“You’re Telling Me That Thing Is Forged?”: The Inside Story of How Trump’s “Body Guy” Tried and Failed to Order a Massive Military Withdrawal (www.vanityfair.com)
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Danica Roem becomes Virginia’s first openly transgender state senator (thehill.com)
Virginia Democrat Danica Roem was projected to win her election Tuesday, according to Decision Desk HQ, becoming the commonwealth’s first openly transgender state senator and the first out transgender person elected to a state Senate anywhere in the South....
Georgia RICO judge reverses himself and unseals Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis' criminal dockets (lawandcrime.com)
The Georgia judge presiding over the 2020 election RICO case against former President Donald Trump and co-defendants who have yet to plead guilty has reversed himself on the issue of sealing the criminal case dockets of attorneys Sidney Powell, Ken Chesebro, and Jenna Ellis, and bail bondsman Scott Hall....
Mike Johnson urged a religious test for politicians (www.motherjones.com)
3 Expert Shoemakers Say Ron DeSantis Is Probably Wearing Height Boosters (www.politico.com)
Is this important journalism? No way. Is it funny as shit? I think so.
Donald Trump (still) can’t find Hungary on a map (www.politico.eu)
Less than a week after the former U.S. president confused Hungary and Turkey — calling Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán the leader of Turkey — Trump got Hungary’s borders all wrong....
Mike Johnson’s Wife Takes Down Website That Compared Being Gay To Bestiality, Incest (www.huffpost.com)
The Big Lie is expanding: Majority of Republicans now insist Trump never tried to overturn election (www.salon.com)
The GOP Frontrunner for Governor in North Carolina Posted a Lot of Antisemitic Stuff (www.motherjones.com)
The Republican frontrunner in North Carolina’s 2024 gubernatorial race made a slew of antisemitic comments over the past decade including sharing a quote that has been attributed to Adolf Hitler. The newly unearthed social media posts, first reported by Jewish Insider, also show Mark Robinson, the state’s lieutenant...
Well, We Have a Speaker. He’s an Election Denier and an Extreme Christian Fundamentalist. (newrepublic.com)
Republicans have at long last elected a House speaker: Representative Mike Johnson, a fundamentalist Christian who was also once called a key “architect” in Congress’s efforts to overthrow the 2020 election....
Oklahoma AG sues to stop publicly funded religious school: 'Waste of our tax dollars' (www.rawstory.com)
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond — a Republican — is bucking his own party in a new lawsuit aimed at preventing what would be the first publicly funded religious school in America from opening....
Judge in New York fraud trial threatens to jail Trump for violating gag order (www.nbcnews.com)
MAGA Influencers Tearing Each Other Apart Over Israel-Hamas War (www.rollingstone.com)
Senate Democrats introduce bill to implement term limits and biannual appointments to Supreme Court (www.washingtonexaminer.com)
Study: 100% of meat and dairy companies have lobbied against environmental and climate policies (medium.com)
All 10 of the largest U.S. meat and dairy companies have lobbied against environmental and climate policies, resisting climate regulations, including rules on greenhouse gases and emissions reporting. This is according to a study by New York University, which examined the political influence of the 10 largest meat and dairy...
Why the US is the only country that ties your health insurance to your job (www.vox.com)
Thousands of Jewish Americans and Allies Demand Cease-Fire in Gaza (www.commondreams.org)
US has seen increase in domestic threats since Hamas attacks in Israel, FBI says (www.theguardian.com)
The unsung hero of Trump’s fraud case: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (www.salon.com)
Authoritarians like Trump gain power by exploiting public cynicism. The more that voters believe that all politicians cheat the system, the more decent citizens will give up engaging meaningfully in politics at all. Eventually, the only people left in politics are the ones with no vision of a better world beyond a bitter desire...
Gaetz says he'd support raising motion-to-vacate threshold if GOP enacts Democrat’s reform plan (www.washingtonexaminer.com)
Have we entered the twilight zone?
Plant Milk Is Better For Us and the Climate. So Why Do We Subsidize Dairy? (www.motherjones.com)
Matt Gaetz’s father seeks return to Florida Senate (www.politico.com)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Don Gaetz, a former Republican state Senate president and father of MAGA firebrand GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz, is seeking a return to the Florida Legislature....
As a Presidential Candidate, Cornel West Aligns Himself With Far-Left Radicals (www.motherjones.com)
Cornel West, the celebrity academic (formerly of Harvard and Princeton), fiery antiracism campaigner, and current Green Party presidential candidate, has a long association with the Democratic Socialists of America, having served as the group’s honorary chairman. But as he campaigns for president, West is moving beyond the DSA...
Texas’ ban on certain drag shows is unconstitutional, federal judge says (www.texastribune.org)
