Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) have introduced legislation aimed at banning social media company TikTok from operating in the United States. The proposed bill — dubbed the Averting the National Threat of Internet Surveillance, Oppressive Censorship and Influence, and Algorithmic Learning by …
Read More »Jan. 6 Staffers Prepare for All-Out Republican Assault
Members and staff of the Jan. 6 committee are actively preparing for a multi-pronged Republican revenge campaign when the GOP takes the House next month, anticipating an all-out effort to discredit the panel’s work and punish its workers, according to current and former staff, as well as other sources briefed …
Read More »The Movement That Sandy Hook Built
“It’s a shitty time of year.” It’s a Friday in early December, and I ask Nelba Márquez-Greene how she’s doing. In roughly two weeks, it will be 10 years since her daughter, Ana, was killed at the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. She’s fending off interview requests from news …
Read More »Elon Musk Booed Mercilessly During Appearance With Dave Chappelle
“You shut the fuck up with your boos.” That was comedian Dave Chappelle’s response to the endless chorus of booing that reverberated through San Francisco’s Chase Center every time his special guest Elon Musk attempted to speak. Chappelle invited Musk onstage in front of 18,000 attendees who came to hear …
Read More »Hundreds Of Oath Keepers Have Worked for the Federal Government: Report
A leaked Oath Keepers membership list contained more that 300 individuals who claimed to have worked in the Department of Homeland Security, with some listing themselves as current employees, according to a new report from the Project on Government Oversight (POGO). The Oath Keepers are a far-right, anti-government group that …
Read More »'The Protests Awakened Us': Student Activists in China Speak Out — While the Government Relents
In the past week, Chinese authorities have reportedly begun tactically bargaining with citizens to quash dissent erupting across the country. Massiveprotests have seen people of all demographics united in outrage over the draconian Covid lockdown policies of the past two years. There have been huge rallies in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, …
Read More »Sanders: Sinema Is Just a 'Corporate Democrat' Who 'Sabotaged Enormously Important Legislation'
Sen. Bernie Sanders is not excited that there is another independent in the U.S. Senate. Speaking about Sen. Kyrsten Sinema‘s recent defection from the Democratic Party, Sanders seemed underwhelmed. “She’s a corporate Democrat who has… sabotaged enormously important legislation,” he said. “I don’t want to spend a whole lot of …
Read More »MTG: Bannon and I Would Have 'Been Armed' and 'Won' the Insurrection
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) reportedly believes that if she and Steve Bannon had organized the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, they would have executed a successful coup. And they would have “been armed.” “I want to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we …
Read More »Schiff: Jan. 6 Committee Will Consider Criminal Referrals at Sunday Meeting
The Jan. 6 committee is meeting Sunday and will discuss a subcommittee’s recommendations regarding criminal referrals, committee member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said. The committee is winding down its investigation in anticipation of the GOP regaining the House majority next month. “We are as a subcommittee, several of us that …
Read More »Biden Nuclear Waste Official Accused of Airport Luggage Theft — Again
A Department of Energy official with a passion for fashion may be sourcing their wardrobe from stolen luggage. Sam Brinton, deputy assistant secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy, has now been twice accused of stealing luggage from airports. The latest reported charge comes …
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