Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Tuesday evening aired a death threat she received as a voicemail while urging House Republican leaders to take action against “anti-Muslim hatred.”
This all comes after days of outrage over Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) refusal to publicly apologize to Omar for insinuating that the Minnesota Democrat is a terrorist.
Continue reading “Omar Plays Recording Of Graphic Death Threat, Calls On GOP To Condemn Anti-Muslim Hatred”With all the rush of new news and information I wanted to flag something for your attention that is at least slightly under the media radar. All signs point to a strong Republican midterm election in 2022, with the House the better prospect for Republican control. That means Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy becomes Speaker. Or actually maybe it doesn’t. A bunch of Republicans have started making clear that’s not at all a sure thing.
Continue reading “Kevin McCarthy’s Never-Ending Dignity Loss Derby”The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in the case that could decide the fate of abortion rights in the United States. The case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, centers on a 15-week abortion ban out of Mississippi. The state and a chorus of conservative groups have urged the justices to overturn precedent guaranteeing abortion as a constitutionally protected right.
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Then-President Donald Trump went to his first debate with Democratic challenger Joe Biden in September just three days after testing positive for COVID-19, ex-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows writes in his upcoming book, “The Chief’s Chief.”
Continue reading “Trump Tested Positive For COVID Three Days Before Debate With Biden, Meadows Says”Not a terribly surprising stat but still noteworthy. Yale New Haven Hospital reports that 90% of their hospitalized COVID patients in recent months have been unvaccinated. What makes this so striking is that Connecticut is a super-highly vaccinated state. Among Connecticut residents over the age of 12, 83% are fully vaccinated and 94% have had at least one shot. In other words, there aren’t that many unvaccinated people in Connecticut to make up the 90%.
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Fox News had a whole segment yesterday decrying an apparent “shortage” of people pretending to be Santa Claus thanks to Joe Biden … somehow.
Maybe you could pass it off as Fox just doing a light segment on Christmas news, but the Republican National Committee highlighted the clip in earnest, so apparently it’s actually meant to be a political attack point???
The House Jan. 6 select committee interviewed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), whom Trump called in January to demand that the elections official magically “find” the votes needed for the then-president to steal the 2020 election from Biden, on Tuesday.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) took far-right shitstirrer Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) aside on Tuesday evening to tell her to lay off Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC)–only for Greene to emerge from the meeting telling CNN that she was still backing a primary challenge to Mace.
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The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in the case that could decide the fate of abortion rights in the United States. The case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, centers on a 15-week abortion ban out of Mississippi. The state and a chorus of conservative groups have urged the justices to overturn precedent guaranteeing abortion as a constitutionally protected right.
At least three people were killed and eight others were injured on Tuesday after a 15-year-old student in Michigan opened fire at his high school on Tuesday. It seems to be the deadliest school shooting in the U.S. in over 18 months.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who saw millions of Texans go without power after a snowstorm shut down the state’s electric grid in February, said last week that he “can guarantee the lights will stay on” this time thanks to legislation he signed requiring extra “weatherization” measures to protect the grid.
Republican Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt, a key Pennsylvania elections official who firmly pushed back against Trump’s election fraud lies and subsequently became a target of the ex-president’s wrath, plans to resign in January.
Several of the pro-Trump lawyer’s fundraising groups have been slapped with a grand jury subpoena for financial records in federal prosecutors’ newly reported criminal investigation digging into the organizations.
After siccing his supporters on the Capitol on Jan. 6, Trump didn’t get a classified intelligence briefing that day or any other day for the rest of his presidency, according to the CIA.
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CNN on Tuesday announced that anchor Chris Cuomo has been suspended indefinitely from the network after the New York Attorney General’s office released documents that raised “serious questions” about his involvement in the defense of his brother, disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D).
Continue reading “CNN Suspends Chris Cuomo Indefinitely After Details On Involvement In Brother’s Defense Emerge”A Texas man who has been charged for his alleged participation in the Jan. 6 insurrection was just approved by the state Republican Party to run for a state House seat during the Republican primaries this spring. He is not alone in this endeavor.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: Another Alleged Jan 6 Rioter Runs For Office”Senate Democrats expressed fear and trepidation Tuesday as the Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments in the case that could ravage abortion access across the United States.
Continue reading “‘Inhumane, Unacceptable’: Democrats Rage Against Supreme Court Threat To Abortion Rights”Senators have returned from Thanksgiving recess to face an anxiety-inducing to-do list. It includes:
That’s not to mention the reconciliation package, which senators are still trying to pass before Christmas. Oh, and they’re currently scheduled to be gone on holiday recess from December 13 through the end of the year. Seems…daunting.
