Rudy Giuliani grovels to judge after being ordered to pay third ex-wife $225,000 or face jail time
The once respectable human told the judge, “I do owe her money but I don’t owe her $260,000…. I’m being sued in ten different cases. I’m getting ready for two massive hearings…. I don’t know how to emphasize to you the pressures.”

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Pete Buttigieg brings the house down with epic interview response
In these dangerously divisive times, the transportation secretary continues to believe that people can be brought back to sensible political views, and he’s winning folks over with his approach.

Doctors. Teachers. Women. LGBT+ kids. The GOP is waging culture war against all of them, and we can’t let them win
Swing State Victory Project: Republican politicians and their propagandists at FOX are unleashing a tidal wave of cruelty on an unwilling American public, targeting some of the most important members of our society and putting them in very real danger. Will you chip in to help Swing State Victory Project elect Democrats who will put a stop to the madness?

Mississippi welfare grift scandal grows, engulfing Brett Favre
Even more text messages concerning Brett Favre’s explicit push for state officials to redirect funds from a federal program to help families in need to upgrade Southern Miss sports facilities have come to light. Once again, they do not reflect well on the Hall of Fame quarterback.

Residents of Puerto Rican town in “terrible destruction” in despair over exclusion from Hurricane Fiona aid
20 municipalities where Hurricane Fiona entered and left incalculable devastation were inexplicably excluded from applying for crucial federal assistance based on the major disaster declaration requested by Puerto Rico’s governor and approved by President Biden earlier this week.

Take Action: Tell President Biden to take action to fix Puerto Rico’s power crisis!

Utah youth climate activists hold wake for the Great Salt Lake
Like many other waterways and lakes in the western US, the Great Salt Lake is currently in an unprecedented and dire situation due to the ongoing megadrought. In July, its surface elevation fell below 4,190.2 feet, the record low set in October 2021. Since then, it has dropped over a foot further, creating toxic dust storms that make the air harder to breathe for Salt Lake City’s 1.3 million residents.

Investors flee company hoping to merge with Trump’s Truth Social
Digital World Acquisition Corp. — the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) that Truth Social needs to go public — revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that investors have backed out of $139 million in commitments of the $1 billion previously announced by the company. Who could possibly have misgivings about investing huge sums of money with a serial grifter who’s declared bankruptcy half a dozen times?

Take Action: Tell Facebook to crack down on dangerous Republican lies about the IRS!

Ron DeSantis’ migrant stunt BACKFIRES spectacularly
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Not what he expected…

Russians protesting in dozens of cities against Putin’s military draft
Fed-up Russians again protested against President Vladimir Putin’s decision to draft additional 300,000 soldiers to replenish forces for his disastrous invasion of Ukraine — holding scattered demonstrations in dozens of cities across Russia on Saturday despite threats of arrest and a heavy police presence.

QAnon rioter who who chased officer during Trump’s insurrection convicted of seven felonies, faces 50 years in prison
Douglas Jensen, a fervent follower of the conspiracy myth that Trump is locked in secret combat against a cabal of leftist pedophiles and its deep state allies, scaled a wall at the Capitol, watched as fellow mob members broke the Senate wing entrance’s windows and doors, and was among the first 10 people to invade the facility, according to prosecutors.

Georgia voting equipment breach at center of GOP election fraud efforts
The tale of breached voting equipment in one of the country’s most important political battleground states involves a bail bondsman, a prominent attorney tied to Trump’s illegal attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and a cast of characters from a rural county that rarely draws notice from outsiders.

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