In the span of three minutes, Tommy Tuberville said he was “all for it,” didn’t agree with it, supports IVF and just needs to read the bill. (There is no bill.)
Welcome to the dumbest senator in the Senate. #alabama #ivf
The “insurrection clause” of the constitution —Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment—disqualifies anyone from holding public office who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the U.S.
Trump’s legal team argues that the clause refers to those who took oaths to support the Constitution “as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the U.S., or as a member of a State legislature, or a judicial officer of any State.” Trump was the president, not an “officer.”
Missouri House Republicans have scrapped two gun-related bills following the mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory rally.
House Majority Leader Jonathan Patterson, told The Star on Friday that House Republicans would no longer pursue the two bills. One would allow guns on public transit & inside churches and the other would exempt firearms & ammunition from sales taxes.
Why can’t we fix this? So shameful…
At least one person was killed and 21 others were wounded after a shooting broke out near Kansas City's Union Station following the conclusion of the Chiefs' celebratory Super Bowl parade. As of this writing, 15 victims had life-threatening injuries, with two in critical condition; eight of those wounded were children.
In one 48-hour period last week, Customs and Border Patrol officers thwarted three separate attempts to smuggle fentanyl into the U.S. at the Paso Del Norte Border Crossing in Texas.
None were migrants, despite the narrative being peddled across MAGA world that immigrants bring the deadly drug with them as they pour across a supposedly open border.
Israeli Jews seem unperturbed by the scale of suffering, if polls are any indication. One of the questions in a Tel Aviv University poll deals with the amount of force the Israeli army is using in Gaza. Less than 2% of the respondents said they believed the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was using too much firepower. Perhaps even more horrifyingly, nearly 58% said they were using too little firepower.
And here I thought it was just the Israeli government. #gaza #Israel
On Jan. 17, the Israeli military detonated 315 mines to destroy Gaza’s last standing university, al-Israa University. For 70 days prior, the Israelis occupied the university as a military base, posting snipers in its buildings and using it as a detention and interrogation center. According to university authorities, prior to the detonation Israeli soldiers looted the university museum, which contained 3,000 artifacts dating back as far as the Roman era. #gaza #Israel https://therealnews.com/israel-destroyed-my-university-where-is-the-outrage
When Biden is alone, he is far easier to bait with shouted questions.
However, the presence of Jill, 72, on such trips is a dead giveaway that there will be no questions, with the first lady making sure to hold her husband’s hand the entire way across the lawn.
@br00t4c I voted for Tim Ryan, a true working-man’s candidate rather than this former venture capitalist who was funded by venture capitalist & PayPal founder Peter Thiel.
Booming' Biden economy forces GOP to shift focus to new 'shiny object'
The recent good news on the economy means Republicans can no longer run against it. So instead, they are trying to change the subject. “They are reaching for their political safety blanket, which is called immigration,” says MSNBC’s Chris Hayes. #immigration #gop
Gavin de Becker, who leads Kennedy’s private security team, donated $5.5 million to American Values 2024 in October; he has given a total of $10 million to the pro-Kennedy super PAC.
The other is Timothy Mellon, a Republican megadonor who backed Donald Trump’s failed 2020 reelection campaign, has donated another $10 million to the pro-Kennedy super PAC, American Values 2024. Mellon, an heir to the Mellon banking fortune, has now given $15 million to the group so far.
A Republican senator who has been working on a bipartisan border deal is lashing out at his GOP colleagues for trying to tank it.
Bipartisan border deal in an election year???
Any bipartisan immigration deal would never make it through the totally worthless GOP controlled House. Would be their first accomplishment in over a year but dead on arrival. #immigration #borderdeal
A South Dakota bill aimed at feeding hungry school kids was killed by the state House’s education committee by a single vote.
The bill, H.B. 1042, would have directed state funding to provide free lunches for food-insecure kids who currently only get them at a reduced price.
The states currently participating in universal free school meals programs are Massachusetts, California, Colorado, Maine, Michigan, New Mexico, Vermont and Minnesota.
Senator Josh Hawley said the quiet part out loud on Friday, explicitly tying the GOP’s border security grandstanding to a coordinated effort to hurt President Joe Biden’s reelection chances.
In about 1/3 of the 542 aquifers where researchers were able to analyze several decades of data, they found that depletion has been more severe in the 21st century than in the last 20 years. In most cases, it’s happening in places that have received less rainfall over time. Aquifers located in drylands with large farm industries, places such as northern Mexico, parts of Iran & southern California, are particularly vulnerable to rapid groundwater depletion. #Water https://apnews.com/article/groundwater-depletion-aquifer-drought-water-agriculture-591dca73469eff4ceeff72442bc2c2c6
“Mr. Brier, you talk about intentional trauma, and that the Trump administration caused intentional trauma by separating these children from their quote unquote parents," Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna began…
Quote unquote parents?!?!
Loony Luna is of the belief that isolating children and most likely trapping them inside of tiny enclosures — if MAGA has their way again — is less "destructive" than laughing at her conspiratorial rhetoric. #gop
Bernie Moreno, a Trump-backed candidate for Ohio’s crucial U.S. Senate seat who touts his success in business, faced multiple lawsuits alleging discrimination against employees in the run-up to the sale of his high-end Cleveland car dealership, an AP review has found.
More than a year into one of the least productive Congresses in American history, it is exceedingly clear that House Republicans both have no interest in governing and are themselves ungovernable. With the possible exception of Donald Trump, there is no one within the GOP who can keep its various factions in line.