Ohio Senator J.D. Vance is handing out “wokeness” questionnaires to State Department nominees whose Senate confirmations he’s placed on hold, according to a report from Politico. The Republican Senator confirmed the existence of the questionnaires to Politico, but declined to provide the publication with a copy of the questions sent …
Read More »Tommy Tuberville Squeezes in Call With Pentagon Over Military Promotions
Tommy Tuberville tried to brush off a request from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to discuss the Alabama senator’s refusal to approve key military promotions, alleging that he didn’t have time for a call with the Pentagon chief. Tuberville reconsidered a few hours later, opting to take a brief break from …
Read More »Tommy Tuberville Begrudgingly Admits White Nationalists Are Racist
Tommy Tuberville has finally cleared the bar of acknowledging that white nationalists are racist. “White nationalists are racists,” he told reporters after leaving the Senate floor on Tuesday. The admission — which came a day after the Alabama senator told CNN it was a matter of “opinion” whether white nationalists …
Read More »Republicans Push to Strip Abortion Access for Veterans
Lindsay Church and their wife started planning for a family in 2021. Church, who served as a linguist in the U.S. Navy, is medically retired from the military. “I’m missing 42 inches of my ribs, all the cartilage in my chest, and I have a spinal cord stimulator that controls …
Read More »Biden Mocks Senator for Celebrating Funding He Voted Against
President Joe Biden took a dig at Tommy Tuberville on Tuesday, chiding the Alabama senator for celebrating federal broadband internet funding being sent to his state after having previously opposed the legislation that made it happen. “To no one’s surprise, it’s bringing along some converts,” Biden said of the Broadband …
Read More »GOP Senator Defends White Nationalists: 'I Call Them Americans'
Tommy Tuberville, a United States senator from Alabama, defended white nationalism during an interview with a local NPR affiliate on Monday, AL.com has reported. WBHM Birmingham asked Tuberville if white nationalists should be allowed to serve in the military. “They call them that,” the senator responded. “I call them Americans.” …
Read More »Watch Trump Crowd Eat Up Sen. Tuberville's Bizarre Racist Tirade
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) went on a wildly racist, white nationalist tirade, referring to Black Americans as “the people who do the crime” during his speech at Saturday’s Trump rally. “[Democrats are] not soft on crime. They’re pro-crime. They want crime. They want crime because they want to take over …
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