Voters RAGE at Republicans after election-theft stunt

BREAKING: Mike Johnson throws in the towel, cancels Congress

Top Stories for September 3:

VIDEO OF THE DAY: Republicans’ appalling election scheme in Texas enrages voters
Voters in Tarrant County, Texas, are FURIOUS at Republican election commissioners for closing down 92 (!) different polling places in the wake of the racist gerrymanders that left the third-most-populous district in the state much bluer than it was before. “If you accept this, you’re basically saying that our votes don’t matter,” said one angry voter. “All votes matter. Vote ‘no’ on this.”

Republicans predictably ignored their constituents’ concerns and approved the measure in a 3-2 party-line decision CLEARLY aimed at suppressing the vote ahead of November’s predicted blue wave.

Brian Tyler Cohen dives deep on the lengths GOP officials are going to to disenfranchise Democratic voters and what comes next in the fight to preserve our democracy.

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Speculation rages as McConnell’s absence reaches dubious milestone
Surprise, surprise. It’s now been 80 days since Mitch McConnell’s mysterious health episode that has all but rendered him a ghost on Capitol Hill. Will the 84-year-old ever return to office? Will we ever get anything resembling a meaningful update from his opaque staff on what the hell is actually happening?

Mitch’s last public appearance was on June 11. Since then, he has missed 60 votes in Congress, including a war powers resolution on Donald Trump’s disastrous adventure in the Middle East and the confirmation of the president’s former criminal defense lawyer Todd Blanche as attorney general.

McConnell and his entire staff are still enjoying their taxpayer-funded paychecks and benefits, of course. Meanwhile, 4.6 million Kentuckians are approaching three months without full representation in the Senate. Just as the system intended, eh?

Progressive Democrat Brian Poindexter’s daughters make heartwarming pitch for their father
Brian Poindexter for Congress: Union worker and city councilman Brian Poindexter is running to unseat alleged wife-and-child-beater Max Miller in Ohio’s 7th District, and he’s just debuted a beautiful new ad that strikes a powerful contrast between the two, starring his three kids.

Poindexter puts his loving daughters in a campaign ad. Miller’s daughter ended up in a hospital with a broken collar bone.

The choice is clear. Click here to watch the ad and chip in to help Brian Poindexter flip this critical House seat!

Trump proposes new name for yet another body of water
Hoo boy. Granddad is really on one. Real Truth Social post, not The Onion: “Now that we have it under U.S.A. control, should we change the name Hormuz Strait to TRUMP STRAIT??? Like America itself, it would be ‘hotter’ than ever before! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

He certainly IS making it hotter, we’ll give him that.

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Israel “seeking Trump’s support for plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza”
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said there is “no real solution for Gaza in the end” without the permanent removal of all Palestinians from their land, and he’s publicly pitching Donald Trump on the plan to make Israel’s ethnic cleansing of 2.2 million Palestinians official US policy. Speaking at a conference yesterday in Jerusalem, Katz said Israel is “organized and prepared to get them out by sea, by air, by every way possible.” Any questions?

Ted Cruz is reportedly asking people to work on his 2028 presidential campaign
Republicans swear Ted Cruz is one of the smartest people in the room, but rumors that the three-term senator from Texas is maneuvering for another inevitably doomed White House run in 2028 certainly suggest otherwise.

Historically unlikable and impressively pugnacious, Cruz clearly has some huge blind spots. When Ted ran in 2016, things got incredibly nasty, with Donald Trump turning Cruz’s wife Heidi into a public punching bag and suggesting his father literally helped Lee Harvey Oswald kill John F. Kennedy.

Cruz inevitably bent the knee and dutifully kissed the ring, of course, and all was eventually forgiven — with Donald, anyway. (Heidi might be another story.)

When Trump finally steps aside the frenzy to fill the malignant void and take up the gold-plated MAGA mantle will be a hideous sight to behold. Cruz joins a growing list of wannabe successors that already includes JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and Pete Hegseth, among others. Buckle up!

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UN finally admits global warming will shoot past 1.5 ºC climate limit
The worst-kept secret on the only inhabitable planet in the galaxy is officially out of the bag, as UN officials publicly acknowledged for the first time that any hope of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and avoiding the most dangerous consequences of climate change is officially dead.

According to a report released today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the best the planet can now hope for on its current emissions trajectory is warming of about 1.8 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels this century.

Stand by for imminent reports of blowing past that new limit in the not-to-distant future.

Trump wanders off script, riffs on “very obese” friend who looks “like shit” despite taking weight-loss drugs
Okay, so we can all agree that there is no “friend,” right? He’s just talking about himself at this point, yeah?

Elon Musk named in bombshell election meddling claim
One of the ketamine enthusiast’s many baby mamas has alleged in an upcoming documentary that Elon expressed an unusual “degree of certainty” about the 2024 election results before they came in that “I had never seen before.”

“He had told me [before the election] he was going to unleash the ‘anomaly in the matrix,'” Ashley St. Clair tells filmmaker Alex Gibney. In corroborating text exchanges shown on screen, Musk, who dropped nearly $300 million to help Donald Trump win, allegedly brags, “I have ten thousand lasers in space.”

Nope, nothing deeply unsettling about that.

Trump goons issue bonkers new threat in Smithsonian war
The Trump regime is escalating its assault on history itself, threatening to withhold financial support from federal agencies if it cannot dictate — to the intellectually incurious MAGA cult leader’s satisfaction — precisely how the Smithsonian curates and presents exactly what went down in America and how. Totalitarily normal behavior.