Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is reintroducing her bill to provide civil recourse for survivors of nonconsensual sexually-explicit deepfakes. Ocasio-Cortez is co-leading the bicameral bill with Rep. Laurel Lee (R-Fla.), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act was originally …
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A week before President Donald Trump was set to be sworn-in in front of a scaled-down crowd at the Capitol Rotunda, Washington D.C. felt completely still. Eight years earlier, the city had been electric with dissent, planes and busloads full of protesters already arriving, eager to demonstrate their displeasure with …
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Sen. Lindsey Graham doesn’t seem eager to send his congressional colleagues to jail. The Republican senator publicly disagreed with President-elect Donald Trump‘s statement that the members of the Jan. 6 committee who investigated him for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and attack the Capitol should be imprisoned. “President-elect …
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Within Donald Trump’s government-in-waiting, there is a fresh debate over whether and how thoroughly the president-elect should follow through on his campaign promise to attack or even invade Mexico, as part of the “war” he’s pledged to wage against powerful drug cartels. “How much should we invade Mexico?” says a …
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Early in the 2016 campaign, months before Donald Trump won his first presidential nomination, I wrote my friend Philip Roth an email about his novel, The Plot Against America, which had appeared twelve years earlier. The book was Roth’s fanciful but chilling fiction about a fascist takeover of the presidency …
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Prominent Republicans — Sens. J.D. Vance, Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton — all refused to disavow North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson following reporting by CNN that uncovered comments he made online calling himself a “black NAZI” and supporting reinstating slavery before entering politics. When asked about Robinson’s inflammatory posts, …
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Sen. Lindsey Graham is on a campaign to alter Nebraska‘s election laws to deliver an advantage to former president Donald Trump. “The entire federal delegation of Nebraska, House members and two senators, want this changed,” Graham said Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press. “To my friends in Nebraska, that one …
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As Vice President Kamala Harris expands her lead in polls nationally and in battleground states, former president Donald Trump has become more erratic, rambling and unpredictable — so much so that one of his staunchest allies says if he can’t get back on message, Trump may lose in November. Sen. …
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As Donald Trump recovers from an assassination attempt and Republicans head to Milwaukee for his coronation this week, the GOP elite has rallied around a new messaging strategy: emotionally blackmailing Democratic politicians, journalists, Hollywood celebs, and numerous other Trump critics into shutting up about the former president’s openly authoritarian vows …
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Sen. Lindsay Graham went on a fear-mongering rant about President Joe Biden’s actions to forgive student debt, calling the relief “beyond lawless and beyond dangerous.” The Biden-Harris administration has approved $167 billion in student debt as of the end of May, helping 4.75 million borrowers across the country. But Graham …
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