Some among the political class are suggesting that focusing on Nuzzi’s lack of ethical disclosure is sexism. It’s important to point out that being held to professional standards is not sexism. It’s also not partisanship to expect ethical professional standards to be upheld.
Like many incumbents before him, Biden had a bad debate. But a bad debate does not a bad president make.
After trust in Kensington Palace was undermined due to Kate Middleton’s photo manipulation scandal, tabloids tried to drag Prince Harry and Meghan Markle into the mess with false allegations against professional photographers.
The hearing into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been conducted in a way that is very familiar to women in power and even more so to women of color: It has been focused on humiliating her by delving into her romantic life to portray her in a manner consistent with a racist stereotype of Black women as a Jezebel, with a focus that has nothing to do with the Trump RICO case.
The tragic tale of medical torture deliberately being inflicted on a U.S. citizen by Republicans in Texas is gruesome, but it also reveals that abortion ban exemptions are a very thin sham meant to appease on the surface only. They aren’t meant to actually be used.
Communities rejecting MAGA hate like Moms for Liberty suggests there might be hope for the United States, which is still reeling from the divisions exploited by the efforts to get Donald Trump into the White House in 2016 that then exploded upon his win and still divide us today.
Mike Johnson doesn’t treat the majority of Americans as human beings. He dehumanizes them in both policy efforts and rhetoric. He is also a ringleader against democracy. This is exactly who the Republican Party is now.
The leader of the Republican Party mocks US military and no one in that party can find the courage to meaningfully object. The same people act like they’d stand up to terrorists; but they can’t even stand up to their own leader.
Even after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy went back on the deal he made with House Democrats, House Republicans expected Democrats to help McCarthy fend off the same nihilist faction he elevated in order to get power.
There’s been very little coverage of this very unsettling continuation of a shared purpose between Hungary and leading Right wing figures in the U.S., including CPAC. On Monday, Elon Musk met with the President of Hungary Katalin Novák after he missed the “Demographic Summit” in Budapest.
It’s way past time to acknowledge the majority of the voters in the United States, all 81,282,916 of them, waited lawfully and peacefully for any sign of justice after the Trump alleged crime syndicate tried to steal their votes.
The Department of Justice just filed a lawsuit against Governor Abbott to force Texas to remove floating barriers in the Rio Grande and the Biden administration blasted Abbott for not working toward real solutions.
A spokesman for Governor Ron DeSantis said the high deaths among those who weren’t fully vaccinated against Covid was a matter of the Governor protecting their “right to make their own health decisions.”
Clarence Thomas was so angry about being seen as someone who benefited unfairly from affirmative action that he began to hate the mechanism that saved him, and to seek – out of what seems like emotional pathology – to deny anyone else the same helping hand.