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☆ Opinion: Swatting by Trump’s followers is putting public officials in danger. It has to stop
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Adam Kinzinger | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“I will tell you that the last thing you want is to see multiple law enforcement officials with guns drawn pointing at my parents and thinking that something happened,” the former South Carolina governor told NBC. It’s been in the headlines recently because of a spate of incidents involving public officials. When prominent public officials are victims of swatting, one can’t always prove a cause-and-effect relationship between inflammatory rhetoric posted online or delivered during a speech and a caller’s reckless false emergency call to 911. We need tougher laws to protect public servants, and some states are increasing penalties for perpetrators of swatting. Swatting increases the likeliness of inadvertent harm to the public by the very people whose job it is to protect us.

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☆ A growing number of student-loan borrowers are slowly benefitting from a new process that would get rid of their debt in court
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The Education and Justice Departments said their new bankruptcy guidance for student-loan borrowers is a success. They said 632 borrowers have filed for relief in the first 10 months of the new process. But they did not include the exact number of borrowers that have actually gotten that relief. AdvertisementOver the past year, a growing number of student-loan borrowers have tapped into a new process to help them get rid of their debt in court. On Thursday, the Education and Justice Departments announced a "successful first year" of its updated guidance to help borrowers discharge their debt through bankruptcy.

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☆ Matt Gaetz calls reports that he's running for governor 'clickbait' — but he's not denying it and claims 'dozens' of his former colleagues are pushing him to run
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

On Monday afternoon, NBC News reported that Rep. Matt Gaetz is expected to run for governor. Gaetz told Insider in a statement the report was "overblown clickbait." He said that "dozens" of his former colleagues in the state legislature asked him to run. When Gaetz attended a local GOP event on Sunday evening, he "strongly implied several times he would be running for governor," according to NBC. In a statement to Insider, Gaetz downplayed the report.

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☆ McCarthy starts to plot Biden impeachment strategy while GOP skeptics remain
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Melanie Zanona | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

“I don’t believe that a vote of the House is required to open an impeachment inquiry,” GOP Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who supports a Biden impeachment and sits on the House Judiciary Committee, told CNN. Another factor that could complicate the fall timeline for an impeachment inquiry: Government funding expires at the end of September. Officially moving ahead with an impeachment inquiry could help keep angry conservatives off McCarthy’s back. During the call, one skeptical committee member pressed Jordan on the purpose of an impeachment inquiry, according to a source on the call. “The Republicans in Congress, though well meaning, keep talking about an Impeachment ‘Inquiry’ on Crooked Joe Biden.

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☆ DeSantis says he'd slash federal bureaucratic jobs on his first day as president: 'We are going to start slitting throats'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ron DeSantis railed against the US for having too many federal bureaucrats at a recent campaign stop. "We are going to start slitting throats on day one," he said. Ron DeSantis continued on his tirade against federal bureaucrats while speaking on the campaign trail Wednesday. "We are going to start slitting throats on day one," DeSantis said about federal bureaucrats, leading to some dissatisfaction among the crowd at the campaign stop in New Hampshire, according to New Hampshire Public Radio. In a recent New York Times survey, DeSantis finished second among currently declared Republican presidential candidates, trailing behind former President Donald Trump by 37 percentage points.

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☆ Casey DeSantis hits back at reports calling her 'Walmart Melania': 'I do shop at Walmart'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Talia Lakritz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An opinion piece published by The Daily Beast referred to Casey DeSantis as "the Walmart Melania." In a "Fox & Friends" interview on Thursday, Florida's first lady brushed off the criticism. In Thursday's interview, "Fox & Friends" host Ainsley Earhardt asked Casey how she deals with the criticism. Ron DeSantis, his wife, Casey DeSantis, and their children Mason, Madison, and Mamie during his inauguration ceremony outside the Old Capitol on January 3, 2023, in Tallahassee, Florida. Lynne Sladky/AP"One thing that the corporate media did get right about me, I do shop at Walmart," Casey DeSantis said.

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☆ Elon Musk spent the last 24 hours spreading increasingly unhinged anti-trans content
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Paul Squire | Aaron Mcdade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

One of the world's richest men spent the last 24 hours sharing anti-trans content. Elon Musk promoted increasingly radical takes after right-wingers criticized him on Twitter. Elon Musk went all-in on sharing anti-transgender talking points after conservative pundits criticized him online on Thursday. In a tweet hours later to his millions of followers, Musk himself shared the video and declared "Every parent should watch this." As of Friday afternoon, Musk had pinned the tweet sharing the video to the top of his profile.

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☆ An ex-GOP Florida congressman who opposed Trump says DeSantis would be 'far more dangerous' if elected president
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ron DeSantis is "far more dangerous" than Donald Trump, an ex-GOP Florida congressman said on MSNBC. Former Rep. David Jolly called DeSantis "a cultural warrior who wants to take us back 100 years." Ron DeSantis, would be "far more dangerous" for the United States than Trump. "I say this with conviction — I think Ron DeSantis is far more dangerous than Donald Trump for a very specific reason," former Rep. David Jolly said Sunday on MSNBC's, "The Mehdi Hasan Show." "But Donald Trump is a transactional figure and he'll do whatever it takes to win."

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