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According to USA Today, the workers represent less than 1% of the hospital’s total number of employees. Of the 178 suspended, 27 have already received one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, Houston Methodist CEO Marc Boom said in an email to staff Tuesday. “We are nearly 100% compliant with our COVID-19 vaccine mandate,” Boom said…

January 2023 is an interesting time to consider Trump’s future on social media, because … well, this: x Facebook: We’re suspending the racist nutjob who let half a million Americans die and sent terrorists to attack the Capitol but only until he’s ready to run for president again. — Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) June 4, 2021 Nonetheless it’s…

According to Austin, who is still deciding on what changes to recommend, “Clearly what we’ve been doing hasn’t been working.” Gen. Mark Milley, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has shifted from his previous opposition to such a policy, now saying “we’ve been at it for years, and we haven’t effectively moved the needle.” So…

If you listen to Manchin in that interview from last fall, he would have you believe he’s still outraged. “[Garland] didn’t even get a hearing,” Manchin exclaims. “He didn’t even get a meeting. […] They didn’t have the courtesy—and I said it was the saddest day of my life, being a U.S. Senator seeing my colleagues…

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…