Julius Jones Receives Clemency, Sparing His Life Just Hours Before Scheduled Execution
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt commuted Jones’ death sentence to life without parole, a partial adoption of recommendations from the state’s Pardon and Parole Board.
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Feds Indict Iranians In ‘False Flag’ Effort To Sow Fears About 2020 Election Integrity
Federal agents say hackers pretended to be Proud Boys in messages to Republican lawmakers and targeted Democratic voters with threats.
When Bipartisanship Risks Undermining Democracy
Looking like a human grease fire, and burning nearly as hot, the right-wing provocateur Steve Bannon spat vitriol as he emerged from federal court on Monday afternoon. “This is the misdemeanor from hell for Merrick Garland and Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden,” Bannon, a former adviser to former President Donald Trump, insisted after appearing for the first time on contempt-of-Congress charges for his refusal to testify before the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection.
The Terrifying Future of the American Right
Rachel Bovard is one of the thousands of smart young Americans who flock to Washington each year to make a difference. She’s worked in the House and Senate for Republicans Rand Paul, Pat Toomey, and Mike Lee, was listed among the “Most Influential Women in Washington Under 35” by National Journal, did a stint at the Heritage Foundation, and is now policy director of the Conservative Partnership Institute, whose mission is to train, equip, and unify the conservative movement.
“The Dawn of Everything”: David Wengrow & the Late David Graeber On a New History of Humanity
In an extended interview, we speak with archeologist David Wengrow, who co-authored the new book “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity” with the late anthropologist David Graeber. The book examines how Indigenous cultures contributed greatly to what we have come to understand as so-called Western ideas of democracy and equality, but argues these contributions have been erased from history.
Three White Supremacy Trials: Dahlia Lithwick on Charlottesville, Rittenhouse & Arbery Murder Case
Jurors in Charlottesville, Virginia, are hearing closing arguments today in a civil trial that seeks to hold white supremacists accountable for organizing the deadly “Unite the Right” rally there in 2017, and conspiring to commit racially motivated violence. Two of the white supremacists have been defending themselves in the courtroom: Richard Spencer and Christopher Cantwell.
Gosar Censured Over AOC Murder Video, As AOC Slams GOP: “What Is So Hard About Saying This Is Wrong?”
Republican Congressmember Paul Gosar is the first lawmaker to be censured in more than a decade for posting an animated video on social media where he murders Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacks President Biden. The U.S. House of Representatives also voted Tuesday to censure Gosar and strip him of committee assignments. He has refused to apologize and after the vote he retweeted the video.
The Pandemic’s Next Turn Hinges on Three Unknowns
Winter has a way of bringing out the worst of the coronavirus. Last year, the season saw a record surge that left nearly 250,000 Americans dead and hospitals overwhelmed around the country. This year, we are much better prepared, with effective vaccines—and, soon, powerful antivirals—that defang the coronavirus, but cases seem to be on the rise again, prompting fears of another big surge.
You Should Get a Booster Now
As the air gets colder and drier and people in most of the United States move indoors, a winter spike in COVID-19 cases is beginning to materialize. The drop in new infections across the Deep South after a difficult summer raised hopes that the country could get through this winter without another surge. But that no longer seems likely. With less than 60 percent of Americans fully vaccinated, the U.S. remains vulnerable to renewed winter outbreaks.
Josh Hawley, Manly Man Of The Senate
Men need to stop looking at porn and instead build up manly virtues, according to the Missouri senator, or else the country will fall apart.
Biden’s war on inflation is a battle to change human behavior
The president needs people to overcome a new set of fears and direct their purchases into the areas of the service economy hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic.
Pfizer seeks emergency use authorization for Covid-19 antiviral pill
The pill, called Paxlovid, was slightly less effective when given up to five days after patients presented symptoms, Pfizer said.
Moderna nears deal to pledge more vaccines to lower-income countries
After much criticism, the vaccine maker is close to an agreement to provide doses at a lower price to the global vaccine equity initiative.
Tobacco lawsuits could upend Biden’s plan for historic menthol ban
The agency’s effort to decide which e-cigarettes can stay on the market could force it to confront the menthol question much sooner.
Will inflation ease by next November? That depends on Covid, Yellen says
“The pandemic has been calling the shots for the economy and for inflation,” Janet Yellen said.
Biden’s ‘I feel your pain’ conundrum
It’s tripped up the last two Democratic presidents and could trip up Biden too: How to sell a recovery when most voters aren’t feeling it.
Investors sour on cannabis after Democrats fail to help industry
Plummeting stock prices and lack of federal action has soured investors
‘Back into gear’: Solid jobs report boosts Biden’s case for recovery
“This recovery is faster, stronger, fairer and wider than almost anyone could have predicted,” Biden said.
Powell is rolling back Fed aid to the economy. Here’s what comes next.
The long-awaited move signals both optimism about the pace of job growth and wariness about price surges that have pushed inflation up to its highest level in decades.
News Roundup: Gosar censured; FBI raids home of conspiracy-promoting Republican election official
In the news today: Many months after Rep. Paul Gosar spoke at an event featuring white nationalists and Holocaust deniers, the Arizona Republican was censured and removed from his House committees today after his office released an animated video edited to depict Gosar killing an enemy with the face of a Democratic colleague. Despite this being an obviously fireable offense at any other job in America, Republicans were near-unanimous in voting against the censure. And no, there is no bottom.
Super-genius Donald Trump believed his press secretary when she told him he’d win ‘because’ of COVID
In a way, it might have been fun to be a double-agent Trump adviser, but it would have been practically impossible to undermine him more than his own loyalists did. I mean, the guy retained Rudy Giuliani as his lawyer.
‘Cruel double punishment’: ACLU sues Sacramento sheriff for violating law limiting ICE collaboration
The northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has sued the Sacramento sheriff’s department for colluding with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in violation of state law. The lawsuit states Sheriff Scott Jones’ “policy and practice of transferring immigrants to ICE” after they’ve already served their time violates “landmark” laws California Values Act and TRUST Act.
Epik’s hosting services provide connection for Jones’ Infowars and Fuentes’ white nationalists
Alex Jones has always tried to frame his far-right conspiracist Infowars site as a nonracist operation that eschews overt antisemitism and bigotry, even though his conspiracy theories are common grist for the mills of explicit white nationalists like “Groyper” leader Nicholas Fuentes. The fact that both Jones and Fuentes frequently appear at the same pro-Donald Trump, COVID-denialist events seems a mere coincidence.
Except that it’s not.
‘Torture’: Whistleblower group urges Biden admin to put a stop to ICE’s use of solitary confinement
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) watchdog report last month said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was abusing detained immigrants through the use of solitary confinement, but we already knew that.
This same watchdog last year found that ICE had held immigrants in solitary, which is torture, for months at a time.
Lauren Boebert Outrageously Calls Ilhan Omar A Member Of The ‘Jihad Squad’
The Colorado Republican spewed anti-Muslim bigotry while defending GOP Rep. Paul Gosar for an anime depicting him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Sen. Ted Cruz Tries To Insult Rep. Liz Cheney And Gets Brutally Humiliated
The Republican congresswoman snapped back, “A real man would be defending his wife, and his father, and the Constitution.
Trump Asking Appeals Court To Keep His Attempt To Overthrow Democracy A Secret
A trial court previously refused to block the House committee investigating the Capitol riot from examining documents from his White House.
Paul Gosar Censured For Violent Anime Video Targeting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
It’s the first censure by the House of Representatives in over 10 years. The Republican congressman was stripped of his committee seats.
U.S. J&J Covid vaccine doses will be sent to Thailand-Myanmar border
The deal comes after former ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson traveled to Myanmar on a private humanitarian mission.
The Double-Whammy COVID-Flu
In late February 2020, only a couple of weeks after the pandemic coronavirus disease had even received a formal name, a man with a terrible cough and fever showed up at one of the ProHealth Urgent Care centers in Queens, New York. At that point, no COVID-19 cases had yet been confirmed in New York City, but numbers were on the rise in spots across the country, and the man had recently been at a conference.