Even Lauren Boebert knows a phony Biden impeachment will backfire — why the GOP will do it anyway

Newt Gingrich lost his House seat from Clinton's impeachment, but gained a lucrative career grifting conservatives [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm5Wy8P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvMTExOXJ6cW1pNC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTR6YWQ0cWNsNm9XA3NwY0IKZPq_5wJlQXx1LlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm5Wy8P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMveG8ydXBxZG45eS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTR6YWQ0cWNsNm8mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZPq_5wJlQXx1LlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). Even Lauren Boebert knows a phony Biden impeachment will backfire — why the GOP will do it anyway From Amanda Marcotte: The supposed [accusations against Biden aren't really relevant](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm5Wy8P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvcDF4OW51NG5yaS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTR6YWQ0cWNsNm9XA3NwY0IKZPq_5wJlQXx1LlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo), as everyone involved knows it's made-up nonsense. (Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., [admitted as much to the New York Times in March](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm5Wy8P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvc2tqa3FjdzFzci8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTR6YWQ0cWNsNm8mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZPq_5wJlQXx1LlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo).) It's pure political theater, unmoored from facts. But usually one expects political theater to benefit its producers politically. And yet, like a sentient moth flying knowingly into the flame, McCarthy is forging ahead anyway. [Read more.](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm5Wy8P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvanNrdDFpaHRlNC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTR6YWQ0cWNsNm8mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZPq_5wJlQXx1LlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) "An acute threat to white privilege": Tim Wise on why MAGA is "losing their s**t right now" In an attempt to make better sense of these resurgent politics of white backlash and white supremacy, [DeSantis's war on "Woke" and "the Critical Race Theory Mind Virus" and the real history of Black America](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm5Wy8P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvd2R5NXBmcm4wYi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTR6YWQ0cWNsNm8mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZPq_5wJlQXx1LlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo), and how the color line intersects America's ongoing democracy crisis more broadly, we recently spoke with Tim Wise. 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So do they really help patients? Before you go ... Were "alien mummies" really revealed in Mexico? Here's what we know In 2015, Jaime Maussan led an event called Be Witness in which he unveiled what he claimed was a [mummified alien body](~/AASU4wA~/RgRm5Wy8P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvdHcxMnYwMGd1dS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTR6YWQ0cWNsNm9XA3NwY0IKZPq_5wJlQXx1LlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) that he had supposedly discovered in Peru. The mummified body was later found to have belonged to an ancient human child. In 2017, he worked with a pseudoscience website called Gaia.com to again claim that he had found a mummified alien, a claim that also did not pan out. 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