Mike Pence Gets Bluntest Of Reality Checks About Donald Trump And His Base
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin urged the former vice president to “wake up” when it comes to the former president.
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Sen. Josh Hawley Gets Short But Sharp History Lesson From St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The newspaper’s editorial board burst the bubble on the Missouri GOP senator’s presidential aspirations, slamming him as “grossly unfit” for office.
‘I Was Right And Everybody Knows It’: Trump Responds To Pence With Tiresome Fraud Lies
Trump accused Pence of being an “automatic conveyor belt” for ‘Old Crow Mitch McConnell’ to get Joe Biden elected in odd statement.
Capitol Riot Defendant Seeks Subpoena For Trump, Says He ‘Directed’ Him To Storm Capitol
Trump and others “engaged in a concerted effort to … direct rally participants to storm the Capitol, enter the grounds, ‘fight like hell,’” argues the Jan. 6 case brief.
‘Sad Day’: Meager Handful Of Republicans Criticize GOP For Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger Censure
The Capitol riot was “mob violence,” not “legitimate political discourse,” as the Republican National Committee claims, said GOP Sen. Ben Sasse.
News Roundup: GOP says insurrection is ‘legitimate political discourse,’ Jim Jordan busted
It is Friday! This week has been filled with a mixture of ennui and anticipation for less ennui. The flashiest battles going on right now seem to be between the Republican Party and the Republican Party. While the Liz Cheney establishment wing of the GOP diminishes, they still have one ace card—the MAGA wing of the party probably broke at least a million laws.
Let’s acknowledge the truth. Prince’s Super Bowl Halftime Show was the best ever. Happy Prince Day!
The first concert I ever saw was Prince in Washington, D.C. in 1984. I snuck out of my house and joined up with four of my closest girlfriends. Terrified for my little preteen life, we gathered together in a small group to protect ourselves from the massive and sexually charged crowd, but that night I became a lifelong Prince fan.
Truthfully, I fell in love with the Purple One with the Dirty Mind album.
Trump clearly knew he’d lost Wisconsin when his team tried to overturn result
Can anyone still say with a straight face that Donald Trump wasn’t trying to illegally overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election? Everything he did from Nov. 3, 2020 to Jan.
Family wants answers after 22-year-old Black man, Amir Locke, shot and killed during no-knock raid
On Wednesday, Minneapolis police executed a no-knock warrant on a downtown apartment and then in the next nine seconds, proceeded to shoot and kill 22-year-old Amir Locke, as he lay wrapped up in a blanket on a couch. Interim police Chief Amelia Huffman told reporters that the shooting took place around 7 a.m. The officers who entered the apartment were SWAT team members acting on warrants in service of the St. Paul Police Department.
Settlement reached after police dog mauls teen and deputies fire so indiscriminately dog is killed
A South Carolina county is set to shell out $700,000 in a civil settlement after a teen girl was “mauled by a police dog and shot five times by deputies,” the victim’s attorneys announced in a news release Tuesday. The injured teen, a white girl who wasn’t identified in the release, was 16 years old at the time of the incident on Aug. 11, 2020 in Anderson County. Deputies shot her without a clear line of sight, civil rights attorney Ben Crump said in the release.
Looking Beyond Affirmative Action
Sign up for Conor’s newsletter here.Earlier this week, I asked for your thoughts on racial preferences in college admissions. For context, Pew found in 2019 that “most Americans (73%) say colleges and universities should not consider race or ethnicity when making decisions about student admissions. Just 7% say race should be a major factor in college admissions, while 19% say it should be a minor factor.
Yellowjackets Is So Much More Than a ‘Female Lord of the Flies’
Attempts to summarize the Showtime series Yellowjackets have mostly had to rely on creaky comparisons: a female Lord of the Flies … a ’90s Stranger Things … a teen Lost, but in Canada. The coming-of-age horror story is indeed tough to categorize, but nonetheless thrillingly addictive. The show follows a championship-bound girls’ soccer team that crashes in the wilderness in 1996, threading their story with that of the surviving members as adults in 2021.
CDC recommends fully approved Moderna Covid vaccine
Licensure doesn’t materially affect the status quo — the licensed vaccine’s formula is identical to that authorized for emergency use.
The Age of the Unique Baby Name
These days, if you hear about the birth of an Olivia or a Liam, you might feel a pang of sympathy—the poor child has been cursed with the most popular name of their time and might be at risk of sharing it with a kindergarten classmate.This wasn’t always considered an undesirable outcome.
Biden takes victory lap with January jobs report
“America’s job machine is going stronger than ever,” Biden said at the White House.
Attending an HBCU Has Always Been an Act of Courage
On Monday, campus life at at least seven historically Black colleges and universities was interrupted by bomb threats. School leaders alerted students, faculty, and staff. Law-enforcement officers swept the grounds. By midday, some campuses had issued an all-clear while others continued assessing the situation.
The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now
Twitter has begun allowing its users to showcase NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, as profile pictures on their accounts. It’s the latest public victory for this form of … and, you know, there’s the problem. What the hell is an NFT anyway?There are answers. Twitter calls NFTs “unique digital items, such as artwork, with proof of ownership that’s stored on a blockchain.
U.S. employers shrug off Omicron, add 467,000 jobs in January
The burst of jobs came despite a wave of Omicron inflections that sickened millions of workers, kept many consumers at home and left businesses from restaurants to manufacturers short-staffed.
Ex-Chicago Cop Jason Van Dyke Freed Early over Murdering Laquan McDonald; Activists Seek Fed Charges
We go to Chicago, where protests erupted Thursday over the early release of the white ex-police officer Jason Van Dyke, who was convicted of killing a Black 17-year-old named Laquan McDonald in 2014. Van Dyke — who was the first police officer in the United States to be charged with murder for an on-duty shooting — was sentenced to nearly seven years in prison but was freed early for “good behavior” after only serving a little over three years of his sentence.
GOP Grill Fed Nominee Sarah Bloom Raskin over Climate Views; Her Husband Rep. Jamie Raskin Responds
We speak with Rep. Jamie Raskin about his wife Sarah Bloom Raskin’s grilling by a Senate panel Thursday over her qualifications to be President Biden’s nominee for the top bank regulator, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Republicans argue her past comments on climate change show she could use her position to discourage banks from lending to fossil fuel companies. Raskin said if she was confirmed, she would not be able to take such actions.
“Love & the Constitution”: Rep. Jamie Raskin on Son’s Death, Trump’s Coup Plot & Protecting the Vote
As more details emerge about Donald Trump’s role in the deadly January 6 insurrection, we’re joined by Congressmember Jamie Raskin, who serves on the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack and was the lead manager in Trump’s second impeachment trial.
Next big health crisis: 15M people could lose Medicaid when pandemic ends
State audits could lead to as many as 15 million people, including 6 million children, losing their health insurance, according to one analysis.
Top Republican throws cold water on struggling FDA nominee
A White House spokesperson said Califf has met with 33 senators to date and is scheduled to meet with an additional 14 so far.
Opinion | Why Are Minority-Owned Banks Disappearing? Washington Holds the Smoking Gun
Congress needs to create a new safety net for such lenders — not let regulators squeeze them out of business.
Biden’s first year: A tale of 2 presidencies
Inside the White House, there is still optimism: “President Biden was elected to a four-year term, not a one-year term.
Price spikes threaten to ground Biden’s big-spending plans
The government reported Wednesday that the consumer price index, the most widely watched gauge of inflation, hit a four-decade high in December compared to the previous year.
U.S. consumer prices soared 7 percent in past year, most since 1982
The jump is the latest evidence that rising costs for food, rent and other necessities are heightening the financial pressures on America’s households.
Powell’s warning to Congress: Inflation a ‘severe threat’ to jobs
The potential clash over the Fed’s plans to tighten monetary policy could be a harbinger of conflicts to come with Democrats and even some Republicans.
RNC Poised To Censure Cheney, Kinzinger And Pull ‘Any And All Support’ Over Jan. 6 Panel
Cheney said party leaders had “made themselves willing hostages to a man who admits he tried to overturn a presidential election.
News Roundup: Republican coup plot nearly dragged in NSA; Iowa Republicans want to spy on your kids
In the news today: There seem to be few parts of the government that Republicans didn’t try to subvert in the attempt to topple the United States government last January, and you can now count the National Security Agency among them. There also seem to be few parts of the plan that Trump’s alleged “legal” team weren’t directly involved with.
Outside of Washington, D.C., Republican attacks on schools are only heating up.