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8 hours ago · Jesse Lee is a gig worker and writer currently living in East Texas.
Matt Gaetz Drops AG Nom—and May Accidentally Screw Himself …
3 days ago · By Friday, estimates from inside the upper chamber predicted that Gaetz could face anywhere from 12 Republican “no” votes to upward of 30, reported The Wall Street Journal.. Gaetz resigned from Congress last week after his nomination was announced, abruptly crushing a House Ethics Committee probe investigating reports that Gaetz had sex with an underaged girl.
In Defense of Morning Joe | The New Republic
2 days ago · Look, I hold no brief for Scarborough or Brzezinski. I’ve appeared on Morning Joe once or twice, but not recently, and I don’t pine to be asked back. I don’t watch Morning Joe because my late first wife and I tuned out public affairs television in 1998 amid blanket coverage of President Bill Clinton’s dalliance with Monica Lewinski. Our …
The Case For Ignoring Trump’s Daily Rage-Bait | The New Republic
6 days ago · In 2018, after charging into Nancy Pelosi’s office with a sit-in, the upstart movement for a Green New Deal put climate change on the national agenda in a way that it hadn’t been for at least a decade. It also fundamentally changed the way Democrats talk about climate politics: first, it made them do it; and second, it shifted the climate politics conversation from talk of …
Matt Gaetz Gets Huge Win on Ethics Report, But It’s Not Dead Yet
3 days ago · “Guest would not say whether or not the committee took a vote on releasing the report just that there was not an agreement by the committee on whether or not to release it,” Gorman posted on X. . The committee was set to vote on whether they would release a report on its yearslong investigation into Gaetz over alleged sexual misconduct, including alleged sexual misconduct with a minor ...
Trump’s Unhinged Rant Announcing Matt Gaetz as AG Signals …
Nov 14, 2024 · On Wednesday, Donald Trump unleashed a rambling announcement explaining his choice of Representative Matt Gaetz as attorney general, lying manically about Gaetz’s supposed work revealing how the Justice Department had been weaponized against him. Translation: Trump wants Gaetz to use DOJ to carry out his personal vendettas. This comes as Trump has picked the Putin-friendly Tulsi Gabbard for ...
Why is Elon Musk Negotiating With Iran? | The New Republic
Nov 14, 2024 · Elon Musk is apparently trying to broker some kind of agreement between the United States and Iran. The tech mogul and world’s richest man met with Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations in New York on Monday, The New York Times reports, citing two anonymous Iranian officials.The meeting, held in a secret location, reportedly focused on how to diffuse tensions between the two countries ...
Trump Achieves His Ultimate Election Goal: Avoiding Accountability
Nov 8, 2024 · The Americas Society Council of the Americas research showed that of the largest Latino groups in the United States, Cuban Americans were the only one in which over half of voters chose Trump, as they went for him by a decisive 58 percent. Mexican Americans—by far the largest Latino community in the country—only went 33 percent for Trump, with Puerto Ricans at 37 percent and Central ...
The Democrats’ Refusal to Break With a Broken System Cost Them …
Nov 15, 2024 · In this environment, Donald Trump’s promise to “crush the system” is a winning message. The Democratic Party could have all put on hard hats, joined laborers in building infrastructure projects, flown out to Gaza to personally disarm Israeli munitions, and told Liz Cheney to take a hike, and it wouldn’t have made the difference for a straightforward reason.