Attorney General Bill Barr had just let out a whopper of a lie so obvious and verifiable that the Kansas City Star’s Washington correspondent was left with only a four-letter word.
Senate Approves Proposal To Strip Confederate Names From Army Bases By Veto-Proof Majority
The Senate overwhelmingly approved a defense bill on Thursday that included Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) provision requiring the military to rename U.S. bases named after Confederate generals.
Inspectors General Announce Probes Into Feds’ Use Of Force In Portland, DC Protests
The Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General announced Thursday that it had launched an investigation into the department’s use of force in the recent protests in Portland and Washington, D.C., including how law enforcement cleared out Lafayette Square in front of the White House in June.
A short time after that, Democratic lawmakers revealed that they’d been informed by the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general that his office would be investigating federal agents’ activity on July 15, when protesters reported being detained without cause.
Pelosi’s Not Tolerating Yoho’s Lip: ‘Women Will Be Treated With Respect’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday weighed in on a male GOP member of her House and his reportedly aggressive confrontation of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY): “women will be treated with respect.”
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The Weirdest Far-Right Conspiracy Theories Around Fauci
There’s a deeply wild and more fantastic strain of the attempts to discredit Dr. Fauci, many of which are so ridiculous that to debunk them would chip away at the notion of factuality.
WH Tries To Spin Trump’s Well Wishes For Ghislaine Maxwell Into A Fight For ‘Justice’
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Thursday attempted to explain President Trump’s warm wishes for Ghislaine Maxwell — the British socialite accused of being an accomplice to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s decades-long abuse of underage girls — during the Season 2 premiere of his reality TV-style coronavirus briefings. Continue reading “WH Tries To Spin Trump’s Well Wishes For Ghislaine Maxwell Into A Fight For ‘Justice’”
Where Things Stand: 48 Tweets Before 9 AM
President Trump doesn’t have anything on his public schedule until 5 p.m. today.
And it’s painfully obvious.
‘Officers May Seek to Act With Impunity’
TPM Reader JV reminds us of this 2014 letter from the Department of Justice to the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department which touches on the issue of officer identification.
Officers wearing name plates while in uniform is a basic component of transparency and accountability. It is a near-universal requirement of sound policing practices and required under some state laws. Allowing officers to remain anonymous when they interact with the public contributes to mistrust and undermines accountability. The failure to wear name plates conveys a message to community members that, through anonymity, officers may seek to act with impunity. Further, the lack ofname plates makes it difficult or impossible for members of the public to identify officers if they engage in.misconduct, or for police departments to hold them accountable.
AOC Hammers Yoho: My Parents ‘Did Not Raise Me To Accept Abuse From Men’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) delivered a passionate rebuke Thursday of the vicious language levied against her by Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL), who was overheard calling the New York lawmaker a “fucking bitch” after a confrontation on the Capitol earlier this week.
“To see that excuse and to see our Congress accept it as legitimate and accept it as an apology and to accept silence as a form of acceptance, I could not allow that to stand,” Ocasio-Cortez said on the House floor.
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Atlanta Mayor Signals Possible Settlement Over Kemp’s Mask Mandate Lawsuit
Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Wednesday night recalled a “very good conversation” she had with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) earlier in the day when they discussed a possible settlement of his lawsuit challenging the city’s mask mandate. Continue reading “Atlanta Mayor Signals Possible Settlement Over Kemp’s Mask Mandate Lawsuit”