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  • Optional@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Read Guilfoyle’s texts to GOP donor Deters: ‘You’ll literally cost me my ambassadorship’
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    13 hours ago

    Deters pressed Guilfoyle throughout their exchanges to help him score interviews on former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s show and Trump’s podcast as part of his efforts to push for the extradition of an Ohio doctor who had fled to Pakistan after being charged with defrauding insurers by performing unnecessary spinal surgeries.

    He also asked her to connect him with then-Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel in relation to the case. And he pushed for access to Billy Long, who was serving as the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service at the time, to discuss a tax-related matter, and with Kid Rock to share a song he wrote called “Kentucky Outlaw.”

    I don’t . . . what is . . how

  • Optional@lemmy.worldtoThe Satanic Temple@lemmy.world•Iowa city council erupts after starting with satanic prayer: 'A curse put on the city'English
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    2 days ago

    But a pastor in the audience wasn’t having it — he headed straight for the podium Dalbey had just left and demanded everyone gathered in the room “reverse this curse that was put on our city.”

    “That ‘Hail Satan’ is not welcome here,” New Life Center pastor Rick Bick told the council, footage from the Ottumwa Courier shows.

    “It needs to be done now,” he said after council members told him to wait until the meeting’s public comment section.

    “I appreciate what Ms. Galloway is saying, but that was a curse put on the city,” Bick said. “Most of you know that, and we need to just stop and reverse it.”

    Ottumwa Mayor Benjamin Foote then announced there would be 30 seconds of silence “to reflect on whatever it is we need to reflect on at this time” — and after city council members tried to move the meeting along, the mayor butted back and the silence continued.

    Honestly. Our lefty friends don’t have a plan for these people. They’re entrenched in every state and they vote republican “religiously”. They have to be . . . well, a plan would say what they have to be.