An example of the Republican Party’s collective mental instability is MP Madison Cawthorn, who claims she is secretly confiscating Bibles and weapons door-to-door. Video: Madison Cawthorn says today that Biden’s plan to send people door-to-door to offer vaccines is actually a conspiracy to confiscate people’s Bibles and weapons. pic.twitter.com/h6CPdJwv9t – Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 9, …
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The DOJ declined to prosecute 82% of suspects of hate crimes from 2005 to 2019
Dental students and others crowd during a vigil at the University of North Carolina following the murder of three Muslim students on February 11, 2015 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images The U.S. Department of Justice declined to prosecute 82% of hate crime suspects investigated between 2005 and 2019, …
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White evangelicals are dying out and that is an impending catastrophe for the GOP
A new study showed that the number of white evangelicals in the United States has fallen from 23% to 14.5% since 2006, and that’s bad news for the GOP. Aaron Blake of The Washington Post reported on a new study from the Public Religion Research Institute: While that group made up 23 percent of the …
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Search shifts from rescue to restoration
Search and rescue teams continue to work in the rubble of the collapsed Champlain Towers South apartment in Surfside, Florida on July 6, 2021. Eva Marie Uzcategui | AFP | Getty Images Finding the site of a collapsed Florida condo building is shifting from a rescue to a salvage operation as the likelihood of finding …
Watch as Joe Biden Mocks Obstructionist Mitch McConnell
When he first took office, Joe Biden promised to make a good faith effort to work with Republicans. And that effort has been made on numerous occasions over Biden’s first few months in office. Mitch McConnell, though, has often urged his senators against working with the president or supporting his legislation. This is the same …
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TJ Ducklo will get new job at PR agency after quitting White Home amid scandal
White House deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo listens as press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, in Washington. Patrick Semansky | AP TJ Ducklo, President Joe Biden’s former deputy White House press secretary, is starting to work for an influential public relations and crisis communications …
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Former Republican strategist Matthew Dowd explains why 1/6 was worse than 9/11
Horrible events often have the effect of uniting the country. The 9/11 attacks were a good example of this. Despite the strong partisanship in 2001, George W. Bush soon had an approval rating of 90%. 1/6 was another terrifying event in American history. But the country has certainly not come together since then. And because …
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U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is greater than 90% full
Aerial porters work with maintainers to load a UH-60L Blackhawk helicopter into a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III during the withdrawl of American forces in Afghanistan, June 16, 2021. US Army | via Reuters The U.S. military has withdrawn more than 90% of its troops and equipment from Afghanistan, the Pentagon announced Tuesday. The …
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The US Supreme Courtroom Simply Licensed Extra Voter Suppression
The United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) dealt several blows to the Voting Rights Act last week. In a majority conservative 6-3 ruling, SCOTUS upheld two Arizona restrictions. The first prohibits individuals other than close family members or caregivers from collecting mail-in ballots. The second requires elections officials to reject votes from people who report to incorrect precincts …
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Bitcoin ETF ought to have been accepted a while in the past, says SEC regulator Peirce
Hester Peirce, Commissioner for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Center, listens during a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, DC, the United States, on Tuesday, September 24, 2019. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hester Peirce is at a loss. For years, the Securities and Exchange Commission, of which Peirce is …