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Bill Maher has lobbed the latest volley in his Twitter scuffle with Rep. Rashida Tlaib, mocking the Michigan Democrat’s call for a boycott of his HBO show by asking whether she’d support a boycott of her own political party. Yesterday, Maher tweeted, “Some people have one move only: boycott. Cancel. Make-go-away. But…

Fresh off being barred from Israel and then turning down a humanitarian visit to the West Bank, Rep. Rashida Tlaib has now called for a boycott of HBO’s Bill Maher, who has termed her Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions efforts a “bullshit purity test.” Tlaib tweeted that she was tired of folks like Maher "discrediting…

“Her comments were disgraceful,” President Donald Trump told reporters, when asked about freshman Dem Rep Rashida Tlaib telling her 13-year-old son, after her swearing in,”We’re gonna go in there and we’re gonna impeach the motherf*cker.” “This is a person I do not know; I assume she is new,” Trump said at a Rose…

UPDATED: When a call for impeachment rivals a four-letter word for news coverage, which one takes, literally, the lead? Welcome to the first Friday of the new year. First, the president. Donald Trump didn’t refer to freshman Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib by name, but he seems to have cleared some mind-room for the…