“Republican governors in 15 states are rejecting a new federally funded program to give food assistance to hungry children during the summer months, denying benefits to 8 million children across the country.”

“Leaders of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination face a pair of new lawsuits that accuse the Southern Baptist Convention of covering up sexual abuse in local churches.”

“For several years—in the sun up to the 2020 election and then raising money for his Save America PAC after he was defeated by Joe Biden, the Former Guy has advertised a promotion where a small dollar donor is chosen to have a meal with Trump: no one has ever won.”

“It’s like discovering some hidden fabric of the universe that binds and connects everyone with an offshore bank account and three or more wives.”

“By pleading guilty today, Reynolds admitted that he and his co-conspirators used false and fraudulent promises to market Medical Cost Sharing as a ‘Health Care Sharing Ministry’ to defraud hundreds of ‘ministry members.'”

“Two Moms for Liberty members abruptly announced their resignations from the Central Bucks School Board in the middle of their meeting Tuesday night.”

“Some parents in the Sunshine State are outraged that their children’s school is asking them to sign permission slips allowing a book by a Black author to be read to their kids.”

“You want to bring back the institution of abortion so that kids can get abortions in the state of Missouri. A 1-year-old could get an abortion under this.”

“What can I even say without having to go to jail?”

“Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard (Idaho), introduced a bill Thursday to expand the state’s cannibalism ban and told a legislative committee that she’s worried about the possibility that people are eating other people.”

“A man in the US state of New Mexico has pleaded guilty to helping a defeated Republican candidate carry out drive-by shootings at the home of Democrats.”

“My Dad Was a White Slave, Kentucky Republican Tells NAACP”

“The incident highlights once again how Musk has not only welcomed extremists onto his platform but has repeatedly boosted their conspiracies, engaged with their accounts, and seems to have protected them from scrutiny.

“Florida’s Senate approved a bill that would ban cities and counties from adopting requirements for mandatory water breaks and other workplace protections against extreme heat.”

“If the work that Annunciation House conducts is illegal, so too is the work of our local hospitals, schools, and food banks.”

“Florida health officials announced an investigation into a cluster of measles cases at an elementary school in the Fort Lauderdale area with a low vaccination rate, a scenario health experts fear will become more and more common amid slipping vaccination rates nationwide.”

“Seriously though — what is it with the terrible white rapper to MAGA/Nazi/Conspiracy Loon pipeline?”

“His commitment to making a positive impact on the lives of others was truly remarkable and served as an inspiration to many.”

O we’ll hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree

We’ll hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree

We’ll hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree …

“During Donald Trump’s presidency, his businesses received at least $7.8 million in payments from the foreign governments and officials of 20 countries, including China, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.”

“In a little-noticed October speech in Uganda, Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., urged that nation to stand behind its new Anti-Homosexuality Act, which includes the death penalty.”

“The court found that the plain language of the statute is so broad that it not only bars descriptions of any relationship, gay or straight, but it functionally bans the use of pronouns at all.”

“Alabama has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country. … Alabama also had the nation’s third-highest infant mortality rate in 2021.”

“Post-Dobbs, pregnant women like Watts, who was not even trying to get an abortion, have increasingly found themselves charged with ‘crimes against their own pregnancies.'”

“Black applicants to Navy Federal Credit Union were more than twice as likely to be denied as White applicants even when more than a dozen different variables – including income, debt-to-income ratio, property value, downpayment percentage, and neighborhood characteristics – were the same.”

“The 8th Circuit’s decision applies only to states under its jurisdiction — Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota — but if adopted nationwide it would strike a near-fatal blow against the Voting Rights Act.”

“Florence Hardwoods disputes the agency’s allegations that it let minors operate and maintain dangerous machinery without training or safety procedures.”

“Her strategy, she said, was to say, ‘Wow, crazy, tell me more,’ on repeat until guys gave her enough to send their information to the FBI.”

“Their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.”

“The Court, by deciding this case, exercises authority it does not have. It violates the Constitution.”

“Federal law has put thousands of women on anti-addiction medications like Suboxone into an impossible bind: Give up your treatment or risk losing your child.”

“Texas’ abortion restrictions – some of the strictest in the country – may be fueling a sudden spike in infant mortality as women are forced to carry nonviable pregnancies to term.”

“If people want to really know how I’m doing, I’m not doing OK.”

“When radical reactionaries call for a return to traditional values in family life, they mean returning to a cultural and legal situation where women didn’t have the freedom to leave bad marriages, the freedom to choose to have few or no children, the freedom to obtain professional employment etc.”

“You don’t even know who’s responsible for your food while you’re talking smack and eating it.”

“Unemployment has to jump 40 to 50 percent, in my view. We need to see some pain in the economy.”

“A subset of super-rich Americans has wagered, thus far successfully, that they can simply ignore their tax obligations.”

“Prichard Water’s problems started long before Bradley was using public money to buy Gucci bags.”

“Whatever God ultimately thinks about playing dress-up, here on earth, trying to control who does it where says a lot more about the people seeking the control than the ones having all the fun.”

“Republican Rep. David Cole of Huntsville was arrested on charges of voting in an unauthorized location, according to Madison County Jail records.”

“Former Republican state lawmaker Joe Harding of Ocala, the architect of Florida’s controversial law limiting discussions of gender and sexuality in public schools, was sentenced to four months in prison on charges of defrauding the government of $150,000 in pandemic aid.”

“A vocal critic of LGBTQ rights campaigns, Voris revealed in 2016 that he had previously ‘lived a life of live-in relationships with homosexual men,’ but now ‘abhor(s) all these sins’ since his ‘reversion to the faith.'”

“The people for whom you are folding yourself into smaller and smaller boxes will never see you as anything but a freak.”

“The Republican frontrunner in North Carolina’s 2024 gubernatorial race made a slew of antisemitic comments over the past decade including sharing a quote that has been attributed to Adolf Hitler.”

“Like many Christian-nationalist events, ReAwaken America also brings a bitter side of antisemitism.”

“Basically, this is yet another thing Republicans are welcome to die mad about.”

“Gay said at that point, he showed his gun ‘Just to say I’m not stealing. I need you here to help me to get a couple of these steaks. I’m not going to hurt you.'”

“You have a lot of guns and not very much knowledge.”

“If we’ve gotten to the point where we need third graders to treat traumatic gunshot wounds on other children, we really need to take a step back and look at that.”

“Former Trump National Security Director Michael Flynn is … a ‘founding member’ and president of the advisory board for ‘4thPURE’ a dating and community site for anti-vaxxers.”

“She could only coach her patient — emotionally distraught and physically in pain — through another 12 hours of labor to deliver a baby that couldn’t and didn’t survive.”

“If [Alabama bill] HB454 becomes law, it would legally mandate that someone be charged with murder for having a miscarriage.”

“He disapproved of her abortion, and court records obtained by the newspaper say that he shot her because of this.”

“The Tennessee woman would end up needing a lifesaving emergency hysterectomy, ending her opportunity to give birth to more children, after she says she was denied medically necessary abortion care at a hospital in her home state for life-threatening complications earlier in her pregnancy.”

“This news comes on the back of recent proposals by conservative-dominated state legislatures to overturn no-fault divorce in Texas, Nebraska and Louisiana.”

“What’s happened in all of these essentially conservative institutions is that right wing ideas have lost out, because those ideas are generally both empirically wrong and normatively disgusting to people who aren’t still in the grip of some reactionary atavism like evangelical Christianity.”

“Three churches in West Texas have made financial contributions to a pastor running for a hotly contested seat on the Abilene City Council, a clear violation of federal rules prohibiting nonprofits and churches from endorsing candidates.”

“ChickenRight’s posting on far-right websites and Searle’s alleged involvement with Fuentes occurred before and after he started working in [Republican Rep. Paul] Gosar’s Capitol Hill office.”

“Wolfe argues that the future of America depends on keeping children at home into their 20s, growing your own food, weightlifting to keep testosterone levels high, and avoiding vegetable oil.”

“I thought personally there was too much Black history.”

“Salinas confirmed that the post about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was hers and apologized for it, saying she hadn’t read it beyond the word ‘communism.'”

“To have the power to touch men’s hearts with glory or bigotry and to choose the latter is a saddening thing.”

“Take them down to Mud Creek and hang them up with damned rope. But you can’t do that anymore. They’ve got more rights than we’ve got.”

“[Missouri Republican] House lawmakers also voted to strip all state funding from public libraries.”

“Casiano knew that Texas banned abortions, but she didn’t think those laws would apply in a situation where the fetus was certain to die.”

“Raised Christian in the deep South, he had never agreed with abortion as a moral choice. But as an OB-GYN whose patient was in mortal peril, he couldn’t begin to comprehend what politicians were thinking.”

“House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s new debt limit negotiating proposal set to be unveiled … will include broad moves to restrict food assistance for millions of low-income Americans.”

“While the tax deductibility of private jets isn’t the most important feature of U.S. tax law, the fact that billionaires’ luxury rides come with millions in tax savings says a lot about how the system really works.”

“The bill allows 14-year-olds to work six-hour night shifts, allows 15-year-olds to work in plants on assembly lines moving items up to 50 pounds, and allows 16 and 17-year-olds to serve alcohol.”

“Do you know any kids who have been married at age 12? I do. And guess what? They’re still married.”

“Another person with direct knowledge of the situation who works in the Capitol corroborated the complaint and said that Slaton and the intern drank alcohol together. Slaton, one of the most far-right social conservatives of the Legislature, has been married to his wife since 2017.”

“Little Miss Addie, who is almost two … already has a shotgun, and she already has a rifle, and she’s got a little pony named Sparkles too.”

“A 65-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder after he allegedly shot and killed a 20-year-old Saratoga County woman after the car she was in mistakenly drove up the man’s driveway.”

“A man is facing charges after two girls were shot and injured when their fathers were involved in a road-rage confrontation on a highway in Florida.”

“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he wants to pardon a man found guilty of murdering a racial justice protester in July 2020.”

“Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) used his House.gov newsletter to direct people to a story posted on a Holocaust-denier website that praised him for attacking ‘Jewish warmongers’ for their support of Ukraine.”

“Some Boca Raton residents said they received packets with antisemitic messages in their driveways and front yards Jan. 14, the same day a swastika was projected onto an AT&T building in downtown West Palm Beach.”

“The Saxons said they launched the “Dissident Homeschool” channel on Telegram after years of searching for and developing ‘Nazi-approved material’ for their own home-schooled children — material they were eager to share.”

“The IRS audits Black taxpayers at roughly three to five times the rate of non-Black taxpayers.”

“Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and former state Republican Party Chair Matt Borges were convicted in a $60 million bribery scheme that federal prosecutors have called the largest corruption case in state history.”

“An Idaho hospital will stop labor and delivery services, citing doctor shortages and the ‘political climate,’ the hospital announced.”

“The violations began piling up just as Republican state legislators, many of them newly in the majority, went on the attack against child labor restrictions, pressing in various ways to expand the number of work hours and work settings available to teenagers aged 14 to 17.”

“I’ve slowly and reluctantly realized that it’s not that they don’t know; it’s that they don’t care.”

“Nunes’ small group continues to grow, as once-fringe white nationalist rhetoric and ideas gain traction.”

“There isn’t really an upside to Trump.”

“I hate him passionately.”

“I mean, you have to harbor quite a bit of hate for your viewers to willfully continue feeding them vaccine misinformation that is literally killing them.”

“It’s a shit network.”

“In other words, Gannett has eliminated more than half of its jobs in the United States in four years.”

“The bill does not set limits on the extent of which officers can restrain students, or add restrictions to ensure the student is safe.”

“One of the parents asserts to West Shore school officials that her conservative religious values conflict with the Character Strong lessons – which are intended to teach compassion – because ‘not every human is deserving of my child’s empathy.'”

“Republican presidential hopefuls are vowing to wage a war on ‘woke,’ but a majority of Americans are inclined to see the word as a positive attribute, not a negative one.”

“Those three spirits who visited Drazkowski last Christmas Eve clearly bungled the job.”