Your intermittent update on how Build Back Better negotiations are going.
A group of House Democrats from both the progressive and moderate wings of the party came together Monday to remind reporters that, yes, they still want to pass climate legislation.
Continue reading “The Sausage Making: House Democrats Gang Up To Remind Everyone They Still Care About Climate”Arizona Republicans, despite an embarrassing “audit” of the 2020 election results and the national mockery that followed, are back at it: The new legislative session has shown that the state will, once again, be at the forefront of the effort to restrict voting rights and champion the lie that 2020’s results were somehow tainted.
Continue reading “Fresh Off The Phony Audit, Arizona GOP Legislators Have Big Plans For 2022”Russian officials keep harping on one thing in the Ukraine crisis. And it came up again today, during a fiery blow-up between Russia’s and the U.S.’s ambassadors to the UN.
Continue reading “During Today’s UN Blow-Up, A Russian Official Made Revealing Remarks About What Moscow Says It Wants”We’ve discussed John Durham’s crooked and parodic investigation into the “origins” of the Russia probe a number of times before. It’s shaping up to have the outlines of the notorious special counsel investigations (technically office of independent counsel investigations) that led to the old independent counsel law being allowed to lapse in the late 1990s. Durham’s probe into the “origins” of the Russia probe has now gone almost a year longer than the Mueller probe itself.
As Josh Kovensky notes here, last week Durham revealed in a court filing that he had obtained new documents he’d never seen before relevant to his prosecution of Michael Sussman, who he indicted last year for lying to to the FBI. Then on Sunday Durham dropped a new filing in which he admitted that in fact he’d been told about the documents back in 2018.
Continue reading “Comic Relief”In a late Friday-night court filing, Special Counsel John Durham made a strange admission: he had already seen a key piece of evidence, in 2018, that he claimed not to have known about until last week.
Continue reading “Durham Says He Forgot About Key Piece Of Evidence”Award-winning graphic novel “Maus” by Art Spiegelman, which depicts the atrocities experienced by Jews imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps, topped Amazon’s best-seller list over the weekend in the aftermath of a Tennessee school district’s unanimous vote to remove it from middle school curricula.
Continue reading “‘Maus’ Tops Bestseller Lists After Tennessee School District Yanks It From Curriculum”Then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was only a hair’s breadth away from danger on the day of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, law enforcement officials told CNN.
Continue reading “CNN: Harris Drove Within Yards Of Pipe Bomb Near DNC Headquarters On Jan. 6”Over the weekend ex-President Trump suggested he’d pardon the various insurrectionists now either facing charges or serving time for their role in the January 6th insurrection. He’s also increasingly open in justifying his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Those promised pardons are better seen as inducements to future acts than anything directed at those involved in January 6th.
In case the true purpose of MAGAland’s January 2021 Pence election-pressure campaign wasn’t already clear up until this point, former President Donald Trump helpfully spelled it out in no uncertain terms on Sunday.
Continue reading “Trump Now Freely Admits He Wanted Pence To Overturn 2020 Election”A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who’s investigating Trump’s 2020 election meddling, sent a letter to the FBI special agent in charge of the Atlanta field office on Sunday asking for extra security, per CNN.
During the Texas rally on Saturday, the ex-president vowed to treat the insurrectionists “fairly” — “and if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons.”
House Jan. 6 Committee vice chair Liz Cheney (R-WY)’s response:
The new New York congressional district map unveiled by the state’s Democrat-controlled legislature on Sunday could give Democrats three more House seats while wiping out four GOP-held seats, shifting the New York delegation’s current Democrat-Republican ratio of 19-8 to 22-4 (the Empire state lost a seat in the 2020 census tally).
(TPM New York readers, just imagine a Republican trying to hold a campaign rally in Park Slope.)
ABC News came out with a new survey revealing that 23 percent of Americans want Biden to stick to his promise to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court, while 76 percent of Americans want Biden to consider “all possible nominees.” BREAKING:
A Washington State trooper died from COVID-19 several months after declaring over the police radio transmission that state Gov. Jay Inslee (D), who had established a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, “can kiss my ass.”
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R), who chairs the National Governors Association (NGA), told Insider during a NGA meeting on Saturday that he doesn’t believe Trump is “the one to lead our party and our country again, as president.”
Two nurses in Long Island, New York were arrested last week over an alleged scheme where they would forge COVID-19 vaccine cards at $220 a pop for adults ($85 for kids). They allegedly made more than $1.5 million between Nov. 2021 and Jan. 2022, according to prosecutors.
North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem (R) died at the age of 68 on Friday after he was taken to the hospital that day, according to his office. Stenehjem’s exact cause of death hasn’t been revealed, but his brother said the official had fallen on Friday and was dealing with an ulcer.
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