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Pussy Riot co-founder Nadezhda Tolokonnikova — better known as Nadya Tolokno — announced on Twitter Thursday that she has launched a decentralized autonomous organization that will sell non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to support victims of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. "[O]ur goal is to raise funds to donate to Ukrainian civilian organizations who help those suffering from the war that Putin started in Ukraine," she wrote.

“Don’t Say Gay” bill from becoming the law of the land: failure to pass in the Senate this week (extremely unlikely), failure to be signed into law by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis who supports the bill (so again, extremely unlikely), or a block from a Florida court (again, extremely unlikely).On Monday Florida Democrats waged their best efforts to at least slow down the legislation, Florida Politics reports, which passed with a strong GOP majority in the House last week.

conflict in Ukraine amid the Russian invasion was on everyone's minds at the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday. Stars was pins of the Ukrainian flag on the red carpet and shared their prayers with the people of the nation.Brian Cox, however, dedicated much of his acceptance speech to the horrifying tragedy as he spoke on behalf of the cast of after the show took home the award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series.«It's really, really awful what's happening,» Cox began, explaining that there are many reasons that the global community of performers should be particularly invested in the ongoing invasion.

returned for their first show of the month and their first show since Russia launched a full-scale assault on Ukraine.Needing to address the tragedy before the night could begin, the show decided to forgo the usual cold-open sketch in favor of a moving and powerful choir performance paying tribute to the people of Ukraine.The show tapped the Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York to take to the iconic Studio 8H stage, behind a platform covered in candles spelling out «Kyiv,» the capital city of Ukraine.Saturday Night Live https://t.co/sJuB8GVVVRAfter the performance, castmemebrs Cecily Strong and Kate McKinnon — who have both been tasked in the past with opening somber episodes following national tragedies — walked out to deliver the show's traditional start-line, «Live from New York, it's Saturday Night.» airs live, coast-to-coast, at 11:30 p.m. ET, 8:30 p.m.

www.walkerforcolorado.com.“In 29 states, basic freedoms are missing for millions of LGBTQ+ Americans.” The words are punctuated, in HRC’s new ad “Reality Flag,” by the unfurling of a redesigned American flag conspicuously missing 29 stars.The ad was created by Joey Soloway, the Emmy-winning showrunner of Transparent, and the campaign is designed to urge the passage of the Equality Act.

gushed with praise for Vladimir Putin this week after the Russian dictator unleashed a military invasion against Ukraine. While somewhat shocking given the timing, Witzke’s admiration of Putin’s “Christian nationalism” has a long precedent among U.S.

Mr. Biden plans to announce Jackson, 51, as his pick on Friday, setting in motion a confirmation battle in the Senate that will play out amid Democrats' efforts to maintain their majorities in Congress in November's midterm elections.With Republicans and Democrats each controlling 50 seats in the Senate and Vice President Kamala Harris casting tie-breaking votes, Jackson will need support from all 50 Democrats — if GOP senators oppose her nomination — in order to be confirmed to the Supreme Court, which she is expected to receive. It's unclear when confirmation hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin, but Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and committee Chairman Dick Durbin have pledged to take up the nomination expeditiously.

according to NATO officials. The late-night attack began moments after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had «decided to conduct a special military operation» to protect eastern Ukraine's Donbas region.CBS News correspondents reported hearing loud blasts in the capital city, Kyiv, and in the eastern city of Kharkiv.In his speech on Russian state TV, Putin said his plans did not include an occupation of Ukraine.The attack came just two days after Putin recognized the self-declared «People's Republics» of Donetsk and Luhansk, in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, as independent, sending shockwaves across the globe and a new round of sanctions from the West.

Bob Beckel was a TV news pundit best known as the former co-host and liberal voice of the Fox News panel talk show “The Five.”Bob Beckel was a TV news pundit and liberal political analyst who hosted the Fox News talk show “The Five” from 2011 until 2015 and briefly again in 2017. He was a co-host of the show with Greg Gutfeld and Dana Perino until he was fired for making an insensitive remark to an African American employee. He previously left the show in 2015 after having back surgery.

Governor Gavin Newsom slammed Florida’s far-reaching and dangerous “Don’t Say Gay” bill, urging Sunshine state lawmakers to stop pushing the legislation which he called “nothing short of a state-sponsored intimidation of LGBTQ children.”Newsom, who has a long history of standing up for LGBTQ people and same-sex marriage, rightly noted that the Florida legislation “will put kids – who are already navigating stress – in physical and psychological danger.”Indeed, the bill’s sponsor in the House is pushing a dangerous amendment to his own bill. Currently, the bill says schools must tell parents if their children exhibit mental or physical changes, which would include coming out as or even talking about possibly being LGBTQ.

running for Congress in her home state of Ohio.When Porter ran for state office in Ohio in 2016, we exposed her long history of radical right-wing extremism:For years, Porter used her daily radio program and weekly column to promote a variety of conspiracy theories surrounding President Obama’s birth, alleging that his election was the result of a massive communist conspiracy. After her prayers failed to prevent Obama from taking office and subsequently cursing America, Porter went to work warning her fellow conservatives that Obama would orchestrate food shortages in order to starve them to death, use a swine flu outbreak as an excuse to lock them up in concentration camps, and use Obamacare to deny them healthcare and eliminate them.Porter has also long warned that increasing acceptance of gay rights will turn Christians into criminals who will eventually be rounded up and tossed in jail, going so far as to try and prevent the Supreme Court from ruling on the issue of gay marriage.

In an off-topic Q&A following a Friday press conference on pay raises for essential gig workers, a reporter asked New York City Mayor Eric Adams for his thoughts on the relationship between the city's violent crime rate and drill music. The rap subgenre's violent lyrics and street-focused aesthetic make it an easy target for politicians, and Adams' response has prompted concern from some in the hip-hop and legal communities who feel it reflects a long tradition of criminalizing rap. "I had no idea what drill rapping was, but I called my son, and he sent me some videos, and it is alarming," Mayor Adams said.

a statement released on Tuesday afternoon. O’Rourke — a libertarian famed for his razor-sharp wit — notably skewered both Democrats and Republicans in print and on television. “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys,” O’Rourke famously wrote in 1991.

Hemant Mehta posted this short clip video from Sunday, February 7:On Sunday, Baptist preacher Danil Kutsar was telling his congregation that he hates gay people… when he went on a quick tangent to remind them that he really, really hates gay people.Just vile stuff… pic.twitter.com/swLIGnONem— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) February 10, 2022Mehta says Kutsar doubled down this past Sunday.“Praise God,” Kutsar says. “I’m happy” that “sodomites” commit suicide.“I hope that every sodomite dies,” Kutsar says in this new clip.

Trevor Noah has been announced as the headliner for this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner.The host will entertain the crowd at the association's annual celebration, scheduled to take place on Saturday, April 30, The White House Correspondents' Association announced on Monday. This marks the first return of the dinner since 2019. The 2020 and 2021 dinners were canceled amid the COVID-19 pandemic.«The White House Correspondents’ Dinner celebrates Americans’ freedoms and the working people who bring the news to the world,» said Steven Portnoy of CBS News Radio, president of the WHCA, in a statement, giving Noah's current comedy tour a shout-out.

dangerous and possibly unconstitutional “Don’t Say Gay” bill gathers nationwide attention and condemnation – making it more likely to be passed and signed into law by Republican governor and rumored 2024 presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis, another Republican is dusting off his own “Don’t Say Gay” bill to push his “Christian values” agenda.Tennessee state Rep. Bruce Griffey says if schools are forcing him to teach Christian values at home because they won’t teach them in the classroom, they should not be allowed to “promote” what his legislation calls “LGBT issues or lifestyles.”“The state of Tennessee is not allowed to teach my daughters Christian values that I think are important and they should learn, so I teach those at home,” Rep.

Boris Johnson and Beastie Boys has arrived, with clips featuring the Prime Minister, Leader of the House Of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg and more edited into a parody version of the rap trio’s 1987 single ‘Fight For Your Right (To Party)’.The video, created by PoliticsJOE, comes after Sue Gray’s report into alleged gatherings at Downing Street was released on Monday (January 31).

anti-vaxxer and “The Masked Singer” loser Sarah Palin, 57, gone “rogue” on the romantic front?Having separated from ex-husband Todd Palin, 57, in 2019 — and recently reportedly linked to New York Rangers hockey star Ron Duguay, 64, as she attends parties and asks people to take selfies with her — it’s clear that the former Alaska governor is living unapologetically, as always. But what in her astrology gives her the polarizing allure and brash personality that has made her such a lightning rod? Let’s find out all of the astrolo-tea!Sarah Palin was born on Feb. 11, 1964.

Fox News is the most-watch cable “news” channel in America, and Tucker Carlson hosts the network’s most-watched show. Those are facts, and disturbing ones for the majority of Americans who do not watch the far right-wing extremist channel or its top personality.Take, for instance, Carlson’s attack on Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Thursday night, a 12-minute long homophobic, hate-filled rant with a focus on attacking the very core of Democratic and progressive ideals: the belief that everyone is equal and everyone deserves a chance at the American dream, and government is a means to help achieve those goals, goals literally written in the Declaration of Independence.“Tucker Carlson brutally mocked Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg as an unqualified ‘kid’ who ‘breastfeeds, and has no business running the agency,” Mediaite reports.Not the first time Carlson has attacked Buttigieg – and by extension, every LGBTQ person – for having children, being a responsible and loving parent who took time off from work, time off that is granted under federal law, to care for his newborn twins with his husband.To Carlson, Buttigieg was chosen by the President of the United States only because he is gay, as part of some Democratic master plan to diminish or eradicate straight white men.“Today the Transportation Department which is now run by Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, finally told us,” Carlson told his right-wing viewers, “effective immediately we learned this country will undergo a quote, paradigm shift in the way we think about infrastructure.

Richard Grenell, who served as Trump’s Acting Director of National Intelligence, and as Trump’s  Ambassador to Germany, was seen by at least one lawmaker in Berlin as a “biased propaganda machine.” On Thursday Grenell attacked President Biden by attacking another Democrat, former White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart.Lockhart served as President Bill Clinton’s White House Press Secretary. On Thursday he tweeted, “Ahead of the midterms, I look forward to watching every Republican Senator oppose the first black woman to the Supreme Court.”Earlier in the day Grenell posted a similar tweet:Asians, gays and Hispanics had no shot for a Supreme Court seat from Joe Biden.— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) January 27, 2022Conservatives, including on the far right which Grenell has been accused of having ties to, have been falsely claiming it’s “racist” to choose a Supreme Court Justice who is Black and a woman.Those same conservatives are apparently ignorant of the fact that smart presidents, like smart managers, create a Supreme Court team.

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) used a homophobic slur in an interview with former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon while supporting Newt Gingrich’s attack on Democrats.Gingrich promised Republicans will throw members of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack in jail, after a week of multiple bombshell revelations culminating with House investigators receiving a massive number of Trump White House documents the former president tried for months to block.“Newt’s right, we are going to take power,” said Gaetz, who reportedly is under DOJ investigation for alleged child sex trafficking, having sex with an under-aged teen, and obstruction of justice.“And when we do, it’s not going to be the days of Paul Ryan and Trey Gowdy, where the Republicans go limp-wristed where they lose their backbone and fail to send a single subpoena,” the Florida Republican Congressman said, throwing in a homophobic slur that is used to depict weakness.“No, it’s going to be the days of Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene and you know what, we’re going to get answers, real answers about what happened in the election,” he said, before continuing to spin far right-wing conspiracy theories.“Answers about the Wuhan Institute of Virology and certainly answers about a Department of Justice and a national security apparatus that has gone totally off the rails,” he claimed.

reported Thursday.“Among the ranks of “dark money” groups and anonymous megadonors who bankrolled the effort is a familiar name in GOP fundraising circles: Dick Uihlein, founder of the multinational Uline shipping company,” The Beast reported. “According to previously unreported tax disclosures, Uihlein’s nonprofit—the Ed Uihlein Family Foundation—poured millions of dollars in 2020 into a sprawling number of groups connected to efforts to challenge Joe Biden’s victory and reimagine election law, as well as other right-wing extremist organizations, including ones designated as hate groups.”The Beast noted that all of the foundations $16.8 million in donations in 2020 came from Uihlein.Kyle Herrig, president of Accountable.US, blasted Uihlein for the donations.READ: ‘Craven’ Mitch McConnell condemned for ‘shockingly racist’ remarks about Black voters“In 2020, as workers and families struggled to get by, Dick and Liz Uihlein’s company cashed in on pandemic aid—then turned around and funded hate groups pushing COVID conspiracy theories, bigotry, and efforts to undermine democracy,” he said.

Desmond Tutu was a South African Anglican cleric, outspoken opponent of apartheid and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.Born Oct. 7, 1931, in Klerksdorp, South Africa, Tutu grew up in an era of systematic racial segregation that eventually became the official government policy known as apartheid.

Johnny Isakson was a Republican who represented Georgia in the U.S. Senate from 2005 to 2019.Isakson served in the Georgia Air National Guard and worked as a realtor before beginning his political career in the Georgia House of Representatives.

The 2020 presidential campaign for Kanye West concealed millions of dollars in cash from high-ranking Republican Party members and may have violated federal law in its efforts to conceal them, The Daily Beast reported on Friday. The site's investigation revealed the previously undisclosed presence of many Republican operatives at the heart of West's campaign including Holtzman Vogel, a law firm well-connected in Republican politics that would go on to back Trump's suit against Pennsylvania.

announced his bid for the state senate seat back in October. At the time, the Arkansas native said he felt it was his duty to run for office now because «these are unprecedented times in our nation.»Jim Bob's defeat came just days after the Duggar family was rocked by two separate scandals.

Matthew McConaughey is opening up about his decision not to run for Governor of Texas. On Tuesday's episode of , the 52-year-old actor revealed why now isn't the right time for him to get into politics.«It was a two-year consideration that I came to the decision, really, over the last couple of months,» he said.

rejected a request for a religious exemption for health care workers refusing to comply with New York State’s vaccine mandate. The state is requiring all health care workers to be vaccinated against the deadly coronavirus.

Sen. Bob Dole.“We’re friends, we disagreed, but we were friends,” Biden said of his former GOP adversary.

running for Congress in South Carolina, is an unabashed Christian nationalist who openly declares that “any policy that is contrary to the word of God” needs to be made illegal.MAGA pastor Mark Burns, who is running for Congress in South Carolina, says that “this is a Christian nation and any policy that is contrary to the word of God, we need to remove it from mainstream America and make it illegal.” pic.twitter.com/4j8oxoavhg— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) November 18, 2021Burns appeared on the Real America’s Voice program “The Water Cooler” Monday, where he proclaimed that “the gospel of Jesus Christ should be [at] the center of American politics.” When asked by host David Brody what he meant by that, Burns declared that “any law

NBC News reports “Robert Fehring, 74, was charged with mailing dozens of letters threatening to assault, shoot and bomb LGBTQ-affiliated individuals, organizations and businesses, including New York City’s annual Pride festival.”Fehring allegedly also had photographs from a Long Island, New York pride parade in his Bayport, New York home.

Bob Dole represented Kansas as a Republican in the U.S. Senate from 1969 to 1996 and ran for president against Democrat Bill Clinton in 1996.Dole was a Kansas native, born July 22, 1923, in the small town of Russell.

South Carolina Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace sparred with members of her own party on Twitter on Tuesday November 30, after Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene attacked her for criticizing Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s Islamophobic comments. Here’s everything you need to know about Mace and her back and forth with Greene.

Dr. Oz is running for Senate.The TV personality and surgeon announced his candidacy for a Pennsylvania Senate seat in an op-ed titled «Why I'm Running to be a Senator From Pennsylvania,» published by on Tuesday.

broke the story that lawyers for religious-right legal giant Alliance Defending Freedom bragged at an anti-choice conference that the 15-week abortion ban that had been introduced in Mississippi was based on ADF’s model language. ADF lawyers said the law was the next step in the group’s strategic plan to “eradicate” Roe v.

Matthew McConaughey has given an answer to those who've been asking whether or not he'll be running for governor in the state of Texas. It seems now is not the right time for the actor.The Oscar-winner took to Instagram on Sunday to share an inspirational video with his fans, and explained that he's been giving the possibility a lot of thought recently.«Over the past two years, I've been working on the answer to the question of how I can be most useful in this life, going forward.