The Manhattan district attorney’s office is expected to charge the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, with tax-related crimes Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.
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A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things.
GOP leadership is urging its members to vote against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) resolution creating a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection.
The New York City Board of Elections announced on Tuesday night that it had accidentally added about 135,000 “test” ballots in the hotly contested mayoral race. Oopsy daisy!
The responses to that announcement were … not kind:
took my “chill and see new shapes” amount of Benadryl. mixed a Blue Chew and NoDoz into a Bang. topping it off with a Twisted Tea. now time for my job at New York’s Board of Elections
— Anor Londo gentrifier (@ByYourLogic) June 30, 2021
not the NYC board of elections doing a notes app apology https://t.co/f5fC8q9ep7
— libby watson (@libbycwatson) June 30, 2021
When I die I want the NYC Board of Elections to lower me into my grave so they can let me down one last time.
— Steph Silkowski (@stephsilkowski) June 29, 2021
Please standby for a statement from NYC Board of Elections Chairman Mr. Bean
— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) June 30, 2021
Rudy Giuliani, freshly stripped of his law license, is sinking even deeper in legal woes; he’s now under federal investigation for potential foreign lobbying to the Trump administration on behalf of Turkish interests, according to Bloomberg and ABC News.
The House approved the expulsion of Confederate statues from the Capitol last night.
The Republican National Committee’s spending on security in the first quarter of this year skyrocketed from less than $500,000 in last year’s first quarter to more than $1 million, according to Federal Election Commission records analyzed by Mother Jones.
Fox News shelled out $1 million last week in a jaw-dropping settlement with New York City’s Commission on Human Rights, which slammed the network’s “pattern of violating the NYC Human Rights Law.”
Lytton, BC Sunday: 46.6 C (116F)
Monday: 47.5 C (118F)
Tuesday: 49.6 C (121F)
Old record: 45 C (113F)
Another all-time Canada record today. Lytton, British Columbia, was 49.6°C (121°F) this afternoon. Here's a map of station in the U.S. and Canada that have ever been as warm as Lytton was today. pic.twitter.com/cdMTINz4m0
— Brian Brettschneider (@Climatologist49) June 29, 2021
Tuesday’s temperature was the highest ever recorded north of 45N anywhere on the planet.
One more WORLD record for #Lytton: Today with 49.6C it also set a new world record of the highest temperature ever recorded above 45N, beating the seemed unbeatable 121F/49.4C of Steele,ND of July 1936. @ScottDuncanWX @capitalweather @AlaskaWx
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) June 30, 2021
Biden is scheduled to visit the site of the Miami Beach condo collapse.
?Update from Sioux Center!
@ChuckGrassley & @TomCottonAR doing 22 push ups in front of 200 passionate Iowans. Wow! pic.twitter.com/1NQL4ybs1C
— Jeff Kaufmann (@kaufmannGOP) June 30, 2021
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says he’d choose Biden if he had to pick any living Democratic president to be stuck on a desert island with because “I consider him a personal friend” and “a first-rate person.” Maybe the Republican leader would put only 99% of his “focus” on “stopping” Biden’s agenda instead of the full 100 if POTUS tried to build them a shelter.
Are you wondering if Critical Race Theory is being taught in your child's school? Stay on the lookout for some of CRT's less "buzzworthy" names and language ? #BanCRT pic.twitter.com/GtqkxMYtKc
— Texas Public Policy Foundation (@TPPF) June 29, 2021
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House Republicans on Tuesday viewed the chamber’s upcoming vote on legislation to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol as an opportunity to accuse Democrats of trying to “erase history” and boost their hysteria over so-called “Critical Race Theory.” Continue reading “House GOPers Use Vote To Remove Confederate Statues To Attack Dems”
In a clip from his web show uploaded online Monday, the racist and anti-Semitic media personality Nicholas Fuentes said that if “Finnish fishermen” replaced Black Americans in Chicago’s south side, “it would probably look a lot more like America than it does now” and “they wouldn’t litter, and they wouldn’t be shooting each other, and they wouldn’t selling drugs.”
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The auto scrap billionaire who is funding South Dakota’s deployment of national guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border told TPM in an interview that he was making the contribution because “this President would rather help other countries than help America.”
The Senate campaign of Josh Mandel, the former Ohio state treasurer who ran twice against Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), is already running into some trouble. Continue reading “Campaign Of OH Senate Candidate Hungry For Trump’s Approval Is Already Hitting Snags”
Here’s a new story that manages to be both absurd and silly and also pretty outrageous. As part of her 2024 presidential ambitions South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is deploying elements of the state national guard to the Texas boarder to combat the “border crisis” which is mainly an element of the Republican campaign agenda for 2022. And the money to do it is coming from a private donor.
Continue reading “GOP Prez Primary Race Moves into State Militia Rental Phase”
This is an issue I first mentioned on Friday. While Senate Republicans are going full performance art drama about whether they can still support the proposal they already agreed to support, there’s another element of the drama in some ways just as interesting.
The bill – or rather outline proposal, there’s no bill – could not include any new taxes and had to be paid for. Republicans insisted on those conditions. The bill includes a number of “payfors” meant to accomplish this. But they are at least half phony. Some are more real than others. In some cases there’s legitimate debate about how much revenue they could yield – stepped up tax enforcement on the super wealthy is an example of that. But the core issue is that a lot of it is pretend. Now the Post has talked to experts about the list of payfors and it confirms in detail what was pretty clear in general: a mix of wishful thinking and hocum. In other words, the negotiation over the bipartisan mini-bill was largely a process of finding notional ‘payfors’ that Republicans could pretend were real.
Here’s the Holocaust humor from a guy named Nick Fuentes, a far-right holocaust denier and white supremacist commentator who is holding a fundraiser July 1st with Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona. Classic joking, smiling denial of the death of six million Jews and being endorsed by a Republican member of Congress in good standing – committee membership, campaign support, the whole deal. Video after the jump.
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There’s been a lot of fretting over the last couple days about whether a group of Republicans who had not actually committed to support the bipartisan mini-bill were no longer going to support it, thus putting in doubt President Biden’s entire infrastructure agenda. But that’s the wrong way to look at this. This has always been and remains an issue in Democrats’ hands – especially Joe Manchin’s hands. Republicans are just players on a chess board in which Democrats are making the moves. And Joe Manchin made this pretty clear this morning.
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