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Speaker Julie McCluskie, a Dillon Democrat, was elected again to lead the state House on Monday morning, though it was unclear if her caucus would keep its supermajority. McCluskie has led the chamber as speaker since 2023. The speaker steers the legislative chamber. She was unchallenged in her reelection. “We’ve shown time and time again what is possible when we stand together,” McCluskie said, highlighting Democrats’ legislative accomplishments from the past two years.

Once again, we can count on the useless Dana Bash to allow Republicans like Jim Jordan to spew lies with no pushback. Jordan made an appearance on Sunday's State of the Union on CNN, and was asked by Bash about Trump's threats to "prosecute Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, Liz Cheney, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, General Mark Milley, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, New York A.

"Helmets of the Fatherland," indeed. As the author of the prank noted later, "According to our legend, evil NATO troops are going to irradiate the Russian people. Our teachers must learn to resist this impact with simple means of protection, such as a tinfoil hat." Source: Moscow Times In the Voronezh region, teachers from seven schools, following a false order, organized the "Helmet of the Fatherland" campaign, during which they made and put on tinfoil hats - for "protection from the effects of NATO satellites." The author of the prank was Belarusian prankster Vladislav Bokhan, who sent out "orders" on behalf of "United Russia." Bokhan explained the gist of his joke on his YouTube show: "According to our legend, evil NATO troops are going to irradiate the Russian people.

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Back in the pre-Trump-bare-election-win days (yep, ignore the usual b.s. from the corporate media, as I said on my livestream last week, there were a ton of votes left in California and by the time they're done Kamala may only lose by 1.5% or less of the popular vote) I put together this video, and I think it's even more relevant now.

The machine only loves the winners.