The Justice Department’s sex trafficking investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has expanded beyond the Republican’s home state, ABC News confirmed on Wednesday night.
Someone Tell Kemp Showing An ID For Delta Flight Is Not The Same Thing As His Strict Voter ID Law
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) on Wednesday offered a bad faith comparison to justify the state’s stricter voter ID law, saying he had to show his ID the last time he flew Delta Air Lines.
Apple CEO Joins Growing Number Of Corporations Condemning Voting Restrictions
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Thursday joined mounting calls from corporate leaders against the new Georgia restrictive voting law and other voting restrictions around the country. Continue reading “Apple CEO Joins Growing Number Of Corporations Condemning Voting Restrictions”
TX Senate Passes Major Bill To Scale Back Ballot Access—Particularly For Voters Of Color
Texas’s GOP-controlled Senate passed on party lines major changes to its election code that will make voting more cumbersome for people in Texas’ urban communities as well as for voters in need of assistance.
‘No Good Choices’: HHS Is Cutting Safety Corners To Move Migrant Kids Out Of Overcrowded Facilities
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The startling images have appeared in one news report after another: children packed into overcrowded, unsafe Border Patrol facilities because there was nowhere else to put them. As of March 30, over 5,000 children were being held in Border Patrol custody, including more than 600 in each of two units in Donna, Texas, that were supposed to hold no more than 32 apiece under COVID-19 protocols.
Biden Cheers On MLB Potentially Moving All-Star Game Out Of Atlanta Over Anti-Voting Law
President Joe Biden on Wednesday night backed the Major League Baseball (MLB) organization potentially moving its All-Star game out of Atlanta, Georgia in protest of the state’s recently passed restrictions on voting.
Biden Admin Announces New Ad Campaign To Beat Vaccine Skepticism
The Biden administration on Thursday morning announced a new ad campaign aimed at encouraging Americans to get vaccinated against coronavirus that includes participation from hundreds of organizations and “local voices people know and trust” to help boost confidence around vaccination.
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Gaetz Continues To Blab About Alleged Extortion Probe, Insists His Family ‘Would Never Pay A Bribe’
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who is under federal investigation over an alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and allegedly paying for her travel, can’t seem to stop talking as the scandal continues to unfold.
As Aides Concealed COVID Death Toll, Cuomo Sealed $4 Mill Book Deal
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) managed to seal a book deal that offered him more than $4 million to detail his pandemic leadership, while his administration worked to revise a potentially damaging Health Department report that would expose staggering COVID-19 nursing home deaths, The New York Times reported late Wednesday.
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Gaetz Saga Manages to Get More Absurd
Here’s a fascinating new wrinkle to the Matt Gaetz story. Jeff Stein has a piece up about the backstory of this Iranian rescue operation which – absurd as it sounds – is the center of what the Gaetzes claim was an extortion plot.
The Gaetzes gave purported screencaps of text messages to The Washington Examiner, a friendly rightwing outfit, to support their extortion claims. But even at face value what is described doesn’t sound like an extortion plot.