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Sadly, the 2008 Coen Brothers crime comedy Burn After Reading wasn’t trending early Monday morning as a result of a random communal appreciation of the somewhat overlooked entry in the auteurial duo’s catalog. Instead, this increasingly tiresome existential trap known as Reality has birthed a troublingly Burn After Reading-esque story about one of the participants […]
Trump is expected to issue around 100 pardons and commutations on the final full day of his single-term presidency, according to a new report. Early Monday, i.e. the first day of a week that will feature Joe Biden‘s inauguration, CNN reported the failed steak salesman—at least according to three sources close to such talks—is prepping […]
Twitter will not allow Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to access her account for the next 12 hours due to multiple company policy violations, NPR reports. Greene has been known to share tweets endorsing QAnon conspiracy theories, and on Sunday, she engaged in a lengthy discourse claiming election fraud in her state. A number of those tweets were flagged with […]
A new video has emerged that shows even more of what transpired during the U.S. Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6. New Yorker correspondent Luke Mogelson, who was covering the Stop the Steal rally, took the footage. In the beginning, as the rioters storm the building, a person told police, “There’s a fucking million of us out […]
A Capitol police officer who was suspended after footage of him wearing a Make America Great Again hat went viral said he was wearing the pro-Donald Trump merch as part of a plan to help trapped members of the Capitol Police. Lt. Tarik Johnson’s fellow officers claim he used the hat to gain the trust of rioters, so […]
Washington D.C. police officers who attempted to hold back mobs of pro-Trump rioters, including one who was crushed by a door in a moment that has since gone viral, are speaking out about the experience. “They were calling us traitors, shouting at us, telling us to remember our oath, and eventually, they attacked us,” Officer Daniel […]
State officials continue to bear the brunt of the Trump administration’s disastrous response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Alex Azar, who serves as Health and Human Services Secretary, announced earlier this week that the federal government would be releasing its reserve of second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. “Because we now have a consistent pace of […]
Retired firefighter/MAGA mob member Robert Sanford was filmed throwing a fire extinguisher at police during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, and now he’s facing federal charges. The 55-year-old was arrested on Thursday on four federal charges, including assaulting officers engaging in their official duties, civil disorder, disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and knowingly enterting a […]
While Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is widely regarded as a somewhat less-than-befitting sequel to its beloved predecessor, recent years have seen fans of the franchise’s definitive entries proposing one quick change that could only stand to improve the viewing experience. Late last year, director Chris Columbus revealed to Insider that Trump—a failed […]
Biden is preparing to detail his proposal for a new COVID-19 relief package. Potential aspects of the stimulus effort from the new administration that are said to be of the utmost importance to Biden include $2,000 stimulus checks, boosted funds for city and state governments to help with pandemic concerns, money for schools, and a […]
