ELEPHANT NEWS ~ JULY 2021

• Trump Jr. uses bigotry to defend bigot when Tucker Carlson called the ‘worst human being’
  
• ‘Audit director’ blocked from entry after data he shared “very closely” matches official tally
  
• ‘I did indeed delete the tweet’: GOP lawmaker tweets comparison between Dr. Fauci and Jim Jones
  
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• Anti-vax, anti-mask, COVID mocking Maine legislator has COVID-19, and he doesn’t sound too good
  
• Trump claims Biden may yet be removed from office while Republican lawmakers attack Jan. 6 probes
  
• Mad Georgian: Adam Kinzinger is a ‘traitor’ for serving on Jan. 6 Committee
  
• 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.
  
• The New York Times profiles the ‘most influential’ purveyor of online COVID vaccine misinformation
  
• Rest in power, Bob Moses
  
• Burnt parts of Pacific forests are landing on the Atlantic. This is climate change
  
• Sign the petition: President Biden must close Guantánamo prison
  
• Immigrant justice organizers blockade ICE black site in New Jersey
  
• Pelosi appoints Rep. Adam Kinzinger as second Republican member of January 6 investigation
  
• Not sure if joining a union is right for you? Here are some things to consider
  
• Sign the petition to Congress: Expand Medicare now — lower the eligibility age and improve benefits
  
• COVID is the priority even during infrastructure week
  
• The Olympics has a history of racist, sexist media coverage. Will 2021 be any different?
  
• California expands access to health insurance for undocumented immigrants
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: J.D. Scholten and John Ray on challenges Democrats face among rural voters
  

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

• Et Tu, Brady?
  
• ‘Tone it down b—h’: Cori Bush is threatened and called the N-word for doing her job
  
• Tweets From A Dead Man

• Unvaxed Trump supporter who spread coronavirus conspiracy theories dies of COVID-19
  
• Airbnb host bans vaccinated guests, and school fights masks to show God’s image. I hate it here
  
• Hannity, others at Fox share sudden reality-based thoughts on COVID-19 vaccines
  
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• As another Oath Keeper turns state’s evidence in Jan. 6 insurrection, conspiracy case mounts
  
• Cartoon: Owning the libs
  
• Fauci has had about enough of Rand Paul’s clownery: ‘If anybody is lying here, it is you’
  
• Republican state legislators have introduced more than 389 bills in 48 states that would restrict voting rights. Donate $5 to these grassroots groups to fight back.
  
• Rep. Eric Swalwell on GOP: ‘Many of my colleagues are better suited to work at the WWE’
  
• New COVID wave unevenly sweeps the U.S.
  
• The idea that COVID-19 will now settle down as an endemic disease as life goes on is a fairytale
  
• Sign the petition: Expand the Supreme Court to protect our freedom to vote before it’s too late!
  
• Cartoon: Life’s Little Victories 7/20
  
• No wonder the GOP is freaking out—look at the great stuff Democrats have planned
  
• Republicans try to keep playing the delay game on infrastructure, but even Manchin is over it
  
• Sign the petition: Thank you Texas Democrats, for pulling out all the stops to stop a Republican voter suppression bill.
  
• Biden creates dream team for fighting Big Tech, Wall Street abuses
  
• Wisconsin lieutenant governor launches campaign to become his state’s first-ever Black senator
  
• Taking the Texas voter rights fight to the doors
  
• As the Congressional Black Caucus celebrates its 50th year, we need to have their backs
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: J.D. Scholten and John Ray on challenges Democrats face among rural voters
  

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

• Trump showerhead rule, arguably his most towering accomplishment, is overturned
  
• Ron DeSantis fed COVID crow by doctor he’d ridiculed on Fox News
  
• Congressman: “Donald Trump is a very dumb man. He could not have done this on his own.” EXACTLY!

• Well, well, well. Lisa Murkowski fell into a well with an assist from the state GOP
  
• Republican Rep. to GOP: It was an armed insurrection. I would be careful on the side you’re taking
  
• Probable mass shooting averted in Denver
  
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• Capitol insurrectionist claims God gave her dominion over the law, is acting as her own lawyer
  
• A trans, disabled election judge in Texas dismantled the GOP’s voter suppression bill in two minutes
  
• Words for Trump to live by: ‘Take your fake White House seal and go play president somewhere else’
  
• 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.
  
• Headlines like this from the Chicago Tribune is why anti-vaxxers are winning
  
• Cartoon: Problem? What problem?
  
• Black man arrested on $100K bond for voting, and Texas GOP advances bill making it harder to vote
  
• Sign the petition to President Biden: Block all new fossil fuel projects and invest in a clean energy future
  
• Fascism: Fox News, Trump again boost violent January 6 seditionists as supposed heroes and patriots
  
• Lauren Boebert created her own sockpuppet to like her tweets, defend her nonsense, and follow AOC
  
• ‘A danger to our society’: Here’s the 2022 message Democrats can’t afford to ignore
  
• Sign the petition: Protect Interns in the American Jobs Plan
  
• Montana Republican who was forced out of Trump cabinet receives Trump endorsement
  
• CPAC has become the place Republicans go to sit around the campfire and scare themselves sillier
  
• Eviction tsunami is looming despite Congress passing $46 billion in rental relief
  
• Climate Crisis Round-up: heat, drought, heat, floods, heat, fires, still more heat
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Civiqs director Drew Linzer on using polling to track beliefs over time
  

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

• Roger Stone attacking Ivanka and Jared, did somebody flip on Daddy Douchebag?
  
• Vanity Fair: ‘Trump f*cking hates DeSantis’ and ‘there’s going to be a blowup’
  
• Did Jen Psaki really lean into the Critical Race Theory debate and knock it out of the park? YES!

• Roger Stone attacking Ivanka and Jared, did somebody flip on Daddy Douchebag?
  
• White men—even Republican ones—are starting to sour on Trump
  
• John Dean: Trump has set quite the trap for himself with lawsuit against Facebook and Twitter
  
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• Donald Trump jumps on the Ashli Babbitt conspiracy theory bandwagon
  
• ‘Loser-Palooza’ indeed: Trump makes himself center attention despite catastrophe in Surfside
  
• McConnell tells Kentucky they have the Democrats to thank for saving them from COVID
  
• 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.
  
• Cartoon: Atlanta
  
• McCarthy masterfully shot himself in the foot on the Jan. 6 select committee
  
• Cartoon: Maga goggles!
  
• Sign the petition: President Biden must close Guantánamo prison
  
• Guess who’s suspended when ESPN host suggests Black peer hired because of race! Not the white woman
  
• Stephanie Ruhle knocks crybaby businesses that claim they can’t afford to pay a living wage. EPIC!
  
• White supremacist Patriot Front came to Philly to march, then ran away
  
• Sign the petition and tell Congress to strengthen our antitrust laws and hold Big Tech companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google accountable.
  
• Uncle of teen who recorded George Floyd’s arrest is killed in police chase. He wasn’t a suspect
  
• Trump saying Hitler ‘did a lot of good things’ is what you would expect from a very fine nationalist
  
• Anonymous note left in rural mailbox proves why displaying LGBTQ Pride flags is still so meaningful
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Civiqs director Drew Linzer on using polling to track beliefs over time

• Rep. Matt Gaetz, embarrassed by a general’s testimony, makes it worse on Twitter
  
• This is the photo that will define Dr. Jill Biden as first lady
  
• Brian Williams roasts Matt Gaetz in hilarious comparison
  
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• Jen Psaki disregards a reporter’s question on when Biden believes life begins with a slick answer
  
• Catholic bishops celebrate triumph of spite over faith as they attack the second Catholic president
  
• MSNBC host calls out Christians’ lack of Christ-like behavior to Southern Baptist Convention President
  
• Jen Psaki dings Fox News’ Steve Doocy again as she tagged defunding the police on Republicans
  
• 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.
  
• Donald Trump really, really hates it when you laugh at him
  
• OAN is ready for ‘tens of thousands’ of Americans to be executed in support of Trump’s Big Lie
  
• Republicans run into early headwinds in two critical Senate races
  
• Former NRA president tricked into giving graduation speech to 3,044 chairs representing dead teens
  
• Sign and send letters: Demand Congress pass paid family and medical leave
  
• That Reaper drone that crashed in Syracuse? Turns out it was the second one in as many days.
  
• An incoherent Sinema defends her unprincipled decision to let Mitch McConnell rule the nation
  
• Trump admin lawyers having trouble finding jobs post-Jan. 6. Violins shrink to quantum level
  
• Newly released records show just how many Secret Service agents contracted COVID-19 under Trump
  
• Sign the petition: Remove white supremacist and Nazi content from Google Podcasts
  
• Ron Johnson showed up at Milwaukee Juneteenth celebration and it went as well as you’d expect
  
• ‘What threat did I pose?’: Father speaks out on fatal police confrontation that killed his daughter
  
• Wilton Manors Gay Pride horror was a tragic accident—not an attack
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Young voters, corporate accountability, and canceling student loan debt

• Cartoon: Maga goggles!
  
• ‘Loser-Palooza’ indeed: Trump makes himself center attention despite catastrophe in Surfside
  
• White men—even Republican ones—are starting to sour on 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.
  
• Days after launch, Trump team’s new social media site is reportedly being deluged with cartoon porn
  
• Trump in 2016: ‘I know more about taxes than any human’; Trump today: ‘Do you have to’ pay taxes?
  
• Teachers union makes move that will make Republican heads explode, this week in the war on workers
  
• 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.
  
• ‘I’m a Democrat. I hate the company’: So sums up my feelings for Hobby Lobby this Fourth of July
  
• The experts weigh in on the Allen Weisselberg and Trump Org indictments
  
• Cartoon: The screen
  
• Sign the petition: Congress must lower prescription drug prices
  
• Pew’s postelection poll of validated voters paints fuller picture of Biden’s 2020 win
  
• White people ‘fought to destroy the United States’ then dubbed Black people unworthy of independence
  
• ‘Drought’ doesn’t cover it anymore for the West. This is aridification and it’s not going away
  
• Sign the petition: Remove white supremacist and Nazi content from Google Podcasts
  
• UFO report doesn’t point to aliens, but shows why we need Men in Black
  
• Slouching toward fascism, or why sometimes you just can’t go home again
  
• I failed a drug test once, but I got a second chance. My heart aches for Sha’Carri Richardson
  
• Families divided by border embrace for three minutes at the Rio Grande during annual event
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Ruben Gallego on turning Arizona blue, Kyrsten Sinema’s unclear priorities
  

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

• Dominion unleashes the Kraken—subpoenaing Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Lindell
  
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attacks me and Daily Kos. This is my (way too much fun) response
  
• Trump Organization kept a spreadsheet detailing untaxed payments to Weisselberg

• Toyota, under fire for funding insurrectionist Republican lawmakers, doubles down
  
• Jen Psaki stunts Fox News Doocy’s attempt to change reality: GOP actually voted to defund the police
  
• Former Trump party planner testified on Ivanka’s ‘improper’ involvement in inauguration planning
  
• Daily Kos is $6,643 away from our monthly goal. Can you chip in $5 now to help us close the books on June?
  
• Why does Derek Chauvin deserve leniency but not Gwen Levi?
  
• Senator Ron Johnson is panicked that Americans want a better nation
  
• McConnell confirms he put Georgia Senate runoffs over the truth about the 2020 elections
  
• 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.
  
• An Air Force veteran and a retired state trooper were targeted by shooter because they were Black
  
• GOP voters go off the deep end, blaming Biden and Democrats in Congress for Jan. 6
  
• The Supreme Court is about to rule on voting rights, and it’s not likely to be good
  
• Sign the petition to President Biden: Block all new fossil fuel projects and invest in a clean energy future
  
• Democrat in key Texas seat that swung hard to GOP will seek re-election
  
• Spread of fascist vandalism by Patriot Front goons a reminder of the limits of ignoring hate groups
  
• Cartoon: Create your own authoritarian newspeak!
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Young voters, corporate accountability, and canceling student loan debt
  
• ‘Your eyes tell the story of your family’: Sesame Street talks racism and anti-Asian bias
  
• HHS Sec. Becerra to visit Fort Bliss camp for unaccompanied children following alarming reports
  

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

• William Barr dishes on McConnell’s cowardice, Trump as ‘madman’ in self-serving version of events
  
• Here’s the only clip you need to see from last night’s Loser-palooza
  
• ‘Good Guy with a Gun’ killed by the cops he was trying to save

• My letter to my Toyota dealer
  
• Washington lawmaker wears yellow Star of David at meeting, compares vaccine requirements to Holocaust
  
• Former Guy clocks in at dismal 41st in latest presidential rankings; Obama finally cracks top 10
  
• 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.
  
• Trump impeachment lawyer gave the Pennsylvania Supreme Court its excuse to free Bill Cosby
  
• ‘Worst possible justice’ who could author an immigration decision just did that
  
• Oh, nothing. Just Donald Trump still bragging about passing a dementia test
  
• Cartoon: Conservatorship
  
• 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.
  
• South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s border deployment is being funded by used car billionaire megadonor
  
• Robert Kennedy Jr. wants to dox a Daily Kos diarist and we’re fighting back: An update
  
• More than half of House Republicans stand with Confederate traitors in the U.S. Capitol
  
• Criminal charges coming against Trump Organization and its CFO could deal blow to Trump’s wealth
  
• Sign the petition: Congress must lower prescription drug prices
  
• Carlson piles lie upon lie claiming white supremacist terror is no threat, but NSA is spying on him
  
• Shocking! Negotiations on police reform bill hampered by the very people who need to reform
  
• Rust Belt state Republicans devise ways to evade vetoes on their voter suppression laws
  
• Biden admin to close six temporary camps for unaccompanied children by August
  
• Sign the petition: Protect Interns in the American Jobs Plan
  
• After wanting to quit gymnastics a few years ago, Jordan Chiles makes it to the Olympics
  
• Ranked-choice do-over shows tight primary for NYC mayor, with many votes to count
  
• House votes to create select committee to investigate Jan. 6 … and now the real drama starts
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Ruben Gallego on turning Arizona blue, Kyrsten Sinema’s unclear priorities
  

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

• William Barr dishes on McConnell’s cowardice, Trump as ‘madman’ in self-serving version of events
  
• Alabama officials cancel Trump rally realizing it was a pity party, not Fourth of July celebration
  
• Toyota, under fire for funding insurrectionist Republican lawmakers, doubles down

• Barr thought, Trump was saying that he had been ‘denying him his essence’
  
• Alabama officials cancel Trump rally realizing it was a pity party, not Fourth of July celebration
  
• Toyota, under fire for funding insurrectionist Republican lawmakers, doubles down
  
• 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.
  
• William Barr dishes on McConnell’s cowardice, Trump as ‘madman’ in self-serving version of events
  
• Woman shown attacking son of Grammy Award-winning trumpeter charged with hate crime
  
• Cartoon: Critical Race Theory
  
• Former Guy clocks in at dismal 41st in latest presidential rankings; Obama finally cracks top 10
  
• 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.
  
• Jen Psaki stunts Fox News Doocy’s attempt to change reality: GOP actually voted to defund the police
  
• My letter to my Toyota dealer
  
• Investigators of Trump inaugural money shenanigans want to talk to Don Jr.’s buddy
  
• Here’s the only clip you need to see from last night’s Loser-palooza
  
• Sign the petition: Remove white supremacist and Nazi content from Google Podcasts
  
• ‘I consider him a traitor’: Rep. Paul Gosar’s family calls for his expulsion from Congress
  
• After explosive secretly filmed interview goes public, ExxonMobil lobbyist pens apology
  
• ‘Good Guy with a Gun’ killed by the cops he was trying to save
  
• ‘Just shoot ’em’—New book details Trump’s orders to ‘beat the f*ck’ out of racism protesters
  
• Sign the petition: Protect our freedom to vote before it’s too late!
  
• Washington lawmaker wears yellow Star of David at meeting, compares vaccine requirements to Holocaust
  
• Lauren Boebert proposes useless cure for delta variant; reality-based Americans respond
  
• I’m melting! Melting! Oh, what a world! What a world!
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Ruben Gallego on turning Arizona blue, Kyrsten Sinema’s unclear priorities

• The Supreme Court is about to rule on voting rights, and it’s not likely to be good
  
• Women working in local TV news say harassment from viewers gets out of hand
  
• On this date 145 years ago, America began creating the Custer myth, a piece of which survives today
  
• ‘I need a drink’: Washington, D.C. police officer reacts after meeting with House GOP leader
  
• After new discrimination laws, California bans state-funded travel to five states
  
• Abbott forced to tweak border ‘disaster declaration’ after several counties decline to participate
  
• AP analysis: Almost all COVID-19 deaths now are among the unvaccinated
  
• ‘I consider him a traitor’: Rep. Paul Gosar’s family calls for his expulsion from Congress
  
• ‘Just shoot ’em’—New book details Trump’s orders to ‘beat the f*ck’ out of racism protesters
  
• HHS Sec. Becerra to visit Fort Bliss camp for unaccompanied children following alarming reports
  
• ‘Your eyes tell the story of your family’: Sesame Street talks racism and anti-Asian bias
  
• The House readies to sweep away residue from two centuries of war
  
• ‘Please stop:’ New Jersey police officer shown on video attacking Black father
  
• Why does Derek Chauvin deserve leniency but not Gwen Levi?
  
• It’s past time for the U.S. to rethink its approach to the refugee resettlement program
  
• This SCOTUS ruling ‘makes a racist and broken farm labor system even more unequal,’ top union says
  
• ‘Passed with a discriminatory purpose’: DOJ sues Georgia over new voter suppression law
  
• Voting rights restrictions are now headed to Trump’s stacked Supreme Court. Chip in $3 to help Daily Kos push Congress to pass voting rights and democracy reform legislation now.
  
• Marriage equality fails to fully protect the LGBTQ community from legal discrimination. Please chip in $3 to support these organizations fighting for full LGBTQ rights in the U.S.
  
• We’re approaching a critical Deadline for Democracy! Keep the pressure on Congress during their at-home recess. Find an event near you (or online) to DEMAND Congress protect our democracy today.
  
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• My letter to my Toyota dealer
  
• Washington lawmaker wears yellow Star of David at meeting, compares vaccine requirements to Holocaust
  
• Former Guy clocks in at dismal 41st in latest presidential rankings; Obama finally cracks top 10
  
• 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.
  
• Trump impeachment lawyer gave the Pennsylvania Supreme Court its excuse to free Bill Cosby
  
• ‘Worst possible justice’ who could author an immigration decision just did that
  
• Oh, nothing. Just Donald Trump still bragging about passing a dementia test
  
• Cartoon: Conservatorship
  
• 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.
  
• South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s border deployment is being funded by used car billionaire megadonor
  
• Robert Kennedy Jr. wants to dox a Daily Kos diarist and we’re fighting back: An update
  
• More than half of House Republicans stand with Confederate traitors in the U.S. Capitol
  
• Criminal charges coming against Trump Organization and its CFO could deal blow to Trump’s wealth
  
• Sign the petition: Congress must lower prescription drug prices
  
• Carlson piles lie upon lie claiming white supremacist terror is no threat, but NSA is spying on him
  
• Shocking! Negotiations on police reform bill hampered by the very people who need to reform
  
• Rust Belt state Republicans devise ways to evade vetoes on their voter suppression laws
  
• Biden admin to close six temporary camps for unaccompanied children by August
  
• Sign the petition: Protect Interns in the American Jobs Plan
  
• After wanting to quit gymnastics a few years ago, Jordan Chiles makes it to the Olympics
  
• Ranked-choice do-over shows tight primary for NYC mayor, with many votes to count
  
• House votes to create select committee to investigate Jan. 6 … and now the real drama starts
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Ruben Gallego on turning Arizona blue, Kyrsten Sinema’s unclear priorities