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Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon must report to prison by Monday after the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute appeal on contempt of Congress charges.
The Supreme Court did not issue an opinion about Trump's immunity today. That means that the court has held this issue, preventing the trial from going forward, for literally as long as they possibly could.
You will meet a new neighbor who says that she's equally disgusted with both candidates. Say, "I don't have the luxury of any choice. One team encourages violence against those like me and the other team affirms my equal rights."
I'm pleased that #Biden put in such an awful performance in the debate.
Let's face it, he was never going to beat #Trump in the election anyway.
At least this way, the Democrats still have time to find a younger candidate, hopefully untainted by genocide support, before the election, as long as Biden can be talked into going off to enjoy a well-earned retirement. If he has any sense at all he'll be thinking very seriously about just that.
The #Debate was an odd mirror of the current state of the internet.
On one side there was an LLM extremely confidently spewing made-up bullshit with airs of speaking with authority, and on the other were the slowly withering dregs of actual useful information, getting increasingly difficult to find amidst all the aggressive SEO and clickbait.
Maybe I'm jaded, but I can't help but think this #SCOTUS ruling had some con justices favoring the #Biden admin in their attempt to decrease social media #mininformation so that a possible #Trump administration can point to this to encourage companies to keep false information in their favor online.
The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed by Louisiana and Missouri accusing the White House of violating the First Amendment by urging social media sites to limit false or misleading information online.
House GOP changed the rules to prevent anyone from mentioning that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies, that he was found liable of sexual abuse and defamation, that he has been indicted for various crimes (such as inciting an insurrection, refusing to return government secrets, as well as asking Georgia to "find" votes to overturn its election). IOW, hiding facts. 🙄
"House Republicans bar any mention of Trump's felon status on House floor"
If your sole source of information was limited to the reading the day-to-day proceedings of our elected Representatives as they perform their sworn duties within the House chamber, you might never realize that the leader of the Republican party is a.
'You’d be in jail': Trump VP hopeful slammed for claiming 'we’re living under a dictatorship'
North Dakota Governor Doug Bergum was confident in his ability to become the 2024 GOP nominee over Donald Trump. Now, he's not only vying to be the former president's running mate, but he's a top contender.
In his effort to secure his spot as Trump's VP, Bergum is slamming President Joe Biden's leadership in the process.
During a Wednesday Fox News interview, the Republican leader said, "Under Joe Biden, we're actually living under a dictatorship today," the Republican governor said, "where he's bypassing Congress on immigration policy, he's bypassing Congress on protecting our border, he's bypassing Congress on student loan forgiveness — he's defying the Supreme Court. I mean, that's what dictators and authoritarians do is they don't follow our Democratic processes, they just assert their own liberal view."
An authoritarian is someone who amasses power to amass more power, often exploiting gray areas in the law to do it — or ignoring the ru
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'You’d be in jail': Trump VP hopeful slammed for claiming 'we’re living under a dictatorship'
North Dakota Governor Doug Bergum was confident in his ability to become the 2024 GOP nominee over Donald Trump. Now, he's not only vying to be the former president's running mate, but he's a top contender.
In his effort to secure his spot as Trump's VP, Bergum is slamming President Joe Biden's leadership in the process.
During a Wednesday Fox News interview, the Republican leader said, "Under Joe Biden, we're actually living under a dictatorship today," the Republican governor said, "where he's bypassing Congress on immigration policy, he's bypassing Congress on protecting our border, he's bypassing Congress on student loan forgiveness — he's defying the Supreme Court. I mean, that's what dictators and authoritarians do is they don't follow our Democratic processes, they just assert their own liberal view."
An authoritarian is someone who amasses power to amass more power, often exploiting gray areas in the law to do it — or ignoring the rule of law outright. In some senses of the definition, Trump fits the mold, says Meredith McGehee, a government ethics expert who formerly headed the bipartisan political reform group Issue One. For example: Trump ignored dozens of court rulings saying he had lost the 2020 election as he tried to stay in power anyway.
This is one of the many Biden climate response initiatives that will be immediately unwound under a second Trump administration. I'm exaggerating when I say I am a single-issue voter in this election, but not by very much.
"Author says he has cognitive questions about #Trump after interviewing him six times Journalist and author #RaminSetoodeh has interviewed former President Trump six times since Trump left the White House. In an interview with CNN's #KaitlanCollins, #Setoodeh says Trump's struggled with his memory and appeared to still believe he had foreign policy powers."
Monday afternoon Gov. Walz will ceremonially sign a bill into law what’s known as the Minnesota Debt Fairness Act. The bill will ban medical providers from withholding care from patients with unpaid medical bills.
Progressive political commentator, #ThomHartman 1) should have named his excellent summary piece, The Dark Side of Politics: The GOP's MAGA Lie Machine, #TheStateOfTheUnion instead.
And what a sad state it is, indeed. Never since the end of the #CivilWar has #US #democracy been so embattled. Never since WWII and the downfall of the #fascist, #DeutschesReich controlled #AmericaFirst Party has the truth fallen victim to such...
...knowledge and writing skills, I' love to write a book in the style of #AlternateHistory, where #LyndonBJohnson, a grandmaster of backroom deals and finding morning majorities, would clash with #HenryClay, #TheGreatCompromiser, and one...
...it became clear to me that he has been the political #SunTzu of the #US Senate. Initially not having the hard power for direly needed reform, #Johnson managed to transform the "upper chamber" representing the "states rights" into a masterpiece of...
...and was utterly captivated by this book. Lyndon B. Johnson, a #US president before my time, had initially seemed rather lackluster. Reading MASTER of the Senate,...
"Over the last month, you can feel that something important has happened. 👉A tipping point has been reached.👈 Republicans who used to act like they had not heard or read the latest #Trump outrage now show up at his trials and parrot his most vile lies. The #GOP now openly extol the virtues of political prosecutions and disparage the rule of law.”
Progressive political commentator, #ThomHartman 1) should have named his excellent summary piece, The Dark Side of Politics: The GOP's MAGA Lie Machine, #TheStateOfTheUnion instead.
And what a sad state it is, indeed. Never since the end of the #CivilWar has #US #democracy been so embattled. Never since WWII and the downfall of the #fascist, #DeutschesReich controlled #AmericaFirst Party has the truth fallen victim to such...
My answer to that question is always that America's decline into vast inequity began in earnest with the presidency of Ronald Reagan and his free market, pro-deregulation, trickle-down bullshit.
“It certainly seems like an issue that could be ripe for litigation because it’s right on its face discriminating against people for sexual orientation or #transgender status.”
@Snowshadow @Jeramee
#USpol #Economics
#MAGAnomics #MustReads
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...when right-wing economist, #Repubican economics strategist, and later-day #NobelLaureate #JamesBuchanan founded what would layer be known as the #VirginiaSchool.
What a novel idea - don't vote for a Convicted Felon to be President of the United States!
The Politico/Ipsos survey found that 21 percent of independents said they are less likely to vote for Trump after the conviction, adding that the guilty verdict in Trump’s hush money case is very important to how they will vote in November #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking
"Long live October 7." That's what you're defending.
Here are hundreds of demonstrators in Lower Manhattan, celebrating the massacre of a thousand Jewish civilians. They're waving the flags of Hamas and Hezbollah, terrorist groups that explicitly aim to kill Jews everywhere in the world. Hezbollah once blew up a Jewish community center in Argentina.
How dare you and The New Republic claim this isn't #antisemitism? How dare you attack my president for condemning this hate?
Our top story: As the researchers proceeded to search for textiles, they realized they had stumbled onto a crime scene. A massive theft of pre-Columbian art reveals troubling truths about Texans’ role in the illicit antiquities trade. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-heist/
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