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WNBA basketball player Brittney Griner waits for verdict inside a defendants' cage during a hearing in Khimki outside Moscow, on August 4, 2022. (EVGENIA NOVOZHENINA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Brittney Griner sentenced to 9 years

Kelly McClure
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) speaks during a Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Spending Oversight on Capitol Hill August 3, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Hawley called out by GOP colleagues

Jon Skolnik
Ultrasound pregnancy examination of a young woman in a Medical Clinic during COVID-19 outbreak (Getty Images)

COVID-related stillbirths a fed failure

Duaa Eldeib - ProPublica
A video of Alex Jones is played on a screen during a House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack hearing in the Cannon House Office Building on Tuesday, July 12, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Alex Jones opens Pandora's box on Trump

Amanda Marcotte
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A demonstrator holds a sign with the image of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was fatally shot by Louisville Metro Police Department officers, during a protest against the death George Floyd in Minneapolis, in Denver, Colorado on June 3, 2020. (JASON CONNOLLY/AFP via Getty Images)

4 cops charged in Breonna Taylor raid

Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

2024 GOPers back federal worker purge

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
Texas Gubernatorial Candidate Beto O'Rourke Attends Rally For Reproductive Freedom On June 26, 2022 In Austin, Texas (Sergio Flores/Getty Images)

Armed preacher confronts Beto O'Rourke

Jon Skolnik
Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Eastman also targeted GA Senate races

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
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Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., attends the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee markup on the PREVENT Pandemics Act in Dirksen Building on Tuesday, March 15, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

GOP blocks bill to protect abortion docs

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Sinema fights to save tax cut for rich

Igor Derysh
Supporters of Value Them Both, a constitutional amendment that would remove language guaranteeing the right to an abortion from the Kansas state constitution, rally before campaigning in Shawnee, Kansas, on July 30, 2022. (CAITLIN WILSON/AFP via Getty Images)

After Kansas, right's in deep denial

Kathryn Joyce
Joe Biden, Andrew Yang and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Andrew Yang won't go away: Is that good?

Brian Karem
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Working oil pumps against a sunset sky (Getty Images/imaginima)

UN head calls for taxing Big Oil profits

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani leaves the funeral for fallen NYPD officer Wilbert Mora at St. Patrick's Cathedral on February 02, 2022 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Giuliani upset that Fox News banned him

Matthew Chapman - Raw Story
US far-right radio show Alex Jones speaks to supporters of US President Donald Trump as they demonstrate in Washington, DC, on December 12, 2020, to protest the 2020 election. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

Jones rails against trial judge

Brandon Gage - Alternet
Alex Jones, host and founder of Infowars, an extreme right-wing program that often trafficks in conspiracy theories, is seen at a "Stop the Steal" rally against the results of the U.S. Presidential election outside the Georgia State Capitol on November 18, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

Jones' attorneys deliver text bounty

Kelly McClure
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Meghan McCain and Kari Lake (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

McCain melts down over Arizona results

Jon Skolnik
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) speaks during a hearing before Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation at Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 23, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

GOPer targets Medicare, Social Security

Jon Queally - Common Dreams
Pat Cipollone, former President Trumps White House counsel, walks into a conference room after a break in his interview at the Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. House Office Building July 8, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Pat Cipollone hit with DOJ subpoena

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI) walks down the stairs of the U.S. Capitol Building on November 18, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump pick ousts GOP impeachment voter

Jon Skolnik
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Rep. Andy Levin (D-MI) rallies with restaurant workers and owners outside the U.S. Capitol on February 08, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Pro-Israel AIPAC sunk Jewish progressive

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Abortion supporters Alie Utley and Joe Moyer (R) react to the failed constitutional amendment proposal at the Kansas Constitutional Freedom Primary Election Watch Party in Overland Park, Kansas on August 2, 2022. (DAVE KAUP/AFP via Getty Images)

Kansas proves it: People want abortion

Amanda Marcotte
Ryan Kelley, a Republican candidate for Michigan Governor, speaks at the Rally to Vote outside the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, on July 30, 2022. (JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

4th-place Mich. GOPer demands "recount"

Travis Gettys - Raw Story
Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens. (Craig Barritt/Getty Images for The Robin Hood Foundation)

Greitens' "resounding third place loss"

Travis Gettys - Raw Story
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