Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) warned his colleagues on Friday that their beloved August recess may be in flux if they are unable to tackle his ambitious agenda in time.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: Schumer Warns Colleagues To Prepare For Late Nights”
Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, who was indicted for tax crimes along with the Trump Organization itself last week, has been terminated as a director of one of ex-President Donald Trump’s golf clubs.
Continue reading “Trump Org. CFO Weisselberg Terminated From Leadership Role At Trump Golf Resort”
In the end, the accounts provided by two unnamed Seattle police officers who attended the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 were “simply not credible,” the Seattle Police Department’s oversight office reported Thursday, recommending that the pair be fired for their actions that day.
The security fence that currently surrounds Capitol grounds due to the pro-Trump insurrection on Jan. 6 is slated to begin coming down on Friday, more than six months after the mob attacked the building.
Continue reading “Post-Insurrection Fence Around Capitol Expected To Start Coming Down Today”
We got two key announcements yesterday in the on-going story of mRNA vaccine efficacy and the Delta variant.
Pfizer announced that it plans to seek regulatory approval in August for a COVID vaccine booster shot. A very preliminary trial (a couple dozen people) provided such clear evidence of increased efficacy from a booster shot that the company said it’s highly confident of what a more extensive trial will show. Specifically the announcement reported “high neutralization titers against the wild type and the Beta variant, which are 5 to 10 times higher than after two primary doses.”
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) says he is furious over state Sen. Doug Mastriano (R) taking a leaf out of Arizona Republicans’ playbook by initiating a phony “forensic investigation” of the 2020 election results in several Pennsylvania counties.
The 8-foot-tall metal fence surrounding Capitol grounds will start being taken down today.
Two Seattle police officers who were at the Capitol insurrection broke the law and ought to be fired, the police department’s watchdogs found after finishing its investigation.
“Unvaccinated hospitalized patients say they regret not getting the shot” – NBC News
Tucker Carlson calls @kenklippenstein "some stooge at the Intercept, some joke billionaire-funded website" because Ken knows how to file a good FOIA request and his producer doesn't. pic.twitter.com/syen0JjrjA
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) July 9, 2021
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D) office mocked Trump as a “twice-impeached Florida retiree” in its statement on the ex-president defending the violent mob of his supporters who attacked the Capitol.
Law license-free Rudy Giuliani’s fundraising page for his mounting legal fees seems to have vanished.
A new Biden executive order slated to be signed Friday includes dozens of initiatives to encourage competition across the American economy, according to a White House fact sheet released this morning.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro threatened to cancel the country’s 2022 elections on the basis of — you guessed it — election fraud
Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, freshly indicted for tax fraud along with the Trump Organization itself, got terminated as the director of one of Trump’s golf courses in Scotland.
Two Americans were among those arrested for alleged involvement in the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
Eric Adams, the winner of New York City’s Democratic primary mayoral race, was hanging out with a bunch of five-borough Republican gadflies last night — including some pretty notorious ones.
Eric Adams dined this evening at Rao’s with John Catsimatidis and Bo Dietl pic.twitter.com/bV0LPiPQc5
— David Freedlander (@freedlander) July 9, 2021
Pfizer is seeking FDA’s approval for a third COVID-19 shot as a booster for the virus and potentially protection against the new Delta variant.
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The Value In Electing Women PAC, a top political action committee for GOP women, wants nothing to do with professional shitflingers Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and has made them the “intentional exception” to its fundraising efforts.
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The Pentagon on Thursday pushed back at Republican lawmakers who claimed that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued misleading remarks when denying that the department does not have an agenda to teach critical race theory — an academic and legal concept that conservatives have appropriated and hijacked as one of its many faux culture wars. Continue reading “Pentagon Rebuffs Faux GOP Outrage Over Defense Sec’s Critical Race Theory Remarks”
As they get their second bite at the voting restriction apple during a special session, Texas Republicans are following the outline of a bill so egregious it prompted a strategic Democratic walkout that succeeded in killing it — temporarily.
I’ve struggled a bit with the vocabulary here. “Analog” doesn’t quite capture it. But it’s close. A couple decades ago I might have used the word “meme”. But with the rise of the Internet that word has now taken on a very particular meaning which is distinct from what I’m talking about. For me, and I suspect for you, there are certain movies – perhaps also TV shows or novels – which contain certain iconic or resonant moments that not only stick with us but then provide analogs which shape our understanding of real life moments. They also allow us to communicate our perceptions of those moments to others through this visual or analogic shorthand.
There’s a lot going on in that sentence so let me provide an example. For me one of those movies is The Godfather (really the whole trilogy). There’s Michael telling Sen. Geary his offer is “nothing.” There’s Vito Corleone dressing down the undertaker Amerigo Bonasera and then accepting his offer of “friendship.” Particularly Godfather I and II have countless exchanges and plot twists like this. They are mostly about the economy of power and how it interacts with friendship and loyalty.
Toyota on Thursday tried to claw back its defense of its donations to Republican lawmakers who voted to challenge the 2020 presidential election results. The company had initially leaned in on its decision amid public outrage over the move. Continue reading “Toyota Now Says It Will Stop Donating To GOPers Who Tried To Reverse Election”
