While watching the accelerating downward spiral of political personality Matt Gaetz, one might ponder the total lack of surprise.
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The "For the People Act" as been passed through the House for some time and now has to be considered by the Senate. Now it just has to overcome Mitch McConnell and the Koch interests.
Republicans have chosen consistently to narrow their platform to be less inclusive, and to continue to try to win elections by preventing people, especially minorities and poorer demographics from voting.
Former Trump attorney Sydney Powell now has to defend herself against a massive lawsuit brought by one of the voting technology companies she ranted against when trying to overturn the 2020 election results.
Michael Sherwin, the federal prosecutor who led the criminal investigation into the Capitol riot, said that evidence in the probe is “trending” toward sedition charges.
A strong argument could be made for the claim that many of Trump’s supporters are racist, and also probably for the claim that racists are more likely to support Trump than to support any other political leader.
A Superior Court judge in Maricopa County, Arizona on Monday ordered the Arizona Republican Party to pay more than $18,000 in attorneys’ fees which were incurred through the GOP’s lawsuits challenging the results of the 2020 election.
It’s certainly true that the U.S. Constitution doesn’t tell you that you have to wear a face mask. There are lots of things that the U.S. Constitution does not expressly forbid, including grand theft auto and murder.
Our hats are off to the amazing citizen volunteers who are documenting the actions of the January 6th insurrectionists at the Capitol Building.
Just because a person might seem to agree with you on one issue does not make them your friend. And the fact that someone disagrees with you on one issue should not make them your enemy.
People needing to buy prescription drugs in the US are being robbed to a degree that can scarcely be imagined, in some cases we pay 10X what is charged in other countries for the same drugs, and by the same companies.
Let’s grant for the sake of argument that politicians don’t always tell the truth. It’s still necessary to recognize that there are different kinds of lies.
Yesterday web viewers were treated to a video of biblical proportions: a statue—if you could call it that—of Donald Trump, covered in gold and a weird hybrid American Flag/Lord Fauntleroy outfit being wheeled in at CPAC in Florida.
More ink and pixels are being expended every day over the nomination of Neera Tanden to run the Office of Management and Budget.
The basis of herd immunity is that a person cannot be infected twice by the same virus, so once someone has had the disease it will never happen again. But this assumption has not been proven.
People have a natural tendency to seek balance, and most of us would rather stand aside from a conflict than jump into it. One way to do that is to choose not to take sides. Sometimes that’s the right thing to do, sometimes it isn’t.