ELEPHANT NEWS ~ 06/15/21 – 06/30/21

• First, Trump throws fit of rage. Then, FBI secretly scores Apple data on White House counsel
  
• Neighbor shoots 6-year-old boy allegedly over bike and it takes public outrage to keep him in jail
  
• Biden said ‘this’ after he slammed Trump’s ‘phony populism’ & a derelict GOP at NATO summit
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• One woman killed and three people injured as vehicle rams into protesters in Minnesota
  
• Proud Boy insurrectionist wants out of jail because he has an owie in his back
  
• Cartoon: The Rich

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• Distress signals already emerging within GOP over sticking with Trump
  
• Trump is gone but his enablers still remain in Congress. Donate $1 now to take back each of these key Republican Senate seats in 2022.
  
• Pillow Man tries to scoop The Daily Show, ends up satirizing himself
  
• Cartoon: Critical Race Theory

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• Gay couple discovers neighbor was behind years of anonymous homophobic harassment
  
• My brother died alone today
  
• Sign the petition to Sen. Manchin: Bipartisanship means the people agree, not that politicians do!
  
• Biden slams reporter: ‘What the hell do you do all the time’ and ‘you’re in the wrong business’
  
• After arguing with a cashier about wearing a mask, a Georgia man shot and killed her
  
• Video of Black woman being dragged by her hair in sports bar ignites protests in Washington, D.C.
  
• Still more evidence that COVID-19 is on its way to becoming a predominantly Republican disease
  
• Sign the petition: Stop Elon Musk’s union busting with the American Jobs Plan!
  
• Jennifer Gosar says what many of us are thinking: Her brother, Paul Gosar, is responsible for Jan. 6
  
• Joe Biden shuts down a reporter at the G7 with a simple response that works
  
• ‘You should pay for your food’: Karen inserts herself in the wrong Black woman’s business
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: GOP’s intraparty fighting; bullying the media is a losing election strategy

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  Report: Charges against Gaetz may come as soon as July
  
• In major about face, Manchin lays out path for compromise on election reforms
  
• New book catalogs how Trump worked to weaken American democracy, and to deliberately spread COVID-19
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• Texas’ 1836 Project is a big bag of BS, and we all know everything’s bigger in Texas
  
• Cartoon: Chuck Schumer’s Mitch mitigation maneuvers

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• Carlson inverts reality of demographic change in Mountain West to promote ‘replacement theory’
  
• Trump is gone but his enablers still remain in Congress. Donate $1 now to take back each of these key Republican Senate seats in 2022.
  
• World-class lickspittle Mike Pence heckled at Faith & Freedom event over disloyalty to Trump
  
• Tennessee GOP threatens to dissolve state health dept. for encouraging children to get COVID vaccine
  
• Republicans now trying to literally starve Americans to force them back into $7.25/hr jobs
  
• Sign the petition: Demand Congress step up the fight against the climate crisis – protect our ocean!
  
• Are we in the midst of the worst racial conflict of all times?
  
• Asian Americans are turning their ‘pain into action’ as they boost voter turnout
  
• A one-time ‘patriot tax’ to rebuild America is a good idea not likely to happen
  
• Sign the petition to Congress: Pass the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act now!
  
• What pandemic-inspired changes to your life aren’t going away even if or when COVID-19 does?
  
• Even before Juneteenth federal holiday came to be, these businesses gave employees a paid day off
  
• Senate Democrats add to voices calling on ICE to not re-detain people freed due pandemic
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: GOP’s intraparty fighting; bullying the media is a losing election strategy
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Joe Biden shuts down a reporter at the G7 with a simple response that works
  
• Biden slams reporter: ‘What the hell do you do all the time’ and ‘you’re in the wrong business’
  
• ‘You should pay for your food’: Karen inserts herself in the wrong Black woman’s business

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• ‘You should pay for your food’: Karen inserts herself in the wrong Black woman’s business
  
• Pillow Man tries to scoop The Daily Show, ends up satirizing himself
  
• Jennifer Gosar says what many of us are thinking: Her brother, Paul Gosar, is responsible for Jan. 6
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• ICE decided to send a tweet recognizing Pride Month. It didn’t go great (for ICE)
  
• Republican congressman ran ‘like a coward’ after refusing to shake Officer Fanone’s hand
  
• How Trump’s unusually weak Alaska showing helped Democrats keep control of the House
  
• Unwilling to wait until 2024, ‘Speaker Trump’ is now a thing Republicans want
  
• Republicans must be held accountable for empowering Donald Trump for four years. Click here to chip in $1 to these Democratic nominee funds to rip out Trumpism root and stem.
  
• Cruisin’ with COVID-19: At least eight Royal Caribbean crew test positive despite vaccinations
  
• Cartoon: Protecting the children from race harm!

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• Schumer sets up vote on elections reform with Manchin’s changes, McConnell announces filibuster
  
• Republicans don’t even know how to talk to reality-based Americans anymore
  
• Sign the petition: Stop Elon Musk’s union busting with the American Jobs Plan!
  
• Ohio Republicans move to ban cheap, fast, and successful municipal broadband programs in the state
  
• U.S. to finally do what Trump promised and failed to do—provide treatments for those with COVID-19
  
• Notable reactions to the SCOTUS ACA decision
  
• Juneteenth is an official holiday, so don’t let 14 Republicans tarnish this moment. Joe Biden didn’t
  
• Signatures needed: Demand full funding of zero emission transit policy and buses immediately!
  
• Supreme Court upholds the Affordable Care Act
  
• Congressional Democrats can work with Manchin’s voting rights proposal, and so can we
  
• Drought is impacting every aspect of life in the Western United States, and it’s going to get worse
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: GOP’s intraparty fighting; bullying the media is a losing election strategy

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ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Joe Biden shuts down a reporter at the G7 with a simple response that works
  
• Biden slams reporter: ‘What the hell do you do all the time’ and ‘you’re in the wrong business’
  
• My brother died alone today

• Still more evidence that COVID-19 is on its way to becoming a predominantly Republican disease
  
• Video of Black woman being dragged by her hair in sports bar ignites protests in Washington, D.C.
  
• Distress signals already emerging within GOP over sticking with Trump
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• Cartoon: Welcome to Vultureville
  
• ‘It’s disturbing and it’s senseless’: Mass shootings rock 4 cities in 6 hours

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• Could we see Trump Insurrection 2.0 this August?
  
• GOP-controlled state legislatures are engaged in a coordinated attack against trans people, particularly trans children. Help fight back: Chip in $5 to orgs working for the rights, safety, and dignity of trans people.
  
• Far-right gang hoped to overturn Charlottesville convictions, but U.S. Supreme Court says no
  
• House Republicans introduce racist, misogynistic resolution that targets the Squad
  
• American business owners discover a remarkable solution to the worker shortage problem
  
• Sign and send the petition to the U.S. Senate: The filibuster must not get in the way of adding the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  
• Video shows Maryland cop shock Black tourist with Taser after accusing him of vaping on boardwalk
  
• Federal judge dismisses anti-vaxxers’ lawsuit, sides with Texas hospital

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• McConnell announces, again, that he is evil. Will Sinema and Manchin believe him this time?
  
• Sign the petition: Republicans are attacking Black History education. We MUST stop their racist agenda
  
• ‘It’s a climate catastrophe’: Most of the salmon in California’s 2nd largest river dead or dying
  
• Biden admin shuts down ICE propaganda office that sought to further demonize immigrants
  
• Will Massachusetts’ Republican governor seek a third term? No one knows
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: The state-level assault on the LGBTQ+ community and transgender youth
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Joe Biden shuts down a reporter at the G7 with a simple response that works
  
• My brother died alone today
  
• First, Trump throws fit of rage. Then, FBI secretly scores Apple data on White House counsel

• Cartoon: Get back to work!
  
• Fox News refuses $184k advertisement because it says Jan. 6. riot actually happened
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring contribution of $3 today.
  
• CNN takes the all-time both sides award with one tweet

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• Gov. Brian Kemp is lustily booed at Georgia GOP convention
  
• Law firm pushes out partner who filed MyPillow Guy suit ‘without firm authorization’
  
• Cartoon: Joe Manchin’s imaginary friends

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• Ohio Republicans ask conspiracy theorists to speak at anti-vaxx hearing and it goes bananas
  
• White women tried to police queer affection in a crowded pool. It didn’t go how they expected
  
• Clearly bothered, Marco Rubio responds to Val Demings’ Senate run with insults and arrogance
  
• Republicans must be held accountable for empowering Donald Trump for four years. Click here to chip in $1 to these Democratic nominee funds to rip out Trumpism root and stem.
  
• ‘We went crazy’: How Fox News was finally pushed into the journalistic abyss by its audience
  
• Sign the petition: Demand Congress end child poverty permanently!
  
• Even federal judges are referencing far-right conspiracy theories to overturn our laws
  
• Sign the petition: Call on President Biden and Congress to lead and deliver citizenship now
  
• Cartoon: History for white people
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: The state-level assault on the LGBTQ+ community and transgender youth
  
• Capitol Police officer warns that Jan. 6 ‘was the tip of the iceberg’ as Republicans dismiss threat
  
• Slowest learner in Senate says McConnell should get another shot at blocking a Jan. 6 commission
  
• Former top Trump Org exec on company’s longtime controller: ‘He’s going to talk’
  
• Supporters sell out east Texas bakery two days in a row after backlash over Pride Month cookies
  
• MSNBC Legal Analyst Glenn Kirschner believes Trump will be held accountable for Jan 6th.
  
• Assault on Dr. Fauci turns even uglier as Don Jr. jokes about murder and Trump promises worse ahead
  
• White House distances itself from Justice Department decision to keep acting as Trump’s lawyer

• Trump, desperate for praise, is crashing memorial services down at Mar-a-Lago
  
• Cartoon: Joe Manchin’s history of Democracy
  
• Oregon Republican that tried to coordinate attack on Capitol expelled from legislature
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• Texas hospital suspends more than 170 health care workers for refusing to be vaccinated
  
• Trump is already sabotaging Senate GOP electoral fortunes in 2022. No one can stop him
  
• Cartoon: Bezos in Space
  
• State autopsy just released and most deputies are back to work after fatally shooting Andrew Brown
  
• GOP-controlled state legislatures are engaged in a coordinated attack against trans people, particularly trans children. Help fight back: Chip in $5 to orgs working for the rights, safety, and dignity of trans people.
  
• ‘You and your family will be killed very slowly’: Death threats continue to haunt election workers
  
• West Virginia and Arizona would like a word with their senators
  
• Cartoon: Secondary climate emergencies
  
• Republicans are trying to break Dr. Anthony Fauci, because they can’t get him to join them in lies
  
• Sign the petition: Demand Congress step up the fight against the climate crisis—protect our ocean!
  
• Abbott’s plan to finish wall, detain migrants panned as ‘ridiculous piece of political theater’
  
• DOJ inspector general opens investigation into efforts to break into Democratic reps’ phones
  
• The DOJ subpoenaed Apple in attempt to get data from phones of Rep. Adam Schiff’s teenage kids
  
• The bipartisan Senate group on infrastructure doesn’t agree on whether it has agreement
  
• Sign the petition to Sen. Manchin: Bipartisanship means the people agree — we agree on the freedom to vote!
  
• As Republicans decimate voting rights, Manchin insists they must be part of the solution
  
• Meet Zahid Quraishi, the first Muslim in U.S. history to serve as a federal judge
  
• New York Democrats advance bill to ban gerrymandering by county governments
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: The state-level assault on the LGBTQ+ community and transgender youth
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Assault on Dr. Fauci turns even uglier as Don Jr. jokes about murder and Trump promises worse ahead
  
• Cartoon: History for white people
  
• Fox News refuses $184k advertisement because it says Jan. 6. riot actually happened

• Joe Biden shuts down a reporter at the G7 with a simple response that works
  
• First, Trump throws fit of rage. Then, FBI secretly scores Apple data on White House counsel
  
• Neighbor shoots 6-year-old boy allegedly over bike and it takes public outrage to keep him in jail
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• Not shocking: The Republicans’ star witness at Trump’s first impeachment was lying
  
• Susan Collins is very concerned that people who drive electric cars don’t pay gas tax
  
• The name ‘Donald’ is plunging in popularity, as is ‘Karen.’ Is there any wonder why?
  
• GOP-controlled state legislatures are engaged in a coordinated attack against trans people, particularly trans children. Help fight back: Chip in $5 to orgs working for the rights, safety, and dignity of trans people.
  
• Trump’s toxic presence in Republican state party politics is being entirely underestimated
  
• Arizona attorney general degraded as ‘lackluster’ by Trump joins Senate GOP primary
  
• Cartoon: A short while ago in a galaxy very nearby
  
• Sign the petition: Call on President Biden and Congress to lead and deliver citizenship now
  
• The question needs to be asked, repeatedly: Why do Republicans want to inspect children’s genitals?
  
• Nevada becomes second state to add a public option to health insurance exchange
  
• Texas progressives just launched a brilliant new plan to turn the state blue and pass good policy
  
• Sign the petition: Demand Congress step up the fight against the climate crisis – protect our ocean!
  
• The international landscape is shifting.
  
• New Brennan Center study shows Manchin’s insistence on bipartisan voting protections is ludicrous
  
• Immigrant workers haven’t been given space to grieve during the pandemic
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: The state-level assault on the LGBTQ+ community and transgender youth
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Trump, desperate for praise, is crashing memorial services down at Mar-a-Lago
  
• Cartoon: Joe Manchin’s history of Democracy
  
• Oregon Republican that tried to coordinate attack on Capitol expelled from legislature

• My brother died alone today
  
• One woman killed and three people injured as vehicle rams into protesters in Minnesota
  
• Proud Boy insurrectionist wants out of jail because he has an owie in his back
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• Michael Avenatti: Waaaahh, I’ve been humiliated enough, don’t lock me up for for 11-14 years
  
• Lara Trump ‘belongs in prison’: Twitter users call former Trump adviser out on inciting violence
  
• The sad story of southern slave owners, as told in 8th grade history books
  
• GOP-controlled state legislatures are engaged in a coordinated attack against trans people, particularly trans children. Help fight back: Chip in $5 to orgs working for the rights, safety, and dignity of trans people.
  
• There is one freedom the Constitution doesn’t ever allow
  
• Fallout from Trump Justice Department data seizures on reporters and members of Congress continues
  
• $2 billion swindled by the previous admin for border wall construction returned to Pentagon
  
• Sign the petition to Congress: Pass the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act now!
  
• New Apostolic Reformation: The religious novement you never heard of, pushing guns, God, secession
  
• Republicans call nation’s slide toward fascism just another day at the office
  
• Poll: Nearly a third of GOP cultists think Trump will be reinstated as president this year
  
• Sign the petition: Republicans are attacking Black History education. We MUST stop their racist agenda
  
• Manchin, Sinema dither with Republicans on infrastructure; Sanders, Schumer move on reconciliation
  
• Sessions, Barr, and Rosenstein all need to answer for the misuse of the DOJ
  
• More data is in: Spike in antisemitic hate crimes in May part of longer-term increase since 2016
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: The state-level assault on the LGBTQ+ community and transgender youth
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Trump, desperate for praise, is crashing memorial services down at Mar-a-Lago
  
• Joe Biden shuts down a reporter at the G7 with a simple response that works
  
• First, Trump throws fit of rage. Then, FBI secretly scores Apple data on White House counsel