There's some political utility to saying that the congressional Republicans, especially those in the House, are, well, crazy. There's some utility to it because of its effect on respectable white people.Respectable white people are that cohort of Americans that decides which of the major parties prevails most of the time during any given historical period. They are unlikely to be seen palling around in public with anarchists and other Republican mayhem agents, as their reputations as respectable...
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on Friday marked the upcoming 20th anniversary of the George W. Bush administration's invasion of Iraq—where thousands of U.S. troops remain today—by asking if Americans have learned anything from the "failed war of aggression" and warning that waging another such war will have even more dire consequences.In a Twitter thread, Omar (D-Minn.) asserted that "20 years later, the Iraq War remains the biggest foreign policy disaster of our generation, one that took thousands...
Host Stephanie Ruhle, who previously anchored Bloomberg News shows and has a degree in business, was brought onto an MSNBC panel tonight to discuss the recent bank failures. She explained that the average American sees the news and wants to put their money into the big banks because it seems safer. Panelist Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy Research co-founder and senior economist, explained that the 2008 crisis was very different and that there was a huge amount of money and...
A beauty queen who fled Iraq and became an American citizen told Fox News on Monday that she wants to take on leftists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar as a member of Congress.What are the details?Sarah Idan was born in Baghdad, lived under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, and worked as a translator for the U.S. Army during the Iraq War, the cable network said. Idan also was Miss Iraq in 2017 but soon fled her home country and became a U.S. citizen, Fox News added.But while...
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American Jews, probably to no one’s surprise, tend to be overwhelmingly liberal. According to a Pew study conducted in 2021, “seven-in-ten Jewish adults identify with or lean toward the Democratic party, and half describe their political
After months of political silence in Colorado following the 2022 disappointment of no red wave, Republicans gathered in Loveland for the organizational meeting of the Colorado Republican Party on March 11, 2023. I attended in solidarity with
Whatever TikTok is worth, it's hard to imagine it wouldn't be worth a whole
Once again, we're chasing down and debunking every single Republican talking point instead of saying with a clear voice what the Republicans are saying with those talking points. We can't quit our fetish for the trees. Meanwhile, we're missing the whole forest. As you know, Donald Trump might be indicted this week on charges related to a hush-money scheme investigated by the Manhattan district attorney's office. The criminal former president said over the weekend he expected to be "arrested"...
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- Public safety still on the minds of many New Yorkers with decisions still to be made about bail reform as we approach the budget deadline. But there is another public safety law some say has been overlooked: Raise the Age which some lawmakers say needs to change.
Representative Jamaal Bowman had quite the quote on why Republicans want TikTok banned. “Republicans ain’t got no swag, that’s why they want to ban TikTok.” That simply is not true. Some things are more important than swag. something like national security is one of those things. Chinese CEO of TikTok is set to testify in […]