Club Q in Colorado Springs (screen capture)Some news items you might have missed:
• AP News: The 22-year-old accused of carrying out the deadly mass shooting at Club Q, a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, ran a neo-Nazi website and used gay and racial slurs while gaming online.
• NBC News: A new study shows Mpox (monkeypox) to be highly fatal among people with advanced HIV. The death rate was 15% in those with HIV and CD4 counts low enough for AIDS diagnoses, according to the first major study of mpox among people with advanced HIV.
Mpox can have a devastating impact on people with advanced cases of HIV, leading to severe skin and genital lesions and causing death in as many as 1 in 4 of those with a highly compromised immune system. https://t.co/k4PC7x9As2
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 22, 2023
• New York Times: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner have been subpoenaed by to testify before a federal grand jury about Donald Trump’s efforts to stay in power after he lost the 2020 election and his role in a pro-Trump mob’s attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. #RuhRoh
• Washington Post: Arizona’s then-attorney general, Mark Brnovich, launched an investigation into 2020 voting in the state’s largest county, consuming more than 10,000 hours of his staff’s time. Investigators found virtually all claims of error and malfeasance were unfounded. But Brnovich issued an “interim” report that misled the public.
Exclusive: Arizona’s top prosecutor kept private records that debunked election fraud, documents show https://t.co/Ru0C0jgObW
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 22, 2023
• JoeMyGod: Far-right loon Charlie Kirk says the foreperson for the Georgia grand jury that looked into interference in the 2020 presidential election is a witch. And he knows because he’s been the target of witches in the past. #OK
• Politico: Since serial liar George Santos launched his first campaign in 2019, his campaign reported more than $9,000 in donations to other groups. Those ‘other groups’ say they never got those donations. #ColorMeShocked
Donations worth thousands of dollars recorded by George Santos’ 2019 campaign do not show up in the financial filings of the purported recipients, according to Politico. https://t.co/8BJybVI5eG
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) February 22, 2023