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Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett said during an MSNBC appearance that GOP lawmakers and MAGA social media users who are bizarrely blasting President Biden's pardon of his son Hunter should "take a look in the mirror." "Well, I won't pretend to speak for the entire caucus, but I will say, way to go, Joe," she said.

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Dane County Circuit Court Judge Jacob Frost confirmed what we all knew for the past 13 years - that Scott Walker's self-proclaimed legacy, Act 10, was indeed illegal and unconstitutional. Furthermore, Frost proclaimed that the law is so broken, there's no way it can be fixed: “Nobody could provide this Court an explanation that reasonably showed why municipal police and fire and State Troopers are considered public safety employees, but Capitol Police, UW Police and conservation wardens, who have the same authority and do the same work, are not," Frost wrote in his July ruling.

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