The GOP Snowflake Thread

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Mysterious white powder sent to NYC Board of Elections, sparking panic

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Investigators are seeking information on the person who sent a mysterious white powder to a New York City Board of Elections facility on Friday afternoon, sparking panic.

NYPD, FDNY and other emergency units responded to 450 W. 33rd Street's eighth floor, where workers were counting mail-in ballots.

https://abc7ny.com/post/mysterious-whit ... /17986512/

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Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site vandalized

A man is facing charges after damaging the eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s burial site.

Police say Brent Jones, 26, urinated in the reflecting pool and stomped on and broke the eternal flame at the site.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ete ... 42373.html

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Young Republicans call for immediate resignations after report on GOP group chat

The Young Republican National Federation called for immediate resignations following a Politico report on a leaked group chat that featured racist, antisemitic and violent discussions.

“We are appalled by the vile and inexcusable language revealed in the Politico article published today. Such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican, and stands in direct opposition to the values our movement represents,” the Young Republican National Federation’s board of directors said in a post on Instagram Tuesday.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5 ... roup-chat/

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Of course he was going to help out his snowflake party

Trump commutes former congressman George Santos' prison sentence

Oct 17 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday commuted former U.S. Representative George Santos' more-than seven-year prison sentence for fraud and identity theft, and said that Santos would be freed immediately.

"George Santos was somewhat of a 'rogue,' but there are many rogues throughout our Country that aren’t forced to serve seven years in prison," Trump said on Truth Social.

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-com ... 025-10-17/

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Holmes Norton scammed in her home by fake cleaning crew, police say

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) was scammed Thursday by a group claiming to be a cleaning crew, according to authorities.

Multiple people claiming to be HVAC workers reportedly visited the delegate’s home and managed to charge her credit card. The case is being investigated as felony fraud, local outlets reported.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5572 ... crew-scam/

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Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows

Amazon strategised about keeping the public in the dark over the true extent of its datacentres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals.

The biggest owner of datacentres in the world, Amazon dwarfs competitors Microsoft and Google and is planning a huge increase in capacity as part of a push into artificial intelligence. The Seattle firm operates hundreds of active facilities, with many more in development despite concerns over how much water is being used to cool their vast arrays of circuitry.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... disclosure

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We've discussed this somewhere else. AI may make a lot of money for the oligarchy in the short term, but in its present state its long term consequences are catastrophic, and nobody cares.

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A total waste

Scoop: GOP spending $5M to slam House Dems over political violence

A House GOP group is launching a $5 million ad campaign accusing Democrats in 15 competitive races of fanning the flames of political violence, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: Washington is embroiled in a government shutdown. But House Republicans are putting the focus on assassination attempts, violent assaults and heated political rhetoric.

https://www.axios.com/2025/10/29/house- ... l-violence

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Federal shutdown could cost US economy up to $14 billion

WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The federal government shutdown could cost the U.S. economy between $7 billion and $14 billion, shaving up to 2% from gross domestic product in the fourth quarter due to the lapse in government spending, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday.

The partial shutdown was in its 29th day on Wednesday with no end in sight, as Senate Republicans called on Democrats to support a stopgap measure to fund federal agencies through November 21 and Democrats demanded negotiations to extend expiring federal tax credits to help Americans purchase private health insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/ ... 025-10-29/

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White House withheld names of some donors to Trump’s $300M ballroom, report says

The White House has withheld the identities of some individuals and companies that have donated towards President Donald Trump’s $300 million ballroom, according to a report.

The blitz of the historic East Wing to make way for Trump’s pet project has been justified by the administration in part because it is not funded by the taxpayer.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/wo ... 56688.html

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North Carolina GOP Official Uses ‘Connections With the Trump Admin’ to Threaten ProPublica Journalist

Republican Party officials are now using their “connections” to the Trump administration to threaten journalists into dropping critical coverage.

That’s what Doug Bock Clark, a reporter for ProPublica, recently discovered as he worked on a feature-length story on the rise of Paul Newby, the Republican chief justice of North Carolina’s Supreme Court, who has become one of the most quietly influential jurists in the nation.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/north ... journalist

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What worries me about this Musk is going to use this platform & sue Wikipedia saying it's all lies & everyone will go to his clone site thinkin it's all truth & factual when it's really not

Elon Musk launches Grokipedia: users say it’s a biased Wikipedia clone

Elon Musk’s new crowdsourced encyclopedia, Grokipedia, has quickly become a flashpoint online. Launched by his xAI team, the project promises a different take on public knowledge. But users and digital watchdogs are already questioning how the site builds its articles and whether it simply mirrors Wikipedia.

xAI rolled out Grokipedia after teasing the idea months earlier. Musk framed the site as a place for uncompromising facts. The platform allows public edits, much like established encyclopedias.

https://chronik.fr/2104-elon-musk-launc ... dia-clone/

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Escape From Mamdani’s New York: Rambling Jon Voight Tells Trump That NYC Mayor-Elect’s Victory Should Be “Terminated”

Jon Voight doesn’t just want to help Donald Trump to Make Hollywood Great Again, the Enemy of the State star now wants the former Apprentice host to save an apparently in-peril New York City. Specifically, Voight is asking POTUS to stop the newly-elected Zohran Mamdani from taking over as mayor — apparently by any means necessary.

“We the people have put our trust in the President of the United States, Donald J Trump, he and only he, can stop this horror, as this mayor, Mamdani, will try to destroy New York’s wealth and turn it into a socialist crap city,” the Yonkers-born and now Beverly Hills-based Voight said late Thursday in a video he posted railing against self-declared democratic socialist “Muslim” Mamdani. “Let this be a warning to the people,” the octogenarian says near the end of the two-minute video before an awkward look away from the camera and fade to black.

https://deadline.com/2025/11/jon-voight ... 236618113/

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Ocean City woman lied about brutal attack at EHT reserve, feds say

An Ocean City woman is charged with lying about a violent attack at the Nature Reserve in Egg Harbor Township this summer.

Natalie Greene, 26, was found lying in a wooded area just off the trail with her hands and feet bound by zip ties, her shirt pulled over her head and lacerations on her face, neck, upper chest and shoulder.

https://breakingac.com/news/2025/nov/19 ... -feds-say/

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North Carolina can use GOP-drawn congressional map designed to add another Republican House seat, court rules

A federal court in North Carolina is allowing the state to use a new Republican-drawn congressional map that would help the GOP pick up another seat in the House during next year's midterm elections.

A three-judge panel of U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina unanimously denied preliminary injunction requests in a pair of lawsuits that said in part that the new map was aimed at diluting the voting strength of Black voters, in violation of the 14th Amendment.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-e ... rcna246156

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Red state gov backs court-packing scheme after smackdown on election-rigging plot

Gov. Spencer Cox (R-UT) is now endorsing a plan to expand the state Supreme Court following the Utah GOP's unanimous smackdown in the state judiciary over their effort to gerrymander the state's congressional map, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.

However, even though he did not endorse such a plan until after the drama between the courts and the state legislature, he strenuously denied that this plan would amount to "court-packing" and insisted there are higher-minded reasons the state should add more justices.

https://www.rawstory.com/spencer-cox-2674346754/

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Pentagon watchdog finds Hegseth's Signal chat violated regulations, could have endangered troops, sources say

Washington — The Pentagon's internal watchdog determined Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth jeopardized sensitive military information and could have endangered American service members when he shared certain details about U.S. military operations in Yemen in a private Signal group chat earlier this year, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the report's findings.

The individuals who spoke to CBS News said the report found the former Fox News host-turned-defense secretary violated Defense Department policies when he used his personal device for official business to transmit sensitive U.S. military information to other top Trump officials and the editor in chief of The Atlantic magazine. The two sources requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the unreleased report.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseths-s ... al-report/

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And all of that money he'll spend for the midterms will turn into rubbish

Scoop: Musk diving into 2026 midterms for the GOP

Elon Musk has begun funding the GOP's House and Senate campaigns for the 2026 midterms — an indication his relationship with President Trump has thawed since their messy breakup earlier this year.

Why it matters: Musk — who threatened to launch a third party and support challengers to Republican incumbents during his dispute with Trump — is now firmly back in the GOP's camp.

https://www.axios.com/2025/12/16/elon-m ... cans-trump

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Musk can slip some right wing hero a paltry half a billion or so and it'll barely show up. This guy has more money than most countries on this planet. Sure he's dropped his feud with trump, since he's monetized his relationship with the government. He's become the world's first trillionaire, so he's obviously not been rocking the boat.

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Ex-Washington Twp. councilman indicted on forgery charges

A former Washington Township councilman who resigned earlier this year after getting caught on a surveillance video mailing venomous, anonymous letters to two women on the school board has been indicted on forgery charges.

The four-count indictment by a grand jury in Gloucester County was filed on Wednesday. Each count carries an 18-month prison term, although first offenders rarely face the maximum penalty.

https://newjerseyglobe.com/local/ex-was ... y-charges/

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Texas, Florida lead GOP battle against Muslim advocacy groups

Republicans in Texas and Florida are leading efforts to target Muslim advocacy organizations in what civil rights advocates say is a coordinated effort to present Islam as a “national security threat.”

According to advocates, these politicians — including state and federal lawmakers as well as GOP Govs. Ron DeSantis (Fla.) and Greg Abbott (Texas) — have sought to restrict funding to Muslim organizations, particularly in the wake of the Israel-Gaza conflict, by tying them to terrorist groups.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watc ... cacy-cair/

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Didn't they get the memo that downtrodden immigrants coming here to make it economically are the new enemy?

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And it's not the first time they've done this

Outrage as red state Republicans accused of deceiving voters with fake petition claims

Utah voters are coming forward to allege that Republican operatives are lying to trick people into signing a petition to put repeal of the state's anti-gerrymandering law on the ballot, reported The Salt Lake Tribune on Friday.

It's the latest saga in a years-long war the Utah GOP has fought over Proposition 4, which was passed by voters in 2018. Proposition 4, also known as the Better Boundaries Initiative, was used earlier this year to strike down the legislature's congressional map that denied Democrats a seat by carving up Salt Lake County into several pieces.

https://www.rawstory.com/utah-gerrymand ... 674831025/

https://betterboundaries.org/take-action/

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The only things Trump accomplished when he avoided prison to get back into office chaos and hell

Rove says Trump administration needs to talk more about accomplishments ahead of midterms

Republican strategist Karl Rove on Saturday urged the Trump administration to speak more about its accomplishments to shore up support ahead of midterm elections.

“The president will end this year at the lowest approval rating in modern times for a president … in the first year after his inauguration. He has got to get those numbers up,” Rove said during an appearance on Fox News.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5 ... -midterms/

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Inside the North Carolina GOP's decade-long push to seize power from the state’s democratic governor

In November 2024, Democrat Josh Stein scored an emphatic victory in the race to become North Carolina’s governor, drubbing his Republican opponent by almost 15 percentage points.

His honeymoon didn’t last long, however.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1 ... medium=web