Campaign Action She’s declaring “what’s important” here and saying that it’s not the people. It’s not whether 27 million people—nearly 19 million women—get a living wage for themselves and their families. No, for her “what’s important” is upholding the arcane Senate rule that would allow the minority Republicans to continue to keep people in poverty.…
Senate Republicans say Democrats made such an airtight case against Trump, no need to convict now
The new rationale goes something like this: House Democrats have done such an excellent job of indicting Trump in the court of public opinion that Senate Republicans now have no need to convict in order to prevent him from holding office again. Here’s an unnamed Republican senator making the case to The Hill: “Unwittingly, they are…
Harris, Yellen meet with Black Chambers of Commerce on American Rescue Plan
The Biden campaign and now-administration have focused on the racial inequities in the crisis. That has included working with people like Wes Moore of the Black Economic Alliance, who has been advising the administration. “We have been having great conversations with the folks in the White House. And I think there is a clear understanding of why…
Johnson & Johnson vaccine up for FDA approval, COVID Tracking site to close as CDC site improves
Where the cases are There are a lot of maps circulating of where the current rate of infection is the worst, but too many of those maps in the last few weeks have been based on trends. Which can really be deceptive. Mapping an area as relatively safe because it’s seen a significant drop in…
Conservatives tried to smear AOC on Twitter, but users hijacked the hashtag with cuteness overload
K-pop fans are back to the rescue on Twitter. Known for hijacking hashtags on the social media platform with photos and videos of K-pop performers, K-pop fans encouraged users to flood the hashtag #AOCLied with photos of popular K-pop stars and people’s pets. By doing so tweets criticizing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were disrupted with photos…
QAnon is just another word for Nazi, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is making that very, very clear
Taylor Greene’s claims about space lasers are a perfect illustration of one of the many threads that weave together to make QAnon. He claim ties together solar power company Solaren, former California Gov. Jerry Brown, and the Rothschild family in a conspiracy that uses a space laser to blast the California countryside, creating an emergency and manipulating stock…
QAnon extremist Marjorie Taylor Greene moves up as Trump’s House allies fixate on ousting Liz Cheney
As McCarthy chummed it up with Trump in Florida, pet Trump seditionist and Sunshine State representative Matt Gaetz jetted off to Cheney’s home state to rail against her reelection. “Defeat Liz Cheney in this upcoming election, and Wyoming will bring Washington to its knees,” Gaetz told hundreds of mostly maskless attendees. Gaetz topped off his Cheney hate…
It’s the dawn of a new, aggressive, effective Democratic Party, and it’s glorious
This isn’t the only place where the Democratic Party looks little like its predecessors, with a 50-seat Senate caucus and a House majority more ideologically cohesive and unified than anything before it. And they ain’t playing games. Republicans have long gotten big mileage from playing to historical Democratic desperation for “bipartisanship.” Obama made countless concessions…
As Biden tries to tackle white-supremacist terrorism, he should steer clear of any ‘War on Terror’
A number of Biden’s allies and advisers are urging him to establish a commission styled after the one that examined the tragic terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and was foundational in the Bush administration’s “War on Terror” that followed. Notably, a key adviser to Biden’s new homeland-security team, Russ Travers, seems likely to push…
Farmworker groups say Biden’s immigration plan ‘fundamentally different’ than any previous president
According to a joint statement from UFW and UFW Foundation, farmworkers would be eligible for immediate legalization under the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 if they “pass criminal background checks and show they have labored in agriculture at least 100 days in four of the previous five years.” The groups note that the legislation contains overtime pay…