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Pentagon Admits "Tragic Mistake" In Civilian Drone Strike | Manchin and Biden's Negotiation Ends WITHOUT Deal | Texas Lt. Gov. Goes FULL White Nationalist on Fox | Anti-Trump Republican Turns Shameless Biden Cheerleader | Nicki Minaj Fans PROTEST The CDC For #BallGate Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

FBI director, Chris Wray, is facing new scrutiny of the bureau’s handling of its 2018 background investigation of Brett Kavanaugh. Gymnasts testifying on Capitol Hill on Wednesday repeatedly said that the FBI failed to protect them from Larry Nassar. 21% of nursing home residents have been prescribed antipsychotic drugs. A Democratic lawmaker attended an anti-LGBT event in Ukraine. A host on Newsm...

California Governor Gavin Newsom won a broad and renewed mandate from voters who rejected a recall attempt. Corporate Democrats are threatening to block drug pricing reform in the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. U.S. poverty fell last year as government aid made up for lost jobs. Unvaccinated TikTokers are calling themselves "purebloods." A boy waited for hours in a COVID-swamped ER and then hi...

CA GOP Preemptively Admits Defeat, Cries Election Fraud. DeSantis Escalates Threats Against Biden Over COVID. Media's LAUGHABLE Attempt To Bolster Sinema's Obstruction. Louisiana Cops CAUGHT Covering Up Brutality. Texas Man KILLS Neighbor For Supporting Biden. AOC Attends Met Gala in "Tax The Rich" Dress. Tucker Carlson Backs Nicki Minaj's Bizarre Vaccine Claim Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...

Joe Manchin responds to AOC accusing him of "killing people" by huddling with fossil fuel lobbyists. Manchin is also still saying that he doesn't support human infrastructure and that there's no rush to get the reconciliation bill passed. Bernie Sanders said on Sunday that Joe Manchin not supporting President Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending package was “not acceptable.” Rose McGowan stumped for Lar...

Former Vice President Mike Pence slammed President Joe Biden's recently announced coronavirus vaccine mandates in an interview on Fox News. CNN anchor Jake Tapper ripped Biden over what he called a “scolding tone” that the president took in a speech rolling out new measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has quietly raised $100,000 for members of Congress w...

Senator Joe Manchin laid out a long list of demands as key Senate chairs move to win his vote for the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. House Democrat Jim Clyburn said the $3.5 trillion price tag of the bill is the "ceiling" and not the "floor". A Treasury Department report estimates that the richest 1% of Americans are responsible for more than $160 billion in unpaid taxes per year. Beatings and...

Heather Bresch, the former CEO of the drugmaker Mylan and U.S. Senator Joe Manchin's daughter, reportedly worked directly with the CEO of Pfizer to keep the price of the company’s EpiPen product artificially high. Jason Miller got detained in Brazil just hours after bragging about how free and open the country is. LAPD officers were told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop. Jo...

Lindsey Graham tells a stunned reporter that the U.S. will re-invade Afghanistan. Jobless Americans have been left scrambling after pandemic unemployment benefits ended over Labor Day weekend. President Biden has encouraged some states to continue helping the long-term unemployed, but administration officials have said it is time for enhanced federal aid to end. The Justice Department wants to pro...

Jim Jordan's office denied that he was caught blabbing to a reporter about Trump running for president in 2024. Cops pulled over a white suspect but allowed him to drive away because of his "unpredictable and violent history." An anti-masker tried to zip-tie a school principal over COVID rules. Progressives jumped on Joe Manchin after he proposed hitting the pause button on the $3.5 trillion human...

The Supreme Court denied requests to stop Texas's 6-week abortion ban. We tell you what Democrats could do to stop it if they only gave a damn. Brian Stelter, Briahna Joy Gray, and Jimmy Dore all had impressively bad takes about the Supreme Court, we can prove it, and we call on them to admit it.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

A controversial new Texas law that bars abortions at six weeks went into effect early Wednesday morning after the Supreme Court failed to rule on emergency requests brought by abortion providers. Republicans are turning up the pressure for House minority leader Kevin McCarthy to impeach President Biden. Pennsylvania GOP Rep. Scott Perry claimed that allowing “poorly-vetted” Afghan refugees into th...

Richard Engel called the U.S. withdrawing from Afghanistan the "worst capitulation of western values in our lifetimes." Despite what Republican lawmakers, including Ted Cruz, are claiming, the Taliban did not hang an interpreter from a U.S. helicopter. Even with the war in Afghanistan coming to an end, the GOP is attempting to add $25 billion to the military budget. What happens now that the Talib...

Republicans are advocating for the U.S. to get back into Afghanistan. Trump went on TV to claim he knocked all the ""ISISes"" out, but now they've got ""ISIS-X."" However, no one has ever heard of ISIS-X. James Carville calls the media coverage of Afghanistan ""hysterical and stupid."" Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan would prefer that lawmakers stop using the word “racism” while they are debating...

War Hawks of CNN and Team Trump Caught Making Up Nonsense about Kabul Bombing. An apparent suicide attack rocked U.S. evacuation efforts in Afghanistan as President Biden's deadline to leave the country approaches. Rep. Seth Moulton and Rep. Peter Meijer are pushing back on the criticism of their unapproved trip to Afghanistan. Moulton is now saying he was rescuing families. Ron DeSantis says Pres...

House Democrats passed a budget resolution to trigger the reconciliation bill process on Tuesday. Congressmen Seth Moulton (D- MA) and Peter Meijer (R- MI) secretly traveled to Kabul to observe the evacuation efforts. As the evacuation efforts in Afghanistan get more and more difficult, people like Erik Prince are offering private escape services on nearly empty flights for thousands of dollars. T...

A top U.S. military officer finally admits he was wrong about Afghanistan. Tensions flare in the House of Representatives as moderate Democrats continue to try and hold up President Biden's budget plan. Wall Street wanted millions of Americans to be evicted, and they gave thousands of dollars to Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer. A startup is turning houses into corporations, and neighbors are fightin...

Biden will face pressure from the G7 to extend his Afghanistan withdrawal deadline. Liz Cheney says politicians have to explain why a never-ending presence in Afghanistan is necessary. FDA grants full approval to Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. They would also like you to not attempt to treat Covid-19 with horse dewormer. Donald Trump was booed at his rally in Alabama after he told his supporter...

Several GOP lawmakers joined anti-vaccine activists in protesting mask mandates for healthcare workers. An internal memo revealed that Fox News forces their employees to share their vaccination status and wear masks in certain spaces. Data from a new poll says that 1 in 5 Americans are avoiding loved ones because they aren't vaccinated. Lawmakers scrap qualified immunity deal in police reform talk...

Ilhan Omar calls out Fox News's "hateful rhetoric" over Afghan refugees. MAGA goes full nativist on refugees fleeing Afghanistan. Huge stockpiles of U.S.-made weapons and aircraft are now in Taliban hands. How to actually get a Trump voter vaccinated. The Biden Administration pushes plans for a third booster vaccine, but experts say we should focus on the unvaccinated and places struggling to acce...

Texas' Republican Greg Abbott tests positive for COVID. Lauren Boebert faces major backlash after tweeting "Taliban are the only people Building Back Better." Tucker Carlson blames "radical gender politics" for contributing to the botched withdrawal of Afghanistan. Immigrant advocates denounced the Biden administration for deporting Haitian refugees. Republicans finally support unemployment benefi...

The latest on Afghanistan: chaos at Kabul airport as Afghans try to flee the Taliban. A tropical depression threatens further devastation in earthquake-hit Haiti. One person was stabbed as anti-vaxxers and counter-demonstrators clash in front of L.A. City Hall. The Dallas school district plans to enforce its mask mandates for the school year despite the Texas Supreme Court siding with Governor Abb...

House Democratic moderates threaten Pelosi’s strategy and demand an immediate vote on the infrastructure bill. Britney Spears’ father Jamie Spears agrees to step down as her conservator. Census data shows that the US white population dropped the most, while multiracial and minority populations grew. Tucker Carlson mocks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for fear of being raped during the Capitol Riot. Host...

Rand Paul revealed Wednesday that his wife bought stock in Gilead Sciences – which makes an antiviral drug used to treat COVID-19 – back on Feb. 26, 2020, before the threat of coronavirus was fully understood. Mississippi asks the Biden Administration to send military hospital ships. Laura Ingraham forgets the meaning of irony. Dan Crenshaw gets heckled by a monster he helped create. Hosted on Aca...

Without a single Republican vote, the Senate approves the $3.5 trillion budget blueprint. However, Joe Manchin voices his “serious concerns” about the $3.5 trillion budget after the Senate’s approval. Democrats introduce a bill to force the largest corporations to pay their fair share. Every single Democratic senator voted on a symbolic measure that would punish localities that defund the police....