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Kyrsten Sinema responds to Democrats admitting filibuster will help them stop Trump agenda: 'Schadenfreude'

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Kyrsten Sinema responds to Democrats admitting filibuster will help them stop Trump agenda: 'Schadenfreude'

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., on Monday appeared to poke fun at Senate Democrats for coming out in support of the filibuster after her former party had called for it to be abolished over the past four years to push through Democratic agenda items.

Sinema, who left the Democratic Party nearly two years ago, responded on the social media platform X to a report by the Washington Examiner citing Democratic senators who now say they support the Senate filibuster to block President-elect Trump’s agenda in his second administration.

“Please, please, please stop what you’re doing and read these quotes,” Sinema said.

“Filing under: schadenfreude,” she continued.

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Senator Kyrsten Sinema, an independent from Arizona, during an interview on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, May 18, 2023. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Sinema and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, who has also left the party to become an independent, were the two then-Democrats who opposed eliminating the filibuster during the Biden administration when Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., attempted to abolish it in 2022, although he was unsuccessful without the support of Sinema and Manchin in a razor-thin majority for Democrats.

Both independent senators did not run for re-election and will be leaving the Senate in January.

In August, Schumer told the New York Post that Sinema and Manchin are “both gone” in 2025 when asked if he would make another attempt to eliminate the filibuster.

After the election, Schumer pleaded with Republicans to prioritize bipartisanship.

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“I offer a word of caution in good faith: Take care not to misread the will of the people, and do not abandon the need for bipartisanship,” Schumer said.

Earlier this month, Sinama responded to Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., who said she would not support eliminating the filibuster now that the GOP will control the House, Senate and White House, but would have supported it if Democrats had the trifecta.

“You don’t say?” Sinema wrote on X.

The report from the Washington Examiner quotes several Senate Democrats, including Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill; Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii; Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who all expressed support for maintaining the filibuster to halt Trump-backed legislation.

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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema speaks alongside Sen. Chris Murphy with reporters in the U.S. Capitol Building on December 20, 2023, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“I’d be lying if I said we’d be in a better position without the filibuster,” Blumenthal said. “We have a responsibility to stop autocratic and long-headed abuse of power or policy, and we’ll use whatever tools we have available. We’re not going to fight this battle with one hand tied behind our back.”

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Durbin said he views the filibuster as “part of the calculation” on how Democrats will resist Republican bills in the next Congress in which the GOP will hold a 53-47 majority in the Upper Chamber.

“We had to live with it when we were in the majority,” he said.

Schatz said: “I’m going to try not to make a mess of my position on this one.”

The Hawaii democrat previously slammed the “unprecedented abuse of the filibuster by Republicans” during the Obama administration as he backed reforms.

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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on February 5, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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“You play with the rules that exist,” Murphy said, adding that he is open to changes but not to “obliterate” the filibuster, which he criticized in 2021 as “downright dangerous,” a “slap in the face to majoritarianism” and an “argument that essentially prioritizes consistency over democracy.”

Incoming Senate GOP Leader John Thune, R-S.D., recently said that the filibuster will be “safe under Republican control,” even if it blocks Trump’s agenda.

“I find it ironic that a party that has spent a fair amount of time this election cycle talking about the importance of preserving our democracy seems intent on embracing the thoroughly undemocratic notion that only one party should be making decisions in this country,” Thune said.

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Drake's lawyers again claim bots, payola helped Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' top the charts

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Drake's lawyers again claim bots, payola helped Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' top the charts

Despite widespread mockery, Drake appears to be serious in his claims that Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” received help from payola and bots on its way to being a No. 1 hit.

The Canadian rapper’s attorneys have filed a second petition alleging that Universal Music Group paid for the diss track to be successful, only this time, it was iHeartRadio, not Spotify, that allegedly joined in on the scheme, Forbes reports. While the first filing was made in New York, this second claim was filed in Texas.

The rappers born Aubrey Drake Graham and Kendrick Lamar Duckworth attacked each other in a series of songs earlier this year, with “Not Like Us” serving as the knockout blow in Lamar’s victory in the eyes of many.

Instead of accepting a loss and moving on, Drake has instead alleged UMG actively worked to slander one of their artists at the expense of another, as both rappers have their music distributed by the company. UMG has denied the claims.

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“The suggestion that UMG would do anything to undermine any of its artists is offensive and untrue,” the record label said in a statement. “No amount of contrived and absurd legal arguments in this pre-action submission can mask the fact that fans choose the music they want to hear.”

Lamar has not publicly responded to the claims, though he’s traditionally used his songs to make his case, including on Friday’s surprise album “GNX,” where he claimed he “just strangled me a GOAT,” the “greatest of all time” title that Drake frequently claimed.

Hip-hop fans on the internet, however, did not wait to get their jokes off.

Twitter personality Dragonfly Jonez said he’d “never seen a bigger L in rap history” and pointed out that this lawsuit attacks streaming numbers, but not Lamar’s claims that Drake is a “certified pedophile” whose friends are also sexual predators.

“You are being called a pedophile who hangs with and harbors other pedophiles in his own home and even has these pedophiles on your payroll on the biggest rap single of the year,” Jones wrote, with an imaginary Drake responding, “Excuse me?!?! Biggest rap single of the year?????? We’ll see about that!”

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New York Times opinion writer Jane Coaston also weighed in, paraphrasing one of Lamar’s more prominent lines on “Not Like Us” when supporting the logic of UMG’s claims.

“The audience ain’t dumb, Drake,” she tweeted.

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Ex-NHL player Paul Bissonnette assaulted by 6 men at Arizona restaurant: 'It escalated extremely quickly'

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Ex-NHL player Paul Bissonnette assaulted by 6 men at Arizona restaurant: 'It escalated extremely quickly'

Paul Bissonnette, a former NHL player and hockey analyst on TNT, was assaulted by six men at a restaurant in Arizona on Sunday night after he alleged that a group of “drunk golfers” were causing a scene after being refused service. 

Bissonnette, who last played in the league for the Arizona Coyotes, released a video statement on social media on Monday after news broke that six men were arrested and are facing charges of assault and disorderly conduct for the incident that took place at Houston’s restaurant in Scottsdale. 

Paul Bissonnette attends the 2023 Discover NHL Winter Classic game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Boston Bruins at Fenway Park on Jan. 2, 2023 in Boston. (Ben Jackson/NHLI via Getty Images)

The former hockey player, who also hosts a podcast on Barstool, gave his version of events in a video posted on X. He explained that the incident took place at a restaurant he frequents and that he became involved after he saw one of the men become physical with the restaurant’s manager. 

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“I go to dinner at this place called Houston’s – I go there like three or four times a week. The staff’s incredible, the food’s incredible and, just like good people, I love going there,” he began.  

“At one point there was a bit of a ruckus going on in the bar – it was a bunch of drunk golfers. Things obviously continued to escalate. They asked one guy to leave, and then one guy kept getting in the manager’s face, put his hands on him, and that went on for probably 30–45 seconds. You could tell he was a little shocked and surprised and stunned. 

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FILE – Calgary Flames right wing Tim Jackman, #15, and Phoenix Coyotes defenseman Paul Bissonnette, #12, fight during the third period at the Scotiabank Saddledome on Sept, 25, 2013. (Sergei Belski-USA TODAY Sports)

“It’s a family restaurant, I don’t think there was anybody in there who could go maybe help him out. So I went over, I just grabbed the guy’s arm that was on [the manager]. I said ‘Sir, if you continue to harass and assault the staff, we’re gonna have problems.’ And then they just started chucking. So, it escalated extremely quickly. I think it was seven guys I fought with throughout the course of the restaurant all the way into the parking lot over to CVS.” 

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Bissonnette, 39, said the fight spilled out into the street and claimed that he was kicked in the head several times. He said he was taken to the hospital as a result. 

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“Got taken down a couple of times. I got boot f—ed in the head three times by the CVS – luckily didn’t get knocked out,” he said in the video. 

“Just like bad dudes. Way too drunk and I don’t know what else they had in their system, but yeah, I’m very, very angry at these guys and kind of want their names out there and want them to pay the piper. Just unacceptable behavior at a family restaurant just because they couldn’t grab another cocktail and didn’t want to hear ‘No’ for an answer. Like I said, at that point with the guy all over the manager I just figured I had to go over.”  

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Phoenix Coyotes’ Paul Bissonnette passes the puck against the Colorado Avalanche during the second period of an NHL hockey game on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013 in Glendale, Arizona. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

According to FOX10, Scottsdale police arrested six men involved in the fight on charges of assault and disorderly conduct. Five are facing misdemeanors and the sixth is facing a felony. They were not identified by law enforcement, according to the report. 

“There was an altercation inside the restaurant with six adult men and the management. Reportedly, Paul Bissonnette tried to help management calm the men and get them to leave. The situation escalated to the men assaulting Paul Bissonnette both inside and outside of the restaurant,” Scottsdale Police Sgt. Allison Sempsis told the station.

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Bissonnette played in the NHL from 2008-2014, spending his final six seasons with the Arizona Coyotes. 

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Coast Guard intercepts dozens of migrants on boat off San Diego coast

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Coast Guard intercepts dozens of migrants on boat off San Diego coast

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Dozens of migrants are in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody after a boat was intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard off the San Diego coast on Saturday.

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Sea Otter (WPB 87362) was patrolling the waters off San Diego on Saturday when they reported they made contact with a 33-foot boat that was operating without navigation lights about seven nautical miles off the coast of Point Loma.

The Coast Guard says the Sea Otter’s boarding team, along with members of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), boarded the boat and found 37 migrants aboard.

The migrants were taken to Ballast Point and transferred into CBP custody. The Coast Guard says 30 were of Mexican nationality, two were of Salvadoran nationality, three were of Guatemalan nationality, and one was of Colombian nationality, along with one U.S. citizen who was reported to be the operator of the vessel.

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