Fox Corrects Graphic, Script After Days Of Hammering Fake Biden Red Meat Ban

A Fox News anchor corrected a graphic and accompanying script the network aired last week which summed up the thrust of the disinformation the network and other right-wing media has been peddling for days: the false assertion that President Joe Biden’s climate plan will force a ban on red meat consumption. 

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2020 Census Gives DC Statehood Proponents Something To Add To Their Talking Points

As D.C. statehood proponents have long noted, Wyoming gets a congressional seat despite having fewer residents than the district. Now they can add Vermont to the list of states that get more congressional representation than D.C. (which gets only a non-voting delegate) despite having fewer people.

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Attorneys For Family Of Police Shooting Victim Say They Only Saw ‘Snippet’ Of Body Cam

The family of a Black man shot and killed by police last week saw just a “snippet” of one sheriff’s deputy’s body camera footage of the shooting Monday, attorneys for the family said.

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Anti-Mask AK GOPer Now Must Drive Hundreds Of Miles Then Take Ferry To Capital After Flight Ban

Alaska state Sen. Lora Reinbold (R) had no choice but to drive for more than 13 hours and then take a ferry on Sunday to get to the state’s legislature in Juneau after Alaska Airlines banned her for flouting its mask requirement.

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Making Sense of the Post-Trump Era #14

From TPM Reader ED

I was ten when we landed in the US and I’m 60 now. I’ve been a citizen for 40 years and had a great life and career here. All along, I loved and trusted the goodness and fairness of this country in a way that a US born citizen probably can’t relate to. It wasn’t perfect, but it was the best in the world, and I felt lucky and privileged to live and retire here. Like Colonel Vindman exemplified in his testimony, “Here, right matters”. After Trump, I’ll never see the country or its people in the same light again. I’ve been disappointed and disillusioned in US institutions and frankly it’s people. So many voted for him twice! (I blame Fox for that, but that’s another subject)

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DOJ Revives Its Oversight Of Police With Major Probes In Two High-Profile Cities

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Monday that the Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation into the policing practices of Louisville, Kentucky, which have been under public scrutiny since last year’s killing of Breonna Taylor.

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