American Statical Association president Rob Santos has been picked by President Biden to lead the Census Bureau. The ASA played a prominent role in monitoring the success of the 2020 census amid President Trump’s efforts to hijack the survey for political ends.
Continue reading “Biden Picks Prominent Statistics Expert To Be First Latino Census Bureau Director”
Efforts to delegitimize the election process are paying off for Republican members of Congress who egged on then-President Trump’s election fraud falsehoods, a crusade that culminated in the deadly Capitol insurrection earlier this year. Continue reading “GOPers Pull In Fundraising Hauls After Sowing Doubt In Election Process”
Chief executives from top Michigan-based corporations preemptively pushed back on a package of proposed changes to election law that will likely restrict voting access in Michigan and are set to be considered by the GOP-led state Senate this week.
Continue reading “Major Michigan Corporations Warn Against New Restrictive Voting Bills In State”
The officer who fatally shot a Black motorist Sunday, and the police chief who said the shooting was accidental, have both resigned from their jobs in a suburb north of Minneapolis.
Continue reading “Police Chief, Officer Who Shot Black Motorist In Minneapolis Suburb Resign”
President Joe Biden is slated to announce on Wednesday that he will have all U.S. troops withdrawn from Afghanistan by September this year, pushing back the May 1 deadline ex-President Donald Trump had negotiated with the Taliban in 2020.
From TPM Reader MM …
When J&J-vaccine-related blood clots first were suspected/observed in Europe, I wrote to you about the statistical insignificance of the number of observed cases, about how and why scientists tended not to make good politicians, and about the obvious need to monitor the evolving situation closely. Not long after, I wrote again to applaud the EU leadership for having listened to their “scientists and technocrats”, who presumably told them more or less the same thing in much more detail. No doubt you’ve followed developments since then more closely than I have, despite the virtual tsunami of other, more purely-political news inviting or demanding your analysis and commentary.
And Senate Republicans know it.
All hope of retaking the majority in the Senate lies with the former president’s ability to put aside his personal grievances for the sake of the Party.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: An Old Man With A Grudge Still Runs The Show”
Democratically-aligned groups are doing autopsies on what went wrong in 2020 — or, perhaps more accurately, what didn’t go right enough — as they face the looming 2022 election cycle.
Continue reading “Worried About 2022, Democrats Are Looking Backwards. Here’s What They Found”
Prosecutors on Monday revealed what they said was a suspected effort by Oath Keepers to stash weapons in Virginia ahead of the Jan. 6 attack on Congress.
Batter up!
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) are taking another swing at Major League Baseball for its decision to move its All-Star game out of Georgia in response to the state’s restrictive voting law. Continue reading “GOP Senators Take Their Performative Feud With The MLB To A New, Legislative Level”
