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Ego Nwodim as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Kate McKinnon as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg during the “KBJ Confirmation” Cold Open on Saturday, April 9, 2022 (Will Heath/NBC)

RBG jokes with KBJ in SNL sketch

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, answers questions from the media during a press conference on Capitol Hill on February 5, 2021 in Washington, DC. (ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Greene gives anti-LGBTQ rant (again)

David Badash - Alternet
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from launch complex 39A carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft on a commercial mission managed by Axion Space at Kennedy Space Center April 8, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Photo by Red Huber/Getty Images)

Historic 10-day SpaceX trip costs $55M

Kelly McClure
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers a speech to a crowd of approximately 7,000 people on May 17, 1967 at UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza in Berkeley, California. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

To save democracy, do we need utopia?

Paul Rosenberg
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A Y-20 transport aircraft flies in the sky before the upcoming Airshow China 2021 on September 22, 2021 in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province of China (Photo by Yue Shuhua/VCG via Getty Images)

China delivered missiles to Serbia

Kelly McClure
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin lights a candle as he attends an Orthodox Christmas service in the XIX century church of the Protecting Veil of the Mother of God in Turginovo village, about 160 km northwest of Moscow, on January 7, 2011. (ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Evangelicals loved Putin: And now?

Melani McAlister - The Conversation
Former US President Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2022 (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida on February 27, 2022. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump Jr. pushed for election overthrow

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
US President Joe Biden holds a briefing outside the Royal Palace, Warsaw, Poland. (Anna Voitenko/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Fox News airs ageist Biden clips

Alex Henderson - Alternet
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Russian military vehicles move through Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9, 2021. - Russia celebrates the 76th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany during World War II. (DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia's neighbors saw this coming

Kristina Sabaliauskaitė
People participate in a rally organized by RiseUp4AbortionRights, which held rallies and marches nationwide to oppose the growing erosion of abortion rights on International Women's Day. (Wendy P. Romero/Long Visual Press/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Woman faces murder charges for abortion

Kelly McClure
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a news conference in Washington on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. The House voted 230 to 199 on Thursday evening to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., from committee assignments over her remarks about QAnon and other conspiracy theories. (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Why the right wants to see naughty bits

Chauncey DeVega
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), listens during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee reviewing coronavirus response efforts on September 16, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images))

Why Lindsey Graham didn't vote for KBJ

Brandon Gage - Alternet
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Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

McConnell made millions from price hikes

Jon Skolnik
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer poses for a photo after an event at which General Motors announced they are making a $7 billion investment, the largest in the company's history, in electric vehicle and battery production in the state of Michigan on January 25, 2022 in Lansing, Michigan. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

Two men found not guilty in Whitmer case

Jon Skolnik
Starbucks baristas and supporters protest outside a Manhattan Starbucks (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Starbucks faces new wave of union wins

Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
Eviction notice on door of house (Getty Images)

Paid Texas landlords evicted tenants

Joshua Fechter - The Texas Tribune
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U.S. President Donald Trump and American evangelical Christian preacher Andrew Brunson (L) participate in a prayer in the Oval Office a day after Brunson was released from a Turkish jail, at the White House on October 13, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Trump's covert Christian right agenda

Amanda Marcotte
Protesters outside a Jeff Bezos-owned Whole Foods store in New York City, an event in solidarity with unionizing Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama. (Getty Images)

Union accuses Amazon of violating law

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
Alvin Bragg and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump lawyers "delighted" probe stalled

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
Ammon Bundy makes his way from the entrance of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters in Burns, Oregon on January 6, 2016. (ROB KERR/AFP via Getty Images)

Ammon Bundy sent to jail for contempt

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., attends a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on pending nominations in Dirksen Building on Thursday, February 17, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Josh Hawley gets schooled by colleague

Jon Skolnik
Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens. (Craig Barritt/Getty Images for The Robin Hood Foundation)

Greiten's wife submits abuse evidence

Meaghan Ellis - Alternet
U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Manchin killing CTC sent voters to GOP

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Mitch McConnell makes Trump dumber

Heather Digby Parton
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