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☆ Lauren Boebert once told women in rocky marriages that they just need to start 'chasing Jesus' to solve their marital issues. Now she's getting divorced.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

She once told women struggling in their marriages that chasing Jesus would solve marital issues. On Tuesday, Boebert announced that she filed for divorce from her husband Jayson Boebert, citing irreconcilable differences. Boebert has previously brought up her Christian faith while advocating for women to stay in rocky marriages. The power that you have in Christ, for your marriage, is unmatched," Boebert told an audience at the Cornerstone Christian Center during an event in June. "And if you start chasing Jesus, with everything that you have, I promise you that your husband will chase you, chasing Jesus," Boebert added.

☆ Lauren Boebert's husband Jayson flew into a rage while being served divorce papers and set his dogs loose on the process server, affidavit says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Lauren Boebert is divorcing Jayson Boebert, her husband of nearly two decades. A process server delivering divorce papers said that Jayson Boebert yelled profanities at him. He also said he did not do "anything bad" to the process server, and maintained that his dogs were "no threat." Lauren Boebert said in a statement to The Colorado Sun on Tuesday that she was breaking up with Jayson Boebert due to "irreconcilable differences." Jayson Boebert's attorney and and representatives of Lauren Boebert did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment sent outside regular business hours.

☆ Rep. Lauren Boebert filed for divorce from her husband of nearly 20 years. Here's a timeline of their relationship.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Talia Lakritz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Circa 2003: Lauren Roberts and Jayson Boebert met at Burger King when she was 16 and he was 22. Lauren Boebert, her husband, Jayson Boebert, and their four sons. Lauren Boebert for CongressLauren Boebert, who briefly worked at Burger King before returning to McDonald's, met Jayson when he stopped by for lunch with coworkers from the oil rig where he worked. "From that moment, Jayson Boebert and I have been together," she wrote of their first encounter in her 2022 memoir, "My American Life." She also wrote that they did not break any Colorado laws while they were dating and that her mother approved of their relationship.

☆ Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert files for divorce from husband of nearly 2 decades
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert confirmed that she filed for divorce from her husband Jayson. The Colorado Sun first reported that Boebert filed for the separation from her husband, Jayson, late last month. According to an affidavit, when Jayson Boebert was served with the petition he became "extremely angry." In her statement, Boebert said that she will not "discuss this matter any further in public" in deference to their kids. The Republican previously announced that her oldest son, Tyler, is about to have a son, making her a 36-year-old grandmother.

☆ Tucker Carlson is popular with the boomers, but at Twitter he will be courting a different — and much younger — audience
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The median age of Twitter users is much younger than that of Fox News viewers, reports show. Tucker Carlson is officially moving to Twitter, but whether his loyal — and older — Fox fans will follow is yet to be seen. In a video, Carlson touted the social media platform to his seven million followers as a place of "free speech." Back at Fox News, the median age of an average viewer was 65, according to Nielsen ratings. A Pew Research study shows a stark difference: The median age of a Twitter user is 40.

☆ Opinion | Timothy McVeigh’s Dreams Are Coming True
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

As you probably know by now, there was another mass shooting last weekend, at an outdoor mall in Allen, Texas. But mass shootings are increasingly part of the background noise of life in a country coming apart at the seams. And so in the wake of mass shootings, when the public is most likely to clamor for gun regulations, Republicans regularly shore up gun access instead. In April, following a school shooting in Nashville, Republicans expelled two young Black Democratic legislators who’d led a gun control protest at the Tennessee Capitol. A few days later, the State Senate passed a bill protecting the gun industry from lawsuits.

☆ Opinion: Why I’m not reassured by our victory over Covid-19
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Opinion Kent Sepkowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Editor’s note: Kent Sepkowitz is a physician and infectious disease expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. CNN —At long last, the Covid-19 pandemic has entered its whimper phase. Last week, the World Health Organization decided to end the Covid-19 global health emergency. The US public health emergency is scheduled to end on Thursday, and beginning the following day, vaccination against Covid-19 will no longer be required for non-US travelers entering the States. Infectious diseases don’t ever really go away; they just change a little, then change some more till one day, they return bigger and fiercer than ever.

☆ Lauren Boebert is being accused of illegal campaign spending and using her own leadership PAC 'as a personal bank'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The End Citizens United PAC has accused Boebert of failing to declare in-kind contributions properly. "Congresswoman Boebert used her leadership PAC as a personal bank," the ECU's president said. FEC filings by the ECU accuse Boebert, her campaign Lauren Boebert For Colorado, We The People Leadership PAC, and Taylor Moose, her PAC and campaign treasurer, of not reporting the calls and texts as in-kind contributions. In the FEC filing, the ECU accused Boebert of spending $4,623.22 on "text message advertising" on October 28, and her leadership PAC for spending $6,221.73 on "Voter Contact - GOTV Calls/Texts" on the same day. The ECU also said in the filing that on November 18, Boebert's leadership PAC disbursed another $53,760 to TTHM.

☆ Elon Musk tells Bill Maher he's a 'moderate' who has championed sustainable energy, which is 'not exactly far-right'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Tesla chief said he'd spent a "massive amount" of his life developing sustainable energy. "I spent a massive amount of my life energy building sustainable energy, you know, electric vehicles, and batteries, and solar. Musk wants to accelerate the transition to sustainable energy with electric vehicles as well as renewable energy generation and storage. He's also put free speech at the forefront of why he bought the social media platform. Musk told Maher: "Free speech used to be a left or liberal value, and yet we see from the quote 'left' a desire to actually censor, and that seems crazy."

☆ Stephen King says he still owns a Tesla and admires Elon Musk, but paying $44 billion for 'a social media plaything' was ridiculous
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

King has praised Tesla in the past, but he's been more critical of Musk in recent months. "$44 billion for what's essentially a social media plaything is a little bit on the ridiculous side," the author told Slate regarding Musk's Twitter purchase in an interview that was published on Friday. In the interview, King admitted that he owns a Tesla and he thinks it's a "great car." In 2019, King praised Musk for Tesla's "fart" feature and Musk thanked him for owning a Tesla. King told Slate he doesn't plan to leave Twitter anytime soon, but he's still averse to the idea of subscribing to Twitter Blue.

☆ The Real Debt Limit Fight Is Yet to Come
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Carl Hulse | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Wednesday did what many of them vowed they never would: They voted to raise the federal debt ceiling. “It sucks,” said Representative Lauren Boebert, a hard-right Republican from Colorado whose vote was carefully watched as party leaders squeezed recalcitrant lawmakers. “But you gotta do what you gotta do.”As a reward for their begrudging support of Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s call for legislation he said would strengthen his bargaining power against President Biden, right-wing conservatives earned the chance to take another debt limit vote sometime this summer. But the next one could be on legislation lacking the budget cuts and policy rollbacks that many Republicans demanded to barely nudge this doomed plan over the top. It also made clear that some combination of Democratic and Republican votes would ultimately be required to raise the debt limit to avert a fiscal catastrophe.

☆ Marjorie Taylor Greene says that 'everyone I've talked to' is boycotting Fox and deleting its app after Tucker Carlson's ousting
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Marjorie Taylor Greene said "everyone" she talks to is shunning Fox News after Tucker Carlson's exit. They have deleted Fox News on their phones and canceled their Fox Nation subscriptions, she said. Fox Corporation stock fell as much as 5% on Monday after Carlson's shock departure was announced. Fox News said on Monday that the network and Carlson, who was their top-rated host, had "agreed to part ways." "That's what they think they're doing to Tucker Carlson.

☆ Tucker Carlson leaves Fox News days after Dominion lawsuit settlement
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Helen Coster | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

April 24 (Reuters) - Fox News Media and its top-rated host Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways, less than a week after parent company Fox Corp (FOXA.O) settled for $787.5 million a defamation lawsuit in which Carlson played a starring role. A third person said the senior executive producer of "Tucker Carlson Tonight", Justin Wells, was also let go from Fox News on Monday. After the announcement of Carlson's departure from Fox News, a spokesperson for former President Donald Trump tweeted: "Fox News is controlled opposition." "I stand with Tucker Carlson!" Carlson joined Fox News as a contributor in 2009 and became a co-host of "Fox & Friends Weekend" in 2012.

☆ 'DONE WITH FOX': Right-wing pundits, politicians, and influencers (and Glenn Greenwald) rage against Fox News after it parts ways with Tucker Carlson
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Nicholas Carlson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tucker Carlson and Fox News parted ways Monday. "I think that'll kill Fox," Glenn Beck said during his streaming show . "Wherever Tucker Carlson goes, America will follow!" Eric's brother Donald Trump Jr. was also upset:Starting midday Monday, the phrase "DONE WITH FOX" started to trend on Twitter. — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 24, 2023

☆ Fact Check-Fake Lauren Boebert tweet on people being charged for crimes stems from parody account
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

An image appearing to show a tweet from Republican U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert about people being charged for crimes in the same way as former President Donald Trump originated from a Twitter parody account but has misled some users online. The fabricated tweet, dated March 9, 2023, reads: “If they charge President Trump for his crimes, they could charge any of us for our crimes. However, no such tweet can be seen on Boebert’s official Twitter account (twitter.com/laurenboebert), or in archived versions of the account on March 10 (here) and March 11 (here) . The fake screenshot, which clearly states “Parody by Rub” next to the timestamp on the bottom right, appears to have originated from a satirical account, @FaithRubPol ((here), whose account biography also states: “Most of our screenshots are parodies” (twitter.com/FaithRubPol). The fabricated tweet image originated from a parody account, not Lauren Boebert.

☆ Here are all of the Republican elected officials backing Trump's 2024 campaign
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Bryan Metzger | Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Michael Burgess — the Texas congressman endorsed Trump in March after being named to the former president's campaign's Texas leadership team. Eli Crane — the Arizona freshman tweeted his support for Trump's 2024 bid the night of his announcement. Barry Moore — the Alabama congressman endorsed Trump in a radio interview in December, citing the former president's "experience level." 3 House Republican endorsed Trump days before his widely expected 2024 announcement in November. Roger Williams — the Texas congressman endorsed Trump in March after being named to the former president's campaign's Texas leadership team.

☆ Democrats gear up for rematch against Lauren Boebert after her near-loss in the 2022 midterms: 'She's actually doubled down on crazy'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-09 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

After a close 2022 result, Democrats are hoping to knock off GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert next year. Last year, Boebert won her Republican-leaning Colorado district over Adam Frisch by only 546 votes. And as the incumbent in the state's conservative-leaning 3rd Congressional District, it appeared to many as though Boebert would be relatively safe in her reelection bid in last year's midterms. "I think it started the people in the third congressional district thinking that she wasn't paying enough attention to the district as she was paying more attention to national politics." "Extreme House Democrats lost the majority because they hammered families with crime, chaos and skyrocketing costs," National Republican Congressional Committee communications director Jack Pandol said in a statement.

☆ Democrats are betting Republicans' defense of Donald Trump's criminal charges will age like milk on the 2024 campaign trail
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Republicans facing tough 2024 races are defending Donald Trump against criminal charges. Democrats are betting their defense of Trump will hurt them in competitive 2024 races. Lauren Boebert (@RepBoebert) April 4, 2023Boebert is on House Democrats' list of 31 vulnerable Republicans and two competitive open seats that they are targeting to take back control of the House in 2024. Biden hasn't commented on Trump's charges, and Democrats in Congress are treading carefully. Democrats shouldn't get ahead of the judicial process, said Rodell Mollineau, a cofounder and partner at Rokk Solutions in Washington, DC.

☆ Lauren Boebert, whose teen son got his girlfriend pregnant, says she doesn't want to 'nitpick what the Bible says is right and wrong'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Lauren Boebert's 17-year-old son got his girlfriend pregnant, and she's thrilled to be a grandmother. She now says she won't "nitpick" what the Bible says is right or wrong. In a Thursday interview on "The Rubin Report," a conservative politics podcast, host Dave Rubin asked Boebert if her son getting his girlfriend pregnant "challenged" any of her beliefs. "We can nitpick what the Bible says is right and wrong, but I think just having that heart posture of wanting to serve God, it's so important." Boebert added that she now plans to teach her son "about redemption and how to move forward."

☆ Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman and GOP Rep. Thomas Massie got in a heated exchange over gun violence in the halls of Congress: 'Calm down? Children are dying!'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman and GOP Rep. Thomas Massie got in a heated exchange over gun violence. Massie, who once shared a Christmas photo of his family toting guns, told Bowman to "calm down." The Covenant School shooting on Monday reignited debates over gun violence in the halls of Congress. At one point, Massie — who represents Kentucky's 4th district and once shared a Christmas photo of his family toting guns — told Bowman to "calm down." Republican Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee, who represents the district where the Nashville mass school shooting happened, posted a similar gun-filled family photo for Christmas in 2021.

☆ Lauren Boebert once made the local news for delivering her third son in a pickup truck
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Rep. Lauren Boebert has been making headlines for saying she'll be a "36-year-old grandmother." In 2009, she was in the local news for delivering her third son in a pickup truck. "Now that I think about it clearly, we should have left earlier," she wrote in her memoir. Boebert, who announced her 17-year-old son Tyler is about to have a son in April, explains how she delivered her third son, Kaydon, in her memoir "My American Life," released last year. After two "drama-free" deliveries, Boebert wrote that she and her midwife decided she could wait an hour before making the 20-minute drive to the hospital.

☆ Lauren Boebert, 36, and her husband are about to become grandparents. Here's a timeline of their 20-year relationship.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Talia Lakritz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Circa 2003: Lauren Roberts and Jayson Boebert met at Burger King when she was 16 and he was 22. Lauren Boebert, her husband Jayson Boebert, and their four sons. Lauren Boebert for CongressLauren Boebert, who briefly worked at Burger King before returning to McDonald's, met Jayson when he stopped by for lunch with coworkers from the oil rig where he worked. "From that moment, Jayson Boebert and I have been together," she wrote of their first encounter in her 2022 memoir, "My American Life." She also wrote that they did not break any Colorado laws while they were dating and that her mother approved of their relationship.

☆ Rep. Lauren Boebert announces that she is becoming a grandmother at 36, praises high rural teen birth rates that 'value life'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Rep. Lauren Boebert revealed that her 17-year-old son Tyler is about to have a son in April. She praised high rural teen birth rates as evidence that these communities "value life." The Colorado Republican praised the high rural teen birth rates as she said it was evidence these communities "value life." "There's something special about rural conservative communities — they value life. If you look at teen pregnancy rates throughout the nation, well, they're the same in rural and urban areas," Boebert said.

☆ House GOP Freedom Caucus members want to block student-loan forgiveness in their new proposal to deal with the debt ceiling
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The House Freedom Caucus unveiled a plan to address the debt ceiling on Friday. It includes ending student-debt relief and recouping unspent pandemic relief funds. This is not the first time Republican lawmakers have targeted student-debt relief in a proposal to cut spending. The Caucus' plan comes just a day after Biden unveiled his budget proposal for the upcoming year, which GOP lawmakers assailed as "reckless." House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington told Politico that Republicans have "no timeline" for making that happen.

Reps. Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene have both inadvertently slammed the Trump administration in recent weeks. Greene falsely blamed the Biden administration for fentanyl deaths that happened while Trump was in office. MAGA-faithful Reps. Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene have both inadvertently slammed the Trump administration in recent weeks while trying to take shots at President Joe Biden. Rep. Matt Gaetz, meanwhile, got schooled for unknowingly basing a critique of Biden's policies on a Communist newspaper. Gaetz tried to recover, pressing Kahl to "just tell me if the allegation is true or false."

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