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Every accusation that comes out of the GOP's mouth is an actual confession of guilt. The Projection is strong with those ones.

So what in the actual hell is coming down the pike if the entire GOP is suddenly talking about child grooming?

Why So Many Conservatives Are Talking About ‘Grooming’ All Of A Sudden

An Alabama man found with a "small armory" of guns, ammunition and Molotov cocktails in his pickup truck ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced to almost four years in prison, one of the stiffest sentences so far handed down.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said the 46-month sentence reflected the seriousness of the charges against Lonnie Coffman, 72, who had pleaded guilty to possessing unregistered firearms.

Man who brought 'small armory' ahead of U.S. Capitol riot gets almost four-year sentence

Nothing to see here folks, move along!

Trump’s Jan 6 phone records have 7-hour gap spanning riot

The White House call logs from 1/6 just happen to be missing the bits before, during, and after the insurrection. I'm sure it's just a coincidence!

New reporting has revealed that the White House records from 6 January 2021 obtained by the select committee investigating the Capitol riot show a seven-hour gap in Donald Trump’s phone logs – a period of time that spans the all-important hours before, during and after the incident.

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The lack of documentation for Mr Trump’s phone calls during the worst attack on the Capitol since Major General Robert Ross ordered it set ablaze in 1814 is belied by extensive public reporting which shows the then-president was not incommunicado while a mob of his supporters was attempting to sack the building in hopes of stopping certification of President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.

Mr Trump is known to have made at least two phone calls during the riot.

The first was a call mistakenly placed to the mobile phone of Utah Senator Mike Lee in an attempt to speak with Alabama’s Tommy Tuberville.

Mr Lee recieved the call just after the upper chamber suspended business because rioters had entered the Capitol. He then passed the phone to Mr Tuberville, who Mr Trump reportedly urged to continue objecting to swing state electoral college ballots despite the violence that led Mr Tuberville to end the call because senators were told to leave the senate chamber by police.

The second, a phone call with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, was described in a statement by Republican congresswoman Jamie Herrera Beutler of Washington which was made part of the record in Mr Trump’s second impeachment trial.

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It's where we take a bunch of people who are dispersed over a large area and concentrate them into a small area, say the size of a camp, for.......uh....filtration!

Russian army forcibly deports about 6,000 Mariupol residents to Russian filtration camps – MFA

Well I'm glad they're at least using social media posts in this new reality. It wouldn't be the 2020's without getting bitchslapped by the cold dead hand of Orwell. If this were a TV show I'd accuse the writers of getting lazy!

Joshua James, 34, of Arab, Alabama, pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy charges on Wednesday as part of deal with prosecutors contingent on his cooperation with the U.S. government in their ongoing prosecution of defendants who were involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The plea deal is the first of its kind for a Jan. 6 defendant and comes nearly a year after James was charged with impeding and obstructing Congress’ affirmation of the Electoral College vote in the 2020 presidential election.

The seditious conspiracy charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and was the most serious to date brought by federal prosecutors in the nearly 14 months since the riot at the Capitol.

Oath Keeper pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy for Jan. 6 attack

The U.S. budget deficit totaled $356.4 billion in the first two months of the budget year, down 17% from the same period a year ago thanks to a sharp jump in government revenues that offset a smaller increase in spending.

In its monthly budget report, the Treasury Department said Friday that the government’s deficit in October and November was $72.9 billion below the deficit in the same two months last year. The government’s budget year starts on Oct. 1.

The improvement was due to government revenues rising at a faster pace than spending over the past two months.

U.S. government deficit down 17 percent from same period a year ago

Our infamous drone war has largely faded from the headlines. Aside from one strike that went horribly wrong during the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan, there has been vanishingly little coverage of what's going on with the signature American tactic of the war on terror: remote-controlled death robots.

So I was rather taken aback to discover President Biden has almost totally halted drone strikes, and airstrikes in general, around the world. It's a remarkable foreign policy reform, but also a remarkable failure of both government communication and media coverage. A hugely significant change in foreign policy has happened — and almost nobody is paying attention.

Immediately after taking office, he set up a new system requiring White House approval for any strikes outside of active war zones (and later published Trump's loose rules that enabled so many civilian massacres). Now that the occupation of Afghanistan is over, that requirement applies almost everywhere, and it appears Biden is extremely reluctant to grant approval. Where Trump oversaw more than 1,600 air and artillery strikes in Iraq and Syria during his first 11 months in office, Airwars reports just four during Biden's term so far. Strikes in Somalia fell from roughly 75 last year to fewer than 10 this year, with no civilian casualties. And in Yemen, the annual total dropped from about 18 to maybe four, with fewer than 10 casualties of any kind. (Precise figures are unclear because some strikes are classified.)

This drastic reduction in airstrikes, like Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan, was genuinely politically courageous and morally correct (though both fell short of a full imperial rollback). Some well-earned bragging is in order.

Biden nearly ended the drone war, and nobody noticed

A jury found defendants in the federal lawsuit related to the Unite the Right rally in 2017 liable for four out of the six claims against them, but were unable to reach a verdict on the remaining two claims.

The jury found all defendants liable for civil conspiracy and racial, religious or ethnic harassment. They also found James Alex Fields, Jr., the perpetrator of a deadly car attack, liable for assault and battery and infliction of emotional harm against several of the defendants, claims for which they were cumulatively awarded $12 million in punitive damages.

The federal lawsuit alleged two dozen white nationalists and white supremacist organizations, including Richard Spencer and the Ku Klux Klan, organizations conspired to commit violence during the rally. During this rally, James Fields drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, which killed Heather Heyer and injured others in the chaos.

Charlottesville jury awards millions in damages in ‘Unite the Right’ trial

An Alabama man arrested after police found multiple guns and incendiary devices in his pickup truck near the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection has pleaded guilty to weapons charges.

Alabama man arrested near US Capitol for guns, Molotov cocktails pleads guilty

But I'm sure there will still be folks claiming there were no weapons at the insurrection.

Some of the Republican House members who this week excoriated President Joe Biden's strategy to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan and evacuate Afghan civilians voted last month against legislation to speed up the visa application process for Afghan citizens.

The House overwhelmingly passed a bill to make it easier for Afghans who assisted the American military to relocate to the U.S. The Averting Loss of Life and Injury by Expediting SIVs Act (ALLIES) Act was approved by a 407-16 vote on July 22. The 16 "no" votes were all from Republicans.

The ALLIES Act removes some application requirements for Afghan special immigrant visas that led to long backlogs and wait times. It also boosts the number of visas for Afghans by an additional 8,000 to 19,000. Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., introduced the bill in June, with 24 bipartisan cosponsors.

These 16 Republicans voted against speeding up visas for Afghans fleeing the Taliban

These Republican House members voted against the bill:

Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona
Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado
Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama
Rep. Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee
Rep. Jeff Duncan of South Carolina
Rep. Bob Good of Virginia
Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia
Rep. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma
Rep. Jody Hice of Georgia
Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky
Rep. Barry Moore of Alabama
Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania
Rep. Bill Posey of Florida
Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana
Rep. Chip Roy of Texas

But whatabout our ALLIES?!?!!?