As we go into the weekend, a few updates on the overnight attack at the Pelosi home in San Francisco.
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U.S. District Court Judge Michael Liburdi refused to issue a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction against Clean Elections USA, the right-wing organization that has organized an effort to monitor ballot drop boxes across Arizona, inspired by the conspiracy theory film 2000 mules. The group is behind various complaints of voter intimidation in Arizona this past week.
Continue reading “Federal Judge Allows Conservative Group To Continue Surveilling Drop Boxes In Arizona”Youngkin Turns Pelosi Attack Into Political Punchline At Campaign Stop
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) appeared to make light of the violent attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D) husband at a Friday campaign stop.
Continue reading “Youngkin Turns Pelosi Attack Into Political Punchline At Campaign Stop”Pelosi Targeted
Just to bring us all up to speed, rapidly emerging details appear to show that the overnight attack on Speaker Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, was politically motivated and targeted Speaker Pelosi herself, who was not at home at the time of the attack. According to reporters briefed on the investigation, the hammer-wielding intruder shouted “Where is Nancy? Where is Nancy?”
We will take this story one step at a time and update you as we learn more. But the general outlines of what did happen and could have happened look more and more clear.
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John Eastman asked a federal judge on Thursday to please take back his finding that the Trump lawyer likely misled a federal judge during the effort to overturn the 2020 election.
Continue reading “Eastman Begs Judge To Reconsider Crime-Fraud Ruling”Exxon Chief: We’re Getting Rich on Behalf of the American People
Faced with calls to share the oil industry’s 2022 windfall with the American people, Exxon CEO Darren Woods says he’s doing just that — in the form of a big dividend payout to shareholders. No really. I’m not kidding. “There has been discussion in the U.S. about our industry returning some of our profits directly to the American people,” says Exxon Chief Executive Officer Darren Woods. “That’s exactly what we’re doing in the form of our quarterly dividend.”
Continue reading “Exxon Chief: We’re Getting Rich on Behalf of the American People”How A Conspiracy-Theorizing Documentary Fueled A Wave Of Voter Intimidation In Arizona
On Monday, October 17, a little after sunset, a couple went to deposit their ballots at a drop box near a courthouse in Mesa, Arizona. As they approached the box, they noticed that a group of people was “hanging out” nearby, according to a complaint they later filed through the secretary of state’s website.
Continue reading “How A Conspiracy-Theorizing Documentary Fueled A Wave Of Voter Intimidation In Arizona”Report: Ukraine War Hastens Energy Transition And Dooms Russia to Permanent Decline
The Russo-Ukraine war has spurred a vast and sustained increase in energy prices and threatens possibly severe shortages of heating fuel this winter in Europe. The United States, while committed as a matter of policy to a clean energy transition, is nevertheless pressing various global producers to ramp up production of oil and gas. But the newly released annual World Energy Outlook report from the International Energy Agency suggests these present crises mask a more profound and lasting impact.
In short, the Ukraine war looks likely to become an inflection point accelerating the global energy transition. As the energy sector publication Energy Intelligence summarizes the report, the 2022 crisis is driving three main effects: “an accelerated energy transition, the end of Russia as the world’s pre-eminent fossil fuel power costing Moscow some $1 trillion in revenues to 2030, and an end to what has been a golden age for gas.”
You can read the executive summary of the report here.
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Pelosi’s Husband In Hospital After Assault At California Home
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) husband, Paul Pelosi, is in the hospital after being attacked in their San Francisco home early Friday morning.
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