Twitter Wits Go Bonkers Over Possible Trump Return
“He’s still a f***ing loser,” tweets niece Mary Trump.
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MAGA Supporter Charged For Alleged Threat To Kill FBI Agent
When the FBI showed up at the door of his Stokesdale home last month, Williams told one of the agents: “I’m going to take you out,” the complaint states.
‘I Feel Qatari’: FIFA Head Rips Europe For Qatar Human Rights Uproar In Bizarre Speech
Gianni Infantino compared his own suffering to migrant workers and the LGBTQ community in Qatar.
Biden Administration Approves Loan Relief Applicants Amid Pending Program Appeal
The Department of Justice filed a request on behalf of the Biden administration on Friday asking the Supreme Court to lift the hold on the plan while the legal proceedings play out.
Ron DeSantis Reportedly Waiting For Trump To ‘Punch Himself Out’ Of Presidential Race
Sources say the Florida governor will bide his time while he waits for Trump to implode.
Connect, Unite, Act: Mom, I’m a vampire slayer
Connect! Unite! Act! is a weekly series encouraging the creation of face-to-face networks in each congressional district. Groups meet to socialize, support candidates, get out the vote, and engage in other local political actions that help our progressive movement grow and exert maximum influence on the powers that be.
Evangelical leader accuses Justice Samuel Alito of leaking Supreme Court decisions
Rev. Rob Schenck has written a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts informing him that Justice Samuel Alito leaked the outcome of a critical 2014 Supreme Court ruling that gifted corporations with religious rights and allowed them to deny health care to employees. The revelation of Alito’s leak in that case adds weight to the likelihood that he also leaked the draft text of the decision destroying the right to abortion under Roe v. Wade.
Ukraine update: Winter is coming in Ukraine, and so is an extra level of misery for those fighting
UPDATE: Saturday, Nov 19, 2022 · 9:44:45 PM +00:00
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Bakhmut. When I say heavy shelling, this is what I mean. pic.twitter.com/A0FFHQuMne— Andrew Perpetua (@AndrewPerpetua) November 19, 2022
UPDATE: Saturday, Nov 19, 2022 · 7:59:25 PM +00:00
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A quick update on where things reportedly stand in the Svatove area.
Appointment of highly regarded special counsel Jack Smith viewed as sign Trump is in legal jeopardy
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday named longtime federal prosecutor Jack Smith special counsel to oversee two Justice Department probes of Donald Trump and determine whether he should be indicted.
Smith will now oversee two ongoing federal investigations into Trump’s involvement in the violent Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and his storage of highly sensitive materials at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
The Downballot: More Dem wins + overtime races (transcript)
We’re now in the second week of election overtime, and there are still plenty of major races yet to be decided—as well as tons more great news for Democrats to exult over on this week’s episode of The Downballot. On the uncalled-races front, co-hosts David Nir and David Beard dive into a pair of House races in California and several legislatures that could flip from red to blue, including the Pennsylvania House.
Ode to Not Watching the World Cup
I don’t want to overstate this.
I don’t want to say that by watching World Cup 2022,
held in Qatar, on your personal entertainment device,
you’re stepping over the bodies of dead migrant workers,
standing on the heads of incarcerated queer people,
and bankrolling, in a tiny but critical way, the global grift.Because we’re all compromised, right?
We’re all implicated. We all live in webs of capital.
We’re all stuck in the mesh of consequence.
Sam Bankman-Fried Is Going Down Posting
After losing more than $1 billion of his customers’ money, the disgraced crypto titan Sam Bankman-Fried had just one thing to say.“1) What.”That inscrutable message, posted on Twitter last weekend, followed a cataclysmic week for the 30-year-old. FTX, the cryptocurrency-trading site he’d founded and turned into a global behemoth, went insolvent. Bankman-Fried’s personal wealth plummeted from $15 billion to $0 in just one day, and the company filed for bankruptcy.
Whose Midlife Crisis Is It, Anyway?
The television series Fleishman Is in Trouble begins upside down, with the camera soaring over an inverted Manhattan skyline—squat brick buildings in the top half of the frame, hazy blue sky below. It’s an appropriately destabilizing introduction for a show that’s constantly pulling the rug out from underneath us. The series is untrustworthy, in the best kind of way: It withholds and obscures and implies until it doesn’t.
Why We Eat Together
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.For human beings, a meal is never just a meal, and a snack is never just a snack. As the writer and scientist Louise O.
Tár Has an Answer to Art’s Toughest Question
This story contains major spoilers for Tár.As someone who writes about art and artists for a living, I confess that I find no question more exhausting than “Can we separate the art from the artist?” The only good answer is a frustrating one: “It depends.” So I went into Tár, Todd Field’s acclaimed movie starring Cate Blanchett, with some dread.
Georgia lower court blocks state’s 6-week abortion ban
The ruling allows most abortions to resume in the state.
Kentucky Supreme Court wrestles with the state’s abortion laws after midterms upset
That win at the ballot box last week set up the groups challenging the laws to argue that the court should block two abortion laws.
Supreme Court races offer anti-abortion groups a win on a tough night
Their loss of state supreme court races in Ohio and North Carolina could imperil the future of the procedure in two of the country’s most populous states
Who killed the Covid-19 vaccine waiver?
The inside story of how lobbying, threats and the desire to protect industry gutted a proposal that was meant to make vaccines widely available in poorer countries.
Fed jacks up rates again but Powell hints it might slow down
Inflation has cooled only slightly and job growth remains strong.
Voters remain gloomy despite recent economic gains
A new POLITICO-Morning Consult poll suggests voters’ views of the economy are baked in.
U.S. economy returned to growth last quarter, expanding 2.6 percent
Housing investment, though, plunged at a 26 percent annual pace, hammered by surging mortgage rates.
More voters trust Republicans on economy as interest in midterms hits high, polls say
According to an NBC News poll released Sunday, 70 percent of registered voters expressed interest in the upcoming election as a “9” or “10” on a 10-point scale.
Desperate Trump Floats Impeachment ‘Double Jeopardy’ Claim Against Indictments
“Isn’t this sort of like double jeopardy?” former president asks in speech at Mar-a-Lago after appointment of special counsel to continue Trump investigation.
Arizona County Board Delays Certifying Election Results
Decision was made after officials heard from three conspiracy theorists who claimed that the counting machines weren’t certified.
As Twitter Erupts In Chaos, Elon Musk Posts A Poll On Reinstating Trump’s Account
The social media platform’s new owner also is reportedly pleading for help from his remaining workers as whole departments founder since he took the helm.
Trump Should ‘Stand Aside,’ Doesn’t Have What It Takes, William Barr Says In Interview
And the Justice Department “probably” has what it needs to “legitimately indict” him, says the former attorney general in the Trump administration.
George Conway Has Dire Prediction About Republican ‘Looney-Bin Caucus’
Republican House extremists will be upping the stakes as they compete for attention in a crowded field, the conservative attorney warned.
Appointment of highly regarded special counsel Jack Smith viewed as sign Trump is in legal jeopardy
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday named longtime federal prosecutor Jack Smith special counsel to oversee two Justice Department probes of Donald Trump and determine whether he should be indicted.
Smith will now oversee two ongoing federal investigations into Trump’s involvement in the violent Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and his storage of highly sensitive materials at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
Ukraine update: Ukraine replaced airpower with artillery, but that has its own challenges
This has been a logistics war, and when I say that, I mean it’s been an artillery war.
Logistics is about moving troops, food, water, fuel, lubricants, ammunition, weapons, spare parts, and everything else needed to fight a war to the front lines. How do you fight a logistics war? By stopping those supplies from moving. How do you stop those supplies from moving? You disrupt supply lines—by destroying supply depots, trucks, rail lines, and bridges.