It was easy to miss on a cluttered DC weekend. But Ted Cruz pulled a parliamentary maneuver this weekend which inadvertently allowed Senate Democrats to push through two dozen nominations they would have had to gone begging to Republicans for next year.
Tennessee is the latest red state to give in and buy into Medicaid expansion under Obamacare.
Last week I wrote a post about sports, race and what I called the politics of shirts. We now have another chapter in this evolving story. The Cleveland police union is demanding an apology from the Cleveland Browns because wide receiver Andrew Hawkins wore a shirt demanding “Justice for Tamir Rice And John Crawford III.”
How can the White Supremacist movement ever get anywhere if they’re top sociopaths are killing other white supremacists?
Florida cop pulls over and tickets driver for playing NWA’s “F#$k the Police”.
The officer in question has reportedly had 16 internal offices cases in the 17 years he’s been on the force. So he may not be the best of the best.
Police tase 76 year old man while trying to arrest him for driving with an expired inspection sticker. Watch.
As it happens, Pete Vasquez was driving a vehicle from the car dealership where he worked. It still had dealer tags. So it actually didn’t require inspection stickers.
A sobering, intense email from TPM Reader AJ …
Josh…
As one 70 year old Black man who was born and raised in “segregated America” and raised my son in the new and improved “post-racial” America, please let me help you out.
You wrote…
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I’ve been writing about the politics of race, sports, and shirts. But as Ben Adler explains, we can no more decide which teams we love than we can choose the people we love. A great read.