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Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (Q-Colo.) told a dramatic story on the floor of the House Wednesday about a man who was “physically beaten to death” outside her Rifle, Colorado restaurant by another person’s fist, which she claims would not have happened if that victim had a gun.

Setting aside for a second the question this story raises about the security and clientele of her restaurant per her own accounting, the story is all a lie.  The person was not in front of her restaurant; he was down the street.  And he wasn’t beaten up; he died of a drug overdose, according to Rifle Police.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed in record territory Wednesday, ending the day above 32,000 for the first time as investors prepare for a recovery thanks to a new stimulus bill and rapidly deployed vaccines that will likely reopen the US economy.

The Senate-approved $1.9 trillion stimulus program passed the House Wednesday afternoon and is expected to be signed by President Joe Biden tomorrow, which will put at least $1,400 into the hands most American families and cut childhood poverty by more than half.

The DJIA finished the day up 464 points, at 32,297, a record high.  NASDAQ finished slightly lower after hitting its record high during the Gamestop market manipulation Reddit scheme, and the S&P 500 was up slightly, but finished about 1% short of its record high.

Even though the DJIA hit a new high, gratefully, there was no tweet from the President or the White House touting the achievement as a personal record for the office holder.

Bloomberg: “Parler, the controversial conservative social media app, was denied re-entry to Apple Inc.’s App Store recently after it was kicked off the platform in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, documents obtained by Bloomberg show. On Wednesday, Parler LLC cut its three remaining iOS developers, according to a person familiar with the matter. The company eliminated seven workers in total, most of whom were contractors. The other staff worked on Parler TV and quality assurance, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing private matters.”

“‘After having reviewed the new information, we do not believe these changes are sufficient to comply with App Store Review guidelines’ Apple wrote to Parler’s chief policy officer on Feb. 25. ‘There is no place for hateful, racist, discriminatory content on the App Store.’ Apple said that Parler’s new community guidelines, released when the service came back online Feb. 15, were insufficient to comply with the App store rules. ‘In fact, simple searches reveal highly objectionable content, including easily identified offensive uses of derogatory terms regarding race, religion and sexual orientation, as well as Nazi symbols,’ Apple wrote to Parler in a letter, a copy of which was obtained by Bloomberg. ‘For these reasons your app cannot be returned to the App Store for distribution until it complies with the guidelines.'”

President Biden's spending bill is a classic example of big Democratic overreach in the name of COVID relief. It manages to spend only ~1% on vaccinations and less than 9% on the entire health fight.

This is by far one of the worst pieces of legislation I've seen in the Senate. pic.twitter.com/lhU3wPm2kI

— Leader McConnell (@LeaderMcConnell) March 10, 2021

Religion News Service: “For nearly three decades, Beth Moore has been the very model of a modern Southern Baptist. She loves Jesus and the Bible and has dedicated her life to teaching others why they need both of them in their lives. Millions of evangelical Christian women have read her Bible studies and flocked to hear her speak at stadium-style events where Moore delves deeply into biblical passages. Moore’s outsize influence and role in teaching the Bible have always made some evangelical power brokers uneasy, because of their belief only men should be allowed to preach. But Moore was above reproach, supporting Southern Baptist teaching that limits the office of pastor to men alone and cheerleading for the missions and evangelistic work that the denomination holds dear.”

“Because of her opposition to Trump and her outspokenness in confronting sexism and nationalism in the evangelical world, Moore has been labeled as ‘liberal’ and ‘woke’ and even as being a heretic for daring to give a message during a Sunday morning church service. Finally, Moore had had enough. She told Religion News Service in an interview Friday that she is ‘no longer a Southern Baptist.’ ‘I am still a Baptist, but I can no longer identify with Southern Baptists,’ Moore said in the phone interview. ‘I love so many Southern Baptist people, so many Southern Baptist churches, but I don’t identify with some of the things in our heritage that haven’t remained in the past.'”

“Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri was acquitted Wednesday in a trial stemming from her arrest while covering the George Floyd protests in May 2020. Sahouri was charged with failure to disperse and interference with official acts, both simple misdemeanors. Police claimed she remained in the area of the Des Moines protest despite orders to leave, and tried to pull away when a Des Moines police officer pepper-sprayed her and tried to arrest her” – Des Moines Register.

A Dutch Boogaloo Boi who had been living illegally in the United States for more than six years told a judge that he should be released on bail on charges of illegally possessing a firearm because he wants to return to Virginia to be a “good dad” for his daughter, the Daily Beast reports.

Twenty-six year old Jaan Willem Lijbers came to the United States in 2014 on a 90-day tourist visa and never left.  He then became involved with the Boogaloo Bois, an anarchist far-right group seeking to topple the US government and start a second Civil War.

Lijbers was part of numerous Boogaloo Boi groups on social media and was in direct contact with Benjamin Ryan Teeter, a Boogaloo Boi who was arrested for providing material support to Hamas, and Ivan Harrison Hunter, another domestic terrorist who used an AK-47 to shoot up a Minneapolis Police precinct during summer BLM protests. 

This should’ve happened over a month ago, but Lindsey Graham is a bitch who will do anything to escape justice. There’s a new sheriff in town. 70 yes and 30 no votes.

“The House gave final passage Wednesday to a $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package that will deliver $1,400 stimulus checks to millions of Americans, extend enhanced unemployment benefits and boost funding to ramp up vaccine distribution and reopen schools. The vote of 220 to 211 sends the legislation to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature, securing him his first legislative victory since taking office less than two months ago. Biden will sign the bill on Friday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said. The Senate passed the bill in a 50-49 vote Saturday after making changes to the original version passed by the House, including lowering unemployment benefits and reducing the number of people who will receive a stimulus check” – NBC News.

Newsweek: “Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s repeated efforts to delay work in the House of Representatives has drawn bipartisan ire and may result in a new rule change. After Greene, a Georgia Republican, tried Wednesday to stall the lower chamber’s final vote on President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package by forcing a motion to adjourn, Representative David Cicilline (D-R.I.) said he will propose a rule change to ensure it doesn’t happen again.”

“‘I’m dead serious,’ he told reporters. The rule would mean a member can do a motion to adjourn only if the representative is a member of a committee. Greene was stripped of her committee assignments by House Democrats last month after some of her controversial social media posts resurfaced. In them, she promoted QAnon and other conspiracy theories and advocated violence against Democratic leaders. Asked about Cicilline’s proposal, Greene told Newsweek: ‘Do you mean Rep. Mussolini? Not only did Democrats unilaterally strip away my committees, now they want to remove any powers I have to represent my district. The Democrats run the House of Hypocrites with tyrannical control.’ Greene’s motion to adjourn on Wednesday failed in a 149-235 vote, with 41 Republicans voting against it. In fact, each of Greene’s attempts to end business in the lower chamber for the day have failed, and every time more Republicans have bucked her motion.”

Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins, known for her piqued emotions, said that she was annoyed that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called out her obstructionism in the 2009 recovery bill to pull the nation out of the post-Bush Great Recession, NBC News reports.

Saying that the US needed a strong stimulus plan to recover from the Trump coronavirus recession, Schumer stated that resistance led by Collins and others pushed the Senate to pass a smaller stimulus package in 2009, which set back economic growth by years.

“No,” Schumer said on CNN Tuesday night. “We made a big mistake in 2009 and ’10. Susan Collins was part of that mistake. We cut back on the stimulus dramatically and we stayed in recession for five years. What was offered by the Republicans was so far away from what’s needed, so far away from what Biden proposed that he thought that they were not being serious and wanting to really negotiate.”

“The Senate voted 66-34 on Wednesday to confirm President Biden’s nomination of Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-Ohio) as secretary of housing and urban development, making her the first Black woman to lead the agency in more than four decades” reports the Washington Post.

“Katie and I are deeply grateful for the overwhelming support we have received regarding a potential U.S. Senate candidacy following Senator Blunt and his years of extraordinary service. The pledges of support and urging from friends all across Missouri are both humbling and inspiring. After intense, prayerful consideration we have decided to remain devoted to the work Missouri voters have entrusted to me as secretary of state. Our hearts are in Missouri and we cherish the opportunity to continue raising our family here. Service to Missourians is a profound privilege in which we intend to persist and honor in every respect” – Statement from Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, who had been considered the Missouri GOP’s best hope from keeping evil piece of shit Eric Greitens from the nomination.

I just called for a Motion To Adjourn to stop Congress from passing the $1.9 trillion spending bill.

The GOP should be fighting to stop it.

Unfortunately some Republicans are voting with Democrats to continue business as usual.

WATCH me live on FB: https://t.co/dcQ1gc4e15

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) March 10, 2021

New York Times: “It was a familiar play by Donald J. Trump: lashing out at his enemies and trying to raise money from it. The former president this week escalated a standoff over the Republican Party’s financial future, blasting party leaders and urging his backers to send donations to his new political action committee – not to the institutional groups that traditionally control the GOP’s coffers. ‘No more money for RINOS,’ he said in a statement released on Monday by his bare-bones post-presidential office, referring to Republicans In Name Only. He directed donors to his own website instead. The aggressive move against his own party is the latest sign that Mr. Trump is trying to wrest control of the low-dollar online fund-raising juggernaut he helped create, diverting it from Republican fund-raising groups toward his own committee, which has virtually no restrictions on how the money can be spent.”

“Last week, Mr. Trump sent cease-and-desist letters – which appear to have little legal standing – to the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, warning them not to appeal to donors using his name and image. The jockeying comes as the party struggles to chart its path forward after losing the House, the Senate and the White House during Mr. Trump’s tenure, with moderate party leaders pushing the party to move beyond the divisive former president while much of the G.O.P. base remains firmly behind him. Who controls a majority of donors’ cash is set to be a fiercely contested point of dispute as Republicans try to regroup and take back power in the 2022 midterm elections. What’s more, Mr. Trump’s advisers believe the future of party fund-raising is in low-dollar contributions, not the class of major donors who have mostly signaled that they want distance from him after his monthslong push falsely claiming that the Nov. 3 election had been stolen, which led to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.”

“President Biden will announce today that he’s directing HHS to purchase an additional 100 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, per the WH. Officials told governors yesterday to only expect around 400k doses of J&J next week as the company works to ramp up production” reports CNN Chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins.

“House Republicans are engaged in an internal struggle over how to assert their power with their robust minority, with a small contingent of conservative hardliners taking extreme measures to disrupt routine business of the chamber, irritating many of their GOP colleagues who are eager to wage a more focused battle over President Joe Biden’s agenda. The House Freedom Caucus – a bloc of conservative lawmakers, many of whom are among former President Donald Trump’s staunchest allies – have thrown routine business for a loop, the latest being the refusal to allow quick approval of 13 non-controversial bills, including one that would award three Congressional Gold Medals to the US Capitol Police for their valor during the January 6 riot. Another tactic has also angered lawmakers on both sides: Forcing the House to vote on motions to adjourn, a time-consuming process that eats up floor time and distracts from committee business – a move that has been used by freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the controversial Georgia Republican who was booted from her committee assignments after many incendiary comments came to light.”

“‘It’s frustrating,’ said Rep. Fred Upton, a veteran Michigan Republican. ‘I don’t see that this is resonating at home, the motions to adjourn. I mean it’s just a pain. It’s a pain in the ass.’ ‘It’s just pissing everyone off,’ said one senior House Republican member, asking for anonymity to discuss the matter candidly. ‘Tactics without reason, they go nowhere,’ said Rep. Buddy Carter, a Georgia Republican. ‘So you’ve got to have a game plan. You just have to ask about the game plan there.’ Added Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw: ‘I’m not voting for any more motions to adjourn. These things are the games that both sides play. I’m not a fan of it from either side.’ The fight presents a growing challenge for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and his leadership team” – CNN.

Fake news!

I don’t march with Democrats. https://t.co/97pLQdnVIQ

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) March 9, 2021