The Daily Beast reports (2 hrs ago)--

For the second day in a row, Jones failed to appear at a deposition in Austin, Texas, part of a Connecticut lawsuit filed by the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting. In response, doctors representing Jones have claimed he’s too sick to be deposed, citing an unnamed illness that didn’t prevent Jones from hosting episodes of his hours-long conspiracy theory show this week.

After Jones skipped the first scheduled deposition on Wednesday, lawyers for the plaintiffs asked Connecticut Judge Barbara N. Bellis to issue a warrant for his arrest to force him to participate in the deposition. In response, Bellis ordered Jones to appear Thursday at the deposition or face potential court action. Now that Jones has skipped that second deposition, the judge is expected to take action against him as soon as later on Thursday.

The eight Rs who voted against ending Russia's trade status (link)

Don Jr's lame new brainstorm: His dad should attend NATO summit instead of Biden. (link)

Politico: Putin's a Fascist (link)

Beware of the authoritarian view of the media --

"As newspapers only serve to excite the masses to subvert the present order of things and the editors concerned are composed of the dregs of the literary classes, no good can be served by the continuation of such dangerous instruments, and we hereby command the entire suppression and sealing up of all newspapers published within the Empire, while the editors connected with them are to be arrested and punished with the utmost vigor of the law." ~ imperial edict issued by the Empress Dowager of China, 1898.

WaPo: How TFG, Faux News has helped Russia (link)

Pat Robertson: God is "compelling" Putin to bring on the End Times