The Jan. 6 Committee on Wednesday revealed another text from a Fox News host to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, sent in the wake of the deadly Capitol insurrection last year.
In this case, the sender was Laura Ingraham. The text in question appeared in the committee’s request for voluntary cooperation from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
Continue reading “Jan. 6 Committee Reveals Another Text From A Fox Host To Meadows”After President Joe Biden’s big voting rights speech in Georgia Tuesday, Senate Democrats are mapping out a strategy to hold votes on rules changes.
The obstacles — as they were in the beginning, are now and ever shall be, Amen — are Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ). Manchin has expressed openness to small technical changes to the filibuster; it’s unclear where Sinema is, aside from recently expressing support for the 60-vote threshold.
Expect a day of meetings with these two while we dig for clues to illuminate Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) plans. Schumer has promised a rules vote no later than Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, on Monday.
The House Jan. 6 Committee sent a letter on Wednesday asking House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for information about the insurrection.
Continue reading “Jan. 6 Committee Requests Info From Minority Leader McCarthy”One area of policy where I hoped the new Biden administration would excel was in its handling of the pandemic, but it has not done so. It wasn’t prepared for either the Delta or Omicron variants; it failed initially to acknowledge waning vaccine immunity and delayed access to boosters; it still doesn’t have an accurate count nationally of infections; and its public messaging on masks, tests, and vaccines has been confusing and sometimes misleading. That was epitomized by a statement from acting Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Janet L. Woodcock in the Senate hearings yesterday.
Continue reading “The Administration’s Flawed COVID Messaging”Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) on Wednesday made a lame joke to distract from the severity of his state’s restrictive voting law a day after President Biden gave a speech urging the protection of voting rights in the state.
Continue reading “Kemp Pretends Karma Played A Role In Georgia Sports Wins After Backlash To Voting Laws”The federal probe into Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who is reportedly being investigated to determine whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old, has reached a key development, according to two new reports.
Continue reading “NBC: Gaetz’s Ex-Girlfriend Testifying In Front Of Grand Jury In Trafficking Probe”Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House chief medical adviser, clarified his comments made Tuesday — that the Omicron variant will “ultimately find just about everybody” — during a COVID-19 response press briefing on Wednesday.
Continue reading “Fauci Reiterates Omicron Will Infect Most. But That Doesn’t Necessarily Mean More Illness.”A leader of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen was sentenced to 84 months in prison on Tuesday over the group’s threat and intimidation campaign against reporters and Anti-Defamation League staff, according to the Justice Department.
Continue reading “Neo-Nazi Leader Slapped With 7-Year Sentence For Threatening Journos And Anti-Semitism Group”This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It first appeared at The Conversation.
The idea of community and who belongs and who does not was a common theme in the Jan. 7, 2022, sentencing hearing of three white men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery.
“They chose to target my son because they didn’t want him in their community,” said Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, during the hearing. “When they couldn’t sufficiently scare him or intimidate him, they killed him.”
Arbery was the 25-year-old unarmed Black man who was shot to death on Feb. 23, 2020, while jogging through a predominantly white, middle-class neighborhood in Brunswick, Georgia. Race went largely unspoken throughout the trial, but the idea of belonging was clearly drawn in black and white.
Continue reading “Ahmaud Arbery’s Murder Showed ‘Southern Hospitality’ Doesn’t Always Apply To Black People”Former President Donald Trump swiped at certain unnamed politicians on Tuesday for not revealing their COVID-19 vaccine booster status.
Continue reading “Trump Takes A Not-So-Subtle Shot At ‘Gutless’ GOPers Who Won’t Say Whether They Got Boosters”
