President Joe Biden vowed Friday that he “will not yield” to Republicans’ plan to hold the debt ceiling hostage in exchange for cuts to Medicare and Social Security.
Continue reading “Biden Vows He ‘Will Not Yield’ To GOP’s Debt-Ceiling Extortion On Medicare And Social Security”Special Master Calls Out Trump For Blown Deadline
After President Trump blew a deadline in the Mar-a-Lago documents case, the special master called him out and gave him to the close of business today to remedy the delinquency.
Continue reading “Special Master Calls Out Trump For Blown Deadline”What Trump Had Stashed at the Villa
We’ve got a lot going on today. But I want to be sure you see this report from the Post. Many of the documents retrieved from Trump’s personal residence at his villa and in public storage areas contained highly, highly classified documents about Iran’s ballistic missile program as well reports from intelligence programs about China. It’s hard to overstate just how sensitive and highly guarded these documents are.
The Post notes that “many of the more sensitive documents Trump or his aides apparently took to Mar-a-Lago after he left the White House are top-level analysis papers that do not contain sources’ names.” But a foreign intelligence service can often infer based on the nature and findings of an intelligence effort who was talking or which vulnerabilities were being exploited.
Continue reading “What Trump Had Stashed at the Villa”WaPo: Iran, China Intel Was Among Classified Docs Seized At Mar-a-Lago
Intelligence relating to Iran and China was found among the classified records seized at Mar-a-Lago in August, the Washington Post reports.
Continue reading “WaPo: Iran, China Intel Was Among Classified Docs Seized At Mar-a-Lago”Re-Boris Plan Sweeping UK
Just after soberly noting that in some ways the UK political fabric appears stronger and more resilient than our own I’m hit with this news: a return of Boris Johnson to Number 10 is rapidly emerging this morning as a real possibility. Johnson along with Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt (somehow not a Bond series name) appear to be the three contenders now.
Bannon Sentenced To Four Months In Prison For Contempt Of Congress
A D.C. federal judge sentenced Stephen K. Bannon to four months in prison on Friday for contempt of Congress, charges that stemmed from him dodging a subpoena issued by the January 6 committee last year.
Continue reading “Bannon Sentenced To Four Months In Prison For Contempt Of Congress”Are We Doing Worse than the Shambolic UK?
I’ve been dunking wildly on the on-going implosion of the British political system. I am going to continue to do so — both because I enjoy it and because “implosion” is an accurate representation of what has happened. But there’s one uncomfortable reality I need to address. Liz Truss came into power on the votes of a minuscule slice of the population which is traditionalist but marginal to the current UK — 70k or 80k mostly older white conservative men from Southern England. She pledged to defy reality with old school British tenacity. Everything blew up in her face and now after six weeks she’s out on her ass as the shortest tenured British PM in history. (Some say in three hundred years but people before 300 years ago weren’t PMs.)
Here’s my saying “hahahaha.” But let’s be clear that this is a political system working. Yes, shambolically and after years of dysfunction. But this is a political system working and one working in ways ours seems increasingly unable to.
Continue reading “Are We Doing Worse than the Shambolic UK?”Man Arrested By DeSantis’ Election Crimes Office Has His Case Dismissed
On Friday, one of the 20 formerly incarcerated Floridians arrested in August by Governor Ron DeSantis’ (R) Office of Election Crimes and Security on voter fraud charges has had his case dismissed.
Continue reading “Man Arrested By DeSantis’ Election Crimes Office Has His Case Dismissed”Trend Not Good
I really, really want to see it change. And it may change. We’re still two and a half weeks before Election Day. But I don’t think there’s much question now that there’s a late GOP surge in the polling data. You see this showing up clearly in the congressional generic ballot numbers. Hopefully, the Dems’ Senate majority can withstand that. There are still many advantages the Dems have in those handful of Senate races that will make a difference. We don’t know this is the last shift. And the polls remain close enough to make the assumptions of the pollsters as critical as last minute trends. But Democrats need to leave absolutely everything on the field.
Graham Ordered To Testify In Georgia DA Probe By Appeals Court
A three-judge panel on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday ordered Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to testify in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ investigation into ex-President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.
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