Trump’s GOP won’t take yes for an answer The French famously supported Americans’ fight to win freedom from England and its king. But Republicans won’t support Ukraine’s fight to secure theirs against invading Russians. Republicans won’t take yes for an answer on a bill to enhance U.S. border security after hissing and spitting about it for years. They don’t want to govern, they want to rule, yet have no idea how to do it. But kowtowing before Donald “91 Counts” Trump? They’re hell at bowing and scraping. Christian conservatives make up a sizable percentage of the GOP base. They are conditioned from childhood to serve a heavenly king and to long for his return. But since Jesus Christ has been delayed now for two thousand years, they’ve grown impatient. They are ready to settle. For Trump. With President Joe Biden’s economy going gangbusters (even Fox News admits it); with the inflation Republicans expected to run on falling; with unemployment at historic lows and the stock market at historic highs; with the end of Roe following him like a dark cloud; and with the U.S.
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A new report reveals that ICE continues to isolate immigrants en masse, including many with known mental health conditions.
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Ποιός ευθύνεται περισσότερο για την σκληρή λιτότητα στην ευρωζώνη και την σαθρή αρχιτεκτονική του ευρώ; Οι άγνωστες πτυχές της γαλλο-γερμανικής σύγκρουσης Από όλους τους Ευρωπαίους πολιτικούς που δεν ηγήθηκαν ποτέ των χωρών τους, ο Ζακ Ντελόρ και Βόλφγκανγκ Σόιμπλε είχαν τον μεγαλύτερο αντίκτυπο στην σημερινή Ευρώπη. Μεταξύ τους, οι δύο πολιτικοί, που απεβίωσαν εντός του ίδιου εικοσιτετράωρου τον περασμένο […]
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This Saturday, the 3 of February 2024, saw a diverse crowd of 200,000 people descend upon Whitehall in the Eighth National March for Palestine since the onset of Israel’s genocidal latest assault upon the people of Gaza. Mustered by the longstanding coalition around the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, including the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the bustling […]
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At first glance, Labour’s package of race equality reforms seems like a step forward, but dig a little deeper and doubts arise about whether these measures will really address the root causes of racial inequality. The first clue is the ditching of the phrase ‘systemic racism’, which represents a recognition that tackling the scourge of […]
Adjustable-rate mortgages appear to be more popular with younger, higher-income households that also have bigger mortgages, according to 2019 data.
As political ads blanket our screens like never before, the broadcast and tech lobbies are reaping the benefits of protecting the secrets of their dark money benefactors.
The border convoy is getting crispy
Or better yet, terrorism These people are very stupid, so you can’t expect most of them to know history or understand basic governing requirements. The ones that do obviously don’t give a damn. They’ve been taking hostages for years on budget deals. Now they are using the security of the United States and the world as a weapon to get their way: It is not unusual for Washington Republicans to receive visitors — candidates, lobbyists, political donors — who boast about their commitment to securing the border and cutting taxes. It’s not every day that one of those visitors used to run Denmark. Yet on a recent Thursday afternoon, several hard-line members of the House found themselves listening to Anders Fogh Rasmussen as the former Danish prime minister emphasized his small-government values. As a head of government, Rasmussen told them, he had restricted migration and held down taxes — stances even the conservative Freedom Caucus might admire. “He was trying to draw parallels with Republican ideology,” recalled Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, who helped convene the meeting.
New technology translates animal-eye views of the world into colors humans can see.
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During the 2010s, many states across the global South turned decisively to the right. Foreshadowed by the rise of Recep Erdogan in Turkey in the early 2000s, a wave of authoritarian populism swept political figures like Mahinda Rajapaksa, Jair Bolsonaro, Rodrigo Duterte, and Narendra Modi into power with very substantial popular mandates. If we agree that it is an important task to address this bias and to conceptualize southern authoritarian populism in its own right, it is also necessary to ask ourselves how we should approach this task – in short, how should we study authoritarian populism in the global South?
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Publishers of the school newspaper notified police. Now the students, charged under an obscure anti-KKK law, face a year in jail.
The post Northwestern Students Face Criminal Charges for Pro-Palestine College Newspaper Parody appeared first on The Intercept.
Uhm… He told Bongino, “I won 77 out of 77 counties [in Oklahoma]. Ronald Reagan is second with 56.” Bush ’04, McCain and Romney swept all 77 as well. The GOP hasn’t lost a county in Oklahoma since the 20th Century. In other words, Trump is nothing special in Oklahoma. It is a dyed in the wool red state. It appears that Lankford, a far right GOPer, has decided that he wants to do the job of being a far right legislator instead of a full time MAGA sycophant. I wonder how well that’s going to work out for him. CNN’s Manu Raju spoke with Sen. James Lankford about the GOP opposition to his border deal. “I’m frustrated when people put out intentionally false information. I expect more. There are policy disagreements on that, I get that,” he said. “If people think that politics are wrong, and now we’re in a presidential year, so let’s not help Biden in the process, we’re just going to disagree on that.
People would like to know if a jury of Trump’s peers find that he has committed crimes before they vote next November. It’s not too much to ask: Most Americans want to see a verdict on the federal charges former President Donald Trump faces related to election subversion in 2020 before this year’s presidential election, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. And looking ahead, most expect Trump to pardon himself of any federal crimes he’s convicted of if he wins the presidency – or to refuse to concede if he loses in November. About half of Americans, 48%, say it’s essential that a verdict is reached before the 2024 presidential election, and another 16% that they’d prefer to see one. Just 11% say that a trial on the charges should be postponed until following the election, with another quarter saying the trial’s timing doesn’t matter to them. A 72% majority of Democrats and 52% of independents say it’s essential that a verdict is reached pre-election. Republicans are more split.