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FBI agents on Tuesday raided the home of a Trumpy Colorado county clerk already under state investigation after a leak of sensitive election information to a major QAnon influencer and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.
Continue reading “Feds Raid Home Of Trumpy Colorado Clerk Under Scrutiny After Election Data Leak”Messaging is generally the most overrated aspect of electoral politics. But it’s not nothing. And Democrats need to do better at it. I just wrote a way too long post on this. But it really comes down to this. President Biden has to learn a lesson from President Trump and brag more about the economy. A lot more. And do it consistently. In every public setting. And about COVID too.
Job reports have been up and down this year. But they’ve actually been consistently revised upward after the fact. That’s happened every month for the last six months for a total of 625,000 additional new jobs. In August the number doubled. But this gets drowned out. Revisions of earlier months don’t make headlines. That’s life. But the power of the presidency is to push these things to the front of the conversation.
Continue reading “You Have to Tell Your Story”Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL) had made absolutely clear that he did not approve of the bipartisan infrastructure bill (BIF) when it passed the House in early November, no sir!
Continue reading “GOP Rep Cheerfully Takes Credit For BIF After Voting Against It”A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things.
Former Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard (R), who is serving a 28-month prison sentence on felony ethics charges, allegedly schemed to have language added to a prison bill during the legislature’s special session in September that would lead to his release.
The House will vote to censure Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and strip him of his two committee assignments today over his violent video depicting him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
The FBI searched the home of Mesa County, Colorado Clerk Tina Peters on Tuesday in the investigation into her allegedly leaking 2020 election data that ended up in QAnon circles online.
Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL) is delighted to announce that the recently passed bipartisan infrastructure bill that he voted against and complained was “recklessly expensive” will fund his Northern Beltline project, which “will benefit the entire region and enhance economic development and employment opportunities.”
The U.S. government will hit the debt ceiling by Dec. 15, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen estimated yesterday.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has voted for only four of 118 Biden nominees on the Senate floor, fewer than any other GOP senator.
The lawyer who led House Democrats’ impeachment investigation into Trump’s Ukraine plot eons ago announced yesterday that he’s running for New York attorney general.
“Kyle Rittenhouse Is An American” – Gawker
“In Another Trump Book, a Journalist’s Belated Awareness Steals the Show” – The New York Times
The Food and Drug Administration plans to authorize Pfizer’s COVID-19 booster shot for all adults as soon as this Thursday.
The Los Angeles Staples Center is changing its name in a $700 million naming rights deal to … Crypto.com Arena, as in the cryptocurrency platform for exchanging Bitcoin and other digital currencies.
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The far-right’s push to make America the Wild West again continues.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: There’s Now A Bounty On Teachers Who Dare To Touch Race Issues In Classroom”Democrats have two inflation problems on their hands: a real one, and an imaginary one.
Continue reading “Other Democratic Senators Not Buying Manchin’s Inflation Swoon”Over the last half dozen years the rightist-populist (shorthand: Trumpist) war on expertise has created a highly polarized conversation about the role of expertise in democratic public life. But the debate about booster shots shows how those of us who are on Team Expertise have perhaps slightly overshot in this contentious public conversation. Or perhaps ‘overshot’ isn’t the right word. It shows how once we set aside conversations with idiots and bullshit artists there are real nuances, as there always has been, in the balance between expertise and democratic self-governance.
Let’s start by making a few points clear. Especially in the hard sciences we really should defer to people with professional expertise. Not sign off all decision-making, mind you, but really show great deference to the organized and systematic accumulation of knowledge which is a centerpiece – perhaps the centerpiece – of our civilization. The question is often on what questions specifically is the expertise relevant?
Here’s where you get to the booster question.
Continue reading “Boosters and Expertise”Iowa’s governor used federal COVID relief funds to pay her own staff’s salaries and cover a pre-existing budget shortfall, the state’s auditor said in a report released Monday.
Continue reading “Iowa Guv Used COVID Money To Pay Her Own Staff, Audit Reveals”The latest from the jury deliberations in Kenosha.
ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl’s upcoming book, “Betrayal,” reveals more eye-popping details on ex-Trump adviser Michael Flynn and his lawyer, Sidney Powell, urging the use of the U.S. military to steal the election for then-President Donald Trump–by going directly to the Defense Department and peddling wacky conspiracy theories about voter fraud.
Continue reading “New Deets On Flynn And Powell’s Batsh*t Attempts To Get Military To Overturn Election”
