All posts in May 2021

Virginia Christine Lewis Brown faces seven charges of felony reckless endangerment, each of which potentially carries a one- to 15-year prison sentence and $10,000 fine. While she’s the most violent anti-vaccination protester (so far), she’s not alone. Many of the people who are hesitant about getting vaccinated against COVID-19 aren’t hostile to the vaccine—they’re waiting and watching,…

It’s sure clarifying things for another one of those moderates who tends to give the two cover. Montanan Jon Tester is enraged over these shenanigans. x Sen. Tester: “We’ve got to get to the bottom of this shit. Jesus. It’s a nonpartisan investigation of what happened. And if it’s because they’re afraid of Trump then…

With this vote, Republicans formalized that they think winning in 2022 is more important than finding out the root causes of an actual insurrection aimed at preventing the peaceful transition of power. And those two things are related: This isn’t some objection to a minor distraction, rather that Republicans know that if the public finds out…

“The lack of physical security and transparency means we cannot be certain who accessed the voting equipment and what might have been done to them,” Hobbs wrote, which means that the county “should acquire new machines to ensure secure and accurate elections in Maricopa County going forward.” Hobbs is a Democrat who has been critical of this…

As The New York Times reports, at least 3 million people in the the 6-8 million death estimate are believed to have died before the end of 2020, compared to a reported total of 1.8 million. In the United States cases of COVID-19 may have peaked in the first weeks of January, but around the globe, cases reached an even…

Campaign Action Here’s one of those Republicans who is so pleased that Biden is working with them in “good faith”—Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania. He says: “I’m encouraged by the President’s willingness to negotiate.” He also says: “Some provisions in the administration’s so-called infrastructure plan are so unrelated to infrastructure, it’s hard to read them…

The bill specifies that those members cannot be “an officer or employee of an instrumentality of government”—i.e. there can be no currently serving government officials on the panel. They must have “national recognition and significant depth of experience in at least two” areas: previous government service; law enforcement; civil rights, civil liberties, and privacy; experience…

Campaign Action In short, between the popularity of Biden’s proposals, the economic need that still exists, and voters catching on to the fact that Republicans live to kill progress, the Senate GOP has to at least pretend they are making an effort to work with Biden. They simply can’t ride into 2022 with the stench of…

The caucus’ endorsement comes as Padilla chaired a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday highlighting the critical role that immigrants stand to play in the nation’s economic recovery from the pandemic.  “Data from the Census Survey of Business Owners also shows that foreign born persons open about one quarter of new businesses, immigrants also innovate and account for…

At the time of the comment crash, Pai offered up that maybe John Oliver’s comedy show—specifically his call to send comments to save net neutrality—had crashed the system. Pai furthered his lie and said the FCC had been under a cyber attack, but that most of the comments seemed to asking for Ajit Pai to…