Top Senate Dems Call on Roberts to Back Alito Recusal in Trump Cases (www.commondreams.org)
‘A deranged fringe movement’: what is Maga communism, the online ideology platformed by Tucker Carlson? (www.theguardian.com)
Trump Pressures Republicans to Pass a Law to Keep Him Out of Jail Forever (www.rollingstone.com)
Louisiana lawmakers join red state neighbors in pushing "Don't Say Gay" on schools (www.salon.com)
MAGA’s Lies About a Deep State Conspiracy to Assassinate Trump Will Endure (www.thedailybeast.com)
Trump doubles down, seeking fossil fuel cash at private Houston lunch (www.motherjones.com)
Germany: We will execute ICC warrant against Netanyahu (www.jns.org)
(May 23, 2024 / JNS) - Germany will detain Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if the International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant against him, a German government spokesman said Wednesday....
Libertarian convention devolves into fighting, obscenities on eve of Trump’s visit (www.politico.com)
A Polling Risk for Trump (www.nytimes.com)
The polls have shown Donald Trump with an edge for eight straight months, but there’s a sign his advantage might not be quite as stable as it looks: His lead is built on gains among voters who aren’t paying close attention to politics, who don’t follow traditional news and who don’t regularly vote....
Biden Vs. Trump 2024 Election Polls: Trump Leads By 2 Points, Latest Survey Shows (www.forbes.com)
Joe Biden may lose a 16-year record in critical battleground state Nevada (www.newsweek.com)
Florida men are taking over the GOP (www.politico.com)
The nation’s third-largest state has shed its swing-state profile and is now the home base of Donald Trump’s Republican Party
How the US used science to wage psychological war (www.newscientist.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15789794...
May 2024 National Poll: Trump 46%, Biden 44% - Emerson Polling (emersoncollegepolling.com)
Do You Want a ‘Unified Reich’ Mind-Set in the White House? (www.nytimes.com)
a generation of young Republican staff members appears to be developing terminal white nationalist brain. And they will staff the next Republican administration.
Are Russia and North Korea planning an ‘October surprise’ that aids Trump? (www.nbcnews.com)
Biden campaign plans to get more aggressive once Trump trial ends (www.nbcnews.com)
Biden and Trump both see opportunity in June debate, but they’re preparing in different ways | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
Newsom signs bill allowing Arizona abortion doctors to work in California (www.politico.com)
Trump’s Pattern of Sowing Election Doubt Intensifies in 2024 (www.nytimes.com)
This was a key thing he did which made it psychologically possible to launch a coup attempt on Jan. 6, so doubling down on it now suggests that he’s going to attempt something like it if he loses.
DeSantis and Moody announce state investigation of Starbucks' DEI practices • Florida Phoenix (floridaphoenix.com)
Move over, Disney. Florida has a new boogeyman.
Politicians’ Hot Air Won’t Save NYC Public Libraries - The City Council greeted the prospect of $58 million in library cuts with a highly choreographed dog and pony show (hellgatenyc.com)
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U.S. District Court Judge Carlton W. Reeves Calls Out the Racism of the Supreme Court's Qualified Immunity doctrines (newrepublic.com)
Reeves wrote that it was “difficult to see qualified immunity’s creation as anything other than a backlash to the civil rights movement,” given the historical context. “The justices took a law meant to protect freed people exercising their federal rights in Southern states after the Civil War, then flipped its...