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Capitol police are boosting security at the Capitol building this week due to what’s described as “concerning intelligence” in connection with a far-right conspiracy theory centered on the erroneous belief that single-term POTUS Donald J. Trump will resume his presidency. More specifically, the conspiracy theory asserts that March 4—a date which held inaugurations for many years […]
Dominion Voting Systems is planning to file a lawsuit against Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO whose MAGA-supporting behavior includes the spreading of baseless election fraud claims. Speaking with the Daily Beast on Tuesday, Tom Clare—an attorney repping Dominion—said the company expects to file the suit in question “imminently” and noted Lindell’s repeated instances of false […]
Pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood, who has challenged Georgia’s election results, is now being investigating after potentially voting illegally in the state. According to a report from WSB-TV, Georgia launched an investigation into whether or not Wood was eligible to cast a vote in the state, and if he broke the law by doing so. “The […]
It’s no secret that The Simpsons creators have a knack for churning out prophetic episodes. In the past several years, the long-running series has successfully predicted everything from Super Bowl games and corporation acquisitions to technology advancements and even Donald Trump’s presidency. As we usher in a new governmental administration in 2021, it appears the show has done it […]
In the aftermath of the violent riot that took place at the U.S. Capitol last week, Hallmark Cards has asked that a pair of Republican Senators, namely Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Roger Marshall (Kan.), return the four-figure donations that it made to them. That’s kind of a weird sentence. As first reported in the political newsletter […]
As if we needed anymore proof that Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud were totally bogus, an additional call has surfaced via the Washington Post where the president told a chief investigator in Georgia to “find the fraud.” This call precedes his call to Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger, who Trump pressured to “find” […]
You’d be forgiven for naively treating 2021 like a magic button that made the MAGA cult disappear from the news cycle. If the first week of the new year is any indication, and it most likely is, we are going to be stuck with them—in some form or another—for a very long time. On Tuesday, […]
Democratic challenger Rev. Raphael Warnock has defeated Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler in Georgia‘s extremely close and expensive Senate runoffs, according to the Associated Press. Rev. Warnock, a senior pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, the same church that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached at, has made history with his election victory as he will become the state’s first Black senator. Warnock has previously said […]
With After Hours currently enjoying a multitude of well-earned appearances across a litany of year-end lists, The Weeknd is giving fans some insight on where he’s at creatively during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In an interview with TMRW as part of a special limited edition 100-page zine project, Abel reflected on how the pause of touring […]
Many prominent Republican lawmakers finally began to accept president-elect Joe Biden‘s victory this week, after the electoral college voted to make the former VP’s win official on Monday. Just a few short days after over 100 Republican legislators signed on to Texas’ unsuccessful lawsuit to throw out the results in several swing states, senior members of the […]
