A scorching drought and historic anger over the federal government turning off farmers’ taps has led to a combustible situation in Southern Oregon, where members of anti-government activist Ammon Bundy’s network are starting to talk about yet another standoff with the feds.
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A Manhattan federal judge agreed Friday to appoint a special master to review materials gathered from search warrants executed last month on Rudy Giuliani. In doing so, the judge denied a ream of requests from Giuliani for the right to decide what evidence prosecutors would be able to investigate in the case.
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As far as I can tell, no one thinks HR1/S1 is going to be passed in this Congress. Negotiations over a ‘hard’ infrastructure bill currently have a White House proposal of $1.7 trillion and a GOP proposal which, once you wipe away the whip cream and sprinkles, is about $200 billion. And yet negotiations are continuing.
In recent days I see lots of complaints that ‘the Democrats’ are about to blow it on electoral reform, infrastructure and much else. This is wrong. The issue isn’t ‘the Democrats’. It’s a handful of centrist Senate Democrats who simply refuse to use the power at their disposal to pass these laws with 50 votes. In fact, it’s really just Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema and probably at the end of the day just Manchin. The distinction is important because it’s easy to demoralize yourself. It’s easy for a political party to demoralize itself. It’s easy for people who have their own agendas to demoralize people because they think it serves their factional political interests. If you lived through the Obama years and think, ‘wow, did we really not learn this lesson?’ ‘what’s wrong with you people?’ well, that’s going to cause a lot of frustration and make you wonder just who’s calling the shots and what they’re thinking.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), one of the few GOP senators who supports the proposed bipartisan commission to study the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, criticized Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) late Thursday night for obstructing the commission.
Brooklyn federal prosecutors are examining whether Ukrainians who fed disinformation about the Bidens to Rudy Giuliani to meddle in the 2020 election broke the law, the New York Times reports.
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A group of former Homeland Security secretaries who previously served in both Republican and Democratic administrations urged the Senate to “put politics aside” as the House-passed bill to create a commission investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection faces an uphill battle in the upper chamber. Continue reading “Bipartisan Group Of Ex-DHS Secretaries Urge Senate To ‘Put Politics Aside’ On Jan 6 Commission”
The mother and partner of Brian Sicknick, a Capitol police officer who died after the insurrection, on Thursday made the rounds on Capitol Hill, urging Republican senators to support the Jan. 6 commission. Continue reading “Sicknick’s Mother And Partner Try To Change GOPers Minds On Commission”
Retired cops hired by a top Wisconsin Republican. A litmus test in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race. A fight in rural Michigan over a small town’s election equipment.
A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is now live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss the news of the day, including GOP obstruction in the Senate, an upswell in violence against local government officials and the battle over a memo related to the Mueller report.
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As expected, Republicans are the main group of Americans who support some of the most outlandish conspiracy theories connected to the QAnon movement.
But a lot more Americans believe in some aspects of the far-right conspiracy theory than you’d think.
