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A user on that other site put together a list of articles detailing a TON of examples of Trump harming the US military, ranging from actual policy implementations, to brown-nosing our enemies’ leaders, to being disrespectful to current and prior servicemen and women....

Basically the title, I think Sen. Tuberville’s stated reason for holding up many key military appointments is to ensure Trump loyalists are appointed to those positions when the next coup occurs....

Jewish Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.) said she voted against the bill that would crack down on antisemitism on college campuses because, in her view, anti-Zionism is not “inherently” antisemitism, and the measure that passed through the House would “stifle” free speech rights....

Edit: Thanks @Jearom for providing the paywall free link!

Republican Gov. Phil Scott allowed the bill to become law without his signature late Thursday, saying he is very concerned about the costs and outcome of the small state taking on “Big Oil” alone in what will likely be a grueling legal fight. But he acknowledged that he understands something has to be done to address the...

“This was intentional,” said U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib. “You don’t accidentally kill massive amounts of children and their families over and over again and get to say, ‘It was a mistake.’”

President Biden goes by “Scranton Joe,” he references Pennsylvania often in speeches and his campaigns have spent millions of dollars there in political ads....

“They left me because they just couldn’t take a risk on me, because as a woman, I’m supposed to be perfect,” Clinton said in an interview with The New Times, published Saturday. “They were willing to take a risk on [former President Trump] — who had a long list of, let’s call them flaws, to illustrate his...

The battle lines over free speech on college campuses were largely entrenched before pro-Palestinian encampments rapidly spread across the country last month....

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15781650...

Almost 6 in 10 likely voters surveyed — 58 percent — said they were “concerned” about a second Trump term after hearing about the former president’s reported offer to undo broad swaths of President Biden’s climate policies, according to polling by Data for Progress and Climate Power....

Seven in 10 voters in a new poll want to see third-party and independent candidates in presidential debates this cycle, as President Biden and former President Trump prepare to go head-to-head....

In the latest NH Journal/Praecones Analytica poll, released Monday, Trump received 36.6 percent support, compared to Biden’s 36.5 percent. Kennedy followed the presumptive party nominees in a not-so-distant third place, with 14.6 percent of the vote....

Jared Bernstein, Joe Biden’s Chief Economist, faced difficulties explaining money’s workings in a documentary or ‘Finding The Money,’ despite his role....

“That’s bulls—,” Tester told Punchbowl News. “You can’t on one hand talk about how the border’s not secure, and on the other hand say we’re not going to secure the border because we don’t want it to be secure.”...