Trump SNUBBED by Olympic champs in icy rebuke

BREAKING: NPR probe finds Trump’s DOJ has withheld files accusing Trump of child sexual abuse

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump snubbed by Olympic champions in brutal rebuke
Team USA’s gold-medal winning women’s hockey team rejected the chauvinist-in-chief’s dubious overtures and will NOT be joining their male counterparts as political props at the president’s State of the Union spectacle tonight. America’s wannabe dictator set the internet on fire on Sunday with an obnoxious, sexist, and distinctly on-brand dig at the women’s team during a celebratory phone call with men’s team, joking that he’d begrudgingly have to also invite the women to join him in DC because he might get impeached otherwise.

Get it? ‘Cuz they’re girls, and girls can’t do sports as good as boys do sports ‘cuz they don’t have testicles or something, we guess? Kudos to these bad-ass women who represented their country with grace and class, bringing home their THIRD gold medal since 1998, and a giant fuck you to Donald Trump, who couldn’t manage to set his oozing mysogyny aside for five measly minutes while bro-ing down with the men’s team.

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Texts show GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales pressured aide for explicit photos before she later died by self-immolation
A little more than year before she committed suicide by setting herself on fire, Regina Santos-Aviles told her boss — Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales — that his incessant pleas to send explicit photos of herself had gone too far. Gonzales persisted, of course, telling his subordinate that he was “just such a visual person.” Santos-Aviles’ widower, Adrian Aviles, shared these text messages and others with The Texas Tribune on Monday as evidence of an obvious affair between the married congressman and his staffer. Aviles said the extra-marital relationship and the professional ostracization his wife faced after it was discovered led her to become despondent before her death.

Santos-Aviles eventually set herself on fire in September of last year, leaving behind an 8-year-old son. Gonzales, a father of six, also wanted to know Santos-Aviles’ “favorite position” and told her his was “on top pinning your legs.” When pressed for comment on whether or not Gonzalez should resign, Family Values Christian™ Mike Johnson told the media that we just needed to “let the system play out.” Gonzalez is facing a tight primary battle next week, so voters will quickly get a chance to weigh in on the issue…which is more than the cowardly pipsqueaker of the House has bothered to do.

Beloved Alaskan Mary Peltola upends the race for the US Senate with new campaign announcement
Mary Peltola for Alaska: Congresswoman Mary Peltola sent shockwaves through American politics when she won the only congressional seat in deep-red Alaska — now she’s running for the US Senate seat held by MAGA millionaire Dan Sullivan. With his approval rating in the dumpster at just 37%, a proven winner like Peltola with an Alaska First platform of “fish, family, and freedom” is just the candidate we need to flip this critical seat and retake the Senate. Will you chip in to help jump-start her campaign?

Jeanine Pirro reportedly abandons dubious case against six Democratic lawmakers
Well, well, well. It would appear Dear Leader’s nakedly political attempt to prosecute and imprison six sitting members of Congress for reminding US military servicemembers of their constitutional duty to refuse patently illegal orders is dead in the water. After a grand jury earlier this month unanimously declined to indict Sens. Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin, as well as Reps. Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio, Maggie Goodlander, and Chrissy Houlahan — all Democratic veterans of the US military and intelligence services, mind you — it seems DC US Attorney and former Fox News wino Jeanine Pirro is flat out of options to appease her authoritarian boss.

It’s definitely worth noting: grand juries unanimously rejecting indictments is an exceedingly rare phenomenon, occurring roughly once every 15,000 cases, according to Lawfare. That’s 0.000067% for decimal fans out there.

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House Democrats bringing Jeffrey Epstein survivors to Trump’s State of the Union speech
While Team USA’s gold-medal-winning women’s hockey will NOT be in attendance at tonight’s Sorry State of the Fractured Union, another group of powerful, brave women most certainly will. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna and half a dozen other House Democrats have invited survivors of the world’s most notorious child-sex-trafficking ring to attend and remind the supposed leader of the free world exactly why Jeffrey Epstein simply ain’t going away.

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Kristi Noem repeatedly claimed ICE deported a cannibal. It was “completely made up”
We’ve got roughly 206 bones to pick with Kristi Noem and her incessant, shameless, and utterly immoral lying to justify the unjustifiable. What low-rent netherworld of dermabrased demons did this grotesque succubus escape from and can someone please cast a spell to send her back already? She shot a frickin’ puppy in the head, people!

Trump shares preposterous AI video showing HIM leading Team USA to victory on the ice and punching a Canadian hockey player in the face
Seriously. Even Sunday’s historic gold-medal victory for Team USA’s men’s hockey team is predictably all about Donald.

Missed funerals and blocked toilets: Iran deployment takes a toll on US sailors
The sailors of the USS Ford, currently en route to Israel in order to support a potential attack on Iran, are learning the hard way about what serving under the “Department of War” really means. They’ve been at sea since last June, their deployment extended a second time by Trump as he lurches from one spastic show of nihilistic imperial violence to another, putting them on track for the longest continual deployment since the Vietnam War.

Sailors are missing funerals, weddings, and their kids’ first steps, as morale plunges and frustration grows. Many sailors say they’re going to be ending their time in the Navy when the ship returns home. Sorry kids, Daddy’s been ordered to his third war in 11 months because the president needs to show everyone who’s got the biggest missiles!

ICE chief lied to Congress about training, whistleblowers say
It will come as no surprise to learn that the Trump team has been caught, AGAIN, shamelessly lying about their deportation regime — this time cutting corners on critical training for their agents, including modules on use of force. Must get the goon squad on the street as quickly as possible to fulfill Stephen Miller’s insatiable desire to see Latinos in concentration camps! But let’s be clear: judging from the shocking violence and wanton brutality we see from DHS agents against US citizens, it’s obvious there’s no amount of training that can fix this.

Jon Stewart mocks “Make-a-Wish Man-Kid” Kash Patel’s USA hockey party antics
We could try to sum up Stewart’s expert takedown of Keystone Kash, but no one buttons up this kind of absurdity quite like Jon, so…roll the tape!