On Thursday afternoon, the House passed a bill temporarily funding the government through the middle of February. The 221-212 vote comes after several days of concern that Democrats and Republicans in Congress would be unable to agree on a funding package ahead of the midnight Friday deadline, pushing the federal government into a shutdown that […]
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Lauren Boebert Is Only Going to Get Worse
A video of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) effectively describing her colleague Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) as a terrorist went viral over Thanksgiving weekend. In the obviously false tale, she tells a story of being in an elevator with Omar when a Capitol police officer hurried to get in with them. “I look to my left, […]
Georgia Election Workers Sue Right-Wing Bloggers Over 2020 Conspiracy Theories
In the aftermath of the 2020 election, the Gateway Pundit—one of the country’s leading sources of pro-Trump misinformation—helped instigate a vicious harassment campaign against two Black Georgia election workers, according to a new lawsuit. As Republicans desperately tried to cast doubt on Joe Biden’s victory, the two women—Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea “Shaye” Moss—were […]
Here’s Why a Former Trump Ally May Plead the Fifth Before the 1/6 Committee
On Wednesday, the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol voted to pursue criminal contempt charges against Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who schemed with Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election results. Clark had refused to cooperate with the committee’s inquiry, citing Trump’s legal efforts to block its probe. […]
Trump’s Harsh Remain in Mexico Policy Will Officially Restart Next Week
The Biden administration has reached a deal with the Mexican government, allowing it to restart a Trump-era policy that forces asylum seekers to wait in Mexican border cities after asking for refuge in the United States. The “Remain in Mexico” policy is set to resume next week with some changes, despite months of public pressure […]
The Bombshell Story About Trump’s Positive COVID Test Result Just Got Even Murkier
Franz Kafka would be proud of this mess. Yesterday, my colleague Noah Kim wrote about what appeared to be a stunning confession: Donald Trump received a positive COVID-19 test before his first debate with Joe Biden, last September. Relying on a pre-release copy of a book by Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, the […]
CIA Report Shows Trump Abandoned His Duty as Commander in Chief
The CIA is too polite to say this directly, but it has issued a report that shows that Donald Trump, while obsessing over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, abandoned one of his primary duties as president: to stay fully informed about potential threats to the nation. This indictment comes from the agency’s Center […]
We Always Knew Conservative Justices Would Tear Roe Down. Today Proved It.
There has long been an expectation that the Supreme Court may try to be a bit subtle as it works to unravel abortion rights—that Chief Justice John Roberts’ concern for his legacy, or the other justices’ fear that the bench may appear to be too “political,” could prevent the outright reversal of the watershed Roe […]
Kavanaugh Implied The Supreme Court Can Be “Neutral” On Abortion. That’s Ridiculous
Justice Brett Kavanaugh used some startlingly disingenuous language today while the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a Mississippi law that threatens to do away with the legal right to an abortion. His arguments hinged on the idea of the court doing nothing to uphold abortions, but he kept calling it “neutrality.” Kavanaugh likes to […]
Trump’s Irish Golf Course Lost More Money Than Ever Before
The global COVID-19 pandemic dealt former president Donald Trump’s golf course in Doonbeg, Ireland a heavy blow last year, with the resort, which has never been profitable, doubling its losses in 2020. According to a local news report based on required Irish annual corporate filings that are not yet available electronically, the complex lost just over […]