Jon Stewart is on a mission to pass the PACT Act, legislation that would expand healthcare for veterans exposed to toxins that are commonly found in burn pits, and he’s been relentlessly trolling Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Pat Toomey (R-Penn.) for the senators’ newfound opposition to the bill that …
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On Monday, President Biden met with 10 supposedly moderate Republicans in the Oval Office to discuss their scaled-down $618 billion Covid-relief proposal. Even though the economy is still reeling from the pandemic and tens of millions of Americans are struggling to feed their families and put a roof over their …
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It didn’t take long after the MAGA-hat-wearing, Confederate-flag toting rioters were shooed out of the Senate Chamber for their suit-wearing counterparts with congressional pins to take their place and resume the conspiracy-fueled push to overthrow American democracy. When Congress reconvened a little after 8 p.m., eight Republican senators held strong …
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As a brief distraction from the nail-biting presidential election we’re in the middle of, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Ted Cruz, and more politicians appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in a political edition of the show’s regular segment, Mean Tweets. Like other installments of the segment, the guests read aloud various …
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It is a well-established fact that as a high schooler in El Paso, Texas, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) was in a band, Foss —::pauses to take giant bong rip:: It’s Icelandic for ‘waterfall’ —with Cedric Bixler-Zavala, who would go on to considerable fame fronting the Mars Volta and At the …
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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz caused a buzz online early Tuesday morning after eagle-eyed Twitter users noticed that his official Twitter account had “liked” a pornographic video posted by an account with handle @SexuallPosts late Monday night. Per Washington Post reporter Ed O’Keefe, Cruz addressed the scandal to reporters Tuesday morning, …
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