Hannity confesses migrant 'beat down' on his show was a lie. Surprised?

— The Supreme Court has wimped out on Trump. The 14th Amendment was passed to prevent the very scenario we’re now facing: a fascist insurrectionist seeking political office to end American democracy and replace it with a strongman authoritarian like the men who ran the Confederacy. One of the most absurd moments was when Kagan and Roberts both suggested that “one state shouldn’t determine the outcome of a presidential election,” as if they’d never, ever even heard of Bush v Gore when Jeb Bush and Kathrine Harris threw out over 30,000 “spoiled” ballots where people in Black communities with defective voting machines both punched the “Al Gore” hole and wrote “Al Gore” on the ballot.

Florida, and Florida alone, determined the outcome of the 2000 election. One state. Bottom line: this is now up to us. Nobody is coming to the rescue of American democracy. We must turn out the vote this fall in overwhelming numbers…

— Trump steals classified documents, the ones about US spies in Russia are missing (and our spies are dying), and Biden wrote a letter to Obama when he was VP that he kept, and now the media and this idiot special counsel and lifelong Republican hack Robert Hur are doing their best to conflate the two. That pretty much sums it up. Like the Dean Scream and Comey’s press conference to complain about Hillary’s emails, it looks like our mainstream press and the GOP are working together to get a Republican back into the White House. Again, we have to turn out this fall in overwhelming numbers…

— Pink triangles come to Kansas? Republicans in the Kansas legislature are pushing a new law that would require trans people to be identified as such on their birth certificates. Never forget that the first group Hitler went after — literally weeks after he took power — were trans people. When fascists want a minority group to beat up on for political gain, this is the smallest minority out there, smaller than any racial or religious group, and thus the most defenseless. These Republicans in Kansas are bullies and thugs.

— Smartmatic is suing OAN, and they busted the CEO! Voting machine manufacturer Smartmatic is in the discovery phase of their multiple lawsuits against rightwing hate outlets for defamation, and, boy howdy, they have pulled in a big fish. It appears from press reports that the CEO of One America News, the rightwing TV channel, allegedly obtained hacked passwords to Smartmatic machines and passed them along to pillow guy Mike Lindell and Trump loony lawyer Sidney Powell. Get out the popcorn: this is going to get interesting (and expensive!)…

— Crazy Alert! Republicans want Florida schools to teachkindergartners all about the “threat of communism.” Soon, five year olds in Florida may be watching newsreels of mass murders in Stalinist Russia and learning how Social Security and Medicare are “socialism.” These are the same idiots who keep railing against “liberal elites indoctrinating our kids.” Right…

— Fascism Fear, Fear, Fear and Even More Fear Alert! While Sean Hannity was interviewing Curtis Sliwa — who was on a midtown street in New York City — on Hannity’s Fox “News” show, there was a kerfuffle off-camera. Turns out a group of the “Guardian Angels” thought they’d caught an “illegal” walking by and tackled him to the ground and beat him up, if press reports are accurate. Sliwa bragged to Hannity:

“The Guardian Angels spotted him, stopped him, he resisted, and let’s just say we gave him a little pain compliance. His mother back in Venezuela felt the vibrations. He’s sucking concrete, the cops scraped him off the asphalt, he's on his way to jail, but they’ll cut him loose. We gotta take 42nd Street back, Sean. These illegals think they own this street, they think they rule the night. This is our country, if they can't abide by the rules, then we’re gonna kick ’em back from where they came.”

Later, the press reported, it turned out the guy wasn’t an “illegal” and wasn’t a criminal: he was just a Hispanic guy walking down the street minding his own business. Did I mention “bullies and thugs”?

— Geeky Science! Tornadoes aren’t supposed to happen in the winter, because it’s too cold for the atmospheric conditions necessary for that particular weather phenomenon. But Wisconsin just had it’s first-ever tornado in February! Fifty years of lies from the fossil fuel industry to protect their profits are coming home to roost…