TIL what a “hoser” is.
In Canadian pop-culture, it’s a term used to describe the type of personality that former president Trump tends to embody — the brand of bombastic extremism that makes up the personality of people who currently occupy the center of the Canadian populism movement: think loud, uncouth and skeptical of facts, precedent and the government in general.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: ‘Hoser-Extremism’ And The Rob Ford –> Canadian Anti-Vax Trucker Protest Trajectory”Fresh off her arrest last week, Tina Peters, the Republican clerk of Mesa County, Colorado who pushed former President Trump’s Big Lie, on Monday announced her bid to become the state’s top elections official.
Continue reading “Trumpy Colorado County Clerk Launches Bid For State’s Top Elections Official”Your intermittent briefing on the reconciliation negotiations that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) largely killed is now at least briefly back for an update. What can I say — it’s Manchin’s world, we’re just living in it.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Monday pitted himself against his staunchest ally so far on all things stymying Democrats’ hopes and dreams: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ).
Continue reading “A Manchin-Sinema Tax Showdown In The Works?”Former President Trump’s longtime accounting firm has cut ties with Trump and his companies, according to a Monday court filing from New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Continue reading “Accounting Firm To Trump Org: You’re Fired”On Sunday evening, Ukrainian member of parliament Oleg Voloshyn got into his car and set out for Belarus.
Continue reading “In Ukraine, The Tension Is The Point”Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act on Monday afternoon amid ongoing protests in the country led by truckers opposed to a vaccine mandate.
The anti-vax demonstrators have shut down some major border crossings nationwide in recent days.
According to the CBC, Trudeau informed the premieres of his decision on Monday morning.
Continue reading “Trudeau Invokes Emergency Powers To Quell Canadian Trucker Protests”This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.
Those in Congress who are blocking President Biden’s proposed child tax credit — a monthly federal stipend for families with children of up to $300 per child — have been making a curious claim of late. They’ve been saying that there is already a highly effective cash assistance program for low-income parents and kids: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF.
Continue reading “Welfare Is No Substitute For A Child Tax Credit”This (below) is a tweet from over the weekend from the Russian Embassy in South Africa. It’s an example of the dynamic I was talking about yesterday. U.S. diplomats have apparently told NATO allies, based on U.S. intelligence, that Russia had set February 16th, Wednesday, as a possible or probable invasion date. This is at least consistent with various moves by the U.S. and NATO allies over recent days — pulling out dependents, canceling civilian flights and such. Here Russia is denying it has any plans to invade on Wednesday and claims that the warnings are part of a U.S. plot to create a provocation which justifies NATO military action inside Ukraine. This is the kind of wrong-footing I’m talking about.
Continue reading “Not Bad”Former Republican National Committee chair and Montana Gov. Marc Racicot issued an open letter to current RNC chair Ronna McDaniel on Sunday slamming the committee’s censure of Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL).
Continue reading “Ex-RNC Chair Blasts The Cheney/Kinzinger Censure In Scathing Letter To McDaniel”Former Trump legal adviser John Eastman is attempting to shield thousands of his old work emails from the House Jan. 6 Committee on the basis of attorney-client privilege, according to his latest motion filed on Sunday in his lawsuit against the committee.
Continue reading “Eastman Trying To Claim Attorney-Client Privilege Over Thousands Of Emails”
