The antifa card has been dealt repeatedly this week. And it’s only picking up more steam among the GOP as a vague but ready excuse for all manner of things.
Tucked into a recent Politico report on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s decision to push back on the House’s bid to conduct a bipartisan review of the Jan. 6 insurrection was a clue as to the staying power the actually-it-was-antifa lie will have.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: The Value Of Playing The Antifa Card”
Facebook apologized on Thursday to Rep. Marie Newman (D-IL) for flagging a video that was shared on its platform of the congresswoman installing a transgender pride flag outside of her office as hate speech.
Continue reading “FB Apologies To Rep. Newman For Flagging Video Of Trans Flag As Hate Speech”
Voting rights advocates couldn’t be more excited about the civil rights veterans Biden has picked for key Justice Department roles. But what the DOJ can do, under the Biden-selected leadership, to protect access to the ballot box has left them a little less optimistic.
Even with new leadership, the enforcement landscape has been complicated by hobbled laws, a hostile judiciary and the risk that a future administration will come in and, once again, drastically change course.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Thursday jabbed Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) a day after their tense exchange during a House Republican leadership press conference that highlighted the growing divide between Trump loyalists and those who have dared to buck the former president. Continue reading “McCarthy Throws Cheney Under The Bus By Accusing Her Of Joining ‘Cancel Culture’”
A Pennsylvania Republican state committee’s verdict on whether to censure on Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) after the senator voted to convict former President Trump of “incitement of insurrection” was inconclusive after a Wednesday night meeting. Continue reading “PA GOP Committee Meeting To Censure Toomey Concludes With No Resolution”
Manhattan DA obtains Trump tax records (not just the returns). Manhattan DA zeroes in on Don Jr. Don Jr. deposed by DC Attorney General in lawsuit alleging misuse of inaugural funds. Like snow melting with the warming spring the Trump family’s immunity from the law is disintegrating.
Rep. Marie Newman (D-IL) responded on Thursday to a move by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to paste an anti-trans poster outside of her office door by suggesting the congresswoman responsible for posting the “goofy” and hateful sign was out of touch with reality.
Continue reading “Dem Rep. Newman Suggests Anti-Trans Greene Has Only ‘Loose Touch With Reality’”
Former White House senior adviser Stephen Miller, one of the proud architects of ex-President Donald Trump’s child separation policy at the southern border, is very concerned for the wellbeing of young migrants now that President Joe Biden is at the helm of the U.S. immigration system.
Continue reading “Yes, Stephen Miller Is Actually Calling Biden’s Immigration Policies ‘Cruel’”
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has obtained former President Trump’s tax returns after a years-long fight for the financial records, Vance’s office confirmed to TPM.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) installed an anti-transgender sign outside her office on Wednesday after Rep. Marie Newman (D-IL) put a trans pride flag outside her office that sits across from the GOP freshman’s door.
