Beware Of The ‘Recent Monticello Visitor’

Getting outraged over Fox News holds little allure these days, but occasionally the network will do something so quintessentially Fox News that you have to sit back and marvel at the layers of mendacity.

Today’s little Fox News gem was a segment on what a huge bummer it is to visit Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello these days, what with all the focus on slavery and what not at what was built as a slave plantation.

A bow-tied, bespectacled guest for the segment was billed hilariously in one chyron as a “recent Monticello visitor.” Turns out there’s a little more to the story.

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Where Things Stand: Abortion May Be Directly On The Ballot In Michigan This Fall Too

A group of pro-abortion activists in Michigan have succeeded in collecting close to double the signatures necessary to get a question on the ballot this fall that, if approved by voters, would codify abortion rights into the state constitution.

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Barr Subpoenaed In Dominion’s Defamation Lawsuit Against Fox News

Former Attorney General Bill Barr has been subpoenaed in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit that Dominion Voting Systems has brought against Fox News, according to court records.

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Father Of Parkland Victim Interrupts WH Event On New Gun Law. Biden: ‘Let Him Talk’

The father of one of the students killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018 interrupted President Biden during an event at the White House on Monday commemorating the new modest gun reform law that passed with bipartisan support.

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GOPer Cites Successful Drug Bust At Border As Proof Biden Allows Drugs To Enter US

Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) was positively outraged on Sunday to hear about recent drug busts at the southern border, which is, as she claimed, somehow hard evidence that President Joe Biden’s administration is encouraging biological warfare on the U.S.

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Right-Wing Think Tank Family Research Council Is Now A Church In Eyes Of The IRS

This article was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.

The Family Research Council’s multimillion-dollar headquarters sit on G Street in Washington, D.C., just steps from the U.S. Capitol and the White House, a spot ideally situated for its work as a right-wing policy think tank and political pressure group.

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The Rule of Law Requires Constraining a Corrupted High Court

Late last week as we were discussing Roe, the corruption of the Court and various avenues to constrain that corruption, I got a series of emails from TPM Reader lawyers experiencing what amounts to a crisis of faith in the assumptions of their profession. They were remarkably similar. It was clear the debate had struck a very particular nerve.

So, for instance, TPM Reader SB wrote saying he entirely agrees with the need to codify Roe and if necessary take further steps to constrain the Court if they then strike down such a codification. But then he added this.

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Trump And Co. Seize On Wisconsin Ruling As PROOF 2020 Election Was Rigged

The conservative majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that ballot drop boxes were illegal in the state, and it didn’t take long for right wing election lie evangelists to declare the decision proof of a fraudulent 2020 vote, and even to demand again that the election results be overturned.

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Texas GOPers Threaten Law Firm For Funding Employees’ Abortion Travel

A group of Texas state House lawmakers called the Texas Freedom Caucus sent a letter to a law firm in Dallas last week threatening “consequences” over the firm’s decision to reimburse employees for the costs of out-of-state travel to obtain an abortion.

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