In the news today: A Trump-appointed inspector general’s claims that the gassing of peaceful protesters had nothing to do with a planned Trump publicity stunt is at odds with known facts. Investigations into the Jan. 6 insurrection continue, despite Republican attempts at stonewalling. The Arizona “audit” gets challenged by real experts who say they can produce a more accurate count without ever leaving their homes.

Former Rep. Jim Renacci, who was the 2018 Republican nominee for Senate, announced Wednesday that he would challenge Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine for renomination.

Renacci has been a loud DeWine critic for well over a year, but he intensified his attacks in 2020 over the governor’s measures to combat the pandemic.

In many parts of the country, warmer weather tends to bring rain and/or storms—something you may be enjoying from a dry, safe place even as you read this.

But as ever, GOP lawmakers in legislatures across the country continue to cast ominous clouds over things like equality, voting rights, and basic decency.

That’s right—you’ve been caught in a Statehouse Action squall.

So now that we have a president who doesn’t pose an existential threat to NATO, respects climate change accords, takes worldwide pandemics seriously and won’t flatter dictators, threaten to nuke hurricanes, or otherwise make the world’s foremost democracy look like King Kong on a four-year Jägermeister-and-bath-salts bender, the rest of the world likes us better. 

Go figure.

The nonprofit group tasked by a federal court with connecting asylum-seeking parents and children ripped apart at the southern border by the previous administration with free mental health services said it has reached over 1,000 families and counting, NBC News reports.

Due to the pandemic, Seneca Family of Agencies has had to do many searches virtually.