A political consultant for former Rep. Scott Taylor (R-VA) has been indicted on election fraud charges.
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GOP Claims That They Were Hoodwinked By The Tandem Infrastructure Bills Are Provably Nonsense
Ever since Republicans realized that Democrats still intended to go ahead with their reconciliation infrastructure bill in lockstep with the bipartisan deal, they’ve been searching for a rationale to oppose the arrangement.
Politico Playbook: I was Savvy Before I was Bamboozled!
Oh Boy! As you’d expect, having taken the whole shocked, stunned, totally really angry line at face value Politico Playbook is shifting gears to this …
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Where Things Stand: SCOTUS Quietly Punts On Trans Rights Case
As anti-trans rights laws pop up in GOP-led state legislatures across the country, fueling one of Republicans’ top culture wars in the Biden era, the majority conservative Supreme Court decided to not take up a key transgender rights case today, a surprising victory for LGBTQ rights.
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What To Make Of Trump Org Attorneys’ Meeting With The Manhattan DA’s Office
Attorneys for the Trump Organization are reportedly set to meet with Manhattan prosecutors on Monday, in what, according to CNN and the Washington Post, could be a final meeting before District Attorney Cyrus Vance files charges against the company.
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Toyota Leans In Amid Furor Over Donations To GOPers Who Challenged Election Results
Toyota on Sunday responded to the furor over data showing that the automaker is a top corporate donor to Republican lawmakers who opposed certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. Continue reading “Toyota Leans In Amid Furor Over Donations To GOPers Who Challenged Election Results”
Leader Of AZ Audit Appears In Conspiracy Theory Doc Alleging Rigged 2020 Election
The CEO of the lead contractor in Arizona Senate’s “audit” of 2020 election results appeared in a conspiracy theory film about the election that premiered Saturday, one asserting that Donald Trump’s second term in office was stolen via a rigged election.
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Thanks, Mitch!
No, really. Thanks to Mitch McConnell for confirming how he suckered most of the big DC publications with the faux drama over President Biden’s ‘veto threat’. The word from the bigs over the weekend was that yes, all knew that Democrats were proceeding with the two bills in tandem, that the two were linked. It was just that Biden made this too clear by saying he would not sign the bipartisan mini-bill if only that one came to his desk.
But now McConnell is helpfully clarifying that in fact he is objecting to what everyone knew in advance and that even he spoke about numerous times on the record.
McConnell Insists That Schumer, Pelosi Give Back His Ability To Let Infrastructure Reconciliation Bill Die
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) insisted Monday that Democratic leadership drop its so-far effective strategy to link the bipartisan and reconciliation infrastructure bills, to make it easier for him to extract a win on the former and watch the latter die.
Some Notes on COVID Vaccines and the Delta Variant
I’ve spent some time over the last few days trying to puzzle out the available information on vaccine efficacy, the Delta variant and what if anything we can see about the future from what’s happening today in a few test case countries around the world.
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