House Republicans demanding Bragg's evidence against Trump have been coordinating with Trump himself

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Wednesday March 29, 2023 · 11:35 AM PDT

2023/03/29 · 11:35

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 09: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) presides over a hearing of the Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on February 09, 2023 in Washington, DC. This was the first hearing of the new subcommittee, created by a sharply divided Congress to scrutinize what Republican members have charged is an effort by the federal government to target and silence conservatives. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) — Reps. Jim Jordan and Elise Stephanik regularly update Trump on the status of their 'investigations' into Trump's enemies.

CNN is now confirming what we've all suspected for a while now: House Republican caucus and committee leaders have been in regular communications with the coup-attempting Donald Trump, keeping him personally up to date on the status of committees and investigations launched to help cover up Trump’s suspected crimes.

"Not only are Trump, his aides and close allies regularly apprised of Republicans’ committee work, they also at times exert influence over it," reports CNN. And those communications have "emerged as a crucial method for Trump to shape Republicans’ priorities in their newly-won House majority."

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Tuesday March 28, 2023 · 2:40 PM PDT

2023/03/28 · 14:40

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 01: Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) walks out of the Senate Chambers during a nomination vote in the U.S. Capitol Building on August 01, 2022 in Washington, DC. The U.S. Senate is scheduled to leave for August recess with action on several pieces of legislation still currently outstanding, including votes on Sen. Joe Manchin's (D-WV) Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the PACT Act, and the Respect for Marriage Act. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) — Racist pro-sedition jackass holds U.S. military promotions hostage until Pentagon meets his far-right religious demands.

It's still unclear why Alabama Republicans looked out on the sea of fellow Alabamans and decided that a brick-headed college football coach by the name of Tommy Tuberville ought to represent their state in the U.S. Senate, but the most plausible explanation is that everyone involved was very, very drunk. In any event, he's a senator now and has been stinking up the place as a pro-sedition Trump-allied stock-trading racist dispenser of some of the most gallingly dimwitted statements in modern politics; this time around, it's the United States military that's bearing the brunt of Alabama's joke.

As noted by Punchbowl News, sigh, Sen. Tommy Tuberville is currently waging a culture war battle against the United States damn military, as in all of it, by single-handedly blocking the promotion of military commanders worldwide. Those promotions get passed through the Senate Armed Services Committee, which means any single senator can stonewall any of them via the usual Senate procedural shenanigans.

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Tuesday March 28, 2023 · 12:10 PM PDT

2023/03/28 · 12:10

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 21: (L-R) Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sits with his wife and conservative activist Virginia Thomas while he waits to speak at the Heritage Foundation on October 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. Clarence Thomas has now served on the Supreme Court for 30 years. He was nominated by former President George H. W. Bush in 1991 and is the second African-American to serve on the high court, following Justice Thurgood Marshall. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) — Seditionists gonna sedition.

The Washington Post scrapes up a little more information on what the pro-Trump, sedition-backing conspiracy funnel Ginni Thomas has been up in the past few years. It looks like one of her side projects, when she wasn't Actively Conspiring To Overthrow The United States Government, was a new group called "Crowdsourcers for Culture and Liberty."

As the name already suggests, if you're familiar with far-right conspiracy groups, it is (or was?) a new group devoted to waging "a cultural battle against the left," as the Post puts it. The "Crowdsourcers" part appears to be either a nod to the project's astroturfy roots or a hint that the group would focus on the sort of "crowdsourced" hate attacks on random not-conservative Americans that individual online accounts like "Libs of TikTok" have made new careers out of.

We might never know the details. The Post's scoop is that this new Thomas-led group had nearly $600,000 funneled to it between 2019-2022 from anonymous conservative donors. It was funneled through conservative think tank Capital Research Center, which agreed to temporarily host the new similarly aligned group during its startup phase. That's not an uncommon relationship among these sort of think tanks and ideological groups, notes the Post, but what that really means is that no matter how many of these ratty little things pop up, it's almost always the same conservative donors, lobbyists, and activists behind all of them.

Sharing office space makes sense when almost every new astroturf group is headed up by the same groups of professional astroturfers. Why commute through horrible Washington, D.C.-area traffic when you can just walk down the hall?

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Tuesday March 28, 2023 · 9:00 AM PDT

2023/03/28 · 09:00

A group tied to the Boogaloo Bois holds a rally as they carry firearms at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan on October 17, 2020. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP) (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images) — A gun designed for mass murder, marketed toward those that believe they themselves may someday need to engage in it.

The Washington Post has published a brief history of the AR-15 rifle and the marketing efforts gun manufacturers used to turn the high-profit weapons into a new American obsession, after the Bush-era expiration of the assault weapons ban. It's very good and worth a read.

But it also pulls its punches, giving too much credence to the industry's own narration of events in a manner reminiscent of an older era's credulous reporting on cigarette company executives and their assurances that they didn't know nothin' about addiction, lung cancer, or marketing campaigns that appeared tailored toward prodding school-aged teens into a smoking lifestyle.

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Sunday March 26, 2023 · 12:50 PM PDT

2023/03/26 · 12:50

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 27: U.S. Jim Jordan (R-OH) (R) speaks as House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) listens during a news conference in front of the U.S. Capitol on July 27, 2021 in Washington, DC. Leader McCarthy held a news conference to discuss the January 6th Committee. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) — Rep. Jim Jordan's whole existence has been devoted to letting other people get away with state and federal crimes. Now it's the new Republican manifesto.

The House Republicans' sedition caucus has been engaged in a sternly worded letter-war with Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg of late. It started with Republican committee chairs Jim Jordan, James Comer, and Bryan Steil demanding Bragg turn over all documents pertaining to his probe of Donald Trump's possible campaign finance or corporate fraud violations associated with Trump's 2016 hush money payments to an adult film actress—a blatant attempt to dig through the evidence Bragg has found so that it can be leaked to Trump's lawyers or so witnesses can be publicly identified, demonized, and threatened.

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Sunday March 26, 2023 · 11:03 AM PDT

2023/03/26 · 11:03

Former President Donald Trump waves as he departs Trump Tower, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, in New York. The stiffest penalty Donald Trump’s company could receive when it is sentenced Friday, Jan. 13, 2023, by a New York judge for helping its executives dodge taxes is a $1.6 million fine — not even enough to buy a Trump Tower apartment. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File ) — Ha ha ha ha whoopsies.

Donald Trump, who led a seditious conspiracy against the United States government, has yet another new lawyer. If you're wondering what sort of person would agree to represent Donald Trump despite a history of Trump-allied lawyers going to prison, facing potential disbarment, never getting paid, and/or becoming national laughingstocks, meet Joe Tacopina. Tacopina's been doing his best to become an Important Television Lawyer, now that he's in Trump's employ. It hasn't been going well.

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Sunday March 26, 2023 · 9:17 AM PDT

2023/03/26 · 09:17

Supporters hold "Witch Hunt" signs as former US President Donald Trump speaks during a 2024 election campaign rally in Waco, Texas, March 25, 2023. - Trump held the rally at the site of the deadly 1993 standoff between an anti-government cult and federal agents. (Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO / AFP) (Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images) — Not the usual background for a "presidential campaign speech" but after you've tried a coup, maybe it is.

Donald Trump, who attempted a coup against the United States government and remains unindicted for any of it, held a "campaign rally" in Waco, Texas, on Saturday. The event coincides with the 30th anniversary of the deadly federal standoff at the compound of the arms-hoarding child-raping Waco cult dubbed the "Branch Davidians;" the odds that the Trump camp was not sending a message to the violent anti-government far-right militia crowd whose help he already solicited in his previous coup attempt are vanishingly low.

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Thursday March 23, 2023 · 12:25 PM PDT

2023/03/23 · 12:25

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 13: Nicholas J. Fuentes speaks to a far-right group America First during an anti-vaccine protest in front of Pfizer world headquarters on November 13, 2021 in New York City. A U.S. Circuit Court granted an emergency stay to temporarily stop the Biden administration's vaccine requirement for businesses with 100 or more workers as many feel it is an unlawful overreach. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images) — Republicanism is becoming indistinguishable from the white nationalist and neo-Nazi conspiracy theories it sought to elevate.

A new report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) confirms that antisemitic vandalism, harassment, and violence once again rose substantially in 2022. There were 3,697 recorded incidents—the highest number measured since ADL began its tracking in 1979. It's also a 36% uptick from the 2021 numbers, which itself was a spike from 2020 numbers.

The numbers tell the story, and it's not a hard one to interpret. Antisemitic incidents began rising as Donald Trump mounted his Republican bid for the White House. From 942 incidents in 2015, each year of the Trump presidency saw nearly or over 2,000 of them. The number escalated to 2,717 in 2021 following the Jan. 6 coup attempt, soaring to 3,697 such incidents last year.

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Wednesday March 22, 2023 · 4:30 PM PDT

2023/03/22 · 16:30

no image description available — DeSanctimonious? More like De ... uh .. DeAWESOMENESS. Yeah, that'll stick. Heh.

Fox News meathead Tucker Carlson may have killed off satire for good, but he didn't act alone. He had accomplices. You could even call it a conspiracy; from the internet to the floor of Congress, Republicans have poisoned the great political plains so that satire can't find a single leaf of nourishment. It's a movement that prides itself on ridiculousness. Satire never stood a chance.

The internet is dead, you know. Nobody ever goes there, and for good reason. Internet's haunted now.

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Wednesday March 22, 2023 · 1:15 PM PDT

2023/03/22 · 13:15

Tucker Carlson show. Chyrons: 'POLITICAL PURGE', 'THEY WANT TO LOCK UP THOSE WHO VOTE THE WRONG WAY''

If you're looking to have your brain ripped out and replaced with a dog's plastic chew toy but don't have the sort of money that would convince a real surgeon to do the deed, Fox News talking head Tucker Carlson is the man to go to. Flip on your television, America, and forget everything you have ever known or will know. Be the potted plant you aspire to be. Park yourself on that couch and pretend you are moss, soft and silent as you take in the rays of the Tucker Carlson sun.

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Wednesday March 22, 2023 · 9:45 AM PDT

2023/03/22 · 09:45

BEDMINSTER, NEW JERSEY - JULY 28: Former U.S. President Donald Trump plays a shot from a bunker on the 18th hole during the pro-am prior to the LIV Golf Invitational - Bedminster at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster on July 28, 2022 in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Photo by Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images) — Trump in his bunker.

UPDATE: Wednesday, Mar 22, 2023 · 4:55:12 PM +00:00 · Hunter

BREAKING: the Manhattan DA is leaving the door open for one witness to come back and testify. That might be the reason for the delay. https://t.co/Q1ux1PivL5
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) March 22, 2023

Those who are waiting to hear whether the coup-attempting Donald Trump will be indicted for crimes related to hush money payments meant to cover up one of Trump's multiple sexual affairs are going to keep waiting. The New York Times is now reporting that the Manhattan grand jury convened to hear evidence in the case will not meet today.

That means there will be no indictment vote today. Fox News had previously reported that the grand jury was to hear from an unknown witness today, but Fox "News" isn't the most accurate of outlets when it comes to reporting on bad things happening to Donald Trump.

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Tuesday March 21, 2023 · 12:45 PM PDT

2023/03/21 · 12:45

COMMERCE, GA - MARCH 26: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Save America rally at the Banks County Dragway on March 26, 2022 in Commerce, Georgia. This event is a part of Trump's Save America tour around the United States. (Photo by Megan Varner/ Getty Images) — Donald Trump knows his base, and he knows who will respond when he pushes militia movement buttons.

Say what you want about now-seditionist Donald Trump, but nobody, anywhere has ever accused him of being subtle. Next Saturday Donald Trump will be holding a rally in Waco, Texas. It corresponds to the 30th anniversary of the federal siege of the Branch Davidian cult, and there's not a chance in hell that's a coincidence.

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