Walle, a Democrat and Latino, called out a Republican state lawmaker for successfully ending debate about a proposed law that would allow any police officer in Texas to deport someone who is in the United States illegally.
I think the thing that cut him to the core was that his own "friend" was the one who motioned to end debate, knowing that there wasn't a damn thing the Dems could do to stop the bill in the first place.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Tuesday that he would not give Democrats anything in exchange for their votes to help save his Speakership, after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) moved to force a vote on ousting him....
I especially love the way he was completely oblivious to the irony in this statement:
“And that’s the question it has to be: Are we now in a situation in our government that we just provided keeping government open, that we’re going to play politics with how you become Speaker? If that’s the case, then I think we got real problems,” he continued.
Saudi Arabia’s $700bn sovereign wealth fund – which has been used as a lever of global influence by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – has been subpoenaed by a powerful Senate committee after it refused to voluntarily comply with information requests about its US dealings....
If anyone ever wondered what structural racism looks like, this constant attempt to keep black folks' history from even being dispassionately discussed, is a prime example.
“The movants’ asserted ‘injuries’ that would open the doors of the courthouse to their claims are either insufficient or else speculative and unrealized,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in the nine-page ruling.
Pro-lifers hate women and want to control their bodies. Pro-choicers hate babies and care about their own convenience more than the lives of children....
Sidestepping the fetal personhood argument for the moment, the fact is that no one has a right to your body but you. You cannot be coerced to donate an organ, so it stands to reason that you also cannot be coerced to carry an unwanted pregnancy.
Good luck with that. There's a very strong argument to be made that the so-called pro-life movement is thinly-veiled white supremacy with its roots in Brown v. Board of Education.
Apologies if that comes off as excessively bitter.
Meanwhile, last October, MOHELA admitted in a letter to Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) that its executives “were not involved with the decision of the Missouri Attorney General’s Office to file for the preliminary injunction in federal court.” The Missouri attorney general had to obtain documents from MOHELA through state sunshine law requests in order to use them in the lawsuit. As I wrote last month, if this is successful, “the Supreme Court would be allowing the plaintiffs to win their case thanks to an unwilling conspirator.”
The internal documents from MOHELA reinforce this. They were obtained through those same state sunshine laws by the Student Borrower Protection Center.
[Analysis] ‘I would do it all over again:’ State Rep. Armando Walle of Houston defends profanity-laced tirade about proposed immigration laws (www.houstonpublicmedia.org)
Walle, a Democrat and Latino, called out a Republican state lawmaker for successfully ending debate about a proposed law that would allow any police officer in Texas to deport someone who is in the United States illegally.
[News] McCarthy says he won’t give Democrats anything in exchange for support as Speaker (thehill.com)
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Tuesday that he would not give Democrats anything in exchange for their votes to help save his Speakership, after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) moved to force a vote on ousting him....
[News] US Senate subpoenas Saudi’s $700bn sovereign wealth fund over US dealings (www.theguardian.com)
Saudi Arabia’s $700bn sovereign wealth fund – which has been used as a lever of global influence by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – has been subpoenaed by a powerful Senate committee after it refused to voluntarily comply with information requests about its US dealings....
[Opinion Analysis] Meet the white Trump official behind the launch of Black America for Immigration Reform (www.politico.com)
The new effort will look to advance the argument that more immigration is bad for Black workers.
Perspective | Five of Little Rock Nine on Arkansas’ attempt to erase Black history (www.washingtonpost.com)
The authors integrated a Little Rock high school in 1957 in what became an iconic part of the civil rights movement.
[News] Who is Harrison Floyd? Black Voices for Trump leader charged in Georgia (www.newsweek.com)
Floyd was the executive director of the group created by Trump in 2020 to increase Black turnout at the election.
[Analysis] Vivek Ramaswamy Is On the Rise. So Are Christian Nationalist Attacks on His Religion (www.rollingstone.com)
“You’re going to let him put all of his strange gods up in the White House?”
[News] A Georgia judge has rejected former President Trump’s efforts to quash an investigation into his efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results. (thehill.com)
“The movants’ asserted ‘injuries’ that would open the doors of the courthouse to their claims are either insufficient or else speculative and unrealized,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in the nine-page ruling.
[News] Trump rally interviewer backpedals after man calls to "kill them all" (www.newsweek.com)
Matthew Alvarez distanced himself from the violent comments, adding: ""That is not something that I agree with, obviously."
MTG said she was 'uncomfortable' showing photos of Hunter Biden having sex but Americans 'deserve' to see them (www.businessinsider.com)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene held up naked photos of Hunter Biden during a House Oversight Committee hearing on the DOJ's investigation into his taxes.
Democratic jitters grow over Cornel West’s third-party bid (thehill.com)
Cornel West’s third-party presidential campaign is stirring up unpleasant flashbacks to 2016 for members of the Democratic Party
No subject in American politics exhibits our reliance on strawman more than the abortion debate.
Pro-lifers hate women and want to control their bodies. Pro-choicers hate babies and care about their own convenience more than the lives of children....
US Supreme Court blocks student loan forgiveness plan (www.npr.org)
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