Jeffrey C Isaac / Bulwark: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize: Defeating Trumpism The January 6th Committee is about more than Donald J. Trump. Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony centered on the malevolent conduct of Trump and Mark Meadows. By contrast, some others in the White House — White House counsel Pat Cipollone, deputy chief of staff…
In 1931, Michigan passed a law that made the procedure a felony in almost all cases, very similar to an earlier ban implemented all the way back in 1846. Pro-choice activists put an initiative on the ballot in 1972 to legalize abortion called Proposal B , and it appeared so likely to pass that an…
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It was a busy day in the NBA, with most teams signing new players and re-signing role players and a few star players signing max contracts with their teams. But the biggest story in the NBA was Kevin Durant asking for a trade out of Brooklyn. NBA Roundup: Star forward Kevin Durant requested a trade…
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AP: Trump’s vulnerabilities for 2024 mount after new testimony A former White House aide this week described Trump as an unhinged leader with no regard for the safety of elected officials in either party as he clung to power on Jan. 6, 2021. The testimony from the congressional panel investigating the Capitol attack provided a…
White’s documentary, which runs just 19 minutes, can be viewed in its entirety over at The Independent. The Windrush generation saw people answer the call of ‘the mother country’ to help rebuild Britain in the 1940s and 1950s. The story of Windrush has come into painfully sharp focus but what is less well-known is the…
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Journalist Glenn Greenwald picked up this exchange from Monday’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Comedienne Wanda Sykes was on the show, and without mentioning the Supreme Court decisions, discussed (as much as Leftists actually discuss anything) how she felt about Dobbs and Bruen. The exchange was straight up stupidity and gaslighting, but as Greenwald…
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The inside of a Dutch / German Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled artillery gun After giving up on Kyiv, Russia still had designs on a full envelopment of the Donbas front lines, thinking they could trap a good 1 / 3rd of Ukraine’s army in a deadly cauldron. Map from April 10, when Russia thought it could…
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Drummond also used his campaign to portray O’Connor as too loyal to the governor, saying, “Effectively, Gov. Stitt has his personal attorney, and the state of Oklahoma has none.” Stitt himself ran into trouble earlier this month when he pulled a commercial — ostensibly for his own re-election campaign — after authorities began to investigate…
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Campaign Action Ginni Thomas’ new position, as clarified by her lawyers, is that she is not going to testify because the committee has “no basis” to interview her. In a long letter to committee heads Rep. Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney, Thomas’ lawyer, says the committee must provide “better justification” for why the committee wants…
Ukrainian HIMARS, operating in pairs, somewhere on a Ukrainian battlefield. Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine because of the empire, a bizarre historical reading that erases Ukraine’s nationhood in pursuit of a legacy equal to Peter the Great. Yet the tankies have latched on to the idea that the West goaded Russia to attack by expanding NATO…
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