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UPDATE: Mike Johnson gets a whew. BREAKING: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will appoint state Attorney General Ashley Moody to fill Marco Rubio's U. S. Senate seat. Moody has been a key defendant in multiple voting rights lawsuits and succeeded Pam Bondi as Florida's AG. More to come. — Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com) 2025-01-16T15:50:22.406Z Went straight to videos to confirm what I already suspected: Ashley Moody speaks in fundie baby voice.

Donald Trump has such nice things to say about John Fetterman after he came to Mar-a-Lago to visit him over the weekend. Via the New Republic: The Pennsylvania senator and Democrat said last week that Trump invited him for a meeting, and apparently the president-elect was impressed after an hour-long conversation with the man he once accused of abusing heroin, cocaine, crystal meth, and fentanyl. “It was a totally fascinating meeting.

Normally, a chair of a House committee is not removed by the Speaker unless something extraordinary occurs. "The Ohio Republican has been an outspoken advocate for Ukraine funding and other hawkish national security stances," wrote Politico. I'm inclined to see this as bad news for Ukraine, but other factors may have been at play. Source: Politico Speaker Mike Johnson removed Rep.

According to Politico, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is considering appointing Vivek Ramaswamy to the state’s U. S. Senate seat about to be vacated by J. D. Vance. At first glance, it seems odd given that Ramaswamy is so darned unpopular in MAGA world right now. Also, Ramaswamy has already gotten to work with President-Unelect Musk on their non-existent Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

On this day in 1988, Tina Turner proved her enduring appeal when she performed in front of 182,000 people in Rio De Janeiro, setting the world record for the largest audience ever for a single artist. Tina Turner, What's Love Got To Do With It. The Rude Pundit: Informing Ourselves to Death: Another Explanation of Why Harris Lost (Part 1) Show Me Progress: Have your papers ready. Lawyers, Guns & Money: The party of evil. Attention space nerds!

Vice President-elect Donald isn't even in office, and he's already creating chaos in the U. S., Canada, and Greenland. Donald's bootlickers in Congress even proposed a new bill dubbed 'Make Greenland Great Again' to expedite a negotiation process with Denmark, which protects Greenland's autonomy. Coke Jr. visited Greenland to prove that the territory was MAGA, but unsurprisingly, that event was staged.