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Oil Drops After Biden Caution to Refiners; Recession Fears Grow Pre-Fed​


Investing.com -- Oil prices fell as much as 3% on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve imposed in its biggest U.S. rate since the 1990s, adding to fears that the central bank will push the world's largest economy into a recession in its bid to fight inflation ramping at 40-year highs.

President Joe Biden added to oil market jitters by calling on U.S. refining companies to produce more fuels, saying they were duty-bound to help alleviate the burden of record high gasoline and diesel prices on Americans.

“At a time of war – historically high refinery profit margins being passed directly onto American families are not acceptable,” Biden said, referring to the Russia-Ukraine crisis, in his letter to refiners, including those belonging to oil majors such as Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) and Chevron (NYSE:CVX).
 

Election Deniers Had Another Good Night in Nevada. It’s a Threat to Democracy.​

Nevada Republicans voted on Tuesday to nominate an election denialist as the state’s top elections official, an outcome that would be worrisome even if it were an isolated incident.

It is not.

Jim Marchant beat out six other Republicans candidates vying to be the party’s nominee for Nevada secretary of state. In the good ol’ days, most voters couldn’t describe the duties of a secretary of state, let alone name the person in the job. It was an elevated technocrat who made sure businesses were registered, state archives were maintained, and notaries public were current. But after a sitting president urged some secretaries of state to set aside election results for political expediency, the public, and supporters of former President Donald Trump in particular, began to better understand the role’s power. And in Marchant, Nevadans have picked an adherent to Trump’s Big Lie and a figure who, if elected in November, has pledged to do everything in his power to wield his office’s authority for political ends.

The choice would be disturbing on its own, for sure. But it fits with a broader pattern this year of Republicans siding with election deniers for prominent roles. In fact, it’s almost impossible to win a GOP nomination these days unless one caters to these fanciful ideas that Trump actually won the 2020 election and should win 2024 regardless of the vote outcome. Sure, Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, fended off a Trump-backed challenger last month who focused on Raffensperger’s refusal to fudge the 2020 results, but Republicans in Pennsylvania still picked an election denier as their nominee for governor as did voters in North Carolina in the GOP primary for a Senate seat. And down the coast in South Carolina on Tuesday, Republicans backed the challenger Trump endorsed for a House seat who pledged fealty to Trump’s false claims of election fraud over the incumbent.
 

Pro-Trump Republicans’ primary wins raise alarm about US democracy​


Victories of pro-Trump candidates in Nevada set the stage for match-ups between election-deniers and embattled Democrats in a state both parties see as critical in the midterms.
 
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Retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig, a staunch conservative long admired by many Republicans, will testify before the House's Jan. 6 committee on Thursday with an urgent and stark message for the panel about former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election: "America's democracy was almost stolen from her."

Luttig will also likely state that the Republican National Committee is wrong to have referred to some of the events of Jan. 6, 2021 as "legitimate political discourse" and warn fellow conservatives to not ignore the gravity of what Trump did as he scrambled to hold onto the presidency that day. The retired judge's planned remarks were confirmed to CBS News by two people familiar with his expected testimony who were not authorized to discuss details of the hearing.​

He will also reveal how he advised then-Vice President Mike Pence to resist Trump's pleas for Pence to block the congressional certification of Joe Biden's election victory. One person familiar with Luttig's planned testimony said he sees his appearance before the committee as a serious and sobering moment similar to an appearance before the U.S. Supreme Court.​
Pence's former counsel, Greg Jacob, will also testify before the committee on Thursday. Both Jacob and Luttig counseled Pence to avoid doing anything to rupture the congressional certification of the election — and to disregard advice from conservative lawyer and Trump ally John Eastman, a former Luttig clerk.​
Eastman authored a two-page memo, embraced by Trump, which argues that the vice president could take steps to delay the certification and allow for states to send alternate slates of electors for consideration by Congress. A federal judge recently ordered Eastman to turn over 159 documents to the House select committee.
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Senator McConnell denounces RNC decision to censure two Republicans investigating January 6 attack​

Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell denounced a resolution from his own party calling the violence on January 6th "legitimate political discourse," and slammed the RNC for "singling out" and censuring two top Republicans investigating the deadly Capitol attack. Nikole Killion has the latest on the rift within the Republican Party.​
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they are working on it while half the country sleeps and the other half working toward a forcible takeover​

Steve Bannon ranted outside a courthouse in DC, claiming MAGA will 'destroy the Democratic Party' and 'govern for 100 years'​


  • In a media appearance outside a DC courthouse, Steve Bannon ranted about a "populist uprising."
  • Bannon claimed the MAGA movement will win an "80 to 100 seat pickup" in Congress.
  • "We will govern for a hundred years after we win a hundred seats," Bannon said.
At a Wednesday media appearance in Washington, DC, Trump ally and adviser Steve Bannon claimed without basis that the MAGA movement will take over the US and rule for a hundred years.

Bannon addressed the media on June 15 outside the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse after a three-hour court hearing, during which Bannon attempted to get the criminal contempt of Congress charges against him dropped. Judge Carl Nichols rejected Bannon's challenge, greenlighting the trial against the former Trump adviser. Bannon will be tried on July 18 on two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to sit for a sworn deposition or give records to the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot.


Steve Bannon Blakliar ranted outside a courthouse in DC website, claiming MAGA will 'destroy the Democratic Party' and 'govern for 100 years'​

 
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Not a lie, you said I and half the conservative posters should be shot.

Gee I wonder how you'd react if Trump had said half the democrats ought to be taken out and SHOT...

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