The Arkansas doctor in charge of medical care at a county jail in Fayetteville has defended his practice of prescribing inmates with dewormer as a COVID-19 preventative, despite an FDA warning that Americans “should not” use the drug for COVID.
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A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss the centrist stunt in the House, the Afghanistan evacuation on a personal level, and what to make of the dip in President Biden’s approval numbers.
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) was called out by Twitter users on Wednesday night after posting a now-deleted tweet that likened vaccine mandates to an arm tattooed with a concentration camp identification number. Continue reading “GOP Rep Torched For Vaccine Holocaust Comparison That Even Greene Apologized For”
An Arizona judge on Wednesday ordered Cyber Ninjas, the company Arizona Republicans hired to run a shoddy review of the 2020 elections, to preserve documents of its audit for public release.
Continue reading “Judge Orders Cyber Ninjas To Preserve Records Of Its Fake Elections ‘Audit’”
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things.
The ex-president is having a conniption over the House Jan. 6 Committee’s document request directed at eight federal agencies for information on his involvement in the Capitol insurrection.
Pro-Trump lawyers Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, and the rest of the motley crew of attorneys are facing possible disbarment for lying about the 2020 election in their failed effort to overturn Trump’s defeat in Michigan.
The officer, who has become a target of Trump allies trying to whitewash the events of Jan. 6, will make a public appearance for the first time in an interview with NBC News tonight at 6:30 p.m. ET.
As of today, more than half of Florida’s students are required to wear masks after 10 school districts defied Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ban on mask mandates.
South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, who is accused of fatally striking a pedestrian with his car on a highway and abandoning the body last September, will take a plea deal instead of going to trial today.
A federal appeals court declined to overturn the conviction and death sentence of Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black church congregants in a shooting spree in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015.
“Federal government to expand use of facial recognition despite growing concerns” – The Washington Post
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has finished investigating himself for alleged corruption, and he’s happy to report that he didn’t do anything corrupt.
Delta Airlines employees will be charged $200 dollars a month if they don’t get the COVID-19 vaccine because “the average hospital stay for COVID-19 has cost Delta $50,000 per person,” the company’s CEO, Ed Bastian, announced in a memo.
Sidenote: This is the way he refers to the COVID-19 delta variant:
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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who is reportedly under investigation by the Justice Department for sex trafficking of an underage woman, seems to have committed another violation: failure to disclose the money he raked in from a book he published last year. Continue reading “Yet Another Alleged Federal Violation By Gaetz: Failure To Disclose Paltry Book Sales”
We spent a good chunk of last week covering various school districts in Florida, Texas and elsewhere that are standing up to their governors’ bans on mask policies in schools. The defiance has been interesting to watch play out — most are maintaining their mask policies, despite ongoing threats from the state level.
In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott just issued an executive order that looks like another escalation of that battle.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: Abbott’s New Vax Mandate Ban Is Clearly Aimed At Big Schools”
The team of “Kraken” attorneys who sought to overturn the 2020 election “scorned their oath, flouted the rules, and attempted to undermine the integrity of the judiciary along the way,” according to a Wednesday opinion from a Detroit federal judge.
A judge issued the first sentence in the federal case against those accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, sentencing a man who pleaded guilty to participating in the plot to six years in prison.
We’ve noted a number of times that we are in a period of great uncertainty about the outlines of the COVID Pandemic. How vaccines are holding up over time and how well they protect against the Delta variant are both uncertain, with limited and contradictory data. Yesterday I noted new data out of Israel which appears to show a dramatic improvement in protection with a third shot. But that scale of improvement rests on other data out of Israel suggesting that effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine had dropped significantly since early this year, especially against infection.
Yesterday the CDC published a new report that is at least directionally in line with Israeli data on vaccine effectiveness against infection, albeit showing a less pronounced drop.
Continue reading “New Evidence of Waning Vaccine Protection Against Infection”
