Representative Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican, told NBC News' Kristen Welker on Sunday that according to lawyers hired by Congress, "at this point, there's not a specific crime that's been committed" by President Joe Biden in the impeachment probe against him.
Jury HAS reached a verdict. 11 hours, 43 minutes....
So for the folks seeing all the deleted comments and going "Wow, that's uncharacteristic!"...
You may have noticed a distinct lack of return2ozma. This is due to their admitting, in a public comment, that their engagement here is in bad faith:...
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....
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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929–April 4, 1968) was the charismatic leader of the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. He directed the year-long Montgomery bus boycott, which attracted scrutiny by a wary, divided nation, but his leadership and the resulting Supreme Court ruling against bus...
Anyone registered to vote can choose a Republican or Democratic ballot. Many of the people on the Democratic ballot (in my area) are running unopposed, so it was a good opportunity to try to get the least crazy people on the November ballot. Also, the republican ballot has 13 propositions that are not on the Democratic one, so...
Sorry to throw this on everyone in the group, but there has been another mod shakeup and it feels fair to address it publicly....
3/5 was the biggest primary day of all, Super Tuesday!...
Tonight is the Michigan primary and unlike previous primaries where we were specifically paying attention to the REPUBLICAN side, this one has an interest on the DEMOCRATIC side as well!...
I'm putting this up early since it's likely I won't have time tomorrow....
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/usc-cancels-pro-palestinian-valedictorian-speech-security-israel-war-rcna147954
Are there any bills being written that would actually fix the US policing problem? Anything meaningful in the works?
Welcome to a WEIRD week in Politics!...
So, both lost by an overwhelming no. The problem is we voted no not because the ideas were bad (recognising single parent families, removing sexist language) but because the wording was bad. However, far right nuts who hold not a single seat in our 'parliament' are acting like we voted no because the Irish people all agree with...
1st Primary of the season (Iowa was a Caucus, not a primary... different creature)....
https://plantbasednews.org/culture/law-and-politics/mayor-adams-launches-plant-based-food-initiative-in-prisons/
It seems like just yesterday that anytime there was the threat of Communism, America would do whatever it can to quell it. Today, Venezuela and/or its beef with Guyana seem like it concerns absolutely nobody. And Eritrea is supposed to be the worst non-ideological dictatorship while Ethiopia is like a second promised land, you'd...
Let's say we wanted to petition the government for a redress of our grievances. What would be on the list?...
Lemmy.world has had a "Business" community for a while now, but it's been a little sleepy....
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/usc-cancels-pro-palestinian-valedictorian-speech-security-israel-war-rcna147954...
Jury HAS reached a verdict. 11 hours, 43 minutes....
I've edited the title of this article. I still believe that the UK govt. is planning for war and that the talking up of war by the Guardian defense editor, Dan Sabbagh, is an indicator of this....
So the gist of national debt in my understanding is Nation A asks for aid of some kind from (or commits unintentional damages to) Nation B who later on deems Nation A owes them based on their interpretation of the ordeal, with varying layers of complexity....