How Trump’s Justice Dept. Derailed an Investigation of a Major Company (www.nytimes.com)
#KatieBritt Is Exposed Even More As A Fake And Liar (digbysblog.net)
KatieBritt Is Exposed Even More...
Biden Polling: A Guide for the Perplexed (and the Freaked Out) (talkingpointsmemo.com)
Biden’s allies are begging him to fight harder. The State of the Union is his chance to do so. (www.cnn.com)
Will Aaron Bushnell’s Death Trigger Anarchism Witch Hunt? (theintercept.com)
Last Wednesday, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., former Army officer and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin asking why and how the Pentagon could tolerate an airman like Bushnell in its ranks. Calling his death “an act of horrific violence” that was “in support of a...
What Americans Need to Hear About Biden's Climate Record (www.distilled.earth)
Could the United States be headed for a national divorce (www.chathamhouse.org)
Could the blue states just ignore orders from the white house? Like if he orders them to round up illegal aliens? What could trump do about it?
'Disappointing': Biden's reference to 'an illegal' during SOTU upsets some Democratic allies (www.nbcnews.com)
Ad campaign targets conservative groups’ opposition to abortion, IVF (thehill.com)
So, my thought here is that I really feel like this should be leading the effort to get Joe Biden returned to office in 2025. This shit really does scare me – how efficiently the GOP has planned to do this shit, and how abjectly bad the Democrats are at bringing this up. Maybe it’s because I’m not a political campaign...
State of the Union Megapost!
Tonight, Thursday, March 7th, is the State of the Union Address so lets keep everything related to it (including the Republican response) confined to this thread....
Tlaib, Bush Raise 'Stop Sending Bombs' Signs as Biden Pledges More Aid for Gaza (www.commondreams.org)
Progressive Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush raised signs calling on President Joe Biden to “stop sending bombs” to the Israeli military as he pledged during his State of the Union address Thursday night to provide more humanitarian aid to Gazans and decried the war’s grisly death toll....
Senator Todd Young says he will not support Trump in 2024 (www.wevv.com)
Mark Robinson's Bizarre Ramble: 'I Absolutely Want To Go Back To The America Where Women Couldn’t Vote' (www.huffpost.com)
RNC installs Trump’s chosen leaders in merger with his campaign (wapo.st)
Biden Vows to ‘Save the Planet From the Climate Crisis’ | In his speech to Congress, the president spoke in sweeping terms about global warming, and contrasted his record with that of Donald Trump. (www.nytimes.com)
Florida Senate passes bill banning local heat protections for workers (thehill.com)
The 2017 Trump Tax Law Was Skewed to the Rich, Expensive, and Failed to Deliver on Its Promises (www.cbpp.org)
Columbia’s New “Antisemitism Task Force” Won’t Say What It Thinks Antisemitism Is (theintercept.com)
A recent listening session hosted by Columbia University’s new Task Force on Antisemitism devolved into chaos, with a task force leader yelling at students who questioned the group’s refusal to define “antisemitism,” according to sources at the university. Meanwhile, the school is preparing to spend up to $135,000 to...
Donald Trump has to raise a half billion dollars in a hurry | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
Schumer says Senate will pass spending bill and avert shutdown (www.reuters.com)
Katie Britt’s kitchen-table rebuttal to SOTU baffles fellow Republicans (www.washingtonpost.com)
the setting undermined Britt’s stature as a senator and questioned her halting, theatrical delivery. The speech swiftly began drawing jokes and parodies.
There is something wrong at the New York Times | From presidential polls to refusing to report on Trump’s stumbles, things aren’t adding up at the Gray Lady (www.salon.com)
The NYPD is using social media to target critics. That brings its own set of worries (apnews.com)
Michael Hallett, a professor of criminology at the University of North Florida who studied the effects of “Cops,” said he viewed the NYPD’s forays into social media as a natural response to a digital media ecosystem that rewards speed and sensationalism....
Trump allies on Republican National Committee want to help pay his legal bills (www.cnbc.com)
A growing number of Republican National Committee members believe its campaign arm should help pay mounting legal bills for former President Donald Trump, a move that could strain the party’s ability to financially support other candidates in the 2024 election.
Supreme Court will hear Trump presidential immunity argument April 25 (www.cnbc.com)
It could take months for the justices to issue an opinion. If they rule that the election case can go forward, Trump could be on trial shortly before the November presidential election.
