Pete Buttigieg Puts Fox News Anchor On Blast For Comments About His Husband
“Why is it any different when it’s me and my husband?” the transportation secretary sharply asked anchor Bret Baier.
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MSNBC Host Tells Rep. Lauren Boebert To ‘Get Real’ During Grilling On Kevin McCarthy
“We could be here until the cherry blossoms bloom” before a House speaker is selected, the right-wing Colorado Republican said.
Idaho Supreme Court upholds near-total abortion ban
The decision comes just hours after the South Carolina Supreme Court released its opinion striking down the state’s six-week abortion ban under a privacy clause in the state’s constitution.
Idaho Supreme Court upholds near-total abortion ban
The decision comes just hours after the South Carolina Supreme Court released its opinion striking down the state’s six-week abortion ban under a privacy clause in the state’s constitution.
Kevin ends the day with a ‘win’—an adjournment, after losing the 11th round
There’s much discussion of would-be House Speaker and 10-time failure Kevin McCarthy reaching a deal with is opposition—not to actually win, mind you, but to lose by less. Also to get some people to vote “present.” They’ve got to be careful there, because of the planned absences among Republicans (as many as three). It could end in the inadvertent election of the guy who’s won the popular vote 10 times now, Democrat Hakeem Jeffries.
Ukraine update: It’s a tank. No it’s not. Who cares! Bradleys and AMX-10s are going to Ukraine
UPDATE: Thursday, Jan 5, 2023 · 9:20:25 PM +00:00
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Mark Sumner
Honestly, it’s raining steel on Ukraine today — in a good way. UK now suggesting that it may send tanks to Ukraine, though whether that means challengers are incoming or whether the UK is going to send more tanks around NATO to free up additional T-72s, we don’t know.
George Santos’ past is coming to haunt him, including these tweets about landlord ‘rights’
If anyone is having a rough start to the new year, I’m willing to bet it’s Rep.-elect George Santos. The openly gay MAGA Republican is swimming in controversy, and (somehow) it’s not about being just a Trump supporter, or a gay Republican, or even his defeat of an openly gay Democrat in New York’s 3rd District race, which includes parts of Long Island and Queens.
That weird deal between two GOP super PACs didn’t help McCarthy and will only lead to anger later
In an entirely unsuccessful effort to persuade Kevin McCarthy’s intra-party enemies to lay down arms, two of the biggest Republican super PACs announced a bizarre agreement on Wednesday evening.
Lauren Boebert and Sean Hannity’s fight on Fox News reveals bankruptcy of the Republican Party
The Republican Party is in disarray. It isn’t an ideological battle going on as the leadership old and new have been on the same page for some time about not having any policy ideas. The main difference between what is called the “Freedom Caucus” and yesteryear’s establishment Republican Party leadership is that the Freedom Caucus has forced all conservatives to give up the false pretense that they ever had any policy ideas to begin with.
Florida School District Bans Book About Real-Life Same-Sex Penguin Couple: Report
Because you “don’t say gay” under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ education crackdown.
Debacle Over House Speaker Election May Raise National Security Concerns
House committees, including those on the military and foreign affairs, can’t operate, which lawmakers and intelligence experts say could draw allies’ alarm.
In Politics, Is Older Better?
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Congressman Kevin McCarthy’s failure this week to win the vote to succeed Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the House has only driven home the immense sway she held in the position.
Nothing Is Working for Kevin McCarthy
At this point in the unending search for a House speaker, Donald Trump’s candidacy is making as much progress as Kevin McCarthy’s.The former president (and half-hearted 2024 White House applicant) today secured his first vote as the House slogged through its seventh fruitless attempt to elect a leader.
FDA stays the course on abortion pills, rejecting demands from the left and right
“Your petition does not provide any new data or evidence,” wrote FDA’s Patrizia Cavazzoni.
South Carolina Supreme Court rules abortion protected under state constitution
The state’s high court is the first to find a right to abortion in a constitution since the fall of Roe v. Wade.
How Worried Should We Be About XBB.1.5?
After months and months of SARS-CoV-2 subvariant soup, one ingredient has emerged in the United States with a flavor pungent enough to overwhelm the rest: XBB.1.5, an Omicron offshoot that now accounts for an estimated 75 percent of cases in the Northeast. A crafty dodger of antibodies that is able to grip extra tightly onto the surface of our cells, XBB.1.5 is now officially the country’s fastest-spreading coronavirus subvariant.
A Civil War Over Semicolons
The partnership of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb is beautifully anachronistic. As writer and editor, respectively, they have together produced 4,888 pages over the course of 50 years, including the multivolume, still unfinished saga that is Caro’s biography of Lyndon B. Johnson. A lasting collaboration of this sort is impossible to imagine in today’s publishing world of constant churn.
Chaos in the House: Is This Just the Beginning of a Far-Right Attempt to Make Congress Dysfunctional?
The U.S House of Representatives still has no speaker after Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy failed to get the full backing of his party over the course of two days and six rounds of voting. A contingent of about 20 far-right lawmakers opposes McCarthy’s elevation to the top job, but no other candidate has emerged so far who can garner the 218 votes necessary to claim the speaker’s gavel.
Diana Buttu & Gideon Levy: Israel’s New Far-Right Gov’t Entrenches Apartheid System with U.S. Support
Far-right Israeli politician Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Tuesday visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem is being roundly condemned across the Middle East. Ben-Gvir is a key part of Benjamin Netanyahu’s new far-right government, which includes ultranationalist and ultraorthodox parties that are calling openly for the annexation of the West Bank.
Justice Department clears Postal Service to carry abortion drugs into red states
The opinion offers limited assurances for activists seeking to work around abortion bans.
Retail pharmacies can now offer abortion pill, FDA says
Pregnant people would be able to fill prescriptions for the drug at pharmacies.
‘Not business as usual’: Health lobbyists brace for Bernie Sanders
Sanders’ well-chronicled antagonism toward lobbyists has some concerned they’ll be unable to blunt criticism of their clients’ profits or corporate executive salaries.
Once-favored Covid drugs ineffective on Omicron may be putting millions at risk
While antiviral pills are plentiful and remain an option for some with weak immune systems, they won’t work for everyone — Pfizer’s Paxlovid interacts with many widely prescribed drugs.
U.S. inflation slowed sharply to 7.1 percent over past 12 months
Even with last month’s further easing of inflation, the Federal Reserve plans to keep raising interest rates.
“Brazen” Fraud: David Cay Johnston on How Trump’s Tax Returns Show He Fleeced U.S. & Enriched Himself
Six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns were released by a House committee on Friday after a years-long legal battle by the former president to keep them sealed. Early revelations include the finding that Trump paid just $750 in federal income tax during his first year in office in 2017, and he paid no tax in 2020.
Sean Hannity, Lauren Boebert Let Interruptions Fly In Out-Of-Control Interview
“Is this a game show?” the Fox News host asked after he interrupted Boebert.
Arizona Election Loser Kari Lake Unduly Crowns Herself With A New Title
The Trump-backed Republican recently filed two appeals after losing a lawsuit over her gubernatorial election loss.
McCarthy gets reprieve, wins adjournment vote. Humiliation to resume tomorrow
The House is coming back in to resume voting for the speaker’s job. Or not. It’s not entirely clear right now if they are ready to keep voting or if Kevin McCarthy is done groveling to the maniacs. He gave in on one thing in the break they took this after: his Super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund has agreed to the Club for Growth’s demand that it stop getting involved in safe open-seat primaries.
Ukraine update: Russia is losing, it knows it’s losing, and it plans to keep losing. Forever
UPDATE: Wednesday, Jan 4, 2023 · 7:51:24 PM +00:00
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Mark Sumner
Nice, the first T-90S loss. The T-90S is the export version of the T-90A without Shtora-1 (the eyes), but with additional Kontakt-5 reactive armour. https://t.co/iiqMsZMlmZ pic.twitter.
It’s a great day for America (or Dems, anyway): McCarthy squashed again, while Fox News implodes
As the House of Representatives reconvened today, excited and hopeful that a new round of balloting would get Rep. Kevin McCarthy his gavel. But it was not to be. Another round of voting closed without meeting the threshold required to elect a speaker. The only winners thus far are Democrats, who look like a formidable force together, and C-SPAN ratings.