In 2022, before the midterm elections, federal judges — some appointed by Trump — struck down Alabama’s congressional districting maps as racially motivated. The Supreme Court temporarily reinstated those maps during the 2022 elections, but on June 8, 2023, ruled they violated the [...]
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June 8th, 2023 - 4:51 am § in Politics, Republicans
Mike Pence’s campaign lies
Mike Pence launched his quixotic campaign for the presidency on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, with a pack of lies. I say “quixotic” because Pence isn’t going to be president. He has no constituency; he’s too rightwing to appeal to Democrats, and Trump Republicans won’t touch[...]
Fox hosts haven’t stopped lying
Harris Faulkner (bio here), one of the Fox personalities filling in for Tucker Carlson after he was fired, claimed on the air that Christians are under attack. It’s classic rightwing victimhood. To bolster her storyline, she asserted she was kicked out of a restaurant for saying grace. She tol[...]
Advice for the departing Washington GOP chair
I’ve never met Caleb Heimlich (photo, left), but he’s probably a decent guy you could have a beer with. He’s a career political junkie (read his bio here). He is was one of the youngest GOP state party chairs in the country, but is leaving that post to “spend more time with h[...]
Can you have two primary residences?
Yes, you can have more than one “primary residence.” Rep. Reuben Gallago (D-AZ), the most likely Democrat to replace Kyrsten Sinema in the U.S. Senate, bought a house in Washington D.C. where he works, which he claimed as his “primary residence” for purposes of getting a V.A[...]
Nikki Haley wants to “save America”
From what? Union wages? Women controlling their own bodies? Queer people? In a townhall on Sunday, June 4, 2023 (read story here), she wouldn’t get specific about abortion. Women voters are entitled to assume she would sign a nationwide ban, because that’s what Republicans are enacting [...]
June 4th, 2023 - 1:12 am § in Politics
D.C. has the best protests
Honking horns! sirens! confrontations! You can get that in lots of cities, but only Washington D.C. has a live streamer calling herself “Anarchy Princess” who marches in front of Jan. 6 sympathizers shouting into a megaphone: “Terrorists coming, watch out, there’s terrorists behind m[...]
June 3rd, 2023 - 9:21 pm § in Politics
Don’t blame him for Boebert
Wallace Stanfield Lane, aka Stan Lane (photo, left), is off the hook. New DNA testing conclusively proves that Lane, a former pro wrestler (bio here), is not Lauren Boebert’s father (see story here). He did have a fling with Boebert’s mom around that time, and she pursued him for child s[...]
If you pass a law against climate change, it’ll happen anyway
State Sen. Jerry Cirino (photo, left; profile here), an Ohio Republican, is sponsoring a bill that “designates climate policy as a ‘controversial belief or policy.’” On a purely abstract plane, a climate “belief or policy” could be controversial if, say, it posits tha[...]
June 2nd, 2023 - 12:12 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Arrested for raising bail money for protesters
Three Georgia activists were arrested by a heavily-armed SWAT team and charged with financial crimes for soliciting donations to a bail fund for protesters against a controversial cop training facility (see story here). “The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced its agents and Atlanta poli[...]