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| Good News: S1 Goes To Senate Floor On Tuesday. Bad News: It Will Die By Filibuster That Day. Schumer is going to put S1 — the Senate version of the For The People Act- up for a vote in the Senate on Tuesday, and he will let it be open to amendments like the ones Joe Manchin wants. That’s good news. Unfortunately, S1 will never get voted on... |
Merlin196357 | 06/18/2021 | 14 |
| A one-time 'patriot tax' to rebuild America is a good idea not likely to happen New York Democratic Rep. Thomas Suozzi has an idea. It's just the beginnings of the idea, but it's an idea. Given how extraordinarily well America's wealthiest people did during a global pandemic ... |
Hunter | 06/18/2021 | 49 |
| News Roundup: Biden meets Putin; Fox defends insurrection with yet another conspiracy theory In the news today: President Biden had his first meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, and it went ... pretty much as expected. Senate Democrats are preparing to use reconciliation rules to ... |
Hunter | 06/16/2021 | 28 |
| Biden-Putin meeting was 'constructive,' but no diplomatic breakthroughs President Joe Biden met as scheduled today with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and there wasn't much in the way of fireworks. Putin's tone in his post-meeting press conference had considerably less "smug asshole having a good time" on his face than... |
Hunter | 06/16/2021 | 63 |
| News Roundup: Texas grid again in trouble; insurrection evidence piles up as Republicans block probe In the news today: Newly released emails show that Trump and his staff leaned hard on his Justice Department to provide justification for overturning the election Trump had just lost. As Texas prepares for a big summer heat wave, Texas electricity... |
Hunter | 06/15/2021 | 25 |
| An Interesting Take On The Bipartisan Infrastructure Negotiations From Yahoo Finance. According to a senior columnist at Yahoo Finance, the “bipartisan negotiations” on an infrastructure deal are nothing but a scam. Why this sounds like a very cynical read of what is going on in our useless U.S. Senate, it also gave me some hope. Yes,... |
Merlin196357 | 06/15/2021 | 4 |
| Forced to apologize for past remarks, Marjorie Taylor Greene speedruns the Holocaust Museum On Monday, Republican conspiracy theorist and friend to congressional sex trafficking Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene visited the Holocaust Museum. By "visited the Holocaust Museum," we mean "allegedly spent a bit of time inside, returned to the Capitol,... |
Hunter | 06/15/2021 | 74 |
| News Roundup: Senate still stalled; G7 promises; ICE propaganda office scrapped In the news today: The G7 nations agree to steep cuts in carbon emissions, but offer few details on how to reach that goal. The Senate continues to vigorously and self-importantly do nothing. And ... |
Hunter | 06/14/2021 | 9 |
| Still more evidence that COVID-19 is on its way to becoming a predominantly Republican disease Vying for least surprising news of the day are two extremely unsurprising news stories, both about the pandemic. Try to contain your non-surprise, please, no matter how difficult it may get. The first story is from The Washington Post, and uses data to... |
Hunter | 06/14/2021 | 408 |
| Is Attorney General Garland Starting To Clean Out Trump Vipers At DOJ? John Demers "Steps Down." The NYT is reporting that the head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division is “stepping down.” According to the Times, John Demers (the head of this division) would have known all about the DOJ obtaining metadata from Apple to look for... |
Merlin196357 | 06/14/2021 | 52 |
| G7 makes big climate pledges, but the details are lacking While many hoped the return of United States competence would swiftly translate into bold international climate action, the results of the G7 summit are mixed. On one hand, the G7 nations made a new promise to cut carbon emissions in half before the... |
Hunter | 06/14/2021 | 23 |
| News Roundup: Space tourism; Michigan shooting; Lara Trump tells border conservatives to 'arm up' In the news today: Revelations of Department of Justice data collection not just against Congress, but Trump's own White House lawyer. A Michigan man who shot a 6 year old child on his lawn had his ... |
Hunter | 06/13/2021 | 29 |
| Did You Hear About The Latest "Bipartisan" Infrastructure Plan? Spoiler: It Sucks. Details have yet to come out, but those 10 U.S. Senators who are part of the “bipartisan” group to forge an infrastructure bill have produced another POS plan .��
A bipartisan group of 10 ... |
Merlin196357 | 06/11/2021 | 23 |
| News Roundup: Lafayette Square report doesn't match evidence; Jan. 6 was 'tip of the iceberg' In the news today: A Trump-appointed inspector general's claims that the gassing of peaceful protesters had nothing to do with a planned Trump publicity stunt is at odds with known facts. ... |
Hunter | 06/10/2021 | 18 |
| Actual election experts challenge incompetent Arizona 'audit' team: 'Put up or shut up' As the Republican so-called "audit" of Maricopa County's election results slithers its way to an eventual close, actual election experts remain uniform in their belief that the weirdos and conspiracy theorists assembled by inexpert company "Cyber... |
Hunter | 06/10/2021 | 151 |
| Biden EPA to reverse Trump-era weakening of clean water rules, but won't return to Obama version The Biden administration is rolling back another Republican gift to polluters with an Environmental Protection Agency announcement that the Trump administration's repeal of the Waters of the United States rule, crafted during the Obama administration,... |
Hunter | 06/10/2021 | 23 |
| Joe Manchin Will Switch Parties If We Do Not Cater To Him? He Would Not Survive A GOP Primary. Senator Joe Manchin — the bane of progressive Democrats�—�will not switch parties and become a Republican.� The Media, the likes of Claire McCaskill, and some on Daily Kos swear if we are not ... |
Merlin196357 | 06/10/2021 | 193 |
| News Roundup: Two government reports dodge accountability for Trump era violence In the news today: The Keystone XL pipeline project is dead, for now.�As the Senate releases a report on the Jan. 6 insurrection so focused on avoiding Republican ire as to be useless, a Trump-... |
Hunter | 06/09/2021 | 15 |
| Keystone XL pipeline project dead, its backers announce In January, the new Biden administration revoked a Trump-era permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, a long-proposed pipe linking Canadian tar sands to Gulf Coast refineries and shipping hubs. The project was considered by climate watchdogs to be an... |
Hunter | 06/09/2021 | 43 |
| Report claims police did not clear Lafayette Park for Trump photo op, despite your eyes and ears With a report that borders on gaslighting, U.S. Department of the Interior Inspector General Mark Greenblatt announced a bizarre finding that the violent clearing of Lafayette Park mere minutes before Donald Trump marched through the area for a brief... |
Hunter | 06/09/2021 | 110 |
| Moscow Mitch Continues The Humiliation of Joe Manchin, And Schumer Needs To Finish The Job. Actually, I don’t think that Joe Machin can be humiliated because he is like a Republican in one regard: he has no shame. But that is not stopping Moscow Mitch from publicly slapping Joe Manchin’s left cheek. Mitch has loudly and proudly stated that he... |
Merlin196357 | 06/09/2021 | 6 |
| Joe Biden is headed to Europe, where he is not expected to demand golf stays or insult allies President Joe Biden is traveling to Europe Wednesday, kicking off his first foreign trip as president. The itinerary is robust: It will kick off with the three-day G7 summit, jet to Brussels for NATO meetings, and cap things off by meeting in Geneva... |
Hunter | 06/09/2021 | 36 |
| News Roundup: American billionaires don't pay taxes; tapes show Giuliani's role in Ukraine extortion In the news today: A new leak reveals the tax bills of American billionaires, and surprise—they’re�effectively nothing. The Biden White House is distancing itself�from a widely blasted Justice ... |
Hunter | 06/08/2021 | 30 |
| Modern Day Seance With WV Robert Byrd: Joe Manchin Is Full of It On The Filibuster. I’m calling out. I feel a presence in the room from the spirit world. One of the dearly departed. I hear a voice. It’s faint, but I think I hear a name. Is that you Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia? Oh Joe Manchin we have made a contact... |
Merlin196357 | 06/08/2021 | 2 |
| Oregon Republican faces likely expulsion after more video surfaces of plot to storm state Capitol It's looking to be a near-certainty that Oregon state Rep. Mike Nearman will be expelled from the state's House of Representatives now that a new video has surfaced of Nearman helping plan an invasion of the state Capitol by pandemic anti-lockdown... |
Hunter | 06/08/2021 | 46 |
| Texas governor signs law further upending pandemic safety measures, calls it 'freedom' On Monday, the compulsively ambitious Texas Gov. Greg Abbott responded to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' repeated moves to scrap public safety for Republican freedom-burping with his own attempt. Claiming that "Texans should have the freedom to go where... |
Hunter | 06/08/2021 | 56 |
| News Roundup: The Senate remains paralyzed; Trump returns to stoke new hoaxes and delusions In the news today: Joe Manchin, still. As Republicans nationwide continue to tighten voting restrictions and grant themselves new powers to reject vote totals, the Senate remains seemingly incapable ... |
Hunter | 06/07/2021 | 22 |
| Claire McCaskill and Jake Sherman Tell Us To Grow Up About Wanting to Kill The Filibuster. Today’s�White House Deadline show on MSNBC�was a nice slap in the face for me and anybody else who sees the U.S. Senate filibuster as a detriment to our democracy.� I have to thank Nicole Wallace ... |
Merlin196357 | 06/07/2021 | 28 |
| Even federal judges are referencing far-right conspiracy theories to overturn our laws It should be noted, yet again, that being an actual, bonafide judge in the United States of America requires no qualifications whatsoever. You either are appointed as a judge or win an election to become one, and the rest is filler to be worked out by... |
Hunter | 06/07/2021 | 146 |
| Masks could have stopped the pandemic—if Trump hadn't made them a partisan litmus test In a new exclusive, Axios is able to again report that, by golly, wearing a mask during a global pandemic does indeed work pretty well, go figure, which is the same conclusion that health professionals settled on once it was clear we were dealing with... |
Hunter | 06/07/2021 | 237 |
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