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Florida bans its schools from teaching critical race theory On Thursday, Florida's State Board of Education unanimously voted in favor...
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Once Senator Mitch McConnell staked out the politically uncompromising GOP opposition to ‘everything’ Democrats proffered, during the Obama administration, the...
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Meandering nonsense highlighted by searches for bamboo fibers, and official lies issued from Mar-a Lago, are exactly what Donald Trump...
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Here’s the latest news today out of Pennsylvania: Lou Barletta, the Republican Party’s Donald Trump-endorsed nominee for U.S. Senate in...
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It does seem clear that in the name of “bipartisanship, there may be pro-Trumpists chosen who will attempt to sabotage...
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Fear of a Red Hat: as much as Liz Cheney is toast, more troubling is Elise Stefanik’s Führereid, because Trump is...
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Not surprised by this: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is a rising star in the Republican Party. But many of his...
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Previous guy added a page to his website, one which mimics Twitter and Facebook in its appearance, because the grift...
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The Facebook Oversight Board sustained the ban on Trump — for now. Previous guy added a page to his website, one...
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Francisco Franco is still in Madrid waiting for his COVID shot, but previous guy seems full of the usual disinformation. He’s drawing...
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Previous guy colluded with Russia, led a Capitol insurrection, and is not rotting in a prison cell. But if it...
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Two stories posted on Political Wire near each other (probably deliberately) caught my attention. First: Republicans pray for truce after...
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Can’t wait to see this asshole go: https://twitter.com/Matt_Maisel/status/1379777588009271304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw In an interview with York, Pa.’s WPMT television station, U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey...
Sheila Jackson Lee talks about expanding the courts. Missouri Republicans ignore citizens’ vote for Medicaid Expansion. Minimum wage fraud on...
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The New York Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that former The Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos can proceed with her defamation...
Lost relevance continues with more of the same Trump delusions up-chucking soon, signaled by the latest Big Lie interview with...
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Likely the RWNJ social media site Gab was constantly under FBI surveillance even before 6 January, but for some reason...
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Because not wanting to be accountable for perhaps something more felonious like manslaughter is so on brand for Republicans. https://twitter.com/HelenKennedy/status/1364658319001018369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw...
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A legal Bassmaster always wins the fishing expedition, even with all those witches and their lures. Tax and accounting records will go...
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Texas really is full of dumb GOP fuckers: xNEW: Texas AG Ken Paxton left the state during the deadly power...
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If you’re a Republican and you don’t at least try to pretend the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump,...
The New York Times shed some light on this on Monday: G.O.P. legislators, dozens of whom supported overturning the state’s...
Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) was one of only five Republican senators to vote to table Rand Paul’s motion to dismiss...
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Received this e-mail today from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party: Pennsylvania Supreme Court candidate, Superior Court Justice Maria McLaughlin (D. PA)...
I’m liking this: U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) said Native Americans played a significant role in the recent election, including...
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Newsmax is a “news” outfit so far right it makes Fox looks reasonable. Or at least scared that they’ll lose...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Ron Wyden’s (D. OR) re-election campaign: The lies and violence of the last...
Mississippi governor Tate Reeves refuses to say Biden's win was legitimate. Chuck Todd tries to allow the governor to do...
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Received this e-mail today from Lt. Governor John Fetterman’s (D. PA) potential U.S. Senate campaign: All work has dignity. All...
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It really has little to do with most legislation. Hell, he might not even whip his caucus on a lot...
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From the Human Rights Campaign, “Biden’s Executive Order is the most substantive, wide-ranging executive order concerning sexual orientation and gender...
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The national madness of 74 million people sent to the fainting couch by voting for a persistent complainer and his...
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Received this e-mail today from the organization Common Cause Pennsylvania: I’m going to be honest with you -- I’m deeply...
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Received this e-mail today from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party: State Senator Jim Brewster (D. PA) Jake Corman—the top Republican in...
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What is your f’ing problem? Republican senators say they feel a sense of growing regret over not standing up to President...
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Schaden-Friday is a bit lower-key this week, thanks to our being collectively terrorized by the Ocher Uprising. But that doesn’t...
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A brief note on a diary that I wrote yesterday arguing that Democrats should embrace the fact that many Trump...
Pardon the quick post, but it’s 2am here and I have a few thoughts I need to get down before...
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Many of the election lawsuit challenges brought by Trump and his allies have been dismissed under a somewhat obscure to the...
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Former Secretary of Defense, Republican William Cohen, did not mince words as he destroyed Trump in no uncertain terms. Republican excoriates...
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The inner parts of the machines replaced with other farts… We are now left with fart jokes as punctuating the...
The focus here this weekend has been on the seditious actions being taken by at least a dozen Republican senators...
Moscow Mitch is losing control of his caucus, GOP Senators have long ago lost all respect for democracy, and the...
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Trump’s up late again, fantasizing things about Georgia’s Secretary of State. Trump is obviously unhappy with Brad R. xThe person,...
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AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Pascal went to the races, then gets mugged because he kept his carbon credits
The neoliberals’ “free market” is not going to sequester enough carbon to save the environment. Even Warren Buffett isn’t willing...
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Pursed lips moving, Trump lies, repeating the same falsehoods. Fortunately his debunked claims have revealed flaws in the GOP’s historically...
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Trump just got some more coal in his Christmas stocking, delivered by a judge he appointed to the 7th Circuit....
Joy Reid just showed a memo from the quack Trump picked and it is a bloody memo. We need some...
There’s an agitated Trump up late tweeting more conspiracy nonsense as the Electoral College has voted and the sedition attempt has failed...
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First things first: elect Warnock and Ossoff Much like urging Georgia Republicans to write in Trump on their ballots, there...
