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White House Texted Top-Secret Yemen War Plans to Journalist
The Guardian - Tue Mar 25, 2025
In extraordinary blunder top Trump cabinet members added Atlantic editor to chat discussing strikes on Houthis. More»

Marjorie Taylor Greene Promotes “Measles Parties” for Kids Amid Deadly Outbreaks
AlterNet - Sun Mar 9, 2025
Measles can cause brain swelling and pneumonia. More»

Alabama House Advances Bill Allowing Arrest of Librarians
Alabama Political Reporter - Sat Apr 27, 2024
MONGTOMERY, Alabama - A bill allowing librarians to be arrested for the content they allow on shelves advanced out of the Alabama House of Representatives Thursday along party lines. More»

Florida Education Officials Reject 54 Math Textbooks for ‘Attempts to Indoctrinate Students’
WKMG-TV - Sat Apr 16, 2022
TALLAHASSEE, Florida – Dozens of math textbooks were rejected by the Florida Department of Education after officials said their publishers were attempting to indoctrinate students. More»

Florida Health Official Put on Leave After Encouraging Staff to Get Covid Vaccine
The Guardian - Wed Jan 19, 2022
A health official who helped lead Florida’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been put on administrative leave as state officials investigate whether he tried to compel employees to get vaccinated. More»

Explosion Sends Potentially Radioactive Dust Into Air Above LA
NBC News - Fri Nov 12, 2021
The US Department of Energy demolished a building using explosives last month at the highly contaminated Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL), a former nuclear and rocket test site in the hills above LA. More»

What the Actual Fuck? Kentucky high school investigated after students appear to give teachers & principal LAP DANCES during homecoming week festivities
Daily Mail - Wed Oct 27, 2021
HAZARD, Kentucky - Photos that appear to show students giving teachers and the principal - who is also the mayor of their town - lap dances during a homecoming week 'man pageant' have shocked a Kentucky town. More»

Front-Runner For Country's Dumbest Governor Signs Order Letting Georgia Businesses Ignore Covid-19 Rules
CNN - Fri Aug 20, 2021
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed an executive order Thursday allowing businesses to disregard local rules regarding Covid-19 - a move decried by Democrats, as coronavirus cases in the state rise. More»

Ethics Chief Slams Cruz’s Warning To ‘Woke’ CEOs As ‘Most Openly Corrupt’ Ever
Huffington Post - Sun May 2, 2021
Senator Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) threat to “woke” CEOs was slammed Sunday as likely the “most openly corrupt” message ever from the Senate, declared Walter Shaub, former head of the Government Office of Ethics. More»

Fox host Larry Kudlow rages that Biden's climate plan will force Americans to drink 'plant-based beer'
The Insider - Tue Apr 27, 2021
Larry Kudlow, a Fox Business host and former Trump economic advisor, raged against the idea of "plant-based beer" on his Friday-night show and falsely claimed that President Joe Biden's climate plan would require Americans to give up meat. More»

Tucker Carlson tells viewers to call Child Protective Services if they see a child wearing a mask outside
Media Matters - Mon Apr 26, 2021
FOX News host Tucker Carlson: “What you're looking at is abuse, it's child abuse and you are morally obligated to attempt to prevent it”. More»

Judge Threatened a Mother With Contempt of Court for Getting Her Child a COVID-19 Test
ProPublica - Sat Dec 19, 2020
Ohio juvenile court Judge Timothy Grendell has been outspoken about his belief that the COVID-19 pandemic is overblown. More»

Alabama students throwing 'COVID parties' to see who gets infected
ABC - Thu Jul 2, 2020
Students in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 have been attending parties in the city and surrounding area as part of a disturbing contest to see who can catch the virus first, a city council member told ABC News on Wednesday. More»

Trump says doing too much coronavirus testing makes the US 'look bad'
Business Insider - Thu May 7, 2020
Though public health experts have consistently said the US needs to ramp up testing for coronavirus in order to contain and defeat it, President Donald Trump does not see it that way. More»

Outcry after Trump suggests injecting disinfectant as treatment
BBC - Fri Apr 24, 2020
US President Donald Trump has been lambasted by the medical community after suggesting research into whether coronavirus might be treated by injecting disinfectant into the body. More»

Front-Runner for Country's Dumbest Governor to Reopen Essential Bowling Alleys, Nail Salons Friday
Vanity Fair - Mon Apr 20, 2020
Brian Kemp seemingly asked for a list of the businesses where people are in closest proximity, a key factor to spreading COVID-19, and said, Let's start with those. More»

Trump says mass COVID-19 testing not needed
CNN - Thu Apr 9, 2020
President Donald Trump said Thursday that there have been more than two million coronavirus tests completed in the United States but suggested that mass testing is not going to happen. More»

"I would like a medal for smoking": Old radio shows haunt Rush Limbaugh after he reveals advanced lung cancer
Raw Story - Mon Feb 3, 2020
Rush Limbaugh, who announced this week that he has advanced lung cancer, has a history of praising the practice of smoking. More»

New York man, 21, charged with sexual assault and murder of 92-year-old woman tells cops 'his pants fell down'
Daily Mail - Sat Jan 11, 2020
The New York man charged over the shocking sexual assault and murder of an elderly woman says he was trying to help her before his pants fell down and his genitals came into contact with hers. More»

Ukraine Imbroglio Confirms Giuliani's as Trump's Most Off-Kilter Advocate
The Guardian - Sat Sep 21, 2019
Rudy Giuliani admitted on live TV that he urged Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, barely 30 seconds after denying it. More»

Nuclear weapons and hurricanes don't mix, NOAA advises
BBC - Mon Aug 26, 2019
Using nuclear weapons to destroy hurricanes is not a good idea, a US scientific agency has said, following reports that President Donald Trump wanted to explore the option. More»

Lancaster deputy confessed to fabricating sniper shooting, authorities say
KABC-TV - Sun Aug 25, 2019
LANCASTER, California - A Los Angeles Sheriff's Department deputy who was reported shot in Lancaster this week made up the incident, authorities announced during a rare Saturday night news conference. More»

A man was training to get a gun permit. The Sherrif's Department instructor accidentally shot him, police say
USA Today - Sun Aug 25, 2019
RIVERSIDE, California - A Riverside, California man attending a firearms training class to get his concealed weapons permit was accidentally shot by a Riverside County Sheriff's Department trainer, the department told The Desert Sun. More»

Trump Says Troops ‘Took Over Airports’ During Revolutionary War, In Rainy Fourth Of July Speech
Rolling Stone - Thu Jul 4, 2019
“The Continental Army… manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over airports, it did everything it had to do,” the president said. More»

‘Only The Lord God Almighty Is In Control’: Texas Lawmaker Attacks Noted Pediatrician, Calls Vaccines ‘Sorcery’
Raw Story - Thu May 9, 2019
An anti-vaccine Texas Republican state lawmaker attacked a distinguished medical doctor, the dean and chief of pediatric medicine at Baylor College of Medicine National School of Tropical Medicine, over vaccines this week. More»

Alabama man, baby accidentally shot when loaded gun fired from inside diaper bag in Chuck E. Cheese parking lot
New York Daily News - Sun Apr 14, 2019
VESTAVIA HILLS, Alabama - An adult man and a baby girl were accidentally shot outside an Alabama Chuck E. More»

Trump claims noise from windmills "causes cancer"
The Hill - Wed Apr 3, 2019
President Trump on Tuesday stepped up his attacks against wind power, claiming that the structures decrease property values and that the noise they emit causes cancer. More»

Elementary school teacher's gun accidentally goes off in 1st-grade classroom
WBRC-TV - Fri Mar 22, 2019
BLOUNT COUNTY, Alabama - A substitute teacher's gun accidentally went off in a first-grade classroom at Blountsville Elementary on Friday afternoon. More»

Arizona Republican claims vaccines are just like Communism in bizarre tirade
Raw Story - Thu Feb 28, 2019
In a Facebook post, Arizona State Representative Kelly Townsend made the case that vaccines are somehow part of a Communist plot. More»

University issues hockey pucks to defend against active shooters
WSB-TV - Tue Nov 27, 2018
ROCHESTER, Michigan - A Michigan university is training students and faculty to defend themselves against an active shooter - by using hockey pucks. More»

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