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Via Nicole LaFond at Talking Points Memo, there’s a report Georgia Republicans having been working on a plan for two years that would ‘discipline’ her and possibly remove her from office: The Associated Press published a story last night headlined:...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Mar 15, 2024 at 08:01 AM PDT
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NY Times to Biden: You're too old, too unpopular, suck at your job - Go Away. Also: Trump's a winner UPDATE: Monday, Mar 4, 2024 · 5:05:09 PM +00:00 · xaxnar Tom Sullivan Points to an interview that tells where Biden is coming from, and why. Among other things, Biden puts it plainly: Trump tried to steal the election from him — and he’s the only one...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 07:05 AM PST
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Several days ago I posted a diary about ABB — Anyone but Biden and asked who should be considered viable alternatives, as a theoretical exercise. I got quite a few responses and more than a few suggestions, but one of the things that came out of it was...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Dec 01, 2023 at 07:33 AM PST
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WaPo: Tuberville’s office says his primary residence is an Auburn house that records show is owned by his wife and son. But campaign finance reports and his signature on property documents indicate that his home is actually a $3 million,...
by polecat
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on Fri Aug 11, 2023 at 09:50 AM PDT
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There were some 6,600 individual donors to the movie “Sound of Freedom”, so maybe it’s the law of averages. Or maybe this is the typical low-level right-winger these days. Newsweek (yeah, I know): 'Sound of Freedom' Funder Fabian Marta Arrested For...
by Harry Joy
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on Fri Aug 04, 2023 at 06:27 PM PDT
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Is President Biden doing a good job as president? Is his administration actually accomplishing anything? And do voters know it? Well…. If you want an exercise in aggravation, The New York Times has got you covered. They did one of their focus groups on...
by xaxnar
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on Tue May 30, 2023 at 06:26 PM PDT
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Missouri state Sen. Caleb Rowden is a flamethrower. In his campaign video last year declaring his run for office, he declared that this is a national call to arms, a public emergency that requires someone to push back against an liberal agenda that...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Wed Feb 01, 2023 at 02:45 PM PST
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M other Jones has a bit of a scoop.
They checked into major donors to his 2020 bid for a House seat —�...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Jan 28, 2023 at 10:20 AM PST
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Imagine that your party puts forward a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion before the public, and it gets demolished by voters. I mean, the kind of blowout we didn’t even see in a presidential election in Kansas, a deep-red state. In 27 out of...
by Christopher Reeves
108 comments
on Sat Jan 21, 2023 at 07:01 AM PST
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Another day, another piece of hate legislation in the Kansas State House. State Sen. Mike Thompson, long known for his stance that compared scientists who believe in global warming to Nazis and those who advocated renewable energy as being a menace,...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Fri Jan 13, 2023 at 12:50 PM PST
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Missouri Republicans have run on and advocated for the right to have big, burly guns. Strap whatever you want on your side. Want to buy weaponry? Absolutely. You can run entire ads just based around you shooting a gun to try and get people to love you....
by Christopher Reeves
544 comments
on Thu Jan 12, 2023 at 03:39 PM PST
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Davis Hammet of Loud Light, a Kansas voter rights organization, posted this piece of mail to Twitter sent to voters around the state urging them to vote no on retaining judges on the state Supreme Court. On the back of the piece of mail, it thanks them...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Fri Nov 04, 2022 at 02:16 PM PDT
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I have spent the overwhelming majority of my life in Kansas. Being in a Plains state means you know exactly what you are missing out on. We don’t have the beach. There are no major theme parks here in Kansas. The major sports teams? Sure, they are...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Mon Sep 19, 2022 at 09:00 AM PDT
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Republicans believe they have found their bombshell attack against Democratic elected officials in 2022: The same people advocating for student debt forgiveness actually owe student debt. I want you to sit down, right now, because this is such a...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Thu Jul 14, 2022 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Paul Krugman's April 18 column is explicit in a way the mainstream press largely avoids. (This link should allow access through The NY Times pay wall.) ...I’d say that G.O.P. campaigning in 2022 is all culture war, all the time, except that this would...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Apr 19, 2022 at 02:46 PM PDT
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I feel lately that when I write I have to write explanations of things that should be pretty well understood without needing a lot of detail, but boy oh boy do Republicans seemingly need the details. First, before we begin, I would like to add that I...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Tue Mar 29, 2022 at 10:10 AM PDT
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If you’ve been watching the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, you’ve seen a whole lot of posturing. Along with that, you’ve seen a lot of discussion about morals. Jackson came under partisan fire for...
by Christopher Reeves
137 comments
on Fri Mar 25, 2022 at 10:42 AM PDT
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How do you wrap anti-vaccine, anti-American, and pro-Putin sentiments into one tweet? Ask Matt Gaetz If you’ve ever looked for a perfect way to summarize the current state of the Republican Party, Matt Gaetz is certainly making a case of himself. But how do you convey to the nation that your party behaves recklessly, uses little information, demonizes...
by Christopher Reeves
102 comments
on Tue Mar 01, 2022 at 09:29 AM PST
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The world is watching the developments in Ukraine, thinking about the immediate impacts this will have on the lives of thousands, and the chilling effect that touches millions. As Ukraine finds Russia using missiles against their country and Putin...
by Christopher Reeves
101 comments
on Thu Feb 24, 2022 at 10:41 AM PST
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When Kansas Republicans decided to draw their new maps, organizations wondered if they drew inspiration from the distant past. It may turn out that a more recent problem becomes their undoing. Kansas Republicans began their plan by looking at how to...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Tue Jan 25, 2022 at 07:07 AM PST
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