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Senator’s Photos From Capitol On Jan. 6 Show Violent Insurrection Wreckage

The pictures show yet again that the deadly riot at the Capitol was no “normal tourist visit,” as one Republican lawmaker previously put it.

Shattered glass. Overturned chairs. Broken furniture. This was some of the wreckage at the Capitol after the violent riot of Jan. 6, captured in newly released photos from a Democratic senator.

“I took these exactly six months ago – the morning after the insurrection,” Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown tweeted Wednesday, noting it was the first time he was sharing the footage. “This is what I saw in the Capitol.”

On Jan. 6, an armed mob of hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol where lawmakers were set to certify the results of the U.S. presidential election, which President Joe Biden had won. Five people died in the riots, including a Capitol Police officer. Continue reading.

Kraken Lawyer Tells Judge ‘Any Attempt To String Cite [Caselaw] Would Be Insulting To All Involved’

Listen, Judge. We’ve got cases backing us up. You wouldn’t believe how many cases we’ve got over here. In fact, it’s so many cases that I’m not even going to waste your time by pointing them out.

While that sounds like something that a pro se litigant might have written, in this case it was Stefanie Lambert Juntilla, the local counsel for the Michigan Kraken lawsuit. A motion had been filed asking the court to take judicial notice of the Michigan legislature’s report debunking the facially bonkers election fraud claims that gave rise to the Kraken suits. Juntilla responds that the court should ignore the report because the legislature admits that the report is not “exhaustive” and a rogue member of the Michigan House claims that she — and she alone, apparently — is “in receipt of evidence reflecting systematic election fraud in Michigan that occurred in the November 2020 election.”

Italian space lasers? No… but apparently it’s Taiwan and Germany now?

Which brings Juntilla to this gem: Continue reading.

McConnell on American Rescue Plan, which he voted against: “State & local government are gonna benefit enormously.”

You can view the Recount video on Clipboard here.

Trump joked about Jamal Khashoggi’s grisly murder in phone calls to Saudi prince: report

Former president Donald Trump cracked a joke about the grisly murder of Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi operatives, according to a new report.

The October 2018 murder of the U.S.-based journalist set off a crisis inside the White House, and Trump personally called Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman and his father King Salman seeking answers about the slaying in Turkey, reported Yahoo’s “Conspiracyland” podcast.

“The president had multiple calls with MBS and with King Salman, specifically asking them, did you know anything about this?” said Kirsten Fontenrose, then the director of Gulf affairs at the National Security Council. “The president would flat-out ask, I mean, up to a dozen times on any individual phone call, whether it was with King Salman or with MBS or both of them, ‘Did you have any knowledge of this operation?’ ‘Did you know this was going to happen?’ ‘Did you give this order?'” Continue reading.

Opinion: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene can’t stop making Covid-Nazi comparisons

Greene’s comments are part of a history of far-right disavowal, projection and escalation intended to provide a rationale for retaliation.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., just can’t stop comparing her political enemies to the Nazis. Greene was recently forced to apologize for suggesting that mask mandates in the U.S. Capitol were similar to the Holocaust. But no sooner had she disavowed one offensive comparison than she opened her mouth and made another one.

After President Joe Biden promised to send medical personnel into some communities to offer vaccinations, Greene tweeted, “People have a choice, they don’t need your medical brown shirts showing up at their door ordering vaccinations. You can’t force people to be part of the human experiment.”

The brownshirts, of course, were a Nazi paramilitary organization. And the Nazi regime was notorious for performing nonconsensual medical experiments. Continue reading.

Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan Update: July 9, 2021

Governor Walz and Lt. Governor Flanagan Visited Rochester to Highlight Child Care and Early Education Investments in Minnesota’s COVID-19 Recovery Budget

Gov. and Lt. Gov. Highlight Child Care and Early Education Investments

On Thursday, Governor Tim Walz and Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan visited Rochester to celebrate the passage of Minnesota’s COVID-19 Recovery Budget. The budget’s historic investments will help Minnesota’s working families by increasing access to affordable, high-quality child care, early education, and youth programs.

New Data Shows Minnesota’s COVID Restrictions Saved Lives

In case you missed it, KARE 11 aired a story this week detailing new research from the Wilder Foundation showing that Governor Walz’s leadership throughout the COVID-19 pandemic saved lives. Throughout the pandemic, CDC data shows Minnesota had the lowest death rate of any surrounding state. Rewatch the story here: New data shows Minnesota’s COVID restrictions saved lives.

‘I cried and cried’: Unvaccinated Republican assumed COVID-19 ‘wouldn’t be that bad’ – then came perilously close to dying

A whopping 99.2 percent of the people who died of COVID-19 in May were people who weren’t vaccinated, Forbes reported, citing data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. It showed that only 150 out of 18,000 COVID deaths in May were “breakthrough” infections of fully vaccinated people.

One of those people who survived was Republican Party of Lakeland chairman James Ring, who says now that he “certainly was dying,” when he contracted the virus at a volleyball tournament where his daughters played in Orlando, reported The Ledger.

“I haven’t shared this with many people, but I just spent the last few days confined to a small room in the COVID unit at Lakeland Regional Health with COVID pneumonia in both my lungs,” Ring said in a Facebook post. Continue reading.

Rep. Dean Phillips (CD3): Delivering For Our District

Hi Neighbors,

I hope you had a joyous and restorative Fourth of July. I spent last weekend surrounded by friends and family celebrating this one-of-a-kind country and reflecting on all we must do to protect the good that it stands for. Freedom is fragile, and as we navigate unprecedented challenges and address historic injustices, we must remember that our shared love for America transcends our political divisions. There is nothing more powerful than a house united!

Those core values – unity and patriotism – guide all of my work on behalf of Minnesota’s Third District. Last week, I had the opportunity to share my principles and my vision for a more united Congress with the Star Tribune. My mission is to inspire a new era of collaboration in Washington, and I hope that the spirit of Independence Day will inspire others to do the same.

Commissioner Chris LaTondress (Dist. 6) Update: July 9, 2021

Dear Friends and Neighbors,

Tomorrow I will be hosting my first in-person Coffee with Chris. We will meet at the Edina Library Conference Room at 10:00 a.m. and I will bring coffee to share. To RSVP, click here.

Updates in this week’s newsletter:

☕️ Coffee with Chris (in-person) Tomorrow at 10:00 a.m.: Join me for my first in-person coffee with Chris at the Edina Library Conference Room.

🚤 Water Patrol Ride Along: The Hennepin Board of Commissioners recently passed $115,415 in funding for the Sheriff’s Office’s boat and water safety activities.

Reporters point to a simple sign that Trump’s social media lawsuit is ‘unserious’

It took Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee (RNC), the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), and the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) just “minutes” to begin fundraising off of what some are calling the former president’s “frivolous” lawsuits against Twitter, Facebook, and Google.

Politico’s Sam Stein posted this text from the joint Trump-RNC fundraising committee:

and now the RNC gets in on the fundraising act pic.twitter.com/i9lLK91ZTx
— Sam Stein (@samstein) July 7, 2021

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Governor Walz and Lt. Governor Flanagan Visited Rochester to Highlight Child Care and Early Education Investments in Minnesota’s COVID-19 Recovery Budget

New Data Shows Minnesota’s COVID Restrictions Saved Lives

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