Mark Meadows has been 'negotiating' with the Jan. 6 Committee, but now that seems to be over
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Among the first set of subpoenas issued by the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 back in September, the one issued to Trump advisor and professional fascist Steve Bannon has gotten the most attention. That’s because Bannon’s refusal to testify was followe
'I let them work it out': Vile teacher allegedly tells mom when Black student told her skin stinks
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A 10-year-old Black girl with autism took her own life on Saturday after the child allegedly dealt with prolonged bullying by both students and teachers at a majority-white Utah school, her family told Deseret News. Isabella Faith Tichenor, who her famil
Live updates: Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial continues
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Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial appears on the verge of wrapping up, but on Thursday—Veterans Day—as criticism over the propriety and impartiality of presiding Judge Bruce Schroeder reached a fever pitch, Schroeder kicked off proceedings by instructing
Thousands of service members and their families to become U.S. citizens as part of Veterans Day 2021
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Nearly 4,500 current and former U.S. military service members, as well as family members, will be sworn in as U.S. citizens as part of Veterans Day 2021. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said in a statement that it’s holding more than 90 ce
Even the U.N. Secretary-General is unhappy with COP26's progress in fighting climate change
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Tomorrow marks the close of the climate summit COP26 and, with that, a final agreement—hopefully—adopted by all 197 parties who’ve helped draft the document. At its present stage, the agreement has already faced pushback from countries like Saudi A
DOJ declares Utah district a safe-haven for racists weeks before Black 10-year-old commits suicide
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A 10-year-old Black girl with autism took her own life on Saturday after the child allegedly dealt with prolonged bullying by both students and teachers at a majority-white Utah school, her family told Deseret News. Isabella Faith Tichenor, who her famil
Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial appears on the verge of wrapping up but on Thursday—Veterans Day—as criticism over the propriety and impartiality of presiding Judge Bruce Schroeder reached a fever pitch, Schroeder kicked off proceedings by instructing j
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is all in on the Republican push to ban huge numbers of books
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There can’t be a Republican panic/cynical fearmongering campaign these days without Texas Gov. Greg Abbott getting involved, and book-banning is no exception. On Wednesday, Abbott released his third letter of the month on the issue of what he’s
Texas teen arrested for allegedly setting fire to a synagogue may have ties to neo-Nazi group
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If you think America doesn’t have systemic racism issue, then you’re not paying attention to the news—or history.
As the world watches no fewer than three separate trials involving violence incited by white nationalists unfold across the nation, layin
ICE is blocking Haitian asylum-seekers from accessing legal groups: 'It's racist, it's wrong'
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have refused to allow Haitian asylum-seekers detained at a New Mexico detention facility access to legal services that could determine their futures in the U.S., a number of advocacy grou
It’s Manchin, and the billionaires, against all the economists on Build Back Better
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Sen. Joe Manchin’s people are making sure this holiday week for Congress doesn’t pass without King Joe making more pronouncements about why we can’t have nice things, like a climate change and human infrastructure package that starts to address racial,
Five veteran-run businesses you can feel good about supporting this Veterans Day
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As we honor our vets on this 2021 Veterans Day, consider supporting them in the businesses they’ve founded and the products they’ve created. It can’t be easy for many of them; as they say, they leave the military with emotional scars they may carr
In a sea of hostile witnesses, Mike Pence's staff may give House committee an island of information
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There are definitely some members of Trump’s circle who would not dare talk to the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 without the permission of Donald Trump. There are some who, like John Eastman, should know that any honest discussion of events on and befor
Virginia school board members call for book-burning amid planned purge of 'sexually explicit' books
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In Texas, a state legislator wants to “investigate” hundreds of books in school libraries. In Kansas, a school district is pulling dozens of books off the shelves of libraries and forming a committee to decide “if the books contained on t
House Select Committee on Jan. 6 may find some willing witnesses among Mike Pence's staff
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There are definitely some members of Trump’s circle who would not dare talk to the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 without the permission of Donald Trump. There are some who, like John Eastman, should know that any honest discussion of events on and befor
Antics by neofascist defendants in Charlottesville trial starkly contrast with mounting evidence
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The defendants in the federal civil lawsuit over the lethal 2017 Unite the Right riots in Charlottesville and their neo-Nazi cohorts were hoping to turn the trial currently unfolding in court into a kind of circus where they could strut their propaganda chops
Trump loses another bid to keep Jan. 6th records obscured as committee is on cusp of receiving them
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Score one for congressional oversight as former President Donald Trump loses yet another legal fight to keep records hidden from investigators on the Jan. 6 Committee.
First reported by Politico, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan issued the order s
Biden can save the U.S. Postal Service next by picking a new board chairman who will fire DeJoy
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The first year of Joe Biden’s presidency appears likely to end with Postmaster Louis DeJoy, Trump’s pick to dismantle the nation’s longest-serving institution, inexplicably still in office. Biden has had a lot do to and many messes to clean up, but thi
Judge invokes ADA in overturning Texas ban on mask mandates in ruling that could go nationwide
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On Wednesday evening, a U.S. District Court judge in Austin blocked Gov. Greg Abbott’s ban on mask mandates at schools. According to the ruling from Judge Lee Yeakel, Abbott’s actions violate federal law because they present a special danger to
Democrats move to censure Rep. Paul Gosar for violent video. He'll take it as a point of pride
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A group of House Democrats are pushing to censure Republican Rep. Paul Gosar after he shared an animated video altered to show him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Joe Biden. Aside from expulsion, censure is the harshest penalty t
Morning Digest: Days after praising Idaho's governor, Trump backs his far-right primary foe
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Rachel Siegel, Andrew Van Dam, and Laura Reiley of The Washington Post report on the largest rise in consumer prices in 30 years.
The growth in October prices reported Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) was driven by soaring energy price
Trump gathered Americans willing to overturn a U.S. election. It's no surprise many turned violent
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The Washington Post has a long piece looking at these regular folks who took a break from their regular folks' life to storm the U.S. Capitol, attack the police officers who defended it, and contribute to an attempt to overthrow the government. What it d
News Roundup: Rittenhouse trial continues; Republicans push another extremist in Arizona
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In the news today: Conservative book-burning fever spreads. Republicans are looking to elect yet another unapologetic white nationalist extremist who promises to arrest the party’s enemies, and yet again Arizona is the state they think will vote to do it. A
Trump's a big-league loser who can't get a win in court. Are the sharks finally closing in?
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For someone who continually touts his winning bona fides, Donald Trump sure loses a lot. He lost his casinos, $1 billion in cash over a decade, the popular vote (twice), the 2020 election, the House, the Senate (thanks to his nonstop whining), two wives, mos
Openly trans high schooler says bullies secretly recorded him in the bathroom
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High school can be a treacherous experience for many people, especially if you were in any way different from your peers. Teenagers (like, frankly, adults) can be cruel, exclusive, and often live with many complex emotions, traumas, and obstacles they don't k
Atlanta D.A. empaneling special grand jury to investigate Trump's attempt to steal Georgia
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Those wondering why no jurisdiction has actually brought criminal charges against Donald Trump and his minions need to remember that when done properly, a criminal investigation is supposed to take time. A good prosecutor is supposed to build a Moun
Newsmax host wants audience to know Kermit is the original communist
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Newsmax host Eric Bolling has found a home on the bleeding edge of right-wing reality television. Bolling left Fox News in disgrace after an investigation revealed he was sending unsolicited graphic photos of male genitalia and text messages to fema
Rage about school closures and mask mandates is not nearly as widespread as the media has told you
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After Republican Glenn Youngkin won the Virginia governor’s race, everywhere you looked you’d see media coverage suggesting that a key reason was parental frustration over school closures and mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic. That analysis
Instead of worrying about homework, trans high schoolers have to worry about going to the bathroom
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As Republicans use their positions of power and influence to stomp down on vulnerable trans youth, families and allies are sticking up for some of the most marginalized children and teenagers in our nation. As Republican governors sign anti-trans bills into l
Nov. 10: Bloodshed, racism, and a brief history of the only successful coup d'état on U.S. soil
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The only successful coup d’etat to unfold on American soil marks its 123rd anniversary Wednesday, and with this somber memory of the Wilmington Massacre—where an estimated 300 Black Americans were murdered by white supremacists—a poignant reminder
A majority of Americans think the government may be exaggerating COVID-19 deaths
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On Tuesday, the Department of Health and Human Services provided a toolkit for combatting vaccine disinformation. But a Kaiser Family Foundation survey, released one day earlier, shows just how far ahead the forces of ill-informed misinformation and deliberat
Dozens of Senate Republicans are trying to block reported settlements from separated families
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Maine Senator Susan Collins in June 2018 called the previous administration’s family separation policy "traumatizing,” saying children are “innocent victims” and stating that separating them from their families “is contrary to ou
Amid GOP cries of 'socialism,' Biden's jobs and family bills are still widely popular
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New polling from Monmouth University shows that President Joe Biden's agenda continues to be popular with Americans despite the wild cries of «socialism” springing up from the Republican Party.
Monmouth writes:
»Support for the Bip
Republicans, and Manchin, work to poison the well for Biden's Build Back Better plan
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Congress is out this week for the Veterans Day holiday, which means a week of posturing and trying to poison the well for next week’s push on President Joe Biden’s family and climate change Build Back Better plan. It’s all about trying to wedge the cons
Newly revealed memo firing former Defense secretary reveals unsettling influence of Trump's stooges
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One of the nation’s top officials, former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, was fired by former President Donald Trump because internally, he dared to challenge administration policies rife with prejudice and in public, Trump loyalists saw him as a saboteur in
Turns out McConnell gifting the party to Trump is killing Senate GOP recruitment
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New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu dealt a serious blow to Senate Republicans Tuesday when he took a pass on running for Senate against one of the GOP's top targets—Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire.
But Sununu is no exception to the rule, and h
'We quite literally hid photos of our children': Women missing from 69% of newspaper bylines
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Let's talk about newspapers, specifically the big-hitters in terms of circulation. Many consider newspapers the most dogged pursuers of truth and accuracy, the originators of journalism, tasked with bringing to light pressing societal issues like workpla
Kyle Rittenhouse forces out a tear, points the finger at his dead victim
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Things are not looking good for the prosecution in the case of vigilante shooter Kyle Rittenhouse. The teen, accused of murdering two and trying to kill a third during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin last year, took the stand Wednesday to defend himself.&
