FSB opens criminal case against Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin who is calling for armed rebellion, according to the state-owned RIA Novosti news agency in Moscow. https://ria.ru/20230623/delo-1880104625.html
Greene's resolution focuses on impeachment 1, Stefanik's focuses on impeachment 2.
"The resolutions would expunge the unconstitutional impeachments of Pres Trump as if such Articles of Impeachment had never passed the full House of Representatives," per Stefanik office 1/
Public campaign finance records indicate that Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate currently stuck on the missing Titan submersible that was running a tourist expedition of the Titanic wreck, has been a consistent Republican donor
OceanGate, Inc.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OceanGate,_Inc.
Preemption is a legal doctrine that allows a higher level of government, like a state legislature, to curtail the authority of a lower level of government, like a city council, to act on a particular issue. ...
The #RepublicanParty, a coalition between Big Business farmers and turkeys who'll vote for Christmas (Red Scare cowards, apocalyptic white nationalists, religious fanatics, etc) has fallen to its bizarre, violent radical wing, who obsessed pver policies that are irrelevant to the majority of Americans.
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A new Texas law backed by Republicans, business lobbying interests, & Gov. Greg Abbott strips power from local officials on regulating things like housing, worker protections, the environment, public health, and more. In other words, Texas Republicans are stopping cities from being able to govern themselves.
U.S. Legislatures Passed 550 Anti-Trans Bills So Far This Year
“These policies are not just political statements but affect our very lives each and every day.”
The Weimar Republic, the more tolerant democratic government that existed before Hitler, recognized the rights of trans people, though in a begrudging, limited way. The rise of Nazi Germany destroyed this relatively open environment.
GOP Senator Admits Republicans Don’t Care if Accusations Against Joe Biden Are “Accurate”
Republicans have totally lost the plot with their investigation into Joe Biden.
And just like that, extreme conservatives and the members of the #RepublicanParty's hard-right "House Freedom Caucus" demand the month of June be boycotted by all god-fearing #Americans.
Does it seem weird that many of the men in the GOP said "Amen" is much better than "a woman."
Just a reminder that Clarence Thomas let a GOP megadonor take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house and let her live there rent free, pay for his grandnephew to attend a private boarding school — all in secret until now.
Breakine satire : The national organization of clowns has sued me for comparing the #RepublicanParty to them in an official statement they said look we are tired of being compared to that huge dumpster fire
🧵The good news is that #DeSantis seems to be too weird to win the hearts and votes of the #MAGA and GQP nut jobs who will select the #RepublicanParty’s 2024 presidential candidate. 1/
Of course not because work requirements already exist.
But how about work requirements for corporate tax breaks? Work requirements for investors before getting carried interest breaks? And by work, I mean real work: not scheming on how to cut healthcare.
But Republicans would rather let the entire country collapse before raising taxes on billionaires.
@Toniboloni@SteveRogers@TonyStark Biden needs to neutralize (not negotiate with) the domestic #terrorists known as the #RepublicanParty, state that any debt ceiling is unconstitutional on its face, and direct the Treasury to continue paying US debt as usual.
Indiana just signed their version of “don’t say gay” into law
Indiana ranks 43rd in the nation in education
42nd in the nation for mental health
0 help for opioid addiction
So, what is Indiana’s priority?
To forcibly out transgender students and block all other mention of LGBTQ issues
H.B. 1608 requires school officials to provide written notification to a child’s parent within 5 days of the child asking to be called a different “pronoun, title, or word”