HBO Doc Accuses Jordan of Lying; FEMA Not Going Away?

By Michael Woyton

A new documentary on HBO is accusing maga Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan of lying about sexual abuse at Ohio State.

The congressman declined to be interviewed for the doc called “Surviving Ohio State, the Ohio Capital Journal said, but former Ohio State wrestlers and a referee “frequently” brought up his name. 

At least 177 male victims between 1979 and 1996 said they were abused by Dr. Richard Strauss who was a physician for the university’s athletics department at the time.

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Jordan was an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State from 1987 to 1995.

A spokesperson for the congressman said Jordan “never saw or heard of any abuse, and if he had, he would have dealt with it.”

During a press gaggle with Ohio reporters in 2018, Jordan denied knowing anything about the abuse, adding that he talked to other coaches and they didn’t know about any abuse.

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Despite having called for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to be shut down, it seems President Donald J. Felon’s administration is now not so keen on shuttering it completely.

The Washington Post cited a senior White House official in saying “[n]o official action was being taken to wind down FEMA, and changes in the agency would probably amount to a ‘rebranding’ that would emphasize state leaders’ roles in disaster response,” Reuters reported.

Great. Maybe that will give Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a chance to learn how to manage FEMA, instead of waiting three whole days to get search and rescue teams on the ground in Texas.

Speaking of incompetent leaders, FEMA’s acting administrator, David Richardson, as of Thursday, has not been to Texas to personally see the nation’s deadliest floods in the past 25 years, Politico said.

The Dallas Morning News does not mention Richardson’s name regarding a planned trip Friday to Texas by the grifter-in-chief. Just FYI.

A reminder that Project 2025 — which the president said he knew nothing about — called for gutting FEMA.

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ICE officers are being told they can detain anyone “based on … physical appearance.”

Think about that.

That there’s a police state.

— Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) 2025-07-11T14:08:59.142Z

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— (@drosie.bsky.social) 2025-07-11T02:16:23.642Z

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Love the snarky final comment from California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Exactly.

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) 2025-07-11T03:02:30.200Z

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Lead art: Screen grab from HBO app