In his first primetime speech on Thursday night, President Biden acknowledged the losses the country is reeling from one year into the COVID-19 pandemic while expressing optimism about the steps his administration has taken to move the country towards a sense of normalcy. Continue reading “With ‘Independence’ From COVID In Sight, Biden Urges Americans To Do Their Part To Fight Pandemic”
In An Alternate Universe, Trump Commemorates One Year Of COVID
President Donald Trump held a rally in March 2021 to commemorate the one year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic reaching the United States. Here is a transcript of his speech.
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‘I’m Not Naive, Sir!’: Congress Wants Answers On Big Postal Service Changes DeJoy Keeps Pushing
Before entering politics, Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-MI) spent decades at the United States Postal Service. And during a congressional hearing Thursday, she sought to get some answers about a big restructuring for the USPS, one that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has hyped for weeks without offering any details.
Rick Scott Begs States To Reject That Sweet Stimulus Cash, But Florida Wants More
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) has what he calls a “simple and common sense” demand for the 50 states: reject the federal stimulus money signed into law by President Biden on Thursday.
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Trump’s Ex-Defense Chief Says It’s ‘Pretty Much Definitive’ Then-POTUS Incited Capitol Mob
Former Trump acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller said it’s “pretty definitive” that the deadly Capitol insurrection earlier this year wouldn’t have happened if then-President Trump didn’t deliver a fiery speech hours before the attack urging his supporters to “fight like hell” to overturn Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
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Forget Trump’s All-White, All Evangelical Council: Biden’s Faith Office Is Good News In Age Of Christian Nationalism
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On the heels of a Capitol Insurrection sporting a preponderance of Christian nationalist flags, it might be hard for some Americans to see why President Biden’s Executive Order creating a White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships is cause for celebration and not concern.
Biden Signs Sweeping $1.9 Trillion COVID Relief Bill Into Law
President Joe Biden signed his blockbuster $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, the American Rescue Plan, into law on Thursday afternoon.
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Pelosi Slams Republicans Who ‘Vote No And Take The Dough’ On COVID Relief Package
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has been preemptively peeved for days that Republicans, every single one of whom voted against the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, would take credit for its popular provisions anyway.
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Reports: Alleged Capitol Attacker Previously Served As Marine One Crew Chief
One of the military veterans charged in the deadly Capitol insurrection earlier this year previously served as a crew chief on Marine Helicopter Squadron One, the presidential helicopter unit that requires top-secret security clearance.
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Could Georgia Be Trump’s Biggest Legal Threat?
It’s too early to know for sure. But I’ve begun to wonder whether ex-President Trump’s greatest legal jeopardy may not be in Georgia, where there is what seems to be a pretty active investigation into his efforts to bully Republican officials into falsifying the 2020 election results and making him President. (We now have the actual recording of another of those bullying calls, the existence of which was reported back in January.) Trump ended his presidency in such a burst of criminality that it’s easy to lose sight of the egregiousness of so many of the individual acts. But the Georgia effort makes a good claim to be the most egregious.
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