Former FBI Chiefs Comey, McCabe Raise Questions After Both Tapped For IRS Audits
“It just defies logic to think that there wasn’t some other factor involved,” Andrew McCabe said.
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News Roundup: Another Trump White House aide will testify; Lindsey Graham doesn’t want to talk
In the news today: Another Trump aide who was witness to events inside the White House leading up to the Jan. 6 coup attempt has agreed to give public testimony to the House select committee investigating the coup; Trump’s former deputy press secretary, Sarah Matthews, resigned her post immediately after the Trump-incited violence. Sen.
This neighborhood fireworks display went bad in a hurry
July Fourth is a holiday filled with cookouts, alcohol, BBQs, family, friends, and fireworks. Lots of fireworks. But fireworks are by nature explosives and parties get out of hand and explosives are … explosive. Every year, more and more Americans are injured or killed in firework-related mishaps. That number has increased over the years as more and cheaper fireworks become available to the public.
Tucker Carlson blames women and weed—but not guns—for mass shootings perpetrated by angry white men
The United States had more mass shootings over the holiday weekend—11, to be exact—making us the Joey Chestnut of mayhem, in that no one can even hope to challenge us. Republicans insist the reason we have so many more gun killings than any other country can’t possibly be the guns—because too many Fox News viewers enjoy doing white-knuckle drive-by hits on mule deer from their Rascal scooters.
Is Russian state TV souring on Trump? ‘We’ll have to think whether to reinstall him again’
The redoubtable, indefatigable, and gnarly rad Russian media monitor Julia Davis is back with another dispatch from the land of make-believe—otherwise known as Russian state TV. It’s a transcendently weird place where Vladimir Putin is doggedly de-Nazifying his Jewish-led neighbor and NATO somehow has reason to fear a Russian attack—even though Russia hasn’t been able to defeat its much-smaller non-NATO neighbor in four-plus months.
Bill O’Reilly throws racist fit over ‘minority gangs’ after white shooter kills 7 in Highland Park
A day following the mass shooting during a July 4th parade in Highland Park, Illinois, disgraced Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly went on an asinine and (even for him) deeply racist rant on his No Spin News and Analysis podcast in response to a recent press conference by Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker.
“There are no words for the kind of evil that turns a community celebration into a tragedy,” Pritzker said.
Are the Last Rational Republicans in Denial?
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.I wonder if the remaining sensible Republicans have accepted the irretrievable loss of the GOP they once knew.But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
Let’s use Chicago rules to beat Russia.
Hybrid work is doomed.
Uber Pool is a zombie.
GOP Senate Candidate’s Old Friend Begs Him To End Campaign
Ken Harbaugh, an old friend of Eric Greitens, calls the Missouri Senate candidate “a broken man, who will do anything, including inciting violence, to regain power.
One Of Texas’ Biggest Abortion Providers To Relocate To New Mexico
Moving four abortion clinics will require major fundraising, the clinic network said.
Stranger Things Isn’t TV. It’s Something Else.
This article contains light spoilers through the fourth season of Stranger Things.Somehow, even thousands of viewing minutes in, my synapses numbed by a cinematic universe so squelchy that it induces visceral anxiety, I still don’t really know how to feel about Stranger Things. It’s hard to even say exactly what it is. TV watchers today are accustomed to streaming works that coalesce, murkily, somewhere between film and television.
America’s Public-Health Efforts Have Slowed to a Crawl
This is an edition of Up for Debate, a newsletter by Conor Friedersdorf. On Wednesdays, he rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here.
The Great Veterinary Shortage
When Michelle Stokes noticed a necrotic wound on her cat, Jellyfish, last July, she and her husband had to call about 50 vets before finding one that could squeeze them in.The local emergency animal hospital was so backed up that it said the wound—serious but not yet life-threatening—wasn’t really an emergency. Jellyfish didn’t have a regular vet, because Stokes and her husband had just moved to the Cleveland area.
College Football Is Cannibalizing Itself
College-sports traditionalists were appalled last week when the Big Ten athletic conference announced that it will add UCLA and the University of Southern California to its membership in 2024—creating a seismic shift in the college-sports landscape that will generate millions of dollars in revenue for the two California powerhouse programs.This reorganization is the strongest indicator yet that college sports is cannibalizing itself.
Judicial Coup? SCOTUS Gerrymandering Case May Let GOP State Legislatures Control Federal Elections
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Thursday it will hear oral arguments in a case experts warn could be one of the greatest threats to U.S. democracy since the deadly January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. In October, the court will hear Moore v. Harper — a case which seeks to reinstate gerrymandered congressional maps that were struck down by North Carolina’s highest court.
“Children of the KKK”: White Supremacist Patriot Front Marches Through Boston, Attacks Black Artist
Boston officials claim they had no prior knowledge of a march through the city by about 100 members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front on Saturday. Local anti-fascist organizers contronted the marchers, who also attacked a local Black artist named Charles Murrell.
Highland Park Suspect Was in Online Communities Where People Are “Programming Themselves to Kill”
The death toll in Monday’s mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, has risen to seven after another victim died from their injuries. The suspect has been charged with seven counts of first-degree murder over the massacre that also left scores of people injured, including nine people who remain hospitalized. Police say he legally purchased five weapons, including the high-powered rifle used in the shooting, despite visiting his home in 2019 over threats of violence.
Abortion laws by state: Legal status of abortion changing day-by-day after Roe v. Wade overturned
In some states, the legal status of abortion has flipped back and forth multiple times since the Supreme Court’s decision last month.
Telehealth lobbyists fear abortion debate could erase wins
They are avoiding the fallout from the Roe decision to ensure eased rules are extended beyond the pandemic.
‘The tide is coming back’: Bracing for a new global health fight
For USAID’s Atul Gawande, the challenge is helping vulnerable populations while the world battles multiple crises at once.
‘A tragic situation’: Governor discusses pregnant 10-year-old with CNN host
South Dakota Republican Kristi Noem didn’t endorse an abortion.
Failure ‘not an option’: Fed vows all-out fight on inflation
Fears have mounted that the central bank might trigger a recession sometime in the next year with its aggressive rate action.
‘When do you stop?’: Fed inflation fight could trigger slump
Things are so dire that central bank policymakers might hike rates by three-quarters of a percentage point, a move not taken in almost 30 years.
U.S. inflation hit a new 40-year high last month of 8.6 percent
America’s rampant inflation is imposing severe pressures on families, forcing them to pay much more for food, gas and rent.
“I Was Raped by My Father. Abortion Saved My Life”: Prof. Michele Goodwin on SCOTUS & the New Jane Crow
As the Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade, we speak with law professor Michele Goodwin, who has written extensively about how the criminalization of abortion polices motherhood. She discusses how on the eve of the court’s oral arguments in the Dobbs case in November, she wrote about how an abortion saved her life. She describes how the U.S.
Tucker Carlson Points Finger At Women And Weed For Latest Mass Shooting
The Fox News host responded to the Highland Park shooting with a bizarre set of reasons why it isn’t about guns.
Kamala Harris Visits Illinois After July 4 Shooting, Renews Call For Assault Weapon Ban
“Yesterday should have been the day to come together with family and friends to celebrate,” the vice president said in Chicago before going to Highland Park.
News Roundup: Sen. Lindsey Graham subpoenaed; still another mass shooting
Another holiday weekend is behind us, and with it another spate of mass shootings because that’s how America works now. A Georgia grand jury has now subpoenaed key allies of Donald Trump as part of an investigation into a potentially criminal effort by Trump and others to pressure state officials into altering vote totals on his behalf; one of those subpoenaed is Sen. Lindsey Graham, who made his own inquiries as to how vote totals might be changed.
Florida county slaps warning label on LGBTQ kids who join phys ed classes or overnight trips
It’s no wonder Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell won’t release a Republican policy platform for the midterms. Everything they do is awful. Their platform might as well say, “Eat shit, America. You’re stuck with us now.”
After Cronenberg-ing our country to the point where 10-year-old rape victims are now forced to travel out of state to end their pregnancies, conservatives are putting the screws to LGBTQ kids in new and creative ways.
NYT deputy editorial page editor Bret Stephens again spews his climate science denial
What a big surprise that The New York Times’ resident climate science denier Bret Stephens thinks the Supreme Court’s ruling in West Virginia v.
‘I don’t really give a s**t about it’: Star athlete refuses to talk soccer, focuses on gun violence
On Monday, Major League Soccer’s LA Galaxy faced off against CF Montreal. After the game, veteran Galaxy midfielder Sacha Kljestan came into the press room, sat down in front of the microphone, and said he would be keeping his comments and appearance “really brief” because he didn’t plan on answering any questions about the game. That elicited laughs from the reporters on hand, but the California-born Kljestan wasn’t making jokes.