The tour of terribleness is, apparently, just getting started.
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Watch The New Episode Of The Josh Marshall Podcast: Burdening The Vaccinated
A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is now live! This week Josh and Kate discuss infrastructure progress, the January 6 investigation and the COVID pandemic still raging among the unvaccinated.
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Institutionalism Can’t Save Us Now
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.
We have no shortage of information about how historically bad an Attorney General William Barr was. His tenure was marked by attacks on LGBTQ rights, immigrants, and peaceful protestors. His overt politicization of the investigations into Russian interference in the election, the Mueller report, and Roger Stone’s sentencing are well-documented, and in a continuing headache for the Biden Administration’s DOJ, Barr’s Justice Department’s intervened to protect Trump against E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against him just two months before the election. And yet, as we saw this week following revelations that his DOJ declined to prosecute Commerce Department officials for lying about the provenance of the Census citizenship question, what we know merely scratches the surface.
Judge Tells Jan. 6 Insurrectionist That Trying To Overturn An Election Isn’t Patriotism, Actually
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Wednesday put in explicit terms how Trumpland’s rebranding of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists as oppressed political dissidents is utter hogwash.
Democrats Call Republicans’ Bluff On Debt Ceiling As Dangerous Standoff Looms
It’s that time of year again — when raising the debt ceiling, a critical legislative act that staves off full-scale economic catastrophe, becomes a high-stakes game of political chicken.
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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Dead At 72
Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO labor organization and a close ally of the Biden administration, has died. Continue reading “AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Dead At 72”
First, She Stormed A State Capitol With Ammon Bundy. Then, She Stormed Congress, Feds Say.
First, she stormed the Idaho state capitol. Then, she stormed the U.S. Congress. Continue reading “First, She Stormed A State Capitol With Ammon Bundy. Then, She Stormed Congress, Feds Say.”
Richard Trumka, Dead at 72
Richard Trumka is dead at 72. Head of the AFL-CIO and a fixture of the American labor movement for decades. Heart attack appears to be the cause of death but that’s still supposition. More to come.
New GOP Message on Surging COVID: It’s Juan’s Fault!
As Delta COVID surges cases across the country and fills hospitals in low-vaccine Red States, Republicans have been test-driving a range of messages to maneuver out of accountability for their reckless policies on vaccines. They’ve tried a belated effort to push vaccines, deny they were ever against them and then sidled back to opposing various kinds of vaccine mandates. But over the last couple days they’ve started pushing a new message: the problem is undocumented immigrants “pouring” over the US-Mexico border. Embattled Florida Governor Ron DeSantis put it this way (emphasis added) in a fundraising email sent out yesterday: “Joe Biden has the nerve to tell me to get out of the way on COVID while he lets COVID-infected migrants pour over our southern border by the hundreds of thousands. No elected official is doing more to enable the transmission of COVID in America than Joe Biden with his open borders policies.”
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