Oh Noes! DoJ Gives Up On Making Joe Biden Pay For Autopen Crimes

Oh darn! The DoJ has dropped an investigation into former President Joe Biden's nefarious use of an autopen, a person briefed on the matter told NBC News.

The highly respected Justice Department pardon attorney Ed Martin opened the probe while he was interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. It wound down recently under Jeanine Pirro, the current U.S. attorney, who is a longtime Trump ally and former Fox News host.

The autopen case was never presented to a grand jury, unlike the case that Pirro's office tried to bring forward last month against six members of Congress who participated in a social media video that urged members of the military and intelligence communities not to follow unlawful orders.

Seems it's difficult to bring a criminal case when there is not even a readily identifiable and applicable criminal statute. Huh, imagine that. I guess the criminal statute that exists only in the Golden King's mind isn't enough?

But wait! Our Esteemed Supreme Court says presidents are immune from prosecution, anyway! I'm so confused!

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Google’s Gemini rolls out Canvas in AI Mode to all US users

Canvas in AI Mode is available to U.S. users in English for creating plans, projects, apps, and more.

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Android users can now share tracker tag info with airlines to help locate lost luggage

More than 10 global airlines now accept Find Hub locations as part of their baggage recovery process.

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'We Have A Superior Culture': Charlie Kirk Show Calls To Deport Muslim-American Reporter

Charlie Kirk Show hosts Blake Neff and Andrew Kolvet called for journalist Mehdi Hasan, a naturalized U.S. citizen, to be deported because he opposed the Department of Education hanging a banner of Kirk because he called college a "scam."

During a Monday Charlie Kirk show broadcast, Neff and Kolvet appeared irate about Hasan's opposition to President Donald Trump's Education Department's decision to celebrate Kirk.

"And so some very nasty people. I don't think we need to really pull any punches there. They're gross people," Neff said. "They deserve to be absolutely excoriated for this insane attack against Charlie. And of course, we are talking about none other than Mehdi Hasan."

Neff called Hasan a "foreigner" despite his American citizenship.

"Well, he had to say, first Democratic presidential candidate who publicly pledges to tear down this particular banner on day one of his or her administration gets an immediate bump in their presidential primary polling," Kolvet explained of the British-born journalist. "Go back to whatever hellhole you came from and go terrorize the people there."

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Instagram tracked growing usage while targeting teens, lawyers argue

The company said usage grew from 40 minutes per day in 2023 to 46 minutes in 2026. Other documents referenced back teens a top priority for the app before asking existing users for birthdays.

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Whackaloon GOP Rep Insists 'Military Strikes And Invasions Are Two Different Things'

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna once again lives up to her name. The Trump sycophant made an appearance on MS Now's The Weekend Primetime this Sunday, and was pressed by all of the hosts on the justification for Trump and Israel's strikes on Iran and Trump's refusal to go to Congress for authorization, and the MAGA apologist defended the strikes as "targeted" and "strategic" — not an act of war — and said Congress would not vote on a war declaration.

Luna's nonsense drew lots of pushback from Catherine Rampell, Elise Jordan, and Ayman Mohyeldin.

After Luna insisted that "it is not the intention of the U.S. government to invade. That is not what is happening. These are isolated, strategic, large-scale attacks," Rampell pushed back. "I'm sorry. You say it's not the intention of the U.S. government to invade? Did we not just invade?"

"We are not invading. Are you saying boots-on-the-ground there? Because I'm not," Luna insisted. "And I've been told directly by the State Department and the White House that that's not the intention."

The exchange grew heated at Rampell cut in: "I mean, we just killed the leader of the country."

Luna continued to insist that "strategic military strikes and invasions are two totally different things," and said she was told by Hegseth that "strategic strikes are not war," which was countered by Rampell noting that even Trump was calling it a war.

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Kamala Harris Just Endorsed Jasmine Crockett In TX Senate Primary

Kamala Harris has endorsed Rep. Jasmine Crockett in the Democratic primary race for the Texas Senate race, her most significant endorsement since leaving office 13 months ago.

Crockett is in the final days of a close contest with James Talarico, a state representative who has built a substantial following on social media. Crockett has crafted her image as a bare-knuckled partisan fighter in an era in which Democratic voters like candidates who vocally oppose Trump.

The endorsement from Harris, first reported by The Texas Tribune, came in a recorded phone message sent to Texas Democrats.

“Texas has the chance to send a fighter like Jasmine Crockett to the United States Senate,” Ms. Harris says. “Jasmine has the experience and record to hold Donald Trump and his billionaire cronies accountable.”

Former Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday endorsed U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett in Texas’ Democratic primary for U.S. Senate.

This is a stamp of approval from a major figure as Crockett fights fears that she’s seen as too controversial to win a general election.

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