Even Fox News is having to admit it now.
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Elon is really an agent of misinfo or he is so desperate for approval he picks the alt right.
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A pro-Kremlin Twitter account tweets a nonexistent Turkish newspaper, claiming “NATO soldiers” have been killed in Ukraine. @elonmusk, evidently very concerned about media corruption and fake news, takes the bait, then is asked by the account to “mediate.”
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Buttigieg on CNN says the debris field created by shooting down the Chinese balloon is 7 miles long, illustrating the safety risk involved had it been shot down over the US mainland
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As the mob enters the Senate chamber...
(From newly-released US Capitol riot video court exhibit)
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“‘Quite literally the only thing that changed is the court’s composition,’ Joshua Douglas, a professor and expert on state constitutions at the University of Kentucky College of Law, said in an interview. ‘The whole thing simply smells of partisanship.’”
Texas.
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And on the fifth day, they … still didn’t have power.
We’re now past the 100-hour mark — and well past the length of our snowpocalypse outage from February 2021.
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So let me get this straight: three times under Trump, the GOP raised the debt ceiling but now they’re knocking Biden over the debt ceiling? And three times under Trump, a Chinese spy balloon went over America and now the GOP is knocking Biden over a Chinese spy ballon?
Got it.
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Staffer for George Santos files an ethic complain against him alleging Santos sexually harassed and inappropriately touched him on his 2nd day of work last week.
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Matt Gaetz: “Poor people should have to go to work to get their healthcare.”
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She deleted it. After exTrump attorney illegally posts viral video of woman in airport bathroom without her consent, thinking she was going to call out the woke libs on a trans issue, it turns out LAX is under construction and this is a men’s room temporarily set up for women.
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To everyone claiming that Biden needed impeached for this etc… there is a reason for the military decisions. Maybe try appreciating our abilities vs using as an opportunity to crap on your own country (cc and many others). I wanted it destroyed but this is best case
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Notable: US officials say they were able to block the balloon from gathering intel during its overflight of the US, while the US military was able to turn the tables, so to speak, to gather intel on the balloon itself and its equipment.
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Senior defense official to reporters just now: "The surveillance balloon's overflight of US territory was of intelligence value to us... we were able to study and scrutinize the balloon and its equipment, which has been valuable."
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NEW: POTUS gave the order to shoot down the balloon on Wednesday, as soon as it could be done without jeopardizing American lives, SecDef Austin says. U.S. fighter aircraft assigned to U.S. Northern Command brought the balloon down today.
Full statement:
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Dear Rep Omar, you got a raw deal. GOP reps should be embarrassed by the actions of the Speaker and leadership. Really low brow.
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Just talked with @RepBrendanBoyle about being appointed to the Budget Committee this term.
Budgets are a reflection of our values.
Excited to push for a people-centered budget that invests in the needs of the American people 
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JUST IN: The US economy gained an astonishing 517,000 jobs in January – much better than expected.
Unemployment rate: 3.4% --> Lowest in decades.
Wages: +4.4% for past year (up 0.3% in January)
Bottom line: This is NOT an economy in recession
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“It was just one of 40 expenses listed by Santos’s campaign (in its most recent, amended filing) that was between $199 and $199.99 dollars — and one of 37 that were precisely that latter amount.
It’s almost like Santos’s campaign was hiding something.”
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The unemployment rate fell a touch to 3.4% (and for the wonks, this wasn't due to the new population controls).
That's a new 50-year low. The last time unemployment was this low, was May 1969.
We haven't seen unemployment this low since before Woodstock, baby. Groovy.
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These are all the stories Fox News lists before getting to the jobs report
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For all material purposes, the antivaxxers won. Their decades-long goal to seed their lies into the mainstream and get moderates to bothsides a hate campaign on the backs of people grieving unrelated death has been an unbridled success. This will become apparent in the primaries.
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“…one of Mr. Miller’s lobbying clients — Altria, the tobacco and e-cigarette company. Since July 2017, Altria has donated nearly $1.4 million to a super PAC associated with Mr. McCarthy and paid $1.3 million to Mr. Miller’s firm.”
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The MAGA Republicans in Congress have replaced their American flag lapel pins with AR-15 pins.
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Boebert: A recent report states that Americans own 46% of the world’s guns. I think we need to get our numbers up
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The last week concluded a five-part series branding George Soros “the most dangerous man in America.” Here's what the Post didn't tell its readers. 🧵
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8% of the homes in FL have gas stoves. Ron lets the elitists pay no tax. The other 92% pay.
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“The mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why would you take the Fifth Amendment?” -- Donald J. Trump
NOW:
Trump takes the Fifth Amendment 400 times.
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Santos, waxing indignant, blaming “the media”…
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George Santos: “A lot of people want to create this narrative that I faked my way to Congress which is absolutely and categorically false. …I think it’s amazing I have to sit here and be spoken down to on a regular basis yet again by the media.”
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Maybe even unanimous?
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Kari Lake claims “the cartel” now controls Arizona because her election was “stolen” from her “even though” she “won in a landslide.”
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“Stepping down from committees is a disservice to his constituents,” Mr. Israel said. “He needs to step down from Congress.”
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NEW: George Santos reported meals at a Miami Beach diner. The diner found no record of them.
He reported parking at a Miami Beach lot. The city says the dollar amounts would be impossible.
Retracing Santos’ steps in South Florida:
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The New York attorney general asks a judge to sanction Trump, his eldest children, and their attorneys for their responses in legal filings, including allegedly false statements that contradict previous sworn testimony.
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Trump says he sued Bob Woodward today for “wrongfully profiting from my voice.”
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UPDATE: Florida has now spent nearly $350,000 in legal fees for Gov. Ron DeSantis’ relocation of nearly 50 Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Overall, Florida has now spent nearly $40,000 to relocate each migrant.
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