The first time I can remember hearing the name Ken Cuccinelli, it was in 2016. The one-time Ted Cruz adviser had just dramatically thrown his credentials on the ground of Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena in what Breitbart — at the time perhaps the single most enthusiastically pro-MAGA media outlet — …
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David Koresh was a man ahead of his time. After the calamitous 1993 fire at Waco, Texas, which saw 76 of Koresh’s followers killed after a long FBI siege, the cult leader turned from a freak and a nobody to a saint of the far right, which saw the tragedy …
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Following the news of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ unethical friendship with GOP megadonor Harlan Crow, more details about the Texas real estate mogul have emerged, including a report that Crow is an avid collector of Adolf Hitler items. The Washingtonian on Friday resurfaced a 2014 article by the Dallas …
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Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have issued six subpoenas for financial records related to business entities and associates of Hunter Biden, according to a memo obtained by Politico. The news of the subpoenas — which were directed to various banks and a business associate of the president’s son — …
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A federal district court judge in Texas has issued an injunction suspending distribution of mifepristone — a critical component in the two-step abortion pill regimen — nationwide. It’s hard to overstate the magnitude of the order, which could make the drug used in most abortions in America unavailable to women …
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Donald Trump’s political allies are preparing an all-out blitz against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, judge Juan Merchan, and anyone else in the American judicial system who dares cross him. But as his political operation gears up, the former president’s own lawyers are pleading with him to show a modicum …
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Democratic Tennessee State Rep. Gloria Johnson survived a vote to expel her from the House on Thursday — two of her colleagues, Reps. Justin Jones and Justin J. Pearson, both Black men, did not. The three lawmakers, who participated in a protest calling for gun control legislation after a school …
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There is more than one way to burn a book, Ray Bradbury wrote, and the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Texas House Rep. Steve Toth brandished the equivalent of a butane torch earlier this session when he introduced House Bill 2690, legislation that seeks to …
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G race Gibson-Snyder takes a sip of chai from her reusable mug in the crowded coffee shop. She grew up here in Missoula, she says, “with a love of nature untainted by worry.” Every year on her birthday, her family took her to Yellowstone to hike and backpack. She rafted …
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Clarence Thomas doesn’t seem to realize why a Supreme Court justice regularly accepting lavish gifts from a GOP megadonor, and then failing to report those gifts, is such a big deal. “Harlan and Kathy Crow are among our dearest friends, and we have been friends for over twenty-five years. As …
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