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Weve been following Drew Sidora and husband Ralph Pittmans journey to sort out their marital issuesthis season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta. And on the May 22 episode, Kenya Moore had something to say to the RHOAhusband.

When the subject of Ralph's assistant came up during the first dinner of the groups New York trip, he remarked to Drew that they should just agree to disagree. Why are we even recounting this anymore? Ralph asked Drew. Something occurs to you one way, occurs to me a different way, and its fine.

After pointing out the similarities between Ralph and her ex-husband, Marc Daly, Kenya called out Drews husband for the way he was speaking to his wife. If my husband said that to me, I would flip this table over because that is so disrespectful. You just said, basically, shes lying. How it happened is not how it happened, she said. That would piss me the f--k off if somebody said that to me to my face, especially if Im hurting. Do you not understand that? Youre tearing her down.

Drew appreciated Kenyasspeaking up on her behalf. Kenyas actually communicating exactly how I feel, she shared in an interview during the episode. I hope Ralph really hears he could be doing some of the same things she experienced with Marc, and you see where they ended up.

Kenya tweeted after the episode aired, I really hate this for [Drew] just breaks my heart. Sending you a big hug and prayers for your beautiful family.

Andy Cohensaid he also enjoyed seeing Kenya show her support for Drew on the May 22 episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, which featured Kandi Burruss as a guest. She was really, you know, kind of really trying to help Drew out, which I liked seeing, Andy said.

Kandi agreed, sharing her reaction to Kenya and Ralphs conversation on WWHL. I loved the fact that she was trying to look out for Drew, Kandi said. But she did put the pressure on Ralph. It was a little tense.

Speaking of this seasons drama, Kandi was hoping to get some answers of her own about the tea that was spilled about her during Kenya's tea party for daughter Brooklyn's third birthday in the May 15 episode of RHOA. She told Andy she didnt know who wrote that bit of gossip about her and was still trying to figure it out.

I thought yall were gonna play it in the episode, Kandi said. You know, how sometimes things are revealed in the episode?

Andy,who is an executive producer of The Real Housewives, assured Kandi he would be getting to the bottom of this. Were gonna find out at the reunion, Ill tell you that much, he said, to which Kandi replied, Well, please. I would love to know.

After that piping-hot tea about Kandi was spilled at Brooklyns birthday party, the beef that had been brewing between Drew and Shere Whitfield really came to a head and has recently seeped over onto social media. OK, well, let me just say theyve been going in on Twitter, OK? Twitter has been on fire with Drew and Shere, Kandi said on WWHL (clip below). Im trying to stay out of that cause the shade has been lethal, OK?

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However, Kandi did weigh in on their RHOA drama surrounding their mutual assistant and noted how it seemed both Drew and Shere were misdirecting their grievances. Love them both, but I just kind of felt like, at the birthday party, I just kind of felt like Drew got really upset, which I get it. Thats her husband. Shes supposed to take up for him. But it was based off of what the guy said, Kandi explained. So yall both are arguing about what this guy has said, so why are we going crazy on each other? Lets go crazy on the guy.

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To win a Republican primary in 2022, youll probably need to support a coup attempt.

Its not always sufficient David Perdue, a former senator, looks like hes going to lose to the incumbent governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, in next weeks primary, despite his support for the big lie but it makes a difference.

The Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano, won his race on the strength of his enthusiastic support for Donald Trumps effort to subvert and overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. As a state senator, Mastriano demanded that lawmakers invalidate Joe Bidens electoral votes. He attended the stop the steal rally on Jan. 6 and has continued to accuse Democrats of fraud. Mastriano has not commented on the 2024 election, but he has let it be known that he supports the view that state legislatures can assign electoral votes against the will of the voting public.

The Republican nominee for the Senate in North Carolina, Ted Budd, was similarly committed to Trumps effort to keep himself in office. He was among the 139 House members who objected to certifying the presidential election in Bidens favor.

J.D. Vance, the Republican nominee for the Senate in Ohio, has not endorsed the claim that Biden stole the election from Trump, but he did play footsie with the idea during his campaign. I think weve got to investigate as much as possible, Vance said of the 2020 election results. I believe sunshine is the best disinfectant. And were going to learn a lot about what happened. But, you know, I think at a basic level we already know mostly what happened.

Overall, there are hundreds of Republican candidates in races across the country who have embraced Trumps false claims about his defeat. Many, like Budd, voted against accepting Bidens Electoral College victory. Some, like Mastriano, attended the stop the steal protest in Washington on Jan. 6. And others signed legal briefs or resolutions challenging Bidens victory.

The extent to which election denialism and pro-insurrectionism are now litmus tests for Republican politicians is clearly attributable to Trumps huge influence over the Republican Party. Despite his defeat, he is still the leader. But even if that were not true if, instead of the boss, Trump were only one influential figure among many there would still be reason for Republicans to embrace this view.

Thats because Republican election denialism is simply the strongest form of a belief that has defined the Republican Party since at least the Newt Gingrich era in the 1990s. For many Republicans, theirs is the only legitimate political party and their voters, irrespective of their actual numbers, are the only legitimate voters and the only legitimate majority. Democrats, from this vantage point, are presumptively illegitimate, their victories suspect, their policies un-American, even when they have the support of most people in the country.

You see this in the years of voter fraud hysteria that preceded Trumps claim, after the 2016 election, that he had been cheated of millions of votes. In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, he said, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.

In 2001, for example, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced a crackdown on voter fraud, accusing unnamed actors (presumably Democrats) of manipulating elections. Votes have been bought, voters intimidated and ballot boxes stuffed, he said at a news conference that year. The polling process has been disrupted or not completed. Voters have been duped into signing absentee ballots believing they were applications for public relief. And the residents of cemeteries have infamously shown up at the polls on Election Day.

After the 2008 election, Republicans went into a frenzy over the group ACORN, accusing it of perpetrating fraud on a national scale. How else, after all, could you explain Barack Obamas unexpected victories in traditionally Republican states like Virginia, Indiana and North Carolina?

The obsession with nonexistent voter fraud is hard to ignore. But there were other ways that Republicans expressed their belief that they were the only legitimate members of the political community.

Sarah Palins rhetoric about the real America, very much in evidence during the 2008 presidential campaign We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America was one of these ways. So was the Tea Party movement, whose members understood themselves as a disenfranchised majority, under siege by a Democratic Party of burdensome illegal immigrants, ungrateful minorities and entitled young people. The Fox News commentator Glenn Beck captured some of this feeling during a 2010 broadcast. This is the Tea Party. This is you and me, he said. You are not alone, America. You are the majority.

Mitt Romneys infamous claim that there are 47 percent of the people who are dependent upon government, believe they are victims and are unable to take personal responsibility and care for their lives was condemned as classist and prejudiced during the 2012 presidential election. But you can also read it as an expression of the belief that there are some Americans who count the makers, in the language of his vice-presidential nominee, Paul Ryan and some Americans who dont.

Yes, the Republican Partys present-day election denialism is much more extreme than the rhetoric surrounding voter fraud or the idea that there is a real America. But the difference is ultimately one of degree, not kind: Republicans have been trying to write Democrats out of the political community in one way or another for decades. It was only a matter of time before this escalated to denying that Democrats and Democratic voters can win elections at all.

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Girl Scout Troop 222 spent time learning about manners and put them to use at their very own tea party. The Daisies were in charge of cupcakes. They took their bright purple and pink frostings and learned how to pipe out the frosting on to the top of the cupcake.

The Brownies chopped up the fruit and made what was called unicorn rainbow dessert dip. The unicorn dip was made from a whipped cream cheese and pudding dip. The dip was divided and had different bright colors added to each bowl for a festive treat.

The Juniors chopped up the vegetables for a healthy treat. They also assisted in making the unicorn dip.

Family was invited to attend and the Girl Scouts served the food that they had helped prepare.

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Knitted party food for the bank holiday celebrations

Whitstable residents have been getting creative with their handcrafted Jubilee project.

Thanks to a grant of 9,600 from Arts Council Englands Lets Create Jubilee Fund, volunteers have been running community art workshops to create works for a 70 Years in the Making' tea party.

From knitted sandwiches to table decorations, felted biscuits to commemorative tableware, they have been making it all!

The project is being run by the Horsebridge Arts Centre, where the delightful but inedible party food will be displayed over the Jubilee bank holiday.

Hannah Wenn, from the Horsebridge, said: It has been wonderful to see so many people really enjoying getting involved.

We have been running a wide variety of free workshops to make our tea party pieces, including mono printing doilies, ceramic vases and bowls, wet felting flowers, pottery painting and weekly crafts sessions.

In addition, people who couldnt get to the centre were given party food craft kits to make at home, to ensure everyone from the area was able to participate in the community project.

Over the bank holiday, the tea party with a twist will transform the studio, while the balcony will be bedecked with handmade supersized floral bouquets.

Plus there will be a recreation of a 1950s living room, where visitors can enjoy a (real) cup of tea and biscuits while watching archive film footage of the coronation.

The grant was a share of the 140,000-fund administered by Kent Community Foundation to help communities mark the Queens special milestone.

Chief executive Josephine McCartney said: We received a wide range of exciting applications showing some very innovative ways the community wanted to come together to celebrate the Queens Jubilee over the bank holiday weekend.

We estimate the funding we distributed to 24 projects across the county will reach thousands of people in Kent and Medway.

To find out about funding for your charity or community group, call 01303 814500 or visit the Kent Community Foundation website.

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ISLAMABAD The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday adjourned hearing on Presidential reference seeking its opinion on Article 63-A of the Constitution till Tuesday.

A five-member larger bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial and comprising Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan, Justice Muneeb Akhtar, Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel and Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhel heard the Presidential reference.

During the course of proceedings, Balochistan National Party (BNP) counsel Mustafa Ramday suggested the bench to not allow political parties to use its shoulder to decide political disputes.

Upon this, Justice Ijaz said that it was not obligatory upon court to take up every political matter. The court decides maintainability of the petition first then give its decision irrespective of whether its suits one party or not, he added.

Advocate Mustafa Ramday said that the presidential reference was filed for political gains and Article 95 could not be rendered ineffective through Article 63-A.

On which the chief justice questioned whether the members were allowed to vote against their prime minister under Article 95? The advocate responded that Article 95 allowed members to vote against party discipline. With this argument he (Mustafa) had abolished the political party, in this way the political party would become a tea party, the CJP said in response.

He said that under Article 63-A of the Constitution, the party head had power to override the political partys direction. He observed that if party head condones wrongdoing of a member then it would be a mockery of the Constitution and democracy.

Justice Ijaz said that the Constitution did not condone the defection. He said that a few individuals could not be allowed to derail the system and democracy. He said that Constitution empowered the court to defend it.

Advocate Ramday said that Article 95 could not be invalidated by Article 63A.

Upon this, the Chief Justice asked whether Article 95 allowed MNAs to vote against their prime minister. The counsel replied that Article 95 allowed members to vote outside of party discipline. He said that one thing the bench had understood from the discussion was that the party chief could revoke the instructions of the parliamentary party.

He asked could the party Chief pardon the wrongful act against the party. It would be against the Constitution if a party Chief pardon the wrong act a member, he added. He asked whether parliamentary partys instructions had no importance.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) counsel Babar Awan said that the party was also part of the parliamentary party.

Advocate Mustafa said that the system would not collapse if members submit their resignations over differences with the party.

Justice Jamal Khan said that the system did not collapse over defection of members.

The counsel said that Article 63-A was a complete code.

Advocate General Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Shumail Butt said that the constitution gave the right to vote freely to ordinary citizens, not to members of parliament. Article 51 referred to the free vote that applied to ordinary citizens, he added.

He said that the elected members must adhere to party discipline policy. Article 63-A should be read in conjunction with Article 62, he added. He said that no provision of the constitution was for beauty. There would be serious consequences if Article 63-A read in conjunction with Article 62, he added.

He said that two forums had to review the defection even after the parliament. Subsequently, the hearing of the case was adjourned till Tuesday.

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