Crooked Media - What A Day: Aid to order

Wednesday, October 25, 2023
BY JULIA CLAIRE & CROOKED MEDIA
Members of the House GOP conference giving a dignified response when asked about their new Speaker’s active leadership role in trying to overturn the 2020 election results.

Unimaginable violence continues in Gaza as the Israel Defense Forces stand prepared for the ground invasion that Israeli leaders had promised to launch.
 

International and domestic calls for a ceasefire have not abated. 
 


President Biden said he has not directly asked for assurances from Netanyahu that Israel will hold off on the ground invasion in Gaza or made any such demands, because “It’s their decision.” He offered that working towards a two-state solution has to be the next objective, as, “Israelis and Palestinians deserve to live side by side in safety, dignity, and peace.” 

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After three humiliating weeks in which the House GOP was repeatedly unable to coalesce around a nominee for speaker, they finally unanimously settled on Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA). Who, you may ask? An architect of the House GOP’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, for starters. He also voted against the Violence Against Women Act, voted against bipartisan legislation to codify same-sex marriage, and once said that women should be forced to give birth against their will to create “more able-bodied workers.” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) who serves alongside Johnson on the Judiciary Committee did not mince words in his assessment of the new speaker saying he has “much better manners” than some of the more unhinged members of the Freedom Caucus, but “is a MAGA extremist in substance.”

Johnson gave his first remarks as speaker and immediately invoked his evangelical Christianity, saying, “I believe that scripture and the Bible is very clear that God is the one that raised up each of you and God has allowed us to be brought here to this specific moment and time.” Those statements made from the speaker’s desk prompted Raskin to go even further, saying that such words demonstrate “that there are no public policy values that unify the Republican caucus anymore. They don’t have a secular program. And so they have fallen back on theocracy as the final binding mechanism of their cause.” He’s not wrong!! Johnson is vehemently opposed to abortion and supports a national ban. He’s also committed years of his professional life to fighting against basic LGBT rights in his work with the Alliance Defense Fund, a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated anti-gay hate group.

President Biden is planning a proposal for $50 billion in urgent domestic needs like child care, high-speed internet access, natural disaster relief, and fighting wildfires, among other priorities. 

 

Oil giant Shell cut at least 15 percent of its workforce in the company’s low-carbon solutions division, and scaled back its hydrogen business as part of CEO Wael Sawan’s strategy to boost profits by doubling down on high-margin fossil fuel products. 

 

U.S. mortgage rates reached their highest point in 23 years. It’s a terrible time to buy a home, so good thing it’s also never been more expensive to rent a home!

 

Hurricane Otis made landfall near Acapulco, Mexico as a Category 5 hurricane, but the storm has weakened to a tropical storm as of the latest advisory. 

 

GOP 2024 presidential candidate and general most-annoying-guy-we’ve-ever-seen Vivek Ramaswamy thinks the United States should pull out of NATO and “reevaluate” its membership in the United Nations


Microsoft is pulling ahead of Google parent company Alphabet in the generative artificial intelligence technology race.

Disgraced former president Donald Trump had a truly iconic day in court on Wednesday. Trump appeared in a Manhattan courtroom for his ongoing civil fraud trial, and was promptly fined $10,000 by the judge for violating his gag order when Trump spoke to reporters about court staff earlier in the day (disparagingly, of course). In the quarter-of-a-billion dollar lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, Trump and his co-defendants stand accused of repeatedly committing fraud by inflating assets on financial statements to get better deals on loans and insurance policies. Trump later stormed out of the courtroom(!) after a heated day of testimony—a move that appeared to surprise even his own lawyers and Secret Service agents—after the judge denied a motion from his lawyers on a separate legal issue.

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The United Auto Workers union is expected to announce a tentative labor agreement with Ford Motor Company on Wednesday night after six weeks of strikes at the Detroit Three automakers that sent more than 16,000 Ford workers to the picket lines.


Scholastic Book Publishers reversed their decision to separate books about race, gender, and sexuality at school book fairs, after the new policy was widely criticized for accommodating censorship.

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