Nazis are too busy throwing each other under the bus to notice they're incriminating themselves
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As the “Unite the Right” trial entered its third week, it became abundantly clear that all the Nazis who are being sued have left to protect themselves is whichever fellow defendant they think is more reprehensible than themselves. That bec
Two things are true: Inflation is real, and the media is hyping it and ignoring better economic news
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Retail sales rose in October for a third month in a row. October saw strong jobs growth, and Goldman Sachs is predicting a significant drop in the unemployment rate over the next year. Most families with children are getting expanded chil
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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Extraordinary times call for extraordinary vigilance
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Charlie Sykes/Bulwark:
Misreading the Politics of “Normalcy”
These are profoundly abnormal times.
Biden and his allies need to disabuse themselves of the notion that we will see a return to “normalcy” anytime soon.
That means a re-calibration no
News Roundup: Biden promises infrastructure is 'just the beginning'; Republicans defend Gosar
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In the news today: While President Biden vows the newly passed infrastructure bill is «just the beginning» of revitalization efforts, House Republicans are still focused on protecting even their worst members from consequences for their acts. Anot
'You belong': Sesame Street to introduce first Asian American muppet in Thanksgiving special
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Just when we think Sesame Street can’t do anything better, the muppets prove us wrong. Sesame Street continues to win hearts with its efforts toward inclusion and diversity. After creating a segment to address the rise in bullying and violence man
ICE ignores pleas for release and instead transfers remaining immigrants detained at New Jersey jail
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New Jersey’s Bergen County was the remaining locality in the state to continue holding a federal immigration contract when the commissioner board voted unanimously last month to end the agreement. Last Friday, the remaining 15 immigrants at t
New Orleans sheriff desperate to keep predatory prison phone call rates for sake of budget
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Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman is facing his first major challenger in years. The sheriff, who’s been in power for 17 years and automatically won his 2017 re-election bid because no one challenged him, has found himself in a runoff with former police
Right-wing media stops covering CRT in schools because I guess that's over for now
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In the run-up to the November elections a couple of weeks ago, right-wing operatives, news organizations, and politicians could not stop talking about the crisis of race and education and how American history is taught in our nation’s schools
Elementary school teacher uses assembly as opportunity to spew anti-vaccine rhetoric
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As life for students slowly returns to normal amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, there are a number of concerns people continue to weigh: Can we trust children to keep masks on all day? What protections are in place for teachers with compromised immun
DHS inspector general declines to probe Haitian border abuses, refers matter back to CBP office
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that an investigation into the mistreatment of Haitian migrants by border agents on horseback at the southern border this past September would be conducted “wit
Pelosi ups pressure on House Democrats to get Build Back Better done before Thanksgiving
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi is ready to be done with anything having to do anything with infrastructure, and who can blame her? One bill done, dusted, and signed, she’s ready to get the next one out of there. That means it’s threat-making time for her caucus. D
Radicalized Republican Party goes to blows over infrastructure bill supported by 63% of Americans
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Shortly after 13 House Republicans joined 215 Democrats last week to pass a $1 trillion infrastructure bill, GOP lawmakers went to war with each other.
Some House radicals—who are apparently the dominant force in the GOP caucus—labeled the measure&n
Trump's quest to keep Jan. 6 committee in the dark continues in new court filing
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He incited an insurrection but former President Donald Trump, in his ongoing bid to keep records sought by the Jan. 6 committee out of investigators’ hands, argued Tuesday that their release would irreparably harm the powers of the presi
Anti-vaxx Chronicles: This story was tough the first time we saw it. Turns out it's even more brutal
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Facebook is a menace. COVID-19 is a menace. Conservatism is a cesspool. Together, those three ingredients have created a toxic stew of malevolent death and devastation. We can talk about all those things in the abstract, look at the numbers and statistics, an
Don't believe the hype. 'Cancel culture' has been co-opted, weaponized to punish Black, brown folks
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A new Hill-HarrisX poll found that 69% of registered voters believe that “cancel culture” unfairly punishes people for their past misdeeds. But is everyone “canceled” the same? And when did it become unfair to hold people accountable?
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Trump's election-nullifying lawyer wanted to attack Germany to secretly rescue the, um, CIA chief
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Donald Trump-loyal “attorney” Sidney Powell is one of the members of the Republican election-sabotage team who pushed the wildest, and most obviously false, hoaxes to justify Republican demands that Trump’s election loss be overturned Because Reasons. T
'It’s okay to hate them back': Texas teen who set synagogue on fire supported hateful rhetoric
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A Texas teen who was arrested in connection with one incident among a string of antisemitic attacks faces federal charges, according to a new criminal complaint affidavit. The 18-year-old Texas State Guard member was arrested for suspicion of arson on Nov. 1
California Rep. Jackie Speier, who survived 1978 Jonestown assassination attempt, will retire
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California Rep. Jackie Speier, a Democrat who survived the 1978 Jonestown cult shooting that murdered her boss, Rep. Leo Ryan, announced Tuesday that she would retire after a long career in Bay Area politics.
The current configuration of Speier’s 14th Con
Will the Supreme Court side with 27% of Americans who support overturning Roe v. Wade?
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As the U.S. Supreme Court weighs the constitutionality of two anti-abortion laws in Mississippi and Texas, a substantial majority of Americans want the high court to uphold the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion and overturn the aggressive Tex
Biden signs order protecting tribal land. What about a sacred burial site destroyed for uranium?
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Finally, after four years of nothing but lying, race-baiting, and removing much-needed federal protection of land and wildlife, we have a president who cares about the Indigenous land we stand on and the people who were slaughtered on it by the col
Biden promises infrastructure bill is ‘just the beginning’
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As of this year, there were more than 220,000 bridges needing repair in the U.S. according to the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) using the U.S. Department of Transportation’s bridge inventory database, and 45,000 of
Biden signs initiative to protect tribal land. Will that include closing a poisonous uranium mill?
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Finally, after four years of nothing but lying, race-baiting, and removing much-needed federal protection of land and wildlife, we have a president who cares about the Indigenous land we stand on and the people who were slaughtered on it by the col
Biden hits the road to celebrate his infrastructure achievement
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As of this year, there were more than 220,000 bridges needing repair in the U.S. according to the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) using the U.S. Department of Transportation’s bridge inventory database, and 45,000 of
McCarthy's response to Gosar's horrifying video shows the rot at the heart of the Republican Party
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy finally got around to responding to Rep. Paul Gosar’s violent anime video on Monday, close to a week after the video was posted. And on Tuesday, a closed-door House Republican meeting reportedly got acrimonious—bu
Medical examiner testifies: 'No,' there's nothing anyone could have done to save Ahmaud Arbery
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The trial for three men—accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery after spotting him running near a home under construction in their coastal Georgia neighborhood—has entered its eighth day on Tuesday, following a day of factual witnesses called by the stat
Proud Boy leader can't cope with poor conditions at jail, asks for early release
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A ringleader of the violent neofascist and racist group, the Proud Boys, asked for release from a D.C. jail on Monday, begging the court to let him serve out the remainder of his five-month sentence at home because of alleged harassment and conditions he clai
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy offers excuses for Gosar's murder-fantasy video
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy finally got around to responding to Rep. Paul Gosar’s violent anime video on Monday, close to a week after the video was posted. And on Tuesday, a closed-door House Republican meeting reportedly got acrimonious—bu
Attorney makes marathon out of testing judge's patience in trial following Ahmaud Arbery's death
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The trial for three men—accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery after spotting him running near a home under construction in their coastal Georgia neighborhood—has entered its eighth day on Tuesday, following a day of factual witnesses called by the stat
From 'kinda' liking prison to requesting early release, Proud Boy ringleader wants out
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A ringleader of the violent neofascist and racist group, the Proud Boys, asked for release from a D.C. jail on Monday, begging the court to let him serve out the remainder of his five-month sentence at home because of alleged harassment and conditions he clai
Forget CRT—new poll shows what Republicans really don't want taught in schools
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A new poll confirms that when Republicans scream about critical race theory, what they really mean is they oppose the teaching of anything about racism in the U.S.
A Washington Post/ABC News poll asked respondents: “How much do you thi
Far-right AZ Patriots show up at border crossing to hassle asylum seekers: ‘Why are you here?’
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The presence of right-wing vigilantes along the U.S.-Mexico border has become so normalized in recent years that their activities—which usually entail harassing immigrants before turning them over to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents—scarcely eve
Fox News will require vaccine passports for Fox News event in ... DeSantis' Florida
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Is it possible for both a company and the individuals working for said company to be filled with more s@%t than even the sum of their parts? Fox News has time and time again defied all constructs of decency, intelligence, and morality. On Friday, Fox News sen
Morning Digest: Vermont's Patrick Leahy, the most senior senator, declines to seek a ninth term
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Arizona vigilantes back hassling asylum seekers at border under Border Patrol’s benign watch
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The presence of right-wing vigilantes along the U.S.-Mexico border has become so normalized in recent years that their activities—which usually entail harassing immigrants before turning them over to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents—scarcely eve
Abbreviated pundit roundup: The GOP rallies around Steve Bannon
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We begin today’s roundup with Paul Waldman at The Washington Post and hist take on the indictment of Steve Bannon, who surrendered to authorities yesterday:
There is simply no serious person anywhere who thinks Bannon has the legal right to thumb his
News Roundup: Bannon bellows his defiance; new memo shows breadth of White House sedition plan
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In the news today: Steve Bannon, an apparent key plotter of the January 6 insurrection, was defiant and mocking as he surrendered to federal authorities after his indictment for ignoring a congressional subpoena demanding his testimony. House Republicans, mea
'Dad, welcome back': Advocate for deported veterans wins his own fight to return to the U.S.
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An activist and military father who has advocated for deported veterans as co-director of Unified Deported Veterans in Tijuana now gets to return back home himself. Robert Vivar “walked back to San Diego from Tijuana on Veterans Day,” nearly tw
Watching this anti-vaxxer try to prove he's magnetic is the laugh we all need right now
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The term “scraping the bottom of the barrel” doesn’t quite do justice to the new crop of MAGA talk show hosts that think Alex Jones is too tame. One of them is Stew Peters. He went from being a failed rapper, to a failed bounty hunter, to now
South Carolina governor wrongly calls award-winning LGBTQ book 'pornographic' in attempt to ban it
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As the battle against whether or not critical race theory should be taught in schools continues nationwide, some Republicans are also targeting the LGBTQ community. After attacking a Florida school board member for escorting a group of elementary school stude
