Whistleblower: GOP Investigators Didn’t Want to Hear Allegations of Russian Influence Over Rudy ( www.motherjones.com )
House Republicans really don’t want to hear from Rudy Giuliani....
The Dianne Feinstein Paradox ( www.politico.com )
James Haas was a San Francisco land use attorney, and a gay man who was not yet out in 1970, when he became an informal advisor to Dianne Feinstein....
Republican Group Running Anti-Trump Ads Finds Little Is Working ( www.nytimes.com )
A well-funded group of anti-Trump conservatives has sent its donors a remarkably candid memo that reveals how resilient former President Donald J. Trump has been against millions of dollars of negative ads the group deployed against him in two early-voting states....
Trump edges out Biden 51-42 in head-to-head matchup: POLL ( abcnews.go.com )
There was an article earlier about people smoking crack if they thing Trump is up 10 points....
Tensions erupt between McCarthy and Gaetz at closed-door House GOP meeting as shutdown nears | CNN Politics ( www.cnn.com )
MTG and Boebert Try to Out-Troll Each Other Days Away From a Shutdown ( www.thedailybeast.com )
With a government shutdown four days away, thanks largely to House Republicans’ inability to stop fighting amongst themselves, far-right Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert thought it important to focus on their pet grievances on Wednesday....
Kevin McCarthy Kills Bipartisan Senate Bill to Avert Shutdown ( www.thedailybeast.com )
Just four days out from a government shutdown, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has declared a bipartisan Senate stopgap measure dead on arrival....
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...
Why Are People Frightened That Kids Will Learn About Sex? ( www.currentaffairs.org )
Texas’ ban on certain drag shows is unconstitutional, federal judge says ( www.texastribune.org )
The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon Over an Economy-Wide "Hidden Tax" ( www.thebignewsletter.com )
Musk's X disabled feature for reporting electoral misinformation ( www.reuters.com )
I hate that they're calling it X now. Don't capitulate to billionaires!
Judge rules Donald Trump defrauded banks, insurers as he built real estate empire ( apnews.com )
Judge has ruled that Donald Trump committed fraud for years while building the real estate empire that catapulted him to fame and the White House....
Trump Tells Gun Store He’d Like to Buy a Glock, Raising Legal Questions ( www.nytimes.com )
Lauren Boebert Can’t Shake the Beetlejuice Debacle ( nymag.com )
It already didn’t look great for Lauren Boebert when she got kicked out of a Denver theater for being disruptive during a performance of the Beetlejuice musical — or when video emerged of the voluble Republican congresswoman being escorted out of the theater. But that was hardly the end of this saga. A second video showed...
Trump says Biden will be blamed for shutdown, urges GOP to dig in ( thehill.com )
Former President Trump urged Republicans to dig in as a shutdown looms over Washington, arguing Sunday that President Biden will take the blame if the federal government closes. Congress faces a Se…
The Open Plot to Dismantle the Federal Government ( www.theatlantic.com )
Of the many targets Donald Trump has attacked over the years, few engender less public sympathy than the career workforce of the federal government—the faceless mass of civil servants that the former president and his allies deride as the “deep state.”...
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who has long been one of Trump's biggest political targets, says he'll back the ex-president should he win the GOP nomination ( news.yahoo.com )
They're all falling in line...
MAGA rages over report Pentagon exempting Ukraine from government shutdown ( www.newsweek.com )
AOC joins calls for Bob Menendez to resign from Senate over corruption charges ( www.theguardian.com )
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is just the latest voice in a Democratic chorus calling for the New Jersey senator to leave office...
How the Rich Get Richer ( economicsfromthetopdown.com )
Back in 1983, Gordon Getty — then the richest American — was worth about 75,000 times the net worth of the median American. But by 2019, Jeff Bezos — the new number one — was worth an astonishing 2 million times the American median net worth. This, my friends, is what we call filthy rich.
A new Supreme Court case could trigger a second Great Depression ( www.vox.com )
America’s Trumpiest court handed down a shockingly dangerous decision. The Supreme Court is likely, but not certain, to fix it....
Joe Biden to join picket line with striking auto workers in Michigan ( www.usatoday.com )
America’s Worst Judge Declares War on Drag ( slate.com )
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is a proud Christian nationalist who flatly refuses to apply binding Supreme Court precedent when it conflicts with his extremist far-right beliefs. It is therefore no surprise that Kacsmaryk, a Donald Trump appointee, handed down a decision on Thursday refusing to protect Texas college...
Michael Knowles Wants to Arrest LGBTQ Pride Attendees ( www.metroweekly.com )
