The House Rules Committee voted on Monday to advance the Jan. 6 Select Committees’s criminal contempt referrals of former Trump White House officials Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino to the full House.
Continue reading “House Rules Committee Votes To Advance Contempt Charges Against Navarro And Scavino”Where Things Stand: New Social Site About As Functional As His White House
Who could’ve seen this coming/Only the best people/You’re fired/etc.
I wrote earlier this year about the deliciously glitchy roll-out of former President Trump’s new social media app, which he created to spite Facebook and Twitter for daring to ban him after he used their platforms to incite his violent insurrection. Back in February, the Trump Media & Technology Group’s CEO (and former U.S. representative from California) Devin Nunes — who has also made a name for himself whining about Twitter and cows and left Congress to take on this Trump social task — predicted Trump’s new social site would need another month past its launch date to be fully functional.
But, it’s been more than a month since Truth Social weathered its disastrous debut. Things haven’t improved much.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: New Social Site About As Functional As His White House”Ohio Supreme Court Mulls Contempt For Top Republicans Amid Redistricting Power Grab
The most powerful politicians in Ohio are apparently willing to risk being held in contempt of court if it means they can pass state legislative maps gerrymandered in their own favor.
Continue reading “Ohio Supreme Court Mulls Contempt For Top Republicans Amid Redistricting Power Grab”Senate Judiciary Committee Ties On Jackson, Who Is Still On Track To Be Confirmed
The evenly-split Senate Judiciary Committee came to a tie vote Monday on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court, though she’s still securely on the path to confirmation.
Continue reading “Senate Judiciary Committee Ties On Jackson, Who Is Still On Track To Be Confirmed”Inspired By Bernie And BLM’s Pro-Union Talk, Unconventional Organizing Catches On
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April 1, 2022, may go down as a pivotal day in the history of American unions.
In a result that could reverberate in workplaces across the U.S., the independent Amazon Labor Union – first formed in 2020 by Chris Smalls, an Amazon worker fired for protesting what he saw as inadequate COVID-19 safety precautions – got the better of the previously successful anti-union efforts of the online retailer. It means that Smalls’ warehouse in Staten Island, New York, will be the first to have a unionized workforce.
Continue reading “Inspired By Bernie And BLM’s Pro-Union Talk, Unconventional Organizing Catches On”Kushner Showed Up, Was ‘Not Combative’ In Testimony To Jan. 6 Panel
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), a member of the Jan. 6 Select Committee, said Jared Kushner’s testimony before the panel last week was “precise” and anything but “volatile,” the bare minimum for the often-combative members of Trump’s inner circle.
Continue reading “Kushner Showed Up, Was ‘Not Combative’ In Testimony To Jan. 6 Panel”Biden Privately Skewered Rupert Murdoch As ‘Most Dangerous Man In The World,’ Book Says
President Joe Biden privately went in on Fox News and the right-wing media tycoon who chairs its parent company, Rupert Murdoch, according to CNN’s excerpt of an upcoming book by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns.
Continue reading “Biden Privately Skewered Rupert Murdoch As ‘Most Dangerous Man In The World,’ Book Says”Liveblog: Unchecked Trump Has Asked Putin For Political Dirt Again
Folks, it’s a pattern: Unchastened by the impeachment hearing against him for demanding domestic political dirt from foreign heads of state, Donald Trump did it again Tuesday, pressing Vladimir Putin for material on Hunter Biden in the middle of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“As long as Putin now is not exactly a fan of our country, let him explain — because Chris Wallace wouldn’t let me ask the question — why did the mayor of Moscow’s wife give the Bidens, both of them, three and a half million dollars?” Trump said in an interview. “I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it. I think we should know the answer. Now, you won’t get the answer from Ukraine.”
“I think Putin, now, would be willing to probably give that answer,” Trump added. “I’m sure he knows.”
What’s going on? Why is this happening again? We’ll get into it below.
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Trostyanets
The Times has this harrowing, disturbing report from Trostyanets. It’s a good, reported, observational piece on what happened. One key takeaway is that civilians describe the initial Russian occupying force as professional and agreeable enough. Eyewitnesses describe many of them as disoriented, not even quite sure why they were there. (Remember, the Russian soldiers apparently had very little advance warning they were actually going to war.) But as time went on they got antsy and started running low on supplies. That led to a cycle of looting and the tensions that follow from it. But things really went bad when this initial force was cycled out and replaced with Chechen separatist paramilitaries.