BLOODY, MD-NUMBG NSEQUENC.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKOH REPUBLINS’ DEV PLOT TO STOP VOTERS FROM LEGALIZG ABORTNMOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/JULY 19, 2023/8:25 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYREPUBLINS HAVE SO LTLE HUNTER BIN EVINCE THEY SHARED HIS NUS INSTEADMARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE WAVED THE PHOTOS AROUND A NGRSNAL HEARG.DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAG REPRENTATIVE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENEREPUBLINS HAVE YET TO PRODUCE ANY EVINCE OF ACTUAL WRONGDOG BY HUNTER BIN, SO THEY LET MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE WAVE HIS NU PHOTOS AROUND WEDNDAY DURG A HOE OVERSIGHT COMMTEE HEARG ON HIS TAX.HOE REPUBLINS HAVE FOR MONTHS ACCED THE BINS OF RPTN AND OTHER FORMS OF WRONGDOG, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE YET TO PRODUCE ANY ACTUAL EVINCE. THEY’VE RECENTLY SEIZED ON HUNTER BIN’S PLEA AL ON HIS TAX, WHICH WILL ALLOW HIM TO AVOID JAIL TIME. BUT AGA, DURG THAT HOE HEARG, REPUBLINS AND THEIR “WHISTLEBLOWER” WNS FAILED TO SHOW ANY MEANGFUL EVINCE OF SAID RPTN.SO STEAD, GREENE TRIED TO CLAIM THAT BIN ENGAGED SEX TRAFFICKG AND LISTED PAYMENTS TO SEX WORKERS AS A TAX WREOFF. AS PART OF HER ARGUMENT, SHE HELD UP POSTER-SIZE PRTS OF BIN’S NU PHOTOS, WHICH WERE TAKEN OFF HIS LAPTOP.MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE IS CURRENTLY DISPLAYG NU IMAG OF HUNTER BIN DURG A NGRSNAL HEARG — NIKKI MCNN RAMíREZ (@NIKKIMCR) JULY 19, 2023 EVERYONE ELSE THE ROOM GREW VISIBLY UNFORTABLE AS GREENE DISPLAYED PHOTO AFTER PHOTO. AT ONE POT, DEMOCRATS TERJECTED, POTG OUT THAT GREENE HAD GONE OVER HER ALLOTTED TIME AND WARNG THAT HER ACTNS WERE NOT APPROPRIATE. BUT HOE OVERSIGHT CHAIR JAM COMER, WHO HAS SPEARHEAD THE VTIGATN TO THE BINS, DID NOT REPRIMAND GREENE.NOT ONLY WAS GREENE’S CISN TO WAVE BIN’S NUS AROUND WILDLY APPROPRIATE FOR A NGRSNAL HEARG, BUT MAY ALSO HAVE VLATED D.C. REVENGE PORN LAW. CY LAW PROHIBS KNOWGLY DISCLOSG ONE OR MORE SEXUAL IMAG OF AN INTIFIED OR INTIFIABLE PERSON WHEN THE PERSON THE PHOTO DID NOT NSENT TO THE IMAGE BEG SHARED.THIS ISN’T THE FIRST TIME REPUBLINS HAVE SHARED HUNTER’S NUS, BUT BLOWG THEM UP ON A POSTER FOR A NGRSNAL HEARG IS A NEW LOW. OVERSIGHT RANKG MEMBER JAMIE RASK TORE TO REPUBLINS AT THE BEGNG OF THE HEARG, NOTG THAT THE MAJORY PARTY HAD NO EVINCE. EARLIER THE DAY, HE WARNED THAT THE TWO WNS HAD ALREADY “UNRMED THIS REPUBLIN NARRATIVE” THEIR OWN PREV POSNS.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKCOULD JAM COMER POSSIBLY GET MORE EMBARRASSG? (UM, Y.) MOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/JULY 19, 2023/6:42 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYRASK TEARS INTO GOP HUNTER BIN HEARG AND STAR FUGIVE WHISTLEBLOWERREPRENTATIVE JAMIE RASK BRILLIANTLY BUNKED REPUBLINS’ HUNTER BIN NSPIRACY THEORI.ANNA MONEYMAKER/GETTY IMAGREPRENTATIVE JAMIE RASKREPRENTATIVE JAMIE RASK ME OUT SWGG WEDNDAY AT THE START OF THE HOE OVERSIGHT COMMTEE’S HEARG WH TWO IRS AGENTS ON SUPPOSED RPTN THE BIN FAY.HOE REPUBLINS, LED BY OVERSIGHT CHAIR JAM COMER, HAVE FOR MONTHS ACCED THE BINS OF RPTN AND OTHER FORMS OF WRONGDOG, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE YET TO PRODUCE ANY ACTUAL EVINCE. THEY’VE RECENTLY SEIZED ON HUNTER BIN’S PLEA AL OVER HIS TAX, WHICH WILL ALLOW HIM TO AVOID JAIL TIME. IRS AGENTS GARY SHAPLEY AND JOE ZIEGLER TTIFIED BEFORE THE OVERSIGHT COMMTEE ABOUT HUNTER BIN’S ALLEGED WRONGDOG.RASK, THE MTEE’S RANKG MEMBER, TORE TO BOTH REPUBLINS AND THEIR STAR RMANTS DURG HIS OPENG REMARKS. “I THOUGHT WE MIGHT BE HERE TODAY ON THE MATTER THAT THE CHAIRMAN CLARED HIS TOP PRRY—THE CSA TO FD EVINCE OF WRONGDOG BY PRINT BIN—BUT NOW, THE MAJORY’S LONG-PROMISED STAR WNS TURNS OUT TO BE A FUGIVE OM AMERIN JTICE,” HE SAID.RASK WAS REFERRG TO GAL LUFT, WHOM COMER HAS TOUTED AS A KEY RMANT. LUFT WAS CHARGED LAST WEEK WH ACTG AS A FOREIGN AGENT FOR CHA, VLATG U.S. SANCTNS AGAST IRAN, AND ARMS TRAFFICKG.“ONE THG YOU WILL NOT HEAR TODAY IS ANY EVINCE OF WRONGDOG BY PRINT JOE BIN OR HIS ADMISTRATN,” RASK NTUED. “LIKE EVERY OTHER TRY BY OUR LLEAGU TO NCT A SNDAL ABOUT PRINT BIN, THIS ONE IS A PLETE AND TOTAL BT.”“IN FACT, THE ONGOG SE THAT THE MAJORY V TO TERFERE WH TODAY IS ACTUALLY A STRIKG ILLTRATN OF THE SUCCS OF THE AMERIN SYSTEM OF PENNT PROSECUTORS OPERATG UNR THE LE OF LAW AND OUTSI THE REALM OF THE KD OF POLIL FLUENCE MY LLEAGU ARE TRYG TO EXERCISE TODAY.”HERE'S JAMIE RASK BUNKG THE GOP'S HUNTER BIN NSPIRACY THEORI SWEEPG FASHN UNR 2 MUT — AARON RUPAR (@ATPAR) JULY 19, 2023 HE REMD REPUBLINS THAT THE VTIGATG FERAL PROSECUTOR, DAVID WEISS, WAS APPOTED BY DONALD TMP AND HAND-PICKED TO LEAD THE VTIGATN BY THEN–ATTORNEY GENERAL BILL BARR (ALSO A TMP APPOTEE). RASK ALSO POTED OUT THAT ONCE JOE BIN TOOK OFFICE, HE DID NOT LL THE VTIGATN A “WCH HUNT”—A CLEAR JAB AT TMP—BUT STEAD LET THE PROBE PLAY OUT.RASK WARNED EARLIER WEDNDAY THAT SHAPLEY AND ZIEGLER HAD ALREADY “UNRMED THIS REPUBLIN NARRATIVE” PREV POSNS.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKCOULD JAM COMER POSSIBLY GET MORE EMBARRASSG? (UM, Y.) MOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/JULY 19, 2023/6:05 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYJUDGE E. JEAN CARROLL CASE: Y, DONALD TMP IS A RAPISTA JUDGE REJECTED TMP’S SEMANTIC ATTEMPT TO THROW OUT THE SE.MAR TAMA/GETTY IMAGON WEDNDAY, TMP’S REQUT FOR A NEW TRIAL THE E. JEAN CARROLL SE, AFTER HE WAS FOUND LIABLE FOR SEXUAL ABE, BATTERY, AND FAMATN, WAS REJECTED. AND HIS SPERATE ATTEMPT TO AVOID ACUNTABILY, THE TWICE-IMPEACHED AND TWICE-DICTED FORMER PRINT MAY HAVE UNTENTNALLY ALLOWED HIMSELF TO NOW BE FORMALLY KNOWN AS A RAPIST.TMP’S TEAM HAD REQUTED A NEW TRIAL THE SE, ARGUG THAT THE $5 LN DAMAG HE WAS ORRED TO PAY CARROLL WAS EXCSIVE, BEE HE WAS ONLY CHARGED WH SEXUAL ABE. THE JURY HAD NOT FOUND THAT TMP “RAPED” CARROLL, A TALKG POT TMP’S TEAM OFTEN PARROTED.BUT JUDGE LEWIS KAPLAN LLED TMP’S SEMANTIC ARGUMENT “ENTIRELY UNPERSUASIVE.” HE CLARIFIED THAT THE JURY FOUND THAT THE FORMER PRINT DID ED “RAPE” CARROLL BASED ON THE MON FN OF THE WORD.KAPLAN NOTED THAT NEW YORK PENAL LAW (THE JURY THE CARROLL SE WAS BASED NEW YORK) HAS A “FAR NARROWER” FN OF THE WORD “RAPE” THAN “MON MORN PARLANCE, S FN SOME DICTNARI, SOME FERAL AND STATE CRIMAL STATUT, AND ELSEWHERE.”“THE FDG THAT MS. CARROLL FAILED TO PROVE THAT SHE WAS ‘RAPED’ WH THE MEANG OF THE NEW YORK PENAL LAW DO NOT MEAN THAT SHE FAILED TO PROVE THAT MR. TMP ‘RAPED’ HER AS MANY PEOPLE MONLY UNRSTAND THE WORD ‘RAPE,’” KAPLAN WROTE.“INED, AS THE EVINCE AT TRIAL REUNTED BELOW MAK CLEAR, THE JURY FOUND THAT MR. TMP FACT DID EXACTLY THAT [RAPE, AS ‘MONLY’ UNRSTOOD].”“A UNED STAT DISTRICT JUDGE HAS NOW FORMALLY HELD, A LENGTHY WRTEN OPN, THAT IS PERFECTLY APPROPRIATE, AND, ED, ENTIRELY ACCURATE, TO LL A CERTA FORMER PRINT OF THE UNED STAT A RAPIST,” NOTED GEE CONWAY, LAWYER AND HBAND TO FORMER TMP AI KELLYANNE CONWAY.ALL THAT TO SAY, BASED ON THE LEGAL LANGUAGE, A RAPIST—FOR THE THIRD PRINTIAL CYCLE A ROW—IS LEADG THE 2024 REPUBLIN PRIMARY. SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKPAY ATTENTN TO WHAT YOU SEE: DONALD TMP IS LOSG HIS MARBLMOST RECENT POSTPREM THAKKER/JULY 19, 2023/5:04 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYREPUBLINS’ DEADLY PLAN TO BLOCK BIN FROM DECLARG A CLIMATE EMERGENCYTHOANDS OF PEOPLE ARE GOG TO THE E.R. AMID RERD-BREAKG HEAT WAV. BUT REPUBLINS DON’T THK THIS IS A REAL EMERGENCY. ATRICK T. FALLON/AFP/GETTY IMAGA BILLBOARD DISPLAYS A TEMPERATURE OF 118 GRE DURG A RERD HEAT WAVE PHOENIX ON JULY 18.WEDNDAY MARKS THE TWENTIETH DAY A ROW THAT PHOENIX ECLIPS 110 GRE FAHRENHE—AND THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS ARE PROJECTED TO MATA THE RERD-BREAKG HORROR. THOANDS OF TEXANS HAVE BEEN GOG TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM BEE OF HEAT ILLNS. AND A ROTATG ST OF SOME 100 LN AMERINS HAVE BEEN UNR HEAT WAVE AND SMOG ALERTS FOR OVER A MONTH.AMID ALL THAT, REPUBLINS ARE TRYG TO STOP THE PRINT OM BEG ABLE TO CLARE A NATNAL EMERGENCY OVER CLIMATE CHANGE. LAST MONTH, A GROUP OF REPUBLINS TRODUCED A BILL, SULTGLY KNOWN AS THE “REAL EMERGENCI ACT,” TO PREVENT PRINT JOE BIN OM MOBILIZG THE NATN TO TAKE NECSARY ACTN TO STAVE OFF LIFE-THREATENG CLIMATE CHANGE.AS THE LEVER NOT, “IF BIN WERE TO CLARE A NATNAL EMERGENCY OVER CLIMATE CHANGE, HE ULD TAKE AGGRSIVE ACTN TO CUT FOSSIL FUEL PRODUCTN AND SPEED UP CLEAN ENERGY MANUFACTURG BY REIMPOSG THE BAN ON C OIL EXPORTS, HALTG OIL AND GAS LEASG, VTG PUBLIC TRANS ASTCTURE, AND REQUIRG PRIVATE PANI TO MANUFACTURE RENEWABL.”THIS KD OF STRONG, LLECTIVE ACTN—TO STAND UP AGAST FAT-T FOSSIL FUELS, TO MAKE OUR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATN ACTUALLY SERVE THE PUBLIC, TO MAKE OUR SYSTEMS AND TH LIV CLEANER—IS WHAT REPUBLINS ARE FURLY OPPOSG.AND THE DO-NOTHG REPUBLINS ARE BUTTRSED BY THEIR FOSSIL FUEL IENDS WHO HAVE KNOWN FOR S THE CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS OF THEIR VAMPIRISTIC ACTIVI—AND HAVE KEPT ON DRILLG ANYWAY.THE BILL WAS TRODUCED BY WT VIRGIA REPUBLIN SENATOR SHELLEY MOORE CAPO AND TEXAS REPUBLIN REPRENTATIVE AUGT PFLUGER.AS WE NOTED TUDAY, PFLUGER’S OWN DISTRICT HAS BEEN AT THE CENTER OF SOME OF THE MOST SEVERE HEAT THE UNTRY—, AGA, A STATE SENDG THOANDS OF PEOPLE TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM. YET HE HAS BEEN BY G TAXPAYER-FUND TIME TRODUCG LEGISLATN TO STOP ACTN ON CLIMATE CHANGE, OR TO PLEDGE AMERIN SUPPORT TO ISRAEL WHILE MATAS AN APARTHEID REGIME OVER PALTIANS.PFLUGER HAS TAKEN OVER $1.1 LN OM THE FOSSIL FUEL DTRY AND ANOTHER $28,050 OM PRO-ISRAEL, ELECTN-NIALIST-SUPPORTG AIPAC. HE HAS LLECTED ALL THAT AND MORE WHILE ONLY TAKG OFFICE THREE YEARS AGO.AS THE LEVER ALSO POTS OUT, PFLUGER IS THE HOE’S SEND-HIGHT RECIPIENT OF OIL AND GAS MONEY, BEHD NONE OTHER THAN SPEAKER KEV MCCARTHY. AND THE TEXAS REPUBLIN HAS A PERSONAL NFLICT OF TERT, BEG A DIRECTOR OF “AN ENERGY PANY ENGAGED PIPEL AND ASTCTURE” AND AN VTOR A PIPELE PANY THAT  CELEBRATED THE PASSAGE OF ANOTHER ONE OF HIS BILLS TO REPEAL A METHANE EMISSNS TAX.THE SWAMP IS SWAMPG.CAPO, MEANWHILE, IS NO DIFFERENT; SHE HAS BEEN A MAJOR BACKER FOR THE NATURAL GAS MOUNTA VALLEY PIPELE WHILE ALSO BEG VTED ONE OF THE PANI NSTCTG THE WHOLE THG.OVERALL, THE HOE AND SENATE SPONSORS OF THE BILL TO STOP THE ERNMENT OM CLARG A CLIMATE EMERGENCY HAVE LLECTED AT LEAST SOME $5 LN OM FOSSIL FUEL TERTS THE PAST FIVE YEARS ALONE.THIS—BOUGHT-OUT OFFICIALS FIGHTG TO STOP THE ERNMENT OM LLG A CRISIS SENDG THOANDS OF PEOPLE TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AN “EMERGENCY”—IS WHAT IS WRONG WH AMERIN POLICS. NOT WOKENS, NOT DIVERSY, NOT GAY PEOPLE. DON’T LET ANYBODY TELL YOU DIFFERENTLY.SHARE THIS STORYEDOR’S PICKTHE MEDIA HAS NO IA HOW TO COVER EXTREME HEATMOST RECENT POSTTORI OTTEN/JULY 19, 2023/3:25 P.M. ETSHARE THIS STORYE. JEAN CARROLL TELLS TMP TO PAY UP HER $5 MILLN AFTER JUDGE REJECTS NEW TRIAL

Not wokens, not diversy, not gay people. Kev Mcrthy has never ma any public statement about this, so all mors about if Kev Mcrthy is gay rema pletely unfound and unproven. Yet, as often happens wh artists of this field, the mors that Kev Mcrthy is gay are persistent, which is surely annoyg.

More and more celebri adm every year that they are gay, but this is not the se wh Kev Mcrthy sce this celebry never said so. In any se, celebri all too often refe to talk about their private liv, so we never know if they are gay or straight.

Vooxpopuli manag thoands of famo celebri and 's possible we missed some tails about the qutn - Is Kev Mcrthy gay?

IS KEV MCRTHY GAY?

A tr of openly gay Hoe ndidat are aimg to change the face of the Republin Party this fall. He and others are well aware of the stereotyp wh their party and the ristance that gay rights face among Republins.

Tisei, a former state senator and his party’s 2010 nomee for litenant ernor, said that if any one of them “is able to break through the barrier to talk about LGBT [lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr] issu as a Republin, ” would be damagg to the Democratic Party as a whole. Some LGBT activist groups, cludg the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund, have not weled DeMa wh open arms durg his polil reer. But openly gay GOP ndidat have met ristance wh their party, too.

OPENLY GAY GOP NDIDAT STAND UP

) reportedly spoke out agast the GOP mpaign arm fundg openly gay ndidat. Democrats argue the GOP’s image on gay rights issu isn’t softeng, even wh more diverse ndidat. “The fact that I’m a gay Republin don’t factor to the equatn for me.

Were any of the three ndidat to w a seat, he would be the first openly gay Republin to be elected to Congrs and the only openly gay Republin currently servg Congrs.

KEV MCCLATCHY REVEALS HE IS GAY

), who retired 2006, was the last openly gay Republin ngrsman, but he revealed his sexualy after he was elected.

“Havg an openly gay Republin elected to Congrs will really open people’s hearts and mds, my opn, ” Andrew Powaleny, a GOP strategist and director at The Herald Group, agreed. “If somebody don’t agree wh me on gay marriage, don’t mean you poke them the eye and vilify them, ” Tisei said. In 2016, he also helped Republins feat legislatn that would prohib feral ntractors om discrimatg agast gay and lbian 2015, the Supreme Court led that state laws and polici prohibg same-sex marriage were HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINERPublic support for same-sex marriage h a rerd high of 70% this year, a Gallup poll found.

news servicSep 22, 2012, 11:35 AM ETKev McClatchy, the owner and CEO of the Ptsburgh Pirat om 1996 to 2007, has acknowledged he is gay to The New York Tim, sayg equent homophobic slurs he heard baseball circl had nvced him to keep his sexual orientatn a secret. "McClatchy, 49, is not the first major-league executive or former executive to e out as gay. "McClatchy boasted of baseball's endg of racial segregatn sports while sayg he didn't thk players nsired siar to one of their own g out as gay.

AMID SHOUTS OF ‘SHAME,’ HOE GOP FEATS GAY RIGHTS MEASURE

"I don't thk they equate breakg the lor barrier wh Jackie Robson to, 'Hey, by the way, we've never had one player announce they're gay while playg baseball. Tthe prumably gay Buchanan, when he was print, dhered while the untry beme creasgly divid over the issue of slavery. “Kev McCarthy was personally twistg arms on the floor, ” Maloney, who is openly gay, said about the Hoe majory lear.