Politics

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed several bills into law that will criminalize multiple aspects of being transgender, part of a broader attack aimed at making it at best difficult — and at worst illegal — to be a trans person in Florida. Although inaccurately framed as being …

In Montana you can purchase a gun without a background check, carry a concealed weapon without a permit, and can continue to legally possess a weapon even after committing a violent offense — but in order to protect the public, you can’t download TikTok. “To protect Montanans’ personal and private …

South Carolina lawmakers voted late Wednesday to ban abortions past six weeks, passing the state’s House of Representatives 82 to 33 after roughly 24 hours of contentious debate. The bill is an amended version of a six-week ban that was approved by the Senate in February, and will head back …

Marjorie Taylor Greene reminds Americans every day that she doesn’t have much concern for things like decency, democracy, or reality when going about her business in Congress. She instead plays the role of a conspiracy theorizing carnival barker, pushing hate and spewing lies to distract from how badly her party’s …

Ron DeSantis is running for president. He hasn’t made an officially announcement — that’s reportedly coming next week —but he made his pitch to donors and supporters on Thursday, claiming on a call that there are only two people who can win the 2024 election: him and President Biden. “You …

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) claims he has testimony from “dozens” of whistleblowers who’ve provided him with proof that the FBI is unfairly persecuting conservatives. This doesn’t actually seem to be the case. The first three of these witnesses whose testimony Jordan received were not really “whistleblowers,” but disaffected former FBI …

All’s fair in love and culture wars, as Rep. Lauren Boebert proved in pushing back against reports that husband Jayson Boebert reacted threateningly when served with divorce papers. The Colorado congresswoman apparently couldn’t resist taking a jab at Bud Light — continuously maligned by right-wingers for over a month because …

“Someone needs to remind former Mayor Giuliani that falsely reporting a crime is a crime.” Such were the words of New York City Mayor Eric Adams after Rudy Giuliani had a man arrested and charged with assault for patting him on the back and calling him a “scumbag” in a …

Republicans have referred a resolution to expel Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y) to the House Ethics Committee — sparing themselves a public vote on the fate of the indicted congressman. On Tuesday, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) introduced a privileged resolution asking that “Rep. George Santos be, and hereby is, expelled from …

The fight over access to a critical abortion drug rages on. On Wednesday, lawyers for the Biden administration and Danco Laboratories, the maker of mifepristone, defended the Food and Drug Administration’s two-decade old approval of the medication, while advocates for a coalition of anti-abortion medical and dental societies argued the …