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This week, Josh and Kate discuss policing reform, analyze the dynamics around the infrastructure package and introduce a new segment.
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Multiple outlets report that President Joe Biden will sign an emergency declaration on Friday preserving the Trump administration’s historically low 15,000 ceiling on the U.S. refugee program, a stunning reversal of the President’s promise to lift the annual cap.
Continue reading “Biden To Keep Trump’s Historically Low Refugee Limit, Breaking Pledge To Lift Cap”
Without any real policy agenda, Republicans in Congress have largely seized on various fronts in the culture war to distract from Biden’s successes. And GOPers at the state level are doing the same, with a new heightened focus on an element of their socially conservative base’s traditional values: Going after the LGBT community.
Lately, that’s meant a fresh wave of anti-trans rights bills.
The audit that Arizona’s GOP Senate has ordered of the 2020 election in the state’s largest county will be partially bankrolled by private donations — including from a fundraising effort spearheaded by some of the loudest promoters of President Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.
A metal guitarist will be the first defendant in the Capitol insurrection case to reach a plea deal with the government, one that includes cooperating with authorities.
Liberty University sued its former leader Jerry Falwell Jr. on Thursday, accusing the son of its founder of a “business conspiracy” against the institution.
Continue reading “READ: Liberty Sues Jerry Falwell Jr. For Millions In Damages Over Granda Episode”
I wanted to flag your attention to this NBC article about radicalization among current and retired US Special Forces personnel. NBC got access to private Facebook groups for these communities – again current and former. They had a lot of racist, far-right, QAnon type content. Not universal and not uncontested, but still a lot.
Some of the few Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach him after he incited a violent insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, have been pouring tens of thousands of dollars into personal security measures.
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The Defense Department has confirmed that leaked photos and video of “unidentified aerial phenomena” originally taken in 2019 that have been circulating online in recent weeks are in fact images of unexplained objects that were taken by Navy personnel.
Continue reading “Defense Dept Confirms Video Of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Was Shot By Navy”
I want to recommend you read Josh Kovensky’s write up of yesterday’s Treasury Department statement about the 2016 Trump campaign’s direct tie to Russian intelligence. The Mueller report and the later Senate intelligence report were both unwilling or unable to determine whether Manafort associate Konstantin Kilimnik had passed the campaign information he received from Manafort to Russian intelligence. Treasury said he did. This is not a huge surprise since Kilimnik is widely reputed to be a Russian spy. And we should note that these are assertions listed in what amounts to a bill of particulars. They don’t explain what evidence underlies these claims. But this is the first time the US government has connected the pieces so clearly and categorically.
Why now?
