Lorelei Armstrong

Want to have the scariest house on the block this Halloween? Put up Christmas decorations.

-Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has told the WH the child tax credit must include a firm work requirement and family income cap in the $60k range

-West Virginia, as of 2019, had a child poverty rate of roughly 20% — with a national average of 9%

-The Senate Judiciary Committee refers former DoJ official Jeffrey Clark for disbarment and criminal charges for joining DJT’s failed coup to overturn the election by pressuring officials to steal JRB’s Georgia’s win

-Four Republicans who voted to impeach and/or convict DJT during his second impeachment trial have out-raised the candidates he has endorsed to take their seats

-The Port of Los Angeles will operate around the clock to ease supply chain congestion

Oct. 15th, 2021:

-Anti-tax flat-Earth preacher Ron Skiba dies of COVID after being on a ventilator for more than a month

-Reps. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) and Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) big fundraising PAC is nearly broke, reporting holdings of $13K

-DJT, at a Republican retreat, tells a room full of powerful GOP donors and Senators he's "not into golden showers" in an unprovoked outburst about the rumored infamous pee tape

-The state of Florida announces a new rule that will more than double fees for Black farmers applying for medical marijuana licenses

-62% of police deaths last year were COVID-related

(con't) but it must be done separate and apart from the podium”

-Alaska State Senator Lora Reinbold, who refused to obey a mask mandate and was prohibited from flying to the capitol to attend legislative sessions, tests positive. She is taking ivermectin

-Former WH Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany: “Why does the media not hold @PressSec accountable for potential Hatch Act violations? She has twice advocated for political candidates from the podium. There is no problem in engaging in First Amendment political activity, (con't)

-The Jan. 6th Committee announces it will convene next Tuesday to vote on a criminal contempt referral against former WH Advisor Steve Bannon for ignoring their subpoena

-The Anti-DJT GOP group Republican Accountability Project has begun putting up “TRUMP LOST” billboards

-Former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe, fired by DJT one day before he vested his retirement, will get his pension back

-A judge orders DJT to testify under oath in a lawsuit over a clash between protesters and his security guards in 2015

-Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC): “I think it’s time for parents to start pulling their children out of public schools”

-Capitol rioter Joshua Doolin asks the court to remove his ankle bracelet because it gets in the way when he plays basketball

Oct. 14th, 2021:

-The House GOP tweets, over a picture of JRB: “This is the guys who is trying to steal Christmas”

-A Texas school district demands books on the Holocaust be balanced with “opposing” views

I celebrate Lief Erikson, the actual first European to arrive in North America (probably). He came for a visit and he WENT HOME. A much better model.

-Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) claims 40,000 Brazilians heading for Connecticut "wearing designer clothes and Gucci bags" illegally crossed the border: “This is not economic migration anymore”

-Former Acting A.G. Jeffrey Rosen testifies before the Jan. 6th Committee for eight hours

-DJT releases a statement saying if the 2020 election fraud is not exposed, Republicans will not vote in 2022 and 2024

-Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY), Chairman of the House Budget Committee, says he will not seek reelection in 2024

-The Biden Administration says immigration agents would stop conducting mass arrests at workplaces to find undocumented immigrants

-Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R-GA) calls off a fundraiser planned in Texas because the host displayed a swastika made of syringes in her social media profile to protest COVID vaccination

Oct. 13th, 2021:

-The Mississippi State Auditor is demanding former Green Bay QB Brett Favre return $828K he received in "illegally spent welfare funds" that should have gone to needy families. Favre is not among the six facing criminal charges in the scheme

If something happens to him in Egypt, will they return him all wrapped up?

-Former WH Advisor Steve Bannon has his show suspended from Twitter and an episode is removed by YouTube after he calls for violence against FBI Director Christopher Wray and Dr. Anthony Fauci

-The US will resume normal border activity for vaccinated travelers from Canada and Mexico in November

-NFL coach Jon Gruden resigns after homophobic and misogynistic emails emerge

-Parents of masked children who caught COVID in school from unmasked classmates file a lawsuit against the districts that ended mask mandates for violating their kids’ 14th Amendment right to be protected from “state-created danger”

Oct. 12th, 2021:

-Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) signs an Executive Order banning government entities and private businesses from requiring employee or customer proof of vaccination

-The House votes to raise the debt ceiling

So someone found a man's wedding ring in the water off the north shore of Kauai. The person who found it is asking for a description. I desperately wanted to say "it's some form of Elvish; I can't read it." I hope it gets returned to Volcano on the Big Island.

(con't) of board rules that require a speaker to reside in the district. He tries to argue that a resident could “yield her time” to him

-Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA): “Happy #ColombusDay!”

-Right-wing commentator and former Congressman Alan West goes on an online rant against vaccine mandates from the hospital where he is being treated for COVID

-Republican Senate candidate Josh Mandel (R-OH) is kicked out of a Lakota School Board meeting when he tries to speak in violation (con't)

-Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO): “Radical liberals want to get rid of the word ‘mother’ and ‘father’ because they want to get rid of parents all together. To them, the state is supposed to raise children. NEVER surrender your children”

-The Biden Administration cancels the remaining construction contracts for DJT’s border wall

-The FBI searches the home of the Philadelphia Proud Boys' Vice President seeking information on the Jan. 6th riot

-Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) bans vaccine mandates from any “entity in Texas”

Oct. 11th, 2021:

-The House Jan. 6th Committee threatens former WH Advisor Steve Bannon with criminal contempt of Congress charges if he continues to ignore their subpoena

-JRB makes Indigenous Peoples’ Day a federal holiday