Behind closed doors at the swanky Sea Island Resort this past January, a Republican financial official from Kentucky claimed that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon called her cell phone early in the morning in early 2023, “absolutely furious,” and threatened to oust her in the next election after she put …
Read More »What We Know So Far About the Kentucky Shooter, Still On the Loose
Authorities in Laurel County, Kentucky, are on their third day in the pursuit of Joseph A. Couch, 32, who is the lead suspect in Saturday’s shooting that injured five and shut down I-75 for three hours. Couch reportedly fired a total of 20 to 30 rounds into both south- and …
Read More »The Pro-Trans Activists Buying Up Ad Space Across Right-Wing Media
Activists recently launched a TV campaign to convince Republican state lawmakers not to demonize or target trans people — using conservative cable news channels to spread a message that attempts to appeal to politicians’ basic human decency. “This is our home — and here’s us at work,” says a narrator. …
Read More »Bomb Threats Force Evacuations of Multiple State Capitols
Bomb threats forced the evacuation of multiple state Capitols on Wednesday. Law enforcement and state officials in Kentucky, Mississippi, Georgia, Connecticut, Montana, and Michigan confirmed having received threats or reports of suspicious activity. None of the threats have been found to be credible at press time, and several of the …
Read More »Kentucky Judge Stays Ban on Gender-Affirming Medical Care
Hours before a ban on gender-affirming care was set to take effect in Kentucky, a federal judge stepped in and placed a temporary injunction on the bill. On Wednesday, Judge David J. Hale sided with seven trangender minors, and their families, who sued the state in response to SB 150, …
Read More »The Architect of Kansas' Abortion Win Is Taking on Kentucky's Ban
Except for what she describes as two “tours” of Washington D.C. — the first as an intern-turned-staffer in Mitch McConnell’s Senate office, and later as a political appointee to George W. Bush’s USDA — Dawn Riley has spent her entire life in Kentucky. She has also always been pro-choice: in …
Read More »Biden is Nominating an Anti-Abortion Lawyer to Become a Federal Judge — Because Of Course He Is
Less than a week after the Supreme Court gave women across America the finger with the repeal of Roe v. Wade, President Joe Biden is slated to nominate a Republican anti-abortion lawyer to a lifetime appointment as a federal judge in Kentucky in an alleged deal struck with Senate Minority …
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