Marc Short, former Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, reportedly testified before the Jan. 6 committee following a subpoena, according to CNN.
Continue reading “Report: Marc Short Quietly Testified Before Jan. 6 Committee”The Sausage Making: House Democrats Gang Up To Remind Everyone They Still Care About Climate
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”Fresh Off The Phony Audit, Arizona GOP Legislators Have Big Plans For 2022
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”During Today’s UN Blow-Up, A Russian Official Made Revealing Remarks About What Moscow Says It Wants
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”Comic Relief
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”Durham Says He Forgot About Key Piece Of Evidence
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”‘Maus’ Tops Bestseller Lists After Tennessee School District Yanks It From Curriculum
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”CNN: Harris Drove Within Yards Of Pipe Bomb Near DNC Headquarters On Jan. 6
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”Obvious
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.
Trump Now Freely Admits He Wanted Pence To Overturn 2020 Election
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.
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